As a UK-ian, the publicly funded BBC works. More than that, it works really well. And it raises the bar and forces commercial television over here to be better to compete. So I'd be more than happy to apply the same model to internet.
And I don't do anything on my PC I didn't do 5 years ago.
CPU horsepower is "good enough", and has been for some time - once they became up to playing and storing fullscreen video, there was really nowhere more to go (of course you'll always have video games willing to suck up everything you throw at them, and there are probably specialist areas that need more power - but for the average home user, that's it). Really, you don't need any more than what these devices are packing. So people look for other points of appeal.
There's a lot of data though; who's to say they're holding onto it? Remember how Babylon 5 was going to go back and redo their CG sequences with improved technology?
If people's interruptions for trivial things are irritating, you have to tell them outright - there's no way to express your disapproval through tone of voice or so on. So you should feel no qualms about doing so.
If they don't listen, that's what the block button is for. Pretty much all of the current generation IM systems have it.
They have every right to complain when linux won't even bother to be source-compatible with releases from 3 months ago. Seriously, there's no way a commercial system would get away with that (and if you look at the commercial linucies, they all have to maintain their own separate kernel trees). I love linux-the-os, but linux-the-kernel sucks in many ways.
While damn near every mainframe, arcade or PC game ever written can be run directly or under emulation in Windows. Colossal Cave to Bioshock.
You could spend years mining resources like the Underdogs, barely scratch the surface of what is out there. and never spend a dime.Same is even more true under Linux. If that's your approach, pick your favourite rom site - and call me when console emulation on windows is anywhere near as good as linux.
I've been running six hard drives continuously for the past three years, and not had one fail. Drives which are on 24x7x365 tend to do better in my experience - the wear comes from spinning them up or down. Or at least, the two drives that I've ever lost were in machines that got powered on and off one or more times each day. I suggest you listen to the man and look for other sources of trouble.
Of course, but once again, you need the website at the other end to implement SSL. Which isn't going to happen, because it'd cost them money - even slashdot won't give you an SSL connection unless you pay them.
I'm working on an RTS with some friends. We frequently argue over whether we should use GR or not. (Of course if we use GR we'll make sure to have things that take advantage of it).
Who would do that and what would their motivation be?
Less dangerous are the bored teenagers, doing it out of boredom. Think of how you were when you were 14, now imagine you could code pretty well. A decent percentage of our modern 14 year olds can, and a few of them will put it into practice writing virii for amusement.
More dangerous are the professional criminals, doing it because it's easy money. Own the machines, sell them to a spammer. Or if you don't want to worry about handling the business side yourself, just get employed by your friendly local organized crime syndicate. I mean, they must need a sysadmin too, to run their phishing webservers and so forth, and spam zombies are always useful. It's probably a 9-5 job, you can work from home, and you have the mob on your side if you ever get in trouble.
I'm not surprised there are so many virii; I'm surprised there are so few.
With a compiler from an independent source, compiled with a compiler from another independent source. Thompson's trick is very neat, and worked when there was one standard system compiler. It won't work now that there are two dozen on the internet and GCC is developed at such a rate of knots that your virus would naturally break within six months.
It is. But unfortunately, this horribly inefficient widget set and protocol are the only ones you can rely on all of your clients having installed.
There are several things I blame for this; C++ for not including a standard GUI API, RMS for killing TCL (which would have given us an efficient way of doing apps-in-the-browser), Sun for fucking up java god knows how many times. But as it is, it's sad but true that this hideous mess is the best way available.
Now if I could just get Noscript and Adblock running in Kmeleon I'd have what Firefox was supposed to be originally:a fast lightweight and nicely customized browser that gives me the web MY way.
This is going to come off as trollish, but it's here already and it's called Opera.
But if they don't back it up you can't make it safe, because there's always the chance of physical hard disk failure. So it's not worth the admin worrying about it.
Really? I like that connector - you can be really sure whether it's plugged in or not. Unlike the SATA power connector, which I've knocked out twice without noticing.
