Yep. Offensive is half the problem. But at least on my box, they take AGES to load. Main page of Slashdot without ads - 4 seconds. Main page with ads? 15-30s.
The fact that there are people running businesses with questionable ethics is direct result of the fact that people are running businesses. A business is a capitalist thing. Capitalism doesn't directly encourage dishonest businesses, but it encourages competition, and wherever there's competition, there's incentive for cheating and dishonesty.
It's not about slapping morality rules on top of some system. It's about making immoral behaviours redundant and useless. Make goods so easily available and obtainable that it's not worth the effort to obtain them by dishonest means, simply because honest means are easier, more available and wide open for everyone. Why would I steal my neighbor's car if my own is just as good, and if I need a second one, all I have to do is to ask? Of course that's an utopia, but that's how Communism was intended to work - immoral behaviours become irrational as a side effect of creating the basic workings of the system, distribution of goods.
Just like the purpose of Free Software is not to kill off proprietary software, to gain world domination or to convince people that Free is better. The purpose is to provide good software and make it free.
Anybody to suggest a linux that would fit on my spare 16MB SD card and include X? A while ago there was some linux that fitted on 11 floppies and would include X and its goodies, but it's gone MIA and what's available nowadays is DSL (64M), some LiveCD distros of 100+M and 1-2 floppy microlinuxes that are cropped to bare bones and definitely don't have X. Any ideas?
I used two thick blocks of woods, about 15x15cm, one for each rail, not too pretty but very strong and quite cheap (plus that's what I had available when my old chair finally died and I needed a replacement urgently). Good screws for attaching the rails, the blocks reaching a bit behind the chair to allow for safe leaning far back. Later needed to add a bar between them, because one rail would bend if I sit too heavily sideways. I guess once I move my ass to paint them black they will look quite okay.
Ultra-comfortable, ultra-ergonomic, designed for sitting in one position for many hours, extremely durable, high quality and... ultra-cheap!
Visit a car scrapyard and buy the best car seat you can find. Right now typing this from a luxury model BMW driver's seat. Cost: $17. If this one dies (not likely!), I'm gonna get another. Never more overpaying for computer desk chairs in furniture shops!
Minus: Not rotating. Plus/minus - heavy, not really movable (but can be easily adjusted forward/back, sliding on rails). And requires some (little) work to make a good basis/attachment.
If it wasn't, you'd say "fuck this," and start growing vegetables in your back yard.
Replace food with drugs in your analogy. The ones on sale are called cigarettes. The one that doesn't strip 10 years off your life and as WHO report states, has practically no adverse health effect is marijuana. And you have adequate analogy - you'd gladly "grow your own" but it's strictly illegal and you'll get so much shit from the goverment that you won't dare.
The same happens here. You get DRMd equipment and you no longer can listen to music recorded by independent labels, they were made illegal. And if you try to use equipment that has no DRM... You violate the law.
I licked quite a bit of the microcontroller-based embedded design, and from what I saw, only amateurs, and only most clueless of them use separate processor and controller. In the past it was making sense. Nowadays the market is saturated with microcontrollers that carry enormous amounts of extra hardware on chip and a hour with soldering iron spent on including a dedicated controller chip in the project can be easily avoided by a hour of browsing the catalogues for derivative that has that controller on-chip. Price increases are often negligible. Speeds are amazing.
www.fairchildsemi.com/products/micro/ - SOIC-8 package, the size of an optocoupler - 8 pins, thingy would fit on the nail of your pinky, whole, with surface-mount pins. 64 bytes of RAM, 1-2K of program eprom, 64 bytes of data eprom, clocks, power monitoring, wake-up on any pin, 6 GPIO lines, eeprom writing, watchdog, serial output generator, sleep mode, idle mode, oscillator, and quite a few other goodies.
On the other end of the scale: http://www.maxim-ic.com/quick_view2.cfm/qv_pk/4535 : 75MHz 64M addressable, ethernet, 1w, spi, CAN, 3x RS232, 8x bidi 8-bit GPIO, IP stack plus UDP, TCP, DHCP, ICMP, TFTP, IGMP in ROM, Wake-On-Lan, watchdog, clocks, and God knows what more.
