I know, I laughed so hard when reading this article.... It's a credit that tripe like this can get published (and lambasted)...
So he's blaming the United States for building software and tools that allow people in China to subvert Chinese Government-Sanctioned censorship. He's lambasting US, for his country allowing their LEO's to use the DMCA to arrest citizens on the behave of US LEO...
Got to love those fine extradition treaties...
But when he went into, and I paraphrase: set foot on US soil, get interred, questioned, tried in an unaccountable warcrimes court, and be executed... I laughed. Then I thought real hard. Ok, interred, questioned, yes, pretty possible in this day and age... executed perhaps (better hope the REAL criminal left some DNA behind..)...
The reason VHS tapes got so cheap is that someone, somewhere had the serendipitous idea that people might actually want to OWN copies of movies instead of just renting them.
After reading about the Army candidate who accidently killed herself with water intoxication, I spent a few long days in the hot sun. After drinking a good 60 oz of fluid, I felt pretty lightheaded. Mixed some salt into 16 oz of water (unknown, maybe a teaspoon of salt), felt better in 5 minutes.
I also realize it my simply be a placebo affect...
While I'll grant that the US anti-drug machine spits out a lot of misinformation, I'd always thought it was the "personally observed" effect that most X users think they're fine, when really they are approaching super-dehydration rapidly?
Having experienced a bad situation on X, when I'd been out in the sun too long, started getting dizzy, acquired and drank reasonable quantities of water, recovered pretty quickly.
I guess that's why they make me the babysitter whenever we go raving. I'm the only guy buying water...
Who says I need a valid IP address to even conduct this hack. Hell, just as an IP sniffer alone something like this could cause serious damage. And since it can listen to DHCP traffic, it will already know the gateway and address settings, and can readily impersonate any machine it wants...
Granted, it puts some limits on what it can do, but not all that much. You'd need some properly configured switches to minimize this sort of attack.
> One interesting question is what the speed > advantage (or not) will be for 64bit mode. > Increased cache footprint of 64bit pointers vs > 64bit math, extra registers and PC-relative > addressing. Hard to call.
Well, if the Alpha is anything to go by, I'm guessing many apps will LOSE about 10% with a simple recompile. Like the 16 -> 32bit revolution, the real benefit in performance is going to come from the vastly larger memory space, and the relaxed constraints this gives developers in building algorithms. If you don't have to worry about 64K or 2GB memory limits, you can develop faster algorithms to do the same things.
I remember the full 64 switch that OSF went through in 95, was it? With a simple recompile, our application lost a significant amount of performance (a very high-powered, beastly CAD software).
We had a similar experience with SGI when they did their 64 bit switch with the R4x00.
Remember also, when dealing with 64bits, you are now dealing with bus sizes that are twice as large as before, so you will need improved memory interfaces to really gain those speed benefits.
> If Apple's hardware is better, then how come > the following three statements are true?
> 1) x86 processors are faster than the best > offerings from Apple.
Because for the Macintosh, it doesn't have to be blazingly fast, it needs to be "fast enough". There is a difference. PIII-500's are "fast enough" for much of the corporate world. Apple has the marketing niche that they provide consistency and ease of use, and they also control the hardware, which makes for a longer product cycle as compared to the PC world. (as an aside, when did the popular press stop using the term IBM-PC?)
Plus the fact that Apple is subservient to the IBM/Motorola PowerPC juggernaut. Unfortunately, IBM only needs enough PowerPC's to keep it's mainframe and workstation business alive, since the industry doesn't need yet another mainstream architecture, and Motorola really doesn't give a damn what happens to the chip.
Expect MacOS on x86 someday... (Crusoe even?) Pure speculation, I know....
> 2) x86 hardware gives you much more choice as > to hardware and software configurations.
Oh, to be sure. Particularly software. Hardware really isn't all that different since they adopted PCI, and USB/Firewire... There is very little mainstream hardware you would want for a Mac that you couldn't get today. Drivers on the other hand...
> 3) x86 hardware costs less to produce, thusly > costing consumers less to purchase.
It only costs less to produce because there are more consumers for Intel's processors. If Intel had to work with the margins and marketshare Apple does, I guarantee you wouldn't see many $58 Celeron's in the pipeline.
And why we are comparing a SYSTEMS vendor with a CHIP manufacturer is beyond me... apples and oranges, really... Where is Intel-OS?
This argument of who's processor is better is starting to get old and boring. As long as it's "fast enough" for the majority of the world, all is well and good, and a little competition never hurt anyone. FWIW, I think AMD's got a good shot to one-up Intel, if they can execute... The only question is what's Microsoft going to do? While NT support is not necessarily make-or-break for AMD, it sure couldn't hurt...
Guns don't kill people; people kill people; so there is no need for guns.
