It's not that he was using six panels, something I did before (12 panels in a NOC), it was that he hacked a 128-bits encryption in under 30 second... first he tries some code, doesn't work, then he tries the standard login/password (dictionary attack) then he writes some code and it breaks... come on. And that he assembles virusses and other crap like that by clicking together 3d cubes and sorting them in the right order. I wish I could create programs by shuffling boxes around on a screen. I have never seen a programming interface like that, I guess I'll have to be a criminal to use the really cool programming interfaces. In the mean time, I'm just stuck with TextEdit and XCode I guess.
I have seen all geek/hacker movies just out of pure interest of what they come up with next. There are only a few that depict realistic or real-life possibilities for hackers/geeks to come up with. The Matrix comes to mind...
I don't know where you get that, but RDP DOES NOT work acceptably over 56k. I've done it in the past (cell phone in laptop made a dial-up connection) and it is laggy and crappy. Right now I work from home, remote into my machine at work using WiFi and I have to use a VPN solution, I can't imagine doing that over anything slower than 128k.
X is neither a good solution for that, there is something out there that is comparable to X and lightweight, but I forgot the exact name. SSH works great over 28k... if you don't have too much of stuff scrolling through the windows (cat/var/log/messages for example). SSH can stand quite some seconds of packetloss unless the whole connection breaks down, but if you got that much packetloss, then RDP is not going to help either. That is why we have utilities like screen. Still, either on Windows or Unix, SSH or something comparable (Terminal) works always better on low-bandwidth than anything VNC-like.
Euhm, MP3 cheaper? No way, if you want it legal in the US, you'll have to pay our best friends with the patents and royalties and since multiple organizations claim to have patents on MP3, different countries have different enforcers, I think in the US it's Thomson and in Europe it's Fraunhofer. The same is valid for WMA
AAC is an 'open' industry standard, not requiring licensing or royalties to be paid for streaming or distribution. It's also better in that it requires less space for the same quality, or allows for more quality in the same space, something music sellers really like.
I work for a multinational company in the higher IT structure. Currently I am developing documentation systems among other things, we have multiple offices in the US and Europe but also in South America and recently... China. Extra cheap, let's outsource.
Recent complaint: the engineers (R&D) in China take designs, start a new company and sell them for much lower prices to customers. The patents won't work (it's not software, it's heavy duty industrial non-computer hardware) because Chinese courts don't need to respect them. The most you can do is fire them.
Has 1995 been that long that everybody forgot already? What was new in Windows '95 compared to 3.11 for WorkGroups? Absolutely nothing, it still ran DOS (16-bit) and the 32-bits drivers were a joke. Back in the day, we thought it was the worst OS ever. Kept getting blue screens and had the weirdest problems and we weren't yet connected to the internet then. We didn't have crackers and script-kiddies with virusses roaming free because the market share on the Internet was Unix, DOS and OS/2.
I had Windows 95 running on DR-DOS for the longest time, worked much better. Even had to load the DR-DOS TCP/IP drivers to get my browser working.
Now the switch to the NT kernel for Windows 2000 and subsequent versions (mind you, 2000 was supposed to be the workstation OS, they had ME as the cheap client os but it flopped for some or another reason...) that was a change. Rather an attempt to get rid of 16-bits kernel OS with a 32-bits driver (which on programmers level was that, you still didn't fall automatically into a 32-bit protected mode) all together, compare to OS/2 which had 32-bits kernels and programming interfaces all along.
the x86 instruction set has been implemented on RISC processors for almost 15 years now. The other processor builders were right in building smaller, cheaper, more efficient RISC's (Power for example) too bad they have always been undercut by the mainstream.
I have been a big fan of Apple hardware although I didn't like their lock-in on some devices. This will get me to start using iTunes and buy some albums (DRM-free). The quality is HIGHER and WITHOUT DRM. I'm going to invest in an iPod now.
Please people, support this decision. At least by 1 (one) song DRM-free. If everybody would at least do that, then the message would be clear and we might be getting cheaper and more DRM-free music and maybe even video, movies...
