I know how people work and I can safely say that I bet that the majority of those people aren't playing just Solitare and Minesweeper in their free time -- they are also playing flash games. Even in school, no one really cares about or plays Solitare anymore. It's easy to find a ton of cool and fun games to play through a lot of free flash game sites. And if they are not doing that, then I bet they have their own game to install and play. One way or another, the only way to actually "ban gameplay" is to add it to the list of rules for your job, if it isn't there already. No point in banning game play, because people will find a way to do it one way or another. So do you honestly think they will lock the computers down so tight that they can only visit certain websites and install a few things? No idea if they will for all of those computers, but my best guess is no. People are lazy.
I find it quite hilarious that almost all of the "defenders" are proprietary software advocates... all except Sun. Maybe I'm missing something and just maybe that's a big reason they are so slow at open-sourcing their personal operating system and programming language... but why in the hell would Sun (even though they sided with Microsoft) sponsor this and say that Linux is unstable? If my calculations are correct, and I know for a fact they are, Sun Microsystems maintains one of the most popular Linux distributions today... the Java Desktop Environment (Java DE or JDE for short). Kinda hypocritical, wouldn't you say?
I can sum up why C/C++ is better than VB... it's cross platform. I'm sure you could emulate some VB code on a UNIX box, but you're either A) Going to get laughed at or B) Watch your software fall to pieces, hurting your pitty accomplishment. The good thing with C and C++ is that it works on just about any platform... Visual Basic is just confined to Windows.
I speak from the community and personal experience, so anyone please correct me if my opinion is somehow wrong.
It's a very interesting hack, I agree, but it cannot be used as the swiss army knife technique that it's best for (IMO) without having to reboot Windows. After all, you can't snag that SAM file without the system being offline. It's a great way to try it out though... I just wouldn't depend on the stability of it around the Windows OS. Hopefully it won't crash and give the user a bad impression. And hopefully some Windows fan won't put some bad code to make it crash so that the user just sticks with Windows either. Heh.
Yeah, I'm sure that was their plan though... since they gave every Gmail user 50 invites. Those 50 invites are sent to 50 people and then from each of them, sent to 50 more people -- which turns into 2500 people from just one person. And still... it spreads more and more. I didn't think that new users would actually be given 50 invites until I invited a close friend to it the other week... and a few days after, he received it.
I'm not complaining at all though. I was one of the very first Gmail users and I will be here for a very long time. Gmail is excellent and it should be shared with the world... just like software source code.
Just because software is open-source, doesn't always make it free. Free software and open-source software, though a lot alike, are also different. Open-source means that the source code to the program is open to the public to access... and even though many hackers can take that code and just recompile the program to run it, others cannot (or not everything you see in the code is what was included by the developer.) Therefore, just giving away software is something different... because a lot of the time the source code does not come with it. It really just depends on how you want to market your product.
Pretty difficult question... but overall, I'm going to have to say.... well. Damn. I don't know. Speaking in terms of productivity, it really depends on what I'm doing. But to make a long story short, I can say that my network, consisting of three computers running various operating systems does everything that I need to do and makes me very productive. I have an eMac running Mac OS X, a desktop running Windows XP Pro/Slackware 10 and a laptop also dual booting with Windows XP Home and LLGP Linux (back and forth with SuSE 9.2). This takes care of everything.
And that is a great idea.... but as I'm sure you know, not everyone can install and run Linux. Thus, this is a cheap way for Apple to attempt to put their operating system back on top of Windows. I doubt it will ever happen, but I'd use Mac OS X over Windows XP anyday... and I do. Hah. Of course... I run Linux on my PCs also. -_-
Exactly. Linux doesn't compete with Microsoft Windows through money, therefore they aren't rich enough to just give that amount of money (or anything close) away. But yeah, as scsirob mentioned, Linux powers clusters that calculate drugs and treatments against those illnesses... AND those clusters are stable. It's kinda like giving someone money for Christmas or giving them a gift. Everyone knows that the gift always means more, becuase they will probably only spend money on things always not relating to what they need and want most. Not saying that will happen this time, but it just makes you think.
Sorry for my misunderstanding, but couldn't the computer just generate a random variable to play the game? After all, the game is just about luck in a sense. If someone has a more in depth explanation of this, please stop me from making myself look foolish.
Maybe you're just not an active Linux user? Either that, or you've never been to a BBS... Slackware is still one of the most popular Linux distributions today. And the only reason that not everyone uses it (as opposed to MandrakeLinux) is the user-friendliness of it. In laymen's terms -- it's more difficult to use.;) I still use Slackware very often. I can't wait until 10.1.
Yeah, rig one of those explosives to your laptop... and with the flip of a button, everything goes boom! Hah. www.thebroken.org
I just keep several harddrives handy and monitor network logs. If I get raided, I take my main files, put them on my jump drive, and shove it right up my....
