Yes, well, uh... oh I've got the answer for this one!
Superman's nervous system is so powerful that he warps the space-time continuum, giving him the ability to exceed the apparant velocity of c without actually violating physics. Because you see, when you warp space-time you are never exceeding c at all, you just appear to. The Flash is faster because his nervous system is more dense.
Anyway, that's my comic book logic theory and I'm sticking to it! Reading superman comics and watching smallville has to pay off SOMEHOW.:D
Right, but if you re-read my post you'll see my point is regarding application viruses (apache/openssl) as well as Windows viruses that may get dumped onto shares infecting files which other Windows users may need to open, if the machine is on a heterogeneous (not mac-only) network.
Virus scanners do more than protect the local computer against hijacking or data loss - it helps prevent other infected computers from using your computer's share to infect others.
Lastly, wouldn't it be nice to know that the Word document your colleague authored on Windows won't contain a macro virus when you send it to a client? That macro virus may not execute on your machine, but if you forward that document along unscanned, you will be passing that macro virus on to the next Windows user.
{ last time i checked my 3 towers and 9 hard disks didn't cost tens of thousands (and two of them are macs!) }
You didn't buy them from state-approved vendors who are on the official bidding lists.
State bidding lists work like this: when the contract is about to end, the state invites vendors to bid (more actually they obfuscate the process to make it more difficult to newcomers to get in on the process, so the system is weighted toward favored vendors), in a superficial effort to meet state law in controlling budgets.
In reality, the bidding process is made as difficult as humanly possible. The regulatiosn are hard to find, each responsible person tells you to call someone else, and the folks who succeed in getting in on it invariably are the ones who wine and dine the officials.
ANYWAY the bidding process usually gives you two optios:
- bid cost + percentage (which practically no one does because it would reveal the markup)
- bid MSRP/List Price minus a percentage (and as you know on most products list price may be as low as 30% over cost, or as much as 300% to 400% over cost on average for different products and brands)
Once you win the contract, you now have the "right" to sell directly to state and municipal agencies, completely bypassing any further bidding processes. This is intended to reduce the budget by being able to plan cost of operations up front, and to eliminate paperwork and delays introduced by conventional bidding processes. Unfortunately it's all to common for vendors to get in on the list bidding a PITTANCE of a discount (example: Dell, 2% off of list price, which is an inflated work of fiction) knowing that the process to get IN on the bidding is painful at best.
Even worse, the lowest bid does NOT always win on the bid lists (this goes for both state and GSA lists) and in fact the officials/agencies overseeing the bidding process can choose to ignore the bids and pick whomever the heck they want to win. They can cite support reasons (Yeah. Dell support is just WONDERFUL compared to local Dell vendors), size of the company, or any other contrived reason that sounds remotely plausible.
That article is WAY too long; much longer than the average/. entry. In fact it was so long I fell asleep halfway through and forgot where I left off, but I seem to recall that something was mentioned about some submissions being too long. This is a prime example of that.
(Taco, I'm kidding. I'm KIDDING!)
The advice in that should be applied to posts in threads - all too often u hav 2 deal w/ stoopid kiddie speak (including the invariably crappy spelling and grammar), and then you have the other extreme: the grammar nazis who have nothing of value to say but just HAVE to jump in to say "oh my fooking god, you have a typo. You have NO idea what you're talking about since you can't type!"
Obviously there are many here for whom English is a second language, but with people for whom English is their primary language, one would expect some semblence of proper grammar and spelling.
Here's a suggestion for you Taco (I'm being serious now, not kidding): could you embed a spellchecker on/. which would check for spelling errors (I'd suggest a threshold to let a few typos through) and then prompt the user to check before submitting? The user could then elect to ignore the spellcheck and submit anyhow, but at least some attempt would be made. It would be akin to saying "hey dumbass, drop the kiddie speak or go back to Fark" but in a more productive manner. Allowing an override would let posts with technical or brand name terms or acronyms to go through, or for the lazy to continue to post but only after seeing a polite request to clean things up a bit.
