I would say that about Unix-based systems and software. Don't even dare to say that about Microsoft, Microsoft is more like the fake lego blocks that have been around. They look like they fit the standards but when you actually go to connect them, they don't align properly. Sure if you go and buy all kinds of fake lego blocks then they might work FOR YOU but as soon as you go play with another kid it doesn't fit right.
Unix-based systems (Linux, Unix, Mac OS X) are like Lego blocks and Lego Technics (I don't know if they're still around) but without the plans. You can do whatever you want with it, but somebody knowledgeable has to use it to actually build something that works. Any ol' kid can build SOMETHING with it.
Example: here at my job we have a mixed environment, 30 Mac's, 7 Linux and 3 Windows. Now out of the box, I can connect the Mac's and Linux machines to the directory and without issues they will start authenticating. For Windows, we are forced to use AD. So we set up Samba. Of course, the latest updates for Windows break some Samba functionality (nobody knew this off course) and all systems had to be rebound to the AD. Long story short, to evade this type of jokes (AD login would become randomly unresponsive on the Windows boxes but continue working on Mac/Linux) we installed pGina with the LDAP auth plugin, no more problems.
Our government isn't very afraid to use radioactive substances against their own population. They did it in the name of science, they will do it again in the name of anti-terrorists (after all, any town/group that defects from the official US viewpoint is a terrorist) or to contain disease or violence.
The solution is quite simple. Look at how it works today and compare it with Open Source software. A writer writes a book, then goes to a publisher who pays the writer and publishes it on dead-tree and/or digital format and then distributes it. The dead-tree format is not easy to copy page by page so those incomes are guaranteed.
The digital format however should be sold under a Creative Commons like license just like we do with open source pictures, music and software. Somebody else can take the book and make a copy of it and/or distribute it non-commercially thus adding to the distribution of the writer, if people like the book and want to read it anywhere else than their computer they aren't going to do it by printing each page out when they can get the book for $5-$10 elsewhere. Of course Stephen King isn't going to be able to sell his paperbacks anymore for $30-60 but that's the same as the music industry, an old business model and pricing that can't keep up with technological advancements and current economic forces. Next to that, the writer can set up his own copyright contract, if he wants to be a pain in the butt and not share his stuff, then that would be on him, if somebody wants to give a digital copy with each book, that's good too, that's on him too. At least you'll see people take back their own future in their own hands and not let the government hold their hand and use the governments' resources throughout the process.
If people commercially use or distribute your product then you can go after them for breach of contract just as much as you would do when somebody steals your software, music or pictures, after all at some point, somebody agreed to your license and either removed it or abused it, that's what courts are for and copyright law isn't going to help against such things.
Except that the current iteration of OOXML in Microsoft Office is not the OOXML that they submitted and changed throughout the ISO process. They implemented the 'old' OOXML and in the mean time they have deprecated lots of proprietary features that Office is actually using because nobody but Microsoft can implement those features (RenderLikeWord97 comes to mind).
I wonder who that might be. Maybe it's the Microsoft (Vista) fanboys, you think you're getting a hot date tonight but you end up getting screwed in the a$$
Never heard of a stack? Man, programming has come a long way since programming a TRS-80 with assembler. Core stack usually is referred to as doing a core dump stack trace. A core stack is how the program looks in memory up to a certain point (by design (breakpoint) or crash) and then you can output that and review it.
Who says? The government? Isn't the constitution to be used to protect us from such laws by the government?
Of course the scare about nuclear anything is going to be a major problem when argued before certain human judges and you almost can't legally procure the materials (although it is possible) but I don't think you should be held back from making your own nuclear weapons as long as you use them to protect yourself on your own grounds. If your neighbor should be affected then it becomes a problem.
The floppy drive was replaced long before the iMac and was initially replaced by a ZIP drive. If you have a PowerMac G3 or G4 you'll most likely see a 100 or 250MB ZIP drive, that's not a floppy. iMac's never had a floppy device and the last floppy drive for Apple products was found in 1998.
