Freedom is relative. To you, it may mean that you have the right to see the source for a communications protocol. To me, it may mean that I deserve to get paid for the research my team put into that new.dll. Your freedom does not nescessarily override mine.
The people at Arlington died for democratic capitalism. To put one persons fredom above the needs of the producers of a product sounds a lot like socialism.
Would you rather gamble your economy on how many people a start-up MIGHT employ, or on how many people Delta DOES employ? What about all the buisness travelers needing to move while the system is in flux? A few months ago, a major European Telco went under. A lot of people were worried how they'd surf the internet when the servers went dark. Loosing a major airline in the USA would be MUCH worse.
You need to keep as many big buisnesses going as possible. If that means the government stepping in and saying they need new accounting practices, then good.
My point is that big buisness is a big part of American life.
So, what are they? Is MS just one guy in his basement trying to get linux to boot on his XBox? No, MS employs thousands of people. Noyt to mention the other hundreds of people who have jobs because MS employees need coffee and drycleaning.
So, given the choice, is the freedom of one guy more important than the job security of thousands?
One thing I have learned about politics is that, like any area, what you see is only the tip of the iceberg.
Take the Airline Bailout. Initally, I thought it was stupid to give my money to a poorly-run buisness. But then I thought about the damage the economy would suffer if Delta stopped flying.
Many things are this way. You see DRM as an assault on free software and hacking. Your congressman sees DRM as a way to ensure that Microsoft will continue to employ thousands of people and ship millions of units to Europe and Asia. Yes, the hobyist gets screwed, but the economy as a whole stays strong.
Another thing to keep in mind is political backscratching. Your state needs to keep a military base open for economic reasons and another state needs a study on snail migrating habits. The two senators help each other out.
I like IFilm for indie films. Most of the clips are short and have good plots. Others are so long it ceaces to be funny.
Check out "Computer Boy", "The Killer Bean", and "405 The Movie". There are a ton of others that are cool to watch.
The only down side is the WMA/Real format of the films. And the commercials you have to watch between films.
"Come stai" is "How are you" in Italian. It may be Com`e or something like that. I spent 20 years in the USA and I can't spell english words for crap...I spent 6 years in Italy and I am proportionally worse in that language.
The prob I have with a dictionary translation is the whole is often greater than the sum of its parts. For instance, how do you say "How are you"? Que Tal? What's up? How's it hanging? Come stai? A dictionary can, literally, translate any of these into any language imagineable, but would the listener understand?
Most FaxSpammers do not originate from a fax machine. They would use a PC or a bank of PCs to send hundreds of faxes simultaneously.
On a related note, wouldn't it seem to you that the fax machine software gurus know about your "Mobeus Fax"? Now, as a programmer, if you know about a specific attack, don't you close the hole? On most machines, the local buffer holds a scan of all the pages BEFORE the machine even dials. Your machine may differ.
That's fine if you are in a chair, but what about waking up at like 2am? I don't know much about her sleeping habits, but she probably cannot do anything other than turn her head by a few degrees. How is she supposed to reach an air tube? You could have it affixed above her near her lips, but that would probably be annoying while she slept.
My reccomendation is to find out how the prosthetic arms work. Take whatever sensor they use and attach it to a muscle that still works. Hook it into a big-assed buzzer. All you need is something that will close a circuit, on demand, for a fraction of a seond. Even (relatively)cheap Piezo-Eletric devices could be used to detect slight motion.
>My computer (which caused a 300watt power supply to fail) Somewhere between 300 and 465 watts
I think that you will find your PC rarely uses peak power. When a PC POSTs it will use peak power. If you happen to be using all the devices and have the CPU at 99% you may be sitting near 300 watts. Most of the time, It will be about 150 watts.
>Speakers, 100 watts
Here I think you have some confusion about power sent to the speakers and power as it comes out of the wall. If your speaker system has an AC to DC converter like mine, you can read the wattage rating off that. The "100 watts x 4 channels" is refering to audio power at peak. I think the draw from the wall socket would be much lower. Maybe an audiophile can back me up/discount me on this.
Jupite Jazz, I think part two, ended with a different tagline also. I can't remember what it was.
I still remember the first time I watched CB. By the end of the session where CB is falling from the window looking up at the glass falling, I was hooked. The sound of the girls singing still haunts me. It was me and 3 other buddies, sitting in stunned silence, watching CB fall backwards while reliving his past. We all just sat and cried. At thet time, I didn't even know a cartoon could have that much power over my emotions.
In any event, CB is the best 30 minute show I have ever seen. Thanks for the emotions Space Cowboy...
I will agree with you that ipchains/iptables are great firewall apps. However, I do not agree that win32 personal firewalls are bad.
My laptop is equiped with a winmodem. As such, I have a choice between no internet access, purchacing an external modem, using win32 unfirewalled, or using a win32 firewall. My choice, based mostly on convenience, is to use Norton Firewall. It detects and logs a lot of attacks. All the attacks are sorted and identified by the port that was probed. It even tries to identify the attack that is associated with that port.
