It only works as long as everyone has 'unlimited bandwidth'
Or as long as people accept uploading as the cost of the content. Torrents work because people are willing to seed to maintain a good ratio, even on public trackers, and that includes people on connections with caps.
Yep, that pretty much sums it up. It's pretty rare to do interop with anything other than the Windows libraries though, unless you've got some legacy code in place.
But the enemy AI in today's WW2 games generally don't have second thoughts about national socialism and the morality of man killing man, stare longingly at the photo of Helga back home, and go deserter the day before the mission starts; they stand there and try to kill you.
That sounds like an idea for a really good game...
Me: But he's going to slow in the left lane? I can't pass him on the right, that's a dangerous procedure isn't it? Officer: You can pass him on the right no problem.
This made absolutely no sense to me until I realised that the poster neglected to mention that wherever they live (probably US), people drive on the right. And right after this discussion too.
Actually, no. Transparent aluminium is different, but given the amount of power it would take to maintain it in that state, hiring a dedicated team of ninjas to kill anyone using a wireless device would be cheaper.
The cable isn't such an issue since you'll have to carry it around anyway. As for the drivers, they're required by the USB spec - apparently the device needs to identify itself before it can receive more power (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Power). I've always wondered why they don't just use some generic USB Power device driver, or if it exists why they don't use it...
Fill one with computers with your favorite Linux installed
That might be one of the problems with Slashdotters recommending Linux. Our favourite Linux distros are going to be very different to the distro best suited for someone new to Linux. Give someone Gentoo and they'll always think of Linux as difficult to configure, when they should have been using Ubuntu or Linux Mint instead.
That's actually sort of like a program I wrote a few months ago to perform Euler's method for approximating solutions to differential equations. It was significantly faster than typing each expression into the calculator, so I gave it to a significant no. of my classmates. However, the DE we got in a SAC (it's like a minor exam) was more complicated then the ones I tested it with, and because the calculators we're in exact mode, it kept subbing in the old value as a fraction/exponential mix into the expression, which resulted in some really big expressions. It got to the third stage and froze, and most guys didn't know how to get out of the program. I was able to patch it during the SAC, but needless to say, there were a lot of people unhappy about having their calculators freeze in the middle of an exam.
That sounds like my Yr 12 exams (I live in Victoria, Australia). Each math exam has a tech-able and tech free-component, and we can use notes and whatever calc programs we want on the tech-able portion.
There are already some viruses, but only a handful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virus It seems that the only thing keeping them down is the lack of a standardized phone OS. I guess WinCE isn't popular enough to be targeted yet, and the iPhone is so locked down even the users can't install their own programs without jailbreaking. I think viruses designed specifically for netbooks are more likely to catch on, since they have similar wireless connectivity to mobiles but the majority of them currently run WinXP.
AV shouldn't be nessecary... If old bugs are patched properly
AV shouldn't be necessary, but then malware shouldn't exist. Similarly, most users don't bother to install the latest updates. We have to work with what we have, not with some hypothetical world where these problems don't exist. While I agree that MS has a bad history, that doesn't solve the problem at hand. Bugs will appear in any OS, and while there will be fewer in some than in others, any OS that gains sufficient popularity will be targeted. (e.g.)
in nearly all cases the AV software doens't work when confronted with something new, only old.
Heuristics are getting more effective. And most people are fine as long as they keep their AV updated, which is usually done automatically.
What it comes down to is that it's impossible to make a platform secure without locking it down, and even then malware for it will exist (see the iPhone example I gave earlier).
A mobile OS isnt like Windows where you have or should have an anti virus running.
Are you so sure about that? As phones, etc. get more powerful, we're going to be able to do a lot more with them, and more viruses are going to turn up. It may be just as necessary in the future to run AV on your phone as on your desktop.
NowTorrents is good for finding torrents, since it's an aggregator. As for trackers, OBT seems promising, especially since it's effective a reincarnation of TPB, just redesigned to limit their liability.
*never* upgrade an OS! Always start from a clean disk!
There, fixed that for you. To be fair, upgrading an OS rarely goes well in any OS, Linux included. I tried once to upgrade an Ubuntu install, and it completely messed everything up (and insisted on downloading everything from the repos as well, using up a chunk of my quota). After that I had to do a clean install anyway, and that worked perfectly.
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It only works as long as everyone has 'unlimited bandwidth'
Or as long as people accept uploading as the cost of the content. Torrents work because people are willing to seed to maintain a good ratio, even on public trackers, and that includes people on connections with caps.
Dispute with your lawyer over unpaid fees? Hire a ... oh, wait...
Yep, that pretty much sums it up. It's pretty rare to do interop with anything other than the Windows libraries though, unless you've got some legacy code in place.
