Conversely, selling 20 million $200 operating systems every 2 years is better than selling 1 million $1000 computers, considering the margins leave about $250 profit.
M$ learned this lesson a long time ago, only chumps sell hardware. The profit margin on a cdr and small pamphlet is much higher.
err, yes but your assumption assumes that people believe voip and similar apps are secure now? haven't heard vonage blast on it's latest marketing campaign "oh yeah, btw don't do banking by phone on this, because you can get screwed."
if nobody knows how is it more secure than bad encryption?
so... great, but why aren't most tcp streams encrypted by default? the client side load is negligable, and there is a lot of acceleration available server-side. Even relatively simple encryption would make me feel better about those voip calls I'm essentially sending in the clear over a public network.
The net is a very public network considering, and especially considering how many protocols are plaintext cheap encryption (pref in hardware) seems like it should be required. It's past the proof of concept stage, just having it work at all isn't enough anymore.
This story makes the tin-foil hats cry out for tin-foil hats, wow.
Firstly: have each ap have a programmable text location in case the handset dialer dials e911. Make it part of the setup app that you should fill this address in if you want voip to work properly, but can be disabled if the owner overrides it.
Second: This is so over-the-top paranoid gay, why not say all ip-addresses have to have full gps location tags with each packet (which is close to what this means). "Hey user_bob01, wave at the sky, you're on keyhole camera!". I understand there is a risk of criminal use, but add a little control to the server side so if a number is being used it can be tracked to it's ip and you can guess where that is from the geoip tables. This shouldn't happen often enough for this to be regulated.
Man the FCC is going psycho lately, wtf? Do I have to worry that my next cellphone will rfid tag my balls when i put it in my pocket?
dude, im concerned it's running windows iis, wtf? they don't have enough security procedures to worry about?
"Postpone the north korea strike next month, we have a big patch cycle."
Mayhaps Eisenhower overestimated that whole "military-industrial complex" thing, cong military-intelligence.
base 4. started using base 4 math in my head as an experiment a few years ago, so much easier, makes hex trivial. all addition has 4 possibilities, add quarter, add half, add 3/4 or shift up. the human brain is better at thinking in quarters than percents or 1/8'ths or 1/60's, whatever. seriously try it, takes like a day to figure out, and you can upconvert to hex by just grouping digits on top of each other ex.
0 3 2f = 2 3
just my 2c, but made math hella easier, and helps even more with higher dimensional math because you can visualize and manipulate halves and quarters much better than 2/5 and 7/10.
Be afraid of kids in net cafes, actually you know we should just censor the whole internet. Not like it really went anywhere anyway, it's mostly child porn. Do we really need that much spam?
Terrorists and movie pirates write all the world virus's you know, that's how identity theft works, they take your credit card number online and buy guns with it. I think we should just go to walmart, it's just more safe and american.
I mean before you just had to worry about all the 50 yr olds trying to have sex with your children, now you have to worry about them running away and becoming terrorists and suicide bombers? That's how 7/7 happened in britain, they all found this suicide bomb page on the internet and some kids made the bombs in their apartments. That's how these terrorists find kids to die for them.
Next week: How college brainwashes you into an atheistic communist radical.
they have a monopoly on the copper, and the costs to do a new copper infra are insane, moreso if you want to do it right and go fiber. covering the core metros with fiber might be doable though, but I know SA, if you even consider doing something the incumbent whatever doesn't love, a law will get passed, somehow. fiber only importable by telkom? it's possible.
one of the arguments for dual-cores is that gfx processing is cpu intensive. the unreal guys said transferring the gfx software overhead to the second core could free up something like 30% of the primary core for ai/audio etc.
it's not trivial. opengl is actually much more efficient in this respect than d3d last i checked. d3d is just easier to program in most of the time, and some of the features come free.
can't really, large part of what makes opengl opengl is driver based, and if that goes its basically either soft rendering or direct3d translation.
yell at nvidia and ati to keep their gl implementations, christ nvidia has tons invested in gl, they won't want it to die, pressure them to support it natively.
NVOGL.sys could take care of everything, vendor based opengl is ugly and not completely compatible, but will be faster than ms's crap, and more suited to the hardware. maybe innovation starts again?
ooh! was it the canon sd500? i heard great things before i got it. you know they are so small, and like you just always wish you had a camera around when you don't bring one. ooh, and the battery lasts forever. it has all those great manual features, which i don't understand, but it's nice theyre there. oh, and (insert spouse here) loves to take movies of the girls at ballet. i mean it's just such a great camera, if you're in the market.
my god, that is what passes for polite conversation nowadays.
I'm sorry I have to do this. It's nothing personal. I deserve your scorn.
I felt like I lost 343 brothers on 9/11.
