Huh - I dont understand how DirectX is considered "cheating". I mean, its not like anyone has accused the other demos of omitting the motherboard & harddisk drivers required to load the thing off disk and interface with the rest of the hardware in the system.
DirectX is part of the OS and im pretty sure most demo competition rules do not begrudge demo's using the OS to interface with the PC.
So if an asteroid is made of jello, its a planet?
Given everything else in physics was ultimately water based - perhaps a planet should be dfined by constructing a thought experiment to figure out the mass of the smallest blob (mass) of water that would hold itself together under its own gravitational field. (with the stated assumption that the water mass in the thought experiment is in a temprature equilibrium with a nearby energy source (sun) maintaining a constant (Average) surface temprature of 22 degrees C.
Ah, the anonymous coward strikes. Read the post. Not "I am an extremely intelligent person", but "I am constantly told...". Thus meeting the stated requirements - apparently other people quickly realize the posters genius, and go so far as to tell him.
Though I guess it takes a triple didit IQ to read a post on a forum before replying to it.
and please - what twit gave this a +5 Insightful?
But now, when wandering past a CD store with cash in my pocket, I feel vaguely dirty going inside and in any way contributing to the RIAAs coffers.
I do feel guilty that the artists get nothing too.
The funny thing is, I dont even use the P2P netowrks to download songs. I always just ripped my own CDs.
So yeah the RIAA has changed my behaviour - I now spent my money on entertainment other than music.
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Certainly, defining the day as anything other than a complete revolution (relative to the changing position of the sun) is pretty useless.
The article though specifically mentions they stretched the length of a martian second.
Now theres a fuckup waiting to happen?
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A day thats still 24 hours long, but 39 minutes longer than an earth day? Is that Earth or Mars minutes now?
We have enough problems (rockets blowing up etc.) caused by converting between the dissimilar metric and imperial units - who exactly thought redefining minutes and seconds to be slightly longer on mars was a good idea?
Thats going to lead to something very expensive.
What the fuck is wrong with you people? Are your souls dead?
Are you so satisfied in your insulated safe little lives, so dependent on the government and society in general providing youwith a safety net that you cannot concive stepping out of it? Going so far as to insult someone who does?
So shut the fuck up. He HAD a contingency plan. It was "There are bases there with air strips I can land at". Its the same contigency plan I have every day when I leave for work. I understand that if I am involved in an accident and am incapacitated, that total strangers will actually stop and help.
For a book called Applied Cryptography.
Perhaps he should have called it Applied Cipherology. Applied Ciphering? Applied Cipherography?
I think ill just stick with "crypt", thanks.
Ignorant indeed.
>What kind of stupid sys-admin allows.vbs,.js ,.exe,.sws attachements thru the corporate email ?
The enligntened sysadmin for a network where people need to mail exe's, swf's (and zips containing said) to get their fucking work done.
> What kind of idiot sys-admin would allow the corporate users , to run their PCs with admin previleges , so that any unwanted junk s/w be installed on their PCs ?
A sysadmin who actually wants to make a living, thow away his principals and be the SA for a windows network?
Seriously, very few windows applications "work" unless the logged in account has admin privilages.
> Which genius allows unrestricted access to confidential corporate data to its users ?
Data is only useful if someone can see it. The sysadmin now has to be the gatekeeper deciding who is allowed what levels of data?
> Why do the corporate firewalls not block out-bound traffic to all ports but a select few HTTP/SSL ect ?
What kind of idiot poster even dares to suggest that? What exactly is stopping malicious software using standard ports? How stupid are you exactly? If just one port allows out-bound traffic, the network is no more secure than if every port allowed outbound traffic. All this idea does is make the more idiotic sysadmin feel good about themself, and encourages everyone else to tunnel absolutely everything over port 80.
Fuck, when I say this I mean it: I hate you and your unthinking kind. Im not sure why IP packets were designed with a port field in the header when morons filter everything but 80 and one or two other "approved" ports.
Think again. A network cannot both be a useful tool, and secured by technological means. Security is a human issue.
Don't just block the users. Log and monitor if you must, but dont block activities without understanding that the blocking lowers the productivity of legitimate users, forcing them, and malicious people to divert around the blocks - by making all out-bound connections over port 80 for eg. And then youre back at square one.
On my windows network I mistyped a name to a network share, and got a username/password required to access this resource prompt.
Now I find that Verisign can intercept all traffic to mistypedhost.mycompany.com, they must be intercepting a godawful lot of awfully tasty traffic.
By "reads slashdot" I'd assume that Georgy Russell would have at least followed the links before posting and found out, for instance, that Georgy Russell is a her not a him.
I am a great fan of software that you simply extract into a directory, and run from there. Ideally, any further installation would be done by the application itself when it is run and detects that its being run for the first time.
