I was thinking similarily. However, I thought of Parkinson's Disease and it's sister disease (I can't remember the name... oh shit!). These both are degenerative nervous diseases. They may not be cured, but rendered a nusience, and nothing more. These particular diseases torment the loved ones of these people as they watch him or her become more and more lost. Who was there is there no more. Putting a stop to the advancement would save a lot of heart ache.
Ok, this is really bad. "Google, that terrorist organization, threatens the American way of life because they threaten the very fabric of our economy, taking away the food from our sickly childrens' mouths." -- a really poor misquote. Please don't mod me down troll or flamebait. **trembles**
I love video games, but I feel that the video game industry has always been in jeopardy. It's just the nature of the business. When video games first came out, nobody cared, and nobody would buy. Atari struggled to make a system that would sell. They're systems were good at the time, and realistically, the evolution of Atari consoles has matched, shockingly close, to what we see today.
The consoles grew in speed and in power, and often, they were backwards compatible with older games. Later, during the 16-Bit wars, Atari came out with the Jaguar sporting a sexy 64-Bit path. At the same time the 3DO was developed which was a 32-Bit system. Both failed because the memory required was just too much at the time. Today, such systems would be cheaper. The games for these systems were actually a lot of fun.
32-Bit machines consistently failed in the console world. The Sega 32X, which was an add-on to the Sega Genesis, was a flop. The Virtual Boy (which sounds kind of homoerotic) was a flop. These systems went the same path the Atari systems went. They struggled, and they flopped.
Sega, sadly, continued the same path that Atari went. Their Sega Saturn, a 64-Bit machine, flopped, and so did the Dream Cast. The Dream Cast was particularily advanced considering all the innovations. In fact, GoldStar 3DO was riddled with neat innovations (it was nightmarishly expensive, like the new systems of today) and it too flopped, like all 3DOs.
The video game industry has always seen a horrible market. Systems might succeed. Every new generation, the companies jam more innovations and improve the overall experience, but people have proven to be so fickle. Expensive games won't succeed, yet, games with poor graphics won't succeed. A game with excellent graphics and at a low price won't succeed if the game play is just sorry. The margin, it seems, is very low. This is nothing new, it's always been this way. Maybe it will change, but failure plagues the console market.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ I wonder how Con's patch would do in these tests. There are two patches, one for servers, and one for desktops. They make the box uber faster for its purpose, but it sucks ass for the oposite. Get the patch for the server, and the server is snappy. The patch isn't perfect, however. I use it for my desky. It's swift.
Actually, the supreme court ruled that a school has only so much power. In Tinker v. Des Moines
"The Fourteenth Amendment, as now applied to the States, protects the citizen against the State itself and all of its creatures--Boards of Education not excepted. These have, of course, important, delicate, and highly discretionary functions, but none that they may not perform within the limits of the Bill of Rights. That they are educating the young for citizenship is reason for scrupulous protection of Constitutional freedoms of the individual, if we are not to strangle the free mind at its source and teach youth to discount important principles of our government as mere platitudes." 319 U.S., at 637.
Microsoft has been suspected of using illegal practices a long time ago. In the early days of Windows 1.0, Windows would crash on Dr. DOS and not on M$ DOS. People stopped using Dr. DOS. It is suspected that Microsoft wrote code into Windows to crash on Dr. DOS.
Then comes Netscape with their Navigator. I was a boy at the time and I was wondering which was better, Navigator or Explorer. My dad insisted on Navigator, which I didn't mind. Eventually, Navigator crashed when I used it and so I switched to Explorer and found it not so crashy. I hear the same thing with SAMBA and other such projects. Microsoft is also suspected of having secret interfaces in their Windows operating system so that Office runs better than other products.
Microsoft may be trying hard to hide this information. If they are forced to document their protocols, it may become obvious that the eccentricies found in the protocols, and maybe interfaces, are anti-competitive. Everyone will sue Microsoft, and there maybe supeneas (sp?) for experts to review Windows code for evidence. This could get very nasty for Microsoft as they will be forced to pay out to oblivion.
I knew it! Of course, we all did. I knew Google was going to get into computer sales sooner or later. I wonder when they're coming out with their Linux distro... you know it's coming.
