All the US Bashers that abound on Slashdot (An American Site nonetheless) can pretty much eat their words when it comes to the internet, oh theyll say it wasnt the US blah Blah, ok whatever
How is the UN going to "Take" Control ?
I say if its in superceedence of US interests, shut them down, shut off any of their access to critical parts, let them manage their part of the world and whoever wants to follow,
All in jest of course, but its idiot Politicians who think they are doing a "Public" service that generally do the MOST Harm.
".. not like anyone uses any more is it" Maybe if you live under a rock called the Web thats true.
Show me something else that does CMYK and seperation as well out there in the PRINT world ? I hate PS, but in that market its the only game in town, all those patents and work they put into it.
In case you dont know CMYK is what all 4 color process is done with, 4 color process being whats used to PRINT paper thingies....
While I agree with the MAC Version (I would say 70% of mac users are even MORE clueless than Win/PC users, while the other 30% are pretty adept *nic converts) , I dont think many linux users, for the most part, all relative of course. ARE STUPID enough to actually open a worm supplied in an email , and then EXECUTE it !
Perhaps I give too much credit to much to my Unix brothers but I doubt it.
MOPAR Did the same thing with the Chrysler Turbine Cars, they expected to use them as a mobile test platform while they deveoped the means to make it work
In the end nearly all but 3 or 4 went to the factory to be cut up into teeny tiny bits....sad but it happens....
Now thats using youre noodle, but it begs the question, is it a limp noodle an aldente noodle, of an uncooked noodle, all of which have different physical properties.
Does a bug in the PPU mean that in fact a Eorpean swallow COULD carry a cocunut from point A to point B , when everyone knows it would require an African swallow ?
In jest though would a bug in the PPU create a situation that could not be escaped in programming a game/simulation based on its "Laws" ?
"Am I a fool for giving up steady work and good pay" C# while started by MS is an Open Spec, there are SEVERAL implementations out there, Mono,.Gnu, to name a few. C# Is GOOD Stuff, you think all thu Unix developers who are jumping into C# development are doing it because they LIKE MS ? C# is JavaRedux imho, new yes but they took the best of Java and fixed alot of things on top of it, its logical orginization is good, not perfect but better than Java, and its a very nice langauge, it flows and you can do anything you want to in it, its self hosting, and its not like its some hack of a scriptiong language,
If Novell and others have their way Gnome dev will be in C# why ? IT THAT GOOD ! Its funny you may have bounced yourself out of a FREE learning session of C# now you are no more knowledgeable than you were about it instead of getting PAID to lear it. But on the upside the company is in a better position now that you dont work there , as your logic is flawed and on top of it if those are the reasons you quit youre either a primadona or just have a closed mind.
Its been here and gone, unfortunatley due to cost for the most part, it was a wonderful concept, albeit a bit slow, (slow meaning still much much faster than mechanical means I.E Hard drive)
There was a company called Elephant (I belive based on the company that sold floppy disks in the 70's and early 80's) That sold a Bubble Memory based Hard Drive that had na IDE Interface, last I saw some 5 years ago it was like 1.2 gig, it was meant for Mil Spec applications and had a shock resitance of something insane.....
My DG1 Laptop Circa 1983-84 had a Plasma Screen and Bubble Memory, I wish I still had it it was way cool, but at 10 grand it should have been:)
No but he did buy the image tube, now if he would have made the image intensifier I would have been impressed, but he bought it, at that point your talking about hooking up like 4 components,
Like I said if he would have made his own tube and wound his own coils that would have had at least a novelty value, showing you could make one from NOTHING, not from buying the intensifier.
Ther Germans used the Vampir in WWII for crying out loud. I dont know when the first US night vision appeared but it was pre Korea
I can build a 1 tube radio too, and theyre basically on the same level tech wise.
Now why dosent someone build one of those cool doppler thingamajigies that ses in the dark and throught smoke and fog, now THAT would be cool , and a little more recent technology wise. I mean night vision ? I can do it with my 99$ Camcorder. A doppler I haven seen for under about 5 grand.
