The difference is that 20+ years ago people understood that kids do crazy stuff, and need to be watched... where as now, people have lost all sense of reality and are willing to go to any totalitarian extreme to avoid actually watching their own kids. I couldn't agree more.
No, I do mean manual, not automatic. My memory of the event is not perfect, but I am certain the car had a manual transmission.
I have since driven many vehicles with manual transmissions, and it has been my experience that they do normally lurch forward and stall if the clutch is engaged (the pedal has not been pressed). My only thought is that maybe the clutch was very worn.
Everyone laughs that parents are concerned about a copycat risk, but let me be the first to say that this risk is real.
At the age of two I managed to get a hold of my mother's car keys. I decided I would do her a favor and start the car for her. Lucky for me, the car had a manual transmission and happened to be in gear. So as soon as I started the car, it slowly began to drive down the street. I wasn't quite strong enough to turn the wheel, so I soon found myself headed straight for a telephone pole. I got scared so I tried to stand on the pedals (at the time I didn't know which was which). After a couple of tries, I managed to find the brake. The car stalled about a yard away from the telephone pole.
Oh, and did I mention, my baby sister was in the back of the car, in her car seat? Well, she was. Anyway, neither I nor my sister were hurt, but we easily could have been.
Some children are already a handful; they don't need any more ideas.
NB: this is a true story.
There's a HUGE difference between 8 microseconds and 10 milliseconds. Do you mean that when they only needed 10 microseconds latency, they didn't lose any?
Intel obviously only rated schools in the US. Otherwise, my university would have no doubt ranked near (at?) the top.
The UBC Wireless Network is one of the largest Campus Wi-Fi Networks in the world. There are over 1200 access points (in 120 buildings), and together, they cover nearly all of the 1000-acre campus. I have never found myself in an area on campus where I was without internet access =).
I've even seen some fellow/.ers checking the news during class.
My next step is to check if I can get Wi-Fi access while I'm catching some sun on Wreck beach. (FYI, Wreck beach is the name of the nude beach on campus...and before the bad jokes start, I'm not your typical overweight/underweight geek)
I used to live in the area (south of Boston, but not in Brokton, thank goodness)..as long as I can remember, we've had water bans during the warmer spring/summer months. It was almost frightening watching the local resevoirs literally dry up.
Where do they plan on getting this sea water though? I sure hope it's far far far away from Boston Harbor...It's green from all the polution and I'm afraid desalination is only a small part of the process of preparing it for consumption.
My father was involved (expert witness) in a lawsuit between Caldera and MSFT. Apparently many of the (MSFT) lawyers as well as other witnesses referred to DR-DOS as "doctor dos," but most likely only as an attempt to make Caldera/Digital Research seem like a bunch of fools who made some bad programming mistakes causing Win 3.1 not to run on their OS.
My family recently moved (from Boston, MA) to Utah. I guess that makes me a constituent of Hatch. [sarcasm]Yay[/sarcasm]. I, and (as of 3/22/04) my younger sister are both able to vote. My ex-girlfriend goes to the University of New Hampshire (UNH), and is also able to vote.
I plan on educating everyone possible about these two tyrants. Mr. Hatch and Mr. Leahy will be receiving a lot of (deserved) criticism regarding this bill.
I strongly suggest that every other UT and NH residents do the same!
Look at it my way though. Nobody will see any progress if they're only adding new features and not fixing the problems in existing features.
I agree 100% that there is nothing wrong with them making a more resource demanding OS. I just expect the fucking thing to WORK and to be secure. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?
I'm not trying to run it on a dated machine either. I've got a 2Ghz processor with 1.5Gb of RAM. Linux simply runs much better (faster, better memory management, more stable, secure) than windows.
Realeasing new software is not evil. Forcing users to waste money on shit they don't need is evil.
Your average Joe User doesn't need a 2.4Ghz processor with 512MB (as was the test machine, I believe). Your average Joe User simply wants to surf the internet, use a word processor, send/receive email, probably a little bit of filesharing, and possibly cd burning. All of this stuff can be done on a very basic machine.
Another poster mentioned that MSFT is not cutting support for Win98 for another few years. That may well be the case, this is irrelevant. This confusion is my fault. I should have clarified that by "MSFT stops supporting old OS" that I really meant "MSFT stops improving old OS." Even if they are "supporting" it, what they're really doing is providing the bare minimum tech support that they can so as to not lose too many customers.
I have already said this, but I'll say it again. MSFT needs to produce a useful, powerful, fast, and stable OS before they bloat their OS's even more by adding useless eyecandy / redundant features.
