I mean, who doesn't want to have a 1 Tb-harddrive in his PC? Why? To collect stuff ofcourse. Call it e-mail, MP3, the complete collection of all distributions from Linux-0.1 upto Linux-2.6. When do you use it? Never!
I guess we should just stick to 1 Mb drives and call it a day. 't-as been fun, but now we need to go back to real information.
Ofcourse, because we don't know what the real information is, we tend to stock up on it and dig through it later. It does make sense in way:
Isn't Google the biggest trashcollector in the information-universe ?
Infecting those kids with an overload of tech-interest, making geeks of them and pushing them towards the edges of our technical frontiers, boldly going where no Geek has gone before ??
What's next, are you going to tell them to browse slashdot ?
One spyware app doesn't make it necessary to put up a law.
But millions of spyware infected computers are a threat to (the economy/the national security/the freedom to do on your pc what you want).
To phrase an interesting movie: spyware is a plague, and this law.... is the (possible) cure.
Though I have to agree that they could do better...
By clicking YES you agree bla bla.... bla bla whereas by clicking NO you do not agree not to install this spyware.
Heck, why not ban all spyware that is on a certain blacklist no matter what the user says. If it installs, albeit automatically, albeit through social engineering, it should be fineable if on said list. This law is way too complicated to come into proper effect.
Also other, middle-class, Renault models are incorporated with more and more electronic control. My parents just bought a Renault Scenic, which only has an electronic handbrake. The manual override is in the back.
I joked to the cardealer : "what if the software decides to engage the handbrake, while doing 120 on the highway ?"
He kinda kept quiet and stated that it probably would have a safety guard against that - though he never tried it out.
I think that even though automation is kewl and all, you should (especially in generation 1 models!) always foresee a manual override.
They are making a new competion, the X-Prize Cup, that will try to create competition in more areas (highest flight, nicest spaceship, most passengers, orbit, etc..). This is by far not the end, but a great begin.
It's the latest fashion, really. H.U.M.A.N. monitoring works like this:
- acquire free time
- move to the baby-room
- check upon the baby (repeat this every hour or so, depending on the sounds you hear from a simple baby intercom)
Advantages?
- It's cheap (only costs time, no batteries recquired)
- It's the safest solution (if the H.U.M.A.N. is you)
- It's flexible
Sorry to troll here, I guess that's what telling the truth is (...???), but wouldnt't spending more time with the baby yourself be much better for the baby and you ?
For telling you this, I am more than happy to give up some of my badly earned karma. But hey, you asked for it:)
Seriously: we have this already. We have the Playstation 2, we have the X-Box, we have (name your favourite piece of controlled hardware here). Both of them incorporate something that could be called "trusted computing". If it ain't signed properly - it ain't trusted - it ain't run.
Few consumers accept(s/ed) this and buys a modkit to solve the problem. Same way it will be for the IBM hardware.
Maybe this even has a more negative impact for software sales than they envision:
If software manufacturers rely on this piece of technology to protect their investment completely (as with XBox and PS2), their software is going to go just as easily as buying the modkit. And because their software get's spread more easily (any person with a modkit can copy their software), they will lose more money - and need larger margins to keep afloat, which leads to a spiral of less software sales. Thus, in the end, noone but large players will stay behind.
I vote for a namechange: Trusted computing becomes Assured economic software failure...
..was not standing in front of the "left wing" I wrote. I am referring to respectable left-wing parties with an open view on society. Not.KP or.CN 'left-wing'...
...on winning the price ? Their sponsor is all into gambling, and I am sure that they don't want to make us believe that you can't win with gambling...
So let's play a little craps guys, bluf your way out, grab that one-armed bandit and cash that prize !...
I wrecked about two flash-drives in various formats:
An MP3-player (DIVA) with 64 Mb builtin flash - can only write 32 Mb anymore - the other half is broke (though it is fun to hear music I put on 2 years ago again, from the broken part:)
My Pendrive (USB 2.0, Hi-Speed) of 256Mb. It originally had an emulated floppy drive plus harddrive aboard, now it only got a harddrive of a mere 128Mb. The other 128Mb is wrecked beyond repair.
Do I mistreat them? I don't think so - not if wearing them around in ones pockets is mistreating. They are so unbelieveably sensible to static (even when properly capped) that I decided to simply stick to the good-ol' compact-flash or [name your removeable memory card here] so I can exchange them when they're broke. That includes not buying an mp3-player with only built-in memory...
