I'm sorry I'm too busy to provide free tech support for the malware in my signature. Can you do me a favor and break your computer into pieces with a hammer yourself?
Cory Doctorow had a recent article about this: When he was an unknown artist and released his books for free, critics said it only works because he has nothing to lose; today the same critics say that it only works because he is already famous -- you can't have it both ways!
Cory Doctorow is a bit like Fox News - his reporting is highly selective and his journalistic standards are poor. However he's popular with people because what he says agrees with their preconceptions about the world.
Chrome is controlled by Google though. They are significantly more evil than Mozilla and possibly more evil than Microsoft. Therefore it is possible that Chrome will not suffer from bitrot.
So please, people, stop bitching about whether viruses are strictly classified as living organisms; it is not important in the context of the experiment.
That's what people said about slaves back in the civil war, or Jews in Nazi Germany - stop bitching, it's not important if they're classified as human or not.
I had a friend who was studying Physics and he said that the collapse of the wave function is a change in the knowledge of the observer, not of reality.
I'd say alive means something that has all the machinery to eat and reproduce. Viruses, as others have pointed out are basically a protein package containing some DNA or RNA. That packet was made by a cell and its purpose is to infect another cell to make more viruses. Cells are alive, viruses are just information.
There a 4GB per file limit, which is a fundamental limit of FAT32. The 32GB per volume limit is just Microsoft's way of encouraging people to use NTFS.
It would be like if a spy stole your car without you knowing and put a bomb in the trunk. Then he returned the car to you and tipped of the police who obtained a warrant, found the bomb and busted you. You'd sit in jail for twenty years and then they'd release and deport you to Libya as part of a trade deal on the grounds you were dying of cancer even though you explained repeatedly that you were not in fact from there.
Actually Circular polarization works better than linear polarization because the viewers can tilt their heads without seeing a mix of the left and right images
Really, the way an emulator works is pretty simple. It's just a state machine with a large section of memory. It's very easy to control which states that machine can enter, and to make sure that "exploiting a hole" is impossible. Even the app (the emulator) is incapable of running arbitrary code on the iPhone; it has to stay within the public API.
People have found exploits for things like the JVM is an emulator and which should be a lot more secure by design than native code like this emulator. Anyway good emulators are not just interpreters - a lot of them will JIT code from the instruction set they are emulating to native. If you can convince the JITer to generate code that jumps into the middle of data you control, you have your exploit.
Security? No, they want control. There's a difference. Apple has always had control over their platforms. The iPhone is just an attempt to provide more functionality for less work, while maintaining the same control they've had over their other platforms.
Well yeah, there is that. Of course this way they get paid when you install the Roms too, not just the emulator.
I have an iPod Touch. It's a wonderful gadget, and I can have some real fun with it jailbroken!
I dunno. I've got a iPod touch and Sony Ericsson X1. I much prefer the MP3 player on my X1. Then again if I didn't I could choose from a lot of alternatives. And if wanted an emulator there are loads for WinMo. Of course the UI is not as polished as Apple. Still even that is replaceable.
Given Apple's (misguided) obsession with security it has to be this way - otherwise someone could create a diskimage that exploits a buffer overflow in the emulator to run native code and thus jailbreak the phone.
Windows has support for worker threads for decades. It's not hard to design your Windows application to have pass a structure into a thread to do time consuming tasks. Still I see a lot that freeze up completely doing something which obviously could take a long time worst case.
That is a deliberately misleading statement. Shame on you for using it.
Corporations have rights as persons. The distinction of "natural persons" is silly. It should be that persons are human beings. Period. Calling corporations "persons" (but not "natural persons") leads to a class system were some "persons" (corporations) have rights/indemnities that actual human persons do not.
I have a dream! A dream where all Americans, both corporate and human, have the same rights. Where Americans are value for their strength of spirit, not in the number of individuals that constitute them. Where a corporate American can run for the Presidency and other corporate Americans can vote for it.
Brothers, sisters and corporations, I have a dream!
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I'm sorry I'm too busy to provide free tech support for the malware in my signature. Can you do me a favor and break your computer into pieces with a hammer yourself?
Whoosh.
Or should that be Wooosh?
He's making a joke about grammar pendantry.
I quite agree. I'm running build 16387 and it is very sta
Does using a beige PC for parallel-processing come with a "pharmaceutical gift"?
Most PC users have to pay for their pharmaceuticals as far as I can see.
Cory Doctorow had a recent article about this: When he was an unknown artist and released his books for free, critics said it only works because he has nothing to lose; today the same critics say that it only works because he is already famous -- you can't have it both ways!