You can go to Belgium where the 2 major providers happily charge you $60 for a 3 Mbps/128 Kbps line with a 10GB down, 2GB up monthly download limit after which you're reset to a 40 Kbps line. Or you can go cheaper (~$30) and get a 2GB limit (lower bandwidth) or if you're dependent on social services the government pays for your 128/40 line with 100MB.
Either way, I think I'll stay with my fiber on 6 Mbps here for $30, no download limits (communal internet service at the place I rent). Yes, in the US. You can do it as well, talk to your neighbors and rent a T3 line for the neighborhood ($1500-2500), if you have 100 subscribers you pay $25/month for 45 Mbps shared, a lot better than a lot of providers out there.
There are no nerve endings in your brain so your brain won't feel probes sticking in it. The only pain you (or the monkey) might feel is when the skin on the head gets pierced and the vibrations of the drill into the skull and for that there are local anesthetics available.
Well, NASA (and other agencies) seem to enlist a lot of these armchair engineers lately in what is called contests for a prize and they have been highly successful (more than the in-house development over the last few decades).
What some of the armchair engineers here at/. seem to forget (and maybe a lot of them outside of/. too) is that the Moon doesn't have an atmosphere like earth and thus is constantly bombarded with small and large projectiles (that's why it's so much crater). Those projectiles range anywhere from (comparison) a bullet to a shotgun over to boulders (once in a while) and such things are highly unpredictable. So if you build any type of glass/metal structure (automated or not), I guess by the time you're done constructing you can start over again in the beginning trying to patch up. Also: we build houses here on earth and every single time, something goes wrong, is late or broken even with the best architects and contractors. Transfer that to a space where you can't readily replace your workers and where any mistake could result in a very cruel death (choking, starving,...) for people.
Well, if TPB was in clear violation of the law, why aren't they already behind bars? I'll tell you, because unlike here in America, you are still allowed to set up a site with moderated links to content where occasionally there might be illegal content (like Google but less automated).
We used to call it free speech, you know, that newfangled hippie thing the 'founding fathers' established. TPB and other content providers already had their servers pulled by overly active police forces being coerced by the American RIAA and that led to quite a public and international scandal with protests and everything. People over in Sweden still value their freedoms unlike you and are more patriotic than any US citizen it seems.
You mean approx. 100 years ago during what was called 'the war effort' where both military and civilian test subjects were used to test substances that were going to be used in the war to see whether or not it was going to have a bad effect on health (including but not limited to mustard gas, lead, polonium,...).
You can buy an external optical drive or as the keynote mentioned: you can use a remote disk drive (over wireless) to boot/re-install your Air. That last thing is a really nice feature and I hope it gets extended to other devices as well, too much mucking around and loops to get something to boot how you want it ever since BIOS (and thus it's DOS-like hooks and limitations) came out in the 80's. The EFI firmware allows for such extensions and Apple is really using it well here.
I don't live in Texas, I live in New York where it can also get pretty hot and pretty cold but using good isolation, curtains, a finished basement, fans to pump heat in/out the basement and double pane glass windows and storm doors I have to use my HVAC about 2 hours per day in the summer and my heat about 4 hours (in the weekends, in the week I'm at work so I don't have to run it as much) to maintain a temperature between 55 at night and 65 during the day (0-20 outside) in winter and 68-72 (80-90 outside) in summer.
I don't see why you would even have to run your HVAC during the peak hours, use the stored energy in and around your house to cool or heat your house. Your basement is probably quite cool in summer and hot (because the heater is there) during winter. I have my thermostat set to run my heat and hvac on full right before the peak hours and then I can maintain a decent temperature until late evening..
I live in the US and quite frankly, I've never seen one of these scanners. I wouldn't swipe my drivers license through it either for the reasons the article mentions. However, if you need to show ID, any ID will do. I myself always have my Permanent Resident card on me (it's also an ID, issued by the federal government nonetheless) as well as other things that state my birthdate and stuff.
If they want to know, they can manually check it, if they insist on entering my information in a database, too bad for them, I can drink a lot and don't mind dropping a $100 to eat and drink for two persons and I'm a good tipper too.
