Yes they do, but there are more ways to deal with them than just "patching" ya know. Everyone knows their own situation best, it's a bit arrogant to force other people to do "what is good for them". Everyone should be in charge of their own systems, simple as that.
Till the worm installs a security patch that causes a bug that it takes someone hours upon hours of debugging to locate. People should be allowed to patch when they want. Patches aren't always 100% correct, and some can cause some major havoc. Let each person decide if/when the patch is needed...
Some of the phishing scams I have seen are actually one image that is a giant link. Then they put a website in the image that looks legitimate, but since all you are looking at is a picture, anywhere you click on the picture will take you to the phishers site. They are getting smarter it seems....
How exactly is releasing a portable game system unlike anything else out there "playing it safe". Especially when compared to the PSP, which is pretty much as "safe" as it gets....
That is the answer to the threat of being outsourced, become an author, make really vague claims that STILL end up being wrong, but making tons of money by keep on shouting that the sky is falling. Wow, I feel safer from outsourcing already!
Not much really. The 2 richest countries on earth are both affected by earthquakes, and have invested heavily in the area of earthquake prediction(esp. Japan), and yet do not have very accurate earthquake prediction technologies. It may be possible, but not for a long, long while. Now technology for disaster relief is a different story, but for the time being cheap accurate earthquake prediction is a pipe dream.....
that in the name of sensationalism reporters haven't said, "terrorism is probably not to blame but the Dept. of Homeland Security is looking into it." It seems that after Sep. 11th, the news wants to try to connect everything even remotely bad with terrorism, and of course the Dept. of Homeland Security encourages them by using as vague of language as possible. Are people that easily frightened?
You forgot, "imagine a beowulf cluster of smashed computers", or I guess, "Imagine a smashed beowulf cluster"
As for me, I'm going back to my "Santa gets Clusterfucked" movie.
It's hard to tell if it's a problem with those certain DSes or it's a problem with the game. If it's a problem with the DSes, why does it appear only in that game? And of course, Nintendo is only replacing the game, not the system. If it's a software problem, what makes the DSes that it affects different from all the other ones? I need details!
From what I have read(which includes the book hardware hacking for geeks) the quality on the X10 really blows. You can get better quality cameras for about the same amount of money, avoid the X10 if at all possible.
Here is a question: Which skyscraper would you prefer to live in: The one that a dork who has taught himself how to design a skyscraper designed or that of someone who was professionaly trained, and who has worked smaller parts of skyscraper design before, been involved wtih mentors who are experts in the field, and frequently submits their work for peer review?
Guess what, everything there is to know about skyscrapers cannot be found in a book, lots of it has to come from hands on experience. Anyone who thinks they can "teach themselves" without getting a chance to actually work firsthand with what they are doing is a fool.
Yeah, I can take a course on chip design, I can "teach myself" chip design, but until I get a chance to participate in the whole process of creating something from start to finish, all I can do is do whatever everyone else has done. Chip design/programming/skyscrapers/whatever is as much art as it is science. An appreciation for that art only comes with experience. The reason there are good programmers without formal educations(and I'm clumping in FPGA in that catagory, yeah I know, another flame war) is that the barrier to entry to programming is so low that one does not need the resources of an academic institution/government/corporation to make useful and interesting programs. However, that is hardly true of skyscrapers.....
If books contained all the wisdom one would need to make these things, well then we wouldn't need humans would we?
I actually was talking about chips, not FPGAs(the grandparent argument is that calling her a chip designer is misleading, as all she did was design an FPGA then produce it) You are right, FPGAs are relatively cheap to design and produce.
Not saying she doesn't deserve praise for finding a creative niche and making a business out of it, but calling her a chip designer is misleading. She is a good business person with a self-taught head for technology.
mpossible? What about the guys who invented the first chips? Did they go to some class that taught how to build chips which will be invented in the future?
No, but they had the resources of the US government and their academic institution to back them up. Chip fabrication is not cheap, therefore it really is difficult to get into the chip design field.
Tiny little rant time: And for the last time, would people quit comparing everything to programming!!! In order to program(not necessarily program well) all you need is a cheap computer and you can use Linux/gcc or Sun's jdk or mono or whatever to compile your programs. You don't need a lab, you don't need a fabrication plant etc. so your parallel fails miserably.
I like Preview, it seems to be much more lightweight than the Acrobat reader, but the PDF display, while good most of the time, was a bit suspect on occaision. Hopefully they fixed most of the problems and I can finally get rid of the adobe bloatware....
with some of the worst latency you ever saw:P
While it would be cool to have location based clusters, there probably aren't very many problems they can solve because of those latency or bandwidth issues.
Wow, this comment is really pointless.
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Change the first vowel in your coffee shop name and watch the customers roll in!
This significantly lowers the barriers to a drive by goatse....the consequences could be dire.....
Yes they do, but there are more ways to deal with them than just "patching" ya know. Everyone knows their own situation best, it's a bit arrogant to force other people to do "what is good for them". Everyone should be in charge of their own systems, simple as that.
