"connect wirelessly to any UPnP device. Why is this cool? Because thats what they are doing to the XBOX. Making it a UPnP Device." Well for one it is suggested by everyone including M$ to turn this off as it is a huge security hole. Nahhhh - I'll just stick with my modded Xbox and CCXstream. Regards, BubbaJon
PS: for the M$ bashers - the Xbox *is* a M$ device you know... see anything like XBMC on the PS2? Not that M$ wanted us to do it tho... ^_^
We've seen this coming for over 4 years. Microsoft has been quietly collecting digital rights to a large chunk of the worlds' fine art. Wanna display a jpg of the Mona Lisa on your web site? Someday the M$oft lawyers will come calling... Regards, BubbaJon
"I must ask - why is it so frustrating and disappointing to see your game pirated? Did you expect anything else?... If I were you, I'd be more worried if the pirates IGNORED your work."
You gotta love those critical thinking classes. Using a modified version of reducto ad absurdum - if you are robbed while at work you should be happy because you make enough money and have enough possessions to have made it worth their while... with low regards, BubbaJon
The observation wasn't meant in bias one way or the other - merely an observation. Your examples actually support the premise. You use NYC and Montana = both which carry certain connotations - eg Montana is wide open,unpopulated and intrinsically safer than NYC which is overpopulated and carries the connotation that the citizens much be vigilant to preserve their safety. Thus the Montana resident has way more freedom since he is less encumbered by security concerns. If the guy in Montana chooses to believe he requires more firearms and security systems then that is a measure of his C or comfort factor. I think we can agree that a citizen of NYC has far more concerns than the Montana person about when,where and how he travels about and conducts his life. Thus he has less freedom than the Montana individual. Now the observation wasn't just aimed at individuals - regarding society as a lump-sum individual the equation holds. The surveys show we feel less secure since 9/11 thus society as a whole is more willing to relenquish some freedom in order to gain back a measure of security. A deplorable and misguided situation to be sure - but it does help to understand it. Regards, BubbaJOn
Larry Niven made the following observation in his book N-Space. He noted that a person's life is influenced by the equation S + F = C which is F)reedom + S)ecurity = some constant value C which has a different value for each person. The net sum of this equation is that to get more security you must give up some freedom and vice versa. I've given that equation a lot of thought here the past few years... another example where a sci-fi writer has second guessed the future. Regards, BubbaJon
"listing everything that will be affected by the the updates to Internet Explorer in Service Pack 2. This will be particularly important to developers who use ActiveX controls, pop-up windows and file download counters in their websites..."
IMHO a lot of the problem comes from the fact that Best Buy tells their "associates" they have ultimate authority and will back them up. In my experience they will back them blindly with no reference to the facts. A ways back I bought a Mandrake Linux on sale $19. I get home and there's nothing in the box! No CD - no boot floppy. I take it back to the store and stood in line forever (30 minutes) while 3 "customer service" guys were falling all over themselves to help a cute skirt with her return. When I finally get up there I'm already steamed and the frosting on the cake was when they told me that I could not return or exchange it because it was software! I demanded to see the manager so after another 10 minutes this guy saunters up and asks what the problem is - I told him about no software in the box and threw in the inordinate wait time and he said that "every customer was valuable". I said that's good but doesn't explain one guy doing the work and two others were "standing around pulling their pud" (I admit I did say that in my anger). He decided that I was not welcome and kicked me out of the store with instructions to "don't come back". The corporate office said the manager was within his rights. All in all I wasted about an hour and no software. Regards
Nah - marketing misunderstood it was supposed to be Sim:pr0n - the X-rated vesion of the Sims we've been expecting. Since this is a low-end chip it left out the parental control registers.
All CCD's are sensitive to IR. They have a blocking filter internally to prevent it from fuzzing the image as IR has a different focal length than visible light. Matter of fact the Sony NightVision cameras simply moves the IR filter out of the CCD path and turns on an IR emitter to turn it into a miniature and low powered nightscope. So IR could never be the answer to blocking recording in a theatre. Regards, BubbaJonBoy
Mention Windows and Linux in the same breath is like throwing a match in naplam with the/. crowd.
