Even if someone is running as admin, they are presented with password request for every process launched.
Most of which are spurious. An "admin" user on OS X can do a *lot* of damage, even without elevating their privileges. Just because all your legitimate applications like to spam the user with password prompts, doesn't mean malicious code will.
Huh? you do realize that the code that results in the root password being needed IS NOT the code that opens the dialog. No dialog, no permissions. Its like this..
malicious code: I want root permissions please
OS X: I'll just check with the user first
User, Huh, no I don't trust "Bob's Super Smileys" that much. cancel
OS X: Sorry, you don't get root permissions
malicious code - FAILED
You can't write code that does root stuff without a password coming up. There is no way to bypass this except possible bugs in the OS X code. Legitimate applications don't spam the user with password prompts to be nice, they have no choice. Write some code requiring admin access some time and find out for yourself. Now you can rely on user naivety (I suspect a lot would trust Bob's Smileys). But if you think you can get away without the password being asked you don't know that much about how user and process permissions work.
Want a nice responsive system? Install what you need, and either disable or don't install what you don't need. Forget about eye candy. SuperKaramba isn't a necessity. Install the right kernel for your processor (in the case of dual core systems, the SMP kernel is the right choice - or for a single-core processor with hyperthreading, an SMT-aware SMP kernel is the right choice
My problem is how difficult some distributions make this. For instance, I had to install CD burning because by some wierd chain of dependencies the core configuration tools required it. The first thing I do when I install a linux distro (and this goes for SuSE and Redhat) I first deselect any major group I'm not going to use. I used to also try and go through and take out the minor groups I wasn't going to use but found its amazing what some of the dependencies for a core system are. These days 300mb seems like the minimum for the popular distributions. I laugh when I see micro distributions claim 100mb is small. You could install everything you needed for the $100 laptop project in half that. I work using embedded linux, and my target is more oftent 10-32mb, total, for everything that will go on the system. And I'm not talking modems here people.
The problem is the view that developer time is more valuable that run time or space. This just isn't true, not for all the places where Linux is used. Not even for those fast desktop machines since people still feel the need to buy upgrades so we must be chewing up to much of their resources as programmers.
I have to agree. If you put a little though into the auction house you see that it is fact very easy to make money. It also IMHO makes the game much more interesting. It means you have to think about this item you just picked up... what is it worth, should you equip it or would the gold be more useful than the marginal improvement for your character. Are these herbs or skins you are picking up worth more raw or as part of the final product you can make with them, what about when you skill up more?
Oh, and definitely go for the bigger bags sooner. The more bag space, the more loot on an average run, the less running back to town, the more money you make. That, and bags are pretty cheap for the money they will help you make, even the 14 slotters. I'm not doing quite as well as the parent, but I figure each additional bag slot is making me about 5sp an hour. You have got to spend money to make money.
And then you can go crazy and just play the auction house by itself. Make a gp for a few minutes work at level 20. A very large number of players can't or can't be bothered to find out what they should sell their items for. This turns into gold for those that can.
All this also means you are no longer grinding. I've got all the gold I feel I need, got the items I feel I need. I feel I'm in the game learning the story, exploring whats out there. Not grinding for gold (or even XP, but on that score that might just be me)
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While not 720p, it's still a lot better than SD."
Well, actually, no it's not. 480p looks extremely jagged on most HDTVs. NTSC looks outright hideous, but that's besides the point.
Doesn't SD look more jagged? then 480p would look better than SD. Although where I am a HD TV and and XBox 360 == completely unreasonable spending so I can't really find out for myself.
Those same children are carrying in $100 cell phones and $300 iPods. PSPs are just a drop in the bucket.
What neighborhood are you in? Most adults I know find it hard to justify a PSP for themselves. I don't know a single human being under the age of 20 who has a PSP, and quite a few under 12s (and over 20s) with one or more of Nintendo's offerings.
For the record I bought a DS. Then a bunch of my friends (20+'s) got PSPs so I got a PSP. I'm thinking of selling the PSP. The games are not any more fun. And I tried the UMD movie thing (got sent Spiderman II for free) but in any kind of light you get bad contrast, and the original speakers can't compete with train/plane/bus noise. That leaves watching the movies at places where I so happen to already have existing devices that can play DVDs.
you assume bank records and internal memo's can be taken out of subpoena range. You also assume the indian company and government wouldn't cooperate. In fact you seem to be assuming a great deal of incompetence in the legal system as a whole.
