I hope that the person who ends up with either suit recognizes the history that came with these things. Not only does it represent an old show but it represents some of the old fan's feelings for a show they really enjoyed(mainly Woodhead and Takagi).
Did the drive to audit code come from the need or the design of BSD? Or was it initially a whim? More imporantly, where did you learn it from? Is their some "mentor" you looked too for ridge design? I have to admire your team's daunting code reviewing...I wonder if I'll ever have that kind of meticulous coding nature.
...because if nothing else it gives ground controlers training and practice at contacting robotic craft. What other thing can you use to practice new tracking and communication techinuqes on? Unless you are willing to have NASA mess with craft like Voyager 2 then this is the best way to train new personal and tune their communication techinque.
As far as I remember Pioneer has said they've had an interest in doing something with Akira since 1998 saying that they would like to move around 2001. Looks like things are going their way.
Sure people may claim that its old and even campy and uber cryptic but you have to remember how ground breaking AKIRA was. At 1.1 billion yen price, it was the most expensive piece of animated work anywhere using a different and lush style in sight and sound. Go Pioneer for bringing out one of the essiential pieces of "classic" Anime.
Big Endian or Little Endian is just a memory format that is understood by the processor. Neither is right or wrong or more or less efficient. To say otherwise is like saying left handed people are inferrior.
This wouldn't be such a big issue if it wasn't for the tiny fact that Exchange doesn't play well with generic e-mail clients(outside of Microsoft's...and we know how well they work).
How about tackling the question from the other side? What can one do if they do work primarily on a unix workstation but there is the push to go to Exchange?
Does anyone outside of Microsoft understand the MS Exchange protocol? Are there e-mail clients out there that can get mail from an Exchange server? If the clients don't support Exchange well then how about manipulating a server to mimic a pop server while handling Exchange data?
Of course one very obvious soultion is to keep another machine that has Windows installed just to handle e-mail but I really don't relish that idea. What a waste...
I haven't look at the.NET stuff in awhile so I'm not exactly clear where Microsoft stands at this point.
Sun's point is valid. Its nifty that Microsoft takes it upon themselves to implement a bunch of tools and services for the internet. Unfortunately for Microsoft the Internet is a hardware independent beast. If Microsoft creates a bunch of software that only works on their OS and refuses to be open about their communication protocols then.NET aren't handcuff...its a shackle.
Microsoft should be open as possible with their Internet products. If they don't, there will be hacking on their protocol to reverse engineer the protocol. If Microsoft refuses to write software to support other platforms and they refuse to keep as much of it as open as possible then it leaves those who want to work in other hardware and software configurations with little alternitive.
Thats right! We can protect our children by shielding them about the truths of our world. This will make them happier and healther children!
Please. If I understand this correctly the reason why canidate web pages are being blocked is that they want to discuss some tough moral and ethical issues. Canidates have stances on contraversal issues like abortion, violence in society (gun control, violence in entertainment), gambling, law enforcement and they want to tell people about them. Unfortunately, this puts them squarely behind the taboo mongers.
What good is it to hide this information away from our kids? What is wrong with letting our children know that there are unpretty moral and ethical issues at risk that will effect their lives now and in the future? It is very true that 10 year old children don't have the right to vote nor should they but blinding children to important issues isn't the answer especially since there is a lot of hoopla around this election.
This stuff presents the biggest problem with censorware. Kids have legit, non-vulgar questions but censorware doesn't have a clue so they stay unanswered. I just hope children are smart enough to keep asking questions and their parents and teachers are good enough to answer them fairly because censorware certainly is failing them.
I'm also unclear if it is justifiable to block canidate page at the workplace. Sure it constitutes visiting web pages that have nothing to do with work but civics shouldn't be automatically ignored once you step into your cubical.
...where are the games that really require net access? I think the need for setups like this will increase when the first games like Fantasy Star Online come out. Until then this will merly be a "trick".
Simply put: Why put off a sale you can make today? Any consumer oriented company that acts like this tends to go bankrupt(auctions/speculations are a different case). That would be like thinking Pizza Hut can sell more pizzas if they make people wait for an hour after a customer comes in looking for food.
What happens, and this happens all of the time too, is that Sony must approach multiple companies and make orders *months* in advance. Sometimes they underestimate. More often what happens is that no manufacturer can fill the order in the quanties and price they wanted. It happens. So they make as many as they can and continue to order more parts.
Also, even if there were Japanese PS2 sitting in some warehouse somewhere you just can't load them up and drive down to Software Etc./Babbages.