Linux proponents strike up the band and start the chorus singing "We will overcome", while someone starts the "I Have a Dream" speech. Very moving to the believers who start rolling on the ground shouting in tongues bewildering to the ear; "post-install snd-card-0/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 ||:!!", "CUPS internal webserver!". Meanwhile the accolytes are moving through the crowd handing out distros labelled "Linux - the Word According to Debian"and "Linux - the Word According to Mandrake", and "Linux - the Word According to SuSe" and (ah hell - you get it). A man in the crowd timidly asks why his wife's copy of The Word is different than his. The accolyte screams "It's up to you to pick the distro that's best for you!!! That's the beauty of The Word!!" Another man timidly asks, "I tried installing The Word on my system and my sound doesn't work". Another member of the crowd comes up and states, "Yeah! And what is this root and what permissions do I have to set to access the internet?" The accolyte holds his arms to heaven and howls, "GEEEAAAARRGGGHH! How many of these asshats are there?" (a post further down:) Anothr mans throws his copy of The Word in the trash and says loudly - "I think I'll stick with my quiet little church where I'm treated with respect. I pay my tithe to the Church of Bill and he takes care of most of my worldly problems without telling me I'm an idiot. Just yesterday he told me; "Blessed are you my son for you support our work here on earth. Leave the techno-geek to the priests. Go with my blessings and assurance that we will make your work easy with very little work on your part. Be productive and successful in your endeavors! (subtitled - 'Leave the drivers to us!'". The crowd starts thinning as they head up the street to the Church of Bill. "Wait!" the accolytes scream. "We know what's good for you - you're just too stupid to understand right now! We'll teach you!".
Our politicians try to mollify us by saying there will be "new opportunities" and make us feel guilty for wanting protectionist legislation. Everyone else in the world plays by different rules. Just yesterday I read a piece where China enacted legislation where it is mandatory that 70% of goods and services for the state must be home-grown. They at least realize that without incentives and sheltering from predatory foreigners there is no progress or growth. We don't owe the world a damned thing! I don't give a rats ass about the poverty anywhere but here - the country I was born in, live in, pledged allegiance to - and love with all my heart as the greatest collection of souls on the planet. I'm supposed to feel sorry for some schmuck in India because he's there and poor and I'm here and not? These bastards in Washington seem to think that we'll all do ok being burger flippers and "lawn care specialists". That's a snake eating it's own tail - without a decent income - where are people supposed to get the money to consume and pay for all these services? Regards, BubbaJon
I have a grandson named Darren Andrew Terrence Anderson - initials D.A.T.A. - after the StarTrek android... Does killing two genres with multiple names count? Regards, BubbaJonBoy
1st - Windows NT has *always* had a Posix compliant kernal. Many Unix command line apps can be recompiled and run just fine. A Posix compliancy was specified by IBM when M$ was working on OS/2 and they "borrowed" many of these features for their own product they were secretly developing - or have y'all forgot the big IBM/Windows battles of yore?
2nd - Microsoft had a product called XENIX which SCO originally distributed meaning that Microsoft had a license for Unix before SCO even had a product! I'm unsure of the fate of XENIX.
3rd - hope this isn't too blunt or incendiary for you but to say that Windows 95 and NT were very Unix like makes me wonder how much Unix you've been exposed to. Hint - the GUI is just the paint job.
4th - I'd like to point out that at the time of NT 3.51 there was already a capable version of Linux that had X installed. It was a PITA to configure the dotclock frequencies and stuff - that's why most of us opted for the Trident video cards as it was in the "standard" xconfiguration. So there was in fact alternatives to SCO and XENIX and all the other Unix variants out there. At that time though it was at a "hobbyist" level and considered incapable of commercial reliability (though I had one running on a 386 for a year and half that was never rebooted). Regards, BubbaJonBoy
XP, UML, Patterns and all the other cultish methodolgies cannot hope to usurp Fred Brooks' fundamental law: "There ain't no such thing as a silver bullet". BubbaJon
Very very scientific - but I like Occam's Razor myself. Besides your diatribe does nothing to explain people that choose not to have children or even pets for that matter. What? Their genes told them they were at an evolutionary dead-end so just forego procreation? Nahhhhh. Dogs are far easier to care for and provide instant gratification with very few legal obligations. Plus as pack animals dogs are mostly subservient to their pack leader human - unlike kids who feel a need to carve out an swath of independance within the family. It's nice being top dog without having to work at it. A very simple and rewarding social structure rather than some dark darwinian self-delusional nightmare. regards, BubbaJon
Sounds cleancut and good fun - except Lawnchair Larry shot himself thru the heart in '93 making one of your troop a 59 year old Zombie with a peekaboo chest.