Till the worm installs a security patch that causes a bug that it takes someone hours upon hours of debugging to locate. People should be allowed to patch when they want. Patches aren't always 100% correct, and some can cause some major havoc. Let each person decide if/when the patch is needed...
Some of the phishing scams I have seen are actually one image that is a giant link. Then they put a website in the image that looks legitimate, but since all you are looking at is a picture, anywhere you click on the picture will take you to the phishers site. They are getting smarter it seems....
How exactly is releasing a portable game system unlike anything else out there "playing it safe". Especially when compared to the PSP, which is pretty much as "safe" as it gets....
Ways to deal with the office dullard
That is the answer to the threat of being outsourced, become an author, make really vague claims that STILL end up being wrong, but making tons of money by keep on shouting that the sky is falling. Wow, I feel safer from outsourcing already!
I thought it was a way for me to quickly compare all the mortgage offers I get in my email....
Not much really. The 2 richest countries on earth are both affected by earthquakes, and have invested heavily in the area of earthquake prediction(esp. Japan), and yet do not have very accurate earthquake prediction technologies. It may be possible, but not for a long, long while. Now technology for disaster relief is a different story, but for the time being cheap accurate earthquake prediction is a pipe dream.....
that in the name of sensationalism reporters haven't said, "terrorism is probably not to blame but the Dept. of Homeland Security is looking into it." It seems that after Sep. 11th, the news wants to try to connect everything even remotely bad with terrorism, and of course the Dept. of Homeland Security encourages them by using as vague of language as possible. Are people that easily frightened?
You forgot, "imagine a beowulf cluster of smashed computers", or I guess, "Imagine a smashed beowulf cluster"
As for me, I'm going back to my "Santa gets Clusterfucked" movie.
It's hard to tell if it's a problem with those certain DSes or it's a problem with the game. If it's a problem with the DSes, why does it appear only in that game? And of course, Nintendo is only replacing the game, not the system. If it's a software problem, what makes the DSes that it affects different from all the other ones? I need details!
From what I have read(which includes the book hardware hacking for geeks) the quality on the X10 really blows. You can get better quality cameras for about the same amount of money, avoid the X10 if at all possible.
Here is a question: Which skyscraper would you prefer to live in: The one that a dork who has taught himself how to design a skyscraper designed or that of someone who was professionaly trained, and who has worked smaller parts of skyscraper design before, been involved wtih mentors who are experts in the field, and frequently submits their work for peer review? ....
Guess what, everything there is to know about skyscrapers cannot be found in a book, lots of it has to come from hands on experience. Anyone who thinks they can "teach themselves" without getting a chance to actually work firsthand with what they are doing is a fool.
Yeah, I can take a course on chip design, I can "teach myself" chip design, but until I get a chance to participate in the whole process of creating something from start to finish, all I can do is do whatever everyone else has done. Chip design/programming/skyscrapers/whatever is as much art as it is science. An appreciation for that art only comes with experience. The reason there are good programmers without formal educations(and I'm clumping in FPGA in that catagory, yeah I know, another flame war) is that the barrier to entry to programming is so low that one does not need the resources of an academic institution/government/corporation to make useful and interesting programs. However, that is hardly true of skyscrapers.
If books contained all the wisdom one would need to make these things, well then we wouldn't need humans would we?
I actually was talking about chips, not FPGAs(the grandparent argument is that calling her a chip designer is misleading, as all she did was design an FPGA then produce it) You are right, FPGAs are relatively cheap to design and produce.
Not saying she doesn't deserve praise for finding a creative niche and making a business out of it, but calling her a chip designer is misleading. She is a good business person with a self-taught head for technology.
mpossible? What about the guys who invented the first chips? Did they go to some class that taught how to build chips which will be invented in the future?
No, but they had the resources of the US government and their academic institution to back them up. Chip fabrication is not cheap, therefore it really is difficult to get into the chip design field.
Tiny little rant time: And for the last time, would people quit comparing everything to programming!!! In order to program(not necessarily program well) all you need is a cheap computer and you can use Linux/gcc or Sun's jdk or mono or whatever to compile your programs. You don't need a lab, you don't need a fabrication plant etc. so your parallel fails miserably.
"Cowboy Neal's 'Thongs for Geeks'", which includes graphic instructions.....
Shudders
when Cowboy Neal tells me to!
Shhhh...don't tell Lufthansa that their overseas internet access doesn't work, they might get very upset :P
I like Preview, it seems to be much more lightweight than the Acrobat reader, but the PDF display, while good most of the time, was a bit suspect on occaision. Hopefully they fixed most of the problems and I can finally get rid of the adobe bloatware....
You forgot:
***Also requires one sould, does not necessarily have to belong to purchaser.
good ol' booby shaped cookies?
Kids these days.....so immature......
with some of the worst latency you ever saw:P
While it would be cool to have location based clusters, there probably aren't very many problems they can solve because of those latency or bandwidth issues.
Wow, this comment is really pointless.
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