Could someone tell me how in any way the sterotypical "nerd" or "geek" would like these movies? This is not ment as a flame just curiously. Basically they are rather political in nature and not related to technology or even sci-fi.
Why in the world did the people at Red Hat file their IPO? I really don't have any financial education of sorts but isn't it a requirement eventually for any company? If not why did they even risk it. They could have made a great deal of money and not have lost anything to the fickle market.
If you needed that server to keep your job and it got hosed by people in Iran then you couldn't pay bills. If that happens then everything you own will get repoed and basically life will loose meaning. In other words there are fates worse than death. Actually if could have been much worse it could have been a shot to the stomach and they could have put you in a foul smelling dungeon for a couple of weeks while the wound festered.
If a country is under siege and has stolen e-cash how is that country going to spend it? Or for that matter anyone who gets the ill gotten booty. Basically they couldn't spend a cent in any way because there would be some sort of embargo. Then there is the problem of getting the goods through the actual fighting and into the country.
Technically if OpenBSD is uesd it makes the systems as secure as a bank vault. Personally if I had to have military data attached to a public network I would go for this.
Someone like Alfred P. Carnegie, or Bill Gates, or the English royal family, or the Chancelor of Germany and say that the country has power even though they may be awash in poverty and misery from lack of basic services. In NYC gangs go through the streets and people live like wretches due to inability to leave (a whole series of reasons). I did not mean to say that everyone in India is poor/stupid/diseased but to say that a greater majority of them are in comparison to Europe/United States.
Alright that may be true however aren't most people in india quite impoverished? I very much doubt that in a place where drinking water isn't always pure and people are starving that one would obtain a computer. I am not totally ignorant in regard to technology it's just that in most of the footage of these places (less than a year old) there are quite a few poor people in the pictures (I assume it is quite hard for people to doctor moving images in such a flawless way). I also question wheather this is of any use in today's modern world when someone could put something like OpenBSD on a computer and never have to worry about someone cracking the machine.
Largely depends on exactly how much they have and what type they are. If they are using early nukes like some of the US's first they may not be able to do much to anyone outside their own periphery. Curiously why hasn't anyone sent in a group of covert special opps to destroy these nuke stockpile? I mean can't anyone send some spies to do some little "accidents"?
Isn't information useless unless it's implimented in some way other than just for esoteric reasons? Eventually one will have to use that information that has been gleaned in some way. For example if I crack an ememy code stating that troops will be put here and here and here that does me no good unless I do something about said troops.
No not really eventually the tide will reverse and allow those who are the "strong" to win again. It's just that the strong will have increased their level of training and popularity. Being a nerd will limit one to a low level of popularity with the masses and not get the wide spread support needed. Sorry if this sounds cold I have been reading Machiavelli recently.
Not to sound too irritated but haven't people been trying to do this for some time with little success? Haven't the people ever heard of firewalls? And am I the only one who believes that if India and Pakistan put their computer resources together they would have the equivelent of a rural American elementary school computer lab? Exactly how does crashing a 286 count as some master stroke to the enemy? Most of these countries rely on non electronic, more traditional forms of war anyway.
I am at school for roughly half of my computing time and the other half on my linux machine. I make sure the linux machine is updated with the latest packages and related items. What I have noticed is that when put to real strain (like getting it so that the machine will barely switch between apps and the like) will cause a crash on windows. It is not necessarily that the OS per se will crash it is that the applications will not function correctly even though you re execute them again, exit, and re-execute them they are still broken due to problems with errors in memory from the recently crashed program causing general problems. However this does not crash windows it merely makes a crack in the window (*snicker*). Eventually the cracked window will fall to pieces and have to be replaced (*rebooted*). Now if you run apps that are nicely compatable with 95/98/NT/2000 you most likely will not have a problem it's usually third part apps and unusual situations that were not tested for during the debugging/testing phase of the software engineering at Microsoft. Linux usually doesn't have the little cracks that appear and does not evolove into something horrible as fast or as often. What usually does kill it is something kernel related or in the libs that may require a reboot to initialize properly. So yes I can say with perfect satisfaction that windows is crash prone. One of the problems I see is that dos was a little better at handling games (vga video was pretty sweet). Games that ran quite well in dos when using the linux version are implimented using libs that are in fact less efficent than the dos implimentation and therefore need more resources. However I may just need to get out into the hardware world a little more (still stuck in a pre 1995 hardware scene) and buy a better machine.