Cory Doctorow is a bit like Fox News - his reporting is highly selective and his journalistic standards are poor. However he's popular with people because what he says agrees with their preconceptions about the world.
Chrome is controlled by Google though. They are significantly more evil than Mozilla and possibly more evil than Microsoft. Therefore it is possible that Chrome will not suffer from bitrot.
So please, people, stop bitching about whether viruses are strictly classified as living organisms; it is not important in the context of the experiment.
That's what people said about slaves back in the civil war, or Jews in Nazi Germany - stop bitching, it's not important if they're classified as human or not.
I had a friend who was studying Physics and he said that the collapse of the wave function is a change in the knowledge of the observer, not of reality.
Dude, when you meet people like this tell them to say "Percy". It gives their posts a nice Blackadder feel to them.
uh? it's not less alive, per-say
I think you should spell it Percy.
I'd say alive means something that has all the machinery to eat and reproduce. Viruses, as others have pointed out are basically a protein package containing some DNA or RNA. That packet was made by a cell and its purpose is to infect another cell to make more viruses. Cells are alive, viruses are just information.
True that. This free tool can format hard disks bigger than 32GB as FAT32, upto 2TB in fact
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/guiformat.htm
There's also a command line version
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/fat32format.htm
There a 4GB per file limit, which is a fundamental limit of FAT32. The 32GB per volume limit is just Microsoft's way of encouraging people to use NTFS.
EVERY DAY IS ANGRY GERMAN DAY, SCHWEINEHUND!
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
It would be like if a spy stole your car without you knowing and put a bomb in the trunk. Then he returned the car to you and tipped of the police who obtained a warrant, found the bomb and busted you. You'd sit in jail for twenty years and then they'd release and deport you to Libya as part of a trade deal on the grounds you were dying of cancer even though you explained repeatedly that you were not in fact from there.
Actually Circular polarization works better than linear polarization because the viewers can tilt their heads without seeing a mix of the left and right images
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy#Circularly_polarized_glasses
why isn't microsoft doing everything possible to destroy linux? Is this a "saved apple" moment all over again??
The plan will become clear to you in due time, young Skywalker.
We could give it a lust for POWER!
Really, the way an emulator works is pretty simple. It's just a state machine with a large section of memory. It's very easy to control which states that machine can enter, and to make sure that "exploiting a hole" is impossible. Even the app (the emulator) is incapable of running arbitrary code on the iPhone; it has to stay within the public API.
People have found exploits for things like the JVM is an emulator and which should be a lot more secure by design than native code like this emulator. Anyway good emulators are not just interpreters - a lot of them will JIT code from the instruction set they are emulating to native. If you can convince the JITer to generate code that jumps into the middle of data you control, you have your exploit.
Security? No, they want control. There's a difference. Apple has always had control over their platforms. The iPhone is just an attempt to provide more functionality for less work, while maintaining the same control they've had over their other platforms.
Well yeah, there is that. Of course this way they get paid when you install the Roms too, not just the emulator.
I have an iPod Touch. It's a wonderful gadget, and I can have some real fun with it jailbroken!
I dunno. I've got a iPod touch and Sony Ericsson X1. I much prefer the MP3 player on my X1. Then again if I didn't I could choose from a lot of alternatives. And if wanted an emulator there are loads for WinMo. Of course the UI is not as polished as Apple. Still even that is replaceable.
Given Apple's (misguided) obsession with security it has to be this way - otherwise someone could create a diskimage that exploits a buffer overflow in the emulator to run native code and thus jailbreak the phone.
Actually this is great too
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Image:Jesus-christ-is-a-lion-get-in-the-car.jpg
No, Harry Potter books are chock full of thinly-veiled homosexual metaphor.
http://www.bash.org/?111338
Nuff said.
Windows has support for worker threads for decades. It's not hard to design your Windows application to have pass a structure into a thread to do time consuming tasks. Still I see a lot that freeze up completely doing something which obviously could take a long time worst case.
That is a deliberately misleading statement. Shame on you for using it.
Corporations have rights as persons. The distinction of "natural persons" is silly. It should be that persons are human beings. Period. Calling corporations "persons" (but not "natural persons") leads to a class system were some "persons" (corporations) have rights/indemnities that actual human persons do not.
I have a dream! A dream where all Americans, both corporate and human, have the same rights. Where Americans are value for their strength of spirit, not in the number of individuals that constitute them. Where a corporate American can run for the Presidency and other corporate Americans can vote for it.
Brothers, sisters and corporations, I have a dream!