I played with Mono when it was first in Beta as I love the.Net CLR, no its not perfect, but its pretty damm good.
Mono was a way for me to extend my growing.Net knowledge againt Unix and non MS plattforms. I just downloaded 1.3 (Beta) and I am VERY Impressed with how far they have come I converted a small web app about 10 pages to run under mono, and it does perfectly, I only had to steer clear of a few of my more ecclectic.Net shortcuts, (I should have in the first place) Mono is and has been self hosting for quite some time, Its a full real language development enviroment not some hodge podge interpreted scripting hack Congrats to the Mono team, I am looking forward to you.Net 2.0 implementation (some is already part of the 1.3 release)
I can write code 5-6 time faster in.Net than I can in C++ , that me , but if there is no appreciable difference then why in the heck would I write it in C++ ? ESPECIALLY when its a WHOLE lot easier to move a Mono app around plattforms, The next project that needs cross platform capablity I will write in Mono, (Writing in Mono its almost sure to work out of the box in MS land)
I have always had a soft sop for Solaris since 2.51, it secure, and stable, in my experience, but alas its always been SLOW on x86 hardware. These benchmarks show that at least with mySql its pretty fast, but more importantly look at the solaris benchmarks, they are nearly identically consistent across all test, where others vary much.
Ive always kinda thought of Solaris as a 4 wheel drive truck in low range, but it looks like they added a turbo:) I wonder if its a result of better x86 optimization or the new Filesystem
I saw this posting and I felt I had to reply, but I cant work under the deadline of being a first post but this is just too much damm pressure !
I mean how in the hell can I be expected to be the first post, I type 150 wpm and have an IQ of 179 but come on stop stop, stop.......I cant work under these kind of conditions I am going to bed.
The trick is in Web Services, I was lead developer on a LARGE project during the DotCom Era (2000 ish) that used Vitria, a great system and its interop capablities blew my mind at first but if we could have utilized web services we would have halved developemnt time, not to mentio forgoing a 1 Million $ Vitria Liscence.
It was cool though, we took about 6 different Apps on TOTALLY Different Platforms, 1 only HP UX, 1 , Two on Solaris ( on on 7 one on 2.51) One on DOS (Yes DOS it only ran there) and a couple on Windows, tied them all together through Vitria then hooked it up to a Web Front end, It was sooo slick the first VC that came to see our Proof of Concept (which was totally functional )gave us 15 Mil in VC
But alas another DotCom fatality, we went from 12 employees to 165 in a year......can you say BAM
If there was ever , and I mean EVER a way to get Married to a computer, working on it for a friend/family member is it.
They might as well hand out a Marriage Liscence when you repair it, because (assuming you always do it right as I do) any time ever in the future anything at all goes wrong with it they will call YOU.
The trick is getting OUT of doing repairs for friends and family, me I just become my grumpy self, and tell them word for word what I am thinking while I repai their system. THEN They ONLY ask ifits serious and nobody else could help, at that point for FAMILY I will help.
The easiest way to "HELP" a few friends to get them out of the habbit of asking you is copy all their files off, and wipe the machine and when they say where are my files you say "Oh you needed those ?" and after a day or so say Oh I forgot and made a backup, the near scare willl prevent them from EVER asking you again, I promise....
Hmm A Trackpoint seems prett damm usefull to me, I can 2 handed type WHILE Mving the curso and Clicking the buttons, I even had an IBM Trackpoint FULL Sized keyboard that was a godsend to productivity.
The Ultimate failure of the trackpoint want its usablity but rather its reliablity as they were known to get very hinky after not so much use, which is what inevatibly happened to EVERY Single trackpoint i had after heavy use.
No that was it I remeber I freaked a WHOLE bunch of people out on that one, then I gave the app to a friend , he came back the next day and said it didnt work for him, I asked hmmm why not, well I took my laptop over to my friends...(I about fell off the chair).....
