Well, with the Pentium-M coming, Macs can't be much more expensive than Intel-machines anymore, because people would notice. I expect a price tag of about $200 more than equivalent PCs (maybe only $100 in the low segment), and for that you get a legit copy of Mac OS and iLife.
The only thing left to hope is that they'll finally include decent screens in the iBooks.
If Direct3D really allows efficient 3D programming with access to low-level details (isn't that what they advertise?), then it should be possible to implement a high-performance OpenGL on top of it.
If MS chooses to cripple OGL, then I guess everyone serious about 3D computing (i.e. lots of serious companies out there with big investments in OGL) will have to quit using Windows (or the clients will be forced to get a Unix to get good performance on their workstations).
Ironic that Germans already called for more regulation, for laws that set a maximum fee for international roaming, etc. Ugh! As if that solved anything.
Now there's this startup and prices will drop all on their own.
An access point is NOT a door. Nor is it a person.
But when you set up your access point, and it's magically auto-found by your laptop, then OF COURSE the same goes for your neighbor. How does the access point know which laptop belongs to whom?
So if someone doesn't set a simple password, then that's telling the AP to let anybody connect. It's like "come in, we're open!" I switch my iBook on, and voilà, there's the network alright!
Besides, EVERY guide to setting up your access point tells you about these basic security facts, and even regular newspapers have mentioned that it's possible to drive somewhere, turn on your laptop and go surf.
Hm, doesn't about EVERY PC-magazine write about people surfing at their neighbors'? At least in Germany I assume it's common knowledge.
Also, if your shiny now access point totally magically gives your laptop access, then it's common sense to assume that the same goes for other computers in the area.
If every simple guide to WLANs says you should set a simple password for your access point, then why not do it?
About the exploiting: sure, it's not nice to download large amounts of data, especially if you don't know if anybody has a flatrate going, but it doesn't hurt to check you email once in a while, IMHO.
And if someone asks you a computer question, as usual, be nice and try to help;) (for the education part) If people that don't even ask, that's their own business/problem.
Anyway, she had some things to say, and not all are bad. Anybody who takes anyone's opinion for his own instead of thinking his own thoughts is a loser anyway (incidentally this is one point of the Fountainhead). So much for those impressionable college youth (why were they impressionable anyway? college youth should be the most intelligent people in a given country!).
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
-- Alexander Tyler, eighteenth-century Scottish historian
Sad but true. We (in Europe and the US) make lots of debt (that our children will be forced to pay back), just so that the government can throw free money at some people. That's done in the name of everybody, even though it's just stealing from future generations.
And concerning the bit about censoring games: nobody should be allowed to do that in the first place. It's just not their concern what you read or write, what games you play, how much you masturbate, and what funny rendered characters there are in GTA.
The world was screwed for thousands of years, and despite today's technology which could abolish world hunger and provide tits for everyone, we're still screwed, and being ruled by religious fundamentalists (talking about those "Christian" idiots and moralists. btw if electricity comes from electrons, guess what comes from morons).
It doesn't seem to me like you've read the Fountainhead (which is her only book I have read). Sure, it's about egotism to some degree, and I certainly don't agree with everything in it. But it's also about honesty, to others and to yourself, and about a way of friendship that lots of people don't seem to understand.
Keating, Ellsworth, and others, are bad not because they live for others instead of for themselves, but because their *values* are not their own but others' values. They don't have their own judgement, and therefore they have no sense of honor and honesty.
The "good guys" in the book, i.e. Roark, Dominique to some degree, and that sculptor guy (forgot his name) share friendship and want to help others be happy, just as they are happy doing what they are destined to do (sculpturing, architecture).
Funny, but most people I hear complaining about Rand's stuff don't really seem to get it. Hell, maybe her philosophy (which I don't know) is stupid, maybe her writings are shallow, but the Fountainhead was *very* entertaining to me, and it pictured a way of life that's different from what everybody expects from you. Don't take it as dogma/religion (don't take *anything* as religion, actually), just let it inspire you.
