While this is true, if Linux had a spyware problem, patches would be released quickly, and an anti-spyware system would be developed quickly and open source. And then it would be ported to Darwin/BSD, and Mac users would get it with a pretty GUI, also for free. And since it's free, you can experiment with them to find the best with no monetary investment. Heck, it'd probably have plugins and a dynamically updated database of allowed programs.
Only in the Windows world is necessary stuff like this upwards of $50 a license.
It's not just the South my friend. I live in 'flyover' PA (between Pittsburgh and Philly) and I have two options for Internet, one for cable, and one for phone service. I hear a lot of/.ers talking about "just switching" service and I think 'better the devil you know than the devil you don't.'
That's also BS. My boss was amazed that, for the first time ever, someone accepted the 'invitations' that get sent out when he schedules meetings in Outlook. Why? Because I was running OS X and Mail opened the event, added it to iCal, and responded to it. I tried the same thing in Thunderbird with the Calendar extension, and it worked the same.
Water vapor is a greenhouse gas, but it's one that condenses and falls out of the sky, which is precisely the opposite of what we want it to do on Mars.
I think, therefore I am. Therefore, if I no longer think, I no longer exist. If I'm brain dead, you can take whatever you want from me. The thing that made me unique and made me a person is gone. If my face can make someone else happy, let them have it, because I am no longer capable of anything.
Choice is often seen as a good thing, and if a little choice is good, a lot of choice must be better. But when the human mind can only hold 7 (+/-2) things in "RAM" at a time, having too many choices just increases the stress of making the choice. The problem arises because people don't want to choose the wrong thing.
Therefore, all systems that involve human choice should default to the best option for the individual that has to make the decision, and shouldn't have more than 10 options. If there are more than that, you should split it into sub categories.
So the Food Network is useless beef? What about Animal Planet or the National Geographic channel or the DIY network? I'm pretty sure most people don't watch the Discovery Channel, at least not enough to make it stand on its own, but I can't imagine a world without MythBusters.
It's not expensive if you don't have to pay any monthly fees. That's what's keeping me from buying a TiVo. I'd rather spend $500 once than $49 now and $250+ for the life of the machine from a company that could be out of business in a year.
I had the idea to use SETI data, which is available in XML form and is essentially just radio static, in a random number generator. Using a pseudo-random number generator and the string in the XML space, select a string of a given length from a given position, and that's pretty damn easy to do. Ten or eleven lines of PHP could do it.
Okay, an ET would have to get a copy of the SETI@Home software to figure out how to hack it. To do that, they'd have to come to Earth and download it. Now, there are trillions of tons of material in outer space, all the same as the stuff here on earth. If an alien intelligence has the ability to cross light years of space, why would they need to land on our planet to infect us with a virus to take out our defenses when they could just as easily land on Mars, Europa, Titan, and any number of asteroids and Kuiper belt objects to get the same stuff, without all the hassle of hacking our systems and fighting a war? If they can travel through space, they'll probably find other worlds just like ours, but not crawling with apes that think they know everything.
We need to get one thing through our thick, ape-like skulls: We are not special. We're just a very specific combination of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen (and other stuff) that can be worried about invasions from outer space.
A long time ago, the prevailing theory was that the Earth was the center of the universe. Now we know that we're not physically the center of the universe, just a mediocre planet circling a mediocre star in a mediocre galaxy. We just need to learn that we're also not the intellectual center of the universe.
Wolfenstein 3D and Doom aren't seminal. Marathon was seminal. It was the first one that actually had a story and puzzles to figure out. Wolfenstein and Doom aren't even in Marathon's league when it comes to gameplay.
Are you upset that your prominence in the show went downhill after you brought Kari on board? Cause you know most geeks are tuning in to see the hot redhead, not you two goofs.
Don't waste your breath (bits? electrons?) on explaining projects that enhance the common good to these people. They're Randists that have been beaten with the myth of 'the invisble hand of the market place.' In their mind, people shouldn't expect the government to build roads, let alone create jobs through direct economic stimulus.
So nobody should live anywhere that has a remote possiblity of anything ever going wrong. And if something does go wrong, well, then it's their fault, right? I mean, they shouldn't have lived there. Just like those damn poor people. If they have such a problem with not having enough to eat, they should have been born to rich parents just like the rest of us.
Build a MythTV system. Seriously. I've never done it, but a friend of mine, who's got a lot fewer skills than me, had one up and running in less than three hours, for under $400.
It's not good at keeping you focused. I never had a laptop in class and I still wasn't focused. I would doodle, do homework, figure out other problems, read ahead, read other books.
As a Mac user, I cringe when I see those ads for "value-added" services on broadband ISPs. Things like MSN virus scanner and Rhapsody aren't available for Macs. I can imagine a lot of people getting the idea that broadband doesn't work with Macs, especially because the installers have told me that themselves, and the support people are Mac illiterate.
