the hell out of microsoft, especially with regard to their business practices. But, c'mon, people.
I use vista inside VirtualBox, and give it 1.5x GB of my 2GB of RAM. Mandriva 2008.0 PowerPack gets some 4.x GB of the remainder. About the only thing lately that's been a problem seems to be some Korean-encoded mp3 files i listen to in Amarok (haven't tried RhythmBox...)... or it could be some recent surfing with a down/misconfigured firewall in which during Amarok playback my whole KDE goes black, no keys respond, and I cannot toggle into a console to kill my X/KDE session. Could also be related to some recent upgrades/downloads from Mandriva related to the FREE, magazine DVD-based PPack, and for which i think there is no free upgrade, just add-ons and maybe security fixes.
But, to what i am driving at: I am using:
-- Delftship (not graphically intentensive -- Lotus Smart Suite (in vista, obviously) -- Occasionally OO.o 3.0 (in vista) -- Occasionally OO.0 2.4 (in Linux, as the rpm install has vexed me... why did they de-simplify the RPM install?!!) -- Punch! ViaCAD, using a 14 MB file i created -- Amarok, -- KDE's slideshow program on (which changes b/g images of 10 desktops)
and while i utterly (almost murderously toward mshaft's execs) despise that vista (notice the lower-casing/deprecating of "windows vista"), most of the time it just "runs". I really so much despise ms that all i want vista to do is run its damned self and STAY OUT OF MY WAY. I wish it could/would without having to go to their site get the patches to vista and hopefully NOT break my install inside VBox. But, i'm contented to "leave well enough alone", ESPECIALLY since i never let the beast/bitch go live on the Internet(s). Yep, so far, neither my wireless (for which i've utterly failed to enable NDIS wrappers for this laptop by Gateway... P-6301) nor the NIC have been seen by the native and not by the VBox-contained vista. Unless someone writes an app that traverses VBOX into Linux and out of my CAT-5 connection (which i only rarely connect to the Net), i hopefully won't have any networking security problems with vista, either to it or because of it.
grabbing the (or "a") teste harder or crushing more than the other is getting grabbed or crushed. Something has to give. Boy, cott off the hand the squeezed thee...
Or, any number of input devices that have so much information overloading the user that the use is offered a user-defined toggle? Hell, for that matter, just imagine all the Saitek and Thrustmaster:
And, what about computer BIOS and software overlays? How far different is Sony that they can get a patent? Is it *just* for game controllers, and only a FINITE set of functions? Otherwise, they should not have this patent protection in countries where joysticks exist in aircraft, games, bulldozers/shovel loaders, and so on, especially in micro-surgery operating suites.
(Disclaimer: Though I like Saitek products, I don't have any of their stock/shares...)
Did YOU forget about Kevin Mitnick, and a handful of others who now are consultants, and did FAR FAR more damage or probing than did the 15 y.o.?
Those guys could have been considered irredeemable, scourges, and refuse. This 15 y.o. kid is budding, and could be "steered", before he ends up with a "real" record. Strange, though, as I recall watching at least twice an episode of MI-5 in which Tom and others used, but promised a wayward, talented systems-busting kid a new life if he helped out MI-5. Yeh, it's just a BBC-leased TV show, but... Seems some prosecutors and cops and agents don't care to be inspired to redirect kids before fragging them in some cases-- or cases like these where you definitely COULD benefit from using these kids for public good rather than trouncing them to the point they seek revenge.
and can probably get this expunged from his record, I can't help but think this kid *could* become disenchanted and decided to learn all he can so he can go back someday and anonymously screw over the bastards charging him instead of CULTIVATING him.
WHAT is running through the minds of these low level dysfunctional functionaries to slam-dunk the kid rather than guide and develop his talent?
I would almost suggest... no, i WILL suggest... would it be OK to - upon detecting scraping applications - to have a server-side script monkey with the page numbers? I am sure they could first download the page and then scrape it locally, but if they are scraping live, and bogging down the site, would it be legally justifiable to alter the numbers to damage their reputation?
Wouldn't this be a case of "vengeance is mine" if YOU own the data, and have screen-scrapers not paying for some fair access amount to it?
"*I* am V'ger. The planet Earth must be purged of carbon-based infestation..., " followed by *I* am Nomad. YOU are an infestation.", followed by "*I* are... Hubba Hubba Hubba...You am Carba Carba Carba"
How about one that won't cause you to be branded a DMCA criminal, or won't require you to give your code to the phone owner/maker or the hench-dog carrier? Or, one that won't enjoin you from selling your creation?
