don't magnets hold things on the fridge?
what else is there to know?
and it's great they don't kill flash media like they did floppies, right?
Oh, and they still operate compasses, or did that change?
I am getting old i guess
At some point in all our lives (men particularly) we move beyond sports cars (obligatory slash dot car analogy) in my case Alfa Romeos to a CAR THAT WORKS (mine has no AC currently in the US south).
Wired and wireless are two parts of the same whole.
Listen to CNN and they are talking about what the cost to the current generation is to their well-thought-out desires for wireless access at wired prices and the issue is clear.
Ymmv
Depending on where you live, Fry's or similar is a good place to start with components, the boxed systems at Sam's Club (or similar) used for convenience stores are pretty cheap (and you don't have to program anything). I agree with the parent, unless you just like hacking, a scratch build with Linux is overkill (but might be fun...it can do things like tell whether it's your wife or girlfriend walking to the door and warn you to hide the other).
Down in Texas, before you get the.038 from the handbag they would have already clocked you in the nuts with their broken frilly drink glass...your beer can would be a poor defense.
1 - a manual keypunch (looks like a 3-hole device but does 12-column)
2 - the binder we all carried before the internet with the tables of the instruction set of the computer at hand plus an ASCII/EBCDIC lookup
3 - an original TI (as in texas instruments) LED watch
"Would you throw out a bank receipt with your account sold <sic>, bank account, bank name, signature and all the tralala out ?"
Hello, anybody who sees your paper check/cheque sees all that plus the routing number ready to intiate an "electronic check" with no further info.
If used boarding passes were really that useful, I think the unlimited stash of them commonly found in the seatback pockets to this day as unretrieved trash would be reduced.....
Back in the distant past, my firm released its massive source freely thinking its hardware was the secret sauce.
I rec'd quite a few bug reports with included suggestions for appropriate fixes which were tested and happily integrated into the upcoming revision.
Not everyone wants to "help" like this but there were some truly great folks "among the customers" who couldn't wait for the update cycle to get their work done. NOT having access to the source (which eventually came to pass) was a sad day for my friends and perhaps the beginning of the end for a great enterprise.
This page on the H. D. Heinz site attempts to explain the history of the modern definition of a "perfect" magic cube.
members.shaw.ca/johnhendricksmath/tesseracts.htm
no live link, copy/paste if you are curious
intereting....
When Google Weather (beta) finally goes live, they will present it it four dimensions.
For a lot of folks, the internet is actually a vast improvement over cable "local on the 8's" and the 3D stuff will die its own death if it does not actually add info.
I agree that the floating clouds are not instructive. Pointless must be a Kiwi euphonism for useless...
it's not the single challange/response that's identifiable but the fact that seldom is an attack a single transaction, by monitoring the stream of activity both signature and learning filters can do a good job.
Config-free IPS's are not impossible.
Perhaps this argument is Off-topic, but in reply to Mother Sha Boo Bo, to the extent that government exists, my earlier comment was intended to be terse and perhaps humorous in making the point that you sometimes actually do get (a bit) of your money's worth. I just see it so seldom I wanted to hold out hope.
no ranting here, don't care about the mod-down
Some AC said:
Laws and sausages, laws and sausages.
[The contents of]Some things are best left unknown.
With my [revision], I'm willing to sign my name and agree with the statement. But perhaps it was just a slash-joke.
Let me add: music and poly-sci were the b.a. majors of two of my highly respected group peers.
And as someone else pointed out, these cycles are neither new nor restricted to programming.
I'll be a lot of the Russian COBOL geeks who came out of the woodwork for y2K work are now doing ASP.NET very well.
The parent claims that Ingress may be to "old" to ever become a useful RDBMS (my paraphrase).
I bet there some bits of crufty code to be found in Oracle's latest release, too.
The "whup" here is if this represents the start of something big: as valuable old code becomes impossible to maintain, start leaking it out and eventually give it away.