Interesting that they mention watches and "analog" technologies. Remember when some auto manufacturers put digital gauges in autos? Some in racecars? They were a disaster and were quickly removed. The reason it turns out is that we have built in proximity and size analysis functions in our brain that allow us to gauge relative quantities of size, position and speed extremely fast. A survival mechanism as in the real world with predators - size speed and proximity do matter. It is also useful to gauge the approximate time of day so you know how long you have to bag that beast for dinner before the night comes down on you. So we look at an oil pressure gauge and our brain can classify it as a threat/non-threat based on it's position and relative "size". We glance at our watch and make an instant analysis of where we stand in the day. A neat trick - next time someone looks at their watch (analog) immediately ask them what time it is - they will have to look again because they didn't actually read it - they simply gauged the positon of the hands to get an approximate indication of time. This is why digital gauges were removed from autos - it is dangerous and time-consuming to have to actually take your eyes from the road to actually read the gauge which is necessary to extract the information. Seems sensible to use inherently superior faculties rather that moan about how they don't fit into hi-tech. Now when they get Gibsons' "Microsofts" for a direct data feed maybe we can move along... Regards, BubbaJon
I worked electronic maintenance at Morton Thiokol rocket motor facility in Utah. One day our pipefitter was sick and we had a busted steam line that provided heat for a curing oven. A couple mil worth of missile motors were curing in there so they needed it fixed fast. The leak was in a tight spot so I had to lie on my back in a full flame retardant suit (required in the facilities)on TOP of the oven working a hand pipe-cutter and threader to replace a section of pipe. It was only 135 F up there and after an hour they had to pull me out and lower me as I was too weak to climb the ladder. I literally poured about a liter of sweat from my boots. Never ever EVER again...
At first I thought this was funny then I got pissed when I realized that essentially SCO's lawsuit is based on mere supposition and conjecture along with a warm fuzzy feeling on SCO's engineers part that code was inappropriately used. I mean we knew that there was no smoking gun but you would at least attribute that to Darl's being a misguided asshole - I think asshole is way too mild for this major feat of chutzpah. They had zero proof, knew it and now it is exposed for the stock manipulation scam that it is. \ BubbaJon
The part about us being inside a gravastar sounds like the galactic energy barrier from episode 2 in Star Trek. Does that make Roddenberry an official sci-fi prognosticator? Regards, BubbaJonBoy
That's one of the ugliest hacks I've ever seen. In addition it's probably putting out as much RF garbage as visual garbage. One need go no further than the crappy Dremel routing job on the logo. Ewwwwwww! Thanks for absolutely wasting my time - the first item to ever do so on/.
Actually I worked on a project code named Condor that was involved with new battery technology. I have personally witnessed a battery pack the size of a pack of cigarettes start a car 10 times. The amazing thing is that it was able to recharge to a fully in 15 minutes. The company was in negotiations with Black and Decker to use them. The battery packs were configured as 48 volts enabling B&D to develop a line of power tools that were lighter, but had more torque than existing equipment and were cheaper because they could use smaller diameter wire for the motor windings. No more spare battery packs. Plug it in and by the time the worker had a cup of joe he was ready to go again. Unfortunately they could never develop a cost-effective method for producing the things - the electrolyte was too difficult to work with.
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"connect wirelessly to any UPnP device. Why is this cool? Because thats what they are doing to the XBOX. Making it a UPnP Device."
Well for one it is suggested by everyone including M$ to turn this off as it is a huge security hole. Nahhhh - I'll just stick with my modded Xbox and CCXstream.