I'm building a home mediacenter, even thinking about commercializing and open sourcing it (kinda like Myth-frontend but better, for smaller/integrated devices) and until now, my progress has been stiffled by DRM-infested media.
Is it actually even worth re-investing in New Orleans? Those are disaster prone areas, kinda like the 3rd world in our own back yard, and unless you keep it up like the Dutch do for all of their country, history will repeat itself. The difference between the United States and the Netherlands is that if the levies break in the Netherlands, half their country will be wiped out. If you would have a barrier that protects all of our northerner states from certain disaster, it would be better protected than Area 51. Since it's only a 'poor' city and there seems to be a lot of whining going on about the situation, nobody will take the rebuild seriously. Besides that, the general thinking is (also amplified by the media) that they should move out of the area and get somewhere where such things don't happen frequently.
It's my manager's; Basically his algorithm is to listen to what I have to say, deny my ideas or find a situation where an exception would be generated and then depending on the number and level of participants, introduce my idea as his. I tell you, that shows great intelligence to his overlords although it's artificially generated but the actual participants start to get it after a few times.
Really, I remember quite good the glass in baby food (company was Gerber) in the late '80's and early '90's. I was still little back then and living in Europe, and even there we had reports of glass shards in baby food. Gerber seemed to try covering it up, but there were hundreds of reports in multiple COUNTRIES, and although the FDA said they didn't found any fractions harmful to babies, I believe that there was some heavy lobbying going on. But now we seemed to have forgotten all about it.
The difference is that the closest black hole in the universe is lightyears away (at least that is the current conception) and the universe seems to be balanced out perfectly so all the dangerous stuff that is floating around doesn't consume the whole universe. It's a careful setup of universal laws that keep it together, just like the ecosystem on earth did for thousands of years. Human's in their everlasting quest for knowledge and other 'enrichment' seems to be consistent in messing things up that work perfectly and make it a dangerous object. It happens at home when the man of the house thinks he can fix his own brakes and then seems to be messing around with it for several hours to the collection of us sentient beings messing up all types of natural systems including our own food and other supply chains (water, air,...)
So that is why people don't trust scientists creating miniature black holes too close to their homes. First of all, we don't know what it is going to do (that's why it's called an experiment) and when we're messing around with atoms and other building blocks, we have always messed up to start off with (nuclear energy, first appliance was a bomb. Geneticly modified food, seems to be not so healthy after all)
Dust and other creepy things keep getting kicked up and falling down again, even if you're gone. Some examples: ventilation, holes (aka doors or windows) in the walls/floor/ceiling, forced air heating, it all creates openings for dust/dirt to come in or kick up from somewhere. There's your ever so reliable bug including dust mites and other beasties that live (mainly die and excrete) in your carpet (check with a microscope) so unless you live in a hermetically sealed home and you're never going in or out, you're going to have dust, and if you do live in such a house, you couldn't be talking about it.
Don't talk to me about double jeopardy. Both in PA and NY state and I guess many other states, it doesn't mean anything in traffic courts, soon it won't mean anything anywhere (DMCA & copyright being an example)
The difference between Microsoft and Apple is that Microsoft is mainly a software company (Windows, Office,...) while Apple is mainly a hardware company (Mac's, iPod's) and recently also a multimedia distributor.
Microsoft's chickens do. They have all kinds of properties, which are cool and gimmicky, copied from other species of course which are far better (like humans) but after all they are dangerous, useless and actually slow the chicken down and make it crash onto it's beak every 5 steps. They also make the chickens poisonous for consumption, but only the EU seems to show some care about it, in the mean time they keep selling them because they are so big although KFC around the corner is cheaper and the local farmer has been giving them away for years, totally free
So you want the feds to break down YOUR door, arrest YOU and possibly get a FALSE statement out of you so you could get some sleep or so they would stop waterboarding you just because somebody (your kid, or the kid next door that uses your internet, or just because of some mistake by your provider because you just switched IP's and their clocks were 10 seconds of) uploaded a funny piece of The Tonight Show to their YouTube account?
