there is no need for the Linux-ers to bash the MS-ers and vice versa
That's something I don't think will change since people feel too strongly about it one way or the other. Personally, I use both operating systems, but I don't make a big deal out of it. Linux for the server and Windows for my desktop systems. Yes, it would be nice if everyone was more accepting.
That's a bit extreme. If anything the signature based AV software isn't going anywhere right now. It seems like behavior analysis, which is what I thought of when I read the headline, would be a nice extra preventative measure to integrate into exisiting resident scanners. It doesn't seem like that type of technique would be very reliable if used by itself. Maybe the headline should have been: "A program that watches other programs spots a potential problem in advance!"
It seems that when people talk about this they seem to beat around the bush a lot and never outright say that maybe the reason people aren't going to see movies is because most of them suck? There. I said it. The industry is in denial, and denial is the first stage in coping with a death apparently, or more like the death of a once great venue for entertainment? But seriously, there hasn't been anything out there recently that seems worthwhile seeing excpet maybe March of the Penguins! (Wobble, wobble -- cracks me up every time.)
This is probably not going to be seen, but one way to secure a system is to have it so the users can't plug stuff into it (like USB sticks) and walk away with sensitive data. Disabling or plugging the USB ports with gunk might work. Of course, that doesn't stop anyone from e-mailing themselves the same data.. Unless you want to restrict network access to a private intranet.
They also didn't find my migration of 5000 users at a $3 billion corporation from Lotus Notes to Exchange (utilizing Sendmail for routing) a worthy enough credential to make up for only having some 2 years experience with E2K....
Those are the types of people that will be replaced by a conveyor belt hooked up to an OCR scanner and a computer that processes resumes using a neural network. Would save the HR department tons of money too.
I wish more people commited to the scientific process would get so excited that they started spewing thing out like "we just isolated teh carbon atomz in our mixture! ROX!" in press releases
Well, you might end up noticing form the other posts that you don't include the @gmail.com in your user name when logging on. Maybe they should have been more explicit about that.
Do you really want to get/make 15 different skins just so all of your apps look right together?
Actually, things like that don't bother me. If it looks good, then why do I care that it doesn't look uniform? More variety is better. Applications like Winamp never used the standard UI widgets and no one seemed to complain about that. The one good thing I can see coming from certain applications looking different is that their look and feel makes them stand out if you have a lot of other stuff open at the same time.
Just curious, but how do you watch movies at home then? Or do you watch movies at all?
This just struck me as funny. Almost as if you were saying "you don't watch movies at home? Everyone watches movies at home!" Personally, I'm in the same situation. I don't own a DVD drive or player. The only reason I'd ever want one is so I can write to media with a higher storage capacity. I rarely watch movies and most of my mindless watching entertainment comes from the grainy NTSC signal based TV.
I really wouldn't use quake3 source as an example of well formatted / readable code.:-)
Seriously. The Quake source is some of the most cryptic stuff that actually works that I've looked at yet. I still think it's interesting that generic objects were called "edicts" or whatever.
So now a potentially life threatening event is signaled by music. Think of the poor pilot who doesn't know if they should try to regain control or start dancing.
Most games are smart enough to have a clause in their EULA that says you're not allowed to modify your game or break into the game's network. Of course, if the game was designed well enough, even if someone did break in, the damage would be limited to what they would leagally be able to do in the game anyway.
Yes, just like artificial sweeteners taste like the finest quality cane sugar or honey. Truly an age of marvels we live in.
Actually all of them are basically the same. They all taste sweeter than sugar. Basically, all of them are nasty IMO and probably cause cancer (something which tastes THAT bad HAS to cause cancer!) You're better off just using the real thing. It's probably better for you than this stuff anyway.
Their researchers figured out how to plug an iPod into a PC and store data on it? I was able to do that using a Windows 98 machine a year ago. They should really get their butts in gear and do something useful like figure out how to boot an x86 virtual machine on the iPod itself.
By contract, I find I'm still playing my PSP games, and I'm not finding the novelty coming off.
Really? That's strangely convenient. I don't own either system, but it's ironic that you said that because of the apparent lack of games for the PSP. Although, I would probably buy one if I was guaranteed that I could hack it without interruption.