On the other hand some Mac users are setting themselves up for failure. I have one client who INSISTS on chmod 777 -R / because he finds security "inconvenient" -- and any viruses that DO hit the wild are 100% guaranteed to hit their network. They miss the old MacOS and its total lack of security. I'm sure they're not the only ones with that shortsighted and foolish outlook based on the false sense of security that "if it hasn't happened yet, it never will"
Not only that, but if you have any shares/dropboxes/etc. openly accessible in a heterogeneous network, windows viruses can plant viruses there or infect documents which other windows users can pick up from that share and infect their machines with the scumware. Heck, even Linux or Solaris servers running file shares will be running clamav and antivir, and be scanning the samba shares any time a file is accessed.
Additionally, like it or not, there are worms which coulc conceivably infect your mac and add it to script kiddie's DDoS attacks. If you're running a web server with OpenSSL (or a commercial variant thereof) chances are you're vulnerable to slapper. ClamAV detects slapper and can remove it.
Mr. Bill Thompson I KNOW you're reading this thread on/. so take my advice: download clamav (it's FREE - as in beer, as in speech, etc.), install it, and run it on occasion. I'd point you at the project page only I know that you know how to google.:) clamav is a very small project, taking up very little space, and again it's FREE and virus signatures are usually updated more than once per day.
Last I checked, Facts are public domain and cannot be copyrighted/tradmarked/patented/etc or otherwise monopolized. Don't want people sharing stats? Don't make them public. This means shutting down MLB, I guess.;)
Still my point remains: Symantec can be patient and wait until 2.0. They make THEIR customers wait for a (billable/non-free) major revision for fixes for glaring bugs.
I used to see Symantec AntiVirus turn up false positives all the time (I think it was Norton AntiVirus 2000, it may have been a later version) and they never, ever updated it - it wasn't until they released their next major revision that they fixed it. (I do not remember the specific details now, and it's irrelevent to me now since I've migrated to Linux and when I DO have to run Windows, I use clamav)
So my view is: what's good for the goose is good for the gander. If they can wait until major revisions and annoy customers, with their response being "just set it to ignore that file", why can't they be just as patient and wait for SpyBot's next major revision? Isn't Spybot at only 1.2 now? Can't Symantec just stop their bitching and wait for 2.0 to come out, at which point I'm sure that false positive bug will be fixed?
Lastly: why would anyone use Norton Ghost when Partimage is more flexible and doesn't encumber the process with DRM?/obligatory plug for open source
Yes but when can we see a flying green pig? Give these pigs wings and a lot will begin to happen when people are forced to stick to their word.:D/weak attempt at humor
One would think that sticking two pieces of metal into ANY vegetation, be it a lemon, potato, trees, or George Dubya Bush, and using aforementioned device as a novelty power source for say, an LCD clock or high-school science experiment, would qualify as prior art.
His clothes were measured by firemen as carrying an electrical charge of 40,000 volts, the Reuters news agency quoted Mr Barton as saying
And how exactly did he measure that alleged electrical charge? With a multimeter that would be on a fire truck, or on an EM meter, which is a bit more expensive and well outside the range of anything that any firefighter would ever need during the usual course of his or her work?
Does this particular nylon jacket somehow store the charge like a battery? Was the jacket still "charged" after the alleged discharge?
Also: since when is a 40kv-but-ultra-low-amperage static discharge such a rare event? Don't many of us experience that daily?
* 3,000 volts - the average human can't feel voltage below this threshold.
* 8,000 volts - yawning and stretching with clothes on.
* 15-20,000 volts - shoving a plastic-coated box across the carpet with foot.
* 18,000 volts - getting up from a foam cushion on a nylon-covered couch.