True , but usually its the engineer in the end that gets the shitstorm from above when it DOES get hacked. REGARDLESS of if its their fault or NOT
Why ? the beancounters and deadweight,,,, uhh managment for the most part have no clue what really make things tick. Now Jobs or the like are probably thee ones who would get it , and may be kind enough to run interference for the engineers...yeah right...
IN the end the bean counters will blame the engineers out loud, but not do anything about it because down deep the KNOW they dont have a clue, and the engineers will keep doing what they do , with the addition of getting prods from MGMT about "This time make it so they can do that"
And the engineers will nod and kick their trash can when they leave the room and so the cycle will continue.
Hehee. Just like loading off a Cassette tape :)
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Piezo-Acoustic iPod Hack
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This is slick, everything old is new again ?
Reminds me of loading Adventure on my Apple II
Data transmission via acoustics is certainly nothing new, but getting something OUT thats not meant to be exposed on a MODERN device this way is just too cool.
Right now there are MANY P'o'd execs at Apple, and a bunch of engineers going crap (but quietly thinking man is this cool)
I wonder how many other things this can be applied to , for reverse engineering of bootloaders, roms, etc.
I would have fried a dozen gamecubes 2 years ago trying this method had I been given the idea then, (Yeah I know all the goofy bootloader stuff NOW in the last 6 months ) for GC is out,
"I've been doing some ActiveX coding on the side for a couple days,"
WOW...HOW EXPERIENCE you are.....oh my
In a word bullshit..
Ie done ActiveX programming on and off for 6 years now, and while there are theings to be desired in the model, I can tell you you can create some pretty cool stuff in a short time.
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All the US Bashers that abound on Slashdot (An American Site nonetheless) can pretty much eat their words when it comes to the internet, oh theyll say it wasnt the US blah Blah, ok whatever
How is the UN going to "Take" Control ?
I say if its in superceedence of US interests, shut them down, shut off any of their access to critical parts, let them manage their part of the world and whoever wants to follow,
All in jest of course, but its idiot Politicians who think they are doing a "Public" service that generally do the MOST Harm.
".. not like anyone uses any more is it"
Maybe if you live under a rock called the Web thats true.
Show me something else that does CMYK and seperation as well out there in the PRINT world ?
I hate PS, but in that market its the only game in town, all those patents and work they put into it.
In case you dont know CMYK is what all 4 color process is done with, 4 color process being whats used to PRINT paper thingies....
While I agree with the MAC Version (I would say 70% of mac users are even MORE clueless than Win/PC users, while the other 30% are pretty adept *nic converts) , I dont think many linux users, for the most part, all relative of course. ARE STUPID enough to actually open a worm supplied in an email , and then EXECUTE it !
Perhaps I give too much credit to much to my Unix brothers but I doubt it.
Well, I called up DVD Jon , and within about 15 minutes he had a working exploit for the cipher.
Oh well off to the next
Nothing to see here already been cracked...move along....
MOPAR Did the same thing with the Chrysler Turbine Cars, they expected to use them as a mobile test platform while they deveoped the means to make it work
In the end nearly all but 3 or 4 went to the factory to be cut up into teeny tiny bits....sad but it happens....
Now thats using youre noodle, but it begs the question, is it a limp noodle an aldente noodle, of an uncooked noodle, all of which have different physical properties.
Does a bug in the PPU mean that in fact a Eorpean swallow COULD carry a cocunut from point A to point B , when everyone knows it would require an African swallow ?
In jest though would a bug in the PPU create a situation that could not be escaped in programming a game/simulation based on its "Laws" ?
Darn near the same when it comes to sensible values.
It NOT Ok to view PORM, but its PERFECTLY Ok to marry 7 16 Year old girls at the same time and become a population bomb
Consider the source of such bills then consider how to hang the people who submit them by their short hairs.
"Am I a fool for giving up steady work and good pay" .Gnu, to name a few.
C# while started by MS is an Open Spec, there are SEVERAL implementations out there, Mono,
C# Is GOOD Stuff, you think all thu Unix developers who are jumping into C# development are doing it because they LIKE MS ?