Why the hell is this modded funny? The same argument applies - if the public paid for it to be developed, it should be in the public domain.
I refer you to the case of Arkell v. Pressdram.
But the enemy AI in today's WW2 games generally don't have second thoughts about national socialism and the morality of man killing man, stare longingly at the photo of Helga back home, and go deserter the day before the mission starts; they stand there and try to kill you.
That sounds like an idea for a really good game...
Me: But he's going to slow in the left lane? I can't pass him on the right, that's a dangerous procedure isn't it?
Officer: You can pass him on the right no problem.
This made absolutely no sense to me until I realised that the poster neglected to mention that wherever they live (probably US), people drive on the right. And right after this discussion too.
Actually, no. Transparent aluminium is different, but given the amount of power it would take to maintain it in that state, hiring a dedicated team of ninjas to kill anyone using a wireless device would be cheaper.
I can't believe you omitted the classic egg drop.
The cable isn't such an issue since you'll have to carry it around anyway. As for the drivers, they're required by the USB spec - apparently the device needs to identify itself before it can receive more power (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Power). I've always wondered why they don't just use some generic USB Power device driver, or if it exists why they don't use it...
Congratulations. You just ported sudo to a social system.
Fill one with computers with your favorite Linux installed
That might be one of the problems with Slashdotters recommending Linux. Our favourite Linux distros are going to be very different to the distro best suited for someone new to Linux. Give someone Gentoo and they'll always think of Linux as difficult to configure, when they should have been using Ubuntu or Linux Mint instead.
Given that he was able to hack in, do you really think they're running Linux?
That's actually sort of like a program I wrote a few months ago to perform Euler's method for approximating solutions to differential equations. It was significantly faster than typing each expression into the calculator, so I gave it to a significant no. of my classmates. However, the DE we got in a SAC (it's like a minor exam) was more complicated then the ones I tested it with, and because the calculators we're in exact mode, it kept subbing in the old value as a fraction/exponential mix into the expression, which resulted in some really big expressions. It got to the third stage and froze, and most guys didn't know how to get out of the program.
I was able to patch it during the SAC, but needless to say, there were a lot of people unhappy about having their calculators freeze in the middle of an exam.
That sounds like my Yr 12 exams (I live in Victoria, Australia). Each math exam has a tech-able and tech free-component, and we can use notes and whatever calc programs we want on the tech-able portion.
There are already some viruses, but only a handful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virus
It seems that the only thing keeping them down is the lack of a standardized phone OS. I guess WinCE isn't popular enough to be targeted yet, and the iPhone is so locked down even the users can't install their own programs without jailbreaking.
I think viruses designed specifically for netbooks are more likely to catch on, since they have similar wireless connectivity to mobiles but the majority of them currently run WinXP.
AV shouldn't be nessecary ... If old bugs are patched properly
AV shouldn't be necessary, but then malware shouldn't exist. Similarly, most users don't bother to install the latest updates. We have to work with what we have, not with some hypothetical world where these problems don't exist.
While I agree that MS has a bad history, that doesn't solve the problem at hand. Bugs will appear in any OS, and while there will be fewer in some than in others, any OS that gains sufficient popularity will be targeted. (e.g.)
in nearly all cases the AV software doens't work when confronted with something new, only old.
Heuristics are getting more effective. And most people are fine as long as they keep their AV updated, which is usually done automatically.
What it comes down to is that it's impossible to make a platform secure without locking it down, and even then malware for it will exist (see the iPhone example I gave earlier).
A mobile OS isnt like Windows where you have or should have an anti virus running.
Are you so sure about that? As phones, etc. get more powerful, we're going to be able to do a lot more with them, and more viruses are going to turn up. It may be just as necessary in the future to run AV on your phone as on your desktop.
When you're done with it, mind donating it to the Pirate Bay (not the company, the people behind it)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pirate_bay#Purchases
NowTorrents is good for finding torrents, since it's an aggregator.
As for trackers, OBT seems promising, especially since it's effective a reincarnation of TPB, just redesigned to limit their liability.
Australia officially has no idea how they do their numbers
I'm not sure about it being official, but everyone here uses 1 billion = 10^9
pretty much EVERY other industry in the world would like their products advertised for free
In fact, some of them want it so much that they actually pay them to do it...
You've got it all wrong - the 'pedometers' tell your kids how close the pedos are and in what direction.
Looks like it: http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3gs/tethering.html
*never* upgrade an OS! Always start from a clean disk!
There, fixed that for you.
To be fair, upgrading an OS rarely goes well in any OS, Linux included. I tried once to upgrade an Ubuntu install, and it completely messed everything up (and insisted on downloading everything from the repos as well, using up a chunk of my quota). After that I had to do a clean install anyway, and that worked perfectly.