Add to that DSPs which are quite specific but achieve speeds higher than newest pentiums and athlons in their tasks (and often carry some "extra", add PC for heavyweight number-crunching and user interaction and you see:
Controllers are dead. Microcontroller is way better because it allows for just the same on the hardware side, while vastly simplifying the interface side. With your current knowledge you should catch up and learn microcontroller-based design pretty fast.
Yeah. Except benchmarks create 1:1 ratio (one search in competitor engine, one in your own, compare.) So even if the remaining 20% is all benchmarking of MSN, this still leaves 60% of genuine non-benchmark searches in Google.
Nope. Microsoft is trying to DDoS Google by flooding it with bogus searches from bots installed on the computers.;)
Then they'd use maybe 20% times google (vs another 20% MSN) for benchmarks/debug/comparison, then another 60% MSN for standard dogfood-eating queries. Instead they use the 20-20% ratio for benchmarking then use Google instead of MSN.
Ignorance is no excuse to ignore the law, but don't you think that refusing to let people know what the laws ARE is going to contribute, at some level, to crime rates?
This is a basis of a police country. Secret laws. Laws which you must obey but you're not allowed to know. Catch-22, you don't know what's the crime until after you commited it. This is extremely convenient for the government, because they can arrest anyone inconvenient and they always have an excuse. Recently there was a story about some airport regulation which requires you to show ID before boarding the plane. Nobody, nowhere can show you the full text of that regulation. The guy who began investigating it, got in serious trouble, "why do you want to know that?" Why don't you want to show your ID?"
It's not about lowering crime rate. This is about increasing crime rate to 100% and being able to arrest everyone.
*grabs a camera and films the cowards fucking each other in various positions, makes it into a porn movie and then ponders how to add interesting narrative and interaction to this*
1. Likely this will be a DSP, so if you try really hard, you'll get uCLinux to run on it, but it's not meant to do that, it will run dedicated assembly tasks best. 2. No. Not enough cache mem, too slow RAM bus speeds. 3. This is not a harddrive.
Security vulnerablities = bugs. These are avoided at all cost, and hard to spot. Malicious code is a different cup of tea. Should be much easier to spot and result in immediate reporting of the malicious extension. Even if one in a thousand of users takes a peek at the source, that's enough to prevent malicious pieces of code from executing.
Additionally, a browser uses a "pull" method to get data: User requests data, gets response. May visit a site with malicious extension and the site may try to trick them into installing it, once visited, but no visit - no risk. IM uses "push-pull", with the "push" part more dangerous - the IM is listening and reacts to incoming requests from outside, the malicious code can contact everyone on contact list and send itself to vulnerable clients, no action on side of the user may be required. A browser vulnerablity will infect users visiting given site using vulnerable browser. A IM vulnerablity will infect all on-line users of the IM.
Of course these are just qualitative differences - IM idea is simply more dangerous than browser one, but both can be vulnerable. And there's a matter of user base. Users of AOL are most likely to install a program a friend from their contact list suggests them to install.
The clustering itself - splitting the signal into multiple paralell streams, not such a simple deal (though certainly in use already) plus availablity, this is WiFi, for home and office, not intercontinental WAN. This technology hasn't been applied to WiFi until now yet.
Of course the review being written by a retard for retards is a different matter.
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Nope, they just forgot to mention him. He'll be back in the new Zelda for Wii.
Finally the Gates Foundation will be able to fund purchase of Windows Vista by all the schools in 3rd world countries!
Yep. Offensive is half the problem. But at least on my box, they take AGES to load. Main page of Slashdot without ads - 4 seconds. Main page with ads? 15-30s.
Nope.
The fact that there are people running businesses with questionable ethics is direct result of the fact that people are running businesses. A business is a capitalist thing. Capitalism doesn't directly encourage dishonest businesses, but it encourages competition, and wherever there's competition, there's incentive for cheating and dishonesty.
It's not about slapping morality rules on top of some system. It's about making immoral behaviours redundant and useless. Make goods so easily available and obtainable that it's not worth the effort to obtain them by dishonest means, simply because honest means are easier, more available and wide open for everyone. Why would I steal my neighbor's car if my own is just as good, and if I need a second one, all I have to do is to ask? Of course that's an utopia, but that's how Communism was intended to work - immoral behaviours become irrational as a side effect of creating the basic workings of the system, distribution of goods.
