Again, I think you're confused. You boot up an Amiga without a disk or hard drive in, and it shows you a disk icon and waits for something to boot from. What you're describing is Workbench (the terminal windows are CLI windows in Amiga-speak) and you need a disk to boot it. You can make a boot disk to boot to a CLI without booting a full Workbench, but you don't boot to a CLI from Kickstart alone. At least, not with Kickstart 2 or 3 machines - I had an A600 and an A1200, and I'm pretty sure Kickstart 1.3 in the A500's was the same.
Kickstart was more of a BIOS-equivalent than an OS. You couldn't do anything with Kickstart by itself, kickstart booted the actual OS (Workbench). Some RiscOS machines OTOH did boot a reasonably advanced GUI OS from ROM, in fact if I'm not mistaken there are some such still in production.
At least the Turkish government is taking responsibility for the censorship. Here in the UK, the Internet Watch Foundation basically has a free hand to censor the internet; the IWF has the blessing of the government, but it's not a government agency, so there's no parliamentary oversight, they're not required to answer to anybody as to what they blacklist, and unless they fuck up spectacularly, nobody actually knows what they're censoring. We just have to hope it's only actually nasty kiddie porn, but as the aforementioned fuck up illustrates, their judgement is open to question. Our government likes it this way because technically the government isn't censoring anything.
It shouldn't have to come to that. It's shocking that this is allowed; it should be in the contract when you sign up to work for a public body like the FCC that you can't then work for any company whose business you were involved in for at least x years.
So, one tardy reply begets another. Did I really have to add "...if you're not a paid penetration tester like the guy in the article I linked"? Thought it was kind of obvious.
I agree, 8 cores maketh not a supercomputer, otherwise an awful lot of us will have been working with supercomputers without even realising it. A low-cost supercomputer node, perhaps.
That's a good question, and one suspects the answer is that they ask security consultants and companies, who have a stake in hyping up these costs, to pull figures out of the air. Googling gives for example this article, quote
"In order to figure out the financial losses businesses incurred during 2009, Symantec asked companies to look at a range of factors which negatively impacted them as a result of cyber crime – such as lost revenue, loss of customer relationships and damage to their firm’s brand. This came out at a mean average of £1.2 million per company. "
Putting a dollar value on "loss of customer relationships", "damage to the firms brand" etc is not even guesswork, it really is just pick-a-number. If the firm wasn't lax in it's security, there shouldn't be any significant damage to the brand. Losses directly due to downtime could be established meaningfully, but overall I think the figures are pretty much as meaningless as the figures the record companies come up with for losses due to piracy.
Yes, in fact this would actually be a good thing if it cuts down on emissions into and out of the house. We have people complaining about emissions from powerline ethernet (been a bit of fuss about that here in the UK recently) interfering with DAB and FM radio reception, and of course we have video senders and baby monitors jamming the 2.4GHz band and making it hard to find a usable wifi channel. Personally I'd be happy to live in a faraday cage.
I don't understand why people get so upset over burning the flag, because it's just a flag. But the fact is they do get upset, as you recognise; "why" doesn't really matter.
And I've never understood why people think it's such a great protest because again, it's just a flag. Because people get upset about it, Q.E.D..
That's a very limited, and to be honest immature, view of it, and neglects the reality of coalition politics. If you want to say that you're against coalition governments of any sort, fine, say so. But if no parties win an election outright, and some of those parties then form a coalition government, the coalition partners are going to have to compromise on some of the policies they started out with, and the smaller the party, the more they're going to have to compromise. They still get some of their policies implemented, as opposed to none if they didn't form a coalition, but a smaller coalition partner is simply not in a position to implement all the policies they may have had in their pre-coalition manifesto; deal with it.
Even cars such as my VW Scirocco GT have similar systems (VW calls it Adaptive Chassis Control), it's not the preserve of supercars anymore. However according to the article, existing systems use hydraulic actuators, this system is apparently electromagnetic only, reacts faster and uses less power. Yes, I know, it's almost cheating to RTFA.
I don't think it's that ballsy, as Amazon definitely has a case, but it's definitely an argument that needs to be had, so props to them for taking it on. As the summary points out, Amazon aren't providing the music, they're providing you with the means to stream your music to yourself. You can already do that in countless ways, and while I'm sure the music industry would like to charge you for a license for each and every one of those means, that doesn't mean they legally can. I don't know the My.MP3 history, but it sounds from the wikipedia link you posted like that was about streaming to everybody, not just to yourself, so doesn't sound directly comparable.
In the UK, warning others of a police speed trap e.g. by flashing your lights is a criminal offence which will get you hauled into court and fined. So I wonder if these apps would even be legal in the UK (I don't have an iOS device, so I don't know if such things are on sale here).
