In the same sense that scaring the birds in the park qualifies as manipulation. It's not the same thing as breaking through the security of the matrix itself. If you could do that, turning off the power to a few city blocks would be small fries.
Actually, that assumes that there's a control point in the matrix operating system where you can shut off the city blocks (or whatever). Getting in and inserting your own code isn't hard. What's hard is inserting code that does something useful. That's why Neo needed to get to the source code. (Or anyway that's my theory, and I'm sticking with it!)
WaveSEC is an add-on for Linux and the BSDs that lets you set up an opportunistic encryption path between your laptop and a server on the wired network. This keeps you safe from eavesdroppers who know your WEP key - indeed, with WAVEsec you don't need a WEP key.
Note that WaveSEC is NOT a replacement for end-to-end security. All it does is protect you from wireless eavesdroppers. If you are using WaveSEC or end-to-end IPsec for all your network connections, you don't need WAVEsec.
The thing that slows computation down is mostly access to memory. The faster you can yank bits out of memory and slap them back out there, the faster you will compute. CPUs nowadays are highly optimized to make sure that every memory cycle does something useful.
Generally a CPU can compute faster than it can fetch or store, because on-chip memory is faster than off-chip memory. Tricks like caches help to speed things up. Tricks like having wider registers can also help quite a bit, depending on what you're doing.
If you are doing a lot of integer math on 32-bit integers, 64-bit registers aren't going to make any difference. If you are bitblitting images, they can make a difference. If you are doing double-precision floating point operations, they can make a big difference.
You can get similar performance wins by having a wide memory bus, long pipelines and a high clock rate, but the problem with long pipelines is that unless your code is amenable to long pipelines, you wind up doing a lot of pipeline stalls, and all the memory cycles you spend loading the pipeline are wasted, and you don't get much benefit from your faster clock rate. This is a big problem on the Pentium IV, which has a really long pipeline, and is one reason why P-IV performance has been disappointing for a lot of geeks looking for general-purpose performance. P-IV does well with video because video compression and decompression algorithms work nicely with long pipelines.
The bottom line is that there is no one thing that can double your performance, and certainly going from 32-bit registers to 64-bit registers can't double performance in all cases, but it can make a significant difference in some cases. If those cases are cases that Apple's customers care about, then Apple wins.
It's not a free service, but it's really cheap, and it's got a nice user interface, designed specifically for your mom. You do have to check for false positives, because it's not perfect, but I get close to zero spam through my personal email account now that I'm using it. I wish I could use it at work.
And Jesus answered and said unto him, "Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
I'm not sure if you're disagreeing with me here or agreeing. Did his Father come down with a grey beard and thunderbolts and say "yo, Peter, listen up. Jesus is Christ, the Son of the Living God. You should believe this because I say it's true." No. Peter just realized this about Jesus, because he was blessed. Pontius Pilate, apparently, was not.
Why was Peter blessed and not Pilate? Because God likes one of them better than the other? No. Because Peter had more virtue than Pilate, and thus was able to see a better Jesus than Pilate was able to see. Or, to put it another way, Peter was closer to God, and so was able to receive the blessing of being able to see Jesus as the Son of God.
Either way, it appears that Jesus was indeed one thing to Peter, and another thing to Pilate - I don't see how you can argue that point.
Just prior to His crucifixion, Pilate asks him if He is the King of the Jews and Jesus answers something to the effect "It is as you say".
Actually, he says "you say" not "it is as you say." The implication is that it is the person who is relating to him that decides whether he is an ordinary man or the Son of God, not he himself. If Peter truly sees him as the Son of God, that's Peter's good fortune. If Pilate sees him as an ordinary man, that's Pilate's bad fortune. (That's assuming that seeing him as the Son of God is a good thing, of course!).
This actually ties back in to the question of whether the Matrix is a movie with deep religious significance or just an action/adventure movie. You say. If, to you, it's just an action/adventure movie, then that's what it is. If it has deep religious overtones, that's what it is. There's no need to argue about it, really, although it can be fun.:')
We use bash/bourne shell for scripting because it's available on every operating system, and its behavior is reasonably predictable. It would be insane to write a shell script in tcsh, for example (not that I haven't done it...:').
However, if you really want to write a quick script, something like Perl or Python is a better choice, unless you really need that portability. And if you really want a nice UI, well, you should use what works for you.
On that basis, I use tcsh. it is not superior to bash - if anything, bash is, taken as a whole, superior to tcsh. Likewise ksh. But I'm not using all the features of ksh or bash, and because of my own personal history - what I imprinted on - I find tcsh much more predictable. Its behavior is also more similar to emacs' behavior than bash's behavior, and I use emacs. So for me, tcsh is the right choice.