Regards,
BubbaJon
PS: for the M$ bashers - the Xbox *is* a M$ device you know... see anything like XBMC on the PS2? Not that M$ wanted us to do it tho... ^_^
We've seen this coming for over 4 years. Microsoft has been quietly collecting digital rights to a large chunk of the worlds' fine art. Wanna display a jpg of the Mona Lisa on your web site? Someday the M$oft lawyers will come calling...
Regards,
BubbaJon
"I must ask - why is it so frustrating and disappointing to see your game pirated? Did you expect anything else? ... If I were you, I'd be more worried if the pirates IGNORED your work."
You gotta love those critical thinking classes. Using a modified version of reducto ad absurdum - if you are robbed while at work you should be happy because you make enough money and have enough possessions to have made it worth their while...
with low regards,
BubbaJon
Naw - sorry - you got it wrong. Our school system is not the place to learn morality.
That would be their parents job.
The observation wasn't meant in bias one way or the other - merely an observation. Your examples actually support the premise. You use NYC and Montana = both which carry certain connotations - eg Montana is wide open,unpopulated and intrinsically safer than NYC which is overpopulated and carries the connotation that the citizens much be vigilant to preserve their safety. Thus the Montana resident has way more freedom since he is less encumbered by security concerns. If the guy in Montana chooses to believe he requires more firearms and security systems then that is a measure of his C or comfort factor. I think we can agree that a citizen of NYC has far more concerns than the Montana person about when ,where and how he travels about and conducts his life. Thus he has less freedom than the Montana individual.
Now the observation wasn't just aimed at individuals - regarding society as a lump-sum individual the equation holds.
The surveys show we feel less secure since 9/11 thus society as a whole is more willing to relenquish some freedom in order to gain back a measure of security. A deplorable and misguided situation to be sure - but it does help to understand it.
Regards,
BubbaJOn
Larry Niven made the following observation in his book N-Space. He noted that a person's life is influenced by the equation S + F = C which is F)reedom + S)ecurity = some constant value C which has a different value for each person. The net sum of this equation is that to get more security you must give up some freedom and vice versa. I've given that equation a lot of thought here the past few years... another example where a sci-fi writer has second guessed the future.
Regards,
BubbaJon
"listing everything that will be affected by the the updates to Internet Explorer in Service Pack 2. This will be particularly important to developers who use ActiveX controls, pop-up windows and file download counters in their websites..."
Like the trojan, spyware, and virus writers.
IMHO a lot of the problem comes from the fact that Best Buy tells their "associates" they have ultimate authority and will back them up. In my experience they will back them blindly with no reference to the facts.
A ways back I bought a Mandrake Linux on sale $19. I get home and there's nothing in the box! No CD - no boot floppy. I take it back to the store and stood in line forever (30 minutes) while 3 "customer service" guys were falling all over themselves to help a cute skirt with her return. When I finally get up there I'm already steamed and the frosting on the cake was when they told me that I could not return or exchange it because it was software! I demanded to see the manager so after another 10 minutes this guy saunters up and asks what the problem is - I told him about no software in the box and threw in the inordinate wait time and he said that "every customer was valuable". I said that's good but doesn't explain one guy doing the work and two others were "standing around pulling their pud" (I admit I did say that in my anger). He decided that I was not welcome and kicked me out of the store with instructions to "don't come back". The corporate office said the manager was within his rights. All in all I wasted about an hour and no software.
Regards
Nah - marketing misunderstood it was supposed to be Sim:pr0n - the X-rated vesion of the Sims we've been expecting. Since this is a low-end chip it left out the parental control registers.
All CCD's are sensitive to IR. They have a blocking filter internally to prevent it from fuzzing the image as IR has a different focal length than visible light. Matter of fact the Sony NightVision cameras simply moves the IR filter out of the CCD path and turns on an IR emitter to turn it into a miniature and low powered nightscope. So IR could never be the answer to blocking recording in a theatre.
Regards,
BubbaJonBoy
Mention Windows and Linux in the same breath is like throwing a match in naplam with the /. crowd.