I was reading through some editorials on some distant web page one day when I came across something. Apparently the person who made the page was friendly with the head of ebay (some guy with a french sounding name). He did some cgi tutorials and such before he did the online bidding thing. What I contend is that since most cgi is based upon scripting languages and the most well known is perl than ebay (which uses these scripts) would work just as well on a well built linux system.
Essentially what I know about the difference is that CRTs/VDTs produce supposedly harmful ammounts of radiation (electromagnetic) that causes gradual degredation on the eyes over a period of time. What LCDs do is that they eliminate this and allow for less harsh light. Of course this is just theory. Basically it ammounts to being more expensive than a standard monitor for a PC. Now monitor technology may have advanced some since I heard this but modern monitors may be just a good if not better than the LCDs by now.
That the computer industry is so uninovative that it cannot think up anything else except office apps and games! How can anyone expect that computers are that useless? Personally I think that if PC's get more powerful that AI might just be the next killer app. I sure would like to explore the concept of having an AI companion, even if the OS that AI runs on isn't linux.
To address some of these complaints: 1. The game is slow 1.1. The code might be inefficient 1.1.1. The contest may address this by weeding out the bad portions of the code and allowing the better parts to come out and the best to survive 1.1.2. The code is not optimized correctly for the processor. 1.1.2.1. Most code for linux systems is set for 486 target architectures 1.1.2.1.1. The exception to this are things like pgcc/some of the egcs flags, Mandrake, etc however I would still advocate software to be compatable with the 486 style I don't want to be forced into an upgrade because "The world moves on..." 1.2. The current config for the hardware is in conflict 1.2.1. Many programs have the potential to conflict with particular configs. 1.2.1.1. some corel apps have conflicted with recent or experimental designs 1.2.2. Overclocking of the processor 1.2.2.1. Processor intensive operations are very able to vause exceptions that may be getting caught in some kind of exception manager that is taking up something like 30% of the Celeron hence causing slowdown. 2. Needing a computer 2.1. Avaibility 2.1.1. It seems that most individuals cannot buy an SMP enabled machine from their local computer store (compusa, radioshack, bobslocalcomputeremporium) 2.2. To code? 2.2.1. Not unless you code something like your own version of a CTP similar app with 500Mb or source and tons of time intersive operations 2.2.2. Need to program a device driver that uses hardware exclusively found on a new computer 2.2.2.1. Usually open docs take care of this 2.3. To play CTP or other like games on 2.3.1. Kind of defeats the purpose and wastes the cause of efficiency. 3. Altruism 3.1. The company is hard up 3.1.1. Perhaps because they produce crappy games they need help right where they need it (in their wallet) 3.2. Their programmers are all stupid 3.2.1. They are testing the waters to find new people or to shame their current ones 3.2.1.1. In that case it would be most beneficial to do a good job and a nice career can be yours 3.2.2. Programs that need to have the likes of Einstein to work on them are just plain wrong and perhaps hurt human intellecutal ability to accomplish 3.3. You like giving to the first person who asks 3.3.1. A typical tactic to anyone who has ever done anything that involves free or reduced services of any form 3.3.1.1. It is really bad form to refuse a person who initially had your help when someone new comes along 3.3.1.2. You establish report with people that you serve with and make the person you helped grateful 4. A Job at the host company 4.1. Sucking up 4.1.1. Nice especially if you want to seem selfless (ok not totally they are giving out a computer to the winner) 4.1.2. People remember the person who gives them nice comments without seeming to be giving insincere flattery. This would be a nice time to show them that you are selfless enough and dedicated to their vision to do what they want and need 4.2. Show level of competence 4.2.1. Competent people have an increasing need of physical evidence to prove who they are and what they do a nice directed project. 4.2.2. It's the type of competence that is directed to the job 5. Curiousity 5.1. Efficiency (see above) 5.1.1. Answer the burning question (why is this so slow?). Is there a better way to do this? 5.2. Obtaining a good strategy to win 5.2.1. Cheat codes are usually embedded in games and are not all totally obvious at first glance 5.2.1.1. These codes override the things that make you loose and conversely make you win. 5.2.2. If there is a function create_big_scary_monster_with_sharp_teeth(player) { some code here... ... } perhaps you can defeate his logic and then win that way. This is usually how we win games of this sort look for patterns and then reduce those complex patterns. 6. You hate bugs 6.1. Don't play the game 6.1.1. I have programs that have been on my computer that have for various reasons failed me 6.1.1.1. I usually take this as a personal problem and then just use something else.