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As a UK-ian, the publicly funded BBC works. More than that, it works really well. And it raises the bar and forces commercial television over here to be better to compete. So I'd be more than happy to apply the same model to internet.
Because of course databases never have buffer overflows.
CPU horsepower is "good enough", and has been for some time - once they became up to playing and storing fullscreen video, there was really nowhere more to go (of course you'll always have video games willing to suck up everything you throw at them, and there are probably specialist areas that need more power - but for the average home user, that's it). Really, you don't need any more than what these devices are packing. So people look for other points of appeal.
There's a lot of data though; who's to say they're holding onto it? Remember how Babylon 5 was going to go back and redo their CG sequences with improved technology?
I think you missed the most likely option: just the perfectly good 2D version.
Maybe, just maybe, identity theft isn't the huge problem it's cracked up to be?
If they don't listen, that's what the block button is for. Pretty much all of the current generation IM systems have it.
Wine is deliberately LGPL and not GPL, no? So there'd be no problem any more than there is with Apple using KHTML (for example).
They have every right to complain when linux won't even bother to be source-compatible with releases from 3 months ago. Seriously, there's no way a commercial system would get away with that (and if you look at the commercial linucies, they all have to maintain their own separate kernel trees). I love linux-the-os, but linux-the-kernel sucks in many ways.
You could spend years mining resources like the Underdogs, barely scratch the surface of what is out there. and never spend a dime.Same is even more true under Linux. If that's your approach, pick your favourite rom site - and call me when console emulation on windows is anywhere near as good as linux.
I've been running six hard drives continuously for the past three years, and not had one fail. Drives which are on 24x7x365 tend to do better in my experience - the wear comes from spinning them up or down. Or at least, the two drives that I've ever lost were in machines that got powered on and off one or more times each day. I suggest you listen to the man and look for other sources of trouble.
Of course, but once again, you need the website at the other end to implement SSL. Which isn't going to happen, because it'd cost them money - even slashdot won't give you an SSL connection unless you pay them.
Developers just have to develop for XP; vista has backwards compatibility. No?
(If anyone has a spare copy of windows 2000 RC1 for alpha, I'd greatly appreciate it).
Alas, this is not so. I had to "upgrade" to XP to be able to play Supreme Commander.
I'm working on an RTS with some friends. We frequently argue over whether we should use GR or not. (Of course if we use GR we'll make sure to have things that take advantage of it).
Less dangerous are the bored teenagers, doing it out of boredom. Think of how you were when you were 14, now imagine you could code pretty well. A decent percentage of our modern 14 year olds can, and a few of them will put it into practice writing virii for amusement.
More dangerous are the professional criminals, doing it because it's easy money. Own the machines, sell them to a spammer. Or if you don't want to worry about handling the business side yourself, just get employed by your friendly local organized crime syndicate. I mean, they must need a sysadmin too, to run their phishing webservers and so forth, and spam zombies are always useful. It's probably a 9-5 job, you can work from home, and you have the mob on your side if you ever get in trouble.
I'm not surprised there are so many virii; I'm surprised there are so few.
Where by several years ago you mean right last year, am I wrong?
With a compiler from an independent source, compiled with a compiler from another independent source. Thompson's trick is very neat, and worked when there was one standard system compiler. It won't work now that there are two dozen on the internet and GCC is developed at such a rate of knots that your virus would naturally break within six months.
There are several things I blame for this; C++ for not including a standard GUI API, RMS for killing TCL (which would have given us an efficient way of doing apps-in-the-browser), Sun for fucking up java god knows how many times. But as it is, it's sad but true that this hideous mess is the best way available.
This is going to come off as trollish, but it's here already and it's called Opera.
But if they don't back it up you can't make it safe, because there's always the chance of physical hard disk failure. So it's not worth the admin worrying about it.
9-pin serial ports are better for that purpose, and waste less space on the back of your computer.
Really? I like that connector - you can be really sure whether it's plugged in or not. Unlike the SATA power connector, which I've knocked out twice without noticing.
On Linux? About the third of never.