Contrary to popular belief, technology doesn't always solve worker woes.
Technology has allowed people to do far more work than their predicessors with far more accuracy. Unfortunately, this comes at a price.
Take McDonald's for instance. They came up with methods for putting out more hamburgers in minutes. What was the result of this? Did the workers at McDonald's suddenly have more free time because they were making more buggers faster and easier? Not really...it drew in more customers who wanted more fast burgers. This caused the owners to push the managers to keep up with the pace of sales which caused the manager to push the workers. It also slightly devauled the the worker. With new methods came a reduction in the skill set needed. Instead of requiring someone who half way knew something about cooking, you just need someone who can mechanically watch timers and move stuff around at the right time. You can't convince me that the average worker at McDonald is working in a stupid fashion any more than their predicessors.
The same thing happens in the high tech sector's of our economy. Someone comes up with a nifty way to increase productivity, the customers will want more, which in turn push the manager to drive the workers just as hard if not harder.
Stuff like this should remind us all that there are bigger things, in size, mass, beauty and mystery out there. If we would just look outside of our sometimes narrow view of what we consider "important" we can see and appricate things like what Cassini can do for us now and for those in the future.
Pictures like this make me hope that the world is still interested in discovery. Let the Cassini pictures and info roll on!
People who frown on White Hat Hacking would have you believe that keeping people blissfully ignorant of problems like this is a good thing. He allowed his target to get stuff fixed before releasing what he knew. How ethical is it to sit on this information if it can benifit other sites? What is good about having this around for someone with far less scruples to come along and exploit? What is good about having Microsoft not fixing bugs that they may not know about? What is good about customers believing the software they bought is properly configured or as secure as they believe it to be?
A simple proverb goes something like this...
"A man isn't foolish if one admits there is a problem. Instead a man is foolish when they refuse too."
Some people are overracting on this. The problem here isn't necessarily that people are unknowingly spamming people with e-mail(although it will happen because people often don't read what they click too). Its the fact that Microsoft has now "innovated" there way into Unsolicited E-mail. It would have been just as bad if Bill Gates they bought one of those CD sets full of e-mail and started to spam people to try their software.
I am "forced" to use both due to friends and co-workers who either. In any regard, I'm under the impression the reason why people use AIM instead of ICQ is because they like AIM functionality and the reason why they use ICQ instead of AIM is because they like IC functionality.
ICQ has better developed features for moving files and other "advanced functionality". AIM on the other hand is geared to simplicity and simple chatting. In recent versions, this has started to blur but the roots are still there and there is still a clear division.
I'm leary of any consoldiation like this if it sacrafices functionality of either AIM or ICQ. If they do, I can easily see a bunch of unhappy users who will be trying to resurrect, probably in an Open Source manner, the old client and server functionality. Then where will AOL be? Back where they were before they acquired Marbilis.
The person that invented technology for Ethernet which in turned lead to Internet would be down on Open Source. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it the open specification of protocols and critical pieces of software(like sendmail) that paved the way for the technology explosion on the Internet? Or does he believe that all of that was a fluke?
...Try the courts. Isn't anyone else disturbed by this trend of using Judicual Branch as a place to set legistlative agendas? There would be no possible way the MPAA could convince any state or the US Congress to pass their stiffling laws but the MPAA can sure sue the heck out of people. >-(
You stick in the toast. You hit the lever down. After about 30 seconds, the "crash" sound from your toaster's selected theme sounds off indication that "I do not to alarm you or give you unpleasant feelings but something 'bad' just happened. 'C'lose or 'D'etails'?" Curious, you hit 'D' to see why the Microsoft Toaster had problems. It starts to dump an uninteligable gooy mess not unlike strawberry jam. Meanwhile, the bread is burning away stuck in its current state. You hit 'C' before something is really damaged or catches on fire which causes a cascade of 'Close or Details?' dialogs to pop up before finally getting to the point where it can turn itself off. So you have a charred piece of former bread stuck in your Microsoft Toaster with smoke pouring out of it and still there is nothing to eat.
I don't think what Lars and Metallica has done is ironic. I don't see how deciding that they want to feature their music on themusiccom.com instead of Napster as weird or ironic. I don't see how choosing the method of online distribution, one over another, is bad.
For instance, what if an artist ardently hates Napster because of their politics(makes money off of others creative work) but loves the idea of distributing their stuff for free on Gnutella? I think it perfectly reasonable for them to harp and harass Napster to stop distributing their stuff or at least help assist in that effort.