There is a reason MPAA/RIAA tries to do it in court. It's because they don't have a case and they know it, if they did, the feds would already have been all over it (that's why the legal note when the movie starts: FBI/NSA/Interpol warning not to copy this file) and they have been over cases which are actually clear.
1. standardized operation for ALL applicatation. --> It does, check out dcop or it's replacement d-bus. Through shell, perl, c++, qt... you can communicate between any application in both fore- and background.
2. cut and paste between ALL applications.. Has done that for a while now...
3. Applications must ALL be uniform in operation of common functions.. That's up to the programmers mainly, but all decent KDE applications use the standard QT library
4. Uniform operation of input devices (mouse).. What's your problem with that? Any mouse I connect works and the mouse buttons too. Mainly an issue of configuration (which can be done from within KDE), doesn't matter which OS you use.
5. Easily customizable.. Check out kde-look.org, I think there's even a plugin into the Themes section of your configuration that automagically downloads them.
6. Standardized behavour on any local or remote environment.. That's up to the environment server. I connect through X or VNC, looks the same as my desktop at home.
7. Some kind of direct video support (games, etc...). That's up to the Operating System, not to a desktop environment. And those solutions are available, it's called OpenGL and SDL, too bad only good game developers dare to use portable, industry standards instead of closed API's they don't even have full support for (take a look at the UT engine, Doom engine, Cube engine).
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It's not that he was using six panels, something I did before (12 panels in a NOC), it was that he hacked a 128-bits encryption in under 30 second... first he tries some code, doesn't work, then he tries the standard login/password (dictionary attack) then he writes some code and it breaks... come on. And that he assembles virusses and other crap like that by clicking together 3d cubes and sorting them in the right order. I wish I could create programs by shuffling boxes around on a screen. I have never seen a programming interface like that, I guess I'll have to be a criminal to use the really cool programming interfaces. In the mean time, I'm just stuck with TextEdit and XCode I guess.
I have seen all geek/hacker movies just out of pure interest of what they come up with next. There are only a few that depict realistic or real-life possibilities for hackers/geeks to come up with. The Matrix comes to mind...
I don't know where you get that, but RDP DOES NOT work acceptably over 56k. I've done it in the past (cell phone in laptop made a dial-up connection) and it is laggy and crappy. Right now I work from home, remote into my machine at work using WiFi and I have to use a VPN solution, I can't imagine doing that over anything slower than 128k.
/var/log/messages for example). SSH can stand quite some seconds of packetloss unless the whole connection breaks down, but if you got that much packetloss, then RDP is not going to help either. That is why we have utilities like screen. Still, either on Windows or Unix, SSH or something comparable (Terminal) works always better on low-bandwidth than anything VNC-like.
X is neither a good solution for that, there is something out there that is comparable to X and lightweight, but I forgot the exact name. SSH works great over 28k... if you don't have too much of stuff scrolling through the windows (cat
Euhm, MP3 cheaper? No way, if you want it legal in the US, you'll have to pay our best friends with the patents and royalties and since multiple organizations claim to have patents on MP3, different countries have different enforcers, I think in the US it's Thomson and in Europe it's Fraunhofer. The same is valid for WMA
AAC is an 'open' industry standard, not requiring licensing or royalties to be paid for streaming or distribution. It's also better in that it requires less space for the same quality, or allows for more quality in the same space, something music sellers really like.
I work for a multinational company in the higher IT structure. Currently I am developing documentation systems among other things, we have multiple offices in the US and Europe but also in South America and recently... China. Extra cheap, let's outsource.
Recent complaint: the engineers (R&D) in China take designs, start a new company and sell them for much lower prices to customers. The patents won't work (it's not software, it's heavy duty industrial non-computer hardware) because Chinese courts don't need to respect them. The most you can do is fire them.
Uncircumcised penises also bring more joy to the ladies (that is the theory at least)
Quote: proving once again that in the warped universe of techno-hype, one plus one can equal zero.