C# is JavaRedux imho, new yes but they took the best of Java and fixed alot of things on top of it, its logical orginization is good, not perfect but better than Java, and its a very nice langauge, it flows and you can do anything you want to in it, its self hosting, and its not like its some hack of a scriptiong language,
If Novell and others have their way Gnome dev will be in C# why ? IT THAT GOOD !
Its funny you may have bounced yourself out of a FREE learning session of C# now you are no more knowledgeable than you were about it instead of getting PAID to lear it.
But on the upside the company is in a better position now that you dont work there , as your logic is flawed and on top of it if those are the reasons you quit youre either a primadona or just have a closed mind.
Its called bubble memory,
:)
Its been here and gone, unfortunatley due to cost for the most part, it was a wonderful concept, albeit a bit slow, (slow meaning still much much faster than mechanical means I.E Hard drive)
There was a company called Elephant (I belive based on the company that sold floppy disks in the 70's and early 80's) That sold a Bubble Memory based Hard Drive that had na IDE Interface, last I saw some 5 years ago it was like 1.2 gig, it was meant for Mil Spec applications and had a shock resitance of something insane.....
My DG1 Laptop Circa 1983-84 had a Plasma Screen and Bubble Memory, I wish I still had it it was way cool, but at 10 grand it should have been
No but he did buy the image tube, now if he would have made the image intensifier I would have been impressed, but he bought it, at that point your talking about hooking up like 4 components,
Like I said if he would have made his own tube and wound his own coils that would have had at least a novelty value, showing you could make one from NOTHING, not from buying the intensifier.
Night Vision is a 60-70 year old technology,
Ther Germans used the Vampir in WWII for crying out loud. I dont know when the first US night vision appeared but it was pre Korea
I can build a 1 tube radio too, and theyre basically on the same level tech wise.
Now why dosent someone build one of those cool doppler thingamajigies that ses in the dark and throught smoke and fog, now THAT would be cool , and a little more recent technology wise.
I mean night vision ? I can do it with my 99$ Camcorder. A doppler I haven seen for under about 5 grand.
I played with Mono when it was first in Beta as I love the .Net CLR, no its not perfect, but its pretty damm good.
.Net knowledge againt Unix and non MS plattforms. .Net shortcuts, (I should have in the first place) .Net 2.0 implementation (some is already part of the 1.3 release)
.Net than I can in C++ , that me , but if there is no appreciable difference then why in the heck would I write it in C++ ?
Mono was a way for me to extend my growing
I just downloaded 1.3 (Beta) and I am VERY Impressed with how far they have come I converted a small web app about 10 pages to run under mono, and it does perfectly, I only had to steer clear of a few of my more ecclectic
Mono is and has been self hosting for quite some time, Its a full real language development enviroment not some hodge podge interpreted scripting hack
Congrats to the Mono team, I am looking forward to you
I can write code 5-6 time faster in
ESPECIALLY when its a WHOLE lot easier to move a Mono app around plattforms,
The next project that needs cross platform capablity I will write in Mono, (Writing in Mono its almost sure to work out of the box in MS land)
I have always had a soft sop for Solaris since 2.51, it secure, and stable, in my experience, but alas its always been SLOW on x86 hardware.
:) I wonder if its a result of better x86 optimization or the new Filesystem
These benchmarks show that at least with mySql its pretty fast, but more importantly look at the solaris benchmarks, they are nearly identically consistent across all test, where others vary much.
Ive always kinda thought of Solaris as a 4 wheel drive truck in low range, but it looks like they added a turbo
I saw this posting and I felt I had to reply, but I cant work under the deadline of being a first post but this is just too much damm pressure !
I mean how in the hell can I be expected to be the first post, I type 150 wpm and have an IQ of 179 but come on stop stop, stop.......I cant work under these kind of conditions I am going to bed.
