What I'd like to know is what would be the difference between a GPLv2 and GPLv3 gcc? The big difference is about preventing people from changing the code by requiring that it is digitally signed, but that doesn't seem to make a big difference for compilers. What's so bad about a compiler on Tivo that you can't change because it has been digitally signed?
Rowling doesn't have a purpose What does the writer mean when he writes this class?.. No... No... *sigh* No.
The writer is commenting on Rowling's nihilistic perspective on the neopaganist movement.
The theory he puts forward in this sentence is that as a women she feels betrayed by the misogynistic class structure, and that neopaganism reinforces true classlessness. You see, in the wizard school those most proficient in magic rise to the top, not those born into a higher class. The writer postulates that Rowling is encouraging such a meritocracy.
... except to tell a story people want to hear. In this sentence he follows on by noting that she is telling the public what they want to hear. When people read Harry Potter they see through the eyes of someone talented but downtrodden. The story of Harry's rise to the top is an inflection of the American Dream, but with friendship and knowledge in place of money.
The supposed naivety of the dream is amplified through the eyes of the protagonist, Harry.
I hope you all memorized what I just said, because you'll have to repeat it in your own words ad verbatim in the exam. You'll also have to be able to recite it while being monitored by a lie detector so we know that you really believe it. Class dismissed.
"Corporate whore"? They're a public company, they have to maximize profits while remaining within the law. Make a law saying campaign contributions must be anonymous (anything else is just legalized bribery), don't blame MS for doing their best to make money while being within the law.
Intel is not going off on a huge strategic blunder like the PIV or Itanium again, this time they're on the ball and overclocking results suggest they have a lot of headroom. Really? I'm not so sure.
Sooner or later they're going to have to go for something similar to an Itanium processor. Once pushing clock speed runs out, pushing cores runs out, pushing micro-op improvements runs out, they're going to start looking at the instruction set.
You can bet that if they could change the instruction set at a whim they would have done a long time ago, and the processor would perform much better.
I think it's inevitable that in the next 10 years things will start to look towards Itanium (or an equivalent), because changing the instruction set will provide a lot of untapped processing power.
Forcing kids to read literature doesn't work. Now whenever I read literature I have questions like "What value structure is the author promoting? How does this work act as a barometer for social change? How are women and other cultures portrayed?" and other nonsense. I can't remember the last fiction I read.
More like it could develop into a new weight loss program. Realistically though, the power that it would end up draining is probably negligible. Pfff.. Forget weight loss. Combined with a form of fusion (the red-goo form of fusion), this can give us all the energy we ever need.
Yes, it's called a default homepage. You build a local index.html that includes the links you want (you call them Favorites, but we in the non-Windows world call them Bookmarks) and load that as your default homepage in FF-Slim.
This is what dillo does by default (a lightweight browser that is stuck in 1997).
If you give a rat a bit of food every time it presses a bar (or on every n presses) -- it'll learn to press the bar the requisite number of times when it is hungry. If you provide a food nugget on a varying number of presses, e.g., 1 press=win, 3 presses=win, 10 presses=win, 4 presses=win -- it'll punch the bar all day.
At least, that's how I recall a psych prof of mine from college explaining why slot machines were so profitable. Hmm, does that really explain it though? If the rat had to give up a bit of food whenever it pressed the bar maybe it would behave differently, and this is more similar to what slot machines do.
If it was just a matter of pulling the lever enough times, and it didn't cost anything, then of course people would sit there all day pulling the lever.
Ha ha, joke's on you, you dick- that "old joke" was written by me five years ago Who's the dick? The guy is basically saying "Give the guy who wrote that joke credit for it", and you come back with "BAHAHA! I wrote the joke, dick!"
How about: "Thanks for encouraging people to credit me for the joke I wrote, even if you made an unfortunate and unlikely mistake in encouraging me to credit myself"
You could always buy your own and take it with you I guess, but I wouldn't want to pay extra for it since air travel is so safe. It'd be better to put the money into health insurance or a pension if I wanted the most life for my buck.
In the few days following this post we've had a story about the author of this worm getting death threats, and I've had all of my posts in this thread modded flamebait by one person (undoubtedly a Mac fanboy). These are the kinds of people that my first joking post was for.
I think any game where a machine can beat you every time is going to be tainted in my mind. Who wants to play a game where you'll never be better than an algorithm?
Games like checkers, chess, poker and other card games can all be played more or less flawlessly by computer. There are good games like Go and Diplomacy that can't though, for better reasons than there being a larger number of move combinations to permute.
