Or what can be attributed to a crappy API. Even on a stable, well proven app, a shitty API (Like Paypal's payflow pro) will make your life misserable. I'm not defending EA here, those guys are worse than microsoft, just stating a technical fact, and a possible theory of how this happened.
It's happened to me before. You have a working app, paypal or your bank or someone else decides to change something on their side without previous knowledge, and they only test it with their official SDK (most of the times java-only). All of the people that implemented their own codebase on another language, get screwed over. Hopefully, automated charging will just fail. In some cases, something like this will happened. Over the years, it's happened to me once with Paypal, once with Wachovia, and once with 2Checkout.
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The bastards. Ok, two things:
1st: Don't buy that kind of devices. Get some generic ARM-based box off china. It's what this devices use anyway. You can find some nice 600mhz ARM + 128MB of RAM all-in-one boards that come with an SDK and all of the source plus many example apps for 30 dollars (FOB Shenzhen, China). There are even full embedded systems (with very similar specs) complete with case, power supply, remote, wifi card, etc. Ready to plug and get hacking for under 60 dollars (Again, price is FOB Shenzhen). Lots of fun at a great price. You can find retailers for all of this devices in most places around the world.
Another great hacking tool are the atom-based boards. There are all in one mini-atx mobos with dual core Atom processors (1.6ghz) for 80 dollars. Try the Intel or Foxconn models, they are very powerful and inexpensive.
If you are still mad about the GPL violators, try mailing Richard at rms@gnu.org, he reads and answers every mail, and he'll surely be more than glad to help you out and speak on your behalf, or direct you to the right person.
BTW: The account thing wasn't just to be a smartass. Many people just disregards most ACs posts, and it's impossible to keep in touch or get replies from ACs anyway. Also, this place has some very very elaborate trolls, you never, ever know;)
Hehe. Those were fun times. I'm clean now (I didn't become a 12stepper or anything like that, I just eventually got bored of cocaine. But I say I miss the fun times of working totally high. I must say, every once in a while I find some script I wrote years ago at the wee hours of some Sunday, and let me tell you, that's what I call creative Perl;)
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Hey there.
Two things:
1st) Can you please not post this as AC? I believe it's important enough as to use a username 2nd) Have you contacted the FSF / gpl-violations.org? You really should.
We still produce core dumps? are you crazy? Blasphemous! My applications never core dump, ever! (Yeah, Friday is the official release date of v 1.5 of one of the apps I develop. There'll be a big presentation, lots of people, and I'm freaking nervous). I mean, I'm not nervous! My applications are bug free. (crawls back into the corner, continues countdown to Friday 10 A.M while swinging back and forth).
The devices, known as memristors, or memory resistors, were conceived in 1971 by Leon O. Chua, an electrical engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, but they were not put into effect until 2008 at the H.P. lab here.
Except the idea isn't new, it's just the first time they can actually make one and test it.
Regardless of that, this sounds very interesting. They are non-volatile, they are 1/th the size of a transistor, and they use far less power. Also (I assume), they should be cheaper to make. They also said that they tested them with hundreds of thousands of rw operations. That is pretty amazing at such an early stage of development.
Not all Sysadmins. But many for sure. But Crack smoking is for the weekend,since you'll be really tripping balls. The week is coke time!
My record of coke-induced unix-fixing rampage was 3 years ago, when a 12-machine asterisk system failed spectacularly after some douchebag that was administrating that system screwed up the mysql circular replication and ended up with 12 corrupt copies of a 2TB database, and a backup that didn't work (They had hired me a year and a half prior to that incident to setup that system as an external contractor, and they were going to administrate the system themselves). 106 Hours and 25 grams later, they had a working system again:)
In the video you see the people weren't attacking anyone, weren't targeting anyone (hell, all they had was cameras!) and that they were just civilians walking on the street. The military clearly had no idea what they were doing. Now theres plans to employ remotely controlled UAC's too? Make it a video game so that you don't need to care about the people you are murdering. These are people with families, with kids, with a whole lot of their own life, dreams and childhood. Then some idiot with large caliber weapons comes and shoots them without even a blink of an eye or thinking what he is doing. In top of that the truth is held from the public and the families of those who were killed, and US Army admits no mistake. I have no respect for these people - they're scum.
What did you expect from the military? There are two kind of guys that enter the military: Those that are murderers, and those that lie about it. That whole "protecting my country" thing is bullshit. They want to murder people. The only thing the US military has ever done is bombing black/brown/yellow people. Anyone signing up for it is a racist and a murderer, and I have no sympathy for them. And no, I don't feel sorry when I see their coffins arriving on TV.
