I'd happily buy licenses for software I use online to legalize the copies I obtained from other less legal routes. I wish more companies would let me do it.
An static IP4 address differs from water in some rather important ways though, don't you think?
I've got a static IP address with my Demon Internet account in the UK. Everywhere else it was dynamic. All the dynamic IP addresses I've seen look like real ones assigned to the ISP. Still it seems like there is nothing to stop the ISP giving me a private IP address and putting me behind a layer of address translation.
Now, like most people, I don't run any servers at home so I wouldn't notice if this was the case. In fact the router I got with my current DSL connection has NAT turned on and they don't give you the password for the administrator account, so there's no way to set up port forwarding now.
What I think will happen as IP4 addresses run out is that the ISP will use NAT inside the network so normal consumers have a private IP address assigned to their router. Of course that means no torrents and no servers. Business users will pay extra and get a public IP address, though of course there not the ones doing the torrenting.
Now my guess is that there's nothing in any contract you've signed in the last few years that commits the ISP to give you a statically allocated public IP address, so legally there's nothing to stop this.
I dunno. I worked for companies that demonstrated fake products. Well not exactly fake - we had working hardware and software, just that the working hardware was a big mass of board and didn't fit in the box and we still didn't have the CPU power to get more than about 60% of the performance we were supposed to get.
Now we went to great lengths to fake things at the trade show so we could keep the project going. I actually like the idea of tabloid hacks poking around and uncovering tricks like this, it keeps people honest.
Well either you can figure out how to fix it or you can start to ad lib about 'DRM, dimitry skylab, convicted monopolists'. The best thing about the second option is that you most likely won't get invited next time. Actually the best thing about this argument is that it can be used to explain why you can't fix Linux as well as Windows, even though everyone knows you 'work with computers'.
I suppose the good thing about the Dune universe is it seems quite self consistent, and it's not like there haven't been real societies like the Harkonnen. In fact the Roman attitude to slavery comes quite close. And the second best thing you can say about Dune universe is that it's so different from a normal sci fi setting and it seems like Herbert had worked out good reasons for that.
My favorite thing about Dune is the way that all the way through it seems like it is a future where the fundamentalists have won. More to the point there are persistent hints that it isn't the only future. The Ixians for example seem like they are a civilization descended from one that is much more like ours. Hell to some extend the Landsraad and Emperor Shaddam seem a bit like the way the Taliban saw the UN and US President. So when I was reading it I was always a bit skeptical of what the main characters were saying. Maybe they weren't actually heroes but were more like Middle Eastern fundamentalists. Of course the best thing about this parallel in fact is that back when Dune was written no one was seriously considering Islamic Fundamentalists as being a threat.
In fact some people have even wondered if bin Laden was inspired by Dune.
I was making a reference to Harkonnen heart plugs.
Mind you heart plugs always seemed a bit of a silly idea to me. If you wanted to off your slaves for disobedience, why not just shoot them? Also a society with slavery and Dune like levels of technology could probably prevent disobedience in the first place with some sort of brain implant.
Of course it's more cinematic, but it's the sort of idea that falls victim to fridge logic.
I read the Guardian amongst other UK papers for years. You can get a very warped view of reality if it's the only thing you read. Or to be less polite it's like Fox News in that it covers stories that fit its readers prejudices and doesn't cover ones that don't regardless of whether they are backed up by any evidence.
Actually most of the UK "quality" press is like this. Basically in the old days tabloids were entertainment and the quality press at least tried to report the news. Now all papers are entertainment. The only one that is any good is The Economist.
Of course I'm going to get modded down by a bunch of left wing Americans who see the world in "with us or against us" terms and The Guardian as being with them because they've seen a couple of articles criticizing Bush.
If Alex Jones could get the guy to come forward and there was proof that 1) he was a cop and 2) he'd been ordered to attack stuff and rough people up, then it would be a big story.
So either Alex Jones is crazy and making stuff up or he's not doing the legwork, Woodward and Bernstein style, to find proof. Either way what he's saying is not going to be taken seriously.
As much as they don't like to say it, UEFI is basically an operating system. UEFI supports byte code applications (that's right). It has a driver framework and drivers for many of your devices, a TCP/IP stack, etc...
