You think the credit card companies are on your side huh? Only if you are a 'good' costumer. I had a card that I got with no annual fee specifically as a fallback for emergencies (stolen wallet or whatever). Then all the sudden I get a bill with an annual fee charged and a 'terms of service' chance notice. So I call them up to cancel the card and they offer to lower my interest rate and I say "no just cancel the card I don't want an annual fee" and they say 'ok but you'll still have to pay the charge for the annual fee' and so say something like "bullshit" and the guy helpfully explains that that's how it works and so I sarcastically say "oh reall well why does it say on the back of the terms of service change that if I don't agree I can cancel my card and not pay the annual fee?" and then they finally cancelled it without a charge -- I figured they deserved a little angst for arguing with me about a wanting to close my account and trying to scam me out of some money.
Another time, at a point of sale, I was given the chance to "apply" for a credit card in exchange for a deferred bill for what I was buying. I wasn't able to buy the items with my credit card because it had been temporarily disabled until I called them because I had been buying thing for a new job (so when I actually needed a credit card it didn't work). I was going to go to the bank and come back with cash, but instead I actually read the contract on the form and it did not obligate me to take their credit service, but by activating the card by calling the number on the card they sent I would agree to the terms. But I never activated the card. So then when I paid the deferred charge they tried to add finance charges and whatnot. Needless to say this took a lot of calls and letters to resolve. Note that this company has since changed their agreement form so you agree to the account at the first step (before ever even seeing the actual rates you'll get) so I wouldn't try this.
Credit card companies are on not on your side, they just want to make money any scummy way they can. Just because some company rightfully got the brunt of it doesn't make them your friends.
Obviously they are going to embrace and extend IP with their own changes and retro-fitting these non-RFC compliant changes on the BSD code is too difficult. Error-correcting codes, DRM, new windows-only protocols (HTTP/IP)? Reformatting packet fields to be more 64-bit friendly? Whatever they are up to it's going to suck.
Exploiting typesafe code is actually pretty much impossible in practice, although not in theory of course. Sure there are logic errors, like for example trusting unverified user input, but in general for something well reviewed like an OS these kinds of errors simply do not happen. A DoS or simple failure is the best you can expect.
The interesting question then is how much safer are program written in typesafe languages. If I offer $10000 to hack any part of Eclipse (compiler, editor, syntax highlighter, etc) versus $1000 to hack Visual Studio which one do you focus on? I think pretty much anybody in their right mind would choose VS.
I find it amazing that so many so-called nerds can miss the entire point, like parent post has done. Seriously I think parrots are capable of more independent thought than demonstrated by the majority of responses to my post. And yes I am shaming you and most other posters for it as I think my post was very clear as to the point I was expressing.
Close a jar. Wait for low pressure system to pass. Release pressure to do useful work. The pressure in the jar does not build up forever, or fail to converge on some finite limit and eventually destroy everything or suck up the entire atmosphere into the jar. It does not violate any law of thermodynamics, it's just extracting energy from something outside of the room the jar is in.
Basically you can't invoke the law of thermodynamics unless you know what the entire system is. Even if the law is correct at a quantum level you can still extract energy from outside the system (as you know it) and use it for useful work. Maybe one day we will know where that energy is coming from, but to say "thermodynamics says it's impossible" or "you have to use more energy than you get out or the universe asplode" is really pretty flat-earth given the amount we don't know about the entire system.
A bug trap uses no energy and does not violate any thermodynamic law, yet it works. It just creates a condition where the bug is more likely to get in than out. Zero-point energy could be the same kind of deal, where you make a construct that allows you to 'collect' the energy in some way. This also would not violate any theory of balance if you consider the whole system including where this energy comes from. And if this is from outside what we consider our universe, for example some meta-verse or a bug in the simulation of ours, then to us this would seem indistinguishable from free energy.
I'm not saying that a 'zpm' could be built and generate free power, but to remind that laws of balance only hold over closed systems. For example if the room you postulate is connected to the atmosphere you can harness the 'uniform pressure' as it changes over time as low/high pressure systems pass by. Thus, you are getting 'free energy' from outside the system, drawing from the global heat. From the perspective of the room this is energy out of nowhere or free energy.
It is weird... almost like there's some kind of an editor reading content and presenting it in a way that gives a complete, accurate overview of some topic.
This "debate" is quite similar to global climate change or evolution in that there is no other side in a rational, fact-based discussion. In this case there is no logical basis for allowing carriers to set discriminatory prices. Putting "both sides" on a news program is the truly shameful part of this.
