...is why, once Apple OS becomes available on an almost PC-compatible platform, won't people just hack it (would it take much?) to run on any old (or new) stock PC, and run pirated copies all over the place, and ruin Apple's market for hardware. Seems like the switch to Intel could be bad business move for Apple, since they stand to loose the uniqueness that keeps them alive and doing rather well. Whaddaya think?
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I'm also looking at this from another, more personal angle. The sad truth is, I need WinXP for much of my work. I don't want to be busting anyone's balls here, but a lot of embedded systems development software is Windows-only. And a lot of people need to ship a Windows version before anything else. So, not that I like Windows development much, but, more often than not, I get hired to do some Windows drivers, and an MFC application or two to go along. I get quite a few of these jobs - where the overall coolness of the project (and the money:-) more than offsets the need to use Windows.
Now, I like Apple hardware a lot, and the only thing that stopped me from buying an Apple laptop so far was that it wouldn't run goddamn Windows, so I'd need to own another, PC-compatible, machine as well. And I just don't have time for that many computers:-)
But, it'd be extremely cool if I could, so to speak, have an Apple, and eat it too. In other words, triple-boot an Apple machine. Then I could use it for any work that I do, and the coding I do for fun too - which would even cooler. Anyone know what it'd take to run WinXP on one of these new ont-yet-existent things?
Google has about 4500 employees, Microsoft has 15000. I don't see how 4500 employees makes a company "lightweight". I suppose, it's not the size that matters, it's how you use it:-)
What should be repellant is not the notion of shooting down planes that would otherwise crash somewhere they would do much damage, but the thought of the government covering this up. You shoot down a plane, goddamn it, you might as well admit it. After all, you didn't do anything wrong, really!
But, somehow, I doubt that if they really did shoot it down they would have the balls to admit it...
I thought, copyright law allows the content provider to restrict what you can do with the content, not to restrict what equipment you can sell. Only DMCA puts restrictions on equipment manufacturers.
1. I have independent information that you don't have. I also have all the information that you do have - from the news sources. I don't see how this makes me an ignorant turd.
1. I didn't start calling you names, you stupid asssucker, but I sure as hell wouldn't pass a chance to reply. Go find a cock to squash your shit on.
No, the police scanner just had the police radio traffic on it, with the cops discussing how "they shot down a plane", and how a couple of patrolmen had seen the fighter plane come in and fire a missile. Nothing direct - just a bunch of bullshit like that - but very impressive when you hear it in real time.
OK, so if I so much as think about turning on my phone during a flight the aircraft will immediately burst into flames and plummet to the ground killing all on board.
Not a chance. They don't allow cell phones onboard because they haven't tested all cell phone models againes all possible airplane equipment setups. Not because cell phones are actually known to have caused problems - I don't think there have been any recorded incidents. Besides, many passengers never actually bother to turn off their phones - even though a cell phone can't get any reception in the air anyways.
That diverts resources from protecting the targets that haven't been tried yet.
People responsible for mounting a reply to terrorist attacks have different agendas that their job description says. They want:
1) Not to look foolish the next time something happens.
2) To get more budget money.
Allowing the terrorists to pull the same trick twice would make the guy in charge look totally foolish, so that's why we get strip-searched at the gate. Not because it could stop a terrorist from blowing people up away from the airports. The #2 above explains why we have all those expensive and useless baggage scanners, and whatnot, and the Department of Homeland Security. I'm not sure how any of that would prevent the next half-brained terrorist from killing people...
The 9/11 hijackers killed a stewardess and threatened to kill another one if the pilots didn't let them in. I a situation like that, wouldn't the pilot set the transponder to 7500 before opening the door anyways? But, once the door was opened and the trerrorists took over, how could it matter if the ground control knew the plane was being hijacked or not? They didn't have F16s on alert back then...