Just like the purpose of Free Software is not to kill off proprietary software, to gain world domination or to convince people that Free is better. The purpose is to provide good software and make it free.
In other words, it runs counter to human nature. People are instinctually selfish, ///OCKHAM RAZOR CUT/// and it will never change.
Of course that's extremely hard/unlikely to change, but don't discard that possiblity.
Anybody to suggest a linux that would fit on my spare 16MB SD card and include X? A while ago there was some linux that fitted on 11 floppies and would include X and its goodies, but it's gone MIA and what's available nowadays is DSL (64M), some LiveCD distros of 100+M and 1-2 floppy microlinuxes that are cropped to bare bones and definitely don't have X. Any ideas?
I used two thick blocks of woods, about 15x15cm, one for each rail, not too pretty but very strong and quite cheap (plus that's what I had available when my old chair finally died and I needed a replacement urgently). Good screws for attaching the rails, the blocks reaching a bit behind the chair to allow for safe leaning far back. Later needed to add a bar between them, because one rail would bend if I sit too heavily sideways. I guess once I move my ass to paint them black they will look quite okay.
Ultra-comfortable, ultra-ergonomic, designed for sitting in one position for many hours, extremely durable, high quality and... ultra-cheap!
Visit a car scrapyard and buy the best car seat you can find. Right now typing this from a luxury model BMW driver's seat. Cost: $17. If this one dies (not likely!), I'm gonna get another. Never more overpaying for computer desk chairs in furniture shops!
Minus: Not rotating. Plus/minus - heavy, not really movable (but can be easily adjusted forward/back, sliding on rails). And requires some (little) work to make a good basis/attachment.
Where is the analogy wrong?
If it wasn't, you'd say "fuck this," and start growing vegetables in your back yard.
Replace food with drugs in your analogy. The ones on sale are called cigarettes. The one that doesn't strip 10 years off your life and as WHO report states, has practically no adverse health effect is marijuana. And you have adequate analogy - you'd gladly "grow your own" but it's strictly illegal and you'll get so much shit from the goverment that you won't dare.
The same happens here. You get DRMd equipment and you no longer can listen to music recorded by independent labels, they were made illegal. And if you try to use equipment that has no DRM... You violate the law.
Not if you were a total moron asshole.
How can I change the laws so you'd be forced to give me money?
If you hope the message will get through, you're naive. They will blame the lost sales on pirates and politicians will believe them.
like 9V battery.
I licked quite a bit of the microcontroller-based embedded design, and from what I saw, only amateurs, and only most clueless of them use separate processor and controller. In the past it was making sense. Nowadays the market is saturated with microcontrollers that carry enormous amounts of extra hardware on chip and a hour with soldering iron spent on including a dedicated controller chip in the project can be easily avoided by a hour of browsing the catalogues for derivative that has that controller on-chip. Price increases are often negligible. Speeds are amazing.
5 : 75MHz 64M addressable, ethernet, 1w, spi, CAN, 3x RS232, 8x bidi 8-bit GPIO, IP stack plus UDP, TCP, DHCP, ICMP, TFTP, IGMP in ROM, Wake-On-Lan, watchdog, clocks, and God knows what more.
www.fairchildsemi.com/products/micro/ - SOIC-8 package, the size of an optocoupler - 8 pins, thingy would fit on the nail of your pinky, whole, with surface-mount pins. 64 bytes of RAM, 1-2K of program eprom, 64 bytes of data eprom, clocks, power monitoring, wake-up on any pin, 6 GPIO lines, eeprom writing, watchdog, serial output generator, sleep mode, idle mode, oscillator, and quite a few other goodies.
On the other end of the scale: http://www.maxim-ic.com/quick_view2.cfm/qv_pk/453
Add to that DSPs which are quite specific but achieve speeds higher than newest pentiums and athlons in their tasks (and often carry some "extra", add PC for heavyweight number-crunching and user interaction and you see:
Controllers are dead. Microcontroller is way better because it allows for just the same on the hardware side, while vastly simplifying the interface side. With your current knowledge you should catch up and learn microcontroller-based design pretty fast.
Yeah. Except benchmarks create 1:1 ratio (one search in competitor engine, one in your own, compare.) So even if the remaining 20% is all benchmarking of MSN, this still leaves 60% of genuine non-benchmark searches in Google.