* 35,000 volts - walking across a typical carpet. 5
When are the actual copyright holders (Linus, etc.) of the Linux kernel going to file suit against SCO for their fraudulent claim on Linux copyrights that SCO actually does not hold?
Anyone who contributed code to the kernel would have basis to file suit against SCO.
Yes, and it was around that time they introduced multisession, quit calling them WORM drives and started calling them CD-R drives.
My first drive was a Ricoh (piece of crap from a bad run of drives Ricoh never owned up to, during the warranty period they had it in their possession SIX times - and almost a month turnaround time each time) and I paid $780 or so for it. It was a lovely and oh-so-fast 2X drive. I could burn an ENTIRE CD in just over 35 minutes! Oh my god that drive was FAST!;)
I bought my first CD-R drive in 1995 and the audio CDs I burned then still work just fine - and so do the data CDs I've recently pulled old photos from. This includes no-name media of the time, Vertbatim, Ricoh, Maxell, and others.
Nice personal attack there but may I direct you to grammar school US history where you were supposed to read writings by our founding fathers, who specifically avoid constructing a democracy when they architected The Constitution of The united States of America?
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Yes, well, uh... oh I've got the answer for this one!
:D
Superman's nervous system is so powerful that he warps the space-time continuum, giving him the ability to exceed the apparant velocity of c without actually violating physics. Because you see, when you warp space-time you are never exceeding c at all, you just appear to. The Flash is faster because his nervous system is more dense.
Anyway, that's my comic book logic theory and I'm sticking to it! Reading superman comics and watching smallville has to pay off SOMEHOW.
Right, but if you re-read my post you'll see my point is regarding application viruses (apache/openssl) as well as Windows viruses that may get dumped onto shares infecting files which other Windows users may need to open, if the machine is on a heterogeneous (not mac-only) network.
Virus scanners do more than protect the local computer against hijacking or data loss - it helps prevent other infected computers from using your computer's share to infect others.
Lastly, wouldn't it be nice to know that the Word document your colleague authored on Windows won't contain a macro virus when you send it to a client? That macro virus may not execute on your machine, but if you forward that document along unscanned, you will be passing that macro virus on to the next Windows user.
{
last time i checked my 3 towers and 9 hard disks didn't cost tens of thousands (and two of them are macs!)
}
You didn't buy them from state-approved vendors who are on the official bidding lists.
State bidding lists work like this: when the contract is about to end, the state invites vendors to bid (more actually they obfuscate the process to make it more difficult to newcomers to get in on the process, so the system is weighted toward favored vendors), in a superficial effort to meet state law in controlling budgets.
In reality, the bidding process is made as difficult as humanly possible. The regulatiosn are hard to find, each responsible person tells you to call someone else, and the folks who succeed in getting in on it invariably are the ones who wine and dine the officials.
ANYWAY the bidding process usually gives you two optios:
- bid cost + percentage (which practically no one does because it would reveal the markup)
- bid MSRP/List Price minus a percentage (and as you know on most products list price may be as low as 30% over cost, or as much as 300% to 400% over cost on average for different products and brands)
Once you win the contract, you now have the "right" to sell directly to state and municipal agencies, completely bypassing any further bidding processes. This is intended to reduce the budget by being able to plan cost of operations up front, and to eliminate paperwork and delays introduced by conventional bidding processes. Unfortunately it's all to common for vendors to get in on the list bidding a PITTANCE of a discount (example: Dell, 2% off of list price, which is an inflated work of fiction) knowing that the process to get IN on the bidding is painful at best.
Even worse, the lowest bid does NOT always win on the bid lists (this goes for both state and GSA lists) and in fact the officials/agencies overseeing the bidding process can choose to ignore the bids and pick whomever the heck they want to win. They can cite support reasons (Yeah. Dell support is just WONDERFUL compared to local Dell vendors), size of the company, or any other contrived reason that sounds remotely plausible.
one in three? I think you mean 9 out of 10.
14GB won't even fill an iPod. Well, a non-crappy iPod.