Many of those hostages dies because the asshole authorities refused to notify the medics of what the gas was - I guess it was sooooo secret. The gas was an opiate. It took the medics some time before they figured it out - it was an opiate. Opiates have very narrow dose range, but there are very effective ways to treat opiate overdoses. I bet at least a half of the 120 dead hostages would be alive today if the doctors new right away what they were dealing with.
They'd use something like a car alarm. A code-hopping system could be made rather hard to break, though the ones used in actual car alarms aren't:-)/. If you want to read about it, Microchip is one of the companies that make code-hopping transmitter and receiver components - they call it KEELOQ or something.
the same shit that happened on the Pennsylvania flight 93 will now be standard procedure...
You are underestimating the US government. The Pennsylvania flight 93 was shot down. I have a friend who was listening to a police scanner down there at the time, and it was quite clear from the radio traffic that it was shot down, and the passengers had nothing to do with it. Jumping the terrorists is the best thing the passengers could do in a situation like that, no doubt, but it just wasn't what's happened.
If you don't believe me (why would you?) think about this: The official version said that the passengers used their cell phones to find out what the hijackers were up to, and that put them (the passengers) up to trying to take over. Please try using your cell phone on a plane next tiem you fly. Don't worry - it won't interfere with the planes' equipment a bit - the reason they ask you not to use the phone in flight is that they haven't tested all types of cell phones against the equipment, but there are no known cases of interference. Turn on your cell phone and try to get a connection. It won't work, unless the plane is very near the ground - because the cell towers have directional antennas that only work along the ground.
This is the ultimate yuppy gadget, not geek gadget. A geek would just pee in a bottle:-). A yuppy would buy a special bottle to pee in. Then, again, a yuppy wouldn't have a problem taking a walk to the bathroom...
A friend of mine got his account terminated for a manoeuver like this -- he ran crack over an unshadowed/etc/passwd on one of the machines at his school and sent the output to the sysadmin:-)
More often then not people are dumb and easily scared. Every time you do something they don't expect you to do, they might treat you as a criminal, no matter what your intentions. If I'd come across someone else's root password, I'd think twice before telling them. That is, unless I wasn't their boss, or hired by their boss to do this.
BTW, I bet the root password you got was "god", "the plague", or something from the same wavelength:-).
The word quantum appears on slashdot in nearly every other article, so that quantum stuff must be so hot. And it's been around for almost a century now. he-he. quantum computing. quantum teleportation. quantum nanotubes.
Movie ticket prices are about $10, which is ridiculous, considering what you're getting -- the right to sit in a dark room in a filthy uncomfortable seat and watch the back of the head of the fat fuck in front of you, who moves it back into your line of sight every time you twist your neck in a different way to see around it. You also get to listen to other people around you discuss some stupid shit, snarf popcorn, and fart.
A DVD rental is next to free with netflix, and if you can't watch it for some reason, and you have a computer, you can copy it off for later viewing for the cost of a DVD blank.
I only go to the movies when my stupid gf wants to "go to the movies", as opposed to "sit home and stare at the tube all evening" again. In which case I do go to the movies, because my other options are pretty much limited to taking her to some "cozy" yuppie restaurant and spending the evening staring at her face and listening to her silly chat. Not that I mind the look of her face, but the movies have the advantage that she can't really talk all that much there:-).
"Old Growth Clearing" would not have helped AT ALL.
I thought they start small forrest fires sometimes to get rid of the "old growth" and prevent large uncontrollable fires. I thought it was a common and valid technique. Logging usually implies cutting live trees, not dry rotten wood.
Assuming, like the majority, you're not overclocking...
Assuming, like the majority, you won't RTFA no matter what, allow me to correct your perceptions right here -- this guy is not only overclocking, but voltage-modding as well.
Next time you write a program that puts up a task tray icon, don't forget to process the explorer restart event:-). About half of the dumbasses out there who write these apparently don't bother.
