Yes but it would make me feel important. God how I loved room fulls of racks with lights and tapes and switches. I could stroll through my domain and feel like a king.
Now I have a tiny cube with a PC connected by ethernet to a tiny server no bigger than a chopping cart. AND we still don't get any more done than we did back in the day.
He has a point.
An excercise: Make a graph of average computer size versus average computer nerd's salary. Notice that they both spiral ever-downwards? Maybe the problem is that, as computers get small, the Boss thinks they're simple and won't pay people as much to fix them. Maybe if computers got really huge again, we could scare our employers with some crazy Scotty-talk and demand more money for maintaining the beasts.
There's ways around that, too. Like modify the program's system call so it no longer reads from the driver, but maybe from a file on your disk:).
As with any software, if it runs on your local machine and doesn't use some fancy crypto (and usually even if it does use fancy crypto), it can be defeated.
Or didn't you ever watch Mallrats? Silent Bob, erm, figured out the Jedi Mind Trick (at least manipulating objects). I'm sure that, since it's been a few years since Mallrats, he has figured out the Jedi Move Along trick...
It's kind of like saying, "So wait, your Diablo 2 characters will disappear at the end of the beta? Why would anyone play it?" Well okay, the analogy isn't quite the same:).
For starters you could export your keys and go use an older version of PGP (or you could use GPG, assuming you just used crypto supported by GPG) to decrypt whatever encrypted documents you made with the beta. At least that should work. I think they should choose new phrasing in their warning.
Anyway, they are probably planning to release a full version by then. So if you have your little smart cards and want to go on using them, you could just upgrade.
The current version is equipped with AGP graphics that will even sway 3D-game fans.
and later...
Not for suitable for 3D games: The built-in SIS graphics
The following benchmarks show that the Micro PC doesn't do well running 3D games. But that's not too surprising, since this PC was not designed as a gaming machine.
Removing regulation for the types of thing listed on Fritz' hit list would be a start. How to word that, though? "Devices for personal playback of digitally encoded data and/or video" might be a good phrase:). I don't expect them to be so liberal, though.
But you could just run the scanner sideways (that's what I always did) to make longer "strips" of the pages. Then just fire up your favorite picture editor and do a simple rotate operation.
Still, I'd suggest a decent digital camera. I use mine for books on occassion and it has always worked just peachy. I never tried OCR with the pictures but it might even work...
I blame the Anti-Virus industry at least partially for this. Members of the AV community are so tight-lipped about viruses that they end up being almost mystical. AV people seem to believe that any real information about a virus or worm will foster further virus and/or worm writing. So they don't give out any real information (like "Using Outlook will inevitably cause you to get infected. Switch to something else"). They even seem to have helped the trend of calling any malware a "virus" because of this.
Maybe they just want to keep themselves in business. If everybody fled from Outlook, there would not be as strong a need for virus checking software, now would there?:).
A large amount of our water problems have to do with burning fossil fuels with heavy metals. Why? Plants have always been pretty at good at absorbing nasty stuff like arsenic, mercury, etc. We burn the coal/oil/whatever, and that stuff goes into the atmosphere, gets absorbed by clouds, and then gets into the water cycle. Then we find this stuff in the our water and fish.
It gets in the fish because algae and water lilys also absorb the metals pretty well. Then fish eat the algae...Note that if you live in the Northeast US (like I used to), you can't eat freshwater fish anymore. All the lakes (with a few exceptions) are polluted with mercury, even the ones far far away from industrial factories.
So modifying plants to absorb more heavy metals is just going to cause problems for 1) future generations (granted it takes a helluva long time for plants to die and make coal, but still...), and 2) current people who hunt for food (like when Mr. Deer comes over and nibbles on that arsenic-laden blueberry bush).
Since when is taking toxic material out of the ground and letting it sit on the surface (where rain washes it into rivers, animals eat it...people eat it) a good idea? Maybe it will keep it out of aquafers in the short term, but it is still going to cause more problems than it's worth.
Forgive me if I'm stupid, but doesn't an EULA say what you can and can't do with respect to the product that the EULA covers? Reverse engineering and stuff like that are, grudgingly, acceptable terms of an EULA, but saying you can't do something that is not directly related to the software program covered by the EULA seems a tad on the side of illegality.
I have a feeling that if anyone challenged the agreement, the law would force it to change. Granted you have to accept the EULA in order to use the software...but if I made a EULA that said you were no longer allowed to own a firearm if you used my product, it would be tossed to the wind in a second. In a sense, Bitmover's EULA infringes on my right to compete, yes/no? If Bitmover doesn't want people to use an idea they have, they should file a patent for that idea, or otherwise rely on copyright/trademark law to prevent people from "stealing."