You said you use tcsh elsewhere. So to some degree you've probably imprinted on it. It's brave of you to decide to check out the competition, but it's going to come down to a matter of personal preference, so my advice to you is to personally check out the competition - don't take our word for it. This is a productivity tool, so pick the one that works nicely for *you*.
Having said that, the obvious competition to tcsh is bash, and it's getting to the point where it's pretty much ubiquitous, so that is what I'd suggest you check out. Switch to bash for a month. Try to customize it to your liking. After a month, switch back to tcsh. If you find yourself missing bash, switch back to bash. If you find yourself happy and relieved to be back home, stick with tcsh. If you find yourself still on the fence, use bash, because it's more likely to be installed on random machines that you log into (into which you log?).
The code name of the project was "squeaky." Spitsqueak was a piece of software that took data from a related product and spit it out in the right format. In a sense, you could say that the name was precisely descriptive, but I think it qualifies because the name of the project was completely unrelated to what it actually did.
That's pretty much the only reason I'd use FTP over HTTP. When you're doing bulk transfers of large files over a potentially lossy connection, the ability to restart is really nice. By restart, I mean finish the rest of an FTP transfer that failed in the middle.
Of course, you have to have an FTP client that supports this.
And from the article The company argument (COO level so far, CEO is next) is that the company instituted this policy over a year ago for all existing employees and new hires,...
So the level on the food chain has nothing to do with it.
Possibly. But generally when a policy like this is instituted, it's better to make it across the board so that you can't be accused of unfairness.
The people who are making purchasing decisions for the company (that is, the directors) are the ones whose credit you really want to check, and it helps, if you decide to hire someone who might have a chip on their shoulder about being subjected to credit checks, to be able to say "look, we do this to everyone, even the CEO and the janitor."
Personally, the thing that always torques me off when I take a job is the NDA. I know that in a lot of cases it's necessary, but it still sucks.
I hate to say it, man, but the higher up you are in the food chain, the more important it is for them that they check you out. If I were them, I would already have told you to take a hike.
I know of too many cases of executive malfeasance to agree with your assertion that your financial history is none of their business. Particularly given that people are generally afraid these days to say anything honest in a reference because they might get sued.
It's people who want streaming audio and video, or massive file sharing. Power users just want to be able to download the data they need, when they need it, without a long wait. I don't say this to put down people who do streaming - I use it too, sometimes. But a power user probably consumes an order of magnitude less bandwidth than a user who has the connection primarily to do streaming media. Personally, I'm exquisitely happy with my broadband DSL connection, and with my ISP (speakeasy).
My main worry right now is that Congress will kill my ISP by fiat, and I'll be forced to buy service from a baby bell again.:'}
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It's easy to see in retrospect that it wasn't a good idea, but this was back before all the corporate scandals, and people were a little less wary. I just hope they sold some of that stock before it completely lost its value, although if they did that's unfortunate for whoever bought it. Sigh.
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Is it just me, or is that story just unbelievably depressing? The writer didn't really acknowledge this - those two people who spent their lives working on Dragon Dictate wound up completely hosed, and can't hack on their lifes' work anymore. I mean, *ouch*!
As someone who used Emacs on character terminals back when a bitmapped display that could be used for text editing wasn't even a pipe dream, I can tell you that the Hurd wasn't even a twinkle in RMS' eye when emacs came out. The original Emacs was written in ITS TECO on the DECsystem 10. Let's face it, folks, Emacs is the Old Religion.:')
As for first tools, I believe that RMS thought of gcc as the first tool, but I could be wrong - it's been a long time.
BTW, speaking from my experience with gcc hacking way back when, I can say pretty definitively that if you want to have some fun geek adventures and learn a lot, you could do worse than to participate in hacking on the D compiler.
I used to hang out at the Palo Alto Roasting Company because I had some friends who preferred it over Cafe Verona. They roast their own coffee right there in the store. When the roaster is going, the smell really is overpowering.
It's not a nice pleasant thing. And this is a died-in-the-wool coffee addict talking here. I wouldn't be surprised if this stuff is harmful - they should run the smoke through some kind of scrubber or vent it somewhere where nobody will smell it. I doubt that the smoke has any environmental toxins in it, but breathing it is probably not good for your lungs.
The reason why secure digital is bad is not because people want to pirate it. It's because secure digital means secure against me using it where I want to - on my iPod, on my iBook, and in my CD player, as I do with CDs.
AFAIK, DNSSEC support in BIND 8 is nowhere near complete. But I will admit that I haven't tried to use it, so this is strictly second-hand information.
It's supposed to be funny, I think, but I was in the throes of puberty when I read the book, so it was a *major* disappointment when the elf lady never showed up in the actual book.:')
I haven't been directly employed by the ISC for a very long time. But yes, I stepped down as ISC DHCP maintainer about six months ago, and the position has been somewhat open since then, although it looks like a new person has stepped in.