My school uses Java for teaching. Java is a powerful language, but you can define a complete small subset that's easy to learn, and have students use that. Beats BASIC, Pascal and all such, because the students end up learning a language that will actually be useful to them in practice.
American traffic magistrates (at least in WA) would not even understand what an "algorithm" is. They will just see another glib speeder trying to scam the county out of $162.
It really depends on the court. I noticed that in smaller towns courts are less severe in their treatment of speeders. Often for a judge would consider the fact that you are upset enough to appear in court, and basically let you go.
Another thing I noticed, local cops often get a lot more respect in a judge's mind than state cops ('cause the judge knows the locals personally). Local cops are also more likely to show up for the hearing (I heard they get paid overtime for court appearances). And if the cop doesn't show, you win the case no matter what the circumstances, of course.
And one last thing, don't be fooled by prosecutors. In some jurisdictions in the U.S. speeding cases require formal arrainment, and the sleazebag of a prosecutor would always lie to you as much as she/he can, just to coerce you into pleading out with a smaller fine. They just like that shit. It just makes them feel so powerful:-).
I got a $285 speeding ticket in Connecticut once, and the prosecutors got their offer down to $120, on the morning of the hearing. I came to court and saw it with my own eyes that the cop was not there. The prosecutor came up to me, saying "you, know, the cop has been subpoenaed, so he WILL show eventually, 'cause he's GOT to, otherwise he'd be in contempt of court". "Plead out for $120, she said, and you won't have to wait for him ALL DAY". I knew it was a bloody lie, but she kept such a straight face telling me this. It was just hilarious.
I told her I'd bet her a dinner that the cop doesn't show, and won within 5 minutes: "next case, people vs. <insert my name> officer <insert cop's name> is absent, defendant is found not guilty *hammer strike*, next case". A dinner with the (relatively) beautiful prosecutor woman, courtesy of Connecticut DA's office. It was truly quite cool:-). Cue the "slashdot geek goes even for a prosecutor, as long as it's a female" jokes:-).
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I'm also looking at this from another, more personal angle. The sad truth is, I need WinXP for much of my work. I don't want to be busting anyone's balls here, but a lot of embedded systems development software is Windows-only. And a lot of people need to ship a Windows version before anything else. So, not that I like Windows development much, but, more often than not, I get hired to do some Windows drivers, and an MFC application or two to go along. I get quite a few of these jobs - where the overall coolness of the project (and the money:-) more than offsets the need to use Windows.
Now, I like Apple hardware a lot, and the only thing that stopped me from buying an Apple laptop so far was that it wouldn't run goddamn Windows, so I'd need to own another, PC-compatible, machine as well. And I just don't have time for that many computers:-)
But, it'd be extremely cool if I could, so to speak, have an Apple, and eat it too. In other words, triple-boot an Apple machine. Then I could use it for any work that I do, and the coding I do for fun too - which would even cooler. Anyone know what it'd take to run WinXP on one of these new ont-yet-existent things?
lightweight?
Google has about 4500 employees, Microsoft has 15000. I don't see how 4500 employees makes a company "lightweight". I suppose, it's not the size that matters, it's how you use it:-)
What should be repellant is not the notion of shooting down planes that would otherwise crash somewhere they would do much damage, but the thought of the government covering this up. You shoot down a plane, goddamn it, you might as well admit it. After all, you didn't do anything wrong, really!
But, somehow, I doubt that if they really did shoot it down they would have the balls to admit it...
I thought, copyright law allows the content provider to restrict what you can do with the content, not to restrict what equipment you can sell. Only DMCA puts restrictions on equipment manufacturers.
1. I have independent information that you don't have. I also have all the information that you do have - from the news sources. I don't see how this makes me an ignorant turd.
1. I didn't start calling you names, you stupid asssucker, but I sure as hell wouldn't pass a chance to reply. Go find a cock to squash your shit on.