...and download Irrlicht 0.7. In it, you will find "Irrlicht.chm", which starts with (I quote): Welcome to the Irrlicht Engine API documentation. Here you'll find any information you'll need to develop applications with the Irrlicht Engine. If you look for a tutorial on how to start, take a look at the homepage of the Irrlicht Engine at irrlicht.sourceforge.net or into the SDK in the directory \examples.
The Irrlicht Engine is intended to be an easy-to-use 3d engine, so this documentation is an important part of it. If you have any questions or suggestions, just send a email to the author of the engine, Nikolaus Gebhardt (niko (at) code3d.com).
In the documentation are the classes explained in a quite clear and concise manner, in JAVADOC-style.
I'm sorry, but some 3D-engines do think that documentation is important, so I guess your 3D engine with reasonably documented code is already here....
..as long as the employees that were fired don't file for unemployment-benefits, nobody gets any worse of it:
- The industry cleans out bad coders
- Less bugs
- More efficiency
- Less wage-costs
- The economy still gets income from the unemployed - they need to eat now don't they ?
No no, this is not meant as a troll - just a reminder of how some people see these figures.
It would be 'bad' if these people would actually stand up for their right for benefits or were the best coders the company that fired them had or were the driving force (!) behind the productivity of those still employed ("Hey Pete, you know why blabla doesn't work" "Sure, just change that and that and you're done." == this last remark was done by the fired person, with that remark missing - who knows how long the code takes to finish ??).
I guess FADE is something comparable. But it didn't get out of the realm of the game (Operation Flashpoint in this case), but simply degraded controls and ammunition inside the game. It proved not to hold long (as any protection), but I think it enouraged some people to buy the game they liked.
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I mean, isn't a liquid much more cornered into a very narrow temperature-band than solid material ?
I mean, who doesn't want to have a 1 Tb-harddrive in his PC? Why? To collect stuff ofcourse. Call it e-mail, MP3, the complete collection of all distributions from Linux-0.1 upto Linux-2.6. When do you use it? Never!
I guess we should just stick to 1 Mb drives and call it a day. 't-as been fun, but now we need to go back to real information.
Ofcourse, because we don't know what the real information is, we tend to stock up on it and dig through it later. It does make sense in way:
Isn't Google the biggest trashcollector in the information-universe ?
Infecting those kids with an overload of tech-interest, making geeks of them and pushing them towards the edges of our technical frontiers, boldly going where no Geek has gone before ??
What's next, are you going to tell them to browse slashdot ?
One spyware app doesn't make it necessary to put up a law.
But millions of spyware infected computers are a threat to (the economy/the national security/the freedom to do on your pc what you want).
To phrase an interesting movie: spyware is a plague, and this law.... is the (possible) cure.
Though I have to agree that they could do better...
... then again, it could read:
.... bla bla whereas by clicking NO you do not agree not to install this spyware.
By clicking YES you agree bla bla
Heck, why not ban all spyware that is on a certain blacklist no matter what the user says. If it installs, albeit automatically, albeit through social engineering, it should be fineable if on said list. This law is way too complicated to come into proper effect.
Also other, middle-class, Renault models are incorporated with more and more electronic control. My parents just bought a Renault Scenic, which only has an electronic handbrake. The manual override is in the back.
I joked to the cardealer : "what if the software decides to engage the handbrake, while doing 120 on the highway ?"
He kinda kept quiet and stated that it probably would have a safety guard against that - though he never tried it out.
I think that even though automation is kewl and all, you should (especially in generation 1 models!) always foresee a manual override.
Never sleep
Are always happy
Work superfast, but super-inaccurate
I think an ACNEA-organization is necessary here (Alcohol-Caffeine Anonymous)...
The moonlander.
...they announced one (of the first) space-ticket to go to be given to one of their drinkers.
They are making a new competion, the X-Prize Cup, that will try to create competition in more areas (highest flight, nicest spaceship, most passengers, orbit, etc..). This is by far not the end, but a great begin.
For bringing us into a new era of real space exploration.
Ouch ouch, I guess my karma is dropping to zero, but here it goes:
It's not about time, it's about the baby !
Does everything have to evolve around economics here, or does humanity not belong in your vocabulary ?