For a non-technical user, it is a great program. It has charts, graphs, and logs that are easy to understand. It will even provide nonintrusive popups for attacks in real time. I think that, from a desktop POV, linux developers could learn a lot from taking a look at it.
Did you ever stop to wonder if a pelican (I think it's a sparrow in actuality) traveling at 700 miles/hour would tip off a radar operator? I'm no military genius, but I think small, 700mph birds are a sign that something is afoot.
As a new network configuration guy, I am often stumped by a problem. I usually turn to google first, and my supervisor second. What has been the biggest problem that you have dealt with that will stand out in your mind years from now? As the "Head Techie", where did you turn, and what was the eventual resolution?
Maybe slightly OT, but how well does dd measure up to apps like clonecd? Any one tried to copy these disks in linux?
BTW, Even on disks I have purchaced, I have a habit of copying them to a custom cd I make along with the latest patches and game cracks under a/addons dir. In this way, 3 years from now when I want to play a game, I don't have to hunt down patches and the like. The only reason I have to put the crack in there is because the games won't play on my backup disks.
I think an important part of kung-fu flicks is their legendary feel. It is almost like a generations-old tale being translated directly to film. I, for one, like that way that kung-fu flicks give god-like powers to the characters.
Yeah, that's called kuro5hin. Slashdot is Malda's site and he can post what he wants when he wants to as many times as he wants. He has stated this several times. If you want a site where your opinion counts, go somewhere else.
Blizzard tried this in the Diablo 2 days. You could have a char on their server, and a char on your PC. The way it panned out was that the people hacked the data files on their PC to get a mega-character. Therefore, the "User Hosted Char" games were boring. The files on the Blizzard servers were not hacked, so people had to work to reach level 99.
You could try to keep a MD5 of the user's char on a server at compare at runtime. Then create a new MD5 at game exit. Of course, you'd have people hacking the data during the game. Not to mention how to handle game crashes.
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Freedom is relative. To you, it may mean that you have the right to see the source for a communications protocol. To me, it may mean that I deserve to get paid for the research my team put into that new .dll. Your freedom does not nescessarily override mine.
The people at Arlington died for democratic capitalism. To put one persons fredom above the needs of the producers of a product sounds a lot like socialism.
Would you rather gamble your economy on how many people a start-up MIGHT employ, or on how many people Delta DOES employ? What about all the buisness travelers needing to move while the system is in flux? A few months ago, a major European Telco went under. A lot of people were worried how they'd surf the internet when the servers went dark. Loosing a major airline in the USA would be MUCH worse.
You need to keep as many big buisnesses going as possible. If that means the government stepping in and saying they need new accounting practices, then good.
My point is that big buisness is a big part of American life.
>Corporations are NOT individuals
So, what are they? Is MS just one guy in his basement trying to get linux to boot on his XBox? No, MS employs thousands of people. Noyt to mention the other hundreds of people who have jobs because MS employees need coffee and drycleaning.
So, given the choice, is the freedom of one guy more important than the job security of thousands?
One thing I have learned about politics is that, like any area, what you see is only the tip of the iceberg.
Take the Airline Bailout. Initally, I thought it was stupid to give my money to a poorly-run buisness. But then I thought about the damage the economy would suffer if Delta stopped flying.
Many things are this way. You see DRM as an assault on free software and hacking. Your congressman sees DRM as a way to ensure that Microsoft will continue to employ thousands of people and ship millions of units to Europe and Asia. Yes, the hobyist gets screwed, but the economy as a whole stays strong.
Another thing to keep in mind is political backscratching. Your state needs to keep a military base open for economic reasons and another state needs a study on snail migrating habits. The two senators help each other out.
I like IFilm for indie films. Most of the clips are short and have good plots. Others are so long it ceaces to be funny.
Check out "Computer Boy", "The Killer Bean", and "405 The Movie". There are a ton of others that are cool to watch.
The only down side is the WMA/Real format of the films. And the commercials you have to watch between films.
"Come stai" is "How are you" in Italian. It may be Com`e or something like that. I spent 20 years in the USA and I can't spell english words for crap...I spent 6 years in Italy and I am proportionally worse in that language.
The prob I have with a dictionary translation is the whole is often greater than the sum of its parts. For instance, how do you say "How are you"? Que Tal? What's up? How's it hanging? Come stai? A dictionary can, literally, translate any of these into any language imagineable, but would the listener understand?
I wasn't refering to the one-sided paradox, meerly to the "never-ending" aspect of the loop.
Most FaxSpammers do not originate from a fax machine. They would use a PC or a bank of PCs to send hundreds of faxes simultaneously.
On a related note, wouldn't it seem to you that the fax machine software gurus know about your "Mobeus Fax"? Now, as a programmer, if you know about a specific attack, don't you close the hole? On most machines, the local buffer holds a scan of all the pages BEFORE the machine even dials. Your machine may differ.