I made no mention of DDOS attacks. These "zombies" could be used for a zillion things, some even useful. Take a look at the setiathome project. There are plenty of uses for zombie machines that have more processing power than bandwidth.
Don't you love the fact that MSFT always builds an OS for nonexistant hardware? MSFT relies on the hardware manufacturers to put out faster, more capable hardware to support their shotty implementations; it's a crackers heaven.
This is how it works: 1: MSFT Releases new OS 2: MSFT stops supporting old OS 3: End user forced to upgrade 4: PROFIT $$$
but it doesn't stop there.
Since the OS is implemented badly to begin with, you can expect there will be plenty of things to exploit, to gain control over the end-user's machine. With the above cycle in mind, it's more than obvious that MSFT is blindly supplying crackers with faster, more powerful machines that they can use in their network of zombies.
I hear that they plan on shipping a virus scanner with future versions of windows...I sure hope they update virus definitions much faster than they currently patch their security holes.
and 483 MB? That's rediculous. I'm running slackware with everything I need to rule the world, and it uses less than 200MB.
Memory isn't really an issue for me, as I have an ample amount, but my point is this: Microsoft should more concentrate on fixing their current implementation issues. They need to make their OS's usable (and fast) on widely available hardware. They need to do a lot of work with their memory mangement. I shouldn't have to reboot my computer twice a week, or even twice a month. MSFT should not require users to use the latest technology either, because generally it's prohibitively expensive, and always implemented poorly.
Until MSFT fixes the above issues, I think I'll stick to OSS.
I wonder what's different between this v3.7.0 and the v3.7.0 I've been using for the past few weeks...
I didn't h4x0r aTI or anything, they've just been publicly available for quite some time. Hopefully they pre-patched their code to allow the drivers to work under 2.6.x with no additional modifications. It was a bitch to get them working.
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She left my sister in the car, not me. She didn't leave the keys in the car either. I guess you didn't read my comment very well.
I found her keys in the house, let myself into the car, put the keys in the ignition myself, and started the car.
The point of my original comment was simply that some children are impossible to control.
No, I do mean manual, not automatic. My memory of the event is not perfect, but I am certain the car had a manual transmission.
I have since driven many vehicles with manual transmissions, and it has been my experience that they do normally lurch forward and stall if the clutch is engaged (the pedal has not been pressed). My only thought is that maybe the clutch was very worn.
Everyone laughs that parents are concerned about a copycat risk, but let me be the first to say that this risk is real. At the age of two I managed to get a hold of my mother's car keys. I decided I would do her a favor and start the car for her. Lucky for me, the car had a manual transmission and happened to be in gear. So as soon as I started the car, it slowly began to drive down the street. I wasn't quite strong enough to turn the wheel, so I soon found myself headed straight for a telephone pole. I got scared so I tried to stand on the pedals (at the time I didn't know which was which). After a couple of tries, I managed to find the brake. The car stalled about a yard away from the telephone pole. Oh, and did I mention, my baby sister was in the back of the car, in her car seat? Well, she was. Anyway, neither I nor my sister were hurt, but we easily could have been. Some children are already a handful; they don't need any more ideas. NB: this is a true story.
Um, at my school, at least for the students in computer science, most microsoft products are available for free.
Harvey_Danger-Little_by_Little.OGG.zip.torrent
There's a HUGE difference between 8 microseconds and 10 milliseconds. Do you mean that when they only needed 10 microseconds latency, they didn't lose any?
Wouldn't that be an iPod podophile, not pedophile?
download was pretty slow from skype.com so I made a torrent after I finished @ 20kB/s
skype-1.0.0.1.torrent
Are you sure it's a gun and not an antennaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh?
Intel obviously only rated schools in the US. Otherwise, my university would have no doubt ranked near (at?) the top.
/.ers checking the news during class.
The UBC Wireless Network is one of the largest Campus Wi-Fi Networks in the world. There are over 1200 access points (in 120 buildings), and together, they cover nearly all of the 1000-acre campus. I have never found myself in an area on campus where I was without internet access =).
I've even seen some fellow
My next step is to check if I can get Wi-Fi access while I'm catching some sun on Wreck beach.
(FYI, Wreck beach is the name of the nude beach on campus...and before the bad jokes start, I'm not your typical overweight/underweight geek)
Has anyone else noticed that the video's are literally video's of the monitor, and not captured by software?
I wonder how a desktop environment like this would affect software used to capture a users interaction with their desktop...
I used to live in the area (south of Boston, but not in Brokton, thank goodness)..as long as I can remember, we've had water bans during the warmer spring/summer months. It was almost frightening watching the local resevoirs literally dry up.
Where do they plan on getting this sea water though? I sure hope it's far far far away from Boston Harbor...It's green from all the polution and I'm afraid desalination is only a small part of the process of preparing it for consumption.