The US hasn't fought a single Legitimate war since the independence wars. All the others, have been invasions. Not to mention all the wars they have contributed to create by providing armament and by having the CIA stirring up some shit.
Increase the speed of learning Directly impact student performance Improve student behavior Recruit the best teachers who seek the best environments Highest quality light = highest quality learning environment
The Heschong Mahone Group analyzed test scores of over 21,000 students in multiple school districts. The study showed that students with the most daylighting in their classrooms progressed 20% faster on math tests and 26% faster on reading tests when compared to students in the least daylit classrooms. Heschong Mahone Group, "Daylighting in Schools" Report at www.h-w-g.com, 1999. In a North Carolina Performance Report, students attending daylit schools outperformed the students in non-daylit schools by 5%-14%. National Renewable Energy Laboratory Report, " Daylighting in Schools: Improving Student Performance and Health at a Price Schools can Afford, " 2000. A National Renewable Energy Laboratory Report concluded that students benefit from daylighting, both in terms of increased performance and general health and well being. National Renewable Energy Laboratory Report, "Daylighting in Schools: Improving Student Performance and Health at a Price Schools can Afford, " 2000.
Wow... "increase the speed of learning?". Given crackpotery on their site, the poor science, the ridiculous claims that instead of focusing on fucking light delivered, focus on subjective, unmeasurable bullshit, the complete lack of details, video, specs, etc. this product doesn't sound very serious...
No, that's not the reason. The reason is that most people around the world drive stick. There are only a few countries around the world where people drive mostly automatic transmission. In most of the world, if you only know how to drive automatic, you'll be restricted to an license that only allows you to drive automatic transmission.
Where I live (Argentina) virtually no one drives automatic transmission cars. We get the same models you do, but with manual transmission. This is true in most of South America. I once made the mistake of renting a car in the UK. Driving on the wrong side of the road was fucking difficult, but the car had manual transmission (In the US is almost impossible to find a rental car with manual transmission, I know from experience, but in the UK they gave me one automatically, and without asking).
If you had this issue in MT, it would be: a) Trivial to just hold the clutch and disengage the gears. b) On the AT model, pushing the accelerator would switch gears, while in MT you would still be in your current gear.
You have way more control. Also, the whole calculation done is probably different, I'm guessing even completely different, so, maybe the bug isn't present in those versions.
You are wrong. There's a time to do drugs, drive dangerously, hate authority, defy the cops, shit and piss in the entrances of churches (please tell me I wasn't the only one), and any other crazy stuff you want to do. It's called High School. You get out of it with a loot of good stories, and a lot of knowledge about what things you shouldn't do if you want to keep your life.
Most make it out alive. Many die in the process. Well, that's evolution at work.
When you see guys in their 50s fucking 16 year old girls, or driving their motorcycles at 200km/h, or going for a bag of coke at 5 A.M in a dangerous neighborhood, it is because that guy did nothing when he was in young.
As doug stanhope says: Parents say "they are selling drugs to high school students".... well, what better time to screw up than high school? If you get high and disappear for 3 days, what happens? You get suspended? Try that at 30 with an ugly kid, a fat wife, and a shitty job.
Your post is almost correct, except for one small detail...
You say it is "... the same crime as making a mix cd of cds you own...".
It's actually not, because it's not a crime. Not everything that breaks the law is a crime. Breach of contract is not a crime. Parking in the wrong spot is an misdemeanor, not a crime.
The bible was written at least a century after the alleged events of jesus's life, and it's nothing but lies.
There was no jesus, and there are no gods. All religions are nothing but lies, and you are a stupid person for even considering that such things might hold even a little bit of historic truth.
The whole modern web (Chrome, Safari, etc) is based on Webkit, and webkit is nothing but KHTML plus a few additions, and cleaned up as a library (also, ported). I was a KDE user from 2001 till 2006. Konqueror (KHTML based) Rocked. KHTML was created in 1998.
Also, Mozilla Suite rocked dude. Phoenix rocked too. I've never, ever used IE, and I've been around the web for a long, long time.
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Or what can be attributed to a crappy API. Even on a stable, well proven app, a shitty API (Like Paypal's payflow pro) will make your life misserable. I'm not defending EA here, those guys are worse than microsoft, just stating a technical fact, and a possible theory of how this happened.
It's happened to me before. You have a working app, paypal or your bank or someone else decides to change something on their side without previous knowledge, and they only test it with their official SDK (most of the times java-only). All of the people that implemented their own codebase on another language, get screwed over. Hopefully, automated charging will just fail. In some cases, something like this will happened. Over the years, it's happened to me once with Paypal, once with Wachovia, and once with 2Checkout.
