They get stumped? I mean, it's bad enough when a relatively experienced user gets stumped on Linux (Linux newbie, relatively experienced over all) and people in like #Fedora or #WineHQ are stumped. But if you put all your hopes into a LUG and something breaks.... I guess the only way to make sure that doesn't happen is to stay away. I have notoriously bad luck with Red Hat. I have not managed to get a single install up and running immediately, and I'm running a Celeron 366 with standard components.
That's a sort of over-simplification. Keep in mind that one or a few widely paid jobs set the standard. If one company is hiring and offering more money, other companies will have to increase wages in order to keep up (the classic example is Ford's revolutionary assembly line).
Gatling Gun? It's actually a minigun, which is probably the most destructive weapon known to man. It shoots about $20-$100 in ammo/second, feeds ammo in boxes, and overheats more than an Athlon. And they're very, very fun.
I would love to just accept "white hat" and "black hat" hackers, but I can't for a couple of reasons.
1) I have a healthy ego, and if I can stay set in my ways and not admit I'm wrong... *shrug*
But more seriously: 2) When you stop making the distinction between hacker and cracker you essentially give up. You say, okay, so hackers are bad. But there are SOME good hackers (hopeful look). Personally, I'd like to be able to call myself a hacker in good conscience, and not be associated with the kinds of people that write viruses and malicious code.
Also, there is so much culture and, well, folk lore, associated with the term "hacker" that there is no reason to change it for the dumb news media. We had it first, and we're not changing.
The White Hat Hacker Ethic doesn't sound as good.
Kernel White Hat Hacker?
I'm not sure whether you're being ironic or you're just not familiar with it. No links handy, but the game of life is about the interaction of different cells, and different patterns emerge.
Not only can you not cheat at Tic-Tac-Toe but are you familiar with "Life" which is the source material? A glider gun is one of the replicating patterns.
I think ESR meant it as a unifying forces - sometimes Linux v. BSD, Vi v. Emacs, and all the other holy wars divide us as a group. Raymond is saying: "Look, we're all pimply geeks who write/read code for a living!"
The point of a logo is not to be obscure or "leet", but to represent the group it symbolizes. Personally, I never went head over heels into life, I'm too young for that, but I think it fits. Although the caffeine model amuses, but there's no room to hack it.
*Drops one last comment ont he topic*. It is of course, interesting to note that ICBM delivered nuclear payloads are essentially a thing of the past. One author writes that a nuclear bomb the size of a table could take out Boston harbor without even going through customs. Another author (again, don't have cites on me) jokes that it could always be shipped in the marijuana. Essentially, I want to believe that prolif is good, but it may indeed just be very little time until the nuclear attack comes. Or that's just what my life insurance company WANTS me to think.
It COULD work like that (I have another comment around saying something along those lines), but these give priority to those with the technology. If everyone has them, it WOULD work like that, though.
Actually, I researched that too. Two things to note:
1) Cutco is actually not a pyramid marketing scheme, but a legitimate business (My brother sold for a summer). They just have a sales force motivated by comission.
2) I think this is how they avoid legal problems. They are not selling you the technology, but selling you "demo pieces" to sell to police forces. If you happen to use it for your own purposes, it's not their fault.
(For something funny and random, look into how switchblades are sold).
I don't have my huge box full of paper on me, but there are actually two schools of thought when it comes to proliferation, and one of them does claim that giving "every Joe his own a-bomb" actually PREVENTS nuclear war. The evidence actually stacks up empirically -- the only time nuclear weapons were ever used was when one country owned a monopoly on the technology. Now, look at War Games - the only way to win is to not play. The moment anyone uses nuclear weapons everyone else will kill them (of course this only assumes slow nuclear proliferation). And if everyone gets them, one of three things will happen:
A) Rapid escalation in the use and counter-use, sort of like the bombs used in Ireland (very interesting on the technological side just on bombs and counter-measures)
B) The technology will be discontinued
C) The technology will come to be expected/used in all cars the way pressure sensors are now, actually causing a smarter intersection (they don't accurately gauge the amount of traffic).
Plus, I can imagine putting a unique signal on each of these, so they would track you by it.
Actually, you don't need a checking account, it's just recommended. And even then, you can authenticate with a normal deposit account.
Wait, the Video Phone succeeded?
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"The PDA is dead," says David Levin, the boss of Symbian,
the leading maker of smartphone software.
Is it just me, or does this source seem biased? But having just applied a new screencover to my Palm m515 (free upgrade when I warrantied my 505), I think he's wrong. Does this guy mean the nGAGE which seems to be both a bad gaming platform and a bad phone (it's ergnomically bad for both -- you have to remove the battery to change the game, and you have to turn it sidewise to use as a phone). And not to be flame biat, but there are many things the PDA can do that the phone can't. And I have a phone for 1 reason, and it isn't an organizer or a gaming platform -- to call people!