There's a big difference in being dead and being underground. It's not "dead," just not a lot of people know about it... and that's a really good thing especially because of the type of magazine it is. And I really wonder what motivates them to stop publishing their ezines... I know it has nothing to do about not having a large audience... I kept up with it from time to time, but I never got to read every single ezine through and through... It really makes me sad to hear this news though.
Damn. I guess the moderators that kept modding my post down over and over and over are Windows whores. I was just making fun of that horrible attempt at calling Linux a bad operating system.
Blah. Even though I wouldn't do what he does (and I'm a pretty big Star Wars fan), I admire him for doing it... but him wanting to make fame and fortune off that... no, I don't agree with it. Do it for the love of Star Wars, not for the money!
Well, even if we do embrace this hardware into the business world, we're still going to have the careless problem of ignorant lazy people who put their usernames and passwords on a post-it note and leave it right beside the monitor for anyone to see...
Hmm. My first computer would have to be an old Apple iBook. I was about six years old and I worked with that thing constantly. It was so trashy looking at the time that my mother kept begging me to throw it away -- she had no idea what I was actually doing with it. Later on as my life progressed, my mom ended up buying me my first desktop, which was an iMac and later on, I build my first system at the age of 10. At that time though, Windows was getting popular, so I installed Microsoft's deadly operating system to my system.
The biggest thing that really got me into programming was my love of video games. I was a huge gamer (and still am) since the age of three and ever since then, I've been engaging myself in an assortment of video games. Later on, I wanted to design a website about video games -- I ended up going to one of these template generator sites and making my layout... only to get bored with it later. I eventually took up learning HTML and with Frontpage at my side, I coded my first website about video games. That sparked an interest with me and programming (even though HTML is just a markup, it's the fundamentality of the fact). So a little later, I wanted to make my website more advanced -- I learned to use Photoshop 6.0 to do some graphic work for my site, and I learned a little bit of JavaScript to make some other scripts for my site. Later on after playing with JavaScript more and more, I began to notice an emerging new language by the name of PHP. I had read a good bit of articles on it and never really thought to use it until I saw how easy it was to set up my own Apache server. I then began to take tutorials to learn this new PHP language.
I didn't do a lot with it but configure stuff at the beginning -- I installed phpBB forums to my website, set up PHPNuke to update my site's news, and wrote a few small scripts (counters, polls, etc), But just learning that language was a fascinating thing. After stumbling through IRC channels and Usenet, I heard about another language -- Python. It, besides C++, looked very interesting to me and I just wanted to set out to learn it. But at the time, I couldn't really find anything on it. And anything I did was for GNU/Linux (didn't know what it was at the time) and UNIX systems. So after searching far and wide for a Windows port of Python, I took a look into other operating systems -- mainly SuSE 6.0. Wow, just reading about the entire structure of this language and how it works -- it being more flexible and stable than Windows was a miracle. I then took my time and effort to read about and eventually install SuSE 6.0 to my computer. And boy, was I impressed. From that moment on (my parents also bought me another computer from a yard sale, which I installed an older version of RedHat on) I read everything I could find about Linux. I went over to a friend's house to use his version of UNIX (because he mentioned liking it better than what he knew of Linux), but I just laughed in his face. Nothing could drive me away from my Linux boxes (well my RedHat box eventually fried). But I finally was able to install and check out Python -- which I later fell in love with. Python, even today, is my most widely used language. I know more about it than any other language and I can do more with it as well.
Now... throughout all this time, I've read about the powerful C++ language on BBSs, Newgroups, etc but I figured that I could never get into it -- it seemed more professionally driven and I could never understand it... until I actually sat down to take a couple of tutorials on it. I wrote my own Tic-Tac-Toe board, a text-based adventure game, and a few other simple things. I learned a pretty good bit about the language, but I never chose to keep it going that long. I later went back to it to learn more for an assortment of things. I also managed to take up learning Perl, which I dropped after some time (because #1, I pretty much discovered it late and #2, anything I wanted to do with it, I could do with Python and PHP easily.) So I guess I never had the chance
ZSnes was nowhere near perfect. I remember playing with it awhile ago, and getting angry while it crashed -- it made me use SNES9X (which was also a great emulator). ZSNES was just more compatible with all of the ROMS I had though, so I loved it more. I can't wait to check out this version. Harvest Moon time!
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I know how people work and I can safely say that I bet that the majority of those people aren't playing just Solitare and Minesweeper in their free time -- they are also playing flash games. Even in school, no one really cares about or plays Solitare anymore. It's easy to find a ton of cool and fun games to play through a lot of free flash game sites. And if they are not doing that, then I bet they have their own game to install and play. One way or another, the only way to actually "ban gameplay" is to add it to the list of rules for your job, if it isn't there already. No point in banning game play, because people will find a way to do it one way or another. So do you honestly think they will lock the computers down so tight that they can only visit certain websites and install a few things? No idea if they will for all of those computers, but my best guess is no. People are lazy.