Macs are equally or less expensive than an equivalent Dell. Why not give me your address and we'll talk this over? Can I have a picture of your children?
I remember the Windows XP stampedes like it was yesterday:
I remember when XP came out, our network admin was so full of happiness at being able to upgrade from Windows 2000.
Fox News reported a Class 3 Software Related Stampede forming outside Walmart on the release day, but he just wouldn't listen; he had been counting down the days for months, and had worked extra hours to surprise his wife and kids with copies of their own. It was all he ever talked about.
He wore his favorite shirt and tie to work that day, his shoes shined, his hair combed, a spring in his step.
I'm still haunted by the look of sheer happiness on his face as he left the office during lunch hour to get his copy. The last words he said to me were "I'm off to get my copy! See you later!"
"See you later", he said. "See you later".. I still blame myself..
On being provoked; if I had done it because I felt provoked the countless "haha" comments in the MS Word discussion are provocation enough.
Actually though I posted it to have a laugh at the expense of fanboys. If you're a reasonable Apple user who doesn't like Apple products because you like the brand you should find it as funny as anyone else.
You learn how to solve differentiation problems like these in high school here. Also I don't get why the parent implied that it mattered that 6*cos(-pi/2) = 0 . Even if it was 6*cos(0) = 6 that wouldn't matter because it's constant and so gets discarded.
So far, all I'm seeing is "Mac fanboys are stupid LOL." For most people a fanboy is defined as someone who supports and defends something blindly, and is stupid by definition.
You rip on people who allegedly claim the vulnerabilities don't matter. And I don't see these people anywhere. I Googled the frustrating convo I had, though I shouldn't have to do this to convince you that Mac fanboys exist. Here, here (see the responses), ah this is the one I was looking for: here. Total denial in all three of these, and you see total denial of any vulnerabilities.
My earlier satire was based entirely on my experience arguing with fanboys here on/.; you can't tell me that they don't exist and don't deserve some mockery when their false sense of security falls like a house of cards.
I'm not against Apple's products (though I admit I do think they're overrated, and I hate their marketing), but I am against fanboys. My post was only talking about fanboys and their reaction to vulnerabilities, not about the vulnerability itself.
The only people I always see spouting such crap are the people who claim to hate Apple fanboys. I've never seen an Apple fanboy make absurd claims like yours. This is like a fucking self-fullfilling prophecy. Every damn article about Apple is run over by stupid Anti-Apple trolls who write hundreds of comments laughing about imaginary Apple fanboys and the imaginary stupid things they say.
Here's an idea: Shut up, and let those who are interested in the article discuss it. Thanks. Actually I'm mostly repeating arguments people have made against me here (I'm not a subscriber so I can't look up the ridiculous arguments I've had). I've spoken to people on this site who argue about how local vulnerabilities don't matter (on Macs), how market share isn't the reason for there being fewer OS X vulnerabilities, etc, etc.
Most of all we all rip on Windows when a vulnerability is found, so don't take it personally when the same happens to your OS.
This is where comments and documentation become vital. If a project is popular, logically built and well commented maintenance is possible without needing intimate knowledge, and once you have maintainers it's a small step to developers.
It doesn't exist in the wild; this is because of OS X's stunning security features
This vulnerability was probably placed into the system by Jobs himself. If there were no vulnerabilities in OS X people would realize Jobs was supernatural, so he has to put one in there from time to time.
This vulnerability is probably the last vulnerability in OS X. Once Apple fixes this there'll be no more
Way, way more vulnerabilities are found in Windows and Windows products; this is because of OS X's breathtaking security features
This is probably a bug in BSD or Mach code, or one of the recent Intel chip bugs, or a Microsoft employee infiltrated the Cupertino campus. It's not Apple's fault.
Microsoft spends its entire R&D budget looking for these elusive Apple holes just as a way of discrediting Apple. If the real number of Microsoft and Linux vulnerabilities were actually disclosed there would be no comparison.
Apple puts the occasional vulnerability in its system because they know that Microsoft blindly copies anything Apple does. If Apple puts one bug into their system they know Microsoft will put 10 bugs in theirs.
Microsoft worms spread spambots and steal credit card information, Apple worms are just a misguided attempt of a loyal Apple fan to spread the good vibes and let the community know he cares. With Mac OS X only your unquestioning loyalty is contagious.
Such a breathtaking OS on a rock solid foundation with over 1 million configurations. Say hello to OS X Panda. Starting at $99. Small sentence. Reinvented.
