>Be a shining proof that communism works!
If you genuinely think not shitting on your fellow man = communism then I really don't know what to tell you.
>Maybe we should fix that problem. I'd far rather live in a cooperative world.
Totally agree. I find the modern dog eat dog world quite depressing. It's not big and it's not clever. It's selfish and ultimately self detructive. Trouble is, those that are like this tend to be in charge so it's not changing any time soon.
Really? Why? Whatever. Anyway, I thought it was standard practice to wipe and reimage any pc if it changes owners in a company. Anything else is frankly bizarre.
>Actually, it is 1 Atari game for free (Missile Command)
Nope. Download the game and all further downloads are free for 24 hours. The web page hasn't been updated.
>I don't know how the Atari 800 compared to the Commodore 64,
Swings and roundabouts. Atari had better colour and probably scrolling and a far batter OS (loadable device drivers, drivers that auto loaded from peripheral's ROMs (in 1979!) and things like display list interrupts and display lists - it was an Amiga lite in effect. The C64 had better sprites and some nifty colour modes making for some better looking arcade games. But then it came out 4 years later so ought to have bee much better.
>The Atari 800 computer had 128 colors for better still images (great for nude girls), but only 2 sprites,
The 800 had 128 colours until GTIA came out (1980?) and 256 thereafter. It had 4 sprites plus 4 missiles and the missiles could be combined into a 5th sprite.
Vinyl had limits. It also had very serious consequences when the limits were exceeded such as tracks hitting each other on the discs and needles skating across the surface of the disk.
There was something very wrong with your turntable's set up. I've used vinyl (still do) for 35 years and the only time I ever had anything like that it was a badly set up turntable (I trusted the shop to set it up for me. After a couple of weeks of creeping around the room to avoid jumps, I set it up myself and it was 100% fine after that)
pdp11's, vax, sun, apollo, and any number of microprocessor based business systems abounded. the PC wasn't so certain in 85. I was able to avoid the wretched things till 88 or so.
Yep. In the home, almost no one had a PC. It was Amiga/ST/C64/Atari 800/Spectrum and the odd Apple II. Business wise, I saw the odd PC but they never really took off until Win 3.x in the big way we now remember.
I can see how you could say something was 2,500 x bigger, lighter or some other measurable aspect but how can a model be 2,500 more accurate? How exactly that defined? Almost as bad as something I saw the other day that claimed something or other was 10x more digital. WTF?
Mobile corporate messaging par excellence. It's what made your name and it was world class. Since then you've just faffed about with every bandwagon going and totally missed your USP.
Where is the complexity of processing transactions? it's one addition per transaction,
OK. Here we go. The SWIFT message arrives. The bank initiates the payment. The SWIFT message is parsed - it's a complex and flexible layout. The sender may have made mistakes. It might need an auto repair, it might need a manual repair. Now we know what it is. Next, check it against the many, many regulatory issues. Does it look like fraud? Does it look like terrorist funding? Does it match the account's usual patterns? Are there country sanctions in place? Now check the balance. Is there enough? If not, get it authorised or not via automated systems. If not, manual check. If not, stop the payment. Now process the payment via the countries clearing system. And that's off the top of my head. You might need to trigger additional payment events, such as confirm to the sender via SWIFT it is OK, process and match cover payments etc etc.
For reasons I can't really explain, I got it into my head to try peanut butter and Marmite in a sandwhich. It's the only food combo I have ever eaten where the 2 flavours stay completely seperate, even as you chew. It's the oddest sensation eating it. Everything else becomes a blend when you mix it up but not these two. Very, very strange and well worth a try for the experience.
In the UK, several banks spent millions building hugely fast data centres to allow high speed trading. Then one enterprising firm rented some rooms in the same building as the London Stock Exchange and essentially dropped a cable down through the ceiling from their servers to the Exchange servers. Made quite a bit of difference...
How do Tor, VPNs, etc help? I always thought they protected you at the other end i.e. a website couldn't tell who had accessed it. Surely the details of the web page as it goes from the ISP down the phone line to your router is goint to be pretty much wide open and that's the point where it's being monitored. I can see encryption making a difference at some level but surely there's still some detail about what's coming in? Unencrypted headers or something? happy to be pointed to a 'Internet Security 101' guide but I've looked and not really found much.
It's a fair point but I got the site details from Dave Windera, an award winning UK journalist who specialises in online security so I'd say it's pretty trustworthy. He knows his stuff, deeply. It's a pity it's now been modded down as it IS a useful resource. FWIW, it confirmed my password was in the wild. Bugger.
In the UK it's illegal to use a phone whilst driving. Doesn't seem to stop people happily jabber on the phone whilst swerving their monster 4WD through traffic though.
Slashdot Mirror
Mod this one up, they're absolutely spot on.
>Be a shining proof that communism works!
If you genuinely think not shitting on your fellow man = communism then I really don't know what to tell you.