No, the police scanner just had the police radio traffic on it, with the cops discussing how "they shot down a plane", and how a couple of patrolmen had seen the fighter plane come in and fire a missile. Nothing direct - just a bunch of bullshit like that - but very impressive when you hear it in real time.
OK, so if I so much as think about turning on my phone during a flight the aircraft will immediately burst into flames and plummet to the ground killing all on board.
Not a chance. They don't allow cell phones onboard because they haven't tested all cell phone models againes all possible airplane equipment setups. Not because cell phones are actually known to have caused problems - I don't think there have been any recorded incidents. Besides, many passengers never actually bother to turn off their phones - even though a cell phone can't get any reception in the air anyways.
That diverts resources from protecting the targets that haven't been tried yet.
People responsible for mounting a reply to terrorist attacks have different agendas that their job description says. They want:
1) Not to look foolish the next time something happens.
2) To get more budget money.
Allowing the terrorists to pull the same trick twice would make the guy in charge look totally foolish, so that's why we get strip-searched at the gate. Not because it could stop a terrorist from blowing people up away from the airports. The #2 above explains why we have all those expensive and useless baggage scanners, and whatnot, and the Department of Homeland Security. I'm not sure how any of that would prevent the next half-brained terrorist from killing people...
The 9/11 hijackers killed a stewardess and threatened to kill another one if the pilots didn't let them in. I a situation like that, wouldn't the pilot set the transponder to 7500 before opening the door anyways? But, once the door was opened and the trerrorists took over, how could it matter if the ground control knew the plane was being hijacked or not? They didn't have F16s on alert back then...
Many of those hostages dies because the asshole authorities refused to notify the medics of what the gas was - I guess it was sooooo secret. The gas was an opiate. It took the medics some time before they figured it out - it was an opiate. Opiates have very narrow dose range, but there are very effective ways to treat opiate overdoses. I bet at least a half of the 120 dead hostages would be alive today if the doctors new right away what they were dealing with.
They'd use something like a car alarm. A code-hopping system could be made rather hard to break, though the ones used in actual car alarms aren't:-)/. If you want to read about it, Microchip is one of the companies that make code-hopping transmitter and receiver components - they call it KEELOQ or something.
the same shit that happened on the Pennsylvania flight 93 will now be standard procedure...
You are underestimating the US government. The Pennsylvania flight 93 was shot down. I have a friend who was listening to a police scanner down there at the time, and it was quite clear from the radio traffic that it was shot down, and the passengers had nothing to do with it. Jumping the terrorists is the best thing the passengers could do in a situation like that, no doubt, but it just wasn't what's happened.
If you don't believe me (why would you?) think about this: The official version said that the passengers used their cell phones to find out what the hijackers were up to, and that put them (the passengers) up to trying to take over. Please try using your cell phone on a plane next tiem you fly. Don't worry - it won't interfere with the planes' equipment a bit - the reason they ask you not to use the phone in flight is that they haven't tested all types of cell phones against the equipment, but there are no known cases of interference. Turn on your cell phone and try to get a connection. It won't work, unless the plane is very near the ground - because the cell towers have directional antennas that only work along the ground.
This is the ultimate yuppy gadget, not geek gadget. A geek would just pee in a bottle:-). A yuppy would buy a special bottle to pee in. Then, again, a yuppy wouldn't have a problem taking a walk to the bathroom...
A friend of mine got his account terminated for a manoeuver like this -- he ran crack over an unshadowed /etc/passwd on one of the machines at his school and sent the output to the sysadmin:-)
More often then not people are dumb and easily scared. Every time you do something they don't expect you to do, they might treat you as a criminal, no matter what your intentions. If I'd come across someone else's root password, I'd think twice before telling them. That is, unless I wasn't their boss, or hired by their boss to do this.
BTW, I bet the root password you got was "god", "the plague", or something from the same wavelength:-).
The word quantum appears on slashdot in nearly every other article, so that quantum stuff must be so hot. And it's been around for almost a century now. he-he. quantum computing. quantum teleportation. quantum nanotubes.