Of course the whole reason to go after the company instead of the telemarketer is the exact reason you have given, the telemarketer might be out of the jurisdiction. The company, if it wants to sell to your residents, is much more likely to be within reach.
All the calls I get from overseas telemarketers are for companies in my country, the reverse has never occurred. I'll take the current target of the legislation over the unlikely fringe case you are presenting any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
So prove your competitor is ruining your good name and sue them both for the fine you got and the damage to your reputation. Should be pretty easy..
""Your honor, see how records from the tele-marketer is being billed to our competitor, not us, see how the amounts and times paid matches their transactions in that month, but not ours. Yes, damages are the amount we were fined plus loss revenue over the amount of time it will take to regain our reputation. Why yes, we think the state should investigate that company for fraud charges"
I just opened up his page and clicked five random modded up comments.
I would my self been happy to spend mod points on all of them, and shock, only one followed the 'TMM formula' you posted.
Maybe you just can't accepts someone is doing better than you? Thats what it seems to be to me.
Moderators only have 5 mod points at a time. So unless you are the first to make a point, and make it pretty close to the posting of the article you have a low chance of getting mod points regardless of the quality. Even then it helps to reply to stories when the majority of Slashdot is online. I think the odds that TMM has a following of devotees spending their mod points is extremely low.
Don't worry, some of us got it the first time. There definitely is a difference between a hard-core gamer and a true gamer though.
hard-core: competitive, spends money on the latest and greatest, highly skilled at the games they play
true-gamer: more focused on fun buys a wider range of games (some latest and greatest, but some obscure and hard to find)
Basically to be a true gamer, you have to game across genres and if you dis a game or system because it doesn't do a hojillion vectonoxals at 1000fps then you are probably more hard-core than true-gamer. Oh, and a true-gamer is less likely to get upset about how they are classified than a hard-core gamer (that competitive thing again).
I do more browsing on the internet with it than playing games some weeks. TV is downstairs, computer upstairs... and I just want to check this one site I saw on the TV.
That, and checking the TV guide. Its actually a very nice (if slow) browser. Makes for a very portable way to do X plus reference the web. It has up to three 'tabs', and renders pages pretty well. Only real flaw is popups, it doesn't do them at all so some sites just can't be accessed. Also you can't download a file and browse it offline (e.g. ebook style).
Scroll to the very end of the article and read the last to paragraphs. Apparently he is trying to make a point about not restricting ourselves to text files when coding. Might have made it better if he had made the rest of his article shorter
but it is really important to bring us inline with the rest of the world.
I've never really understood this. Why is it a good thing, in of itself, to become inline with the rest of the world. Shouldn't the world be brought into line with whatever system is better instead. I guess I'm just a little tired of hearing this argument used to justify the next removal of individual rights in favor of the corporations.
With Xen, a kernel panic effects only that kernel, the other kernels keep on running. Under vservers, it takes down the machine.
Ok, why not User Mode Linux then. Its already in the kernel, and if an instance crashes its no worse than any other linux thread going down. And you can run linux binaries unmodified in it now.
As far as I can tell the main thing Xen gives is it can emulate more than just Linux, and has easier network setup. Another advantage includes easier migration of a Xen instance to another host. However I prefer UML since I only run virtualized Linux boxes and I'm more concerned about emulating hardware rather than just passing hardware out to the host machine. That and its currently in the kernel, and currently doesn't require a special toolchain to avoid special instructions.
It's not free to who? The person who gets to use it, or the person who has to let the other person use it?
The person who gets to use it has artificial restrictions placed on them by the license by the original author.
These artificial restrictions are placed on them by copyright law, not the GPL. The GPL releases you from these restrictions if and only if you do so for others. It does not add any restrictions that were not there without it.
I think he was going for "control freaks" more than "cheapskates"--his final complaint is the exercise of control by the original author over users and the declaration of ownership that implies, not anything related to money.
