These ways are flaws, and not supposed to be there, and can be removed at Microsoft's leisure. (or whim). These are the good guys, fer chrissakes! They can't rely on dirty hacks to do business. From another, no less practical, point of view, whatever sinks its notional teeth into the kernel is in a privileged position wrt keeping everything else out.
"If I-names become popular, will something similar happen with them?" That's what they want you to think, so you'll cough up the dosh. Stay cool. There is no tech reason for this, just another step in the colonisation of the Internet. People are driving stakes into the ground. At some point, some sort of government will emerge and settle the resulting disputes.
Do port forwarding over ssh/ssl to a proxy outside your school's ZOC. No reason for you to use the TOR network. Unless you have other reasons to do so. On the other hand, TOR is vulnerable specifically because there are dedicated exit points, making attacks against the whole network less expensive.
You are misguided. I said 3rd party apps should all run in userspace. Incidentally, this idea has been (finally) adopted by MS and is present in Vista.
Erm. While XP is Microsoft's most stable OS to date, supporting (indeed, enabling) 3rd party apps is exactly what an OS should do in the first place, and do well. This job description specifically does NOT include the necessity for the kernel to barf on "illegal operations" performed by 3rd party apps which run (in theory) solely in userspace. Yet, this happens, by your own admission, a lot in XP.
The.gov standard is there so the.gov can deal with its prodigal sons as need arises. Do you know that, back in the day, the.gov was advising that simply "zeroing out" a file on a magnetic disk/tape was good enough deletion? Why do you think that physical destruction of media is _required_ nowadays for classified data? Because the.gov standard wipe patterns are enough?
I beg to differ. Look at the success of tools like the GreaseMonkey mozilla extension and its associated scripts, or even at that of simpler things like popup blockers and filtering proxies... A large class of users (many of them technophiles, btw) want everything to behave JustSo(tm), even if they happen to be dealing with remote content, which theoretically is not under their control. DVD killed the VCR with its menu, instant ff/skip and reliable freeze-frame... all ways by which the user controls how content is presented.
"I know there is a command line that sets any.exe to low, but that also starts the program." Just make an alias to 3dsmax.exe that actually invokes the one-liner you are talking of. No?
1. Really smart and innovative games sell. 2. 5-yr old level stuff like the sims also sells. Big Time. 3. Adventures DO NOT sell. 4. Sim-anything-economic is a sure-fire hit. Especially if it has rails somewhere in it.
Amen. Let's all repeat our mantra for the current century, then. "It is by data alone I set my life in motion. It is by the Net that thoughts acquire speed, my data acquires tracks, the tracks become a warning. It is by data alone I set my life in motion."
1. There are hard physical constraints on that (stability of long molecules). 2. Erm. There are many documented instances of anti-depressants not working. Clearly there's more to it than "chemical imbalance". 3. I never discussed authorship of the design:). My point stands... some of these "design features" are pretty close to optimal.
Funny you should mention the Swiss MGs. They are kept under seal, nobody is walking around with the damn things. Otoh, guns are legal there afaicr and it IS an armed, realtively wealthy and homogenous society.
1.The position of testes is a good example of an engineering tradeoff. In performing their functions they produce a lot of heat, which must be drained away from sensitive "young" sperm cells in some (economical) fashion. How many people have you ever met who became sterile because of a kick in the nuts or another such thing?
2. They aren't. The "chemical imbalances" theory is just a theory, and a shaky one at best. A causal relationship has not been proven yet, nor has anyone determined in which _sense_ it operates. (Do chemical imbalances cause "mental disease" or does "mental disease" produce deviations from normal values?). Incidentally, there is also no universally accepted definition of mental illness and many "mental diseases" were proven to be pure hogwash later on (remember hysteria? ADD is next).
3. They aren't. There are documented cases of children (10 years old or less) giving birth to normal (if small) children. This may be construed a massive survival advantage for the species when faced with catastrophic (read mass-death-inducing) events.
Your post is a bit shortsighted. Substitute "the government" with "any organisation which can match.gov spending in the particular area of quantum decryption devices". That's a much larger set.
Erm. No. It is true that many bombs in the US arsenal are airburst-type or, more likely, can be used in an airburst mode. This is in view of the facts that a ground burst produces massive fallout, that fission-fusion bombs can be built with arbitrarily high yelds and that US leaders intend to survive a nuclear holocaust and emerge into a habitable world once it's over. However, ground or low-altitude bursts produce almost twice the blast (it gets reflected from the ground directly beneath, so you get two shock fronts fro the price of one) and orders of magnitude more fallout, thus ground burst is the more deadly option of the two, at equal yeld.
MS is actively fighting Apple, for the first time in many years. They're scared enough to notice, now that Apple is moving in on *their* pet platform. Great and good things are afoot.
I believe that in a modern democratic society citizens must give up the expectation of privacy in exchange for personal freedom and accountability of public officials. This system you propose should be extended to "normal" citizens as well, and it should be within everyone's rights to overtly or covertly watch what everyone else does. I expect lots of BS laws would be changed or dropped entirely.