Dude, Bored of the Rings *sucked*! They never got to the scene that's mentioned on the back cover, which was the whole reason I read it! The editing on that book was just terrible!:')
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Actually, that assumes that there's a control point in the matrix operating system where you can shut off the city blocks (or whatever). Getting in and inserting your own code isn't hard. What's hard is inserting code that does something useful. That's why Neo needed to get to the source code. (Or anyway that's my theory, and I'm sticking with it!)
Note that WaveSEC is NOT a replacement for end-to-end security. All it does is protect you from wireless eavesdroppers. If you are using WaveSEC or end-to-end IPsec for all your network connections, you don't need WAVEsec.
The thing that slows computation down is mostly access to memory. The faster you can yank bits out of memory and slap them back out there, the faster you will compute. CPUs nowadays are highly optimized to make sure that every memory cycle does something useful.
Generally a CPU can compute faster than it can fetch or store, because on-chip memory is faster than off-chip memory. Tricks like caches help to speed things up. Tricks like having wider registers can also help quite a bit, depending on what you're doing.
If you are doing a lot of integer math on 32-bit integers, 64-bit registers aren't going to make any difference. If you are bitblitting images, they can make a difference. If you are doing double-precision floating point operations, they can make a big difference.
You can get similar performance wins by having a wide memory bus, long pipelines and a high clock rate, but the problem with long pipelines is that unless your code is amenable to long pipelines, you wind up doing a lot of pipeline stalls, and all the memory cycles you spend loading the pipeline are wasted, and you don't get much benefit from your faster clock rate. This is a big problem on the Pentium IV, which has a really long pipeline, and is one reason why P-IV performance has been disappointing for a lot of geeks looking for general-purpose performance. P-IV does well with video because video compression and decompression algorithms work nicely with long pipelines.
The bottom line is that there is no one thing that can double your performance, and certainly going from 32-bit registers to 64-bit registers can't double performance in all cases, but it can make a significant difference in some cases. If those cases are cases that Apple's customers care about, then Apple wins.
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It's not a free service, but it's really cheap, and it's got a nice user interface, designed specifically for your mom. You do have to check for false positives, because it's not perfect, but I get close to zero spam through my personal email account now that I'm using it. I wish I could use it at work.
I'm not sure if you're disagreeing with me here or agreeing. Did his Father come down with a grey beard and thunderbolts and say "yo, Peter, listen up. Jesus is Christ, the Son of the Living God. You should believe this because I say it's true." No. Peter just realized this about Jesus, because he was blessed. Pontius Pilate, apparently, was not.
Why was Peter blessed and not Pilate? Because God likes one of them better than the other? No. Because Peter had more virtue than Pilate, and thus was able to see a better Jesus than Pilate was able to see. Or, to put it another way, Peter was closer to God, and so was able to receive the blessing of being able to see Jesus as the Son of God.
Either way, it appears that Jesus was indeed one thing to Peter, and another thing to Pilate - I don't see how you can argue that point.
Actually, he says "you say" not "it is as you say." The implication is that it is the person who is relating to him that decides whether he is an ordinary man or the Son of God, not he himself. If Peter truly sees him as the Son of God, that's Peter's good fortune. If Pilate sees him as an ordinary man, that's Pilate's bad fortune. (That's assuming that seeing him as the Son of God is a good thing, of course!).
This actually ties back in to the question of whether the Matrix is a movie with deep religious significance or just an action/adventure movie. You say. If, to you, it's just an action/adventure movie, then that's what it is. If it has deep religious overtones, that's what it is. There's no need to argue about it, really, although it can be fun.
Has anybody checked to see if this is true, and not a hoax? It sounds a lot like the old modem tax urban legend.
We use bash/bourne shell for scripting because it's available on every operating system, and its behavior is reasonably predictable. It would be insane to write a shell script in tcsh, for example (not that I haven't done it... :').
However, if you really want to write a quick script, something like Perl or Python is a better choice, unless you really need that portability. And if you really want a nice UI, well, you should use what works for you.
On that basis, I use tcsh. it is not superior to bash - if anything, bash is, taken as a whole, superior to tcsh. Likewise ksh. But I'm not using all the features of ksh or bash, and because of my own personal history - what I imprinted on - I find tcsh much more predictable. Its behavior is also more similar to emacs' behavior than bash's behavior, and I use emacs. So for me, tcsh is the right choice.
You said you use tcsh elsewhere. So to some degree you've probably imprinted on it. It's brave of you to decide to check out the competition, but it's going to come down to a matter of personal preference, so my advice to you is to personally check out the competition - don't take our word for it. This is a productivity tool, so pick the one that works nicely for *you*.