My father has chronic pain from a botched bypass surgery. His sternum is perminately half broken. It would help my father out greatly if this could offer a solution to somehow fix his sternum.
Andrew Carnegie gave way more than that. Keep in mind inflation. Andrew gave a way a larger percentage of his money and tha was more than this amount. He did a lot of small donations, however, not a big one.
The coffee place is actually in extreme legal danger. That guy may have been downloading child pr0n or something illegal. When this happens, they trace it to the coffee shop, and not him. This is usually because they probably use NAT. I'd say that they have a claim to have a right to expect to see all monitors using their service, and I say I have a claim that they're stupid because of the legal risk.
I've heard stories about some guy stealing some free Internet access via WiFi. There was a guy one time who would always scan for hosts on the network just to make sure they wouldn't notice a slowdown so he could enjoy the free Internet. I helped a guy configure his Apache installation so that he could host all his MP3s and other music... which is illegal.
By the way, run this in bash on a directory with lot's of downloadable files:
echo "<html><head><title>Free Illegal Music</title></head><body><h1>Download from this list of links</h1>" > index.html && find . -P -maxdepth 0 -name '*' -exec echo "<p><a href=\"{}\">{}</a></p>" >> index.html && echo "</body></html>" >> index.html
Anyways, back to my point. This guy was hosting music illegally and he was at minimal risk. It would be the sucker next door to him who was at risk, and worst, wouldn't even know it. Though, there is the handy defense, "Well, I have an open access point, it wasn't me, it could have been anyone!" and they'd have to let him go for the benefit of the doubt... you are innocent until proven guilty. Still, one could get arrested.
This place offers free WiFi to attract costomers, which is OK. If they encrypt, then they might push away some costomers, and they'll be more likely to get into trouble if someone does something illegal, since they have more control. So it's kind of a lose-lose situation here. Oh well, life sucks, whacha' ganna' do?
Actually, that's very statistacally adaquate, given that it's a random sample. The sample of the Microsoft company isn't randomly selected, and it wouldn't matter if that's a million people. It's a bad sample, but not because of it's size.
What one may find surprising is that it takes maybe only 100 people depending on other issues to make a determination. In fact, as few as only a handful of people can be a good sized sample given random selection, in a few cases.
It has to do with standard deviation more than sample size. If one has a sample where 99% of the sample was one way, a sample size of 100 is pretty much all one needs. There's also the fact that sometimes, one doesn't need to find a fact, rather, to contest one. If one takes 20 random people who are at a certain value of a certain attribute, then a claim that people in general are near a certain height with a certain deviation, then one can conclude that's a phoney lie, or that there's evidence supporting it. Statistics is a rather magical mathematical feild. It pays to know it.
The.aspx extensions on their pages showed me that they were running.NET, most likely on a Windows server (mono is a Linux port). I reported them to M$-UK so that they do an investigation. Those bastards had better not be disrespecting copy-right law. Bill Gates needs to keep shoes on his little children.
The key as to whether such ones like Ballmer have such a personality disorder lies in their past. At this age, it would be known if they are psychopaths, or sociopaths, or have the personality disorder. A key criminal profile would be a record all over the place. People with Antisocial Personality Disorder tend to have criminal records all over the place. They are muggers, theives, rapists, fighters, con artists... One person can easily be all of them, and this is a profile of a person with this disorder.
I automatically suspect all CEOs of having Antisocial Personality Disorder on reflex. The traits are too similar. I don't mean to imply that all CEOs have this disorder, or that all CEOs are criminals, but I won't trust one until I get to know him or her.
Not all CEOs have this disorder, but the job of CEO requires aggressivenes and hard driving. What looks like good leadership is really just a common sign, pushing people constantly.
It's likely that Ballmer never really earned his way to the top. Instead he cheated people. He took credit for other people, he backstabbed, he lied. There are probably a wake of torn, short-term relationshipos. Psychopaths are clever and know how to charm. A guy like Ballmer would easily make his way to the top.
While I really don't have the information to really be sure, I do have reason to suspect he's a psychopath, and I do think he is. Since he's a psychopath, he's not fit for society. He should step down from his chair. He should be perminately locked up so no one else will get hurt by him.