Perhaps this has been pointed out to you, but guns don't kill people. Bullets do. BAN THE BULLETS!! BAN THE BULLETS!!
People just pull triggers. That's ok, isn't it? I mean, dropping bombs on civilians (accidently) only requires pulling a trigger, right? Few. For a minute there I thought those guys flying F-14's and B52 bombers were murderers!
My responsibilities as a citizen and air-traveller are:
1. I will not harm the airplane, it's crew, or it's passengers. 2. I will not interfere with the airline crew, since they know more than I do. 3. If I see someone attempting to hijack an airplane or hurt the airline crew, and I am capable of rendering assistance, I will do so with haste and appropriate force. 4. I will keep my crying and bitching kids from keeping you up, as best as possible. It's NOT my fault if my kid develops a 103 degree fever at 30,000 feet. 5. I *WILL NOT* take up all the overhead baggage space with my prize set of carbon fiber golf clubs. 6. I will not leave my feet in the aisle for stewards and passengers to trip over. 7. When the pilot says to shut off all electronic devices, I will do so, immediately, not as he's dropping the landing gear, for the pilot is god. 8. I will not dispose of large objects in the head. Having a toilet back up at home sucks... imagine it backing up at 30,000 feet...
Presuming for even a SPLIT second that the science in Jurassic Park was possible, you will remember that the DNA for the dinosaurs was filled in with DNA from frogs, some of which are capable of [asexual reproduction].
Yes, but you don't stay solvent, or profitable by scaring, screwing, and generally ignoring what your customers have to say.
I work for one of those companies that has scared, and ignored what our customers are saying, and in the process, we're screwing them because we're going out of business.
If you don't take care of the customer, NO ONE will buy your product. Hence, you can't remain profitable or solvent, and your shares are worth the TP they are written on.
Granted, by serving the customers TOO much, you can easily tip the scales in the other direction and STILL not be solvent or profitable, but that's not *usually* the case.
Because we don't have fly-by-wire automobiles. The day we do, I GUARANTEE you that Ford and GM and Honda and Toyota will be responsible for dealing with erroneous input.
A human being, street conditions, and basic care of the automobile is outside of their control... that irradition mechanism was well within the control of said software.
The measurement of Libraries of Congress/hectare is getting less and less useful. Since the Library of Congress does store audio information, and the number of bits on a phonograph can fluctuate greatly... I mean, we've been measuring data in LoC's since the early 80's. Surely the LoC has much more data now than in the far forgotten past?
Isn't it better to measure in #of pages of single spaced text in feet? I.e. : That disk can hold enough data to store a stack of paper 300' tall printed with nothing but ones and zeros. But then we get into arguments about how thick the paper is...
I take issue with your assertion that you've been using NT 3.5 since 1993. IIRC, it didn't release until late 1994. But I'll forgive you such a minor point.
Whatever happened to Windows 2000, arguably the best OS Microsoft has yet to release (just my humble opinion). I can assure you that Office 97, Fp 2K and just about every other Microsoft product works just fine on 2K.
And let's just face it, any user who cannot properly navigate Network Neighborhood needs to go back to using their calculators, and stop wasting our time.
Oh really? In C++ I can make variants (for the most part) behave just like normal data types...
About the only thing VB has on C++ for my data processing needs is a good quick & dirty runtime engine in the form of the Windows Scripting Host. Take that away, and I'm better off using perl or C++ & the OTL for my work.
Because a cruise missile doesn't have a "Return to base" capability. If no target presents itself, you either crash it into a target that may no longer be there, or you ditch it, which kills civilians, which is the antithesis of the cruise missile.
But that's not the point of the movie. Just because we're programmed for failure, doesn't mean it's predestined. That even the wisest scientists of the future couldn't predict that a deGENErate could overcome his physical limitations, withstand the rigors of space training, and outlive his projected lifespan.
That no matter how smart we as humans get, and how dependant on our technology, in the end only human spirit matters. That you don't have to settle for your lot in life, you can transcend it.
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And said world-class research will never happen now that the habitation module and crew escape vehicle are on the chopping block.
So the ISS is basically a $20b high-flying resort for a handful of people who are skilled at fixing broken shit...
I know, I laughed so hard when reading this article.... It's a credit that tripe like this can get published (and lambasted)...
So he's blaming the United States for building software and tools that allow people in China to subvert Chinese Government-Sanctioned censorship. He's lambasting US, for his country allowing their LEO's to use the DMCA to arrest citizens on the behave of US LEO...
Got to love those fine extradition treaties...
But when he went into, and I paraphrase: set foot on US soil, get interred, questioned, tried in an unaccountable warcrimes court, and be executed... I laughed. Then I thought real hard. Ok, interred, questioned, yes, pretty possible in this day and age... executed perhaps (better hope the REAL criminal left some DNA behind..)...