Actually I think his final complaint was related to himself being a cheapskate and a control freak. The only real restriction of the GPL is using it and not giving anything (e.g. code) back to the work you build on top off. Unless he wants to benefit and not give back, unless he wants more control over those he writes software for than those whose software he uses, then he isn't restricted at all.
Show me a freedom thats restricted that isn't first restricted by copyright law and isn't their to protect others free use of software as much as your own, and then you might have a leg to stand on.
The GPL and so on is just a way for the cheapskates in amature socialist garb to have their cake and eat it too
How is it being a cheapskate to release software I've spend hours and hours writing under the GPL? The people pushing the movement are volunteering their time to increase the amount of readily available and accessible software. You are a fool if you think without the GPL all this software would be public domain instead.
The cheapskates are not those who promote the GPL via action, but those who whine that more software needs to be GPL/LGPL/BSD/public domain. e.g. the ones whose argument runs along the lines of how they can use it, rather than how they want to let people benefit from their own effort.
I had thought you just hadn't gotten the joke the first time, but perhaps you thought I seriously thought he had an unbelievably cheap property or some such. Actually I can't work out quite what you thought but I'll try to explain anyway.
I know he meant a monthly mortgage payment compared to the whole cost of a Qt License. I had thought the second part of my joke would show I read his comment correctly and yet still thought to poke fun. Comparing one month's payment on something that might take 25 years to pay off against the complete cost of something is stupid. Its funnier to take him literally, but really its still a joke if you don't. Perhaps if I had made a third part of the joke, along the lines of only buying a tiny fraction (1/25*12) of a house to live in you might have realized I understood what he meant and still thought to poke fun.
It doesn't actually bother me some people find the price to expensive since a vast number of people don't and line up to pay year after year just for the support. I apologize for insulting you, I thought you were just not getting the joke.
Still, a final thought for you. How many industries let you set up a business where $1800 would be considered a big investment. now stop, and consider Software Engineering is a profession unlike say, house cleaning. How many professions can you start working for yourself where $1800 is considered a big investment. It always makes me laugh when someone says they plan on starting a successful software business and yet say that a few thousand dollars is a prohibitive price.
If you understood science you would realize everything you said is complete bull. If you understood the bible you would also understand everything you said is complete bull.
Of course if you truly believe the people who wrote the bible not only heard the voice of God directly and lived, yet also had complete understanding of what he did....
I have thrown my mouse against the wall with a "Fuck You Bill Gates" more than once and have never been so provoked by frustration with Mac
While I'm not about to give up my Mac, I have had this moment. The selection in Macs suck and once due to the hassle of trying to select multiple files I accidentally clicked twice on one of them. The Mac thought this meant I wanted to open, extract, view and execute more than thirty files out of my downloads folder. This never happened to me on Windows since selection is more powerful and does not encourage clicking on files right next to each other. Thats what ctrl+shift+click is for.
And just for the rabid Mac users out there, the selection was file, gap, file->file, bigger gap, single file, single gap, file->file and so on. You can't do that with the selection on the mac without clicking on every file past the first one. And if I'm wrong and its possible in the list view, I would be most happy to hear how since I've even bought the missing manual to try and work it out.
Thankfully these moments are far and few between. I still like using my Mac more than Windows as in general it is less frustrating.
Wow! thats one cheap mortgage. Where on earth do you live! I mean even if you are talking repayments, $1800 over 25 years is what? $10 a month with interest?
I can't believe you'd complain because there's a chance you might get more than you paid for
Its worse than that. He's complaining because he found out that there was a chance that he might get more than he paid for. Apple isn't the first company to do this. Some of the early iPAQ PDA's had 32 meg flash advertised and 64 flash in the device. This isn't a new thing. Companies do it all the time. It just happens that this time it made Slashdot.
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Most of which are spurious. An "admin" user on OS X can do a *lot* of damage, even without elevating their privileges. Just because all your legitimate applications like to spam the user with password prompts, doesn't mean malicious code will.
Huh? you do realize that the code that results in the root password being needed IS NOT the code that opens the dialog. No dialog, no permissions. Its like this..