You're right, but in the real world things are a tad different. I used to work for a college and I would always be sent to some computer because it was bogged to death of spyware. I was sent to administrator machines... and security machines. I've done research on the spyware they were infected with and some where key loggers. These machines were used to access sensitive and private information. That said, everybody's information is teh pwnd. Just be glad there's so many so that you know your data is drowned out... you know, safety in numbers.
This has been done before. A long time a go, when I was merely a tike, I heard on the news that this dude got busted when he stole a car and used the cell phone. They just tracked the towers he connected to. Stupid if you ask me. Then agian, how was he supposed to know.
As you know, this comment is text only, and with text communication, it just might sound more nastier than I intend. I mean this with a friendly voice only. It's still in Beta, they could easily add features.
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Did they really say that Beta software has bugs? That's like saying Alpha software isn't released. Life sure throws curveballs sometimes.
I was thinking similarily. However, I thought of Parkinson's Disease and it's sister disease (I can't remember the name... oh shit!). These both are degenerative nervous diseases. They may not be cured, but rendered a nusience, and nothing more. These particular diseases torment the loved ones of these people as they watch him or her become more and more lost. Who was there is there no more. Putting a stop to the advancement would save a lot of heart ache.
Ok, this is really bad. "Google, that terrorist organization, threatens the American way of life because they threaten the very fabric of our economy, taking away the food from our sickly childrens' mouths." -- a really poor misquote. Please don't mod me down troll or flamebait. **trembles**
I love video games, but I feel that the video game industry has always been in jeopardy. It's just the nature of the business. When video games first came out, nobody cared, and nobody would buy. Atari struggled to make a system that would sell. They're systems were good at the time, and realistically, the evolution of Atari consoles has matched, shockingly close, to what we see today.
The consoles grew in speed and in power, and often, they were backwards compatible with older games. Later, during the 16-Bit wars, Atari came out with the Jaguar sporting a sexy 64-Bit path. At the same time the 3DO was developed which was a 32-Bit system. Both failed because the memory required was just too much at the time. Today, such systems would be cheaper. The games for these systems were actually a lot of fun.
32-Bit machines consistently failed in the console world. The Sega 32X, which was an add-on to the Sega Genesis, was a flop. The Virtual Boy (which sounds kind of homoerotic) was a flop. These systems went the same path the Atari systems went. They struggled, and they flopped.
Sega, sadly, continued the same path that Atari went. Their Sega Saturn, a 64-Bit machine, flopped, and so did the Dream Cast. The Dream Cast was particularily advanced considering all the innovations. In fact, GoldStar 3DO was riddled with neat innovations (it was nightmarishly expensive, like the new systems of today) and it too flopped, like all 3DOs.
The video game industry has always seen a horrible market. Systems might succeed. Every new generation, the companies jam more innovations and improve the overall experience, but people have proven to be so fickle. Expensive games won't succeed, yet, games with poor graphics won't succeed. A game with excellent graphics and at a low price won't succeed if the game play is just sorry. The margin, it seems, is very low. This is nothing new, it's always been this way. Maybe it will change, but failure plagues the console market.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ I wonder how Con's patch would do in these tests. There are two patches, one for servers, and one for desktops. They make the box uber faster for its purpose, but it sucks ass for the oposite. Get the patch for the server, and the server is snappy. The patch isn't perfect, however. I use it for my desky. It's swift.
Microsoft has been suspected of using illegal practices a long time ago. In the early days of Windows 1.0, Windows would crash on Dr. DOS and not on M$ DOS. People stopped using Dr. DOS. It is suspected that Microsoft wrote code into Windows to crash on Dr. DOS.
Then comes Netscape with their Navigator. I was a boy at the time and I was wondering which was better, Navigator or Explorer. My dad insisted on Navigator, which I didn't mind. Eventually, Navigator crashed when I used it and so I switched to Explorer and found it not so crashy. I hear the same thing with SAMBA and other such projects. Microsoft is also suspected of having secret interfaces in their Windows operating system so that Office runs better than other products.
Microsoft may be trying hard to hide this information. If they are forced to document their protocols, it may become obvious that the eccentricies found in the protocols, and maybe interfaces, are anti-competitive. Everyone will sue Microsoft, and there maybe supeneas (sp?) for experts to review Windows code for evidence. This could get very nasty for Microsoft as they will be forced to pay out to oblivion.
