Um, what? I just went and looked at my copy of the DVD, at at the bottom it says:
Includes enhanced features for your DVD-ROM PC. * The enhanced DVD-ROM features will not work on a Macintosh(r) computer. This DVD will not work in a CD-ROM drive.
I've played the DVD on a Mac, and it worked fine, just like every other DVD out there. The 'extra features' won't work on a Mac because they're Windows applications. That's hardly Microsoft 'black-ops'.
It turns out you can write it in other languages. After I left, it appears they added support for C#, VB, and others.
As to being a host to trojans, I think that there are a few more dangerous threats out there than a web server. A web server can't act like Back Orifice does, unless there's some serious hacking going on with the program that Morfik's made to compile.
It's not vapourware, since I worked on it for a while over the summer. It's actually pretty decent system for getting together a working web application - you program the system in a language very similar to Delphi, and it creates for you an executable that has Apache and Firebird embedded in it - it's a RAD solution, sure, but for home users, it's also a thing to double click on and all of a sudden your computer's a web server, and you can manage your finances, run a calendar, do your bookmarking, et cetera.
Why exactly do we have to battle at all? What's the reason to have any sort of contest over which 'side' is 'better' than the other?
It just seems like a waste of energy to try and 'prove' that one sex is in any way superior to another. We are who we are, and most of our achievements aren't due to how our brains and bodies are wired at birth, it's what we do with our brains and bodies.
the multiple levels of irony in this article make that Alanis Morissette song (or more precisely the fact that the song isn't ironic at all) pale in comparison.
Nobody gets it! The song is entirely ironic, because there's no irony in it at all, but it's ostensibly about irony!
The wit and intelligence of Ms Morissette astounds me daily.
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny.
The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on
information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse
has begun its rapid slide into despotism.
Beware of he who would
deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself
your master.
-- Commissioner Pravin Lal,
"U.N. Declaration of Rights"
That's right. This screenshot tour is, of course, the official screenshot tour, delivered by GNOME. You can tell they're desperate for exposure - look! They posted a message to a mailinglist and everything!
How many of the differences that we can see in the screenshots are from the new GNOME, and how many are from Ubuntu? I run Ubuntu, and it customises a fair bit of the GNOME desktop.
It's not hard to install keyloggers. You just plug them between the keyboard cable and the back of the machine. When you're done, you take it off, plug it into yours and then type the passwordKEYLOGGER 3.15 MENU
OPTIONS
1. DUMP
2. CLEAR
3. EXIT
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CSIRO is an Australian research organisation. The US government has nothing to do with it, and your tax dollars are not involved.
Um, what? I just went and looked at my copy of the DVD, at at the bottom it says:
Includes enhanced features for your DVD-ROM PC.
* The enhanced DVD-ROM features will not work on a Macintosh(r) computer. This DVD will not work in a CD-ROM drive.
I've played the DVD on a Mac, and it worked fine, just like every other DVD out there. The 'extra features' won't work on a Mac because they're Windows applications. That's hardly Microsoft 'black-ops'.
It turns out you can write it in other languages. After I left, it appears they added support for C#, VB, and others. As to being a host to trojans, I think that there are a few more dangerous threats out there than a web server. A web server can't act like Back Orifice does, unless there's some serious hacking going on with the program that Morfik's made to compile.
You really want to build a compiler in Javascript?
It's not vapourware, since I worked on it for a while over the summer. It's actually pretty decent system for getting together a working web application - you program the system in a language very similar to Delphi, and it creates for you an executable that has Apache and Firebird embedded in it - it's a RAD solution, sure, but for home users, it's also a thing to double click on and all of a sudden your computer's a web server, and you can manage your finances, run a calendar, do your bookmarking, et cetera.
Flash! Ah! Saviour of the universe!
Flash! Ah! He'll save every one of us!
Why exactly do we have to battle at all? What's the reason to have any sort of contest over which 'side' is 'better' than the other? It just seems like a waste of energy to try and 'prove' that one sex is in any way superior to another. We are who we are, and most of our achievements aren't due to how our brains and bodies are wired at birth, it's what we do with our brains and bodies.
Apricot juice sprayed out of my nose upon reading the word 'uNFsaQ'.
You owe me a new keyboard.
Nobody gets it! The song is entirely ironic, because there's no irony in it at all, but it's ostensibly about irony!
The wit and intelligence of Ms Morissette astounds me daily.
Source.
...Space Gigolo.
I misinterpreted the title as 'Science Fiction RoboGames This Weekend'.
Step right up, Bender versus Number 6, one and only performance! K9 takes on C-3PO!
We've discussed this before.
"Mach Quickly the Scrap Iron"?
I'm surprised this made it thru the /. Standards.
Hahahahaha! *wipes tear from eye*
That's right. This screenshot tour is, of course, the official screenshot tour, delivered by GNOME. You can tell they're desperate for exposure - look! They posted a message to a mailinglist and everything!
Troll.
How many of the differences that we can see in the screenshots are from the new GNOME, and how many are from Ubuntu? I run Ubuntu, and it customises a fair bit of the GNOME desktop.
Yes, but did they modify the deflector?
It's not hard to install keyloggers. You just plug them between the keyboard cable and the back of the machine. When you're done, you take it off, plug it into yours and then type the passwordKEYLOGGER 3.15 MENU OPTIONS 1. DUMP 2. CLEAR 3. EXIT
He says the software, which will be installed in a robot within the next three months, will give the machines the ability to feel, reason and desire.
How does that work? Genetic imperitive to reproduce is classified as reason now?
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these....
I can't fit more than three discs in my drive.
just use speech recognition software, followed by a translation by Babelfish? It would make all of the speeches humourous, I bet!
It will be able to agree little more I. To the Babelfish it is enormous and it lectures, there is a historian.
(Originally "I couldn't agree more. Babelfish has a history of making terrific speeches.", to Korean and back)
"Anime".
That's it, I'll build my house entirely out of windows! It will be indestructible!