> Aren't there plugs for other EA games on the Burnout 3 load screens?
And on billboards all around the track. Actually, just one game, Need for Speed 2 Underground. There's also an ad for some cologne. Can't recall its name, hard to see when it zips by at 200 MPH.
The DJ also mentions the ea.com website at least a couple times. I turned off that moronic chatter after about 10 minutes though.
You may have a five-digit ID, but... you're new here, aren't you?
Since when have the editors ever selected anything on the basis of the writeup quality, newsworthiness, or even whether the identical story has recently run, even on the same day?
Windows has always had the ability to add scriptable components to the desktop. I believe there was a great hue and cry about how evil and unstable this all was, and about how desktops weren't supposed to be playgrounds or HTML renderers and blah blah blah.
You can still add such components, and script them in any language that implements the WSH interface.
But of course Konfabulator widgets all run in a security sandbox and could never do anything malicious. Right?
Ah, the ghost of Ayn Rand raises her screechy little methadrine-fueled head. It has nothing to do with property rights or common carrier babe, and everything to do with abuse of position during a bargaining agreement. If this were happening any other time, they might have a leg, maybe just a little toe to stand on, but this telco has blown off both legs in its zeal to shoot itself in the foot.
Last I heard, people paid for use of their property, and weren't party to an agreement of "we'll fuck around with the content you access to our heart's content if it might have an impact on our stock prices". You might even say the expectation was somewhat the opposite.
But right, all that "capitalism is about the enlightened freedom of choice" nonsense only applies to the people who actually own the most property, no?
However, all of the innovations getting poured into OS X are NOT getting poured back into the community.
How many of these innovations is Linux seeing?
Darwin is open source. The fact that they don't open up every single application that ever touched OSX might be one of the reasons they didn't select Linux.
FreeBSD has a bit of an identity crisis, they sorta see themselves as "Linux Junior", with a chip on their shoulders. Which is why every single pro-BSD article is basically a comparison to Linux.
On three linux servers with three different distros (rh9, rhel 3, and suse), I have problems with kswapd eating up most of the CPU on the machine. Simply google for kswapd and the first page and most thereafter are full of reports on problems with it that go back ten years to this day, with fix after fix going into the kernel, and no real understanding of what's gone wrong with it. Understandably, I don't have any faith that the latest fix in the 2.6 series will solve the problem.
What good is speed if you fall over randomly under load?
I'll back up your anecdote with my own: ran reiserfs on a laptop, hibernated it, ended up with corrupt inodes. Ran the reiserfs recovery utility, and it ate the whole partition.
> MS could take the code, close the source up and call it "Windows Hasta la Vista" and market it, because the BSD license allows this. This is one of the downsides of the "unlimited" freedom of the BSD license.
Yes, and IBM can say "good enough for Microsoft, good enough for you".
The GPL crowd has been beating this worn-out drum day after day, but has never actually backed up this claim.
... go out and buy a copy of Sims 2. And send back the feedback card, saying "please use my $50 to sue Jack Thompson's ambulance-chasing vexatious-litigating ass so far into debt he'll have to hock his teeth and peddle his ass on the street"
If the last write time to the encrypted file was 24 hours ago, they're assuming you might remember after getting a little time in the klink to think about it.
Give it up with the AOL bashing already. Stupid people are quite well distributed over pretty much every ISP these days. In fact, AOL tends to cater to adults these days, folks who may not be very discerning about their ISP software, but have more or less grown a few social skills with their years.
They employed people like Doug Baskins and Hans Boehm. Boehm still works for HP. Or maybe they just axed him, but he just didn't get the spotlight. Still some interesting research went on in HP Labs... though I suspect they're now going the way of Xerox. I think Kay hung around there once too...
> If there are billions of people living in a country then there will probably be at least one or two people living there who can do the same job as that one person in America.
Yes, and he tends to move to America and get American wages. The jobs being outsourced are grunt work code-grinding and support jobs.