I'm skeptical of EFI. It actually has a file system driver too - the OS boot loader is loaded from a FAT partition. There's a lot of possibility of bloatware in the byte code drivers too.
It seems to me that a typical PC BIOS spends most of its time waiting for ATA devices to identify themselves. BIOSs can be efficient if they don't do much in the way of testing - the only thing they need to do is load the first sector of the disk into memory and jump to it. Most modern BIOSs have a "plug and play OS" option which is set by default. That means they don't try to enumerate hardware - just do the bare minimum to set up the chipset, get the video card working and make sure the boot disk adapter is set up.
Actually my G1S laptop seems has a regular BIOS and it seems to get to the Windows loader screen pretty quickly - maybe couple of seconds. It's actually got a splash screen too in the meantime complete with animation and sound. Maybe the SATA spec has tightened up the requirements for identifying devices, or maybe the drive I have is just fast at starting.
I'm going to get modded to hell and back for this, but Microsoft never really did "innovation". What they did was "buy up competitors who innovate, and integrate the result poorly".
Wow you're right. Criticizing Microsoft for not innovating on slashdot. You're a brave man.
proprietary software on such a learning tool keeps it a mystery and probably will keep them afraid to do even simple things for fear of it locking up or breaking and requiring someone else to reinstall the software. Then, it's poof, magically fixed by a reinstallation and the feeling that you shouldn't do whatever you did to "cause this" again.
A lot of people, not a few of them in third world, know how to keep Windows boxes running for years without needing to keeping nuking them and reinstalling.
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Does anyone know a free VPN server in the US that had sufficient bandwidth to watch Hulu?
Well even if they did I guess it wouldn't have sufficient bandwidth if they posted it here. Catch 22!
Are you trying to imply Firefly was some sort of fiction?
I was being sarcastic and baiting the Obaaama followers.
I'd happily buy licenses for software I use online to legalize the copies I obtained from other less legal routes. I wish more companies would let me do it.
Dear commodore64_love,
We, Slashdot, are collectively tired of your immature rants. You are a Republican. You are unwanted. Go away.
A Republican! GET THE PITCHFORKS AND TORCHES!
An static IP4 address differs from water in some rather important ways though, don't you think?
I've got a static IP address with my Demon Internet account in the UK. Everywhere else it was dynamic. All the dynamic IP addresses I've seen look like real ones assigned to the ISP. Still it seems like there is nothing to stop the ISP giving me a private IP address and putting me behind a layer of address translation.
Now, like most people, I don't run any servers at home so I wouldn't notice if this was the case. In fact the router I got with my current DSL connection has NAT turned on and they don't give you the password for the administrator account, so there's no way to set up port forwarding now.
What I think will happen as IP4 addresses run out is that the ISP will use NAT inside the network so normal consumers have a private IP address assigned to their router. Of course that means no torrents and no servers. Business users will pay extra and get a public IP address, though of course there not the ones doing the torrenting.
Now my guess is that there's nothing in any contract you've signed in the last few years that commits the ISP to give you a statically allocated public IP address, so legally there's nothing to stop this.
I dunno. I worked for companies that demonstrated fake products. Well not exactly fake - we had working hardware and software, just that the working hardware was a big mass of board and didn't fit in the box and we still didn't have the CPU power to get more than about 60% of the performance we were supposed to get.
Now we went to great lengths to fake things at the trade show so we could keep the project going. I actually like the idea of tabloid hacks poking around and uncovering tricks like this, it keeps people honest.
Well either you can figure out how to fix it or you can start to ad lib about 'DRM, dimitry skylab, convicted monopolists'. The best thing about the second option is that you most likely won't get invited next time. Actually the best thing about this argument is that it can be used to explain why you can't fix Linux as well as Windows, even though everyone knows you 'work with computers'.
You're post is awesome
I guess.
I suppose the good thing about the Dune universe is it seems quite self consistent, and it's not like there haven't been real societies like the Harkonnen. In fact the Roman attitude to slavery comes quite close. And the second best thing you can say about Dune universe is that it's so different from a normal sci fi setting and it seems like Herbert had worked out good reasons for that.