Hmm... a good read. But more of a good laugh.
That's utter crap.
The reason VHS tapes got so cheap is that someone, somewhere had the serendipitous idea that people might actually want to OWN copies of movies instead of just renting them.
I concur with this...
After reading about the Army candidate who accidently killed herself with water intoxication, I spent a few long days in the hot sun. After drinking a good 60 oz of fluid, I felt pretty lightheaded. Mixed some salt into 16 oz of water (unknown, maybe a teaspoon of salt), felt better in 5 minutes.
I also realize it my simply be a placebo affect...
While I'll grant that the US anti-drug machine spits out a lot of misinformation, I'd always thought it was the "personally observed" effect that most X users think they're fine, when really they are approaching super-dehydration rapidly?
Having experienced a bad situation on X, when I'd been out in the sun too long, started getting dizzy, acquired and drank reasonable quantities of water, recovered pretty quickly.
I guess that's why they make me the babysitter whenever we go raving. I'm the only guy buying water...
Who says I need a valid IP address to even conduct this hack. Hell, just as an IP sniffer alone something like this could cause serious damage. And since it can listen to DHCP traffic, it will already know the gateway and address settings, and can readily impersonate any machine it wants...
Granted, it puts some limits on what it can do, but not all that much. You'd need some properly configured switches to minimize this sort of attack.
They managed to do just that with the F-117A...
Very few people knew it existed...
> One interesting question is what the speed
> advantage (or not) will be for 64bit mode.
> Increased cache footprint of 64bit pointers vs
> 64bit math, extra registers and PC-relative
> addressing. Hard to call.
Well, if the Alpha is anything to go by, I'm guessing many apps will LOSE about 10% with a simple recompile. Like the 16 -> 32bit revolution, the real benefit in performance is going to come from the vastly larger memory space, and the relaxed constraints this gives developers in building algorithms. If you don't have to worry about 64K or 2GB memory limits, you can develop faster algorithms to do the same things.
I remember the full 64 switch that OSF went through in 95, was it? With a simple recompile, our application lost a significant amount of performance (a very high-powered, beastly CAD software).
We had a similar experience with SGI when they did their 64 bit switch with the R4x00.
Remember also, when dealing with 64bits, you are now dealing with bus sizes that are twice as large as before, so you will need improved memory interfaces to really gain those speed benefits.
> If Apple's hardware is better, then how come
> the following three statements are true?
> 1) x86 processors are faster than the best
> offerings from Apple.
Because for the Macintosh, it doesn't have to be blazingly fast, it needs to be "fast enough". There is a difference. PIII-500's are "fast enough" for much of the corporate world. Apple has the marketing niche that they provide consistency and ease of use, and they also control the hardware, which makes for a longer product cycle as compared to the PC world.
(as an aside, when did the popular press stop using the term IBM-PC?)
Plus the fact that Apple is subservient to the IBM/Motorola PowerPC juggernaut. Unfortunately, IBM only needs enough PowerPC's to keep it's mainframe and workstation business alive, since the industry doesn't need yet another mainstream architecture, and Motorola really doesn't give a damn what happens to the chip.
Expect MacOS on x86 someday... (Crusoe even?) Pure speculation, I know....
> 2) x86 hardware gives you much more choice as
> to hardware and software configurations.
Oh, to be sure. Particularly software. Hardware really isn't all that different since they adopted PCI, and USB/Firewire... There is very little mainstream hardware you would want for a Mac that you couldn't get today. Drivers on the other hand...
> 3) x86 hardware costs less to produce, thusly
> costing consumers less to purchase.
It only costs less to produce because there are more consumers for Intel's processors. If Intel had to work with the margins and marketshare Apple does, I guarantee you wouldn't see many $58 Celeron's in the pipeline.
And why we are comparing a SYSTEMS vendor with a CHIP manufacturer is beyond me... apples and oranges, really... Where is Intel-OS?
This argument of who's processor is better is starting to get old and boring. As long as it's "fast enough" for the majority of the world, all is well and good, and a little competition never hurt anyone. FWIW, I think AMD's got a good shot to one-up Intel, if they can execute... The only question is what's Microsoft going to do? While NT support is not necessarily make-or-break for AMD, it sure couldn't hurt...
-Chris
Guns don't kill people; people kill people; so there is no need for guns. Perhaps this has been pointed out to you, but guns don't kill people. Bullets do. BAN THE BULLETS!! BAN THE BULLETS!! People just pull triggers. That's ok, isn't it? I mean, dropping bombs on civilians (accidently) only requires pulling a trigger, right? Few. For a minute there I thought those guys flying F-14's and B52 bombers were murderers!