Actually the Supreme Court's jobs are really two: 1) interpret current laws wrt some current case, and 2) decide whether a current law is constitutional. If the law is not constitutional, it is revoked by the Supreme Court. So if the Supreme Court sees the DMCA as unconstitutional, they can make it no longer exist, essentially. This *is* the system of checks of balances. This prevents Congress from being retarded and passing a law that, for example, infringes on Freedom of Speech (say, like the DMCA is a good example...)
You might want to take a better a look at the way the Judicial branch interacts with the legislative....
Private Company A pays FIPS Certifier a flate rate to have A's product evaluated. If approved, it gets certified. If denied, Company A has to change things and pay to have re-evaluated. This makes the FIPS Certifier want to fail more people, as they then have to pay to have the product evaluated again and again until they get it right. Not too hard, so why does it not work that way? Am I missing something?
Have your company buy a key, then create signed keys for your domain private domain with it as the issuing key. Nobody will know, as most people still use IE, and it still has that fun bug.
I also thought that an (hopefully non-profit) organiztion should start patenting things like this, under an "open source" patent. That is, your code can use it for free, but only if you release your code. If you choose not to release the code, you have to license the patent from the organization (and this is how the organization makes enough money to patent all the crazy new ideas its members have). All this just to be a prick and stick it to the companies that use their patents as weapons of evil...
The organization could offer someone like, say, Microsoft, a license for $5 billion:). Oh wait, I said non-profit.
I completely understand your question, but for some people one unit makes sense. When I wander around right now, I carry with me: A sharp zaurus handheld, a cell phone, and a digital camera. I like to have all this stuff on me at all times. But, it's kind of a lot to walk around with everywhere. Hence a 3G phone might make sense for me. Though I'm probably in the minority in the US right now...
We think modularity of the source code is one of the important strategic advantages that the Linux Community has and we wanted to move beyond a magnifying glass on the kernel map poster to make it browsable and to let the community add new features.
Gee, thanks for making this. This map obviously allows the community to add new features -- something we were never able to do before!
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Yes but it would make me feel important. God how I loved room fulls of racks with lights and tapes and switches. I could stroll through my domain and feel like a king.
Now I have a tiny cube with a PC connected by ethernet to a tiny server no bigger than a chopping cart. AND we still don't get any more done than we did back in the day.
He has a point.
An excercise: Make a graph of average computer size versus average computer nerd's salary. Notice that they both spiral ever-downwards? Maybe the problem is that, as computers get small, the Boss thinks they're simple and won't pay people as much to fix them. Maybe if computers got really huge again, we could scare our employers with some crazy Scotty-talk and demand more money for maintaining the beasts.
Hey, it could happen...
Did you get that memo? We're putting the new cover sheets on all the TPS reports now.
There's ways around that, too. Like modify the program's system call so it no longer reads from the driver, but maybe from a file on your disk :).
As with any software, if it runs on your local machine and doesn't use some fancy crypto (and usually even if it does use fancy crypto), it can be defeated.
How about a pacemaker?
...with faster networking, does that mean we can make a beowulf cluster of these things?
*rimshot*
Anyone want to make 50 cents a day to program Microsoft software? :)
...So you're saying that China pays its workers pretty fairly, then? :)
Or didn't you ever watch Mallrats? Silent Bob, erm, figured out the Jedi Mind Trick (at least manipulating objects). I'm sure that, since it's been a few years since Mallrats, he has figured out the Jedi Move Along trick...
It's kind of like saying, "So wait, your Diablo 2 characters will disappear at the end of the beta? Why would anyone play it?" Well okay, the analogy isn't quite the same :).
For starters you could export your keys and go use an older version of PGP (or you could use GPG, assuming you just used crypto supported by GPG) to decrypt whatever encrypted documents you made with the beta. At least that should work. I think they should choose new phrasing in their warning.
Anyway, they are probably planning to release a full version by then. So if you have your little smart cards and want to go on using them, you could just upgrade.
Ignore me doing this *snaps fingers*
This is what happens when you drink 3 liters of ale before posting to slashdot. Don't drink and post!
The current version is equipped with AGP graphics that will even sway 3D-game fans.
and later...
Not for suitable for 3D games: The built-in SIS graphics
The following benchmarks show that the Micro PC doesn't do well running 3D games. But that's not too surprising, since this PC was not designed as a gaming machine.
Evidently the editors fell asleep?
Removing regulation for the types of thing listed on Fritz' hit list would be a start. How to word that, though? "Devices for personal playback of digitally encoded data and/or video" might be a good phrase :). I don't expect them to be so liberal, though.
But you could just run the scanner sideways (that's what I always did) to make longer "strips" of the pages. Then just fire up your favorite picture editor and do a simple rotate operation.
Still, I'd suggest a decent digital camera. I use mine for books on occassion and it has always worked just peachy. I never tried OCR with the pictures but it might even work...