That article is WAY too long; much longer than the average /. entry. In fact it was so long I fell asleep halfway through and forgot where I left off, but I seem to recall that something was mentioned about some submissions being too long. This is a prime example of that.
/. which would check for spelling errors (I'd suggest a threshold to let a few typos through) and then prompt the user to check before submitting? The user could then elect to ignore the spellcheck and submit anyhow, but at least some attempt would be made. It would be akin to saying "hey dumbass, drop the kiddie speak or go back to Fark" but in a more productive manner. Allowing an override would let posts with technical or brand name terms or acronyms to go through, or for the lazy to continue to post but only after seeing a polite request to clean things up a bit.
(Taco, I'm kidding. I'm KIDDING!)
The advice in that should be applied to posts in threads - all too often u hav 2 deal w/ stoopid kiddie speak (including the invariably crappy spelling and grammar), and then you have the other extreme: the grammar nazis who have nothing of value to say but just HAVE to jump in to say "oh my fooking god, you have a typo. You have NO idea what you're talking about since you can't type!"
Obviously there are many here for whom English is a second language, but with people for whom English is their primary language, one would expect some semblence of proper grammar and spelling.
Here's a suggestion for you Taco (I'm being serious now, not kidding): could you embed a spellchecker on
On the other hand some Mac users are setting themselves up for failure. I have one client who INSISTS on chmod 777 -R / because he finds security "inconvenient" -- and any viruses that DO hit the wild are 100% guaranteed to hit their network. They miss the old MacOS and its total lack of security. I'm sure they're not the only ones with that shortsighted and foolish outlook based on the false sense of security that "if it hasn't happened yet, it never will"
/. so take my advice: download clamav (it's FREE - as in beer, as in speech, etc.), install it, and run it on occasion. I'd point you at the project page only I know that you know how to google. :) clamav is a very small project, taking up very little space, and again it's FREE and virus signatures are usually updated more than once per day.
Not only that, but if you have any shares/dropboxes/etc. openly accessible in a heterogeneous network, windows viruses can plant viruses there or infect documents which other windows users can pick up from that share and infect their machines with the scumware. Heck, even Linux or Solaris servers running file shares will be running clamav and antivir, and be scanning the samba shares any time a file is accessed.
Additionally, like it or not, there are worms which coulc conceivably infect your mac and add it to script kiddie's DDoS attacks. If you're running a web server with OpenSSL (or a commercial variant thereof) chances are you're vulnerable to slapper. ClamAV detects slapper and can remove it.
Mr. Bill Thompson I KNOW you're reading this thread on
That sounds reasonable, given MPAA and RIAA reasoning for extending copyright.
Your neighbor designed the AMD K5 and K5? Wow, he was pretty resourceful and he's kicking your chip distributor's ass in performance! :D
Last I checked, Facts are public domain and cannot be copyrighted/tradmarked/patented/etc or otherwise monopolized. Don't want people sharing stats? Don't make them public. This means shutting down MLB, I guess. ;)
Oops, I see they're at 1.4 now. My bad.
Still my point remains: Symantec can be patient and wait until 2.0. They make THEIR customers wait for a (billable/non-free) major revision for fixes for glaring bugs.
I used to see Symantec AntiVirus turn up false positives all the time (I think it was Norton AntiVirus 2000, it may have been a later version) and they never, ever updated it - it wasn't until they released their next major revision that they fixed it. (I do not remember the specific details now, and it's irrelevent to me now since I've migrated to Linux and when I DO have to run Windows, I use clamav)
/obligatory plug for open source
So my view is: what's good for the goose is good for the gander. If they can wait until major revisions and annoy customers, with their response being "just set it to ignore that file", why can't they be just as patient and wait for SpyBot's next major revision? Isn't Spybot at only 1.2 now? Can't Symantec just stop their bitching and wait for 2.0 to come out, at which point I'm sure that false positive bug will be fixed?