What bothers me most is the reaction TO 9/11 by others. Specifically I'm referring to actions taken by our government, done in knee-jerk fashion, which accomplish nothing and will infringe on the freedoms that Americans consider their natural birthright, for many years to come. Things like the Patriot Act, that thing authoring the director of DHS to do basically anything he wants, etc., in the name of the "War on Terror."
Too true, nothing as self-servingly inhumane as invoking other people's emotional tragedy to politicize and justify ones beliefs.
a: a lot of consumer electronics stores have very limited return policies. compusa in particular charges 15% restocking on non-defective opened items. Which I can understand because the laptop renting problem was huge a few years ago. exchanges only is a bit harsh, but could work, more likely a modification to the consumer "loyalty card" idea where you have to show valid id to return something which can be tracked back to you if you screw them. even if not enforced it scares the hell out of teenagers (nothing worse than your folks finding out).
2: moral what? honestly nowadays owning neat things is worth far more than being a good person. seriously, the guy who shows off his new camera at a party gets more attention than the guy who did 4 hours of charity work last weekend. sucks, but thats what you get when you let tv turn your country into a consumer culture.
Of all the new, next-gen consoles, with HDTV support and dolby digital+ sound, just guess how many are going to be hooked up to an old color tv with an rf adapter.
I'm in no hurry to replace my PS2/XBox/Gamecube. Why is everyone else rushing to do so?
duh! they, like told us to! obviously the previous, inferior products are like totally lame and stuff, what are you, like stupid? i mean those consoles can't even do... whatever... whatever the new ones do, whatever! moron.
I'm going to have to agree, and disagree. While I agree more freedoms generally lead to less terror
a: in many "democratic experiments" lead by america over the years, the governments actual democracy lasted on average 2 years, before a authoritarian leader managed to get elected, rewrite/bypass the constitution, and generally send the whole mess back to hell. (see africa, s. america, etc) 2: The key about democratic freedom is, you have to want it more than anything else, by an overwhelming majority, before it achieves real stability. some countries in the gulf are not near, but slowly approaching that point. i believe qatar allows women to vote and drive now. I do not see afghanistan reaching that point in the near future, and iraq is too early to tell. by in large the countries that value "true islamic values" the most tend to be the least welcoming of democracy, because it is relatively incompatible with the firm and authoritative brand of islam they follow.
basically, i can't see ultra-conservative muslims accepting democracy, if you understand the culture, the two concepts are nearly diametrically opposed. the key ideal of democracy is that all beings are created equal, and the implied all beings have worth. fundamentalist islam tends more towards the worth of the socially successful muslim, with the most prosperous member of the village/tribe/town being seen as patriarch, and the lesser members seen as servants of village/tribe/town, but not of great worth in and of themselves.
I have a lot of experience with the culture, so I'm not trying to make blind stereotypes, but the humanist viewpoint of the renaissance has not moved far beyond the west, and the middle east, as well as much of the far east, still see children as the servants of society until they have proven themselves and become adults of authority. read sharia law sometime.
With 3 or 4 decades of stability under some benevolent rulers, perhaps these countries could reach the point of becoming representative democracies, but not now, unless those democracies are imposed upon them by force (ironic).
It's easy to see the solution to the middle east until you understand the people. Some problems simply need to be grown out of.
These people that you defend are against all civilization. They've studied Stalin and Mao and understand the importance of destroying the past. Why do you think the Taliban destroyed Buddist shrines that have stood for a milennia.
oh?
so, its wrong, its horrible, the terrorists should die horrible, painful deaths, especially in their pee-pees.
ok?
they should die. they should die. they should die.
i hope they all die, horribly, like fed into one of those farm machines with all the horrible teeth that make wheat or tear cows into slim-jims.
should i try to be clearer?
ok, now while i stick by my previous point, we should not be doing stupid things that, hey, create those same bastards. saddam hussein got in power because we put him there specifically. we supported his candidacy, looked the other way when he killed his opposition (very democratic of us btw), endorsed and armed him, and just generally were his best friends till kuwait. the fact that we all did an about face and called him the anti-christ after he invaded kuwait is just humorous to me.
we did evil in creating them, and, even though i am not religious like this, our evil returned in the form of terrorism. OBL was such an effective terrorist in afghanistan, how odd, i wonder where he learned to do that?
we weren't wrong in supporting the fighters, but a: it was not a wholly selfless and charitable act, and 2: those fighters we supported? they we bad ppl. and reading the next paragraph down in your argument:
But declaring the savages who would merrily rape your wife and butcher your children on television for the sake of a spectacle justified is nothing short of treason. Treason against your nation, culture and civilized humanity.
These people that you defend are against all civilization. They've studied Stalin and Mao and understand the importance of destroying the past. Why do you think the Taliban destroyed Buddist shrines that have stood for a milennia.