Animation is going through growing pains at the moment. The stress of making high quality animation that doesn't look like it came out of the 70s with ever shrinking budgets(remember unlike the US, Japan and most of Asia had a ression) is forcing studios and producers to turn to computer generated techniques to complete projects.
Some astondingly new imagines and techiniques have come out of this drive. Consider Cowboy Bebop: lots of images where either partially computer generated or computer colored.
One of the most time consuming and expensive parts still left in animation is trasfering the cell image to film/video. Cells could be going the way of the dodo if they can figure out how to duplicate some of the camera methods they curently used on computers.
So hang on to those cells....they maybe become a relic. ^_^
In some of the senerios that are stated, one license is never usedand should be "returnable" since you never agreed to using it(or is that inferred by the fact that you've bought the hardward??). Maybe if Big Company A buy 10,000 HP PCs from HP, then there should be away to squeeze money from HP or from Microsoft, shouldn't there be? If it goes through HP they may see that tightly bundling their hardware with an OS that has a silly "feature" in their licensing agreements isn't such a great idea.
Is it me or is the idea that life on our planet actually came from somewhere else a bit silly? What ever happened to KISS and Occum's? In simple and brief terms, it suggest that biochemical reactions on Earth are responsible for the start of life not some extraterestial source(although some say that it was an extraterestial event that may have helped trigger it).
For some microcellular organism to do this fantastic voyage it must...
- survive the initial impact (devistating in magnatute since stuff was thrown back into space) of a cestial body somehow not be blown apart by the event - survive in the extreme vacuum and radiation of space - survive in the extreme heat and destructive force of reentry - survive another impact and again not be blown apart by the event - and then take shape on a primordial Earth enviroment hostile to areobic life to begin with (did I remember the eras correctly? was there enough O2 in the atmosphere during the dates they are throwing around?)
I find it interesting that everyone is going gaga over this "evidence" like this yet no one is willing to suggest the idea that life started here and hitched a ride to Mars which is possibly just as "plausable".
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Funny...the day that is gone in the 28/6 week is Monday. Highly predjudical if you ask me....
I hope that the person who ends up with either suit recognizes the history that came with these things. Not only does it represent an old show but it represents some of the old fan's feelings for a show they really enjoyed(mainly Woodhead and Takagi).
Did the drive to audit code come from the need or the design of BSD? Or was it initially a whim? More imporantly, where did you learn it from? Is their some "mentor" you looked too for ridge design? I have to admire your team's daunting code reviewing...I wonder if I'll ever have that kind of meticulous coding nature.
...because if nothing else it gives ground controlers training and practice at contacting robotic craft. What other thing can you use to practice new tracking and communication techinuqes on? Unless you are willing to have NASA mess with craft like Voyager 2 then this is the best way to train new personal and tune their communication techinque.
As far as I remember Pioneer has said they've had an interest in doing something with Akira since 1998 saying that they would like to move around 2001. Looks like things are going their way.
Sure people may claim that its old and even campy and uber cryptic but you have to remember how ground breaking AKIRA was. At 1.1 billion yen price, it was the most expensive piece of animated work anywhere using a different and lush style in sight and sound. Go Pioneer for bringing out one of the essiential pieces of "classic" Anime.
I'm super impressed! Check out the Chibi Daemon and Tux!
This is how Open Source Software is supposed to exist!
How long would it take to port the slashdot code to gopher? ^_^
Big Endian or Little Endian is just a memory format that is understood by the processor. Neither is right or wrong or more or less efficient. To say otherwise is like saying left handed people are inferrior.
This wouldn't be such a big issue if it wasn't for the tiny fact that Exchange doesn't play well with generic e-mail clients(outside of Microsoft's...and we know how well they work).
How about tackling the question from the other side? What can one do if they do work primarily on a unix workstation but there is the push to go to Exchange?
Does anyone outside of Microsoft understand the MS Exchange protocol? Are there e-mail clients out there that can get mail from an Exchange server? If the clients don't support Exchange well then how about manipulating a server to mimic a pop server while handling Exchange data?
Of course one very obvious soultion is to keep another machine that has Windows installed just to handle e-mail but I really don't relish that idea. What a waste...
I haven't look at the .NET stuff in awhile so I'm not exactly clear where Microsoft stands at this point.
.NET aren't handcuff...its a shackle.