In the techno universe, we do binary, and 1 plus 1 will always yield 0 with a 1 in the overflow bin.
Do you mean the MCA bus? Kinda like VLB but a bit better, the only problem was that it was locked in (proprietary).
And I think Linux has support for certain MCA adapters nowadays...
Has 1995 been that long that everybody forgot already? What was new in Windows '95 compared to 3.11 for WorkGroups? Absolutely nothing, it still ran DOS (16-bit) and the 32-bits drivers were a joke. Back in the day, we thought it was the worst OS ever. Kept getting blue screens and had the weirdest problems and we weren't yet connected to the internet then. We didn't have crackers and script-kiddies with virusses roaming free because the market share on the Internet was Unix, DOS and OS/2.
I had Windows 95 running on DR-DOS for the longest time, worked much better. Even had to load the DR-DOS TCP/IP drivers to get my browser working.
Now the switch to the NT kernel for Windows 2000 and subsequent versions (mind you, 2000 was supposed to be the workstation OS, they had ME as the cheap client os but it flopped for some or another reason...) that was a change. Rather an attempt to get rid of 16-bits kernel OS with a 32-bits driver (which on programmers level was that, you still didn't fall automatically into a 32-bit protected mode) all together, compare to OS/2 which had 32-bits kernels and programming interfaces all along.
the x86 instruction set has been implemented on RISC processors for almost 15 years now. The other processor builders were right in building smaller, cheaper, more efficient RISC's (Power for example) too bad they have always been undercut by the mainstream.
It's absolutely funny, but you get modded insightful? For no good reason? Something is wrong in the world...
I have been a big fan of Apple hardware although I didn't like their lock-in on some devices. This will get me to start using iTunes and buy some albums (DRM-free). The quality is HIGHER and WITHOUT DRM. I'm going to invest in an iPod now.
Please people, support this decision. At least by 1 (one) song DRM-free. If everybody would at least do that, then the message would be clear and we might be getting cheaper and more DRM-free music and maybe even video, movies...
I'm building a home mediacenter, even thinking about commercializing and open sourcing it (kinda like Myth-frontend but better, for smaller/integrated devices) and until now, my progress has been stiffled by DRM-infested media.
are we going to have to start using VACUUM on MySQL now?
Is it actually even worth re-investing in New Orleans? Those are disaster prone areas, kinda like the 3rd world in our own back yard, and unless you keep it up like the Dutch do for all of their country, history will repeat itself. The difference between the United States and the Netherlands is that if the levies break in the Netherlands, half their country will be wiped out. If you would have a barrier that protects all of our northerner states from certain disaster, it would be better protected than Area 51. Since it's only a 'poor' city and there seems to be a lot of whining going on about the situation, nobody will take the rebuild seriously. Besides that, the general thinking is (also amplified by the media) that they should move out of the area and get somewhere where such things don't happen frequently.
It's my manager's; Basically his algorithm is to listen to what I have to say, deny my ideas or find a situation where an exception would be generated and then depending on the number and level of participants, introduce my idea as his. I tell you, that shows great intelligence to his overlords although it's artificially generated but the actual participants start to get it after a few times.
Really, I remember quite good the glass in baby food (company was Gerber) in the late '80's and early '90's. I was still little back then and living in Europe, and even there we had reports of glass shards in baby food. Gerber seemed to try covering it up, but there were hundreds of reports in multiple COUNTRIES, and although the FDA said they didn't found any fractions harmful to babies, I believe that there was some heavy lobbying going on. But now we seemed to have forgotten all about it.
a lth&res=9A0DE3D71731F931A35750C0A960948260 and here is an essay on it including sources http://www.pillowrock.com/ronnie/gerber.htm
The NYT has this article from back in the days: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=he
The difference is that the closest black hole in the universe is lightyears away (at least that is the current conception) and the universe seems to be balanced out perfectly so all the dangerous stuff that is floating around doesn't consume the whole universe. It's a careful setup of universal laws that keep it together, just like the ecosystem on earth did for thousands of years. Human's in their everlasting quest for knowledge and other 'enrichment' seems to be consistent in messing things up that work perfectly and make it a dangerous object. It happens at home when the man of the house thinks he can fix his own brakes and then seems to be messing around with it for several hours to the collection of us sentient beings messing up all types of natural systems including our own food and other supply chains (water, air, ...)