Now I can archive all of those viagra offers and search through them to find the best deal! YAY!!
Wait...froogle already lets me do that
As per subject: http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~z2u3/lcamtuf.coredump. cx/strikeout/index.html
My father was involved (expert witness) in a lawsuit between Caldera and MSFT. Apparently many of the (MSFT) lawyers as well as other witnesses referred to DR-DOS as "doctor dos," but most likely only as an attempt to make Caldera/Digital Research seem like a bunch of fools who made some bad programming mistakes causing Win 3.1 not to run on their OS.
My family recently moved (from Boston, MA) to Utah. I guess that makes me a constituent of Hatch. [sarcasm]Yay[/sarcasm]. I, and (as of 3/22/04) my younger sister are both able to vote. My ex-girlfriend goes to the University of New Hampshire (UNH), and is also able to vote.
I plan on educating everyone possible about these two tyrants. Mr. Hatch and Mr. Leahy will be receiving a lot of (deserved) criticism regarding this bill.
I strongly suggest that every other UT and NH residents do the same!
Oh and buy the way, SMP is actually in CVS and you can actually use it; it's just not part of the 3.5 release.
How much, exactly, does this way cost? Where is it? Is it paved? Are there any ugly houses along this way? Do you have pictures?
Thanks,
Braindead
Look at it my way though. Nobody will see any progress if they're only adding new features and not fixing the problems in existing features.
I agree 100% that there is nothing wrong with them making a more resource demanding OS. I just expect the fucking thing to WORK and to be secure. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?
I'm not trying to run it on a dated machine either. I've got a 2Ghz processor with 1.5Gb of RAM. Linux simply runs much better (faster, better memory management, more stable, secure) than windows.
$1.65 Million probably is a steal. Does anyone know how much has been (wasted) spent on the actual ISS?
My guess is an order of magnitude higher than the cost of this replica..
Realeasing new software is not evil. Forcing users to waste money on shit they don't need is evil.
Your average Joe User doesn't need a 2.4Ghz processor with 512MB (as was the test machine, I believe). Your average Joe User simply wants to surf the internet, use a word processor, send/receive email, probably a little bit of filesharing, and possibly cd burning. All of this stuff can be done on a very basic machine.
Another poster mentioned that MSFT is not cutting support for Win98 for another few years. That may well be the case, this is irrelevant. This confusion is my fault. I should have clarified that by "MSFT stops supporting old OS" that I really meant "MSFT stops improving old OS." Even if they are "supporting" it, what they're really doing is providing the bare minimum tech support that they can so as to not lose too many customers.
I have already said this, but I'll say it again. MSFT needs to produce a useful, powerful, fast, and stable OS before they bloat their OS's even more by adding useless eyecandy / redundant features.
I made no mention of DDOS attacks. These "zombies" could be used for a zillion things, some even useful. Take a look at the setiathome project. There are plenty of uses for zombie machines that have more processing power than bandwidth.
That's EXACTLY what I'm talking about.
Don't you love the fact that MSFT always builds an OS for nonexistant hardware? MSFT relies on the hardware manufacturers to put out faster, more capable hardware to support their shotty implementations; it's a crackers heaven.
This is how it works:
1: MSFT Releases new OS
2: MSFT stops supporting old OS
3: End user forced to upgrade
4: PROFIT $$$
but it doesn't stop there.
Since the OS is implemented badly to begin with, you can expect there will be plenty of things to exploit, to gain control over the end-user's machine. With the above cycle in mind, it's more than obvious that MSFT is blindly supplying crackers with faster, more powerful machines that they can use in their network of zombies.
I hear that they plan on shipping a virus scanner with future versions of windows...I sure hope they update virus definitions much faster than they currently patch their security holes.
and 483 MB? That's rediculous. I'm running slackware with everything I need to rule the world, and it uses less than 200MB.
Memory isn't really an issue for me, as I have an ample amount, but my point is this: Microsoft should more concentrate on fixing their current implementation issues. They need to make their OS's usable (and fast) on widely available hardware. They need to do a lot of work with their memory mangement. I shouldn't have to reboot my computer twice a week, or even twice a month. MSFT should not require users to use the latest technology either, because generally it's prohibitively expensive, and always implemented poorly.
Until MSFT fixes the above issues, I think I'll stick to OSS.
I wonder what's different between this v3.7.0 and the v3.7.0 I've been using for the past few weeks...
I didn't h4x0r aTI or anything, they've just been publicly available for quite some time. Hopefully they pre-patched their code to allow the drivers to work under 2.6.x with no additional modifications. It was a bitch to get them working.