> The purpose of using Free Software is to be FREE from corporations/individuals that wants to tell you what you can do with your computer
Like yourself, telling me what the purpose of the software I run on my computer is? I like the free software because it sucks less and the price is right. This does not make it mutually exclusive with commercial software.
Not that I think the yahoo toolbar is worth a pile of dingo's kidneys, but it's their prerogative to make it available.
While I don't agree about the applescript bit -- there's good automation stuff for windows, and applescript itself is a pretty loathsome language -- I do have to agree with "don't work for cheapskates".
I mean, obviously you have to put food on the table, but I wouldn't exactly put in loads of extra hours and go the extra mile if it looks like you're going to get nothing in return for it. Do the job, use something adequate, collect your bill, job over. Then when he wants more, you can bill it as another job.
It bugs the crap out of me that I can't just alt-rightdrag to resize windows in mswindows, and alt-leftdrag to move them. Having twm's resize behavior would be even better (it "sticks" to whichever border you hit first), but lacking that, the conventional window manager behavior will do (it warps the lower right corner to your pointer).
The mac is even worse about making me aim with the mouse.
I suspect it's not hash visualization, but just PassMark. Even so, while being in the middle could allow access during a single transaction, it can't necessarily reproduce the proper passmark selection, since the proper passmark won't use the same URL every time. With the image, the website is effectively authenticating itself to you, with something more immediately recognizeable than a cert.
Any phisher sophisticated enough to crack this would probably just install a keylogger or other phishing malware instead, or move on to easier targets.
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> Aren't there plugs for other EA games on the Burnout 3 load screens?
And on billboards all around the track. Actually, just one game, Need for Speed 2 Underground. There's also an ad for some cologne. Can't recall its name, hard to see when it zips by at 200 MPH.
The DJ also mentions the ea.com website at least a couple times. I turned off that moronic chatter after about 10 minutes though.
You may have a five-digit ID, but ... you're new here, aren't you?
Since when have the editors ever selected anything on the basis of the writeup quality, newsworthiness, or even whether the identical story has recently run, even on the same day?
Windows has always had the ability to add scriptable components to the desktop. I believe there was a great hue and cry about how evil and unstable this all was, and about how desktops weren't supposed to be playgrounds or HTML renderers and blah blah blah.
You can still add such components, and script them in any language that implements the WSH interface.
But of course Konfabulator widgets all run in a security sandbox and could never do anything malicious. Right?
Ah, the ghost of Ayn Rand raises her screechy little methadrine-fueled head. It has nothing to do with property rights or common carrier babe, and everything to do with abuse of position during a bargaining agreement. If this were happening any other time, they might have a leg, maybe just a little toe to stand on, but this telco has blown off both legs in its zeal to shoot itself in the foot.
Last I heard, people paid for use of their property, and weren't party to an agreement of "we'll fuck around with the content you access to our heart's content if it might have an impact on our stock prices". You might even say the expectation was somewhat the opposite.
But right, all that "capitalism is about the enlightened freedom of choice" nonsense only applies to the people who actually own the most property, no?
However, all of the innovations getting poured into OS X are NOT getting poured back into the community.
How many of these innovations is Linux seeing?
Darwin is open source. The fact that they don't open up every single application that ever touched OSX might be one of the reasons they didn't select Linux.
It is not an OOM condition. Just google for kswapd and feel the hate from all corners. The linux virtual memory subsystem is broken by design.
As for OOM, this is also the process tasked with randomly killing off processes when such a condition is reached. Fine piece of engineering there.
FreeBSD has a bit of an identity crisis, they sorta see themselves as "Linux Junior", with a chip on their shoulders. Which is why every single pro-BSD article is basically a comparison to Linux.