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Huh - I dont understand how DirectX is considered "cheating". I mean, its not like anyone has accused the other demos of omitting the motherboard & harddisk drivers required to load the thing off disk and interface with the rest of the hardware in the system. DirectX is part of the OS and im pretty sure most demo competition rules do not begrudge demo's using the OS to interface with the PC.
So if an asteroid is made of jello, its a planet? Given everything else in physics was ultimately water based - perhaps a planet should be dfined by constructing a thought experiment to figure out the mass of the smallest blob (mass) of water that would hold itself together under its own gravitational field. (with the stated assumption that the water mass in the thought experiment is in a temprature equilibrium with a nearby energy source (sun) maintaining a constant (Average) surface temprature of 22 degrees C.
Ah, the anonymous coward strikes. Read the post. Not "I am an extremely intelligent person", but "I am constantly told...". Thus meeting the stated requirements - apparently other people quickly realize the posters genius, and go so far as to tell him. Though I guess it takes a triple didit IQ to read a post on a forum before replying to it. and please - what twit gave this a +5 Insightful?
But now, when wandering past a CD store with cash in my pocket, I feel vaguely dirty going inside and in any way contributing to the RIAAs coffers. I do feel guilty that the artists get nothing too. The funny thing is, I dont even use the P2P netowrks to download songs. I always just ripped my own CDs. So yeah the RIAA has changed my behaviour - I now spent my money on entertainment other than music.
Certainly, defining the day as anything other than a complete revolution (relative to the changing position of the sun) is pretty useless. The article though specifically mentions they stretched the length of a martian second.
A day thats still 24 hours long, but 39 minutes longer than an earth day? Is that Earth or Mars minutes now? We have enough problems (rockets blowing up etc.) caused by converting between the dissimilar metric and imperial units - who exactly thought redefining minutes and seconds to be slightly longer on mars was a good idea? Thats going to lead to something very expensive.
What the fuck is wrong with you people? Are your souls dead? Are you so satisfied in your insulated safe little lives, so dependent on the government and society in general providing youwith a safety net that you cannot concive stepping out of it? Going so far as to insult someone who does? So shut the fuck up. He HAD a contingency plan. It was "There are bases there with air strips I can land at". Its the same contigency plan I have every day when I leave for work. I understand that if I am involved in an accident and am incapacitated, that total strangers will actually stop and help.
For a book called Applied Cryptography. Perhaps he should have called it Applied Cipherology. Applied Ciphering? Applied Cipherography? I think ill just stick with "crypt", thanks.
Ignorant indeed. >What kind of stupid sys-admin allows .vbs, .js , .exe, .sws attachements thru the corporate email ?
The enligntened sysadmin for a network where people need to mail exe's, swf's (and zips containing said) to get their fucking work done.
> What kind of idiot sys-admin would allow the corporate users , to run their PCs with admin previleges , so that any unwanted junk s/w be installed on their PCs ?
A sysadmin who actually wants to make a living, thow away his principals and be the SA for a windows network?
Seriously, very few windows applications "work" unless the logged in account has admin privilages.
> Which genius allows unrestricted access to confidential corporate data to its users ?
Data is only useful if someone can see it. The sysadmin now has to be the gatekeeper deciding who is allowed what levels of data?
> Why do the corporate firewalls not block out-bound traffic to all ports but a select few HTTP/SSL ect ?
What kind of idiot poster even dares to suggest that? What exactly is stopping malicious software using standard ports? How stupid are you exactly? If just one port allows out-bound traffic, the network is no more secure than if every port allowed outbound traffic. All this idea does is make the more idiotic sysadmin feel good about themself, and encourages everyone else to tunnel absolutely everything over port 80.
Fuck, when I say this I mean it: I hate you and your unthinking kind. Im not sure why IP packets were designed with a port field in the header when morons filter everything but 80 and one or two other "approved" ports.
Think again. A network cannot both be a useful tool, and secured by technological means. Security is a human issue.
Don't just block the users. Log and monitor if you must, but dont block activities without understanding that the blocking lowers the productivity of legitimate users, forcing them, and malicious people to divert around the blocks - by making all out-bound connections over port 80 for eg. And then youre back at square one.
Dude, the protocol is XML based. This is not a way to make anything - other than development time - faster.
On my windows network I mistyped a name to a network share, and got a username/password required to access this resource prompt. Now I find that Verisign can intercept all traffic to mistypedhost.mycompany.com, they must be intercepting a godawful lot of awfully tasty traffic.
By "reads slashdot" I'd assume that Georgy Russell would have at least followed the links before posting and found out, for instance, that Georgy Russell is a her not a him.
I am a great fan of software that you simply extract into a directory, and run from there. Ideally, any further installation would be done by the application itself when it is run and detects that its being run for the first time.
mmm, so you say abstinance is a good way of avoiding being infected? yeah. not viral at all.