Lastly: why would anyone use Norton Ghost when Partimage is more flexible and doesn't encumber the process with DRM?
"To this day, Microsofts OS's give preferential treatment to the foreground though it is now a much buried option to change that."
;)
Much buried?
Start -> Control Panel -> System (or My Computer -> Properties)-> Advanced tab -> Performance options -> Application response
Oh yes, it's really buried as if Microsoft actively sought to hide it.
Oh yes, the water-powered car, the 100mpg (or is it 200mpg?) carburator, and why not mention perpetual motion machines while we're at it?
OPEC may be bad, but I doubt they're doing what you alledge. I'm sure they'd LIKE to if such patents existed.
or 111-1111111, the old generic install key ;)
It depends on:
- how you talk to MySQL (using sockets? Not an issue)
- Whether you bundle it or simply tell the user "you need MySQL"
Yes but when can we see a flying green pig? Give these pigs wings and a lot will begin to happen when people are forced to stick to their word. :D /weak attempt at humor
One would think that sticking two pieces of metal into ANY vegetation, be it a lemon, potato, trees, or George Dubya Bush, and using aforementioned device as a novelty power source for say, an LCD clock or high-school science experiment, would qualify as prior art.
And how exactly did he measure that alleged electrical charge? With a multimeter that would be on a fire truck, or on an EM meter, which is a bit more expensive and well outside the range of anything that any firefighter would ever need during the usual course of his or her work?
Does this particular nylon jacket somehow store the charge like a battery? Was the jacket still "charged" after the alleged discharge?
Also: since when is a 40kv-but-ultra-low-amperage static discharge such a rare event? Don't many of us experience that daily?
from http://www.ontrack.com/special/1103static.asp
Some Examples of Voltage:
* 3,000 volts - the average human can't feel voltage below this threshold.
* 8,000 volts - yawning and stretching with clothes on.
* 15-20,000 volts - shoving a plastic-coated box across the carpet with foot.
* 18,000 volts - getting up from a foam cushion on a nylon-covered couch.
* 35,000 volts - walking across a typical carpet. 5
http://www.botron.com/AboutESD.php claims similar numbers.
Time to upgrade to OpenOffice.org 2.0. :)
A related question:
When are the actual copyright holders (Linus, etc.) of the Linux kernel going to file suit against SCO for their fraudulent claim on Linux copyrights that SCO actually does not hold?
Anyone who contributed code to the kernel would have basis to file suit against SCO.
Of which >90% will be owed to Novell, further increasing their debt as they continue their frivilous litigation business model.
Yes, and it was around that time they introduced multisession, quit calling them WORM drives and started calling them CD-R drives.
;)
My first drive was a Ricoh (piece of crap from a bad run of drives Ricoh never owned up to, during the warranty period they had it in their possession SIX times - and almost a month turnaround time each time) and I paid $780 or so for it. It was a lovely and oh-so-fast 2X drive. I could burn an ENTIRE CD in just over 35 minutes! Oh my god that drive was FAST!
I bought my first CD-R drive in 1995 and the audio CDs I burned then still work just fine - and so do the data CDs I've recently pulled old photos from. This includes no-name media of the time, Vertbatim, Ricoh, Maxell, and others.
The article is WAY wrong.
Please!
before the overhaul takes place will some do-no-evil company please patent the following:
- flash advertisements which use sound
- flash advertisements which take over your browser and shove themselves over the content you're trying to read
- annoying flashing siezure-inducing animated GIF advertisements
and then sue every advertiser which uses that style ad for patent licensing fees, and commit to not use those style ads on any web site, EVER?
Thanks. This would be an appropriate use for patenting prior art. If you do this you will have my eternal appreciation.
Nice personal attack there but may I direct you to grammar school US history where you were supposed to read writings by our founding fathers, who specifically avoid constructing a democracy when they architected The Constitution of The united States of America?
;)
Thank you for playing though!