We all have thought about planting a Dead Man Switch. The difference between us and this guy is the same difference between saying you want to kill someone and actually doing it. This guy sucks and deserves prison and to be banned from the workplace. As a Unix Engineer who has survived and been part of layoffs in the past, this type of person is not fair to the rest of the team. If you aren't gonna be the best, don't put scripts in place to punish the people that are.
The saving grace in this case was not the guy who found the script(he of course milked it for what it was worth), but the fact that this guy did things half-assed. His original script had a bug in it(not tested)... these are the same reasons that he probably lost his job to the better people on the team when the cuts came.
Label me a troll if you want... but this guy was trash and is where he belongs.
A lil off-topic, but oh well...
Some questions:
Where are the file devices in OS X?
In/dev of course...
$ ls -l/dev/random
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 8, 0 Jan 4 16:53/dev/random
What exactly are you complaining about? Device names between *nix has always been inconsistent.
Why can't OS X do signaling properly like other Unix-like systems (even Windows' POSIX subsystem does it correctly)?
Define properly? Signaling is slow(Mach Kernel?), but you might want to give some examples instead of blanket statements... Ford is not really a car because it does driving poorly...
Why are the libraries messed up to the point where you can take standard POSIX code and compile it between Solaris, HP/UX, Linux, FreeBSD just fine, but when you bring it to OS X it barfs?
Again, examples. I highly doubt that it just magically worked. Probably a developer behind the scenes invested a lot of time and effort to ensure that the compile process was portable. I have yet to find any code that I could not get compiled for OSX. Yes, you might have to fix a couple of things in the code, but without examples, I really can't give you an answer.
I have only seen one post mention OMA. OMA(Open Mobile Alliance) to which Nokia is a part of has already defined a standard DRM for binary. MP3 doesn't have DRM by default(that I am aware of), but I can send an MP3 to most modern phones in such a way as to prevent you from sending it to a friend or saving it to removable media. Declaring that a fault of OGG is that it has no DRM support is rubbish as at the very basic it can support this OMA Forward Lock. Nokia is just working the system to invalidate an open standard that it really doesn't like.
Just for the record... Guitar Hero Soundtracks should not count as they were not designed with the game in mind. Just thought I would get that out there before all the guitar hero freaks start saying Stairway to Heaven is the best game song of all time:-P
So, if you clone an animal that doesn't exist... when it is born does the species automatically get added to the Endangered Species List? If so, your idea might be a quick path to jail.
Isn't gaming classified as entertainment. Not only that, but it is addictive entertainment like drinking or gambling. I know of several people who have lost their jobs and wife because of gaming. Referring to gaming as a hobby is an insult to real hobbies that actually return something more tangible than moving a few electrons to say your Hitpoints are now 300 versus 280.
So let me get this right... You are saying that casual gamers that Nintendo has targeted do not buy games and that the console gathers dust from these gamers. Yet, the Wii has dominated the Sales charts for the last 10 months. If your first statement was correct, I would of never expected any of the new games to be top 10 hits(especially when they only had a million consoles). The fact is that I own a Wii, am a very casual gamer and have visited a store looking for a new Wii game to buy for the last 3 weeks. I have bought more games for the Wii than I had for the super nintendo
I do think the novelty of carnival games has worn off. As long as 3rd party people keep releasing those(and don't do anything new) then they will be disappointed.
Also, I was surprised to see the PSP beating the DS by such a large amont last week, but you answered the question. Nobody was surprised when the XBox360 sold more consoles than the PS2. Nobody was surprised when the DS Lite sold more consoles than the regular DS. New consoles(even redesigns) generate sales. It is long-term sales that really matter and the PSP needs to repeat last weeks performance for another year or two to really matter.
Since when did iTunes carry Radiohead? Answer... they don't. So, it would appear that Amazon was able to pickup some artists that would not join iTunes. Will we see the Beatles on Amazon first?