But, as for the GPS, cameras, and accelerometers, those could come in handy if you envision quakes or tornadoes coming your way... You can track the junk dispersal pattern and more accurately provide all the addresses of your abode/domain to your insurance company. You can track how hard the quake is jostling the home, and you can track how fast the kids/pets are running around. Might even get feedback on nocturnal activities in any of the rooms...
But, if you have baby/kid sitters, your state may require you to tell them (or any contractors, for that matter) that they may be under surveillance. Otherwise, they could abuse your kids, steal or damage your property and either get away with it or counter sue you for illegal invasion of privacy for illegal acts THEY commit in YOUR home...
What is really cool is that he employed/exploited a model much like Open Source, inviting any and all with any shred of useful knowledge to prove or disprove his and the team's ideas. This fits in with your observation that he is using unorthodox or non-scientist ways of approaching matters.
I *VERY* much am pleasantly thrilled that he as rocked things to their core. After reading his first book i feel i have become enlightened and yet i also felt for a time a hefty amount of near-malevolent rage at the establishment for pumping us with things of which they have NO irrefutable proof, mainly for domestic or global political reasons.
I hope Gavin/et al keep rocking things to the breaking point, because some of history's greatest liars have for far too long gotten away with shaping our world, and i don't want to live in a world where power-brokers shape MY existence just to increase their arsenals or portfolios. Menzies just reinforces my strenuous assertion that *iii* belong to **nnoo** government, no country and certainly do not sing nor hum hail to any chief. I am a citizen of Earth, first and foremost, and THEN, i am a RESIDENT of the USA (having been born here, in SF, at the Presdio, when it was still part of an Army base...). I'll obey sensible laws, pay taxes, but i hate suffering for fools and greedsters in power in ANY country.
From what I've heard a few weeks ago, Greenspan -- along with FMAC/FMAE and a whole slew of others -- IS part of the problem.
See, he had power to FORCE realtors and banks to NOT underwrite or process/make loans to people who could not in their wildest dreams sustain a mortgage. But, to keep the economic wheels turning, the Republicans in power (8 out of the last 12 or so years) outweighed the Democratic majority (face) and deferred to the forces or interests of banks, wall street, and construction.
If Greenspan USED the power he HAD at his disposal on the mortgage/real estate industry, he could have kept a tighter lid on things to prevent or delay out-of-control growth. Sure, fewer new construction homes might mean tens of thousands fewer DirecTV and others' set top boxes, furniture, and autos financed by bullshit/fake-ass "appreciation" but SO WHAT??!! If it would have helped stabilize the economy and prevent illegitimate growth....
Yeh, he MADE all kinds of warnings about problems and such, but how could he NOT? If he's watching embers burn, he'd better be the first or among the first to admit there's not just smoke but REAL fire.
Boy umm, I mean, BY George, you ARE correct, hehehe....
I certainly HOPE Gavin is on to something. I suspect he is, considering that the US/UK/AU contrived ban on Menzies/et al poking around off Australia to find out the particulars of a wreck off shore. It might be Chinese with tons of proof, or tons of more embarrassing/condemning questions the non-Asians will squirm trying to cope with.
Even before finishing reading 1421 i was able to see why various Western nations would not like to see Menzie's & team's work take hold, upsetting the things we've been so long taught as truth. Scurvy cure. Astronomical observatories. Water-tray clocks. Shooting the stars. Devising a Southern Hemisphere triangulation method for navigation. See-through porcelain. Too bad today's China is rife with corruption. I'd personally like to see China clean up its act on human rights, tainted labor and food products... and then rear up like a sleeping giant dragon no one can push down. But, that's another story in other published books...
But, I haven't bought his 2nd book. Skimmed it at Borders, and may revisit the book again.
Oh...
"Analog Boy in a Digital World"... ok, i better not go there, hehehehehe... Kewl tag, tho!
Slashdot Mirror
Huh? I'm missing what you're trying to say.... hehehhee
the hell out of microsoft, especially with regard to their business practices. But, c'mon, people.
I use vista inside VirtualBox, and give it 1.5x GB of my 2GB of RAM. Mandriva 2008.0 PowerPack gets some 4.x GB of the remainder. About the only thing lately that's been a problem seems to be some Korean-encoded mp3 files i listen to in Amarok (haven't tried RhythmBox...)... or it could be some recent surfing with a down/misconfigured firewall in which during Amarok playback my whole KDE goes black, no keys respond, and I cannot toggle into a console to kill my X/KDE session. Could also be related to some recent upgrades/downloads from Mandriva related to the FREE, magazine DVD-based PPack, and for which i think there is no free upgrade, just add-ons and maybe security fixes.