My favorite thing about Dune is the way that all the way through it seems like it is a future where the fundamentalists have won. More to the point there are persistent hints that it isn't the only future. The Ixians for example seem like they are a civilization descended from one that is much more like ours. Hell to some extend the Landsraad and Emperor Shaddam seem a bit like the way the Taliban saw the UN and US President. So when I was reading it I was always a bit skeptical of what the main characters were saying. Maybe they weren't actually heroes but were more like Middle Eastern fundamentalists. Of course the best thing about this parallel in fact is that back when Dune was written no one was seriously considering Islamic Fundamentalists as being a threat.
In fact some people have even wondered if bin Laden was inspired by Dune.
I was making a reference to Harkonnen heart plugs.
Mind you heart plugs always seemed a bit of a silly idea to me. If you wanted to off your slaves for disobedience, why not just shoot them? Also a society with slavery and Dune like levels of technology could probably prevent disobedience in the first place with some sort of brain implant.
Of course it's more cinematic, but it's the sort of idea that falls victim to fridge logic.
Actually many people thing the pumps damaging blood cells might cause a horrifying side effect of bypass surgery called 'pump head'
http://heartdisease.about.com/cs/bypasssurgery/a/pumphead.htm
I'm going to equip all my minions with these things. With a remote off switch.
I think gophers would probably run cables underground.
What about HARM missiles aimed at enemy WiFi transmitters? How do you feel about those as a means to prevent unauthorized access to your network?
Actually IIRC possesives seem to work like that in all languages I've studied.
I read the Guardian amongst other UK papers for years. You can get a very warped view of reality if it's the only thing you read. Or to be less polite it's like Fox News in that it covers stories that fit its readers prejudices and doesn't cover ones that don't regardless of whether they are backed up by any evidence.
Actually most of the UK "quality" press is like this. Basically in the old days tabloids were entertainment and the quality press at least tried to report the news. Now all papers are entertainment. The only one that is any good is The Economist.
Of course I'm going to get modded down by a bunch of left wing Americans who see the world in "with us or against us" terms and The Guardian as being with them because they've seen a couple of articles criticizing Bush.
If Alex Jones could get the guy to come forward and there was proof that 1) he was a cop and 2) he'd been ordered to attack stuff and rough people up, then it would be a big story.
So either Alex Jones is crazy and making stuff up or he's not doing the legwork, Woodward and Bernstein style, to find proof. Either way what he's saying is not going to be taken seriously.
New BIOSs are UEFI.
As much as they don't like to say it, UEFI is basically an operating system. UEFI supports byte code applications (that's right). It has a driver framework and drivers for many of your devices, a TCP/IP stack, etc...
I'm skeptical of EFI. It actually has a file system driver too - the OS boot loader is loaded from a FAT partition. There's a lot of possibility of bloatware in the byte code drivers too.
It seems to me that a typical PC BIOS spends most of its time waiting for ATA devices to identify themselves. BIOSs can be efficient if they don't do much in the way of testing - the only thing they need to do is load the first sector of the disk into memory and jump to it. Most modern BIOSs have a "plug and play OS" option which is set by default. That means they don't try to enumerate hardware - just do the bare minimum to set up the chipset, get the video card working and make sure the boot disk adapter is set up.
Actually my G1S laptop seems has a regular BIOS and it seems to get to the Windows loader screen pretty quickly - maybe couple of seconds. It's actually got a splash screen too in the meantime complete with animation and sound. Maybe the SATA spec has tightened up the requirements for identifying devices, or maybe the drive I have is just fast at starting.
Windows 7 Server is coming and the downtime will lead to beetings that'll make your piss turn pink.
I reckon the people that feel this way are truer geeks than people that proclaim their geekery in public like this pair.
I'm going to get modded to hell and back for this, but Microsoft never really did "innovation". What they did was "buy up competitors who innovate, and integrate the result poorly".
Wow you're right. Criticizing Microsoft for not innovating on slashdot. You're a brave man.
There are many ethnic groups in the Republic of China, chink is only a valid racist slur for the Chinese people.
He also can't stop one of his paying customers reselling the code and undercutting him.
proprietary software on such a learning tool keeps it a mystery and probably will keep them afraid to do even simple things for fear of it locking up or breaking and requiring someone else to reinstall the software. Then, it's poof, magically fixed by a reinstallation and the feeling that you shouldn't do whatever you did to "cause this" again.
A lot of people, not a few of them in third world, know how to keep Windows boxes running for years without needing to keeping nuking them and reinstalling.