The bastards. Ok, two things:
1st: Don't buy that kind of devices. Get some generic ARM-based box off china. It's what this devices use anyway. You can find some nice 600mhz ARM + 128MB of RAM all-in-one boards that come with an SDK and all of the source plus many example apps for 30 dollars (FOB Shenzhen, China). There are even full embedded systems (with very similar specs) complete with case, power supply, remote, wifi card, etc. Ready to plug and get hacking for under 60 dollars (Again, price is FOB Shenzhen). Lots of fun at a great price. You can find retailers for all of this devices in most places around the world.
Another great hacking tool are the atom-based boards. There are all in one mini-atx mobos with dual core Atom processors (1.6ghz) for 80 dollars. Try the Intel or Foxconn models, they are very powerful and inexpensive.
If you are still mad about the GPL violators, try mailing Richard at rms@gnu.org, he reads and answers every mail, and he'll surely be more than glad to help you out and speak on your behalf, or direct you to the right person.
BTW: The account thing wasn't just to be a smartass. Many people just disregards most ACs posts, and it's impossible to keep in touch or get replies from ACs anyway. Also, this place has some very very elaborate trolls, you never, ever know ;)
Happy Hacking!
Hehe. Those were fun times. I'm clean now (I didn't become a 12stepper or anything like that, I just eventually got bored of cocaine. But I say I miss the fun times of working totally high. I must say, every once in a while I find some script I wrote years ago at the wee hours of some Sunday, and let me tell you, that's what I call creative Perl ;)
Hey there.
Two things:
1st) Can you please not post this as AC? I believe it's important enough as to use a username
2nd) Have you contacted the FSF / gpl-violations.org? You really should.
Best. Comment. Ever.
We still produce core dumps? are you crazy? Blasphemous! My applications never core dump, ever! (Yeah, Friday is the official release date of v 1.5 of one of the apps I develop. There'll be a big presentation, lots of people, and I'm freaking nervous). I mean, I'm not nervous! My applications are bug free. (crawls back into the corner, continues countdown to Friday 10 A.M while swinging back and forth).
The devices, known as memristors, or memory resistors, were conceived in 1971 by Leon O. Chua, an electrical engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, but they were not put into effect until 2008 at the H.P. lab here.
Except the idea isn't new, it's just the first time they can actually make one and test it.
Regardless of that, this sounds very interesting. They are non-volatile, they are 1/th the size of a transistor, and they use far less power. Also (I assume), they should be cheaper to make. They also said that they tested them with hundreds of thousands of rw operations. That is pretty amazing at such an early stage of development.
Not all Sysadmins. But many for sure. But Crack smoking is for the weekend,since you'll be really tripping balls. The week is coke time!
My record of coke-induced unix-fixing rampage was 3 years ago, when a 12-machine asterisk system failed spectacularly after some douchebag that was administrating that system screwed up the mysql circular replication and ended up with 12 corrupt copies of a 2TB database, and a backup that didn't work (They had hired me a year and a half prior to that incident to setup that system as an external contractor, and they were going to administrate the system themselves). 106 Hours and 25 grams later, they had a working system again :)
In the video you see the people weren't attacking anyone, weren't targeting anyone (hell, all they had was cameras!) and that they were just civilians walking on the street. The military clearly had no idea what they were doing. Now theres plans to employ remotely controlled UAC's too? Make it a video game so that you don't need to care about the people you are murdering. These are people with families, with kids, with a whole lot of their own life, dreams and childhood. Then some idiot with large caliber weapons comes and shoots them without even a blink of an eye or thinking what he is doing. In top of that the truth is held from the public and the families of those who were killed, and US Army admits no mistake. I have no respect for these people - they're scum.
What did you expect from the military? There are two kind of guys that enter the military: Those that are murderers, and those that lie about it. That whole "protecting my country" thing is bullshit. They want to murder people. The only thing the US military has ever done is bombing black/brown/yellow people. Anyone signing up for it is a racist and a murderer, and I have no sympathy for them. And no, I don't feel sorry when I see their coffins arriving on TV.
The US hasn't fought a single Legitimate war since the independence wars. All the others, have been invasions. Not to mention all the wars they have contributed to create by providing armament and by having the CIA stirring up some shit.
So, yes, they are all scum.
Totally agreed.
You have to add another thing:
The only way to drive in the crazy traffic of Sao Paulo or Buenos Aires, is with MT :)
Increase the speed of learning
Directly impact student performance
Improve student behavior
Recruit the best teachers who seek the best environments
Highest quality light = highest quality learning environment
The Heschong Mahone Group analyzed test scores of over 21,000 students in multiple school districts. The study showed that students with the most daylighting in their classrooms progressed 20% faster on math tests and 26% faster on reading tests when compared to students in the least daylit classrooms. Heschong Mahone Group, "Daylighting in Schools" Report at www.h-w-g.com, 1999.