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That's something I don't think will change since people feel too strongly about it one way or the other. Personally, I use both operating systems, but I don't make a big deal out of it. Linux for the server and Windows for my desktop systems. Yes, it would be nice if everyone was more accepting.
That's a bit extreme. If anything the signature based AV software isn't going anywhere right now. It seems like behavior analysis, which is what I thought of when I read the headline, would be a nice extra preventative measure to integrate into exisiting resident scanners. It doesn't seem like that type of technique would be very reliable if used by itself. Maybe the headline should have been: "A program that watches other programs spots a potential problem in advance!"
It seems that when people talk about this they seem to beat around the bush a lot and never outright say that maybe the reason people aren't going to see movies is because most of them suck? There. I said it. The industry is in denial, and denial is the first stage in coping with a death apparently, or more like the death of a once great venue for entertainment? But seriously, there hasn't been anything out there recently that seems worthwhile seeing excpet maybe March of the Penguins! (Wobble, wobble -- cracks me up every time.)
This is probably not going to be seen, but one way to secure a system is to have it so the users can't plug stuff into it (like USB sticks) and walk away with sensitive data. Disabling or plugging the USB ports with gunk might work. Of course, that doesn't stop anyone from e-mailing themselves the same data.. Unless you want to restrict network access to a private intranet.
Those are the types of people that will be replaced by a conveyor belt hooked up to an OCR scanner and a computer that processes resumes using a neural network. Would save the HR department tons of money too.
I wish more people commited to the scientific process would get so excited that they started spewing thing out like "we just isolated teh carbon atomz in our mixture! ROX!" in press releases
Well, you might end up noticing form the other posts that you don't include the @gmail.com in your user name when logging on. Maybe they should have been more explicit about that.
Actually, things like that don't bother me. If it looks good, then why do I care that it doesn't look uniform? More variety is better. Applications like Winamp never used the standard UI widgets and no one seemed to complain about that. The one good thing I can see coming from certain applications looking different is that their look and feel makes them stand out if you have a lot of other stuff open at the same time.
The problem with that game is that it'd be a rail shooter ;)
And I thought the mishap was that someone was using Windows for a server
This just struck me as funny. Almost as if you were saying "you don't watch movies at home? Everyone watches movies at home!" Personally, I'm in the same situation. I don't own a DVD drive or player. The only reason I'd ever want one is so I can write to media with a higher storage capacity. I rarely watch movies and most of my mindless watching entertainment comes from the grainy NTSC signal based TV.
Yeah, but who's using SHA-1 to hash their passwords? MD5 is certainly the most common hashing function for this.
Seriously. The Quake source is some of the most cryptic stuff that actually works that I've looked at yet. I still think it's interesting that generic objects were called "edicts" or whatever.
If that could happen maybe then ECS would have been wiped off the face of the earth by now or any other cheap motherboard manufacturer.
So now a potentially life threatening event is signaled by music. Think of the poor pilot who doesn't know if they should try to regain control or start dancing.
Kinky. I can see this would be a new frontier for the porn industry.
From The Shining (apparently): "Hereee's Johnny!"
Most games are smart enough to have a clause in their EULA that says you're not allowed to modify your game or break into the game's network. Of course, if the game was designed well enough, even if someone did break in, the damage would be limited to what they would leagally be able to do in the game anyway.
I guess it would give the phrase "do not look into laser with remaining eye" a whole new meaning
Actually all of them are basically the same. They all taste sweeter than sugar. Basically, all of them are nasty IMO and probably cause cancer (something which tastes THAT bad HAS to cause cancer!) You're better off just using the real thing. It's probably better for you than this stuff anyway.
Guiltless grill? Is there another kind?
Point being there's always a trade off somewhere down the line.
Their researchers figured out how to plug an iPod into a PC and store data on it? I was able to do that using a Windows 98 machine a year ago. They should really get their butts in gear and do something useful like figure out how to boot an x86 virtual machine on the iPod itself.
Really? That's strangely convenient. I don't own either system, but it's ironic that you said that because of the apparent lack of games for the PSP. Although, I would probably buy one if I was guaranteed that I could hack it without interruption.
This should be pretty obvious, but works of fiction and our imaginations are generally a lot more interesting than what actually ends up happening.
You might want to check out this or this. Both are 63 characters long.