The trick is in Web Services, I was lead developer on a LARGE project during the DotCom Era (2000 ish) that used Vitria, a great system and its interop capablities blew my mind at first but if we could have utilized web services we would have halved developemnt time, not to mentio forgoing a 1 Million $ Vitria Liscence.
It was cool though, we took about 6 different Apps on TOTALLY Different Platforms, 1 only HP UX, 1 , Two on Solaris ( on on 7 one on 2.51) One on DOS (Yes DOS it only ran there) and a couple on Windows, tied them all together through Vitria then hooked it up to a Web Front end, It was sooo slick the first VC that came to see our Proof of Concept (which was totally functional )gave us 15 Mil in VC
But alas another DotCom fatality, we went from 12 employees to 165 in a year......can you say BAM
If there was ever , and I mean EVER a way to get Married to a computer, working on it for a friend/family member is it.
They might as well hand out a Marriage Liscence when you repair it, because (assuming you always do it right as I do) any time ever in the future anything at all goes wrong with it they will call YOU.
The trick is getting OUT of doing repairs for friends and family, me I just become my grumpy self, and tell them word for word what I am thinking while I repai their system. THEN They ONLY ask ifits serious and nobody else could help, at that point for FAMILY I will help.
The easiest way to "HELP" a few friends to get them out of the habbit of asking you is copy all their files off, and wipe the machine and when they say where are my files you say "Oh you needed those ?" and after a day or so say Oh I forgot and made a backup, the near scare willl prevent them from EVER asking you again, I promise....
You forgot a comma.
version of the phrase I picture the kind SHOULD READ
version of the phrase, I picture the kind
"Making Fun of a Person who uses AOL is like making fun of a Legless Child in a WheelChair"
A Quote from my GEEK Calendar.....
Hmm A Trackpoint seems prett damm usefull to me, I can 2 handed type WHILE Mving the curso and Clicking the buttons, I even had an IBM Trackpoint FULL Sized keyboard that was a godsend to productivity.
The Ultimate failure of the trackpoint want its usablity but rather its reliablity as they were known to get very hinky after not so much use, which is what inevatibly happened to EVERY Single trackpoint i had after heavy use.
No that was it I remeber I freaked a WHOLE bunch of people out on that one, then I gave the app to a friend , he came back the next day and said it didnt work for him, I asked hmmm why not, well I took my laptop over to my friends...(I about fell off the chair).....
True , but usually its the engineer in the end that gets the shitstorm from above when it DOES get hacked. REGARDLESS of if its their fault or NOT
Why ? the beancounters and deadweight,,,, uhh managment for the most part have no clue what really make things tick. Now Jobs or the like are probably thee ones who would get it , and may be kind enough to run interference for the engineers...yeah right...
IN the end the bean counters will blame the engineers out loud, but not do anything about it because down deep the KNOW they dont have a clue, and the engineers will keep doing what they do , with the addition of getting prods from MGMT about "This time make it so they can do that"
And the engineers will nod and kick their trash can when they leave the room and so the cycle will continue.
This is slick, everything old is new again ? Reminds me of loading Adventure on my Apple II
Data transmission via acoustics is certainly nothing new, but getting something OUT thats not meant to be exposed on a MODERN device this way is just too cool.
Right now there are MANY P'o'd execs at Apple, and a bunch of engineers going crap (but quietly thinking man is this cool)
I wonder how many other things this can be applied to , for reverse engineering of bootloaders, roms, etc.
I would have fried a dozen gamecubes 2 years ago trying this method had I been given the idea then, (Yeah I know all the goofy bootloader stuff NOW in the last 6 months ) for GC is out,
KUDOS, now I might actually buy one.
"Israel gets a plague of locusts" .....ah one can only hope......
"I've been doing some ActiveX coding on the side for a couple days," WOW...HOW EXPERIENCE you are.....oh my
In a word bullshit..
Ie done ActiveX programming on and off for 6 years now, and while there are theings to be desired in the model, I can tell you you can create some pretty cool stuff in a short time.
Cool, hmm , what do the Scotts call it ? Perhaps in my family its aa condition of coming from a border region.