I suppose that makes Linux a "Windows Junior"
On three linux servers with three different distros (rh9, rhel 3, and suse), I have problems with kswapd eating up most of the CPU on the machine. Simply google for kswapd and the first page and most thereafter are full of reports on problems with it that go back ten years to this day, with fix after fix going into the kernel, and no real understanding of what's gone wrong with it. Understandably, I don't have any faith that the latest fix in the 2.6 series will solve the problem.
What good is speed if you fall over randomly under load?
I'll back up your anecdote with my own: ran reiserfs on a laptop, hibernated it, ended up with corrupt inodes. Ran the reiserfs recovery utility, and it ate the whole partition.
> MS could take the code, close the source up and call it "Windows Hasta la Vista" and market it, because the BSD license allows this. This is one of the downsides of the "unlimited" freedom of the BSD license.
Yes, and IBM can say "good enough for Microsoft, good enough for you".
The GPL crowd has been beating this worn-out drum day after day, but has never actually backed up this claim.
... go out and buy a copy of Sims 2. And send back the feedback card, saying "please use my $50 to sue Jack Thompson's ambulance-chasing vexatious-litigating ass so far into debt he'll have to hock his teeth and peddle his ass on the street"
If the last write time to the encrypted file was 24 hours ago, they're assuming you might remember after getting a little time in the klink to think about it.
Give it up with the AOL bashing already. Stupid people are quite well distributed over pretty much every ISP these days. In fact, AOL tends to cater to adults these days, folks who may not be very discerning about their ISP software, but have more or less grown a few social skills with their years.
Since when has that ever stopped a lawsuit?
games for gamers. games that game.
They employed people like Doug Baskins and Hans Boehm. Boehm still works for HP. Or maybe they just axed him, but he just didn't get the spotlight. Still some interesting research went on in HP Labs ... though I suspect they're now going the way of Xerox. I think Kay hung around there once too...
> If there are billions of people living in a country then there will probably be at least one or two people living there who can do the same job as that one person in America.
Yes, and he tends to move to America and get American wages. The jobs being outsourced are grunt work code-grinding and support jobs.
They're round because manholes are round.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhole_cover
It really kills me that wikipedia practically has a manhole category.
I'm going to stop saying "manhole" now.
> The purpose of using Free Software is to be FREE from corporations/individuals that wants to tell you what you can do with your computer
Like yourself, telling me what the purpose of the software I run on my computer is? I like the free software because it sucks less and the price is right. This does not make it mutually exclusive with commercial software.
Not that I think the yahoo toolbar is worth a pile of dingo's kidneys, but it's their prerogative to make it available.
> No Costco membership, or library card?
Actually, thanks to the USA PAT RIOT act, most libraries wipe your record as soon as you check a book back in.
You're seriously suggesting a Mac Mini for pro photography work?
Holy hell, it's like Mike Meyers in "All Things Scottish" whenever the subject of Macs comes up...
While I don't agree about the applescript bit -- there's good automation stuff for windows, and applescript itself is a pretty loathsome language -- I do have to agree with "don't work for cheapskates".
I mean, obviously you have to put food on the table, but I wouldn't exactly put in loads of extra hours and go the extra mile if it looks like you're going to get nothing in return for it. Do the job, use something adequate, collect your bill, job over. Then when he wants more, you can bill it as another job.
It bugs the crap out of me that I can't just alt-rightdrag to resize windows in mswindows, and alt-leftdrag to move them. Having twm's resize behavior would be even better (it "sticks" to whichever border you hit first), but lacking that, the conventional window manager behavior will do (it warps the lower right corner to your pointer).
The mac is even worse about making me aim with the mouse.
I work nights, you insensitive clod!
I suspect it's not hash visualization, but just PassMark. Even so, while being in the middle could allow access during a single transaction, it can't necessarily reproduce the proper passmark selection, since the proper passmark won't use the same URL every time. With the image, the website is effectively authenticating itself to you, with something more immediately recognizeable than a cert.
Any phisher sophisticated enough to crack this would probably just install a keylogger or other phishing malware instead, or move on to easier targets.