It's the latest fashion, really. H.U.M.A.N. monitoring works like this:
:)
- acquire free time
- move to the baby-room
- check upon the baby (repeat this every hour or so, depending on the sounds you hear from a simple baby intercom)
Advantages?
- It's cheap (only costs time, no batteries recquired)
- It's the safest solution (if the H.U.M.A.N. is you)
- It's flexible
Sorry to troll here, I guess that's what telling the truth is (...???), but wouldnt't spending more time with the baby yourself be much better for the baby and you ?
For telling you this, I am more than happy to give up some of my badly earned karma. But hey, you asked for it
Seriously: we have this already. We have the Playstation 2, we have the X-Box, we have (name your favourite piece of controlled hardware here). Both of them incorporate something that could be called "trusted computing". If it ain't signed properly - it ain't trusted - it ain't run.
Few consumers accept(s/ed) this and buys a modkit to solve the problem. Same way it will be for the IBM hardware.
Maybe this even has a more negative impact for software sales than they envision:
If software manufacturers rely on this piece of technology to protect their investment completely (as with XBox and PS2), their software is going to go just as easily as buying the modkit. And because their software get's spread more easily (any person with a modkit can copy their software), they will lose more money - and need larger margins to keep afloat, which leads to a spiral of less software sales. Thus, in the end, noone but large players will stay behind.
I vote for a namechange:
Trusted computing becomes Assured economic software failure...
...nuff said.
...our scientists are no longer able to monitor and analyze any vulcanic activity online.
Folks: you're on your own.
..was not standing in front of the "left wing" I wrote. I am referring to respectable left-wing parties with an open view on society. Not .KP or .CN 'left-wing'...
free speech
real democracy
respect for other people
This is a new form of "left wing" that I was previously unaware of.
...sounds awfully much like the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation to me. Need I say more ?
...on winning the price ?
...
Their sponsor is all into gambling, and I am sure that they don't want to make us believe that you can't win with gambling...
So let's play a little craps guys, bluf your way out, grab that one-armed bandit and cash that prize !
Turn fog of war off
An MP3-player (DIVA) with 64 Mb builtin flash - can only write 32 Mb anymore - the other half is broke (though it is fun to hear music I put on 2 years ago again, from the broken part :)
My Pendrive (USB 2.0, Hi-Speed) of 256Mb. It originally had an emulated floppy drive plus harddrive aboard, now it only got a harddrive of a mere 128Mb. The other 128Mb is wrecked beyond repair.
Do I mistreat them? I don't think so - not if wearing them around in ones pockets is mistreating. They are so unbelieveably sensible to static (even when properly capped) that I decided to simply stick to the good-ol' compact-flash or [name your removeable memory card here] so I can exchange them when they're broke. That includes not buying an mp3-player with only built-in memory...
...and download Irrlicht 0.7. In it, you will find "Irrlicht.chm", which starts with (I quote):
Welcome to the Irrlicht Engine API documentation. Here you'll find any information you'll need to develop applications with the Irrlicht Engine. If you look for a tutorial on how to start, take a look at the homepage of the Irrlicht Engine at irrlicht.sourceforge.net or into the SDK in the directory \examples.
The Irrlicht Engine is intended to be an easy-to-use 3d engine, so this documentation is an important part of it. If you have any questions or suggestions, just send a email to the author of the engine, Nikolaus Gebhardt (niko (at) code3d.com).
In the documentation are the classes explained in a quite clear and concise manner, in JAVADOC-style.
I'm sorry, but some 3D-engines do think that documentation is important, so I guess your 3D engine with reasonably documented code is already here....
..as long as the employees that were fired don't file for unemployment-benefits, nobody gets any worse of it:
- The industry cleans out bad coders
- Less bugs
- More efficiency
- Less wage-costs
- The economy still gets income from the unemployed - they need to eat now don't they ?
No no, this is not meant as a troll - just a reminder of how some people see these figures.
It would be 'bad' if these people would actually stand up for their right for benefits or were the best coders the company that fired them had or were the driving force (!) behind the productivity of those still employed ("Hey Pete, you know why blabla doesn't work" "Sure, just change that and that and you're done." == this last remark was done by the fired person, with that remark missing - who knows how long the code takes to finish ??).
I guess FADE is something comparable. But it didn't get out of the realm of the game (Operation Flashpoint in this case), but simply degraded controls and ammunition inside the game. It proved not to hold long (as any protection), but I think it enouraged some people to buy the game they liked.