Sort of like auctioning away a teenager that eats to much to the highest bidder....
Sadly, I really do not blame those that come in through the back door when so many are simply stealing from the front door.
WindBourne has a technical point, at the end of his non-slashdot-compative rant: even before wireless became useful/cheap/widespread, many folks feared any physical connection to a nework that was "insecure"....for example, a Sun JumpStart server allowed (gasp) annonymous ftp access for images.
Mod parent down, if there is is any truth to the post (which I found +1 insightful) there is so much violation of the culture which the bosses of those self-same Cust.Svc. folks preach that at most it should be relegated to internal operator-from-hell forums.
What the poster omits (perhaps on purpose) is the inablity to hold the vendor to a reasonable "usability" standard which is the law (state mostly, hard to use).
For example, a "reasonable man" (the legal standard) would laugh if presented the TRUE FACTS in regard to my ability to cancel my two-year cell obligation with SprintPCS.
If you make a contract, both sides have to keep their promises.
I used to think that Ingress had some real niche possiblities and untless I have been blinded by the fog in this thread, the recent news should have been positive to those few folks who share(d) my views. I can't bring myself to further descend to the comments already modded to troll levels but I ask:
Is this because CA and not IBM/Sun/Oracle is taking this action that the response is so weird?
Disclamer: I am ex-CA and not particularly parocial about it. Fought what I could when I was in the frey.
In passing, I mention my kin in NH who declined the (approx) $10k/year becaue of previous experience with property owners who allowed the addition of 7/24 blinking lights on their horixon.
It was as if they didn't want to be remembered as the ones who "were the beginning of the end" in their rural area.
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i ran the tech side of THE SOURCE a competing service and alpha tested AOL for Mac and then PCs VideoTex (the French initiative) was very big then.
don't magnets hold things on the fridge? what else is there to know? and it's great they don't kill flash media like they did floppies, right? Oh, and they still operate compasses, or did that change? I am getting old i guess
At some point in all our lives (men particularly) we move beyond sports cars (obligatory slash dot car analogy) in my case Alfa Romeos to a CAR THAT WORKS (mine has no AC currently in the US south). Wired and wireless are two parts of the same whole. Listen to CNN and they are talking about what the cost to the current generation is to their well-thought-out desires for wireless access at wired prices and the issue is clear. Ymmv
Depending on where you live, Fry's or similar is a good place to start with components, the boxed systems at Sam's Club (or similar) used for convenience stores are pretty cheap (and you don't have to program anything). I agree with the parent, unless you just like hacking, a scratch build with Linux is overkill (but might be fun...it can do things like tell whether it's your wife or girlfriend walking to the door and warn you to hide the other).
Down in Texas, before you get the .038 from the handbag they would have already clocked you in the nuts with their broken frilly drink glass...your beer can would be a poor defense.
1 - a manual keypunch (looks like a 3-hole device but does 12-column)
2 - the binder we all carried before the internet with the tables of the instruction set of the computer at hand plus an ASCII/EBCDIC lookup
3 - an original TI (as in texas instruments) LED watch
am I on target?
"Would you throw out a bank receipt with your account sold <sic>,
bank account, bank name, signature and all the tralala out ?"
Hello, anybody who sees your paper check/cheque sees all that plus
the routing number ready to intiate an "electronic check" with no further
info.
If used boarding passes were really that useful, I think the unlimited stash of them commonly found in the seatback pockets to this day as unretrieved trash would be reduced.....
/agrees that this FA is 80% FUD
Back in the distant past, my firm released its massive source freely thinking its hardware was the secret sauce.
I rec'd quite a few bug reports with included suggestions for appropriate fixes which were tested and happily integrated into the upcoming revision.
Not everyone wants to "help" like this but there were some truly great folks "among the customers" who couldn't wait for the update cycle to get their work done. NOT having access to the source (which eventually came to pass) was a sad day for my friends and perhaps the beginning of the end for a great enterprise.