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :!!", "CUPS internal webserver!". :)
Linux proponents strike up the band and start the chorus singing "We will overcome", while someone starts the "I Have a Dream" speech.
Very moving to the believers who start rolling on the ground shouting in tongues bewildering to the ear; "post-install snd-card-0
Meanwhile the accolytes are moving through the crowd handing out distros labelled "Linux - the Word According to Debian"and "Linux - the Word According to Mandrake", and "Linux - the Word According to SuSe" and (ah hell - you get it). A man in the crowd timidly asks why his wife's copy of The Word is different than his. The accolyte screams "It's up to you to pick the distro that's best for you!!! That's the beauty of The Word!!" Another man timidly asks, "I tried installing The Word on my system and my sound doesn't work". Another member of the crowd comes up and states, "Yeah! And what is this root and what permissions do I have to set to access the internet?" The accolyte holds his arms to heaven and howls, "GEEEAAAARRGGGHH! How many of these asshats are there?" (a post further down
Anothr mans throws his copy of The Word in the trash and says loudly - "I think I'll stick with my quiet little church where I'm treated with respect. I pay my tithe to the Church of Bill and he takes care of most of my worldly problems without telling me I'm an idiot. Just yesterday he told me; "Blessed are you my son for you support our work here on earth. Leave the techno-geek to the priests. Go with my blessings and assurance that we will make your work easy with very little work on your part. Be productive and successful in your endeavors! (subtitled - 'Leave the drivers to us!'".
The crowd starts thinning as they head up the street to the Church of Bill.
"Wait!" the accolytes scream. "We know what's good for you - you're just too stupid to understand right now! We'll teach you!".
regards,
BubbaJon
Our politicians try to mollify us by saying there will be "new opportunities" and make us feel guilty for wanting protectionist legislation.
Everyone else in the world plays by different rules. Just yesterday I read a piece where China enacted legislation where it is mandatory that 70% of goods and services for the state must be home-grown. They at least realize that without incentives and sheltering from predatory foreigners there is no progress or growth.
We don't owe the world a damned thing! I don't give a rats ass about the poverty anywhere but here - the country I was born in, live in, pledged allegiance to - and love with all my heart as the greatest collection of souls on the planet. I'm supposed to feel sorry for some schmuck in India because he's there and poor and I'm here and not?
These bastards in Washington seem to think that we'll all do ok being burger flippers and "lawn care specialists". That's a snake eating it's own tail - without a decent income - where are people supposed to get the money to consume and pay for all these services?
Regards, BubbaJon
I have a grandson named Darren Andrew Terrence Anderson - initials D.A.T.A. - after the StarTrek android...
Does killing two genres with multiple names count?
Regards,
BubbaJonBoy
1st - Windows NT has *always* had a Posix compliant kernal. Many Unix command line apps can be recompiled and run just fine. A Posix compliancy was specified by IBM when M$ was working on OS/2 and they "borrowed" many of these features for their own product they were secretly developing - or have y'all forgot the big IBM/Windows battles of yore?
2nd - Microsoft had a product called XENIX which SCO originally distributed meaning that Microsoft had a license for Unix before SCO even had a product! I'm unsure of the fate of XENIX.
3rd - hope this isn't too blunt or incendiary for you but to say that Windows 95 and NT were very Unix like makes me wonder how much Unix you've been exposed to. Hint - the GUI is just the paint job.
4th - I'd like to point out that at the time of NT 3.51 there was already a capable version of Linux that had X installed. It was a PITA to configure the dotclock frequencies and stuff - that's why most of us opted for the Trident video cards as it was in the "standard" xconfiguration. So there was in fact alternatives to SCO and XENIX and all the other Unix variants out there. At that time though it was at a "hobbyist" level and considered incapable of commercial reliability (though I had one running on a 386 for a year and half that was never rebooted).
Regards,
BubbaJonBoy
XP, UML, Patterns and all the other cultish methodolgies cannot hope to usurp Fred Brooks' fundamental law:
"There ain't no such thing as a silver bullet".
