I read in a newsgroup posting that it was developed using Python and OpenGL on IRIX (not surprising, really), and then ported with ease to the PC. I think that this application really goes to show the versatility of scripting languages like Python, assuming what I read was correct. Such languages are stepping away from the fringes towards mainstream, massive application development.
I always find it funny when people post rants about bloggery. Your whole point is that you don't care what others think, you don't think others should care what others think, and yet you post as if you think people to care about what you think.
Indeed, like I said, this will take videobloggery to the next level. Yes, people will start posting on their blogs videos of themselves performing the sexual rites. That's just part of the liberalization of the youth of America and Europe. This is the technology that'll allow the social changes to bloom.
I've been to an Apple Store many times. And I keep going back because the people there are knowledgable, and friendly.
I remember going to Circuit City once to purchase a PC. Do you know what happened? I got some foreign kid, probably no more than 18, who tried to tell me that I could run OpenVMS on a Dell x86 PC. So I asked him, "Do you know what OpenVMS is?", and he said "I have thoughts that I do, sir!". I told that kid, "Fuck off, moron," and then I went to the reliable Apple Store and got myself a PowerMac system.
Such cameras will bring a new dimension to bloggery. The extreme portability of these cameras, often smaller than the smallest commercially available MP3 players, will allow people to document their everyday lives in a very visual way. It will take videobloggery to a new dimension: a teatherless webcam, of sorts.
My young nephew was telling me about how some of his college buddies have been prank calling Dell tech support centers that they know are in India just to pose such questions to them. Indeed, they'll say stuff like they put their DSL "Intarweb" into the floppy drive. Or that they want their monitor to work but they don't want to connect it to their computer. He told me one story about a call where his friend said he had cockroaches coming out of the computer.
Indeed, if tech support people have to face such horrors, then it is no doubt that the quality of their services will drop! They have no incentive to be courteous and knowledgable.
Considering that the design and manufacturing of most circuitry has been outsourced to places like Taiwan and China, it is no wonder that computer componentry has become a commodity.
Computers are no longer crafted like they were in the glory days of DEC and IBM. They're more like a carton of milk or a bag of chips. What you're advocating would require a return to the days of "computer carpenters". That won't happen as long as China and India are designing and producing most hardware used in North America and Europe. It is in their best financial interest for computing to remain a wholly commoditized item.
This shows that true innovation comes from the freedom to tinker with existing devices and technology, just as much as it might come from the incentive of profit.
For most people, those "uranus == your anus" jokes went out of style by the time the person was five or six years old. You, sir, are a pathetic cockfool.
LOL, people still listen to what CNN has to say?! That tickles my fanny! Most people outside of the US learned very quickly after the Iraq debacle that CNN and the other American media corps were nothing but Republican mouthpieces. Indeed, considering how wrong CNN was about Iraq and how badly they failed to report the truth, there's nothing to suggest they will ever become a real news agency.
Their focus in on profits. And controversy creates ad views, which bumps up their bottom line. Never forget that. They are not there to supply accurate, honest news. They are there to make money.
This event has convinced me to buy a telescope! I must see this first hand. What sort of telescope would be ideal for an amateur astronomer such as myself to view such a planetary event?
Symantec C++ was an amazing compiler and development environment for the Mac, DOS and Windows during the 1990s. Now it lives on as DMC++ from http://www.digitalmars.com/.
It was one of the products from Symantec's golden age, when they provided useful services and software. I remember those days fondly: one could even be proud to say he or she was using Symantec software. These days the Symantec name has become a joke, associated with half assed "security" software that often fails miserably. How things change in a short decade!
.. the same thing that caused many Americans to lost their marbles after Sept. 11: FEAR caused by a LACK OF UNDERSTANDING. These politicians do not understand technology, hence they fear it with all their might. And the legal response by politicians to fear is to pass fucking moronic laws.
It's a man-eat-man world out there in the free market. If you can't live up to the standards, then you'll get cut down to size. Either that means you'll be unemployed, or you'll work at a very low-paying job. But on the other hand, if you can cut it and muster the balls to make it in life, you'll be forever wealthy and successful. That applies equally well to a UNIX master learning Windows, or a Windows master learning UNIX.