That's fine if you are in a chair, but what about waking up at like 2am? I don't know much about her sleeping habits, but she probably cannot do anything other than turn her head by a few degrees. How is she supposed to reach an air tube? You could have it affixed above her near her lips, but that would probably be annoying while she slept.
My reccomendation is to find out how the prosthetic arms work. Take whatever sensor they use and attach it to a muscle that still works. Hook it into a big-assed buzzer. All you need is something that will close a circuit, on demand, for a fraction of a seond. Even (relatively)cheap Piezo-Eletric devices could be used to detect slight motion.
Don't forget ChairLuge. I know some of them kids are doing the ChairSkeleton, but they be crazy.
One office I worked in even had a 4-man ChairBobSled team...don't ask...
The best technique is to find (install) 2 comm racks to create a starting gate. Races work much like a dragrace.
...they survived the webserver explosion ok.
>My computer (which caused a 300watt power supply to fail) Somewhere between 300 and 465 watts
I think that you will find your PC rarely uses peak power. When a PC POSTs it will use peak power. If you happen to be using all the devices and have the CPU at 99% you may be sitting near 300 watts. Most of the time, It will be about 150 watts.
>Speakers, 100 watts
Here I think you have some confusion about power sent to the speakers and power as it comes out of the wall. If your speaker system has an AC to DC converter like mine, you can read the wattage rating off that. The "100 watts x 4 channels" is refering to audio power at peak. I think the draw from the wall socket would be much lower. Maybe an audiophile can back me up/discount me on this.
As of now, I see 200+ "Thumbs Down" comments with no "Thumbs Up" comments...and 32000+ downloads. Go figure.
It's been a while for me...but now that you bring it up, it's all clear now.
I thought the name was "Ballad of a Fallen Angel", but maybe my id3 was named from the eppisode.
Jupite Jazz, I think part two, ended with a different tagline also. I can't remember what it was.
I still remember the first time I watched CB. By the end of the session where CB is falling from the window looking up at the glass falling, I was hooked. The sound of the girls singing still haunts me. It was me and 3 other buddies, sitting in stunned silence, watching CB fall backwards while reliving his past. We all just sat and cried. At thet time, I didn't even know a cartoon could have that much power over my emotions.
In any event, CB is the best 30 minute show I have ever seen. Thanks for the emotions Space Cowboy...
I will agree with you that ipchains/iptables are great firewall apps. However, I do not agree that win32 personal firewalls are bad.
My laptop is equiped with a winmodem. As such, I have a choice between no internet access, purchacing an external modem, using win32 unfirewalled, or using a win32 firewall. My choice, based mostly on convenience, is to use Norton Firewall. It detects and logs a lot of attacks. All the attacks are sorted and identified by the port that was probed. It even tries to identify the attack that is associated with that port.
For a non-technical user, it is a great program. It has charts, graphs, and logs that are easy to understand. It will even provide nonintrusive popups for attacks in real time. I think that, from a desktop POV, linux developers could learn a lot from taking a look at it.
Did you ever stop to wonder if a pelican (I think it's a sparrow in actuality) traveling at 700 miles/hour would tip off a radar operator? I'm no military genius, but I think small, 700mph birds are a sign that something is afoot.
As a new network configuration guy, I am often stumped by a problem. I usually turn to google first, and my supervisor second. What has been the biggest problem that you have dealt with that will stand out in your mind years from now? As the "Head Techie", where did you turn, and what was the eventual resolution?
Maybe slightly OT, but how well does dd measure up to apps like clonecd? Any one tried to copy these disks in linux?
/addons dir. In this way, 3 years from now when I want to play a game, I don't have to hunt down patches and the like. The only reason I have to put the crack in there is because the games won't play on my backup disks.
BTW, Even on disks I have purchaced, I have a habit of copying them to a custom cd I make along with the latest patches and game cracks under a
Jim in Tokyo, I'm Corey from Fussa...nice to meet you...well sort of.
I think an important part of kung-fu flicks is their legendary feel. It is almost like a generations-old tale being translated directly to film. I, for one, like that way that kung-fu flicks give god-like powers to the characters.
Yeah, that's called kuro5hin. Slashdot is Malda's site and he can post what he wants when he wants to as many times as he wants. He has stated this several times. If you want a site where your opinion counts, go somewhere else.
Blizzard tried this in the Diablo 2 days. You could have a char on their server, and a char on your PC. The way it panned out was that the people hacked the data files on their PC to get a mega-character. Therefore, the "User Hosted Char" games were boring. The files on the Blizzard servers were not hacked, so people had to work to reach level 99.
You could try to keep a MD5 of the user's char on a server at compare at runtime. Then create a new MD5 at game exit. Of course, you'd have people hacking the data during the game. Not to mention how to handle game crashes.
I read them. Actually, I print them, ammend them to read that the software is covered under the GPL, then sign it. Then I click YES.
After all, If MS can make a change to an EULA, so can I.