Could the whole problem be avoided by creating an array of chips instead of ones that could even produce harmful emissions in the first place? Is there any difference between the preformance of a couple of chips with the same chip set and one with the same by twice as fast as either of the linked chips?
The mac has quite a few games that are already ready to be ported or already there. Back a few years ago mac's had supperior sound hardware to some of the PCs that were out. I am not advocating macs it's just that they were aimed for artistically inclined and not the scientifically inclined so therefore multimedia has been quite developed.
Well if the basic set of instructions of the chips is backwards compatable then linux could really become quite stable on this platform just like the x86 is now.
A magazine published by a group of I guess the proper term is "security consultants" who are interested in alerting the community about various failures in security.
So what would happen let's say worst case senario and Steve Jobs decided to get his hands dirty and crack the army's homepage. All of the so called "security" for the mac would be compromised because someone (Jobs) knows a great deal about his own platform. Anyone who also programmed the http server for the mac would have inside information about it's operation. The only safe thing is for the army to make a secure hardware/software platform of their own and then not publish the documentation about it. Its then even more secure than the Mac idea.
The only thing that was altered was a readily accessible public relations page that had little validity with much at all. Data was not compromised about anything that the army really values (missle locations, operatives, troop movements, etc). Just get Debian and the latest security fixes possibly some heavy encryption and security and there you have it nothing else is needed. Using a mac is just a temporary stop gap measure to make sure no one can in the short term do anything to the public content and make them loose face.
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Could someone tell me how in any way the sterotypical "nerd" or "geek" would like these movies? This is not ment as a flame just curiously. Basically they are rather political in nature and not related to technology or even sci-fi.
Complete hardware failure or just temporary crash?
Why in the world did the people at Red Hat file their IPO? I really don't have any financial education of sorts but isn't it a requirement eventually for any company? If not why did they even risk it. They could have made a great deal of money and not have lost anything to the fickle market.
If you needed that server to keep your job and it got hosed by people in Iran then you couldn't pay bills. If that happens then everything you own will get repoed and basically life will loose meaning. In other words there are fates worse than death. Actually if could have been much worse it could have been a shot to the stomach and they could have put you in a foul smelling dungeon for a couple of weeks while the wound festered.
If a country is under siege and has stolen e-cash how is that country going to spend it? Or for that matter anyone who gets the ill gotten booty. Basically they couldn't spend a cent in any way because there would be some sort of embargo. Then there is the problem of getting the goods through the actual fighting and into the country.
Technically if OpenBSD is uesd it makes the systems as secure as a bank vault. Personally if I had to have military data attached to a public network I would go for this.
Someone like Alfred P. Carnegie, or Bill Gates, or the English royal family, or the Chancelor of Germany and say that the country has power even though they may be awash in poverty and misery from lack of basic services. In NYC gangs go through the streets and people live like wretches due to inability to leave (a whole series of reasons). I did not mean to say that everyone in India is poor/stupid/diseased but to say that a greater majority of them are in comparison to Europe/United States.
Alright that may be true however aren't most people in india quite impoverished? I very much doubt that in a place where drinking water isn't always pure and people are starving that one would obtain a computer. I am not totally ignorant in regard to technology it's just that in most of the footage of these places (less than a year old) there are quite a few poor people in the pictures (I assume it is quite hard for people to doctor moving images in such a flawless way). I also question wheather this is of any use in today's modern world when someone could put something like OpenBSD on a computer and never have to worry about someone cracking the machine.
Largely depends on exactly how much they have and what type they are. If they are using early nukes like some of the US's first they may not be able to do much to anyone outside their own periphery. Curiously why hasn't anyone sent in a group of covert special opps to destroy these nuke stockpile? I mean can't anyone send some spies to do some little "accidents"?