My responsibilities as a citizen and air-traveller are:
1. I will not harm the airplane, it's crew, or it's passengers.
2. I will not interfere with the airline crew, since they know more than I do.
3. If I see someone attempting to hijack an airplane or hurt the airline crew, and I am capable of rendering assistance, I will do so with haste and appropriate force.
4. I will keep my crying and bitching kids from keeping you up, as best as possible. It's NOT my fault if my kid develops a 103 degree fever at 30,000 feet.
5. I *WILL NOT* take up all the overhead baggage space with my prize set of carbon fiber golf clubs.
6. I will not leave my feet in the aisle for stewards and passengers to trip over.
7. When the pilot says to shut off all electronic devices, I will do so, immediately, not as he's dropping the landing gear, for the pilot is god.
8. I will not dispose of large objects in the head. Having a toilet back up at home sucks... imagine it backing up at 30,000 feet...
I think that sums it up...
Presuming for even a SPLIT second that the science in Jurassic Park was possible, you will remember that the DNA for the dinosaurs was filled in with DNA from frogs, some of which are capable of [asexual reproduction].
Yes, but you don't stay solvent, or profitable by scaring, screwing, and generally ignoring what your customers have to say.
I work for one of those companies that has scared, and ignored what our customers are saying, and in the process, we're screwing them because we're going out of business.
If you don't take care of the customer, NO ONE will buy your product. Hence, you can't remain profitable or solvent, and your shares are worth the TP they are written on.
Granted, by serving the customers TOO much, you can easily tip the scales in the other direction and STILL not be solvent or profitable, but that's not *usually* the case.
Not to sound like a troll, but I never got the whole Left vs. Right thing? What makes me a Leftist? Or a Rightist? I'm not even sure what I am....
;-)
Thanks for listening.
-Chris
It could just be that "18" sucks??
I've heard my roommates copy. It's not very impressive...
-Chris
I'll agree to that... my favorite was the InternetCanonicalizeUrl function that only did 4096 bytes at a time...
;-) Gotta love it.
Bit me in the ass when I didn't test thoroughly enough... I thought 4000 bytes would be enough for the customer...
Nowhere was this limit documented (NT 4.0 SP4 days).
Because we don't have fly-by-wire automobiles.
The day we do, I GUARANTEE you that Ford and GM and Honda and Toyota will be responsible for dealing with erroneous input.
A human being, street conditions, and basic care of the automobile is outside of their control... that irradition mechanism was well within the control of said software.
Because corporations exist to maximize shareholder value. Period. Not to pander to our feelings of self-worth.
:-P
Ok, I'm done Trolling...
-Chris
The measurement of Libraries of Congress/hectare is getting less and less useful. Since the Library of Congress does store audio information, and the number of bits on a phonograph can fluctuate greatly... I mean, we've been measuring data in LoC's since the early 80's. Surely the LoC has much more data now than in the far forgotten past?
Isn't it better to measure in #of pages of single spaced text in feet? I.e. : That disk can hold enough data to store a stack of paper 300' tall printed with nothing but ones and zeros. But then we get into arguments about how thick the paper is...
:-/
Hmm...
I take issue with your assertion that you've been using NT 3.5 since 1993. IIRC, it didn't release until late 1994. But I'll forgive you such a minor point.
Whatever happened to Windows 2000, arguably the best OS Microsoft has yet to release (just my humble opinion). I can assure you that Office 97, Fp 2K and just about every other Microsoft product works just fine on 2K.
And let's just face it, any user who cannot properly navigate Network Neighborhood needs to go back to using their calculators, and stop wasting our time.
-Chris
Oh really? In C++ I can make variants (for the most part) behave just like normal data types...
About the only thing VB has on C++ for my data processing needs is a good quick & dirty runtime engine in the form of the Windows Scripting Host. Take that away, and I'm better off using perl or C++ & the OTL for my work.
Because a cruise missile doesn't have a "Return to base" capability. If no target presents itself, you either crash it into a target that may no longer be there, or you ditch it, which kills civilians, which is the antithesis of the cruise missile.
Either way, the X45 seems a better way to go.
I hate to burst your bubble, but Linux is (C) Linus Torvalds. :-) He just chose to let us use his work (via the GPL) and it's derivatives.
-Chris
But that's not the point of the movie. Just because we're programmed for failure, doesn't mean it's predestined. That even the wisest scientists of the future couldn't predict that a deGENErate could overcome his physical limitations, withstand the rigors of space training, and outlive his projected lifespan.
That no matter how smart we as humans get, and how dependant on our technology, in the end only human spirit matters. That you don't have to settle for your lot in life, you can transcend it.
Hey, I don't know if you noticed, but computers TODAY are made up of atoms and molecules. Kinda futuristic, eh?
:-)