There are no prison sentences. Had you not been a complete idiot and instead read the parent post, you would have seen that the youth were performing crackery on each other's computers, and would each be consenting to the other attempting such crackery.
There's little glory in declaring that you've cracked some other kid's system that nobody's ever heard of.
There's little glory in knowing that you hit a baseball futher than some other kid that nobody's ever heard of. That's why in youth baseball, like in organized youth crackery, there would have to be some reward or incentive given. There could be national crackery leagues for these youths that could offer prizes far beyond whatever damage they might cause to large corporate systems. A youth who partakes in crackery who might win $20000 in an organized crackery competition may be more inclined to attack his peers than your corporate network.
The problem here is that his 'sport' costs other people in stress, time, and money.
Indeed. Nobody is disputing that.
I wonder how he would feel if other people used him to practise their sports. Perhaps some aspiring boxers or martial artists could help him gain perspective of what it's like when other people 'practice' their sport at your expense.
That's why I'm suggesting that you take two of these youth, and let them perform crackery on each other. If two youths are attempting to crack each other's system, then they are not performing crackery on YOUR system. It focuses their crackery attempts away from essential systems towards another device of crackery owned by some similar youth.
I have always been a fan of Eugenia Loli-Queru's gaming articles. While she no longer writes about such subjects, she was always able to give a very interesting female pespective on gaming. Indeed, in an industry nearly dominated by men, her voice was an interesting one amongst them all.
It would in a way be like Scouts for geeks. Instead of learning how to start fires and whittle wood, the older geeks would mentor their scout group in acts of benevolent computer use. They would suggest to the youth the use of programming achievement, rather than crackery, to obtain a sense of self worth. That's more beneficial than locking these youth up in prison.
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I read in a newsgroup posting that it was developed using Python and OpenGL on IRIX (not surprising, really), and then ported with ease to the PC. I think that this application really goes to show the versatility of scripting languages like Python, assuming what I read was correct. Such languages are stepping away from the fringes towards mainstream, massive application development.
I'll be sure to go. I'm very interested in hearing more about James, their new news and mail server written in Java! http://james.apache.org/
I always find it funny when people post rants about bloggery. Your whole point is that you don't care what others think, you don't think others should care what others think, and yet you post as if you think people to care about what you think.
Indeed, like I said, this will take videobloggery to the next level. Yes, people will start posting on their blogs videos of themselves performing the sexual rites. That's just part of the liberalization of the youth of America and Europe. This is the technology that'll allow the social changes to bloom.
I've been to an Apple Store many times. And I keep going back because the people there are knowledgable, and friendly.
I remember going to Circuit City once to purchase a PC. Do you know what happened? I got some foreign kid, probably no more than 18, who tried to tell me that I could run OpenVMS on a Dell x86 PC. So I asked him, "Do you know what OpenVMS is?", and he said "I have thoughts that I do, sir!". I told that kid, "Fuck off, moron," and then I went to the reliable Apple Store and got myself a PowerMac system.
Such cameras will bring a new dimension to bloggery. The extreme portability of these cameras, often smaller than the smallest commercially available MP3 players, will allow people to document their everyday lives in a very visual way. It will take videobloggery to a new dimension: a teatherless webcam, of sorts.
My young nephew was telling me about how some of his college buddies have been prank calling Dell tech support centers that they know are in India just to pose such questions to them. Indeed, they'll say stuff like they put their DSL "Intarweb" into the floppy drive. Or that they want their monitor to work but they don't want to connect it to their computer. He told me one story about a call where his friend said he had cockroaches coming out of the computer.
Indeed, if tech support people have to face such horrors, then it is no doubt that the quality of their services will drop! They have no incentive to be courteous and knowledgable.
Considering that the design and manufacturing of most circuitry has been outsourced to places like Taiwan and China, it is no wonder that computer componentry has become a commodity.
Computers are no longer crafted like they were in the glory days of DEC and IBM. They're more like a carton of milk or a bag of chips. What you're advocating would require a return to the days of "computer carpenters". That won't happen as long as China and India are designing and producing most hardware used in North America and Europe. It is in their best financial interest for computing to remain a wholly commoditized item.