Isn't information useless unless it's implimented in some way other than just for esoteric reasons? Eventually one will have to use that information that has been gleaned in some way. For example if I crack an ememy code stating that troops will be put here and here and here that does me no good unless I do something about said troops.
No not really eventually the tide will reverse and allow those who are the "strong" to win again. It's just that the strong will have increased their level of training and popularity. Being a nerd will limit one to a low level of popularity with the masses and not get the wide spread support needed. Sorry if this sounds cold I have been reading Machiavelli recently.
Not to sound too irritated but haven't people been trying to do this for some time with little success? Haven't the people ever heard of firewalls? And am I the only one who believes that if India and Pakistan put their computer resources together they would have the equivelent of a rural American elementary school computer lab? Exactly how does crashing a 286 count as some master stroke to the enemy? Most of these countries rely on non electronic, more traditional forms of war anyway.
I am at school for roughly half of my computing time and the other half on my linux machine. I make sure the linux machine is updated with the latest packages and related items. What I have noticed is that when put to real strain (like getting it so that the machine will barely switch between apps and the like) will cause a crash on windows. It is not necessarily that the OS per se will crash it is that the applications will not function correctly even though you re execute them again, exit, and re-execute them they are still broken due to problems with errors in memory from the recently crashed program causing general problems. However this does not crash windows it merely makes a crack in the window (*snicker*). Eventually the cracked window will fall to pieces and have to be replaced (*rebooted*). Now if you run apps that are nicely compatable with 95/98/NT/2000 you most likely will not have a problem it's usually third part apps and unusual situations that were not tested for during the debugging/testing phase of the software engineering at Microsoft. Linux usually doesn't have the little cracks that appear and does not evolove into something horrible as fast or as often. What usually does kill it is something kernel related or in the libs that may require a reboot to initialize properly. So yes I can say with perfect satisfaction that windows is crash prone. One of the problems I see is that dos was a little better at handling games (vga video was pretty sweet). Games that ran quite well in dos when using the linux version are implimented using libs that are in fact less efficent than the dos implimentation and therefore need more resources. However I may just need to get out into the hardware world a little more (still stuck in a pre 1995 hardware scene) and buy a better machine.
I was reading through some editorials on some distant web page one day when I came across something. Apparently the person who made the page was friendly with the head of ebay (some guy with a french sounding name). He did some cgi tutorials and such before he did the online bidding thing. What I contend is that since most cgi is based upon scripting languages and the most well known is perl than ebay (which uses these scripts) would work just as well on a well built linux system.
Essentially what I know about the difference is that CRTs/VDTs produce supposedly harmful ammounts of radiation (electromagnetic) that causes gradual degredation on the eyes over a period of time. What LCDs do is that they eliminate this and allow for less harsh light. Of course this is just theory. Basically it ammounts to being more expensive than a standard monitor for a PC. Now monitor technology may have advanced some since I heard this but modern monitors may be just a good if not better than the LCDs by now.
That the computer industry is so uninovative that it cannot think up anything else except office apps and games! How can anyone expect that computers are that useless? Personally I think that if PC's get more powerful that AI might just be the next killer app. I sure would like to explore the concept of having an AI companion, even if the OS that AI runs on isn't linux.
To address some of these complaints:
1. The game is slow
1.1. The code might be inefficient
1.1.1. The contest may address this by weeding out the bad portions of the code and allowing the better parts to come out and the best to survive
1.1.2. The code is not optimized correctly for the processor.
1.1.2.1. Most code for linux systems is set for 486 target architectures
1.1.2.1.1. The exception to this are things like pgcc/some of the egcs flags, Mandrake, etc however I would still advocate software to be compatable with the 486 style I don't want to be forced into an upgrade because "The world moves on..."
1.2. The current config for the hardware is in conflict
1.2.1. Many programs have the potential to conflict with particular configs.
1.2.1.1. some corel apps have conflicted with recent or experimental designs
1.2.2. Overclocking of the processor
1.2.2.1. Processor intensive operations are very able to vause exceptions that may be getting caught in some kind of exception manager that is taking up something like 30% of the Celeron hence causing slowdown.