Whether we are "good" or not, Bin Laden and his cronies are the enemy, and are the enemy of all civilized men. The sooner their ilk are exterminated from the earth, the better.
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Conversely, selling 20 million $200 operating systems every 2 years is better than selling 1 million $1000 computers, considering the margins leave about $250 profit.
M$ learned this lesson a long time ago, only chumps sell hardware. The profit margin on a cdr and small pamphlet is much higher.
err, yes but your assumption assumes that people believe voip and similar apps are secure now? haven't heard vonage blast on it's latest marketing campaign "oh yeah, btw don't do banking by phone on this, because you can get screwed."
if nobody knows how is it more secure than bad encryption?
otherwise i'd agree.
so... great, but why aren't most tcp streams encrypted by default? the client side load is negligable, and there is a lot of acceleration available server-side. Even relatively simple encryption would make me feel better about those voip calls I'm essentially sending in the clear over a public network.
The net is a very public network considering, and especially considering how many protocols are plaintext cheap encryption (pref in hardware) seems like it should be required. It's past the proof of concept stage, just having it work at all isn't enough anymore.
This story makes the tin-foil hats cry out for tin-foil hats, wow.
Firstly: have each ap have a programmable text location in case the handset dialer dials e911. Make it part of the setup app that you should fill this address in if you want voip to work properly, but can be disabled if the owner overrides it.
Second: This is so over-the-top paranoid gay, why not say all ip-addresses have to have full gps location tags with each packet (which is close to what this means). "Hey user_bob01, wave at the sky, you're on keyhole camera!". I understand there is a risk of criminal use, but add a little control to the server side so if a number is being used it can be tracked to it's ip and you can guess where that is from the geoip tables. This shouldn't happen often enough for this to be regulated.
Man the FCC is going psycho lately, wtf? Do I have to worry that my next cellphone will rfid tag my balls when i put it in my pocket?
dude, im concerned it's running windows iis, wtf? they don't have enough security procedures to worry about? "Postpone the north korea strike next month, we have a big patch cycle." Mayhaps Eisenhower overestimated that whole "military-industrial complex" thing, cong military-intelligence.
Wow, my heart really goes out to that half-trillion dollar monopoly.
"McBain! How do you sleep at night?"
"On top of a large pile of money with many beautiful women."
base 4. started using base 4 math in my head as an experiment a few years ago, so much easier, makes hex trivial. all addition has 4 possibilities, add quarter, add half, add 3/4 or shift up. the human brain is better at thinking in quarters than percents or 1/8'ths or 1/60's, whatever. seriously try it, takes like a day to figure out, and you can upconvert to hex by just grouping digits on top of each other
ex.
0 3
2f = 2 3
just my 2c, but made math hella easier, and helps even more with higher dimensional math because you can visualize and manipulate halves and quarters much better than 2/5 and 7/10.
Ooh, computers, terrorists, BOOM!
Be afraid of kids in net cafes, actually you know we should just censor the whole internet. Not like it really went anywhere anyway, it's mostly child porn. Do we really need that much spam?
Terrorists and movie pirates write all the world virus's you know, that's how identity theft works, they take your credit card number online and buy guns with it. I think we should just go to walmart, it's just more safe and american.
I mean before you just had to worry about all the 50 yr olds trying to have sex with your children, now you have to worry about them running away and becoming terrorists and suicide bombers? That's how 7/7 happened in britain, they all found this suicide bomb page on the internet and some kids made the bombs in their apartments. That's how these terrorists find kids to die for them.
Next week: How college brainwashes you into an atheistic communist radical.
they have a monopoly on the copper, and the costs to do a new copper infra are insane, moreso if you want to do it right and go fiber. covering the core metros with fiber might be doable though, but I know SA, if you even consider doing something the incumbent whatever doesn't love, a law will get passed, somehow. fiber only importable by telkom? it's possible.
my condolences for your country.
hehe, he means porn, hehe.
one of the arguments for dual-cores is that gfx processing is cpu intensive. the unreal guys said transferring the gfx software overhead to the second core could free up something like 30% of the primary core for ai/audio etc.
it's not trivial. opengl is actually much more efficient in this respect than d3d last i checked. d3d is just easier to program in most of the time, and some of the features come free.
can't really, large part of what makes opengl opengl is driver based, and if that goes its basically either soft rendering or direct3d translation.
yell at nvidia and ati to keep their gl implementations, christ nvidia has tons invested in gl, they won't want it to die, pressure them to support it natively.
NVOGL.sys could take care of everything, vendor based opengl is ugly and not completely compatible, but will be faster than ms's crap, and more suited to the hardware. maybe innovation starts again?
god, i just hope they keep the name. when an admin wants to check his server status:
"hold on i gotta fire up gonad".
then this is for you.
ooh! was it the canon sd500? i heard great things before i got it. you know they are so small, and like you just always wish you had a camera around when you don't bring one. ooh, and the battery lasts forever. it has all those great manual features, which i don't understand, but it's nice theyre there. oh, and (insert spouse here) loves to take movies of the girls at ballet. i mean it's just such a great camera, if you're in the market.
my god, that is what passes for polite conversation nowadays.