They want the broken item FIXED, and fixed QUICKLY. If that is done, then the customers will be happy.
This shows that true innovation comes from the freedom to tinker with existing devices and technology, just as much as it might come from the incentive of profit.
Are there any simulations of this event that we can view online? Indeed, I would even enable Flash to watch such a simulation!
Or is this the sort of thing you need a Cray and hundreds of thousands of lines of Fortran to model accurately?
Sir,
For most people, those "uranus == your anus" jokes went out of style by the time the person was five or six years old. You, sir, are a pathetic cockfool.
Sincerely,
CyricZ
LOL, people still listen to what CNN has to say?! That tickles my fanny! Most people outside of the US learned very quickly after the Iraq debacle that CNN and the other American media corps were nothing but Republican mouthpieces. Indeed, considering how wrong CNN was about Iraq and how badly they failed to report the truth, there's nothing to suggest they will ever become a real news agency.
Their focus in on profits. And controversy creates ad views, which bumps up their bottom line. Never forget that. They are not there to supply accurate, honest news. They are there to make money.
This event has convinced me to buy a telescope! I must see this first hand. What sort of telescope would be ideal for an amateur astronomer such as myself to view such a planetary event?
Symantec C++ was an amazing compiler and development environment for the Mac, DOS and Windows during the 1990s. Now it lives on as DMC++ from http://www.digitalmars.com/ .
It was one of the products from Symantec's golden age, when they provided useful services and software. I remember those days fondly: one could even be proud to say he or she was using Symantec software. These days the Symantec name has become a joke, associated with half assed "security" software that often fails miserably. How things change in a short decade!
Probably no more than junior baseball makes kids bash people to death with bats, or junior football makes kids kick people in the gonads.
.. the same thing that caused many Americans to lost their marbles after Sept. 11: FEAR caused by a LACK OF UNDERSTANDING. These politicians do not understand technology, hence they fear it with all their might. And the legal response by politicians to fear is to pass fucking moronic laws.
What did they do? Well, like the article says, they were attempting to locate and download underage pornography.
It's a man-eat-man world out there in the free market. If you can't live up to the standards, then you'll get cut down to size. Either that means you'll be unemployed, or you'll work at a very low-paying job. But on the other hand, if you can cut it and muster the balls to make it in life, you'll be forever wealthy and successful. That applies equally well to a UNIX master learning Windows, or a Windows master learning UNIX.
There are no prison sentences. Had you not been a complete idiot and instead read the parent post, you would have seen that the youth were performing crackery on each other's computers, and would each be consenting to the other attempting such crackery.
There's little glory in declaring that you've cracked some other kid's system that nobody's ever heard of.
There's little glory in knowing that you hit a baseball futher than some other kid that nobody's ever heard of. That's why in youth baseball, like in organized youth crackery, there would have to be some reward or incentive given. There could be national crackery leagues for these youths that could offer prizes far beyond whatever damage they might cause to large corporate systems. A youth who partakes in crackery who might win $20000 in an organized crackery competition may be more inclined to attack his peers than your corporate network.
The problem here is that his 'sport' costs other people in stress, time, and money.
Indeed. Nobody is disputing that.
I wonder how he would feel if other people used him to practise their sports. Perhaps some aspiring boxers or martial artists could help him gain perspective of what it's like when other people 'practice' their sport at your expense.
That's why I'm suggesting that you take two of these youth, and let them perform crackery on each other. If two youths are attempting to crack each other's system, then they are not performing crackery on YOUR system. It focuses their crackery attempts away from essential systems towards another device of crackery owned by some similar youth.
I have always been a fan of Eugenia Loli-Queru's gaming articles. While she no longer writes about such subjects, she was always able to give a very interesting female pespective on gaming. Indeed, in an industry nearly dominated by men, her voice was an interesting one amongst them all.
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It would in a way be like Scouts for geeks. Instead of learning how to start fires and whittle wood, the older geeks would mentor their scout group in acts of benevolent computer use. They would suggest to the youth the use of programming achievement, rather than crackery, to obtain a sense of self worth. That's more beneficial than locking these youth up in prison.
A new term is needed, that is somewhat between hacking and cracking.
Crackery is about putting your skills and knowledge to the test by breaking into a system.