Why change the password on these machines? You'd have to write it down somewhere because remembering things is tough.
Because it'd have severely limited this worm? Just go ahead and scribble the password in Sharpie over the keypad. Common worms can't use that information (yet).
Red Faction had security cameras in 2001. Multiple screens on-screen, but I don't remember if you could change them. Half-Life 2 (or one of the episodes) had security cameras, too, that you could change, but I don't think there were more than one at a time. (I don't think it's an engine limitation.)
I personnaly find it _amazing_ that none of the worm writer so far used them to destroy the computers. Really, that must be tempting, isn't it? Hundred of thousands of computer that you wipe with the push of a button.
Well, what do you know... XKCD covered this just this morning.
Only if it's a single helicopter. If you've got several choppers coming and going in quick succession, then it could be a problem.
Although how biodegradable landing markers help visibility in clouds of dirt and dust is beyond me...
Read the FAQ, #8.
It's slower now, but once it's been optimized for 64-bit it'll be as fast, if not faster. Meanwhile, your machine is probably faster in other ways.
Back on topic, what you mention is a very good idea. It's also not new to Apple products at all. That's the approach Unix has used for a long, long time now. Installed programs on a Unix system are generally root-owned and sit in directories that are also root-owned. For a normal user, both the executable and the directory in which it is located is read-only.
Irrelevant. How easy would it be to prepend ~/bin to $PATH and stick it in there?
You only need permission to bind to ports
(Of course, if you wanted to replace a system binary, yeah, you'd need root permissions... But why do that when it's easiest just to do as above?)
I've seen little "puffball" speakers that (I think) hang around your neck, so you still get environment sound in both ears as well as your music (or whatever). Never tried one (or even seen one in person), but I think it could work. (I think the primary audience is bicyclists.)
Basically, this is a Chinese knockoff company selling PCs built into the keyboard and/or monitor (from modern hardware) with a Commodore logo slapped on.
The internet is great for seeking specifics, but for insight on programming, it has to come from within yourself.
Reminds me of a joke.
This guy's in New York or something, and he sees this Buddhist guy running a hot dog stand. "Hey," the guy thinks, "It's lunchtime, why not?"
So he goes up to the stand and decides to have a little fun with the guy. He says, "Make me one with everything." They both laugh, and the guy gets his hot dog and pays with a twenty.
He waits for his change, but the guy doesn't seem to be making change, so he asks. The Buddhist looks up and replies, "Change must come from within!"
Just like a real gun sight, you only look through it with one eye. So just put the crosshairs and other HUD elements on either left or right eye (configurable), then when the player wish to aim better, he can close the other eye (just like aiming a real gun).
Or, if you're cool like me, you can relax the muscles in your eye, and entirely defocus and ignore one eye.:D
(Interestingly, my mother can do this too. I wonder if there's a genetic component.)
You've got to be careful about putting stuff only on one eye, though. Do it too much or with important information (i.e. the HUD) and you could end up inducing some kind of lazy eye (amblyopia or strabismus) in the user. (I'm no optometrist, though.)
Ubuntu 10.04 has got to be the most fragile Linux I've used in ten years. Are there any filesystems that can't be mounted? Then NO BOOT FOR YOU!
I don't know what you're doing to break it, but I can't think of any scenario where this would happen. Are you putting needless filesystems in your fstab?
Look, if the problem is the PC, why bother with all this nonsense when you can just relocate the PC? Stick it behind a wall or something and it can be as loud as you want. Just run a cable to the TV/projector, and use a wireless keyboard and mouse to control it. (Everything's USB these days, so if reception behind the wall is a problem, use a little USB extender cable (A-male/A-female) to locate the receivers on the proper side of the wall.)
Lousiana in the summary, Louisiana for real. Sorry had to nitpick but c'mon there are only 50 states you would think all U.S. residents would know how to spell them! Or was this outsourced to India too?
Clearly, you've never heard a local pronounce the state's name.
So basically, Microsoft is making itself irrelevant?
If you support or recommend open-source software, people will use it. If they use it, they aren't paying you. Thus, your business becomes built on a foundation of others' OSS software, and at that point, you're selling something people can get elsewhere for free.
Same thing has been tried, and unless you're IBM and you're aggressively selling to big business/enterprise, you don't make a whole lot of money, and you're likely to fold in a few years.
People who thing legalising drugs will somehow make addicts and the problems they cause vanish are living in a dream world.
Addicts, etc. exist whether the drug is legal or not. What WILL go away is all the violence involved with supply: if it's legally available, you don't need the cartels. See Prohibition: when it was illegal, you had the mob running alcohol with automatic weapons. Legal: Buy it at the corner store, no problem. Oh, and you can be pretty sure what you're buying at the store isn't going to make you go blind.
Of course, there's still the drunk driving, liver disease, etc. (same for tobacco: cancer) that comes with excessive alcohol consumption. I don't know what the best way to reduce/eliminate that would be (stiffer penalties for likely DUI offenders?), but outlawing it certainly doesn't work.
I'm gonna plug VLC here.
