I doubt they intend to try to make money from Azareus. I hope what they're trying to do is to clamp down on some of the bastardized BT clients that are around; these are just people grabbing someone else's client code, sticking in spyware, and redistributing. Check the "malware-free" column here to see which clients will likely be "asked" to stop using the BT name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorr ent_software
That's actually a good point. I find that all my actually creative ideas come to me when I'm away from the computer. Computer time is the time to put the idea into reality, or to do bug fixes, or to crank out everyday code. Acutally creative work happens in the shower or on my bike on the way to work. Of course, it's easy to argue that the types of people who are doing this kind of stuff don't do creative work. Perhaps they don't get any more creative when away from a PC.
As long as it'll still run Windows 2000 and Linux, I'm good. I haven't needed anything Microsoft put out since W2K, and I haven't had any need for anything faster than about 1.2 GHz. A bunch of people at work bought tricked-out new 3+ GHz machines in the last couple of months, and I asked them, "Why so fast" or "Why did you buy the $300 graphics card update?" Basically people have become so conditioned that they HAVE to buy the FASTEST and BEST thing out there or their computer is already obsolete before they even start. It's a bunch of crap anymore. Most of these people are just browsing the web, doing email, writing documents, editing photos. A $400 PC or Mac Mini would have been plenty for them. They spent $1500, and threw away a bunch of money.
I had someone say that a Dell rep told them that they really should get that Hyper-hot $350 GeForce ultra-platinum video card, because she'd need it to retouch photos on the computer. That's pretty reprehensible IMHO. A $30 graphics card or mainboard graphics would have done just fine. I say they practically stole $300 from her.
Slashdot is mostly a gathering point for news found elsewhere. If you follow the Register, BoingBoing, HardOCP, and a few other sites, you'll see almost everything before it hits slashdot.
Wow, kudos to them. Can you imagine a US news source doing that? They'd crap their pants at the very idea of doing anything so potentially anti-establishment. The major US news sources just sicken me some days.
No, I think he meant the possessive. When read in that light, it's complete gibberish, instead of only partly as in your example. One of the two is correct.
As a friend likes to say, an apostrophe is not a warning that an 's' is coming.
If it looks like it won't be worth the argument, I'll delete pictures all they want. Then slip in a new card, and recover the images when I get back home. You don't even need to buy recovery software; dd and a small perl script is all it takes.
I kinda wish I still had my v.everything. I had the sweet external version. Mine was a sysop special from USR, I had to sign an agreement that it was to be used on a BBS (which it was) and I got it for the bargain price of only around $200.
(I may be dating myself, but I'm only 22, I swear.:)
Aw, don't feel bad. Heck, I dated myself until I was 24.
Do you honestly think we'll still be getting the majority of our energy from burning oil in 200 years? No, I don't, but I do reject the "we're not going to run out of oil in our lifetimes" statement as being a non-sequitur in this conversation. Any finite resource should be used with care. There are too many people who figure if there's enough for them, then there's enough.
I didn't say I disagree with global warming. I did say that I agree that we don't understand the planet's weather system very well, and I argue about what to do in light of our ignorance.
I'm absolutely convinced of the reality of global warming, and that it's caused by humans. I do agree though that we do not know any specifics, such as whether we can fix it at this point, what specific amounts of whatever will cause what.
We don't know NEARLY enough about climate to take stabs at the end result of all this.
That's my opinion as well. However, what to do about our ignorance is the question. IMHO since we know so little, we should strive to minimize our impact until we really understand what our impact is. Some people think that because we don't know what our impact is, screw it, let's pave the planet, and subdue the oil producing nations so we can all buy houses 50 miles from where we work every day and drive to work on $1.50/gal gas.
Weather is a chaotics system. Global warming is pumping more energy into a chaotic system. You will get varied and unpredictable results. The only certainty is that things won't stay the same. Unfortunately the majority of the economies and lifestyles on earth are based on climates in an area staying about the same.
We're not running out and we won't in our lifetimes.
For me, the question is not about "in our lifetimes." Do we have more rights to resources than our children? Is it OK to burn stuff up at whatever rate we choose just for the hell of it, because it's all about us, screw people in 200 years?