It would be highly entertaining to me too, only to see that we are going to either a monarchy (if the USA doesn't stand up for itself) or anarchy (if individuals start protesting). Either way, we lose.
That Clinton wins this election would not be surprising to me. She doesn't have anything that would actually attract voters except that she is female (and thus feminists would be attracted to that). But in the mean time we'll have Bush Sr., Mr. Clinton, Bush Jr., Mrs. Clinton, Jeb Bush, Miss Clinton which would lead to potentially almost 50 years of rule shared by 2 families. The kicker is that they are in both parties (Rep on one side and Dem on the other) but both families have had the same goals and supported the same ideas throughout (Wars for Oil, War on Drugs, Terrorism and Individual Rights, Patriot Act, DMCA).
All I know that the whole westerner world is ruled by the same spirit and controlled by the same persons. Any organization (UN, WTO,...) that could have any significance is ruled by the same powers with the same interests (UK and the US). The rest of the world is ruled by nuthead governments (Putin, China) and extreme religionists (Islam) or is divided too much to care (Europe, Africa)
-Let everybody strip naked or let them go through an MRI 3T scanner bore, all metals are bound to be ripped out -Chain everybody up by the neck and hands and put them on the belt -Automatically anal probe anyone as they pass by. You only need one size of probe, XXL, everybody will fit after their first time flying. -Let someone inspect teeth and feet and slap the butt as soon as they're done -Stack everybody on the plane and strap them in using the chains. About 1.5 square foot per person will do. -??? -Profit!
TCP/IP offloading is already done on-chip by several network cards. Spend $10-$50 more on a network card and you would get it. Off course a lot of TCP/IP is still handled in the kernel of the OS just because it is too flexible to be done on-chip. Off course, if you need more performance along the lines of firewalling or traffic shaping, you could get an external appliance that handles it.
The fact that the solution was given (and correctly so) here on Slashdot says something about the simplicity of a workaround. Heck, this solution is probably more simple and cheaper than building or using the actual original guidance system. And if you think Akabar doesn't know that, think again, "terrorists" (or should we just call them 'freedom fighters') are not dumb at all, they go study at universities you and me can't even afford to go to both in the US, UK and other places in Europe. Some of them are very good strategists, look at 9/11 and the outfall of it, I think they met and exceeded their goals by simply crashing 2 planes and killing about a 1000 people, they made all us westerners very scared (terrorized) and created the opportunity to slaughter a multiple of that number in a guerilla war. Domestic terrorists (the real threat according to me) for example the Unabomber had an IQ of 160-170, PhD and Masters in Mathematics and was before he started bombing an assistant professor in mathematics at a university.
Have you used 10.4 and 10.5 server yet? I did both (just did an install of 10.5 server) and I would recommend it to anyone. It's built on top of BSD and uses Apache and MySQL. I know in the past they didn't really have a marketshare in the server world simply because a) they were not flexible enough b) they had proprietary solutions to common problems.
The current 10.5 Server has much improved over 10.4. As in 10.4 you still had to use some command line to do advanced stuff, now a lot of that is moved into the interface without making it difficult (it's in a separate tab). Apple though is in a different market segment than most of us geeks. Apple is if you want to simply set up a shop with 0-500 users without fussing too much about the details. If you're small enough, you don't even need a sysadmin, just somebody that knows enough to click it together. It's flexible now too (as compared to before 10.2 since it still allows you to go into command line if you really want/need to. The best of both worlds.
Of course for larger shops that needs lots of performance out of a single box or have multiple locations and directories that need integrated and have the sysadmins to do it, Linux still beats the crap out of Mac OS X. Mac OS X is more in line with what you can do with a Windows server for a medium to large office but without the expensive licensing or rack-full of hardware.
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I would say that about Unix-based systems and software. Don't even dare to say that about Microsoft, Microsoft is more like the fake lego blocks that have been around. They look like they fit the standards but when you actually go to connect them, they don't align properly. Sure if you go and buy all kinds of fake lego blocks then they might work FOR YOU but as soon as you go play with another kid it doesn't fit right.