But, to what i am driving at: I am using:
-- Delftship (not graphically intentensive
-- Lotus Smart Suite (in vista, obviously)
-- Occasionally OO.o 3.0 (in vista)
-- Occasionally OO.0 2.4 (in Linux, as the rpm install has vexed me... why did they de-simplify the RPM install?!!)
-- Punch! ViaCAD, using a 14 MB file i created
-- Amarok,
-- KDE's slideshow program on (which changes b/g images of 10 desktops)
and while i utterly (almost murderously toward mshaft's execs) despise that vista (notice the lower-casing/deprecating of "windows vista"), most of the time it just "runs". I really so much despise ms that all i want vista to do is run its damned self and STAY OUT OF MY WAY. I wish it could/would without having to go to their site get the patches to vista and hopefully NOT break my install inside VBox. But, i'm contented to "leave well enough alone", ESPECIALLY since i never let the beast/bitch go live on the Internet(s). Yep, so far, neither my wireless (for which i've utterly failed to enable NDIS wrappers for this laptop by Gateway... P-6301) nor the NIC have been seen by the native and not by the VBox-contained vista. Unless someone writes an app that traverses VBOX into Linux and out of my CAT-5 connection (which i only rarely connect to the Net), i hopefully won't have any networking security problems with vista, either to it or because of it.
DS
grabbing the (or "a") teste harder or crushing more than the other is getting grabbed or crushed. Something has to give. Boy, cott off the hand the squeezed thee...
(oh, wait, is it hell-o-ween?)
banner fucking start of 2009...
More power to them... Maybe someone else will have a banner year in the opposite ere... umm, DIRection...
DAMN "Post Anonymously" check box....!!!
damn me!!!!!
Those users i mentioned don't do the WII dances with their equipment and instruments.... SUCKS to not fully read the summary...
displays, or MFDs?
Or, any number of input devices that have so much information overloading the user that the use is offered a user-defined toggle? Hell, for that matter, just imagine all the Saitek and Thrustmaster:
http://ecoustics-cnet.com.com/game-accessories/saitek-x52-flight-control/4505-10110_7-31255706.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joystick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saitek
And, Saitek keyboards:
http://www.saitek.com/
And, what about computer BIOS and software overlays? How far different is Sony that they can get a patent? Is it *just* for game controllers, and only a FINITE set of functions? Otherwise, they should not have this patent protection in countries where joysticks exist in aircraft, games, bulldozers/shovel loaders, and so on, especially in micro-surgery operating suites.
(Disclaimer: Though I like Saitek products, I don't have any of their stock/shares...)
(Damn Post Anonymously Button.....Thought I was hitting "No Karma"... frack me... blew it!)
WikiWiki CoinCoin?
on buses saying, "Life Without Walls"... I say, "Life without windoze" would be better.
Did YOU forget about Kevin Mitnick, and a handful of others who now are consultants, and did FAR FAR more damage or probing than did the 15 y.o.?
Those guys could have been considered irredeemable, scourges, and refuse. This 15 y.o. kid is budding, and could be "steered", before he ends up with a "real" record. Strange, though, as I recall watching at least twice an episode of MI-5 in which Tom and others used, but promised a wayward, talented systems-busting kid a new life if he helped out MI-5. Yeh, it's just a BBC-leased TV show, but... Seems some prosecutors and cops and agents don't care to be inspired to redirect kids before fragging them in some cases-- or cases like these where you definitely COULD benefit from using these kids for public good rather than trouncing them to the point they seek revenge.
the RIAA's "broken record"... constantly in play...
Persona GNOME Project...
and can probably get this expunged from his record, I can't help but think this kid *could* become disenchanted and decided to learn all he can so he can go back someday and anonymously screw over the bastards charging him instead of CULTIVATING him.
WHAT is running through the minds of these low level dysfunctional functionaries to slam-dunk the kid rather than guide and develop his talent?
Big Bang 2.0?
Digital Bang?
Windows got lambasted as windoze
NT; Not There
Azure: sounds like "A Sewer"....
Anybody care to add to the list?
The Moon gets MOIST over Mike Douglas...
Maybe we can make more, nuttier Mars Bars?
And, for slogans, we can add to out-of-space ones:
"A world without fences: Windoze"
and
"*I* will use less energy; Human Power"
or just
"I will eat less mars"
"I will sex less"
and so on... and so on...
Sorry, my previous comment WAS redundant...
I would almost suggest... no, i WILL suggest... would it be OK to - upon detecting scraping applications - to have a server-side script monkey with the page numbers? I am sure they could first download the page and then scrape it locally, but if they are scraping live, and bogging down the site, would it be legally justifiable to alter the numbers to damage their reputation?