Free, open-source, plays just about everything. Files, streams, discs, you name it. Also does conversion (apparently, never really tried it), streaming (VLC as the stream server, that is), and minor video editing (hue, brightness, rotation, filters, etc.; but I don't know if this is just for viewing or what). Also subtitles.
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Because it'd have severely limited this worm?
Just go ahead and scribble the password in Sharpie over the keypad. Common worms can't use that information (yet).
Red Faction had security cameras in 2001. Multiple screens on-screen, but I don't remember if you could change them. Half-Life 2 (or one of the episodes) had security cameras, too, that you could change, but I don't think there were more than one at a time. (I don't think it's an engine limitation.)
Well, what do you know... XKCD covered this just this morning.
"She ain't comin' to mine, I ain't goin' t' hers."
Only if it's a single helicopter. If you've got several choppers coming and going in quick succession, then it could be a problem.
Although how biodegradable landing markers help visibility in clouds of dirt and dust is beyond me...
Interesting. I wonder if this would also apply to the "Windows tax".
In terms of JavaScript benchmark execution, yes.
Read the FAQ, #8.
It's slower now, but once it's been optimized for 64-bit it'll be as fast, if not faster. Meanwhile, your machine is probably faster in other ways.
Irrelevant. How easy would it be to prepend ~/bin to $PATH and stick it in there?
You only need permission to bind to ports
(Of course, if you wanted to replace a system binary, yeah, you'd need root permissions... But why do that when it's easiest just to do as above?)
Somehow, that seems redundant...
I for one wasn't born yet. Is that a good excuse? :P
I've seen little "puffball" speakers that (I think) hang around your neck, so you still get environment sound in both ears as well as your music (or whatever). Never tried one (or even seen one in person), but I think it could work. (I think the primary audience is bicyclists.)
When I clicked the link to TFA, I thought I recognized some of those pictures...
Sure enough, from back in March: Commodore 64 Primed For a Comeback In June.
Basically, this is a Chinese knockoff company selling PCs built into the keyboard and/or monitor (from modern hardware) with a Commodore logo slapped on.
Reminds me of a joke.
This guy's in New York or something, and he sees this Buddhist guy running a hot dog stand. "Hey," the guy thinks, "It's lunchtime, why not?"
So he goes up to the stand and decides to have a little fun with the guy. He says, "Make me one with everything." They both laugh, and the guy gets his hot dog and pays with a twenty.
He waits for his change, but the guy doesn't seem to be making change, so he asks. The Buddhist looks up and replies, "Change must come from within!"
Or just use Doxygen--the comments ARE the documentation.
In a good way, that is: The docs are generated from the comments.
Or, if you're cool like me, you can relax the muscles in your eye, and entirely defocus and ignore one eye. :D
(Interestingly, my mother can do this too. I wonder if there's a genetic component.)
You've got to be careful about putting stuff only on one eye, though. Do it too much or with important information (i.e. the HUD) and you could end up inducing some kind of lazy eye (amblyopia or strabismus) in the user. (I'm no optometrist, though.)
I don't know what you're doing to break it, but I can't think of any scenario where this would happen. Are you putting needless filesystems in your fstab?
Look, if the problem is the PC, why bother with all this nonsense when you can just relocate the PC? Stick it behind a wall or something and it can be as loud as you want. Just run a cable to the TV/projector, and use a wireless keyboard and mouse to control it. (Everything's USB these days, so if reception behind the wall is a problem, use a little USB extender cable (A-male/A-female) to locate the receivers on the proper side of the wall.)
Of course, Toasters are supposed to run NetBSD.
(Or something like that.)
Clearly, you've never heard a local pronounce the state's name.
Jeez, that guy's almost as bad as Gene Ray's Time Cube. :\
So basically, Microsoft is making itself irrelevant?
If you support or recommend open-source software, people will use it. If they use it, they aren't paying you.
Thus, your business becomes built on a foundation of others' OSS software, and at that point, you're selling something people can get elsewhere for free.
Same thing has been tried, and unless you're IBM and you're aggressively selling to big business/enterprise, you don't make a whole lot of money, and you're likely to fold in a few years.
Addicts, etc. exist whether the drug is legal or not. What WILL go away is all the violence involved with supply: if it's legally available, you don't need the cartels. See Prohibition: when it was illegal, you had the mob running alcohol with automatic weapons. Legal: Buy it at the corner store, no problem. Oh, and you can be pretty sure what you're buying at the store isn't going to make you go blind.
Of course, there's still the drunk driving, liver disease, etc. (same for tobacco: cancer) that comes with excessive alcohol consumption. I don't know what the best way to reduce/eliminate that would be (stiffer penalties for likely DUI offenders?), but outlawing it certainly doesn't work.
I'm gonna plug VLC here.
Free, open-source, plays just about everything. Files, streams, discs, you name it. Also does conversion (apparently, never really tried it), streaming (VLC as the stream server, that is), and minor video editing (hue, brightness, rotation, filters, etc.; but I don't know if this is just for viewing or what). Also subtitles.