Unix-based systems (Linux, Unix, Mac OS X) are like Lego blocks and Lego Technics (I don't know if they're still around) but without the plans. You can do whatever you want with it, but somebody knowledgeable has to use it to actually build something that works. Any ol' kid can build SOMETHING with it.
Example: here at my job we have a mixed environment, 30 Mac's, 7 Linux and 3 Windows. Now out of the box, I can connect the Mac's and Linux machines to the directory and without issues they will start authenticating. For Windows, we are forced to use AD. So we set up Samba. Of course, the latest updates for Windows break some Samba functionality (nobody knew this off course) and all systems had to be rebound to the AD. Long story short, to evade this type of jokes (AD login would become randomly unresponsive on the Windows boxes but continue working on Mac/Linux) we installed pGina with the LDAP auth plugin, no more problems.
Manhattan Annex, Bikini Atoll, radioactive fallout from Nevada, fluoride tests in Massachusetts, Kingston, NY and Newburgh, NY say something to you? How about this: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE2DF163CF93BA35751C1A965958260
Our government isn't very afraid to use radioactive substances against their own population. They did it in the name of science, they will do it again in the name of anti-terrorists (after all, any town/group that defects from the official US viewpoint is a terrorist) or to contain disease or violence.
The solution is quite simple. Look at how it works today and compare it with Open Source software. A writer writes a book, then goes to a publisher who pays the writer and publishes it on dead-tree and/or digital format and then distributes it. The dead-tree format is not easy to copy page by page so those incomes are guaranteed.
The digital format however should be sold under a Creative Commons like license just like we do with open source pictures, music and software. Somebody else can take the book and make a copy of it and/or distribute it non-commercially thus adding to the distribution of the writer, if people like the book and want to read it anywhere else than their computer they aren't going to do it by printing each page out when they can get the book for $5-$10 elsewhere. Of course Stephen King isn't going to be able to sell his paperbacks anymore for $30-60 but that's the same as the music industry, an old business model and pricing that can't keep up with technological advancements and current economic forces. Next to that, the writer can set up his own copyright contract, if he wants to be a pain in the butt and not share his stuff, then that would be on him, if somebody wants to give a digital copy with each book, that's good too, that's on him too. At least you'll see people take back their own future in their own hands and not let the government hold their hand and use the governments' resources throughout the process.
If people commercially use or distribute your product then you can go after them for breach of contract just as much as you would do when somebody steals your software, music or pictures, after all at some point, somebody agreed to your license and either removed it or abused it, that's what courts are for and copyright law isn't going to help against such things.
Except that the current iteration of OOXML in Microsoft Office is not the OOXML that they submitted and changed throughout the ISO process. They implemented the 'old' OOXML and in the mean time they have deprecated lots of proprietary features that Office is actually using because nobody but Microsoft can implement those features (RenderLikeWord97 comes to mind).
1995 called, they want their and tags back
I wonder who that might be. Maybe it's the Microsoft (Vista) fanboys, you think you're getting a hot date tonight but you end up getting screwed in the a$$
Never heard of a stack? Man, programming has come a long way since programming a TRS-80 with assembler. Core stack usually is referred to as doing a core dump stack trace. A core stack is how the program looks in memory up to a certain point (by design (breakpoint) or crash) and then you can output that and review it.
Who says? The government? Isn't the constitution to be used to protect us from such laws by the government?
Of course the scare about nuclear anything is going to be a major problem when argued before certain human judges and you almost can't legally procure the materials (although it is possible) but I don't think you should be held back from making your own nuclear weapons as long as you use them to protect yourself on your own grounds. If your neighbor should be affected then it becomes a problem.
The floppy drive was replaced long before the iMac and was initially replaced by a ZIP drive. If you have a PowerMac G3 or G4 you'll most likely see a 100 or 250MB ZIP drive, that's not a floppy. iMac's never had a floppy device and the last floppy drive for Apple products was found in 1998.