If you have a sandpit it's much easier to bury your head in it, rather than try and come up with a reasonable explanation of why this worm is part of Jobs' master plan.
Maybe Theo was just wise enough, for once, to keep quiet, at least temporarily, about how to exploit a processor bug for which no fix or workaround exists and avoid handing it on a plate to skript kiddies and hackers-for-hire?
Just because he didn't demonstrate an exploit doesn't mean it can't be done. If you're serious about security then his comments ought to set of your paranoia triggers off. Theo's been (obnoxiously) right a lot more often than his detractors have. You're saying the most well known advocate of full disclosure isn't disclosing vulnerabilities? This is really clutching at straws.
Modern fears like fear of electrical sockets you mentioned earlier? Fear of electrical sockets, debt, WMD*, escalators, guns, etc are of course not innate. Fear of heights, pain, fast moving crawling things, the dark, these are fears that you would expect to be innate and that seem to be innate.
*(note to no-one in particular: it's WMD not WMDs)
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What I'd like to know is what would be the difference between a GPLv2 and GPLv3 gcc? The big difference is about preventing people from changing the code by requiring that it is digitally signed, but that doesn't seem to make a big difference for compilers. What's so bad about a compiler on Tivo that you can't change because it has been digitally signed?
The writer is commenting on Rowling's nihilistic perspective on the neopaganist movement.
The theory he puts forward in this sentence is that as a women she feels betrayed by the misogynistic class structure, and that neopaganism reinforces true classlessness. You see, in the wizard school those most proficient in magic rise to the top, not those born into a higher class. The writer postulates that Rowling is encouraging such a meritocracy.
... except to tell a story people want to hear. In this sentence he follows on by noting that she is telling the public what they want to hear. When people read Harry Potter they see through the eyes of someone talented but downtrodden. The story of Harry's rise to the top is an inflection of the American Dream, but with friendship and knowledge in place of money.The supposed naivety of the dream is amplified through the eyes of the protagonist, Harry.
I hope you all memorized what I just said, because you'll have to repeat it in your own words ad verbatim in the exam. You'll also have to be able to recite it while being monitored by a lie detector so we know that you really believe it. Class dismissed.
"Corporate whore"? They're a public company, they have to maximize profits while remaining within the law. Make a law saying campaign contributions must be anonymous (anything else is just legalized bribery), don't blame MS for doing their best to make money while being within the law.
Sooner or later they're going to have to go for something similar to an Itanium processor. Once pushing clock speed runs out, pushing cores runs out, pushing micro-op improvements runs out, they're going to start looking at the instruction set.
You can bet that if they could change the instruction set at a whim they would have done a long time ago, and the processor would perform much better.
I think it's inevitable that in the next 10 years things will start to look towards Itanium (or an equivalent), because changing the instruction set will provide a lot of untapped processing power.
Forcing kids to read literature doesn't work. Now whenever I read literature I have questions like "What value structure is the author promoting? How does this work act as a barometer for social change? How are women and other cultures portrayed?" and other nonsense. I can't remember the last fiction I read.
Yes, it's called a default homepage. You build a local index.html that includes the links you want (you call them Favorites, but we in the non-Windows world call them Bookmarks) and load that as your default homepage in FF-Slim.
This is what dillo does by default (a lightweight browser that is stuck in 1997).At least, that's how I recall a psych prof of mine from college explaining why slot machines were so profitable. Hmm, does that really explain it though? If the rat had to give up a bit of food whenever it pressed the bar maybe it would behave differently, and this is more similar to what slot machines do.
If it was just a matter of pulling the lever enough times, and it didn't cost anything, then of course people would sit there all day pulling the lever.
How about: "Thanks for encouraging people to credit me for the joke I wrote, even if you made an unfortunate and unlikely mistake in encouraging me to credit myself"
You could always buy your own and take it with you I guess, but I wouldn't want to pay extra for it since air travel is so safe. It'd be better to put the money into health insurance or a pension if I wanted the most life for my buck.
In the few days following this post we've had a story about the author of this worm getting death threats, and I've had all of my posts in this thread modded flamebait by one person (undoubtedly a Mac fanboy). These are the kinds of people that my first joking post was for.
I think any game where a machine can beat you every time is going to be tainted in my mind. Who wants to play a game where you'll never be better than an algorithm?
Games like checkers, chess, poker and other card games can all be played more or less flawlessly by computer. There are good games like Go and Diplomacy that can't though, for better reasons than there being a larger number of move combinations to permute.