It should be trivial to let the google newsbot spider the actual news, but to redirect live visitors referred from news.google.com through the usual craptastic ads and registration pages. I fail to see where the difficulty is, here. I suspect the agreement is about something else entirely.
"It's the figuring shit out that takes the time." So take the time to document everything. "HOWTO Bootstrap to a Steam Age civilisation" should make a great read and an instant hit with the survivalist fringe. Build a wiki, maintain it, print an edited version each year. Profit!
heartwarming. almost 10 full hours of gameplay. teamwork. limiting character control. sequel expected anxiously by fanbois. Yup! That's what I wanna see in a single-player game. Treehugging fluff for content, dumb "click faster" control model, dumb scripted NPC sidekicks, short game time, linear storyline, zero replay value. I wonder how I managed to abstain from buying this gem.
Hmm... but what of the benefits? Some other group of open-source devs or some other company (like, say, Trolltech) would soon build a reputation for writing the best possible NVidia drivers. Trouble over. Besides, that would free NVidia from writing software, a task which is definitely not part of their core business. Imo, and in that of people more informed than I am, what's keeping NVidia from releasing an open spec is that 1. they don't want to risk being slapped with patent-infringement lawsuits 2. they don't want to fess up to mistakes which somehow slipped into the production-run hardware 3. and this is almost pure conjecture, they are possibly bound by (secret) agreements with M$, on the lines of "we'll let you in on the dirty little secrets of DirectX so you can whoop the competition in benchmarks, but you have to promise you'll never ever tell". Same goes for ATI. I just have to hope some new company steps up and takes the high road (OpenGL and extensions thereof, open specs) from the very beginning.
Compound 18 is real enough. It was found that Spectra weave liberally treated with plain ol' SuperGlue (tm) or some other similar resin is able to absorb much more KE than just plain Spectra, which after some more research gave rise to composite materials like the Spectra Shield.
Erm... In what way do Apple's actions constitute an attempt to leverage an existing monopoly in order to gain a new one in a different market? Apple doesn't have a stranglehold on the OS market, now has it? This is just an honest-to-god attempt from Apple to corner the digital music market. Kudos if they succeed, boo and an antimonopoly lawsuit on their houses if they subsequently try to use that monopoly to choke, say, the rest of the entertainment industry. That's the state of US law, buddy... IMNSHO, monopolies should be illegal but that's a different issue. Whoever modded you insightful is a troll.
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These ways are flaws, and not supposed to be there, and can be removed at Microsoft's leisure.
(or whim). These are the good guys, fer chrissakes! They can't rely on dirty hacks to do business.
From another, no less practical, point of view, whatever sinks its notional teeth into the kernel is in a privileged position wrt keeping everything else out.
"If I-names become popular, will something similar happen with them?"
That's what they want you to think, so you'll cough up the dosh. Stay cool. There is no tech reason for this, just another step in the colonisation of the Internet. People are driving stakes into the ground. At some point, some sort of government will emerge and settle the resulting disputes.
Do port forwarding over ssh/ssl to a proxy outside your school's ZOC. No reason for you to use the TOR network. Unless you have other reasons to do so.
On the other hand, TOR is vulnerable specifically because there are dedicated exit points, making attacks against the whole network less expensive.
You are misguided. I said 3rd party apps should all run in userspace. Incidentally, this idea has been (finally) adopted by MS and is present in Vista.
Erm. While XP is Microsoft's most stable OS to date, supporting (indeed, enabling) 3rd party apps is exactly what an OS should do in the first place, and do well. This job description specifically does NOT include the necessity for the kernel to barf on "illegal operations" performed by 3rd party apps which run (in theory) solely in userspace. Yet, this happens, by your own admission, a lot in XP.
This "feature" was not present on DVDs until relatively recently.
The .gov standard is there so the .gov can deal with its prodigal sons as need arises. Do you know that, back in the day, the .gov was advising that simply "zeroing out" a file on a magnetic disk/tape was good enough deletion? Why do you think that physical destruction of media is _required_ nowadays for classified data? Because the .gov standard wipe patterns are enough?
I beg to differ. Look at the success of tools like the GreaseMonkey mozilla extension and its associated scripts, or even at that of simpler things like popup blockers and filtering proxies... A large class of users (many of them technophiles, btw) want everything to behave JustSo(tm), even if they happen to be dealing with remote content, which theoretically is not under their control.
DVD killed the VCR with its menu, instant ff/skip and reliable freeze-frame... all ways by which the user controls how content is presented.
"I know there is a command line that sets any .exe to low, but that also starts the program."
Just make an alias to 3dsmax.exe that actually invokes the one-liner you are talking of. No?
1. Really smart and innovative games sell.
2. 5-yr old level stuff like the sims also sells. Big Time.
3. Adventures DO NOT sell.
4. Sim-anything-economic is a sure-fire hit. Especially if it has rails somewhere in it.
Amen. Let's all repeat our mantra for the current century, then.
