Actually I put in my reseller code as an afterthought: why not? DealExtreme really is the best online clone phone retailer, with pictures and comments on most of the common clone models. And, I happen to have a referral code with them. So what, I'm a starving IT student!
3) Ramen
I've never seen your "shoot here" stickers, but I've worked with a US Army Special Forces team and one of their first orders of business was to consolidate the communications/crypto gear and rig it up with demolitions in the headquarters. Also rigged to explode on a moments notice were maps and extra ammunition.
I've wondered sometimes about the best way to quickly destroy a hard disk. It's difficult to come up with a relatively safe way to go about it. My best idea was a thermite insert that stood between the cover plate and the platter, and stock drives could be modified. This is also horribly dangerous. The idea in the article is much better and safer.
I think that there is a need to come up with ground rules for comparing operating systems, but they need to be more broad. This article is a farce.
For instance, many tout the variety of commercial software available for Windows, particularly games, as a feature. The fact that Windows is a wildly popular gaming platform is incidental; it is not an actual feature. The same argument can be made in favor of the Apple platform when it comes to *nix software; there is a wide variety of software that runs on OS X, thanks to its *nix underpinnings. Just not games.
There is a difference between direct comparison of functionality, and more broad comparison with a particular application in mind. The typical OS review blurs these notions.
There are, in fact, so many such intricacies that I don't think an honest review of any OS can be made without a particular use in mind. And, as far as I can tell, any company or organization that is considering spending money on a move either way takes this into consideration consciously or otherwise when evaluating a purchase.
The nitpicking and fanboy-ism we see on the Internet is coming from people who don't have much stake in the debate other than emotional, and have neither formalized their own needs or recognize the needs of others.
As far as I can tell, it seems like credit card companies currently don't care too much about who is using the card. My signature is checked against my card maybe 10% of the time I'm making a transaction. It's probably much easier for them to run through their database with a "fraudulent buying pattern" detection algorithm then crack down on the way the card is physically used, be it by signature or embedded RFID.
The fact that credit cards are often used online further nullifies the point of efforts for making credit cards more physically secure.
But then again, I've never been the victim of fraud.
People in the military can attest to your statement. If you've ever done a few hundred "overhead arm claps" you'll now how even after just several minutes of holding your arms at shoulder level, they begin to feel like lead. Sure, you get better at it - but will people really want to? I see this approach as an input method that requires far too much actual movement. I'd put my money on input devices that interpret nerve signals or brainwaves.
I know a scout sniper from 3rd ID who served in Iraq, and as I understand the rift between how movies portray snipers and how they actually function in combat is quite large. Contrary to popular belief, and especially in an urban environment, snipers are not "loners"; they depend heavily on the fire support of their fellow squad members.
Though the future might hold anything, I'm pretty sure that today's robots aren't physically capable or aware enough to replace human snipers, who depend particularly on movement, communication, and a keen sense of what's going on around them: abilities that the robots of today tend to lack.
Well, that's actually interesting to know. I've never had to work in a corporate environment and am quick to condemn; it probably doesn't help I'm such a free software fanatic with a pretty wicked anti-Microsoft bent.
It also goes to show that interviews, even lengthy ones, don't accurately reflect the interviewee.
That article offers an interesting insight into the Microsoft development process.
I know that even sizeable open-source projects can be ridden with political complications, but this article gave me a new sense of how people interact when working on big projects.
Todd Wanke seems like a good guy, but using the article as a vehicle for his sappy management practices wasn't very appealing.
Even if you went back through every piece of mail I wrote for Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP SP2, you'll never see the word "I" in any of those emails, unless there was a specific reason for it. I'm just a believer in that if you want to get things done, the best way to do it is as a team.
When I was in elementary school in 1994, my father, a college professor, ran a series of afternoon computer workshops aimed at middle and high-school students.
I tagged along, and the experience ended hooking me on computing along with some of the older students.
My dad worked up simple versions of Eliza, Hangman, and Conway's Game of Life in QBasic.
Though I doubt you could excite someone with QBasic today whether or not they know anything about computers, certain aspects of the way we went over the programs and later modified them would probably hold true for students today.
Either create your own example software or know thoroughly the innards of whatever program or technique you're showcasing. Prepare in your mind the way you'll present the concepts you want to get across before-hand.
Start the kids off with modifying program variables. For me, this involved adding words that Eliza recognized and changing the color of cells in Life.
Provide the students with some media to store their creations on. Floppies are relatively durable and even in 2004 widespread.