Having said that, the obvious competition to tcsh is bash, and it's getting to the point where it's pretty much ubiquitous, so that is what I'd suggest you check out. Switch to bash for a month. Try to customize it to your liking. After a month, switch back to tcsh. If you find yourself missing bash, switch back to bash. If you find yourself happy and relieved to be back home, stick with tcsh. If you find yourself still on the fence, use bash, because it's more likely to be installed on random machines that you log into (into which you log?).
The code name of the project was "squeaky." Spitsqueak was a piece of software that took data from a related product and spit it out in the right format. In a sense, you could say that the name was precisely descriptive, but I think it qualifies because the name of the project was completely unrelated to what it actually did.
That's pretty much the only reason I'd use FTP over HTTP. When you're doing bulk transfers of large files over a potentially lossy connection, the ability to restart is really nice. By restart, I mean finish the rest of an FTP transfer that failed in the middle.
Of course, you have to have an FTP client that supports this.
Well, yes, but remember... What goes around, comes around. :'}
And from the article The company argument (COO level so far, CEO is next) is that the company instituted this policy over a year ago for all existing employees and new hires, ...
So the level on the food chain has nothing to do with it.
Possibly. But generally when a policy like this is instituted, it's better to make it across the board so that you can't be accused of unfairness.
The people who are making purchasing decisions for the company (that is, the directors) are the ones whose credit you really want to check, and it helps, if you decide to hire someone who might have a chip on their shoulder about being subjected to credit checks, to be able to say "look, we do this to everyone, even the CEO and the janitor."
Personally, the thing that always torques me off when I take a job is the NDA. I know that in a lot of cases it's necessary, but it still sucks.
I hate to say it, man, but the higher up you are in the food chain, the more important it is for them that they check you out. If I were them, I would already have told you to take a hike.
I know of too many cases of executive malfeasance to agree with your assertion that your financial history is none of their business. Particularly given that people are generally afraid these days to say anything honest in a reference because they might get sued.
It's people who want streaming audio and video, or massive file sharing. Power users just want to be able to download the data they need, when they need it, without a long wait. I don't say this to put down people who do streaming - I use it too, sometimes. But a power user probably consumes an order of magnitude less bandwidth than a user who has the connection primarily to do streaming media. Personally, I'm exquisitely happy with my broadband DSL connection, and with my ISP (speakeasy).
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My main worry right now is that Congress will kill my ISP by fiat, and I'll be forced to buy service from a baby bell again.
It's easy to see in retrospect that it wasn't a good idea, but this was back before all the corporate scandals, and people were a little less wary. I just hope they sold some of that stock before it completely lost its value, although if they did that's unfortunate for whoever bought it. Sigh.
Is it just me, or is that story just unbelievably depressing? The writer didn't really acknowledge this - those two people who spent their lives working on Dragon Dictate wound up completely hosed, and can't hack on their lifes' work anymore. I mean, *ouch*!
As someone who used Emacs on character terminals back when a bitmapped display that could be used for text editing wasn't even a pipe dream, I can tell you that the Hurd wasn't even a twinkle in RMS' eye when emacs came out. The original Emacs was written in ITS TECO on the DECsystem 10. Let's face it, folks, Emacs is the Old Religion. :')
As for first tools, I believe that RMS thought of gcc as the first tool, but I could be wrong - it's been a long time.
BTW, speaking from my experience with gcc hacking way back when, I can say pretty definitively that if you want to have some fun geek adventures and learn a lot, you could do worse than to participate in hacking on the D compiler.
I used to hang out at the Palo Alto Roasting Company because I had some friends who preferred it over Cafe Verona. They roast their own coffee right there in the store. When the roaster is going, the smell really is overpowering.
It's not a nice pleasant thing. And this is a died-in-the-wool coffee addict talking here. I wouldn't be surprised if this stuff is harmful - they should run the smoke through some kind of scrubber or vent it somewhere where nobody will smell it. I doubt that the smoke has any environmental toxins in it, but breathing it is probably not good for your lungs.
The reason why secure digital is bad is not because people want to pirate it. It's because secure digital means secure against me using it where I want to - on my iPod, on my iBook, and in my CD player, as I do with CDs.
Thanks, but that was a lo-oong time ago...
AFAIK, DNSSEC support in BIND 8 is nowhere near complete. But I will admit that I haven't tried to use it, so this is strictly second-hand information.
It's supposed to be funny, I think, but I was in the throes of puberty when I read the book, so it was a *major* disappointment when the elf lady never showed up in the actual book. :')
I haven't been directly employed by the ISC for a very long time. But yes, I stepped down as ISC DHCP maintainer about six months ago, and the position has been somewhat open since then, although it looks like a new person has stepped in.
Dude, Bored of the Rings *sucked*! They never got to the scene that's mentioned on the back cover, which was the whole reason I read it! The editing on that book was just terrible! :')
Yeah, I should have said, I'm talking about the version of Emacs from FSF that runs on MacOS X, not the version that Apple ships.