2. Needing a computer
2.1. Avaibility
2.1.1. It seems that most individuals cannot buy an SMP enabled machine from their local computer store (compusa, radioshack, bobslocalcomputeremporium)
2.2. To code?
2.2.1. Not unless you code something like your own version of a CTP similar app with 500Mb or source and tons of time intersive operations
2.2.2. Need to program a device driver that uses hardware exclusively found on a new computer
2.2.2.1. Usually open docs take care of this
2.3. To play CTP or other like games on
2.3.1. Kind of defeats the purpose and wastes the cause of efficiency.
3. Altruism
3.1. The company is hard up
3.1.1. Perhaps because they produce crappy games they need help right where they need it (in their wallet)
3.2. Their programmers are all stupid
3.2.1. They are testing the waters to find new people or to shame their current ones
3.2.1.1. In that case it would be most beneficial to do a good job and a nice career can be yours
3.2.2. Programs that need to have the likes of Einstein to work on them are just plain wrong and perhaps hurt human intellecutal ability to accomplish
3.3. You like giving to the first person who asks
3.3.1. A typical tactic to anyone who has ever done anything that involves free or reduced services of any form
3.3.1.1. It is really bad form to refuse a person who initially had your help when someone new comes along
3.3.1.2. You establish report with people that you serve with and make the person you helped grateful
4. A Job at the host company
4.1. Sucking up
4.1.1. Nice especially if you want to seem selfless (ok not totally they are giving out a computer to the winner)
4.1.2. People remember the person who gives them nice comments without seeming to be giving insincere flattery. This would be a nice time to show them that you are selfless enough and dedicated to their vision to do what they want and need
4.2. Show level of competence
4.2.1. Competent people have an increasing need of physical evidence to prove who they are and what they do a nice directed project.
4.2.2. It's the type of competence that is directed to the job
5. Curiousity
5.1. Efficiency (see above)
5.1.1. Answer the burning question (why is this so slow?). Is there a better way to do this?
5.2. Obtaining a good strategy to win
5.2.1. Cheat codes are usually embedded in games and are not all totally obvious at first glance
5.2.1.1. These codes override the things that make you loose and conversely make you win.
5.2.2. If there is a function create_big_scary_monster_with_sharp_teeth(player)
{
some code here...
...
}
perhaps you can defeate his logic and then win that way. This is usually how we win games of this sort look for patterns and then reduce those complex patterns.
6. You hate bugs
6.1. Don't play the game
6.1.1. I have programs that have been on my computer that have for various reasons failed me
6.1.1.1. I usually take this as a personal problem and then just use something else.
Just one question about policy in regards to creating the above setup. Where is the video card? Isn't that really important.
Could the whole problem be avoided by creating an array of chips instead of ones that could even produce harmful emissions in the first place? Is there any difference between the preformance of a couple of chips with the same chip set and one with the same by twice as fast as either of the linked chips?
The mac has quite a few games that are already ready to be ported or already there. Back a few years ago mac's had supperior sound hardware to some of the PCs that were out. I am not advocating macs it's just that they were aimed for artistically inclined and not the scientifically inclined so therefore multimedia has been quite developed.
Well if the basic set of instructions of the chips is backwards compatable then linux could really become quite stable on this platform just like the x86 is now.
A magazine published by a group of I guess the proper term is "security consultants" who are interested in alerting the community about various failures in security.
What is this ad about? I don't think it's hit the airwaves where I live yet.
So what would happen let's say worst case senario and Steve Jobs decided to get his hands dirty and crack the army's homepage. All of the so called "security" for the mac would be compromised because someone (Jobs) knows a great deal about his own platform. Anyone who also programmed the http server for the mac would have inside information about it's operation. The only safe thing is for the army to make a secure hardware/software platform of their own and then not publish the documentation about it. Its then even more secure than the Mac idea.
The only thing that was altered was a readily accessible public relations page that had little validity with much at all. Data was not compromised about anything that the army really values (missle locations, operatives, troop movements, etc). Just get Debian and the latest security fixes possibly some heavy encryption and security and there you have it nothing else is needed. Using a mac is just a temporary stop gap measure to make sure no one can in the short term do anything to the public content and make them loose face.