Is there anyone else that thinks this is China saying, "Screw you America, we don't need you and your restrictive anti-trust business practices?" I mean, all the recent events: China Open-Sources The Great Firewall of China China's Moon Launch
Is it just me or is this China trying to assert its technological domninance, so to speak?
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They get stumped? I mean, it's bad enough when a relatively experienced user gets stumped on Linux (Linux newbie, relatively experienced over all) and people in like #Fedora or #WineHQ are stumped. But if you put all your hopes into a LUG and something breaks.... I guess the only way to make sure that doesn't happen is to stay away. I have notoriously bad luck with Red Hat. I have not managed to get a single install up and running immediately, and I'm running a Celeron 366 with standard components.
My dad was told that he would never need more than 500megs of hard disk, or maybe it was 640k. Something like that.
That's a sort of over-simplification. Keep in mind that one or a few widely paid jobs set the standard. If one company is hiring and offering more money, other companies will have to increase wages in order to keep up (the classic example is Ford's revolutionary assembly line).
It's a system of control, where the system feeds off you and controls you, and then lives off your life's energy.
Gatling Gun? It's actually a minigun, which is probably the most destructive weapon known to man. It shoots about $20-$100 in ammo/second, feeds ammo in boxes, and overheats more than an Athlon. And they're very, very fun.
I would love to just accept "white hat" and "black hat" hackers, but I can't for a couple of reasons. 1) I have a healthy ego, and if I can stay set in my ways and not admit I'm wrong... *shrug* But more seriously: 2) When you stop making the distinction between hacker and cracker you essentially give up. You say, okay, so hackers are bad. But there are SOME good hackers (hopeful look). Personally, I'd like to be able to call myself a hacker in good conscience, and not be associated with the kinds of people that write viruses and malicious code. Also, there is so much culture and, well, folk lore, associated with the term "hacker" that there is no reason to change it for the dumb news media. We had it first, and we're not changing. The White Hat Hacker Ethic doesn't sound as good. Kernel White Hat Hacker?
I'm not sure whether you're being ironic or you're just not familiar with it. No links handy, but the game of life is about the interaction of different cells, and different patterns emerge.
Not only can you not cheat at Tic-Tac-Toe but are you familiar with "Life" which is the source material? A glider gun is one of the replicating patterns.
I think ESR meant it as a unifying forces - sometimes Linux v. BSD, Vi v. Emacs, and all the other holy wars divide us as a group. Raymond is saying: "Look, we're all pimply geeks who write/read code for a living!"
The point of a logo is not to be obscure or "leet", but to represent the group it symbolizes. Personally, I never went head over heels into life, I'm too young for that, but I think it fits. Although the caffeine model amuses, but there's no room to hack it.
*Drops one last comment ont he topic*. It is of course, interesting to note that ICBM delivered nuclear payloads are essentially a thing of the past. One author writes that a nuclear bomb the size of a table could take out Boston harbor without even going through customs. Another author (again, don't have cites on me) jokes that it could always be shipped in the marijuana. Essentially, I want to believe that prolif is good, but it may indeed just be very little time until the nuclear attack comes. Or that's just what my life insurance company WANTS me to think.
*Fervently hopes the traffic system is on a closed circuit and not accessable through a browser or telnet*
It COULD work like that (I have another comment around saying something along those lines), but these give priority to those with the technology. If everyone has them, it WOULD work like that, though.
Actually, I researched that too. Two things to note: 1) Cutco is actually not a pyramid marketing scheme, but a legitimate business (My brother sold for a summer). They just have a sales force motivated by comission. 2) I think this is how they avoid legal problems. They are not selling you the technology, but selling you "demo pieces" to sell to police forces. If you happen to use it for your own purposes, it's not their fault. (For something funny and random, look into how switchblades are sold).
I don't have my huge box full of paper on me, but there are actually two schools of thought when it comes to proliferation, and one of them does claim that giving "every Joe his own a-bomb" actually PREVENTS nuclear war. The evidence actually stacks up empirically -- the only time nuclear weapons were ever used was when one country owned a monopoly on the technology. Now, look at War Games - the only way to win is to not play. The moment anyone uses nuclear weapons everyone else will kill them (of course this only assumes slow nuclear proliferation). And if everyone gets them, one of three things will happen: A) Rapid escalation in the use and counter-use, sort of like the bombs used in Ireland (very interesting on the technological side just on bombs and counter-measures) B) The technology will be discontinued C) The technology will come to be expected/used in all cars the way pressure sensors are now, actually causing a smarter intersection (they don't accurately gauge the amount of traffic). Plus, I can imagine putting a unique signal on each of these, so they would track you by it.
Actually, you don't need a checking account, it's just recommended. And even then, you can authenticate with a normal deposit account.
Not that you're wrong (new to posting, not to reading), but what does THAT have to do with anything?
Is there anyone else that thinks this is China saying, "Screw you America, we don't need you and your restrictive anti-trust business practices?" I mean, all the recent events:
China Open-Sources
The Great Firewall of China
China's Moon Launch
Is it just me or is this China trying to assert its technological domninance, so to speak?