I knew it! Of course, we all did. I knew Google was going to get into computer sales sooner or later. I wonder when they're coming out with their Linux distro... you know it's coming.
My father has chronic pain from a botched bypass surgery. His sternum is perminately half broken. It would help my father out greatly if this could offer a solution to somehow fix his sternum.
Andrew Carnegie gave way more than that. Keep in mind inflation. Andrew gave a way a larger percentage of his money and tha was more than this amount. He did a lot of small donations, however, not a big one.
Funny you should say...
I've heard stories about some guy stealing some free Internet access via WiFi. There was a guy one time who would always scan for hosts on the network just to make sure they wouldn't notice a slowdown so he could enjoy the free Internet. I helped a guy configure his Apache installation so that he could host all his MP3s and other music... which is illegal.
By the way, run this in bash on a directory with lot's of downloadable files:
Anyways, back to my point. This guy was hosting music illegally and he was at minimal risk. It would be the sucker next door to him who was at risk, and worst, wouldn't even know it. Though, there is the handy defense, "Well, I have an open access point, it wasn't me, it could have been anyone!" and they'd have to let him go for the benefit of the doubt... you are innocent until proven guilty. Still, one could get arrested.
This place offers free WiFi to attract costomers, which is OK. If they encrypt, then they might push away some costomers, and they'll be more likely to get into trouble if someone does something illegal, since they have more control. So it's kind of a lose-lose situation here. Oh well, life sucks, whacha' ganna' do?
What one may find surprising is that it takes maybe only 100 people depending on other issues to make a determination. In fact, as few as only a handful of people can be a good sized sample given random selection, in a few cases.
It has to do with standard deviation more than sample size. If one has a sample where 99% of the sample was one way, a sample size of 100 is pretty much all one needs. There's also the fact that sometimes, one doesn't need to find a fact, rather, to contest one. If one takes 20 random people who are at a certain value of a certain attribute, then a claim that people in general are near a certain height with a certain deviation, then one can conclude that's a phoney lie, or that there's evidence supporting it. Statistics is a rather magical mathematical feild. It pays to know it.
Maybe the reason why the X-Box 360 gets too hot is because Microsoft didn't design it themselves, rather, they outsourced the development to India.
The .aspx extensions on their pages showed me that they were running .NET, most likely on a Windows server (mono is a Linux port). I reported them to M$-UK so that they do an investigation. Those bastards had better not be disrespecting copy-right law. Bill Gates needs to keep shoes on his little children.
Ozzie, "I can't seem to... Sharon!!!!"
http://www.baumpub.com/publications/arc/rpn_05oct/ paul.jpg -- more obtainable (I think)
I automatically suspect all CEOs of having Antisocial Personality Disorder on reflex. The traits are too similar. I don't mean to imply that all CEOs have this disorder, or that all CEOs are criminals, but I won't trust one until I get to know him or her.
That's not a requirement, but a recomendation.
Not all CEOs have this disorder, but the job of CEO requires aggressivenes and hard driving. What looks like good leadership is really just a common sign, pushing people constantly.
It's likely that Ballmer never really earned his way to the top. Instead he cheated people. He took credit for other people, he backstabbed, he lied. There are probably a wake of torn, short-term relationshipos. Psychopaths are clever and know how to charm. A guy like Ballmer would easily make his way to the top.
While I really don't have the information to really be sure, I do have reason to suspect he's a psychopath, and I do think he is. Since he's a psychopath, he's not fit for society. He should step down from his chair. He should be perminately locked up so no one else will get hurt by him.
You're right, but in the real world things are a tad different. I used to work for a college and I would always be sent to some computer because it was bogged to death of spyware. I was sent to administrator machines... and security machines. I've done research on the spyware they were infected with and some where key loggers. These machines were used to access sensitive and private information. That said, everybody's information is teh pwnd. Just be glad there's so many so that you know your data is drowned out... you know, safety in numbers.
Yeah, Microsoft is calling a truce... I soooo fucking believe that.
Also, a similar story on bash.org: http://bash.org/?3223
As you know, this comment is text only, and with text communication, it just might sound more nastier than I intend. I mean this with a friendly voice only. It's still in Beta, they could easily add features.