You can't write code that does root stuff without a password coming up. There is no way to bypass this except possible bugs in the OS X code. Legitimate applications don't spam the user with password prompts to be nice, they have no choice. Write some code requiring admin access some time and find out for yourself. Now you can rely on user naivety (I suspect a lot would trust Bob's Smileys). But if you think you can get away without the password being asked you don't know that much about how user and process permissions work.
Want a nice responsive system? Install what you need, and either disable or don't install what you don't need. Forget about eye candy. SuperKaramba isn't a necessity. Install the right kernel for your processor (in the case of dual core systems, the SMP kernel is the right choice - or for a single-core processor with hyperthreading, an SMT-aware SMP kernel is the right choice
My problem is how difficult some distributions make this. For instance, I had to install CD burning because by some wierd chain of dependencies the core configuration tools required it. The first thing I do when I install a linux distro (and this goes for SuSE and Redhat) I first deselect any major group I'm not going to use. I used to also try and go through and take out the minor groups I wasn't going to use but found its amazing what some of the dependencies for a core system are. These days 300mb seems like the minimum for the popular distributions. I laugh when I see micro distributions claim 100mb is small. You could install everything you needed for the $100 laptop project in half that. I work using embedded linux, and my target is more oftent 10-32mb, total, for everything that will go on the system. And I'm not talking modems here people.
The problem is the view that developer time is more valuable that run time or space. This just isn't true, not for all the places where Linux is used. Not even for those fast desktop machines since people still feel the need to buy upgrades so we must be chewing up to much of their resources as programmers.
I have to agree. If you put a little though into the auction house you see that it is fact very easy to make money. It also IMHO makes the game much more interesting. It means you have to think about this item you just picked up... what is it worth, should you equip it or would the gold be more useful than the marginal improvement for your character. Are these herbs or skins you are picking up worth more raw or as part of the final product you can make with them, what about when you skill up more?
Oh, and definitely go for the bigger bags sooner. The more bag space, the more loot on an average run, the less running back to town, the more money you make. That, and bags are pretty cheap for the money they will help you make, even the 14 slotters. I'm not doing quite as well as the parent, but I figure each additional bag slot is making me about 5sp an hour. You have got to spend money to make money.
And then you can go crazy and just play the auction house by itself. Make a gp for a few minutes work at level 20. A very large number of players can't or can't be bothered to find out what they should sell their items for. This turns into gold for those that can.
All this also means you are no longer grinding. I've got all the gold I feel I need, got the items I feel I need. I feel I'm in the game learning the story, exploring whats out there. Not grinding for gold (or even XP, but on that score that might just be me)
While not 720p, it's still a lot better than SD."
Well, actually, no it's not. 480p looks extremely jagged on most HDTVs. NTSC looks outright hideous, but that's besides the point.
Doesn't SD look more jagged? then 480p would look better than SD. Although where I am a HD TV and and XBox 360 == completely unreasonable spending so I can't really find out for myself.
Those same children are carrying in $100 cell phones and $300 iPods. PSPs are just a drop in the bucket.
What neighborhood are you in? Most adults I know find it hard to justify a PSP for themselves. I don't know a single human being under the age of 20 who has a PSP, and quite a few under 12s (and over 20s) with one or more of Nintendo's offerings.
For the record I bought a DS. Then a bunch of my friends (20+'s) got PSPs so I got a PSP. I'm thinking of selling the PSP. The games are not any more fun. And I tried the UMD movie thing (got sent Spiderman II for free) but in any kind of light you get bad contrast, and the original speakers can't compete with train/plane/bus noise. That leaves watching the movies at places where I so happen to already have existing devices that can play DVDs.
kool. I was trying to argue the worse case still wouldn't be bad enough but its good to know it doesn't go that far.
you assume bank records and internal memo's can be taken out of subpoena range. You also assume the indian company and government wouldn't cooperate. In fact you seem to be assuming a great deal of incompetence in the legal system as a whole.
Of course the whole reason to go after the company instead of the telemarketer is the exact reason you have given, the telemarketer might be out of the jurisdiction. The company, if it wants to sell to your residents, is much more likely to be within reach.