In a North Carolina Performance Report, students attending daylit schools outperformed the students in non-daylit schools by 5%-14%. National Renewable Energy Laboratory Report, " Daylighting in Schools: Improving Student Performance and Health at a Price Schools can Afford, " 2000.
A National Renewable Energy Laboratory Report concluded that students benefit from daylighting, both in terms of increased performance and general health and well being. National Renewable Energy Laboratory Report, "Daylighting in Schools: Improving Student Performance and Health at a Price Schools can Afford, " 2000.
Wow ... "increase the speed of learning?". Given crackpotery on their site, the poor science, the ridiculous claims that instead of focusing on fucking light delivered, focus on subjective, unmeasurable bullshit, the complete lack of details, video, specs, etc. this product doesn't sound very serious ...
No, that's not the reason. The reason is that most people around the world drive stick. There are only a few countries around the world where people drive mostly automatic transmission. In most of the world, if you only know how to drive automatic, you'll be restricted to an license that only allows you to drive automatic transmission.
Where I live (Argentina) virtually no one drives automatic transmission cars. We get the same models you do, but with manual transmission. This is true in most of South America. I once made the mistake of renting a car in the UK. Driving on the wrong side of the road was fucking difficult, but the car had manual transmission (In the US is almost impossible to find a rental car with manual transmission, I know from experience, but in the UK they gave me one automatically, and without asking).
If you had this issue in MT, it would be:
a) Trivial to just hold the clutch and disengage the gears.
b) On the AT model, pushing the accelerator would switch gears, while in MT you would still be in your current gear.
You have way more control. Also, the whole calculation done is probably different, I'm guessing even completely different, so, maybe the bug isn't present in those versions.
Dude, I wasn't trolling. I Genuinely said sorry, because I didn't notice the site had malware.
Sorry for the malware guys. I don't use Windows. I didn't notice.
You are wrong. There's a time to do drugs, drive dangerously, hate authority, defy the cops, shit and piss in the entrances of churches (please tell me I wasn't the only one), and any other crazy stuff you want to do. It's called High School. You get out of it with a loot of good stories, and a lot of knowledge about what things you shouldn't do if you want to keep your life.
Most make it out alive. Many die in the process. Well, that's evolution at work.
When you see guys in their 50s fucking 16 year old girls, or driving their motorcycles at 200km/h, or going for a bag of coke at 5 A.M in a dangerous neighborhood, it is because that guy did nothing when he was in young.
As doug stanhope says: Parents say "they are selling drugs to high school students" .... well, what better time to screw up than high school? If you get high and disappear for 3 days, what happens? You get suspended? Try that at 30 with an ugly kid, a fat wife, and a shitty job.
Nop, you are not. But you don't have the guts to say so without the protection of Anonymity.
Yes, It is fucking hilarious, and the photos are fucking amazing.
Look at this one:
http://nikkicatsouras.net/nikki-catsouras-porsche-girl-crash-8.jpg
I guess we finally solved the issue of faster-than-light travel: Matter can't go faster than light, but bitches sure can.
Ok, sorry for replying to myself but ...
Found the photos. She was fucking hot!
http://bittenandbound.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/ht_nicole_071115_ms.jpg
Well, not so hot after the accident:
http://nikkicatsouras.net/
I know, I'm a jerk.
I guess I will have to go through the evidence to make a final judgement. Anyone can provide me with a link of the photos? ;)
That's what I was saying man. That Copyright infringement isn't a crime. It's against the law, but not a crime.
Your post is almost correct, except for one small detail ...
You say it is "... the same crime as making a mix cd of cds you own ...".
It's actually not, because it's not a crime. Not everything that breaks the law is a crime. Breach of contract is not a crime. Parking in the wrong spot is an misdemeanor, not a crime.
And this is the crackers fault how?
Except Piracy is stealing fucking ships on the open seas.
And downloading and cracking software is .... downloading and cracking software.
The bible was written at least a century after the alleged events of jesus's life, and it's nothing but lies.
There was no jesus, and there are no gods. All religions are nothing but lies, and you are a stupid person for even considering that such things might hold even a little bit of historic truth.
No he didn't, because jesus didn't exit.
What about KHTML?
The whole modern web (Chrome, Safari, etc) is based on Webkit, and webkit is nothing but KHTML plus a few additions, and cleaned up as a library (also, ported). I was a KDE user from 2001 till 2006. Konqueror (KHTML based) Rocked. KHTML was created in 1998.
Also, Mozilla Suite rocked dude. Phoenix rocked too. I've never, ever used IE, and I've been around the web for a long, long time.