Sun's point is valid. Its nifty that Microsoft takes it upon themselves to implement a bunch of tools and services for the internet. Unfortunately for Microsoft the Internet is a hardware independent beast. If Microsoft creates a bunch of software that only works on their OS and refuses to be open about their communication protocols then
Microsoft should be open as possible with their Internet products. If they don't, there will be hacking on their protocol to reverse engineer the protocol. If Microsoft refuses to write software to support other platforms and they refuse to keep as much of it as open as possible then it leaves those who want to work in other hardware and software configurations with little alternitive.
Thats right! We can protect our children by shielding them about the truths of our world. This will make them happier and healther children!
Please. If I understand this correctly the reason why canidate web pages are being blocked is that they want to discuss some tough moral and ethical issues. Canidates have stances on contraversal issues like abortion, violence in society (gun control, violence in entertainment), gambling, law enforcement and they want to tell people about them. Unfortunately, this puts them squarely behind the taboo mongers.
What good is it to hide this information away from our kids? What is wrong with letting our children know that there are unpretty moral and ethical issues at risk that will effect their lives now and in the future? It is very true that 10 year old children don't have the right to vote nor should they but blinding children to important issues isn't the answer especially since there is a lot of hoopla around this election.
This stuff presents the biggest problem with censorware. Kids have legit, non-vulgar questions but censorware doesn't have a clue so they stay unanswered. I just hope children are smart enough to keep asking questions and their parents and teachers are good enough to answer them fairly because censorware certainly is failing them.
I'm also unclear if it is justifiable to block canidate page at the workplace. Sure it constitutes visiting web pages that have nothing to do with work but civics shouldn't be automatically ignored once you step into your cubical.
...where are the games that really require net access? I think the need for setups like this will increase when the first games like Fantasy Star Online come out. Until then this will merly be a "trick".
Simply put: Why put off a sale you can make today? Any consumer oriented company that acts like this tends to go bankrupt(auctions/speculations are a different case). That would be like thinking Pizza Hut can sell more pizzas if they make people wait for an hour after a customer comes in looking for food.
What happens, and this happens all of the time too, is that Sony must approach multiple companies and make orders *months* in advance. Sometimes they underestimate. More often what happens is that no manufacturer can fill the order in the quanties and price they wanted. It happens. So they make as many as they can and continue to order more parts.
Also, even if there were Japanese PS2 sitting in some warehouse somewhere you just can't load them up and drive down to Software Etc./Babbages.
Contrary to popular belief, technology doesn't always solve worker woes.
Technology has allowed people to do far more work than their predicessors with far more accuracy. Unfortunately, this comes at a price.
Take McDonald's for instance. They came up with methods for putting out more hamburgers in minutes. What was the result of this? Did the workers at McDonald's suddenly have more free time because they were making more buggers faster and easier? Not really...it drew in more customers who wanted more fast burgers. This caused the owners to push the managers to keep up with the pace of sales which caused the manager to push the workers. It also slightly devauled the the worker. With new methods came a reduction in the skill set needed. Instead of requiring someone who half way knew something about cooking, you just need someone who can mechanically watch timers and move stuff around at the right time. You can't convince me that the average worker at McDonald is working in a stupid fashion any more than their predicessors.
The same thing happens in the high tech sector's of our economy. Someone comes up with a nifty way to increase productivity, the customers will want more, which in turn push the manager to drive the workers just as hard if not harder.
Stuff like this should remind us all that there are bigger things, in size, mass, beauty and mystery out there. If we would just look outside of our sometimes narrow view of what we consider "important" we can see and appricate things like what Cassini can do for us now and for those in the future.
Pictures like this make me hope that the world is still interested in discovery. Let the Cassini pictures and info roll on!
People who frown on White Hat Hacking would have you believe that keeping people blissfully ignorant of problems like this is a good thing. He allowed his target to get stuff fixed before releasing what he knew. How ethical is it to sit on this information if it can benifit other sites? What is good about having this around for someone with far less scruples to come along and exploit? What is good about having Microsoft not fixing bugs that they may not know about? What is good about customers believing the software they bought is properly configured or as secure as they believe it to be?
A simple proverb goes something like this...
"A man isn't foolish if one admits there is a problem. Instead a man is foolish when they refuse too."
Some people are overracting on this. The problem here isn't necessarily that people are unknowingly spamming people with e-mail(although it will happen because people often don't read what they click too). Its the fact that Microsoft has now "innovated" there way into Unsolicited E-mail. It would have been just as bad if Bill Gates they bought one of those CD sets full of e-mail and started to spam people to try their software.