All the calls I get from overseas telemarketers are for companies in my country, the reverse has never occurred. I'll take the current target of the legislation over the unlikely fringe case you are presenting any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
So prove your competitor is ruining your good name and sue them both for the fine you got and the damage to your reputation. Should be pretty easy..
""Your honor, see how records from the tele-marketer is being billed to our competitor, not us, see how the amounts and times paid matches their transactions in that month, but not ours. Yes, damages are the amount we were fined plus loss revenue over the amount of time it will take to regain our reputation. Why yes, we think the state should investigate that company for fraud charges"
I just opened up his page and clicked five random modded up comments.
I would my self been happy to spend mod points on all of them, and shock, only one followed the 'TMM formula' you posted.
Maybe you just can't accepts someone is doing better than you? Thats what it seems to be to me.
Moderators only have 5 mod points at a time. So unless you are the first to make a point, and make it pretty close to the posting of the article you have a low chance of getting mod points regardless of the quality. Even then it helps to reply to stories when the majority of Slashdot is online. I think the odds that TMM has a following of devotees spending their mod points is extremely low.
Don't worry, some of us got it the first time. There definitely is a difference between a hard-core gamer and a true gamer though.
hard-core:
competitive,
spends money on the latest and greatest,
highly skilled at the games they play
true-gamer:
more focused on fun
buys a wider range of games (some latest and greatest, but some obscure and hard to find)
Basically to be a true gamer, you have to game across genres and if you dis a game or system because it doesn't do a hojillion vectonoxals at 1000fps then you are probably more hard-core than true-gamer. Oh, and a true-gamer is less likely to get upset about how they are classified than a hard-core gamer (that competitive thing again).
I do more browsing on the internet with it than playing games some weeks. TV is downstairs, computer upstairs... and I just want to check this one site I saw on the TV.
That, and checking the TV guide. Its actually a very nice (if slow) browser. Makes for a very portable way to do X plus reference the web. It has up to three 'tabs', and renders pages pretty well. Only real flaw is popups, it doesn't do them at all so some sites just can't be accessed. Also you can't download a file and browse it offline (e.g. ebook style).
But its actually a plug for NetRexx.
Scroll to the very end of the article and read the last to paragraphs. Apparently he is trying to make a point about not restricting ourselves to text files when coding. Might have made it better if he had made the rest of his article shorter
Thank you for an informative, well written response. It seems kind of rare some times.
but it is really important to bring us inline with the rest of the world.
I've never really understood this. Why is it a good thing, in of itself, to become inline with the rest of the world. Shouldn't the world be brought into line with whatever system is better instead. I guess I'm just a little tired of hearing this argument used to justify the next removal of individual rights in favor of the corporations.
the method of disposal of the spent geothermal fluid and the need to conform with local environmental regulations.
According to the article this is dry-rock geothermal energy, so there is no spent geothermal fluid.
With Xen, a kernel panic effects only that kernel, the other kernels keep on running. Under vservers, it takes down the machine.
Ok, why not User Mode Linux then. Its already in the kernel, and if an instance crashes its no worse than any other linux thread going down. And you can run linux binaries unmodified in it now.
As far as I can tell the main thing Xen gives is it can emulate more than just Linux, and has easier network setup. Another advantage includes easier migration of a Xen instance to another host. However I prefer UML since I only run virtualized Linux boxes and I'm more concerned about emulating hardware rather than just passing hardware out to the host machine. That and its currently in the kernel, and currently doesn't require a special toolchain to avoid special instructions.
It's not free to who? The person who gets to use it, or the person who has to let the other person use it?
The person who gets to use it has artificial restrictions placed on them by the license by the original author.
These artificial restrictions are placed on them by copyright law, not the GPL. The GPL releases you from these restrictions if and only if you do so for others. It does not add any restrictions that were not there without it.
I think he was going for "control freaks" more than "cheapskates"--his final complaint is the exercise of control by the original author over users and the declaration of ownership that implies, not anything related to money.
Actually I think his final complaint was related to himself being a cheapskate and a control freak. The only real restriction of the GPL is using it and not giving anything (e.g. code) back to the work you build on top off. Unless he wants to benefit and not give back, unless he wants more control over those he writes software for than those whose software he uses, then he isn't restricted at all.