I find it quite hilarious that almost all of the "defenders" are proprietary software advocates... all except Sun. Maybe I'm missing something and just maybe that's a big reason they are so slow at open-sourcing their personal operating system and programming language... but why in the hell would Sun (even though they sided with Microsoft) sponsor this and say that Linux is unstable? If my calculations are correct, and I know for a fact they are, Sun Microsystems maintains one of the most popular Linux distributions today... the Java Desktop Environment (Java DE or JDE for short). Kinda hypocritical, wouldn't you say?
I can sum up why C/C++ is better than VB... it's cross platform. I'm sure you could emulate some VB code on a UNIX box, but you're either A) Going to get laughed at or B) Watch your software fall to pieces, hurting your pitty accomplishment. The good thing with C and C++ is that it works on just about any platform... Visual Basic is just confined to Windows.
I speak from the community and personal experience, so anyone please correct me if my opinion is somehow wrong.
It's a very interesting hack, I agree, but it cannot be used as the swiss army knife technique that it's best for (IMO) without having to reboot Windows. After all, you can't snag that SAM file without the system being offline. It's a great way to try it out though... I just wouldn't depend on the stability of it around the Windows OS. Hopefully it won't crash and give the user a bad impression. And hopefully some Windows fan won't put some bad code to make it crash so that the user just sticks with Windows either. Heh.
Yeah, I'm sure that was their plan though... since they gave every Gmail user 50 invites. Those 50 invites are sent to 50 people and then from each of them, sent to 50 more people -- which turns into 2500 people from just one person. And still... it spreads more and more. I didn't think that new users would actually be given 50 invites until I invited a close friend to it the other week... and a few days after, he received it.
I'm not complaining at all though. I was one of the very first Gmail users and I will be here for a very long time. Gmail is excellent and it should be shared with the world... just like software source code.
I've heard of some of your programmers having disputes over certain aspects of the design process. Could you clarify this?
And if I recall, Adrian Lamo was thrown in prison because of discovering vulnerabilities such as this... he even used LexisNexis accounts.
Just because software is open-source, doesn't always make it free. Free software and open-source software, though a lot alike, are also different. Open-source means that the source code to the program is open to the public to access... and even though many hackers can take that code and just recompile the program to run it, others cannot (or not everything you see in the code is what was included by the developer.) Therefore, just giving away software is something different... because a lot of the time the source code does not come with it. It really just depends on how you want to market your product.
"I'm sure there's a lot of holes that will be created because of this"
I hate to say this... but there already are. It came with the creation.
Pretty difficult question... but overall, I'm going to have to say.... well. Damn. I don't know. Speaking in terms of productivity, it really depends on what I'm doing. But to make a long story short, I can say that my network, consisting of three computers running various operating systems does everything that I need to do and makes me very productive. I have an eMac running Mac OS X, a desktop running Windows XP Pro/Slackware 10 and a laptop also dual booting with Windows XP Home and LLGP Linux (back and forth with SuSE 9.2). This takes care of everything.
And that is a great idea.... but as I'm sure you know, not everyone can install and run Linux. Thus, this is a cheap way for Apple to attempt to put their operating system back on top of Windows. I doubt it will ever happen, but I'd use Mac OS X over Windows XP anyday... and I do. Hah. Of course... I run Linux on my PCs also. -_-
Exactly. Linux doesn't compete with Microsoft Windows through money, therefore they aren't rich enough to just give that amount of money (or anything close) away. But yeah, as scsirob mentioned, Linux powers clusters that calculate drugs and treatments against those illnesses... AND those clusters are stable. It's kinda like giving someone money for Christmas or giving them a gift. Everyone knows that the gift always means more, becuase they will probably only spend money on things always not relating to what they need and want most. Not saying that will happen this time, but it just makes you think.
Sorry for my misunderstanding, but couldn't the computer just generate a random variable to play the game? After all, the game is just about luck in a sense. If someone has a more in depth explanation of this, please stop me from making myself look foolish.
Maybe you're just not an active Linux user? Either that, or you've never been to a BBS... Slackware is still one of the most popular Linux distributions today. And the only reason that not everyone uses it (as opposed to MandrakeLinux) is the user-friendliness of it. In laymen's terms -- it's more difficult to use. ;) I still use Slackware very often. I can't wait until 10.1.
Yeah, rig one of those explosives to your laptop... and with the flip of a button, everything goes boom! Hah. www.thebroken.org I just keep several harddrives handy and monitor network logs. If I get raided, I take my main files, put them on my jump drive, and shove it right up my....