One more thing, about the "Do nothingers": are you talking about Roark, the guy who's a workaholic, or about people like Keating, who would be admirable by most peoples' standards, but doesn't actually work much himself?
Good that you mention it. One thing that's widespread in any other industry except the software industry is liability. OF COURSE if stuff you make, market, and sell, breaks something at the customer's place, then you're liable. Not so with software.
If we had software liability, MS wouldn't make nearly as much profit.
(The Preface to "Building Secure Software" by John Viega und Gary McGraw also mentions that the lack of market pressure (i.e. cost, i.e. liability) is the reason for today's bad software security.)
No, they don't care enough to be able to know. They don't do a lot with their machines. If they break, they ask the friendly nerd in the neighborhood to fix it. They don't care about alternative OSes because that would mean getting out of the TV chair and actually doing something.
To these people it's NORMAL that computers get infested with spyware and viruses, because that's how computers work. Likewise "The Net" (the movie) is how things go;)
Same with my iBook G4. Before 10.3.6 or so it was running rock solid, but since then every tenth wakeup gives me a blank screen and no possibilities but a hard reset:(
I reported a bug, but with Tiger out there I don't really expect that Apple is going to fix it.
No, sure I agree that participation (in part) and the quality of your participation also counts.
If a teacher treats you unfairly, maybe a collection of other teachers should be able to make an "independent" test, to see if you actually suck, or if the teacher just hated you.
Again, the things that's wrong is that you can sue teachers. Who gives a s**t about grades anyway? For your GPA IMHO there should only be standardized tests, as that is what shows how well you learnt the stuff, *not* participation.
Looks like you haven't been around much. In Germany (and probably other European countries) in some college degrees you attend lectures for a couple of years and then have an oral or written exam covering several semesters of work.
The German high-school degree also consists of four big exams, even though your previous grades count too. The four final exams *are* standardized in some counties, so that all schools have to meet that level.
Sure, there should be some freedom, and I think the US model of lots of homework and lots of little exams etc. has its advantages, but that doesn't preclude that the tests for calculus, for geometry, for 18th-centure-English-poetry etc. couldn't be designed by central commitees.
Just an idea. I find it totally absurd that you can simply sue your teacher if you suck and get away with it (maybe win?).
If teachers win most of these cases (i.e. they were right in failing the student), then I don't understand why they would need insurance.
OMG, you can sue schools/teachers for *grades* in the US?? Now THAT is wrong...
Why not just use independent, state-wide, standardized tests for everything? That way you can make sure who sucks and who doesn't.
Sure, making all schools do the same teaching isn't exactly the best way to do it, but at least for every topic there could be a standardized test every year. Saves time for the teachers too. After all, they should spend their time teaching students, not doing paperwork.
For a long time I didn't use vi at all anymore (same with emacs, but I switched to a Mac sometime before I switched to Dvorak, so I didn't use these that much anyway.
Now I'm sometimes using both again (for Lisp, and simple config files, respectively), and slowly get used to the shortcuts again.
IMHO the point of vi isn't really that hjkl are in a row (at first I hated that!), but that they are on your keyboard, and not to the side like the cursor keys.
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Well, with the Pentium-M coming, Macs can't be much more expensive than Intel-machines anymore, because people would notice. I expect a price tag of about $200 more than equivalent PCs (maybe only $100 in the low segment), and for that you get a legit copy of Mac OS and iLife.
The only thing left to hope is that they'll finally include decent screens in the iBooks.
Looks like Indiana might have a lot of fun with 300,000 "student-customized" machines...
If Direct3D really allows efficient 3D programming with access to low-level details (isn't that what they advertise?), then it should be possible to implement a high-performance OpenGL on top of it.