Don't you forget, human body is also conductive, and microwaves heat it up rather well as it is, though wrapping would make you crispy.
I wanna roll up my computer screen & carry it into my flying car!
No, not possible. But, you can carry your LCD monitor into your PT cruiser:-).
...mathematical study...
Math? Seems more like psychology to me...
Movie ticket prices are about $10, which is ridiculous, considering what you're getting -- the right to sit in a dark room in a filthy uncomfortable seat and watch the back of the head of the fat fuck in front of you, who moves it back into your line of sight every time you twist your neck in a different way to see around it. You also get to listen to other people around you discuss some stupid shit, snarf popcorn, and fart.
A DVD rental is next to free with netflix, and if you can't watch it for some reason, and you have a computer, you can copy it off for later viewing for the cost of a DVD blank.
I only go to the movies when my stupid gf wants to "go to the movies", as opposed to "sit home and stare at the tube all evening" again. In which case I do go to the movies, because my other options are pretty much limited to taking her to some "cozy" yuppie restaurant and spending the evening staring at her face and listening to her silly chat. Not that I mind the look of her face, but the movies have the advantage that she can't really talk all that much there:-).
"Old Growth Clearing" would not have helped AT ALL.
I thought they start small forrest fires sometimes to get rid of the "old growth" and prevent large uncontrollable fires. I thought it was a common and valid technique. Logging usually implies cutting live trees, not dry rotten wood.
Assuming, like the majority, you're not overclocking...
Assuming, like the majority, you won't RTFA no matter what, allow me to correct your perceptions right here -- this guy is not only overclocking, but voltage-modding as well.
Next time you write a program that puts up a task tray icon, don't forget to process the explorer restart event:-). About half of the dumbasses out there who write these apparently don't bother.
Algorithms are not patentable. Or at least they weren't last time I checked:-).
My school uses Java for teaching. Java is a powerful language, but you can define a complete small subset that's easy to learn, and have students use that. Beats BASIC, Pascal and all such, because the students end up learning a language that will actually be useful to them in practice.
American traffic magistrates (at least in WA) would not even understand what an "algorithm" is. They will just see another glib speeder trying to scam the county out of $162.
It really depends on the court. I noticed that in smaller towns courts are less severe in their treatment of speeders. Often for a judge would consider the fact that you are upset enough to appear in court, and basically let you go.
Another thing I noticed, local cops often get a lot more respect in a judge's mind than state cops ('cause the judge knows the locals personally). Local cops are also more likely to show up for the hearing (I heard they get paid overtime for court appearances). And if the cop doesn't show, you win the case no matter what the circumstances, of course.
And one last thing, don't be fooled by prosecutors. In some jurisdictions in the U.S. speeding cases require formal arrainment, and the sleazebag of a prosecutor would always lie to you as much as she/he can, just to coerce you into pleading out with a smaller fine. They just like that shit. It just makes them feel so powerful:-).
I got a $285 speeding ticket in Connecticut once, and the prosecutors got their offer down to $120, on the morning of the hearing. I came to court and saw it with my own eyes that the cop was not there. The prosecutor came up to me, saying "you, know, the cop has been subpoenaed, so he WILL show eventually, 'cause he's GOT to, otherwise he'd be in contempt of court". "Plead out for $120, she said, and you won't have to wait for him ALL DAY". I knew it was a bloody lie, but she kept such a straight face telling me this. It was just hilarious.
I told her I'd bet her a dinner that the cop doesn't show, and won within 5 minutes: "next case, people vs. <insert my name> officer <insert cop's name> is absent, defendant is found not guilty *hammer strike*, next case". A dinner with the (relatively) beautiful prosecutor woman, courtesy of Connecticut DA's office. It was truly quite cool:-). Cue the "slashdot geek goes even for a prosecutor, as long as it's a female" jokes:-).