Please mod parent up, and give him/her a copy of the classic text which has the explantion as to where we might go from here: Title: "The Visual Display of Quantatative Information" Author: Edward R. Tufte http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0961 39210X/103-1094609-9675034?v=glance
above link has viewable (free, as in beer) content
This page on the H. D. Heinz site attempts to explain the history of the modern definition of a "perfect" magic cube. members.shaw.ca/johnhendricksmath/tesseracts.htm no live link, copy/paste if you are curious intereting....
When Google Weather (beta) finally goes live, they will present it it four dimensions. For a lot of folks, the internet is actually a vast improvement over cable "local on the 8's" and the 3D stuff will die its own death if it does not actually add info. I agree that the floating clouds are not instructive. Pointless must be a Kiwi euphonism for useless...
it's not the single challange/response that's identifiable but the fact that seldom is an attack a single transaction, by monitoring the stream of activity both signature and learning filters can do a good job. Config-free IPS's are not impossible.
Perhaps this argument is Off-topic, but in reply to Mother Sha Boo Bo, to the extent that government exists, my earlier comment was intended to be terse and perhaps humorous in making the point that you sometimes actually do get (a bit) of your money's worth. I just see it so seldom I wanted to hold out hope. no ranting here, don't care about the mod-down
if the gov't actually does something non-counterprodutive. This is not a troll.
and now we have Windows, IE, and Moronic PopUPs but Mr. Mprx was right, my bad.
Was it a joke that AC titled his suggestion to use text-based tools "Wimp"? Everybody knows WIMP stands for Windows, Icons, Mice, and Pointers right?
Some AC said: Laws and sausages, laws and sausages. [The contents of]Some things are best left unknown. With my [revision], I'm willing to sign my name and agree with the statement. But perhaps it was just a slash-joke.
Let me add: music and poly-sci were the b.a. majors of two of my highly respected group peers. And as someone else pointed out, these cycles are neither new nor restricted to programming. I'll be a lot of the Russian COBOL geeks who came out of the woodwork for y2K work are now doing ASP.NET very well.
The parent claims that Ingress may be to "old" to ever become a useful RDBMS (my paraphrase).
I bet there some bits of crufty code to be found in Oracle's latest release, too.
The "whup" here is if this represents the start of something big: as valuable old code becomes impossible to maintain, start leaking it out and eventually give it away.
Sort of like auctioning away a teenager that eats to much to the highest bidder....
Quoted from parent mod'd off-topic:
Sadly, I really do not blame those that come in through the back door when so many are simply stealing from the front door.
WindBourne has a technical point, at the end of his non-slashdot-compative rant: even before wireless became useful/cheap/widespread, many folks feared any physical connection to a nework that was "insecure"....for example, a Sun JumpStart server allowed (gasp) annonymous ftp access for images.
Mod parent down, if there is is any truth to the post (which I found +1 insightful) there is so much violation of the culture which the bosses of those self-same Cust.Svc. folks preach that at most it should be relegated to internal operator-from-hell forums. What the poster omits (perhaps on purpose) is the inablity to hold the vendor to a reasonable "usability" standard which is the law (state mostly, hard to use). For example, a "reasonable man" (the legal standard) would laugh if presented the TRUE FACTS in regard to my ability to cancel my two-year cell obligation with SprintPCS. If you make a contract, both sides have to keep their promises.
I used to think that Ingress had some real niche possiblities and untless I have been blinded by the fog in this thread, the recent news should have been positive to those few folks who share(d) my views. I can't bring myself to further descend to the comments already modded to troll levels but I ask: Is this because CA and not IBM/Sun/Oracle is taking this action that the response is so weird? Disclamer: I am ex-CA and not particularly parocial about it. Fought what I could when I was in the frey.
In passing, I mention my kin in NH who declined the (approx) $10k/year becaue of previous experience with property owners who allowed the addition of 7/24 blinking lights on their horixon. It was as if they didn't want to be remembered as the ones who "were the beginning of the end" in their rural area.