Enjoy yourself! In my adulthood I've had opportunities to teach children. The experience can be mutually rewarding.
Time is critical; don't get boring. Take cues from the kids.
Provide food and/or candy:)
Basic or Visual Basic might still be the way to go for introducing programming. Maybe Gambas would be your bag. Results with these languages are immediate and basic programming concepts can be illustrated easily.
Since I was introduced to computers, the web and web programming have exploded. I'd be weary of teaching web-design or HTML, though. PHP or Perl web scripting would require knowledge of basic HTML, and I'm not convinced HTML is the way to introduce people to computing. Though "instantly gratifying", I tend to think that starting someone off with a formatting language wouldn't instill in them the awe of realizing what a computer can accomplish when instructed, and this realization is the one that hooked me.
I can see nerds getting involved in the outdoors once again, bringing a whole new meaning to "phishing" - rigging up Zodiacs with networked fishfinder arrays and catching for themselves the latest in autonomous underwater robot technology.
Hell, I'd steal one.
I could slap Linux on it, make its hostname a Douglas Adams character, and brag on a mailing list somewhere.
The technology to accomplish this has existed for some time. I suspect that the vast majority of those pulling this are not failing.
I think this group just "got greedy." If they would have walked away with their 100k (what they won the first day), the elaborate sting which was prepared to bring them down the second day (when they won 1M) would have been a vain effort.
I downloaded the Mac version and set "Application-level" text direction to Right to Left so I can write documents in Arabic.
I followed the steps in this document, but alas, no luck. Arabic text input works, and the text is aligned right, but the input direction is still left to right and the result is not satisfactory. Anyone else tried doing this and succeeded?
Use your excreta to enter the amazing world of the dung beetle. "It won't take long for the beetles to appear, scuttle boldly up to your deposit and begin rolling balls of it away, head-butting it and pushing it with their forelegs."
Watching insects tinker with my poo just doesn't make my list of things to do somehow.
Posting works. It's morning EST; the nerds slumber. I for one am pumped about 2.0. I'm a recent convert from Linux and I like NetBSD's installer as well as its bloat and crap-free default software arsenal.
With Fluxbox, the GNU coreutils, and bash, my P133 makes a reasonable desktop workstation. Though Linux would work, the low hard-drive footprint of a NetBSD install is what makes the installation trouble-free. Comparable modern Linux distros seem to me to take time to whittle down to a sub-300MB install. With NetBSD, the core system with XFree uses only 290.
It sounds to me like there needs to be some alliance or union of game industry workers. Is there such a thing? Problems like ridiculous hours were solved a hundred years ago by the introduction of unions in other industries.
I think that the tendency of people to steal is the more likely culprit. The "larger strategy" you perceive is probably, for better or for worse, just the darker side of human nature.
Though the Patriot Act specifically hasn't affected me in any way I realize, the mentality the War on Terror brought to law enforcement, manifested in the Patriot Act, has.
In the summer of 2002 my family was in the middle of selling a house, and potential buyers were often touring, checking things out.
One couple with a digital camera was photographing the interior when they opened my room closet and discovered my trusty potato gun. They decided it was a device of terror, photgraphed it, and forwarded the images to the state police when they got home. My family and I didn't know until the next day, when some serious looking dudes showed up.
Luckily the police were relatively reasonable and left without incident, but the whole thing was disconcerting.
I came to realize that I feared the self-deputized public more than any law they could come up with in Washington. Whenever the terror level goes up, and citizens are told to "be watchful," what does that really mean? Eyeball dark-skinned people with foreign-looking head-dress, or poke around someone's house sneaking out pictures to send to the police?
I'll give our leadership the benefit of the doubt, and presume that they're not entirely aware of the shift in public thought they're sponsoring. I couldn't propose a much better way of handling it all, either. I just know that as an individual, living in America after 9/11, it's starting to be weird and suck and I hope that it doesn't get any worse.
That's a good idea. I have a Jansport backpack with a "bladder pouch," but instead of a bubble-wrap I have a zippered neoprene sleeve for the laptop. The sleeve itself doesn't have room for the power supply or mouse, but combined with the various small pockets the backpack affords the whole setup has done me well on a number of trips. The neoprene sleeve is made by Tucano, but I bought it at a local computer store so it or something like it shouldn't be too hard to find.