You can go to Belgium where the 2 major providers happily charge you $60 for a 3 Mbps/128 Kbps line with a 10GB down, 2GB up monthly download limit after which you're reset to a 40 Kbps line. Or you can go cheaper (~$30) and get a 2GB limit (lower bandwidth) or if you're dependent on social services the government pays for your 128/40 line with 100MB.
Either way, I think I'll stay with my fiber on 6 Mbps here for $30, no download limits (communal internet service at the place I rent). Yes, in the US. You can do it as well, talk to your neighbors and rent a T3 line for the neighborhood ($1500-2500), if you have 100 subscribers you pay $25/month for 45 Mbps shared, a lot better than a lot of providers out there.
There are no nerve endings in your brain so your brain won't feel probes sticking in it. The only pain you (or the monkey) might feel is when the skin on the head gets pierced and the vibrations of the drill into the skull and for that there are local anesthetics available.
Yes, I work in brain research.
Well, NASA (and other agencies) seem to enlist a lot of these armchair engineers lately in what is called contests for a prize and they have been highly successful (more than the in-house development over the last few decades).
/. seem to forget (and maybe a lot of them outside of /. too) is that the Moon doesn't have an atmosphere like earth and thus is constantly bombarded with small and large projectiles (that's why it's so much crater). Those projectiles range anywhere from (comparison) a bullet to a shotgun over to boulders (once in a while) and such things are highly unpredictable. So if you build any type of glass/metal structure (automated or not), I guess by the time you're done constructing you can start over again in the beginning trying to patch up. Also: we build houses here on earth and every single time, something goes wrong, is late or broken even with the best architects and contractors. Transfer that to a space where you can't readily replace your workers and where any mistake could result in a very cruel death (choking, starving, ...) for people.
What some of the armchair engineers here at
I ran it on PowerPC Linux and Mac OS X you insensitive clod.
Perl on Windows *shudder*, Windows *shudder*
Well, if TPB was in clear violation of the law, why aren't they already behind bars? I'll tell you, because unlike here in America, you are still allowed to set up a site with moderated links to content where occasionally there might be illegal content (like Google but less automated).
We used to call it free speech, you know, that newfangled hippie thing the 'founding fathers' established. TPB and other content providers already had their servers pulled by overly active police forces being coerced by the American RIAA and that led to quite a public and international scandal with protests and everything. People over in Sweden still value their freedoms unlike you and are more patriotic than any US citizen it seems.
You mean approx. 100 years ago during what was called 'the war effort' where both military and civilian test subjects were used to test substances that were going to be used in the war to see whether or not it was going to have a bad effect on health (including but not limited to mustard gas, lead, polonium, ...).
There seems to be an error in your perl script:
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Note that my clock will apparently just keep on ticking the same time.
You can buy an external optical drive or as the keynote mentioned: you can use a remote disk drive (over wireless) to boot/re-install your Air. That last thing is a really nice feature and I hope it gets extended to other devices as well, too much mucking around and loops to get something to boot how you want it ever since BIOS (and thus it's DOS-like hooks and limitations) came out in the 80's. The EFI firmware allows for such extensions and Apple is really using it well here.
200,000 Yen =~ $1800. Where is my exoskeleton. I would imagine something like the exoskeleton suit from the Aliens series would be quite useful.
I don't live in Texas, I live in New York where it can also get pretty hot and pretty cold but using good isolation, curtains, a finished basement, fans to pump heat in/out the basement and double pane glass windows and storm doors I have to use my HVAC about 2 hours per day in the summer and my heat about 4 hours (in the weekends, in the week I'm at work so I don't have to run it as much) to maintain a temperature between 55 at night and 65 during the day (0-20 outside) in winter and 68-72 (80-90 outside) in summer.
I don't see why you would even have to run your HVAC during the peak hours, use the stored energy in and around your house to cool or heat your house. Your basement is probably quite cool in summer and hot (because the heater is there) during winter. I have my thermostat set to run my heat and hvac on full right before the peak hours and then I can maintain a decent temperature until late evening..
I live in the US and quite frankly, I've never seen one of these scanners. I wouldn't swipe my drivers license through it either for the reasons the article mentions. However, if you need to show ID, any ID will do. I myself always have my Permanent Resident card on me (it's also an ID, issued by the federal government nonetheless) as well as other things that state my birthdate and stuff.