BubbaJon
Very very scientific - but I like Occam's Razor myself. Besides your diatribe does nothing to explain people that choose not to have children or even pets for that matter. What? Their genes told them they were at an evolutionary dead-end so just forego procreation? Nahhhhh.
Dogs are far easier to care for and provide instant gratification with very few legal obligations. Plus as pack animals dogs are mostly subservient to their pack leader human - unlike kids who feel a need to carve out an swath of independance within the family. It's nice being top dog without having to work at it. A very simple and rewarding social structure rather than some dark darwinian self-delusional nightmare.
regards,
BubbaJon
Sounds cleancut and good fun - except Lawnchair Larry shot himself thru the heart in '93 making one of your troop a 59 year old Zombie with a peekaboo chest.
Interesting that they mention watches and "analog" technologies.
Remember when some auto manufacturers put digital gauges in autos? Some in racecars?
They were a disaster and were quickly removed. The reason it turns out is that we have built in proximity and size analysis functions in our brain that allow us to gauge relative quantities of size, position and speed extremely fast. A survival mechanism as in the real world with predators - size speed and proximity do matter. It is also useful to gauge the approximate time of day so you know how long you have to bag that beast for dinner before the night comes down on you.
So we look at an oil pressure gauge and our brain can classify it as a threat/non-threat based on it's position and relative "size". We glance at our watch and make an instant analysis of where we stand in the day.
A neat trick - next time someone looks at their watch (analog) immediately ask them what time it is - they will have to look again because they didn't actually read it - they simply gauged the positon of the hands to get an approximate indication of time. This is why digital gauges were removed from autos - it is dangerous and time-consuming to have to actually take your eyes from the road to actually read the gauge which is necessary to extract the information. Seems sensible to use inherently superior faculties rather that moan about how they don't fit into hi-tech. Now when they get Gibsons' "Microsofts" for a direct data feed maybe we can move along...
Regards,
BubbaJon
Moral decisions - I hate 'em. ;->
If I find this thing on my computer do I have to take it off?
I worked electronic maintenance at Morton Thiokol rocket motor facility in Utah. One day our pipefitter was sick and we had a busted steam line that provided heat for a curing oven. A couple mil worth of missile motors were curing in there so they needed it fixed fast. The leak was in a tight spot so I had to lie on my back in a full flame retardant suit (required in the facilities)on TOP of the oven working a hand pipe-cutter and threader to replace a section of pipe. It was only 135 F up there and after an hour they had to pull me out and lower me as I was too weak to climb the ladder. I literally poured about a liter of sweat from my boots. Never ever EVER again...
At first I thought this was funny then I got pissed when I realized that essentially SCO's lawsuit is based on mere supposition and conjecture along with a warm fuzzy feeling on SCO's engineers part that code was inappropriately used. I mean we knew that there was no smoking gun but you would at least attribute that to Darl's being a misguided asshole - I think asshole is way too mild for this major feat of chutzpah. They had zero proof, knew it and now it is exposed for the stock manipulation scam that it is.
\
BubbaJon
The part about us being inside a gravastar sounds like the galactic energy barrier from episode 2 in Star Trek.
Does that make Roddenberry an official sci-fi prognosticator?
Regards, BubbaJonBoy
That's one of the ugliest hacks I've ever seen. /.
In addition it's probably putting out as much RF garbage as visual garbage. One need go no further than the crappy Dremel routing job on the logo. Ewwwwwww! Thanks for absolutely wasting my time - the first item to ever do so on
If it is successful on the Windows platform; steal it, copy it; "improve" it, extend it, or as a last resort - buy it.
Actually I worked on a project code named Condor that was involved with new battery technology. I have personally witnessed a battery pack the size of a pack of cigarettes start a car 10 times. The amazing thing is that it was able to recharge to a fully in 15 minutes. The company was in negotiations with Black and Decker to use them. The battery packs were configured as 48 volts enabling B&D to develop a line of power tools that were lighter, but had more torque than existing equipment and were cheaper because they could use smaller diameter wire for the motor windings. No more spare battery packs. Plug it in and by the time the worker had a cup of joe he was ready to go again.
Unfortunately they could never develop a cost-effective method for producing the things - the electrolyte was too difficult to work with.