NPR should have told both sides that their argument would be fact-checked and then done so. If Cleland could come up with a fact-based argument for discriminatory pricing them more power to him. But a bunch of lies and 'misrepresentations' has no place on a news program.
And why are you discussing everything but the evidence of global climate change? You've been suckered by the straw-man agrument into unrelated issues, just like the original poster intended.
Actually There's plenty of evidence for a natual cycle of security issues. In the past, millions of years ago, there were far more security issues than there are now. In fact, many scientists disagree over the cause of the recent increase of exploits, whether this is caused by man or whether it is just part of a natural downturn from the last Mini-Secure Age (which incidentally ended when the Irish potato fields were compromised).
In any case to presume some kind of pattern from this last decade of operating systems is poor reasoning --the science just isn't in yet to show any long-term trends. Sure, the 7 of 10 most exploited operating systems have been released in the last decade, but that is not statitically relevant over the million year record of security issues. Certainly taking some kind of preventive action like using Safe Languages is just being alarmist as is all the liberal scaremongering that "all your base will be pwned" by the end of the century. Think of the economic impact of all those wasted cycles that could be better used doing manual memory management.
Listen, the computer was here long before Windows, and they'll still be around after Windows is gone. We're overstating our importance to say that mere programmers can destroy the whole computer. Sure, it may be uninhabitable by our software but eventually random bit-flipping will reset the computer and a new OS will take over. It's evidence of the indisputable intelligent design of computers that they can recover from anything we could possible run on them.
First of all there was not scientific consensus for any of those straw-man arguments you mention. Science has know the world wasn't flat for thousands of years and any confusion over that is due to religion and stupidity; just check the wikipedia article. Religion and stupidity also were the culprits in blacks being supposedly 'inferior' (as opposed to the more accurate 'slightly different'). And it's religion and stupidity that said Iraq had WMDs.
Second, get your facts straight. It's 1 degree celsius... just look at the damned graph... from -0.5 to.5 celsius is 1 degree. You reasoning is sound, but your conclusions are wrong because the so-called facts you are starting from are wrong. When this happens to an otherwise smart person there is one word for it: denial.
necromancer wolves -> hunter pet necromancer skeletons -> warlock demon
health bar -> health bar mana bar -> mana/rage/focus bar
talent points -> talent points
run around and click -> run around and click in 3d control 1 character -> control 1 character
The original warcraft had city building and unit management as the main part of the game, which has zero relation to WoW. WoW is really diablo set in the warcraft ethos. I'd like to see World of Diablo if only to have a dozen skeletons/wolves running around.
You have made a certain kind of valid zen-like point. Some kinds of dangers, like that the world is running in a simulation and quantum cryptography are causing the sim to run slower as it factors primes for us and we resume billions of real-world years later, are competely unavoidable. You either do it or you do without.
On the other hand, wtf are we doing creating a black hole anywhere near us? Sure scientists "expect" it to dissapate faster than it sucks in matter, but knowing human nature I fully expect it to become "I wonder how large a black hole we can make and still have it self-destruct". That's the kind of danger we need to be legitimately worried about. We don't need to do that kind of research on earth.
But a Wiipod would be *so* usable. You could just twirl your Wiipod clockwise to go to the next track and counter to go back again. As you are jogging the volume would go up and down slightly since up/down motions would naturally be for volume control; this would add a nice 'organic' effect to the music. You could even get two, attach one to each foot, and play DDR without a mat.
Never since the day that cholocate fell into penut butter has there been such a great convergence!!! This is a gold mine, I'm caching out my 401k to buy stock in Apple *and* Nintendo today!
Don't want to share this info about yourself? Don't use the site. There is no invasion going on here. They are not hiding spy cameras in your room watching what you do on the computer.
That's a nice fantasy to rationalize your job, but the fact is that most people are completely unaware of what information is being recorded and when. For instance, cross-site elements are used to track usage among otherwise unrelated sites. Even when cache and cookies are flushed some companies still correlate your data by IP address.
I've accessed the internet through several NATs over time and have noticed many odd coincindences, such as other users (who have entered an email address at some site, say netscape) getting emails with *my* account ids from other sites. Or getting ads clearly reflective of *my* browsing habits. For example, I look for external storage and somebody else on the lan gets an email about "sales on external storage". These incidents simply cannot be explained by coincindence or spam. It's probably more noticeable since I set firefox to clear the cache and cookies ever time it closes.