If it weren't for the cable/DSL monopolies in most areas, I would think there would be a great market for just bandwidth for a minimum price. The Southwest Airlines of the broadband industry. Just like SouthWest Airlines cuts costs to give you a seat in a tube moving at 500 mph, this company would skip all the value added services and give you an IP address on a connection moving at a few Mbps. Symmetrically, of course.
And thank god we're still getting our own IP addresses. If we weren't, you couldn't SSH home to get some files you need, or set up WebDAV to share calendars.
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Only in the Windows world is necessary stuff like this upwards of $50 a license.
It's not just the South my friend. I live in 'flyover' PA (between Pittsburgh and Philly) and I have two options for Internet, one for cable, and one for phone service. I hear a lot of /.ers talking about "just switching" service and I think 'better the devil you know than the devil you don't.'
That's also BS. My boss was amazed that, for the first time ever, someone accepted the 'invitations' that get sent out when he schedules meetings in Outlook. Why? Because I was running OS X and Mail opened the event, added it to iCal, and responded to it. I tried the same thing in Thunderbird with the Calendar extension, and it worked the same.
We heard about this same sort of thing hundreds of times. The editors really need to read the articles more carefully...
Water vapor is a greenhouse gas, but it's one that condenses and falls out of the sky, which is precisely the opposite of what we want it to do on Mars.
"There is a problem with the database. Please try again later"
Real great stuff they got there...
I think, therefore I am. Therefore, if I no longer think, I no longer exist. If I'm brain dead, you can take whatever you want from me. The thing that made me unique and made me a person is gone. If my face can make someone else happy, let them have it, because I am no longer capable of anything.
If I ever see anyone wearing MP3 player sunglasses I'm going to smack them. And this is coming from someone with a Bluetooth headset.
Therefore, all systems that involve human choice should default to the best option for the individual that has to make the decision, and shouldn't have more than 10 options. If there are more than that, you should split it into sub categories.
Where do you get cable that offers 403 channels for $30/month? I can't get basic for less than $40!
So the Food Network is useless beef? What about Animal Planet or the National Geographic channel or the DIY network? I'm pretty sure most people don't watch the Discovery Channel, at least not enough to make it stand on its own, but I can't imagine a world without MythBusters.
Shit. I'm 24 and I want freedom without responsibility. Know anybody who can hook me up with that?
It's not expensive if you don't have to pay any monthly fees. That's what's keeping me from buying a TiVo. I'd rather spend $500 once than $49 now and $250+ for the life of the machine from a company that could be out of business in a year.
I had the idea to use SETI data, which is available in XML form and is essentially just radio static, in a random number generator. Using a pseudo-random number generator and the string in the XML space, select a string of a given length from a given position, and that's pretty damn easy to do. Ten or eleven lines of PHP could do it.
We need to get one thing through our thick, ape-like skulls: We are not special. We're just a very specific combination of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen (and other stuff) that can be worried about invasions from outer space.
A long time ago, the prevailing theory was that the Earth was the center of the universe. Now we know that we're not physically the center of the universe, just a mediocre planet circling a mediocre star in a mediocre galaxy. We just need to learn that we're also not the intellectual center of the universe.
Wolfenstein 3D and Doom aren't seminal. Marathon was seminal. It was the first one that actually had a story and puzzles to figure out. Wolfenstein and Doom aren't even in Marathon's league when it comes to gameplay.
Are you upset that your prominence in the show went downhill after you brought Kari on board? Cause you know most geeks are tuning in to see the hot redhead, not you two goofs.
Sincerely,
NardofDoom
Don't waste your breath (bits? electrons?) on explaining projects that enhance the common good to these people. They're Randists that have been beaten with the myth of 'the invisble hand of the market place.' In their mind, people shouldn't expect the government to build roads, let alone create jobs through direct economic stimulus.
/sarcasm
Build a MythTV system. Seriously. I've never done it, but a friend of mine, who's got a lot fewer skills than me, had one up and running in less than three hours, for under $400.
It's not good at keeping you focused. I never had a laptop in class and I still wasn't focused. I would doodle, do homework, figure out other problems, read ahead, read other books.
If it weren't for the cable/DSL monopolies in most areas, I would think there would be a great market for just bandwidth for a minimum price. The Southwest Airlines of the broadband industry. Just like SouthWest Airlines cuts costs to give you a seat in a tube moving at 500 mph, this company would skip all the value added services and give you an IP address on a connection moving at a few Mbps. Symmetrically, of course.
And thank god we're still getting our own IP addresses. If we weren't, you couldn't SSH home to get some files you need, or set up WebDAV to share calendars.
I'd say for the next 50 years it'll slowly decline. Then we all better start learning Mandarin.
And that's only if the screen is black and white. You need three bits of information per pixel for color.