If they want to know, they can manually check it, if they insist on entering my information in a database, too bad for them, I can drink a lot and don't mind dropping a $100 to eat and drink for two persons and I'm a good tipper too.
It would be highly entertaining to me too, only to see that we are going to either a monarchy (if the USA doesn't stand up for itself) or anarchy (if individuals start protesting). Either way, we lose.
...) that could have any significance is ruled by the same powers with the same interests (UK and the US). The rest of the world is ruled by nuthead governments (Putin, China) and extreme religionists (Islam) or is divided too much to care (Europe, Africa)
That Clinton wins this election would not be surprising to me. She doesn't have anything that would actually attract voters except that she is female (and thus feminists would be attracted to that). But in the mean time we'll have Bush Sr., Mr. Clinton, Bush Jr., Mrs. Clinton, Jeb Bush, Miss Clinton which would lead to potentially almost 50 years of rule shared by 2 families. The kicker is that they are in both parties (Rep on one side and Dem on the other) but both families have had the same goals and supported the same ideas throughout (Wars for Oil, War on Drugs, Terrorism and Individual Rights, Patriot Act, DMCA).
All I know that the whole westerner world is ruled by the same spirit and controlled by the same persons. Any organization (UN, WTO,
-Let everybody strip naked or let them go through an MRI 3T scanner bore, all metals are bound to be ripped out
-Chain everybody up by the neck and hands and put them on the belt
-Automatically anal probe anyone as they pass by. You only need one size of probe, XXL, everybody will fit after their first time flying.
-Let someone inspect teeth and feet and slap the butt as soon as they're done
-Stack everybody on the plane and strap them in using the chains. About 1.5 square foot per person will do.
-???
-Profit!
TCP/IP offloading is already done on-chip by several network cards. Spend $10-$50 more on a network card and you would get it. Off course a lot of TCP/IP is still handled in the kernel of the OS just because it is too flexible to be done on-chip. Off course, if you need more performance along the lines of firewalling or traffic shaping, you could get an external appliance that handles it.
The fact that the solution was given (and correctly so) here on Slashdot says something about the simplicity of a workaround. Heck, this solution is probably more simple and cheaper than building or using the actual original guidance system. And if you think Akabar doesn't know that, think again, "terrorists" (or should we just call them 'freedom fighters') are not dumb at all, they go study at universities you and me can't even afford to go to both in the US, UK and other places in Europe. Some of them are very good strategists, look at 9/11 and the outfall of it, I think they met and exceeded their goals by simply crashing 2 planes and killing about a 1000 people, they made all us westerners very scared (terrorized) and created the opportunity to slaughter a multiple of that number in a guerilla war. Domestic terrorists (the real threat according to me) for example the Unabomber had an IQ of 160-170, PhD and Masters in Mathematics and was before he started bombing an assistant professor in mathematics at a university.
Have you used 10.4 and 10.5 server yet? I did both (just did an install of 10.5 server) and I would recommend it to anyone. It's built on top of BSD and uses Apache and MySQL. I know in the past they didn't really have a marketshare in the server world simply because a) they were not flexible enough b) they had proprietary solutions to common problems.
The current 10.5 Server has much improved over 10.4. As in 10.4 you still had to use some command line to do advanced stuff, now a lot of that is moved into the interface without making it difficult (it's in a separate tab). Apple though is in a different market segment than most of us geeks. Apple is if you want to simply set up a shop with 0-500 users without fussing too much about the details. If you're small enough, you don't even need a sysadmin, just somebody that knows enough to click it together. It's flexible now too (as compared to before 10.2 since it still allows you to go into command line if you really want/need to. The best of both worlds.
Of course for larger shops that needs lots of performance out of a single box or have multiple locations and directories that need integrated and have the sysadmins to do it, Linux still beats the crap out of Mac OS X. Mac OS X is more in line with what you can do with a Windows server for a medium to large office but without the expensive licensing or rack-full of hardware.