I blame the Anti-Virus industry at least partially for this. Members of the AV community are so tight-lipped about viruses that they end up being almost mystical. AV people seem to believe that any real information about a virus or worm will foster further virus and/or worm writing. So they don't give out any real information (like "Using Outlook will inevitably cause you to get infected. Switch to something else"). They even seem to have helped the trend of calling any malware a "virus" because of this.
:).
Maybe they just want to keep themselves in business. If everybody fled from Outlook, there would not be as strong a need for virus checking software, now would there?
A large amount of our water problems have to do with burning fossil fuels with heavy metals. Why? Plants have always been pretty at good at absorbing nasty stuff like arsenic, mercury, etc. We burn the coal/oil/whatever, and that stuff goes into the atmosphere, gets absorbed by clouds, and then gets into the water cycle. Then we find this stuff in the our water and fish.
It gets in the fish because algae and water lilys also absorb the metals pretty well. Then fish eat the algae...Note that if you live in the Northeast US (like I used to), you can't eat freshwater fish anymore. All the lakes (with a few exceptions) are polluted with mercury, even the ones far far away from industrial factories.
So modifying plants to absorb more heavy metals is just going to cause problems for 1) future generations (granted it takes a helluva long time for plants to die and make coal, but still...), and 2) current people who hunt for food (like when Mr. Deer comes over and nibbles on that arsenic-laden blueberry bush).
Since when is taking toxic material out of the ground and letting it sit on the surface (where rain washes it into rivers, animals eat it...people eat it) a good idea? Maybe it will keep it out of aquafers in the short term, but it is still going to cause more problems than it's worth.
Oh, you want the tires that don't explode? They cost extra...
Be on the lookout for the ArrrrrIAA.
Budum *crash*
Forgive me if I'm stupid, but doesn't an EULA say what you can and can't do with respect to the product that the EULA covers? Reverse engineering and stuff like that are, grudgingly, acceptable terms of an EULA, but saying you can't do something that is not directly related to the software program covered by the EULA seems a tad on the side of illegality.
I have a feeling that if anyone challenged the agreement, the law would force it to change. Granted you have to accept the EULA in order to use the software...but if I made a EULA that said you were no longer allowed to own a firearm if you used my product, it would be tossed to the wind in a second. In a sense, Bitmover's EULA infringes on my right to compete, yes/no? If Bitmover doesn't want people to use an idea they have, they should file a patent for that idea, or otherwise rely on copyright/trademark law to prevent people from "stealing."
Actually the Supreme Court's jobs are really two: 1) interpret current laws wrt some current case, and 2) decide whether a current law is constitutional. If the law is not constitutional, it is revoked by the Supreme Court. So if the Supreme Court sees the DMCA as unconstitutional, they can make it no longer exist, essentially. This *is* the system of checks of balances. This prevents Congress from being retarded and passing a law that, for example, infringes on Freedom of Speech (say, like the DMCA is a good example...)
You might want to take a better a look at the way the Judicial branch interacts with the legislative....
Private Company A pays FIPS Certifier a flate rate to have A's product evaluated. If approved, it gets certified. If denied, Company A has to change things and pay to have re-evaluated. This makes the FIPS Certifier want to fail more people, as they then have to pay to have the product evaluated again and again until they get it right. Not too hard, so why does it not work that way? Am I missing something?
Have your company buy a key, then create signed keys for your domain private domain with it as the issuing key. Nobody will know, as most people still use IE, and it still has that fun bug.
I also thought that an (hopefully non-profit) organiztion should start patenting things like this, under an "open source" patent. That is, your code can use it for free, but only if you release your code. If you choose not to release the code, you have to license the patent from the organization (and this is how the organization makes enough money to patent all the crazy new ideas its members have). All this just to be a prick and stick it to the companies that use their patents as weapons of evil...
:). Oh wait, I said non-profit.
The organization could offer someone like, say, Microsoft, a license for $5 billion
I completely understand your question, but for some people one unit makes sense. When I wander around right now, I carry with me: A sharp zaurus handheld, a cell phone, and a digital camera. I like to have all this stuff on me at all times. But, it's kind of a lot to walk around with everywhere. Hence a 3G phone might make sense for me. Though I'm probably in the minority in the US right now...
We think modularity of the source code is one of the important strategic advantages that the Linux Community has and we wanted to move beyond a magnifying glass on the kernel map poster to make it browsable and to let the community add new features.
Gee, thanks for making this. This map obviously allows the community to add new features -- something we were never able to do before!
Zounds.
No - China, unlike Iraq, has already developed nuclear weapons.
:)
No - China, unlike Iraq, does not have any large dead dinosaurs.
Slashdot is News for Nerds. Not News for Nerds who Don't Care About Handheld Devices. There are an awful lot of stories about linux on slashdot too, but I don't hear ya complaining....