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Actually I put in my reseller code as an afterthought: why not? DealExtreme really is the best online clone phone retailer, with pictures and comments on most of the common clone models. And, I happen to have a referral code with them. So what, I'm a starving IT student! 3) Ramen
I've never seen your "shoot here" stickers, but I've worked with a US Army Special Forces team and one of their first orders of business was to consolidate the communications/crypto gear and rig it up with demolitions in the headquarters. Also rigged to explode on a moments notice were maps and extra ammunition.
I've wondered sometimes about the best way to quickly destroy a hard disk. It's difficult to come up with a relatively safe way to go about it. My best idea was a thermite insert that stood between the cover plate and the platter, and stock drives could be modified. This is also horribly dangerous. The idea in the article is much better and safer.
...when perusing the "My Music" folder and seeing nothing but pirated mp3s.
I think that there is a need to come up with ground rules for comparing operating systems, but they need to be more broad. This article is a farce.
For instance, many tout the variety of commercial software available for Windows, particularly games, as a feature. The fact that Windows is a wildly popular gaming platform is incidental; it is not an actual feature. The same argument can be made in favor of the Apple platform when it comes to *nix software; there is a wide variety of software that runs on OS X, thanks to its *nix underpinnings. Just not games.
There is a difference between direct comparison of functionality, and more broad comparison with a particular application in mind. The typical OS review blurs these notions.
There are, in fact, so many such intricacies that I don't think an honest review of any OS can be made without a particular use in mind. And, as far as I can tell, any company or organization that is considering spending money on a move either way takes this into consideration consciously or otherwise when evaluating a purchase.
The nitpicking and fanboy-ism we see on the Internet is coming from people who don't have much stake in the debate other than emotional, and have neither formalized their own needs or recognize the needs of others.
As far as I can tell, it seems like credit card companies currently don't care too much about who is using the card. My signature is checked against my card maybe 10% of the time I'm making a transaction. It's probably much easier for them to run through their database with a "fraudulent buying pattern" detection algorithm then crack down on the way the card is physically used, be it by signature or embedded RFID.
The fact that credit cards are often used online further nullifies the point of efforts for making credit cards more physically secure.
But then again, I've never been the victim of fraud.
Too bad they're going graphical, because "Watching all this shit go by makes me a Unix genius."
Also curious about this post is the use of "notorious." Threw me a bit; was this a positive or negative post?
notorious: Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous: a notorious gangster; a district notorious for vice.
People in the military can attest to your statement. If you've ever done a few hundred "overhead arm claps" you'll now how even after just several minutes of holding your arms at shoulder level, they begin to feel like lead. Sure, you get better at it - but will people really want to? I see this approach as an input method that requires far too much actual movement. I'd put my money on input devices that interpret nerve signals or brainwaves.
cat /var/log/httpd/access.log | grep lynx > /dev/authorities
You're thinking of The Jackal with Bruce Willis.
I know a scout sniper from 3rd ID who served in Iraq, and as I understand the rift between how movies portray snipers and how they actually function in combat is quite large. Contrary to popular belief, and especially in an urban environment, snipers are not "loners"; they depend heavily on the fire support of their fellow squad members.
Though the future might hold anything, I'm pretty sure that today's robots aren't physically capable or aware enough to replace human snipers, who depend particularly on movement, communication, and a keen sense of what's going on around them: abilities that the robots of today tend to lack.
Well, that's actually interesting to know. I've never had to work in a corporate environment and am quick to condemn; it probably doesn't help I'm such a free software fanatic with a pretty wicked anti-Microsoft bent.
It also goes to show that interviews, even lengthy ones, don't accurately reflect the interviewee.
That article offers an interesting insight into the Microsoft development process.
I know that even sizeable open-source projects can be ridden with political complications, but this article gave me a new sense of how people interact when working on big projects.
Todd Wanke seems like a good guy, but using the article as a vehicle for his sappy management practices wasn't very appealing.
Also not appealing is Jim Allchin's satanic gaze. Jesus.
Too much hype. Too much bullshit. Too many acronyms. I'm sticking to free software people.
When I was in elementary school in 1994, my father, a college professor, ran a series of afternoon computer workshops aimed at middle and high-school students.
I tagged along, and the experience ended hooking me on computing along with some of the older students.
My dad worked up simple versions of Eliza, Hangman, and Conway's Game of Life in QBasic.
Though I doubt you could excite someone with QBasic today whether or not they know anything about computers, certain aspects of the way we went over the programs and later modified them would probably hold true for students today.