"It is by data alone I set my life in motion. It is by the Net that thoughts acquire speed, my data acquires tracks, the tracks become a warning. It is by data alone I set my life in motion."
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1. There are hard physical constraints on that (stability of long molecules). :). My point stands... some of these "design features" are pretty close to optimal.
2. Erm. There are many documented instances of anti-depressants not working. Clearly there's more to it than "chemical imbalance".
3. I never discussed authorship of the design
Funny you should mention the Swiss MGs. They are kept under seal, nobody is walking around with the damn things. Otoh, guns are legal there afaicr and it IS an armed, realtively wealthy and homogenous society.
1.The position of testes is a good example of an engineering tradeoff. In performing their functions they produce a lot of heat, which must be drained away from sensitive "young" sperm cells in some (economical) fashion. How many people have you ever met who became sterile because of a kick in the nuts or another such thing?
2. They aren't. The "chemical imbalances" theory is just a theory, and a shaky one at best. A causal relationship has not been proven yet, nor has anyone determined in which _sense_ it operates. (Do chemical imbalances cause "mental disease" or does "mental disease" produce deviations from normal values?). Incidentally, there is also no universally accepted definition of mental illness and many "mental diseases" were proven to be pure hogwash later on (remember hysteria? ADD is next).
3. They aren't. There are documented cases of children (10 years old or less) giving birth to normal (if small) children. This may be construed a massive survival advantage for the species when faced with catastrophic (read mass-death-inducing) events.
Your post is a bit shortsighted. Substitute "the government" with "any organisation which can match .gov spending in the particular area of quantum decryption devices". That's a much larger set.
Erm. No.
It is true that many bombs in the US arsenal are airburst-type or, more likely, can be used in an airburst mode. This is in view of the facts that a ground burst produces massive fallout, that fission-fusion bombs can be built with arbitrarily high yelds and that US leaders intend to survive a nuclear holocaust and emerge into a habitable world once it's over. However, ground or low-altitude bursts produce almost twice the blast (it gets reflected from the ground directly beneath, so you get two shock fronts fro the price of one) and orders of magnitude more fallout, thus ground burst is the more deadly option of the two, at equal yeld.
MS is actively fighting Apple, for the first time in many years. They're scared enough to notice, now that Apple is moving in on *their* pet platform. Great and good things are afoot.
I believe that in a modern democratic society citizens must give up the expectation of privacy in exchange for personal freedom and accountability of public officials. This system you propose should be extended to "normal" citizens as well, and it should be within everyone's rights to overtly or covertly watch what everyone else does. I expect lots of BS laws would be changed or dropped entirely.
It should be trivial to let the google newsbot spider the actual news, but to redirect live visitors referred from news.google.com through the usual craptastic ads and registration pages. I fail to see where the difficulty is, here. I suspect the agreement is about something else entirely.
"It's the figuring shit out that takes the time."
So take the time to document everything. "HOWTO Bootstrap to a Steam Age civilisation" should make a great read and an instant hit with the survivalist fringe. Build a wiki, maintain it, print an edited version each year. Profit!
heartwarming. almost 10 full hours of gameplay. teamwork. limiting character control. sequel expected anxiously by fanbois.
Yup! That's what I wanna see in a single-player game. Treehugging fluff for content, dumb "click faster" control model, dumb scripted NPC sidekicks, short game time, linear storyline, zero replay value. I wonder how I managed to abstain from buying this gem.
Hmm... but what of the benefits? Some other group of open-source devs or some other company (like, say, Trolltech) would soon build a reputation for writing the best possible NVidia drivers. Trouble over. Besides, that would free NVidia from writing software, a task which is definitely not part of their core business. Imo, and in that of people more informed than I am, what's keeping NVidia from releasing an open spec is that
1. they don't want to risk being slapped with patent-infringement lawsuits
2. they don't want to fess up to mistakes which somehow slipped into the production-run hardware
3. and this is almost pure conjecture, they are possibly bound by (secret) agreements with M$, on the lines of "we'll let you in on the dirty little secrets of DirectX so you can whoop the competition in benchmarks, but you have to promise you'll never ever tell".
Same goes for ATI. I just have to hope some new company steps up and takes the high road (OpenGL and extensions thereof, open specs) from the very beginning.
Compound 18 is real enough. It was found that Spectra weave liberally treated with plain ol' SuperGlue (tm) or some other similar resin is able to absorb much more KE than just plain Spectra, which after some more research gave rise to composite materials like the Spectra Shield.
Erm... In what way do Apple's actions constitute an attempt to leverage an existing monopoly in order to gain a new one in a different market? Apple doesn't have a stranglehold on the OS market, now has it? This is just an honest-to-god attempt from Apple to corner the digital music market. Kudos if they succeed, boo and an antimonopoly lawsuit on their houses if they subsequently try to use that monopoly to choke, say, the rest of the entertainment industry. That's the state of US law, buddy... IMNSHO, monopolies should be illegal but that's a different issue.
Whoever modded you insightful is a troll.