Show me a freedom thats restricted that isn't first restricted by copyright law and isn't their to protect others free use of software as much as your own, and then you might have a leg to stand on.
The GPL and so on is just a way for the cheapskates in amature socialist garb to have their cake and eat it too
How is it being a cheapskate to release software I've spend hours and hours writing under the GPL? The people pushing the movement are volunteering their time to increase the amount of readily available and accessible software. You are a fool if you think without the GPL all this software would be public domain instead.
The cheapskates are not those who promote the GPL via action, but those who whine that more software needs to be GPL/LGPL/BSD/public domain. e.g. the ones whose argument runs along the lines of how they can use it, rather than how they want to let people benefit from their own effort.
I had thought you just hadn't gotten the joke the first time, but perhaps you thought I seriously thought he had an unbelievably cheap property or some such. Actually I can't work out quite what you thought but I'll try to explain anyway.
I know he meant a monthly mortgage payment compared to the whole cost of a Qt License. I had thought the second part of my joke would show I read his comment correctly and yet still thought to poke fun. Comparing one month's payment on something that might take 25 years to pay off against the complete cost of something is stupid. Its funnier to take him literally, but really its still a joke if you don't. Perhaps if I had made a third part of the joke, along the lines of only buying a tiny fraction (1/25*12) of a house to live in you might have realized I understood what he meant and still thought to poke fun.
It doesn't actually bother me some people find the price to expensive since a vast number of people don't and line up to pay year after year just for the support. I apologize for insulting you, I thought you were just not getting the joke.
Still, a final thought for you. How many industries let you set up a business where $1800 would be considered a big investment. now stop, and consider Software Engineering is a profession unlike say, house cleaning. How many professions can you start working for yourself where $1800 is considered a big investment. It always makes me laugh when someone says they plan on starting a successful software business and yet say that a few thousand dollars is a prohibitive price.
If you understood science you would realize everything you said is complete bull. If you understood the bible you would also understand everything you said is complete bull.
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3924/
Of course if you truly believe the people who wrote the bible not only heard the voice of God directly and lived, yet also had complete understanding of what he did....
I have thrown my mouse against the wall with a "Fuck You Bill Gates" more than once and have never been so provoked by frustration with Mac
While I'm not about to give up my Mac, I have had this moment. The selection in Macs suck and once due to the hassle of trying to select multiple files I accidentally clicked twice on one of them. The Mac thought this meant I wanted to open, extract, view and execute more than thirty files out of my downloads folder. This never happened to me on Windows since selection is more powerful and does not encourage clicking on files right next to each other. Thats what ctrl+shift+click is for.
And just for the rabid Mac users out there, the selection was file, gap, file->file, bigger gap, single file, single gap, file->file and so on. You can't do that with the selection on the mac without clicking on every file past the first one. And if I'm wrong and its possible in the list view, I would be most happy to hear how since I've even bought the missing manual to try and work it out.
Thankfully these moments are far and few between. I still like using my Mac more than Windows as in general it is less frustrating.
I mean even if you are talking repayments, $1800 over 25 years is what? $10 a month with interest?
Sorry, I forgot to put in the word 'monthly' for the mentally retarded. I'll correct it for you.
I mean even if you are talking monthly repayments, $1800 over 25 years is what? $10 a month with interest?
Entry level on QT is more than my mortgage.
Wow! thats one cheap mortgage. Where on earth do you live! I mean even if you are talking repayments, $1800 over 25 years is what? $10 a month with interest?
I can't believe you'd complain because there's a chance you might get more than you paid for
Its worse than that. He's complaining because he found out that there was a chance that he might get more than he paid for. Apple isn't the first company to do this. Some of the early iPAQ PDA's had 32 meg flash advertised and 64 flash in the device. This isn't a new thing. Companies do it all the time. It just happens that this time it made Slashdot.
Thunderchild, A modern marvel that takes on the invasion from, um, spammars?
For less than half the price of a PSP, you can have an even bigger screen
:)
Um, I didn't buy the PSP just to watch movies. I was merely pointing out that I saw nothing wrong with buying UMD's once I already had a PSP.
Besides, I'd like to see you walk around with that and three movies for it in your pocket