>Maybe we should fix that problem. I'd far rather live in a cooperative world.
Totally agree. I find the modern dog eat dog world quite depressing. It's not big and it's not clever. It's selfish and ultimately self detructive. Trouble is, those that are like this tend to be in charge so it's not changing any time soon.
There's quite a few names that look suspect. I can't believe there's someone called Kitcatt for starters.
I work in the IT wing of a bank. My pay is around 50k and if I die my wife gets 350k plus gets half my pension for the rest of her life.
Really? Why? Whatever. Anyway, I thought it was standard practice to wipe and reimage any pc if it changes owners in a company. Anything else is frankly bizarre.
It might just have been a flaky router corrupting some of the data going through it?
>Actually, it is 1 Atari game for free (Missile Command)
Nope. Download the game and all further downloads are free for 24 hours. The web page hasn't been updated.
>I don't know how the Atari 800 compared to the Commodore 64,
Swings and roundabouts. Atari had better colour and probably scrolling and a far batter OS (loadable device drivers, drivers that auto loaded from peripheral's ROMs (in 1979!) and things like display list interrupts and display lists - it was an Amiga lite in effect. The C64 had better sprites and some nifty colour modes making for some better looking arcade games. But then it came out 4 years later so ought to have bee much better.
>The Atari 800 computer had 128 colors for better still images (great for nude girls), but only 2 sprites,
The 800 had 128 colours until GTIA came out (1980?) and 256 thereafter. It had 4 sprites plus 4 missiles and the missiles could be combined into a 5th sprite.
There was something very wrong with your turntable's set up. I've used vinyl (still do) for 35 years and the only time I ever had anything like that it was a badly set up turntable (I trusted the shop to set it up for me. After a couple of weeks of creeping around the room to avoid jumps, I set it up myself and it was 100% fine after that)
Yep. In the home, almost no one had a PC. It was Amiga/ST/C64/Atari 800/Spectrum and the odd Apple II. Business wise, I saw the odd PC but they never really took off until Win 3.x in the big way we now remember.
Fairly. It was first coined, as far as is known in 1974.
I can see how you could say something was 2,500 x bigger, lighter or some other measurable aspect but how can a model be 2,500 more accurate? How exactly that defined? Almost as bad as something I saw the other day that claimed something or other was 10x more digital. WTF?
Mobile corporate messaging par excellence. It's what made your name and it was world class. Since then you've just faffed about with every bandwagon going and totally missed your USP.
>If it's only around the vehicle it's not 'true' 3D.
I think they mean 3D as in the car can go up a hill and the change in altitude is also recorded.
OK. Here we go. The SWIFT message arrives. The bank initiates the payment. The SWIFT message is parsed - it's a complex and flexible layout. The sender may have made mistakes. It might need an auto repair, it might need a manual repair. Now we know what it is. Next, check it against the many, many regulatory issues. Does it look like fraud? Does it look like terrorist funding? Does it match the account's usual patterns? Are there country sanctions in place? Now check the balance. Is there enough? If not, get it authorised or not via automated systems. If not, manual check. If not, stop the payment. Now process the payment via the countries clearing system. And that's off the top of my head. You might need to trigger additional payment events, such as confirm to the sender via SWIFT it is OK, process and match cover payments etc etc.
For reasons I can't really explain, I got it into my head to try peanut butter and Marmite in a sandwhich. It's the only food combo I have ever eaten where the 2 flavours stay completely seperate, even as you chew. It's the oddest sensation eating it. Everything else becomes a blend when you mix it up but not these two. Very, very strange and well worth a try for the experience.
That's Slashdot when there's a Linux or Apple story.
In the UK, several banks spent millions building hugely fast data centres to allow high speed trading. Then one enterprising firm rented some rooms in the same building as the London Stock Exchange and essentially dropped a cable down through the ceiling from their servers to the Exchange servers. Made quite a bit of difference...
How do Tor, VPNs, etc help? I always thought they protected you at the other end i.e. a website couldn't tell who had accessed it. Surely the details of the web page as it goes from the ISP down the phone line to your router is goint to be pretty much wide open and that's the point where it's being monitored. I can see encryption making a difference at some level but surely there's still some detail about what's coming in? Unencrypted headers or something? happy to be pointed to a 'Internet Security 101' guide but I've looked and not really found much.
Jesus wept. Some people here really don't get humour do they? It was a joke - ya know, on the use of the word 'roll'.
It's a fair point but I got the site details from Dave Windera, an award winning UK journalist who specialises in online security so I'd say it's pretty trustworthy. He knows his stuff, deeply. It's a pity it's now been modded down as it IS a useful resource. FWIW, it confirmed my password was in the wild. Bugger.
www.leakedin.org/
In the UK it's illegal to use a phone whilst driving. Doesn't seem to stop people happily jabber on the phone whilst swerving their monster 4WD through traffic though.