Maybe you in particular are not involved in it, but taking data from people like this to obtain information that they don't even know they are giving *is* morally equivalent to training spy cameras on them. You, as an alleged advertising executive, may not admit to these practices and call those who do them 'bad apples', but fundamentally your job is to sell not to care about privacy. Would you quit your job if you found out your company was doing this? Highly doubtful considering you have not already done so, as is the veracity of your claims that people know what information they are giving up.
The difference is that Mac OS X gets better with every new release version, whereas a lot of people would 'downgrade' from Vista to XP if their games would still run.
A joke is only really funny the first couple times you hear it, but often killing the enemy gets even more fun the more times you do it. So naturally they make the games you'll play over and over.
They did not sacrifice portability to get this result, it's the whole point of having a tiny microkernel like L4 in the first place. Since the microkernel is so small you can just rewrite it for each hardware type from scratch. You can add a new HAL to linux with some assembly code, but Linux makes a lot of assumptions about how the vm and such work that make it hard to do it the optimal way for some hardware.
I suggest you read up on Turing Completeness as it is not bullshit
I suggest you write "Zen and the art of Program Maintenance: an existential guide to ticker tapes and such". This can be a novel about a rogue program tester and his fight against a headless blunder called "Quality Assurance" that exists only to spread the propoganda that a bug-free program is possible, endlessly toiling away to make the perfect program (this program can be called "Word 2009", since that would obviously impossible to debug fully).
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My cells factor very large primes, therefore I am
You think the credit card companies are on your side huh? Only if you are a 'good' costumer. I had a card that I got with no annual fee specifically as a fallback for emergencies (stolen wallet or whatever). Then all the sudden I get a bill with an annual fee charged and a 'terms of service' chance notice. So I call them up to cancel the card and they offer to lower my interest rate and I say "no just cancel the card I don't want an annual fee" and they say 'ok but you'll still have to pay the charge for the annual fee' and so say something like "bullshit" and the guy helpfully explains that that's how it works and so I sarcastically say "oh reall well why does it say on the back of the terms of service change that if I don't agree I can cancel my card and not pay the annual fee?" and then they finally cancelled it without a charge -- I figured they deserved a little angst for arguing with me about a wanting to close my account and trying to scam me out of some money.
Another time, at a point of sale, I was given the chance to "apply" for a credit card in exchange for a deferred bill for what I was buying. I wasn't able to buy the items with my credit card because it had been temporarily disabled until I called them because I had been buying thing for a new job (so when I actually needed a credit card it didn't work). I was going to go to the bank and come back with cash, but instead I actually read the contract on the form and it did not obligate me to take their credit service, but by activating the card by calling the number on the card they sent I would agree to the terms. But I never activated the card. So then when I paid the deferred charge they tried to add finance charges and whatnot. Needless to say this took a lot of calls and letters to resolve. Note that this company has since changed their agreement form so you agree to the account at the first step (before ever even seeing the actual rates you'll get) so I wouldn't try this.
Credit card companies are on not on your side, they just want to make money any scummy way they can. Just because some company rightfully got the brunt of it doesn't make them your friends.
In keeping with each system's naming conventions:
Apple:
iTunes
Microsoft:
My Zunes
In other words, Microsoft is even ripping off the name, but making it crappier.
Obviously they are going to embrace and extend IP with their own changes and retro-fitting these non-RFC compliant changes on the BSD code is too difficult. Error-correcting codes, DRM, new windows-only protocols (HTTP/IP)? Reformatting packet fields to be more 64-bit friendly? Whatever they are up to it's going to suck.
Exploiting typesafe code is actually pretty much impossible in practice, although not in theory of course. Sure there are logic errors, like for example trusting unverified user input, but in general for something well reviewed like an OS these kinds of errors simply do not happen. A DoS or simple failure is the best you can expect.
The interesting question then is how much safer are program written in typesafe languages. If I offer $10000 to hack any part of Eclipse (compiler, editor, syntax highlighter, etc) versus $1000 to hack Visual Studio which one do you focus on? I think pretty much anybody in their right mind would choose VS.
Here let me codify that:
// what's that you say?
while (!os_written_in_typesafe_language) {
counter_rootkit(create_rootkit(true));
}
. . .
catch (NoSuchRootkitPossibleException ex) {
}
I find it amazing that so many so-called nerds can miss the entire point, like parent post has done. Seriously I think parrots are capable of more independent thought than demonstrated by the majority of responses to my post. And yes I am shaming you and most other posters for it as I think my post was very clear as to the point I was expressing.