We are slowly crawling out of that nasty hole; we have been far worse in the past (some of the industrial operations of the last 150 years are truly horrific) but obviously we have a ways to go. Most people go through almost every day with no thought for the repercussions of their actions, and no thought for the future except for THEIR future, and MAYBE their children, but screw anyone else and their children, and even unborn generations of their own line.
Yup, I deal with live tax returns by the thousands per day. Both my data hard drive and my GB thumb drive are just a big truecrypt volume. The only thing in the root of the thumb drive is a TC vol, and truecrypt software.
When I buy a thumb drive, if it comes with encryption software, first thing I do is erase it and replace it with TrueCrypt. It's unlikely that whatever proprietary crud they give you has been looked at by as many eyeballs as the TC source. Also I can give it away, and use it on other machines without fear of license breach or infesting someone else's machine with crap.
My best advice is to take the stairs. I always do, even if it's 20 floors, and I almost always beat the people who waited for the elevator, usually by quite a lot.
I find that google blows away most commercial sites for finding content on those sites. I use google when looking for products on web store sites. In that respect at least, google is doing them a favor. I'm finding products I want and buying them because Google is there; many of the sites have crappy or nonexistant searching capabilities. Heck, I've tested some; I can be looking at a product I found on their site, and I can type in the words that are in the name of the product into the site's search, and it will tell me there's no such product. Ridiculous.
There are systems where two cars were one on top of another and hooked together. Not nearly as good, but actually workable with current lift systems. I think these have been done for many years.
The only time I see people getting on a down elevator to go up is when they expect the car to get completely full on the main floor, and have no room when it stop back on the way up.
There's a problem for people who switch between bikes and motorcycles; the front brake handle is on the opposite side. Some people actually switch their bikes to match the motorcycle on the most effective brake.
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I doubt they intend to try to make money from Azareus. I hope what they're trying to do is to clamp down on some of the bastardized BT clients that are around; these are just people grabbing someone else's client code, sticking in spyware, and redistributing.r ent_software
Check the "malware-free" column here to see which clients will likely be "asked" to stop using the BT name:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTor
I think the GP must have spent some time in the pub. I don't know what he said, either.
That's actually a good point. I find that all my actually creative ideas come to me when I'm away from the computer. Computer time is the time to put the idea into reality, or to do bug fixes, or to crank out everyday code. Acutally creative work happens in the shower or on my bike on the way to work.
Of course, it's easy to argue that the types of people who are doing this kind of stuff don't do creative work. Perhaps they don't get any more creative when away from a PC.
As long as it'll still run Windows 2000 and Linux, I'm good. I haven't needed anything Microsoft put out since W2K, and I haven't had any need for anything faster than about 1.2 GHz. A bunch of people at work bought tricked-out new 3+ GHz machines in the last couple of months, and I asked them, "Why so fast" or "Why did you buy the $300 graphics card update?" Basically people have become so conditioned that they HAVE to buy the FASTEST and BEST thing out there or their computer is already obsolete before they even start. It's a bunch of crap anymore. Most of these people are just browsing the web, doing email, writing documents, editing photos. A $400 PC or Mac Mini would have been plenty for them. They spent $1500, and threw away a bunch of money.
I had someone say that a Dell rep told them that they really should get that Hyper-hot $350 GeForce ultra-platinum video card, because she'd need it to retouch photos on the computer. That's pretty reprehensible IMHO. A $30 graphics card or mainboard graphics would have done just fine. I say they practically stole $300 from her.
Sorry for going OT.
Slashdot is mostly a gathering point for news found elsewhere. If you follow the Register, BoingBoing, HardOCP, and a few other sites, you'll see almost everything before it hits slashdot.
Well, you could try posting in baudot; that's what they've been using for a lot of years anyway.
Remember the shift-up and shift-down codes.
Wow, kudos to them.
Can you imagine a US news source doing that? They'd crap their pants at the very idea of doing anything so potentially anti-establishment. The major US news sources just sicken me some days.
No, I think he meant the possessive. When read in that light, it's complete gibberish, instead of only partly as in your example. One of the two is correct.
As a friend likes to say, an apostrophe is not a warning that an 's' is coming.
If it looks like it won't be worth the argument, I'll delete pictures all they want. Then slip in a new card, and recover the images when I get back home. You don't even need to buy recovery software; dd and a small perl script is all it takes.