In the last 5 years... I went to 2 Universities. One of them was a crappy, private University whose entire program focused on Microsoft. It was one of those afterwork, pay us a lot of money for a degree thing. I left that place and went to a State University(soon to be the largest in the state). I was shocked to find out from the CS majors that they had a large Microsoft Curriculum as well. Apparently, Microsoft gives a lot of money to the Universities to ensure that they are a central part the curriculum. Since a lot of students are learning about ASP, Visual Basic and.NET... is it any surprise that these same students are going into the workplace and using these tools instead of a perl, php, ruby, python inside of Apache.
You should actually try the iPhone before going all out to dimiss it. The iPhone is actually a very nice smartphone(I work with them everyday). It isn't perfect, but to dimiss it as a piece of jewelry is foolish. Your Windows Mobile Devices are good. I am sure the Bang and Olufsen phone is good as well. And the iPhone is a good device.
Naive here(and slightly drunk).
Since every digital communication is based on true/false 1/0... why couldn't one of these "Spooky action at a distance" be used for one way communication. Set the value to true/false on 1 side... it is some expected value on the other side. Then all you need is 16 one-way spooky action streams to establish 8 bit communication in each way. This just seems obvious to me as the next step in delivering a true/false bit.
This solves about every communication problem that man has ever come up. Long-distance space communication not only becomes trivial.. our future explorers will be playing WOW all the way to Alpha Centauri.
Spooky Action at a Distance describes my sex life exactly.
Re:I was hooked until the guy showed his ls skills
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There's nothing undocumented about -af
You obviously missed the sarcasm of my post which was to point out that the article was BS for stating that ls -af happens to be some undocumented feature.
Slashdot Mirror
we already have small: pico itx
Its called "Whitebox PC". Seriously... peripherals: camera, keyboard, mouse, trackball, gps, harddrives, infared, etc...
Seems like nothing more than the recreation of a PC with non-standard interconnects.
A company that is incapable of profiting from its products normally indicates that the product is lacking.
or...
the market is saturated
the market is not ready
the company can't market
If the technology is good then Microsoft probably wants to use it and prevent Yahoo, Google and others from buying it.
We all have thought about planting a Dead Man Switch. The difference between us and this guy is the same difference between saying you want to kill someone and actually doing it. This guy sucks and deserves prison and to be banned from the workplace. As a Unix Engineer who has survived and been part of layoffs in the past, this type of person is not fair to the rest of the team. If you aren't gonna be the best, don't put scripts in place to punish the people that are.
The saving grace in this case was not the guy who found the script(he of course milked it for what it was worth), but the fact that this guy did things half-assed. His original script had a bug in it(not tested)... these are the same reasons that he probably lost his job to the better people on the team when the cuts came.
Label me a troll if you want... but this guy was trash and is where he belongs.
just use Matsutake Mushrooms and Saffron in every dish. Cooking is easy when nobody needs to taste it.
A lil off-topic, but oh well... Some questions: /dev of course... /dev/random /dev/random
Where are the file devices in OS X?
In
$ ls -l
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 8, 0 Jan 4 16:53
What exactly are you complaining about? Device names between *nix has always been inconsistent.
Why can't OS X do signaling properly like other Unix-like systems (even Windows' POSIX subsystem does it correctly)?
Define properly? Signaling is slow(Mach Kernel?), but you might want to give some examples instead of blanket statements... Ford is not really a car because it does driving poorly...
Why are the libraries messed up to the point where you can take standard POSIX code and compile it between Solaris, HP/UX, Linux, FreeBSD just fine, but when you bring it to OS X it barfs?
Again, examples. I highly doubt that it just magically worked. Probably a developer behind the scenes invested a lot of time and effort to ensure that the compile process was portable. I have yet to find any code that I could not get compiled for OSX. Yes, you might have to fix a couple of things in the code, but without examples, I really can't give you an answer.
I have only seen one post mention OMA. OMA(Open Mobile Alliance) to which Nokia is a part of has already defined a standard DRM for binary. MP3 doesn't have DRM by default(that I am aware of), but I can send an MP3 to most modern phones in such a way as to prevent you from sending it to a friend or saving it to removable media. Declaring that a fault of OGG is that it has no DRM support is rubbish as at the very basic it can support this OMA Forward Lock. Nokia is just working the system to invalidate an open standard that it really doesn't like.