If MS chooses to cripple OGL, then I guess everyone serious about 3D computing (i.e. lots of serious companies out there with big investments in OGL) will have to quit using Windows (or the clients will be forced to get a Unix to get good performance on their workstations).
Ironic that Germans already called for more regulation, for laws that set a maximum fee for international roaming, etc. Ugh! As if that solved anything.
Now there's this startup and prices will drop all on their own.
An access point is NOT a door. Nor is it a person.
But when you set up your access point, and it's magically auto-found by your laptop, then OF COURSE the same goes for your neighbor. How does the access point know which laptop belongs to whom?
So if someone doesn't set a simple password, then that's telling the AP to let anybody connect. It's like "come in, we're open!" I switch my iBook on, and voilà, there's the network alright!
Besides, EVERY guide to setting up your access point tells you about these basic security facts, and even regular newspapers have mentioned that it's possible to drive somewhere, turn on your laptop and go surf.
Hm, doesn't about EVERY PC-magazine write about people surfing at their neighbors'? At least in Germany I assume it's common knowledge.
;)
Also, if your shiny now access point totally magically gives your laptop access, then it's common sense to assume that the same goes for other computers in the area.
If every simple guide to WLANs says you should set a simple password for your access point, then why not do it?
About the exploiting: sure, it's not nice to download large amounts of data, especially if you don't know if anybody has a flatrate going, but it doesn't hurt to check you email once in a while, IMHO.
And if someone asks you a computer question, as usual, be nice and try to help
(for the education part)
If people that don't even ask, that's their own business/problem.
Call me when patentball gets exciting...
They'd just have to go to Chinatown, NY NY, to find dozens of people selling DVDs (camrips) and stuff...
Morality.
Hm, maybe her philosophy wasn't great ;)
Anyway, she had some things to say, and not all are bad. Anybody who takes anyone's opinion for his own instead of thinking his own thoughts is a loser anyway (incidentally this is one point of the Fountainhead). So much for those impressionable college youth (why were they impressionable anyway? college youth should be the most intelligent people in a given country!).
The bigger problem is, I believe, that they don't hear anything but the hype.
It's not that they are born stupid, it's just that they don't give a rat's ass about what actual people out there (called voters) think.
Hype it good (for them) because it prevents actual facts from entering the table, and we wouldn't want THAT to happen, right?
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves
largess out of the public treasury.
-- Alexander Tyler, eighteenth-century Scottish historian
Sad but true. We (in Europe and the US) make lots of debt (that our children will be forced to pay back), just so that the government can throw free money at some people. That's done in the name of everybody, even though it's just stealing from future generations.
And concerning the bit about censoring games: nobody should be allowed to do that in the first place. It's just not their concern what you read or write, what games you play, how much you masturbate, and what funny rendered characters there are in GTA.
The world was screwed for thousands of years, and despite today's technology which could abolish world hunger and provide tits for everyone, we're still screwed, and being ruled by religious fundamentalists (talking about those "Christian" idiots and moralists. btw if electricity comes from electrons, guess what comes from morons).
It doesn't seem to me like you've read the Fountainhead (which is her only book I have read). Sure, it's about egotism to some degree, and I certainly don't agree with everything in it. But it's also about honesty, to others and to yourself, and about a way of friendship that lots of people don't seem to understand.
Keating, Ellsworth, and others, are bad not because they live for others instead of for themselves, but because their *values* are not their own but others' values. They don't have their own judgement, and therefore they have no sense of honor and honesty.
The "good guys" in the book, i.e. Roark, Dominique to some degree, and that sculptor guy (forgot his name) share friendship and want to help others be happy, just as they are happy doing what they are destined to do (sculpturing, architecture).
Funny, but most people I hear complaining about Rand's stuff don't really seem to get it. Hell, maybe her philosophy (which I don't know) is stupid, maybe her writings are shallow, but the Fountainhead was *very* entertaining to me, and it pictured a way of life that's different from what everybody expects from you. Don't take it as dogma/religion (don't take *anything* as religion, actually), just let it inspire you.