I kinda wish I still had my v.everything. I had the sweet external version. Mine was a sysop special from USR, I had to sign an agreement that it was to be used on a BBS (which it was) and I got it for the bargain price of only around $200.
:)
(I may be dating myself, but I'm only 22, I swear.
Aw, don't feel bad. Heck, I dated myself until I was 24.
Do you honestly think we'll still be getting the majority of our energy from burning oil in 200 years?
No, I don't, but I do reject the "we're not going to run out of oil in our lifetimes" statement as being a non-sequitur in this conversation. Any finite resource should be used with care. There are too many people who figure if there's enough for them, then there's enough.
I didn't say I disagree with global warming. I did say that I agree that we don't understand the planet's weather system very well, and I argue about what to do in light of our ignorance.
I'm absolutely convinced of the reality of global warming, and that it's caused by humans. I do agree though that we do not know any specifics, such as whether we can fix it at this point, what specific amounts of whatever will cause what.
We don't know NEARLY enough about climate to take stabs at the end result of all this.
That's my opinion as well. However, what to do about our ignorance is the question. IMHO since we know so little, we should strive to minimize our impact until we really understand what our impact is. Some people think that because we don't know what our impact is, screw it, let's pave the planet, and subdue the oil producing nations so we can all buy houses 50 miles from where we work every day and drive to work on $1.50/gal gas.
Weather is a chaotics system. Global warming is pumping more energy into a chaotic system. You will get varied and unpredictable results. The only certainty is that things won't stay the same. Unfortunately the majority of the economies and lifestyles on earth are based on climates in an area staying about the same.
We're not running out and we won't in our lifetimes.
For me, the question is not about "in our lifetimes." Do we have more rights to resources than our children? Is it OK to burn stuff up at whatever rate we choose just for the hell of it, because it's all about us, screw people in 200 years?
We are slowly crawling out of that nasty hole; we have been far worse in the past (some of the industrial operations of the last 150 years are truly horrific) but obviously we have a ways to go. Most people go through almost every day with no thought for the repercussions of their actions, and no thought for the future except for THEIR future, and MAYBE their children, but screw anyone else and their children, and even unborn generations of their own line.
Yup, I deal with live tax returns by the thousands per day. Both my data hard drive and my GB thumb drive are just a big truecrypt volume. The only thing in the root of the thumb drive is a TC vol, and truecrypt software.
When I buy a thumb drive, if it comes with encryption software, first thing I do is erase it and replace it with TrueCrypt. It's unlikely that whatever proprietary crud they give you has been looked at by as many eyeballs as the TC source. Also I can give it away, and use it on other machines without fear of license breach or infesting someone else's machine with crap.
Uh, are you joking? I'm guessing you are. Data is data.
If that were true, the NSA wouldn't have to spend billions on decryption hardware, they could just copy the encrypted files to a FAT volume.
OK, I've been avoiding it, but I think the time has come to do as some friends have, and run privoxy (www.privoxy.org).
My parents and my wife's parents had at least a passing knowledge of the "eat a peck of dirt as a kid" theory. I think it's a farm thing.
My best advice is to take the stairs. I always do, even if it's 20 floors, and I almost always beat the people who waited for the elevator, usually by quite a lot.
I find that google blows away most commercial sites for finding content on those sites. I use google when looking for products on web store sites. In that respect at least, google is doing them a favor. I'm finding products I want and buying them because Google is there; many of the sites have crappy or nonexistant searching capabilities. Heck, I've tested some; I can be looking at a product I found on their site, and I can type in the words that are in the name of the product into the site's search, and it will tell me there's no such product. Ridiculous.
There are systems where two cars were one on top of another and hooked together. Not nearly as good, but actually workable with current lift systems. I think these have been done for many years.
The only time I see people getting on a down elevator to go up is when they expect the car to get completely full on the main floor, and have no room when it stop back on the way up.
Nah, I'll look like the guy in Silent Running, not The Running Man.
Or, if Running Man, I'll be Dawson, not Arnie.
There's a problem for people who switch between bikes and motorcycles; the front brake handle is on the opposite side. Some people actually switch their bikes to match the motorcycle on the most effective brake.