Close a jar. Wait for low pressure system to pass. Release pressure to do useful work. The pressure in the jar does not build up forever, or fail to converge on some finite limit and eventually destroy everything or suck up the entire atmosphere into the jar. It does not violate any law of thermodynamics, it's just extracting energy from something outside of the room the jar is in.
Basically you can't invoke the law of thermodynamics unless you know what the entire system is. Even if the law is correct at a quantum level you can still extract energy from outside the system (as you know it) and use it for useful work. Maybe one day we will know where that energy is coming from, but to say "thermodynamics says it's impossible" or "you have to use more energy than you get out or the universe asplode" is really pretty flat-earth given the amount we don't know about the entire system.
A bug trap uses no energy and does not violate any thermodynamic law, yet it works. It just creates a condition where the bug is more likely to get in than out. Zero-point energy could be the same kind of deal, where you make a construct that allows you to 'collect' the energy in some way. This also would not violate any theory of balance if you consider the whole system including where this energy comes from. And if this is from outside what we consider our universe, for example some meta-verse or a bug in the simulation of ours, then to us this would seem indistinguishable from free energy.
I'm not saying that a 'zpm' could be built and generate free power, but to remind that laws of balance only hold over closed systems. For example if the room you postulate is connected to the atmosphere you can harness the 'uniform pressure' as it changes over time as low/high pressure systems pass by. Thus, you are getting 'free energy' from outside the system, drawing from the global heat. From the perspective of the room this is energy out of nowhere or free energy.
When they took away commercial-skip on ABC I didn't mind, because commercials are the most entertaining thing on ABC.
When they took away commercial-skip on Fox News I didn't mind, because commercials are the most informative show on that network.
When they took away commercial-skip on Sci-Fi Network I didn't mind, because after watching 1000 commercials for "Mansquito" what harm is one more?
When they took away commercial-skip on Comedy Central it was too late to laugh.
Skip-bans are just a slippery slope to a world of black & white macintosh commercials.
It is weird... almost like there's some kind of an editor reading content and presenting it in a way that gives a complete, accurate overview of some topic.
Right on... I figured out that OMG stands for 'oh my god' but I can't figure out what PONIES stands for. All these damned acronyms, wtf?!
"On the otherhand, the more they try to squeeze star systems, the more they will slip" ...
And here I was thinking you were talking about Kleen star systems.
I knew there was a joke hiding in those packets someplace.
I won't be worried until the four nerfherders of the apocalypse show up.
This "debate" is quite similar to global climate change or evolution in that there is no other side in a rational, fact-based discussion. In this case there is no logical basis for allowing carriers to set discriminatory prices. Putting "both sides" on a news program is the truly shameful part of this.
NPR should have told both sides that their argument would be fact-checked and then done so. If Cleland could come up with a fact-based argument for discriminatory pricing them more power to him. But a bunch of lies and 'misrepresentations' has no place on a news program.
And why are you discussing everything but the evidence of global climate change? You've been suckered by the straw-man agrument into unrelated issues, just like the original poster intended.
As I said before, religion and stupidity.
Actually There's plenty of evidence for a natual cycle of security issues. In the past, millions of years ago, there were far more security issues than there are now. In fact, many scientists disagree over the cause of the recent increase of exploits, whether this is caused by man or whether it is just part of a natural downturn from the last Mini-Secure Age (which incidentally ended when the Irish potato fields were compromised).
In any case to presume some kind of pattern from this last decade of operating systems is poor reasoning --the science just isn't in yet to show any long-term trends. Sure, the 7 of 10 most exploited operating systems have been released in the last decade, but that is not statitically relevant over the million year record of security issues. Certainly taking some kind of preventive action like using Safe Languages is just being alarmist as is all the liberal scaremongering that "all your base will be pwned" by the end of the century. Think of the economic impact of all those wasted cycles that could be better used doing manual memory management.
Listen, the computer was here long before Windows, and they'll still be around after Windows is gone. We're overstating our importance to say that mere programmers can destroy the whole computer. Sure, it may be uninhabitable by our software but eventually random bit-flipping will reset the computer and a new OS will take over. It's evidence of the indisputable intelligent design of computers that they can recover from anything we could possible run on them.