Macs are equally or less expensive than an equivalent Dell. Why not give me your address and we'll talk this over? Can I have a picture of your children?
I remember the Windows XP stampedes like it was yesterday:
I remember when XP came out, our network admin was so full of happiness at being able to upgrade from Windows 2000.
Fox News reported a Class 3 Software Related Stampede forming outside Walmart on the release day, but he just wouldn't listen; he had been counting down the days for months, and had worked extra hours to surprise his wife and kids with copies of their own. It was all he ever talked about.
He wore his favorite shirt and tie to work that day, his shoes shined, his hair combed, a spring in his step.
I'm still haunted by the look of sheer happiness on his face as he left the office during lunch hour to get his copy. The last words he said to me were "I'm off to get my copy! See you later!"
"See you later", he said. "See you later".. I still blame myself..
On being provoked; if I had done it because I felt provoked the countless "haha" comments in the MS Word discussion are provocation enough.
Actually though I posted it to have a laugh at the expense of fanboys. If you're a reasonable Apple user who doesn't like Apple products because you like the brand you should find it as funny as anyone else.
You learn how to solve differentiation problems like these in high school here. Also I don't get why the parent implied that it mattered that 6*cos(-pi/2) = 0 . Even if it was 6*cos(0) = 6 that wouldn't matter because it's constant and so gets discarded.
Yeah, no-one ever criticizes the stories or the editors these days.
Here, here (see the responses), ah this is the one I was looking for: here. Total denial in all three of these, and you see total denial of any vulnerabilities.
My earlier satire was based entirely on my experience arguing with fanboys here on
I'm not against Apple's products (though I admit I do think they're overrated, and I hate their marketing), but I am against fanboys. My post was only talking about fanboys and their reaction to vulnerabilities, not about the vulnerability itself.
Here's an idea: Shut up, and let those who are interested in the article discuss it. Thanks. Actually I'm mostly repeating arguments people have made against me here (I'm not a subscriber so I can't look up the ridiculous arguments I've had). I've spoken to people on this site who argue about how local vulnerabilities don't matter (on Macs), how market share isn't the reason for there being fewer OS X vulnerabilities, etc, etc.
Most of all we all rip on Windows when a vulnerability is found, so don't take it personally when the same happens to your OS.
This is where comments and documentation become vital. If a project is popular, logically built and well commented maintenance is possible without needing intimate knowledge, and once you have maintainers it's a small step to developers.
- It doesn't exist in the wild; this is because of OS X's stunning security features
- This vulnerability was probably placed into the system by Jobs himself. If there were no vulnerabilities in OS X people would realize Jobs was supernatural, so he has to put one in there from time to time.
- This vulnerability is probably the last vulnerability in OS X. Once Apple fixes this there'll be no more
- Way, way more vulnerabilities are found in Windows and Windows products; this is because of OS X's breathtaking security features
- This is probably a bug in BSD or Mach code, or one of the recent Intel chip bugs, or a Microsoft employee infiltrated the Cupertino campus. It's not Apple's fault.
- Microsoft spends its entire R&D budget looking for these elusive Apple holes just as a way of discrediting Apple. If the real number of Microsoft and Linux vulnerabilities were actually disclosed there would be no comparison.
- Apple puts the occasional vulnerability in its system because they know that Microsoft blindly copies anything Apple does. If Apple puts one bug into their system they know Microsoft will put 10 bugs in theirs.
- Microsoft worms spread spambots and steal credit card information, Apple worms are just a misguided attempt of a loyal Apple fan to spread the good vibes and let the community know he cares. With Mac OS X only your unquestioning loyalty is contagious.
Such a breathtaking OS on a rock solid foundation with over 1 million configurations. Say hello to OS X Panda. Starting at $99. Small sentence. Reinvented.If you have a sandpit it's much easier to bury your head in it, rather than try and come up with a reasonable explanation of why this worm is part of Jobs' master plan.
An application for nanotubes maybe? (IANAP)
Just because he didn't demonstrate an exploit doesn't mean it can't be done. If you're serious about security then his comments ought to set of your paranoia triggers off. Theo's been (obnoxiously) right a lot more often than his detractors have. You're saying the most well known advocate of full disclosure isn't disclosing vulnerabilities? This is really clutching at straws.
Modern fears like fear of electrical sockets you mentioned earlier? Fear of electrical sockets, debt, WMD*, escalators, guns, etc are of course not innate. Fear of heights, pain, fast moving crawling things, the dark, these are fears that you would expect to be innate and that seem to be innate. *(note to no-one in particular: it's WMD not WMDs)