Wouldn't this be a case of "vengeance is mine" if YOU own the data, and have screen-scrapers not paying for some fair access amount to it?
"*I* am V'ger. The planet Earth must be purged of carbon-based infestation..., " followed by *I* am Nomad. YOU are an infestation.", followed by "*I* are... Hubba Hubba Hubba...You am Carba Carba Carba"
How about one that won't cause you to be branded a DMCA criminal, or won't require you to give your code to the phone owner/maker or the hench-dog carrier? Or, one that won't enjoin you from selling your creation?
But, as for the GPS, cameras, and accelerometers, those could come in handy if you envision quakes or tornadoes coming your way... You can track the junk dispersal pattern and more accurately provide all the addresses of your abode/domain to your insurance company. You can track how hard the quake is jostling the home, and you can track how fast the kids/pets are running around. Might even get feedback on nocturnal activities in any of the rooms...
But, if you have baby/kid sitters, your state may require you to tell them (or any contractors, for that matter) that they may be under surveillance. Otherwise, they could abuse your kids, steal or damage your property and either get away with it or counter sue you for illegal invasion of privacy for illegal acts THEY commit in YOUR home...
Sink Tank, or STINK Tank, or STINK, then TANK?
Hopefully he's learned enough of what people HATE in/of/about msoft to avoid those mistakes again..
What is really cool is that he employed/exploited a model much like Open Source, inviting any and all with any shred of useful knowledge to prove or disprove his and the team's ideas. This fits in with your observation that he is using unorthodox or non-scientist ways of approaching matters.
I *VERY* much am pleasantly thrilled that he as rocked things to their core. After reading his first book i feel i have become enlightened and yet i also felt for a time a hefty amount of near-malevolent rage at the establishment for pumping us with things of which they have NO irrefutable proof, mainly for domestic or global political reasons.
I hope Gavin/et al keep rocking things to the breaking point, because some of history's greatest liars have for far too long gotten away with shaping our world, and i don't want to live in a world where power-brokers shape MY existence just to increase their arsenals or portfolios. Menzies just reinforces my strenuous assertion that *iii* belong to **nnoo** government, no country and certainly do not sing nor hum hail to any chief. I am a citizen of Earth, first and foremost, and THEN, i am a RESIDENT of the USA (having been born here, in SF, at the Presdio, when it was still part of an Army base...). I'll obey sensible laws, pay taxes, but i hate suffering for fools and greedsters in power in ANY country.
From what I've heard a few weeks ago, Greenspan -- along with FMAC/FMAE and a whole slew of others -- IS part of the problem.
See, he had power to FORCE realtors and banks to NOT underwrite or process/make loans to people who could not in their wildest dreams sustain a mortgage. But, to keep the economic wheels turning, the Republicans in power (8 out of the last 12 or so years) outweighed the Democratic majority (face) and deferred to the forces or interests of banks, wall street, and construction.
If Greenspan USED the power he HAD at his disposal on the mortgage/real estate industry, he could have kept a tighter lid on things to prevent or delay out-of-control growth. Sure, fewer new construction homes might mean tens of thousands fewer DirecTV and others' set top boxes, furniture, and autos financed by bullshit/fake-ass "appreciation" but SO WHAT??!! If it would have helped stabilize the economy and prevent illegitimate growth....
Yeh, he MADE all kinds of warnings about problems and such, but how could he NOT? If he's watching embers burn, he'd better be the first or among the first to admit there's not just smoke but REAL fire.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/30/real_estate/congress_subprime.fortune/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Greenspan
Why you dismally humourless wretch...
Boy umm, I mean, BY George, you ARE correct, hehehe....
I certainly HOPE Gavin is on to something. I suspect he is, considering that the US/UK/AU contrived ban on Menzies/et al poking around off Australia to find out the particulars of a wreck off shore. It might be Chinese with tons of proof, or tons of more embarrassing/condemning questions the non-Asians will squirm trying to cope with.
Even before finishing reading 1421 i was able to see why various Western nations would not like to see Menzie's & team's work take hold, upsetting the things we've been so long taught as truth. Scurvy cure. Astronomical observatories. Water-tray clocks. Shooting the stars. Devising a Southern Hemisphere triangulation method for navigation. See-through porcelain. Too bad today's China is rife with corruption. I'd personally like to see China clean up its act on human rights, tainted labor and food products... and then rear up like a sleeping giant dragon no one can push down. But, that's another story in other published books...
But, I haven't bought his 2nd book. Skimmed it at Borders, and may revisit the book again.
Oh...
"Analog Boy in a Digital World"... ok, i better not go there, hehehehehe... Kewl tag, tho!