One more thing, about the "Do nothingers": are you talking about Roark, the guy who's a workaholic, or about people like Keating, who would be admirable by most peoples' standards, but doesn't actually work much himself?
Good that you mention it. One thing that's widespread in any other industry except the software industry is liability. OF COURSE if stuff you make, market, and sell, breaks something at the customer's place, then you're liable. Not so with software.
If we had software liability, MS wouldn't make nearly as much profit.
(The Preface to "Building Secure Software" by John Viega und Gary McGraw also mentions that the lack of market pressure (i.e. cost, i.e. liability) is the reason for today's bad software security.)
People don't know enough to be able to care.
;)
No, they don't care enough to be able to know. They don't do a lot with their machines. If they break, they ask the friendly nerd in the neighborhood to fix it. They don't care about alternative OSes because that would mean getting out of the TV chair and actually doing something.
To these people it's NORMAL that computers get infested with spyware and viruses, because that's how computers work. Likewise "The Net" (the movie) is how things go
You just did.
Nothing will be junked. PPC is still a cool architecture, and likely to stay that way.
I'm gonna buy this new Mac mini and sell my iBook G4 for it (it's a slow 800 machine).
When Intel Macs finally come out starting a year from now we'll have to see how well they do price/performancewise.
Most users won't notice the CPU architecture anyway, and most binaries will end up being PPC+x86.
Arrest everyone who points or talks about crime, weapons, download sources etc.
;)
Then obviously you get rid of all crime
Same with my iBook G4. Before 10.3.6 or so it was running rock solid, but since then every tenth wakeup gives me a blank screen and no possibilities but a hard reset :(
I reported a bug, but with Tiger out there I don't really expect that Apple is going to fix it.
No, sure I agree that participation (in part) and the quality of your participation also counts.
If a teacher treats you unfairly, maybe a collection of other teachers should be able to make an "independent" test, to see if you actually suck, or if the teacher just hated you.
Again, the things that's wrong is that you can sue teachers. Who gives a s**t about grades anyway? For your GPA IMHO there should only be standardized tests, as that is what shows how well you learnt the stuff, *not* participation.
Looks like you haven't been around much. In Germany (and probably other European countries) in some college degrees you attend lectures for a couple of years and then have an oral or written exam covering several semesters of work.
The German high-school degree also consists of four big exams, even though your previous grades count too. The four final exams *are* standardized in some counties, so that all schools have to meet that level.
Sure, there should be some freedom, and I think the US model of lots of homework and lots of little exams etc. has its advantages, but that doesn't preclude that the tests for calculus, for geometry, for 18th-centure-English-poetry etc. couldn't be designed by central commitees.
Just an idea. I find it totally absurd that you can simply sue your teacher if you suck and get away with it (maybe win?).
If teachers win most of these cases (i.e. they were right in failing the student), then I don't understand why they would need insurance.
OMG, you can sue schools/teachers for *grades* in the US?? Now THAT is wrong...
Why not just use independent, state-wide, standardized tests for everything? That way you can make sure who sucks and who doesn't.
Sure, making all schools do the same teaching isn't exactly the best way to do it, but at least for every topic there could be a standardized test every year. Saves time for the teachers too. After all, they should spend their time teaching students, not doing paperwork.
What serious nerds need most is a life.
And a girlfriend.
That's because with Dvorak the T key lies under the Bad Finger. He's probably using it right now, to point at all the QWERY fans.
For a long time I didn't use vi at all anymore (same with emacs, but I switched to a Mac sometime before I switched to Dvorak, so I didn't use these that much anyway.
Now I'm sometimes using both again (for Lisp, and simple config files, respectively), and slowly get used to the shortcuts again.
IMHO the point of vi isn't really that hjkl are in a row (at first I hated that!), but that they are on your keyboard, and not to the side like the cursor keys.