I am "forced" to use both due to friends and co-workers who either. In any regard, I'm under the impression the reason why people use AIM instead of ICQ is because they like AIM functionality and the reason why they use ICQ instead of AIM is because they like IC functionality.
ICQ has better developed features for moving files and other "advanced functionality". AIM on the other hand is geared to simplicity and simple chatting. In recent versions, this has started to blur but the roots are still there and there is still a clear division.
I'm leary of any consoldiation like this if it sacrafices functionality of either AIM or ICQ. If they do, I can easily see a bunch of unhappy users who will be trying to resurrect, probably in an Open Source manner, the old client and server functionality. Then where will AOL be? Back where they were before they acquired Marbilis.
The person that invented technology for Ethernet which in turned lead to Internet would be down on Open Source. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it the open specification of protocols and critical pieces of software(like sendmail) that paved the way for the technology explosion on the Internet? Or does he believe that all of that was a fluke?
...Try the courts. Isn't anyone else disturbed by this trend of using Judicual Branch as a place to set legistlative agendas? There would be no possible way the MPAA could convince any state or the US Congress to pass their stiffling laws but the MPAA can sure sue the heck out of people. >-(
You stick in the toast. You hit the lever down. After about 30 seconds, the "crash" sound from your toaster's selected theme sounds off indication that "I do not to alarm you or give you unpleasant feelings but something 'bad' just happened. 'C'lose or 'D'etails'?" Curious, you hit 'D' to see why the Microsoft Toaster had problems. It starts to dump an uninteligable gooy mess not unlike strawberry jam. Meanwhile, the bread is burning away stuck in its current state. You hit 'C' before something is really damaged or catches on fire which causes a cascade of 'Close or Details?' dialogs to pop up before finally getting to the point where it can turn itself off. So you have a charred piece of former bread stuck in your Microsoft Toaster with smoke pouring out of it and still there is nothing to eat.
Oh wait...you said "internet appliance"!
I don't think what Lars and Metallica has done is ironic. I don't see how deciding that they want to feature their music on themusiccom.com instead of Napster as weird or ironic. I don't see how choosing the method of online distribution, one over another, is bad.
For instance, what if an artist ardently hates Napster because of their politics(makes money off of others creative work) but loves the idea of distributing their stuff for free on Gnutella? I think it perfectly reasonable for them to harp and harass Napster to stop distributing their stuff or at least help assist in that effort.
Funny you should mention cells.
Animation is going through growing pains at the moment. The stress of making high quality animation that doesn't look like it came out of the 70s with ever shrinking budgets(remember unlike the US, Japan and most of Asia had a ression) is forcing studios and producers to turn to computer generated techniques to complete projects.
Some astondingly new imagines and techiniques have come out of this drive. Consider Cowboy Bebop: lots of images where either partially computer generated or computer colored.
One of the most time consuming and expensive parts still left in animation is trasfering the cell image to film/video. Cells could be going the way of the dodo if they can figure out how to duplicate some of the camera methods they curently used on computers.
So hang on to those cells....they maybe become a relic. ^_^
In some of the senerios that are stated, one license is never usedand should be "returnable" since you never agreed to using it(or is that inferred by the fact that you've bought the hardward??). Maybe if Big Company A buy 10,000 HP PCs from HP, then there should be away to squeeze money from HP or from Microsoft, shouldn't there be? If it goes through HP they may see that tightly bundling their hardware with an OS that has a silly "feature" in their licensing agreements isn't such a great idea.
Is it me or is the idea that life on our planet actually came from somewhere else a bit silly? What ever happened to KISS and Occum's? In simple and brief terms, it suggest that biochemical reactions on Earth are responsible for the start of life not some extraterestial source(although some say that it was an extraterestial event that may have helped trigger it).
For some microcellular organism to do this fantastic voyage it must...
- survive the initial impact (devistating in magnatute since stuff was thrown back into space) of a cestial body somehow not be blown apart by the event
- survive in the extreme vacuum and radiation of space
- survive in the extreme heat and destructive force of reentry
- survive another impact and again not be blown apart by the event
- and then take shape on a primordial Earth enviroment hostile to areobic life to begin with (did I remember the eras correctly? was there enough O2 in the atmosphere during the dates they are throwing around?)
I find it interesting that everyone is going gaga over this "evidence" like this yet no one is willing to suggest the idea that life started here and hitched a ride to Mars which is possibly just as "plausable".