Basic or Visual Basic might still be the way to go for introducing programming. Maybe Gambas would be your bag. Results with these languages are immediate and basic programming concepts can be illustrated easily.
Since I was introduced to computers, the web and web programming have exploded. I'd be weary of teaching web-design or HTML, though. PHP or Perl web scripting would require knowledge of basic HTML, and I'm not convinced HTML is the way to introduce people to computing. Though "instantly gratifying", I tend to think that starting someone off with a formatting language wouldn't instill in them the awe of realizing what a computer can accomplish when instructed, and this realization is the one that hooked me.
I can see nerds getting involved in the outdoors once again, bringing a whole new meaning to "phishing" - rigging up Zodiacs with networked fishfinder arrays and catching for themselves the latest in autonomous underwater robot technology.
Hell, I'd steal one.
I could slap Linux on it, make its hostname a Douglas Adams character, and brag on a mailing list somewhere.
The technology to accomplish this has existed for some time. I suspect that the vast majority of those pulling this are not failing.
I think this group just "got greedy." If they would have walked away with their 100k (what they won the first day), the elaborate sting which was prepared to bring them down the second day (when they won 1M) would have been a vain effort.
I downloaded the Mac version and set "Application-level" text direction to Right to Left so I can write documents in Arabic.
I followed the steps in this document, but alas, no luck. Arabic text input works, and the text is aligned right, but the input direction is still left to right and the result is not satisfactory. Anyone else tried doing this and succeeded?
Watching insects tinker with my poo just doesn't make my list of things to do somehow.
Posting works. It's morning EST; the nerds slumber. I for one am pumped about 2.0. I'm a recent convert from Linux and I like NetBSD's installer as well as its bloat and crap-free default software arsenal.
With Fluxbox, the GNU coreutils, and bash, my P133 makes a reasonable desktop workstation. Though Linux would work, the low hard-drive footprint of a NetBSD install is what makes the installation trouble-free. Comparable modern Linux distros seem to me to take time to whittle down to a sub-300MB install. With NetBSD, the core system with XFree uses only 290.
Yeah, police are moneywasters. Let criminals run free.
It sounds to me like there needs to be some alliance or union of game industry workers. Is there such a thing? Problems like ridiculous hours were solved a hundred years ago by the introduction of unions in other industries.
I think that the tendency of people to steal is the more likely culprit. The "larger strategy" you perceive is probably, for better or for worse, just the darker side of human nature.
I've never seen a BSOD on a TV before. Hopefully through the deal Comcast will supply the NTLDR.
I was in the same boat. I'd been running Slackware since 8.0 on a Pentium 133 home server, and recently switched to a BSD - NetBSD.
Installation went smoothly. The installer rivaled Slackware's and was easier to tweak to minimize the amount of stuff being installed.
The documentation is good, and I had a custom kernel built within an hour or two.
I haven't used FreeBSD, but if it's anything like NetBSD it's a good alternative to Slackware.
Though the Patriot Act specifically hasn't affected me in any way I realize, the mentality the War on Terror brought to law enforcement, manifested in the Patriot Act, has.
In the summer of 2002 my family was in the middle of selling a house, and potential buyers were often touring, checking things out.
One couple with a digital camera was photographing the interior when they opened my room closet and discovered my trusty potato gun. They decided it was a device of terror, photgraphed it, and forwarded the images to the state police when they got home. My family and I didn't know until the next day, when some serious looking dudes showed up.
Luckily the police were relatively reasonable and left without incident, but the whole thing was disconcerting.
I came to realize that I feared the self-deputized public more than any law they could come up with in Washington. Whenever the terror level goes up, and citizens are told to "be watchful," what does that really mean? Eyeball dark-skinned people with foreign-looking head-dress, or poke around someone's house sneaking out pictures to send to the police?
I'll give our leadership the benefit of the doubt, and presume that they're not entirely aware of the shift in public thought they're sponsoring. I couldn't propose a much better way of handling it all, either. I just know that as an individual, living in America after 9/11, it's starting to be weird and suck and I hope that it doesn't get any worse.
That's a good idea. I have a Jansport backpack with a "bladder pouch," but instead of a bubble-wrap I have a zippered neoprene sleeve for the laptop. The sleeve itself doesn't have room for the power supply or mouse, but combined with the various small pockets the backpack affords the whole setup has done me well on a number of trips. The neoprene sleeve is made by Tucano, but I bought it at a local computer store so it or something like it shouldn't be too hard to find.