First of all there was not scientific consensus for any of those straw-man arguments you mention. Science has know the world wasn't flat for thousands of years and any confusion over that is due to religion and stupidity; just check the wikipedia article. Religion and stupidity also were the culprits in blacks being supposedly 'inferior' (as opposed to the more accurate 'slightly different'). And it's religion and stupidity that said Iraq had WMDs.
.5 celsius is 1 degree. You reasoning is sound, but your conclusions are wrong because the so-called facts you are starting from are wrong. When this happens to an otherwise smart person there is one word for it: denial.
Second, get your facts straight. It's 1 degree celsius... just look at the damned graph... from -0.5 to
World of Warcraft basically is diablo.
Diablo -> Wow:
--------------
archers -> hunters
sorcerers -> mages
warriors -> warriors
necromancers -> warlocks
paladins -> paladins
necromancer wolves -> hunter pet
necromancer skeletons -> warlock demon
health bar -> health bar
mana bar -> mana/rage/focus bar
talent points -> talent points
run around and click -> run around and click in 3d
control 1 character -> control 1 character
The original warcraft had city building and unit management as the main part of the game, which has zero relation to WoW. WoW is really diablo set in the warcraft ethos. I'd like to see World of Diablo if only to have a dozen skeletons/wolves running around.
You have made a certain kind of valid zen-like point. Some kinds of dangers, like that the world is running in a simulation and quantum cryptography are causing the sim to run slower as it factors primes for us and we resume billions of real-world years later, are competely unavoidable. You either do it or you do without.
On the other hand, wtf are we doing creating a black hole anywhere near us? Sure scientists "expect" it to dissapate faster than it sucks in matter, but knowing human nature I fully expect it to become "I wonder how large a black hole we can make and still have it self-destruct". That's the kind of danger we need to be legitimately worried about. We don't need to do that kind of research on earth.
But a Wiipod would be *so* usable. You could just twirl your Wiipod clockwise to go to the next track and counter to go back again. As you are jogging the volume would go up and down slightly since up/down motions would naturally be for volume control; this would add a nice 'organic' effect to the music. You could even get two, attach one to each foot, and play DDR without a mat.
Never since the day that cholocate fell into penut butter has there been such a great convergence!!! This is a gold mine, I'm caching out my 401k to buy stock in Apple *and* Nintendo today!
Don't want to share this info about yourself? Don't use the site. There is no invasion going on here. They are not hiding spy cameras in your room watching what you do on the computer.
That's a nice fantasy to rationalize your job, but the fact is that most people are completely unaware of what information is being recorded and when. For instance, cross-site elements are used to track usage among otherwise unrelated sites. Even when cache and cookies are flushed some companies still correlate your data by IP address.
I've accessed the internet through several NATs over time and have noticed many odd coincindences, such as other users (who have entered an email address at some site, say netscape) getting emails with *my* account ids from other sites. Or getting ads clearly reflective of *my* browsing habits. For example, I look for external storage and somebody else on the lan gets an email about "sales on external storage". These incidents simply cannot be explained by coincindence or spam. It's probably more noticeable since I set firefox to clear the cache and cookies ever time it closes.
Maybe you in particular are not involved in it, but taking data from people like this to obtain information that they don't even know they are giving *is* morally equivalent to training spy cameras on them. You, as an alleged advertising executive, may not admit to these practices and call those who do them 'bad apples', but fundamentally your job is to sell not to care about privacy. Would you quit your job if you found out your company was doing this? Highly doubtful considering you have not already done so, as is the veracity of your claims that people know what information they are giving up.
The difference is that Mac OS X gets better with every new release version, whereas a lot of people would 'downgrade' from Vista to XP if their games would still run.
A joke is only really funny the first couple times you hear it, but often killing the enemy gets even more fun the more times you do it. So naturally they make the games you'll play over and over.
They did not sacrifice portability to get this result, it's the whole point of having a tiny microkernel like L4 in the first place. Since the microkernel is so small you can just rewrite it for each hardware type from scratch. You can add a new HAL to linux with some assembly code, but Linux makes a lot of assumptions about how the vm and such work that make it hard to do it the optimal way for some hardware.
I suggest you read up on Turing Completeness as it is not bullshit
I suggest you write "Zen and the art of Program Maintenance: an existential guide to ticker tapes and such". This can be a novel about a rogue program tester and his fight against a headless blunder called "Quality Assurance" that exists only to spread the propoganda that a bug-free program is possible, endlessly toiling away to make the perfect program (this program can be called "Word 2009", since that would obviously impossible to debug fully).