;)
Nope. Microsoft is trying to DDoS Google by flooding it with bogus searches from bots installed on the computers.
Then they'd use maybe 20% times google (vs another 20% MSN) for benchmarks/debug/comparison, then another 60% MSN for standard dogfood-eating queries. Instead they use the 20-20% ratio for benchmarking then use Google instead of MSN.
Ignorance is no excuse to ignore the law, but don't you think that refusing to let people know what the laws ARE is going to contribute, at some level, to crime rates?
This is a basis of a police country. Secret laws. Laws which you must obey but you're not allowed to know. Catch-22, you don't know what's the crime until after you commited it. This is extremely convenient for the government, because they can arrest anyone inconvenient and they always have an excuse. Recently there was a story about some airport regulation which requires you to show ID before boarding the plane. Nobody, nowhere can show you the full text of that regulation. The guy who began investigating it, got in serious trouble, "why do you want to know that?" Why don't you want to show your ID?"
It's not about lowering crime rate. This is about increasing crime rate to 100% and being able to arrest everyone.
Nope, in FF7 there was just a small piece with the brothel and crossdressing. Not really entertaining.
OTOH the Elder scrolls...
The Lusty Argonian Maid
Crassius Curio
Act IV, Scene III, continued
Lifts-Her-Tail: Certainly not, kind sir! I am here but to clean your chambers.
Crantius Colto: Is that all you have come here for, little one? My chambers?
Lifts-Her-Tail: I have no idea what it is you imply, master. I am but a poor Argonian maid.
Crantius Colto: So you are, my dumpling. And a good one at that. Such strong legs and shapely tail.
Lifts-Her-Tail: You embarrass me, sir!
Crantius Colto: Fear not. You are safe here with me.
Lifts-Her-Tail: I must finish my cleaning, sir. The mistress will have my head if I do not!
Crantius Colto: Cleaning, eh? I have something for you. Here, polish my spear.
Lifts-Her-Tail: But it is huge! It could take me all night!
Crantius Colto: Plenty of time, my sweet. Plenty of time.
END OF ACT IV, SCENE III
Also, if you want to know why Khajiti are sometimes nicknamed "Barbie", have a peek at part 4 of The Real Barenziah.
No. In polite conversation we pronounce it as "The Fine Article" using "fine" as an entertaining euphemism.
*grabs a camera and films the cowards fucking each other in various positions, makes it into a porn movie and then ponders how to add interesting narrative and interaction to this*
1. Likely this will be a DSP, so if you try really hard, you'll get uCLinux to run on it, but it's not meant to do that, it will run dedicated assembly tasks best.
2. No. Not enough cache mem, too slow RAM bus speeds.
3. This is not a harddrive.
I'll take the .35THz version without the freezer, thanks.
He meant that 350GHZ in room temperature is by far more revolutionary than 500GHZ at 4K.
Security vulnerablities = bugs. These are avoided at all cost, and hard to spot. Malicious code is a different cup of tea. Should be much easier to spot and result in immediate reporting of the malicious extension. Even if one in a thousand of users takes a peek at the source, that's enough to prevent malicious pieces of code from executing.
Additionally, a browser uses a "pull" method to get data: User requests data, gets response. May visit a site with malicious extension and the site may try to trick them into installing it, once visited, but no visit - no risk. IM uses "push-pull", with the "push" part more dangerous - the IM is listening and reacts to incoming requests from outside, the malicious code can contact everyone on contact list and send itself to vulnerable clients, no action on side of the user may be required. A browser vulnerablity will infect users visiting given site using vulnerable browser. A IM vulnerablity will infect all on-line users of the IM.
Of course these are just qualitative differences - IM idea is simply more dangerous than browser one, but both can be vulnerable. And there's a matter of user base. Users of AOL are most likely to install a program a friend from their contact list suggests them to install.
Another 5000 zombies for my botnet! Where's the API? Starting to write my "3rd party app" right now!
The clustering itself - splitting the signal into multiple paralell streams, not such a simple deal (though certainly in use already) plus availablity, this is WiFi, for home and office, not intercontinental WAN. This technology hasn't been applied to WiFi until now yet.
Of course the review being written by a retard for retards is a different matter.