So that is why people don't trust scientists creating miniature black holes too close to their homes. First of all, we don't know what it is going to do (that's why it's called an experiment) and when we're messing around with atoms and other building blocks, we have always messed up to start off with (nuclear energy, first appliance was a bomb. Geneticly modified food, seems to be not so healthy after all)
I think you should buy the gun once you're in Mexico. It's easier to get by, it's cheaper and you won't get arrested for taking a GUN on the PLANE.
Sounds like a certain president... I can't think of his name now, I think it starts with a B...
Dust and other creepy things keep getting kicked up and falling down again, even if you're gone. Some examples: ventilation, holes (aka doors or windows) in the walls/floor/ceiling, forced air heating, it all creates openings for dust/dirt to come in or kick up from somewhere. There's your ever so reliable bug including dust mites and other beasties that live (mainly die and excrete) in your carpet (check with a microscope) so unless you live in a hermetically sealed home and you're never going in or out, you're going to have dust, and if you do live in such a house, you couldn't be talking about it.
Don't talk to me about double jeopardy. Both in PA and NY state and I guess many other states, it doesn't mean anything in traffic courts, soon it won't mean anything anywhere (DMCA & copyright being an example)
The difference between Microsoft and Apple is that Microsoft is mainly a software company (Windows, Office, ...) while Apple is mainly a hardware company (Mac's, iPod's) and recently also a multimedia distributor.
Microsoft's chickens do. They have all kinds of properties, which are cool and gimmicky, copied from other species of course which are far better (like humans) but after all they are dangerous, useless and actually slow the chicken down and make it crash onto it's beak every 5 steps. They also make the chickens poisonous for consumption, but only the EU seems to show some care about it, in the mean time they keep selling them because they are so big although KFC around the corner is cheaper and the local farmer has been giving them away for years, totally free
So you want the feds to break down YOUR door, arrest YOU and possibly get a FALSE statement out of you so you could get some sleep or so they would stop waterboarding you just because somebody (your kid, or the kid next door that uses your internet, or just because of some mistake by your provider because you just switched IP's and their clocks were 10 seconds of) uploaded a funny piece of The Tonight Show to their YouTube account?
There is a reason MPAA/RIAA tries to do it in court. It's because they don't have a case and they know it, if they did, the feds would already have been all over it (that's why the legal note when the movie starts: FBI/NSA/Interpol warning not to copy this file) and they have been over cases which are actually clear.
1. standardized operation for ALL applicatation.
--> It does, check out dcop or it's replacement d-bus. Through shell, perl, c++, qt... you can communicate between any application in both fore- and background.
2. cut and paste between ALL applications..
Has done that for a while now...
3. Applications must ALL be uniform in operation of common functions..
That's up to the programmers mainly, but all decent KDE applications use the standard QT library
4. Uniform operation of input devices (mouse)..
What's your problem with that? Any mouse I connect works and the mouse buttons too. Mainly an issue of configuration (which can be done from within KDE), doesn't matter which OS you use.
5. Easily customizable..
Check out kde-look.org, I think there's even a plugin into the Themes section of your configuration that automagically downloads them.
6. Standardized behavour on any local or remote environment..
That's up to the environment server. I connect through X or VNC, looks the same as my desktop at home.
7. Some kind of direct video support (games, etc...).
That's up to the Operating System, not to a desktop environment. And those solutions are available, it's called OpenGL and SDL, too bad only good game developers dare to use portable, industry standards instead of closed API's they don't even have full support for (take a look at the UT engine, Doom engine, Cube engine).
Crabs are ectoparasites, not regular bugs, you insensitive clod.