There's a big difference in being dead and being underground. It's not "dead," just not a lot of people know about it... and that's a really good thing especially because of the type of magazine it is. And I really wonder what motivates them to stop publishing their ezines... I know it has nothing to do about not having a large audience... I kept up with it from time to time, but I never got to read every single ezine through and through... It really makes me sad to hear this news though.
Damn. I guess the moderators that kept modding my post down over and over and over are Windows whores. I was just making fun of that horrible attempt at calling Linux a bad operating system.
Retarded. Simply retarded. Seems that he didn't have a fun time using Linux... so maybe his dumb ass needs to stick to Windows. Not my problem.
Blah. Even though I wouldn't do what he does (and I'm a pretty big Star Wars fan), I admire him for doing it... but him wanting to make fame and fortune off that... no, I don't agree with it. Do it for the love of Star Wars, not for the money!
I'm guessing that the Knoppix CD that he's talking about is Knoppix STD. I don't know of a better rescue disk...
Well, even if we do embrace this hardware into the business world, we're still going to have the careless problem of ignorant lazy people who put their usernames and passwords on a post-it note and leave it right beside the monitor for anyone to see...
Hmm. My first computer would have to be an old Apple iBook. I was about six years old and I worked with that thing constantly. It was so trashy looking at the time that my mother kept begging me to throw it away -- she had no idea what I was actually doing with it. Later on as my life progressed, my mom ended up buying me my first desktop, which was an iMac and later on, I build my first system at the age of 10. At that time though, Windows was getting popular, so I installed Microsoft's deadly operating system to my system.
The biggest thing that really got me into programming was my love of video games. I was a huge gamer (and still am) since the age of three and ever since then, I've been engaging myself in an assortment of video games. Later on, I wanted to design a website about video games -- I ended up going to one of these template generator sites and making my layout... only to get bored with it later. I eventually took up learning HTML and with Frontpage at my side, I coded my first website about video games. That sparked an interest with me and programming (even though HTML is just a markup, it's the fundamentality of the fact). So a little later, I wanted to make my website more advanced -- I learned to use Photoshop 6.0 to do some graphic work for my site, and I learned a little bit of JavaScript to make some other scripts for my site. Later on after playing with JavaScript more and more, I began to notice an emerging new language by the name of PHP. I had read a good bit of articles on it and never really thought to use it until I saw how easy it was to set up my own Apache server. I then began to take tutorials to learn this new PHP language.
I didn't do a lot with it but configure stuff at the beginning -- I installed phpBB forums to my website, set up PHPNuke to update my site's news, and wrote a few small scripts (counters, polls, etc), But just learning that language was a fascinating thing. After stumbling through IRC channels and Usenet, I heard about another language -- Python. It, besides C++, looked very interesting to me and I just wanted to set out to learn it. But at the time, I couldn't really find anything on it. And anything I did was for GNU/Linux (didn't know what it was at the time) and UNIX systems. So after searching far and wide for a Windows port of Python, I took a look into other operating systems -- mainly SuSE 6.0. Wow, just reading about the entire structure of this language and how it works -- it being more flexible and stable than Windows was a miracle. I then took my time and effort to read about and eventually install SuSE 6.0 to my computer. And boy, was I impressed. From that moment on (my parents also bought me another computer from a yard sale, which I installed an older version of RedHat on) I read everything I could find about Linux. I went over to a friend's house to use his version of UNIX (because he mentioned liking it better than what he knew of Linux), but I just laughed in his face. Nothing could drive me away from my Linux boxes (well my RedHat box eventually fried). But I finally was able to install and check out Python -- which I later fell in love with. Python, even today, is my most widely used language. I know more about it than any other language and I can do more with it as well.
Now... throughout all this time, I've read about the powerful C++ language on BBSs, Newgroups, etc but I figured that I could never get into it -- it seemed more professionally driven and I could never understand it... until I actually sat down to take a couple of tutorials on it. I wrote my own Tic-Tac-Toe board, a text-based adventure game, and a few other simple things. I learned a pretty good bit about the language, but I never chose to keep it going that long. I later went back to it to learn more for an assortment of things. I also managed to take up learning Perl, which I dropped after some time (because #1, I pretty much discovered it late and #2, anything I wanted to do with it, I could do with Python and PHP easily.) So I guess I never had the chance
It's an article from BBC.
BBC = British Broadcasting Corporation = Great Britain.
From the article's perspective, it's talking about broadband usage over here in the US. But they are there. Get it? Good.
ZSnes was nowhere near perfect. I remember playing with it awhile ago, and getting angry while it crashed -- it made me use SNES9X (which was also a great emulator). ZSNES was just more compatible with all of the ROMS I had though, so I loved it more. I can't wait to check out this version. Harvest Moon time!
Sound familiar? Maybe not, but that's the first thing that pops into my head. Synaps...
Yeah, it's just a lot harder in real life...