Too true, nothing as self-servingly inhumane as invoking other people's emotional tragedy to politicize and justify ones beliefs.
a: a lot of consumer electronics stores have very limited return policies. compusa in particular charges 15% restocking on non-defective opened items. Which I can understand because the laptop renting problem was huge a few years ago. exchanges only is a bit harsh, but could work, more likely a modification to the consumer "loyalty card" idea where you have to show valid id to return something which can be tracked back to you if you screw them. even if not enforced it scares the hell out of teenagers (nothing worse than your folks finding out).
2: moral what? honestly nowadays owning neat things is worth far more than being a good person. seriously, the guy who shows off his new camera at a party gets more attention than the guy who did 4 hours of charity work last weekend. sucks, but thats what you get when you let tv turn your country into a consumer culture.
Yeah, but they see people kinda differently.
a: men are supposedly more industrious
2: less kids (they have a bit of a problem with that you know)
stupid, but surprisingly practical in a completely evil sort of way.
Here's some irony for you:
Of all the new, next-gen consoles, with HDTV support and dolby digital+ sound, just guess how many are going to be hooked up to an old color tv with an rf adapter.
I mean it damn you, GUESS!
progress: It's like fun, only it sucks.
Wow! Now I get a choice?
duh! they, like told us to! obviously the previous, inferior products are like totally lame and stuff, what are you, like stupid? i mean those consoles can't even do... whatever... whatever the new ones do, whatever! moron.
i prefer faith in the laws of thermodynamics, they tend to be a mite less fickle, and don't have people coming on tv to ask for money all the time.
I'm going to have to agree, and disagree. While I agree more freedoms generally lead to less terror
a: in many "democratic experiments" lead by america over the years, the governments actual democracy lasted on average 2 years, before a authoritarian leader managed to get elected, rewrite/bypass the constitution, and generally send the whole mess back to hell. (see africa, s. america, etc)
2: The key about democratic freedom is, you have to want it more than anything else, by an overwhelming majority, before it achieves real stability. some countries in the gulf are not near, but slowly approaching that point. i believe qatar allows women to vote and drive now. I do not see afghanistan reaching that point in the near future, and iraq is too early to tell. by in large the countries that value "true islamic values" the most tend to be the least welcoming of democracy, because it is relatively incompatible with the firm and authoritative brand of islam they follow.
basically, i can't see ultra-conservative muslims accepting democracy, if you understand the culture, the two concepts are nearly diametrically opposed. the key ideal of democracy is that all beings are created equal, and the implied all beings have worth. fundamentalist islam tends more towards the worth of the socially successful muslim, with the most prosperous member of the village/tribe/town being seen as patriarch, and the lesser members seen as servants of village/tribe/town, but not of great worth in and of themselves.
I have a lot of experience with the culture, so I'm not trying to make blind stereotypes, but the humanist viewpoint of the renaissance has not moved far beyond the west, and the middle east, as well as much of the far east, still see children as the servants of society until they have proven themselves and become adults of authority. read sharia law sometime.
With 3 or 4 decades of stability under some benevolent rulers, perhaps these countries could reach the point of becoming representative democracies, but not now, unless those democracies are imposed upon them by force (ironic).
It's easy to see the solution to the middle east until you understand the people. Some problems simply need to be grown out of.
my thoughts at least
mmmmm, crack /drool
roflmao.
i'm sorry, that was a very good and serious post, but the thought of cruel, racist canadian's is a hard one to wrap my head around.
i guess you belong in the "also human" catagory too then.
maybe closer to the top tho, you guys make some fine beer.
oh?
ok?
they should die. they should die. they should die.
i hope they all die, horribly, like fed into one of those farm machines with all the horrible teeth that make wheat or tear cows into slim-jims.
should i try to be clearer?
ok, now while i stick by my previous point, we should not be doing stupid things that, hey, create those same bastards. saddam hussein got in power because we put him there specifically. we supported his candidacy, looked the other way when he killed his opposition (very democratic of us btw), endorsed and armed him, and just generally were his best friends till kuwait. the fact that we all did an about face and called him the anti-christ after he invaded kuwait is just humorous to me.
we did evil in creating them, and, even though i am not religious like this, our evil returned in the form of terrorism. OBL was such an effective terrorist in afghanistan, how odd, i wonder where he learned to do that?
we weren't wrong in supporting the fighters, but
a: it was not a wholly selfless and charitable act, and
2: those fighters we supported? they we bad ppl. and reading the next paragraph down in your argument:
blockquote is a fun tag.