Just for the record... Guitar Hero Soundtracks should not count as they were not designed with the game in mind. Just thought I would get that out there before all the guitar hero freaks start saying Stairway to Heaven is the best game song of all time:-P
file extensions are not the only way to detect what the type of file is... Magic Numbers
So, if you clone an animal that doesn't exist... when it is born does the species automatically get added to the Endangered Species List? If so, your idea might be a quick path to jail.
...
1. Clone Mammoth
2.
3. Profit
Unfortunately step 2 might be jail.
I don't see how we could jump-start a magnetic field
Hollywood did it
Isn't gaming classified as entertainment. Not only that, but it is addictive entertainment like drinking or gambling. I know of several people who have lost their jobs and wife because of gaming. Referring to gaming as a hobby is an insult to real hobbies that actually return something more tangible than moving a few electrons to say your Hitpoints are now 300 versus 280.
Sad but true.
So let me get this right... You are saying that casual gamers that Nintendo has targeted do not buy games and that the console gathers dust from these gamers. Yet, the Wii has dominated the Sales charts for the last 10 months. If your first statement was correct, I would of never expected any of the new games to be top 10 hits(especially when they only had a million consoles). The fact is that I own a Wii, am a very casual gamer and have visited a store looking for a new Wii game to buy for the last 3 weeks. I have bought more games for the Wii than I had for the super nintendo
I do think the novelty of carnival games has worn off. As long as 3rd party people keep releasing those(and don't do anything new) then they will be disappointed.
Also, I was surprised to see the PSP beating the DS by such a large amont last week, but you answered the question. Nobody was surprised when the XBox360 sold more consoles than the PS2. Nobody was surprised when the DS Lite sold more consoles than the regular DS. New consoles(even redesigns) generate sales. It is long-term sales that really matter and the PSP needs to repeat last weeks performance for another year or two to really matter.
Since when did iTunes carry Radiohead? Answer... they don't. So, it would appear that Amazon was able to pickup some artists that would not join iTunes. Will we see the Beatles on Amazon first?
The Velociraptor stupid. Geesh
He did not found Slashdot.
In the last 5 years... I went to 2 Universities. One of them was a crappy, private University whose entire program focused on Microsoft. It was one of those afterwork, pay us a lot of money for a degree thing. I left that place and went to a State University(soon to be the largest in the state). I was shocked to find out from the CS majors that they had a large Microsoft Curriculum as well. Apparently, Microsoft gives a lot of money to the Universities to ensure that they are a central part the curriculum. Since a lot of students are learning about ASP, Visual Basic and .NET... is it any surprise that these same students are going into the workplace and using these tools instead of a perl, php, ruby, python inside of Apache.
You should actually try the iPhone before going all out to dimiss it. The iPhone is actually a very nice smartphone(I work with them everyday). It isn't perfect, but to dimiss it as a piece of jewelry is foolish. Your Windows Mobile Devices are good. I am sure the Bang and Olufsen phone is good as well. And the iPhone is a good device.
Oh, and chicks dig the iPhone.
Naive here(and slightly drunk). Since every digital communication is based on true/false 1/0... why couldn't one of these "Spooky action at a distance" be used for one way communication. Set the value to true/false on 1 side... it is some expected value on the other side. Then all you need is 16 one-way spooky action streams to establish 8 bit communication in each way. This just seems obvious to me as the next step in delivering a true/false bit.
perhaps the future is pre-determined. You have no choice... That laser beam must be modified in x way.
if only I had modpoints and hadn't commented on this story. Nice!
This solves about every communication problem that man has ever come up. Long-distance space communication not only becomes trivial.. our future explorers will be playing WOW all the way to Alpha Centauri.
Spooky Action at a Distance describes my sex life exactly.
There's nothing undocumented about -af
You obviously missed the sarcasm of my post which was to point out that the article was BS for stating that ls -af happens to be some undocumented feature.