On the other hand, satnavs with speed camera warnings seem to be legal, but in that case you can argue that the aim is to help you keep your speed down in dangerous areas, i.e. to avoid committing the offence in the first place, whereas with dodging DUI checks, the offence has already been committed, you're just trying to avoid being caught.
Worst is when people end up with multiple different ones; I had a guy with Dell laptop recently, he had wireless assistant type utilities from Dell, his ISP, and the wifi chip maker all trying to mess with his connection at the same time, which took ages to connect, and kept disconnecting and doing weird stuff. Uninstalled all of those utilities, fast and reliable connections ensued. Curses on those utilities.
Don't be so boring; it's battles like these that make life interesting. Will the mighty Google be able to gain enough traction for WebM to actually make a fight of this in the first place? Or is the de-facto-standard status of h.264 unassailable? Does the works-everywhere combo of Flash and h.264 now become even more the option of choice for web developers trying to keep their jobs simple, or will they persevere with HTML5 and cope with supporting multiple codecs? Tune in to future episodes to find out. It's like reality TV, except interesting.
The Buy This Satellite site was mentioned on The Register a couple of months ago; that's the fundraising site for this project. I'll let The Register article speak for itself as far as casting doubt on the viability, but I think you get the gist from the headline; "Crazed buy-a-satellite-for-the-poor scheme raises $16k - Only a $hitload and a clue to find now"
Seems like there may be two simulations here, a full-season simulation done before the start of the actual season, and a one-match simulation of the final alone done shortly before the actual final. The former came up with the Packers, the latter picked the Steelers.
He didn't say "app" means "small widgets of code for smartphones", he said it became synonymous with that. Try asking someone outside of IT "what's an app?" and you'll find the author is entirely right, irritating as it is for those of us who have always used the term in the traditional sense as an abbreviation of "application".
Well, the whole reason Murdoch has been paywalling his content is that he claims the ad revenue is so low that a tiny number of paying subscribers brings in more revenue than huge numbers of non-paying readers. So the implication of that is that the majority of the revenue raised will indeed be from the subscription charges, at least that's Murdoch's expectation. I'd imagine that's even more true given that paying subscribers will expect fewer ads than if they were reading the same content for free on the web.
Yes. I have a substantial library of DRM-protected Microsoft Reader and Palm Reader books, which I'm now trying to deprotect and convert to read on modern hardware, as those formats are now practically abandoned. I gave the DRM a fair shot, and I'm not feeling like I got a good deal. I'm not aware of any stores that let you re-download a book in a different format if you buy different hardware, which they could easily do; seems to me the DRM is as much about trying to lock you in to a platform as it is about copy protection. Anyway from here on in, I'll only accept DRM-free books, whichever way I have to get them.
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That's a myth; caffeine in the quantities you ingest it by drinking coffee, has very little diuretic effect at all.
Again, I think you're confused. You boot up an Amiga without a disk or hard drive in, and it shows you a disk icon and waits for something to boot from. What you're describing is Workbench (the terminal windows are CLI windows in Amiga-speak) and you need a disk to boot it. You can make a boot disk to boot to a CLI without booting a full Workbench, but you don't boot to a CLI from Kickstart alone. At least, not with Kickstart 2 or 3 machines - I had an A600 and an A1200, and I'm pretty sure Kickstart 1.3 in the A500's was the same.
Kickstart was more of a BIOS-equivalent than an OS. You couldn't do anything with Kickstart by itself, kickstart booted the actual OS (Workbench). Some RiscOS machines OTOH did boot a reasonably advanced GUI OS from ROM, in fact if I'm not mistaken there are some such still in production.
At least the Turkish government is taking responsibility for the censorship. Here in the UK, the Internet Watch Foundation basically has a free hand to censor the internet; the IWF has the blessing of the government, but it's not a government agency, so there's no parliamentary oversight, they're not required to answer to anybody as to what they blacklist, and unless they fuck up spectacularly, nobody actually knows what they're censoring. We just have to hope it's only actually nasty kiddie porn, but as the aforementioned fuck up illustrates, their judgement is open to question. Our government likes it this way because technically the government isn't censoring anything.
It shouldn't have to come to that. It's shocking that this is allowed; it should be in the contract when you sign up to work for a public body like the FCC that you can't then work for any company whose business you were involved in for at least x years.
So, one tardy reply begets another. Did I really have to add "...if you're not a paid penetration tester like the guy in the article I linked"? Thought it was kind of obvious.
No need to do that, just watch the video feed from the cop cars instead. Although I suspect in the USA, either could probably get you a jail term.
I agree, 8 cores maketh not a supercomputer, otherwise an awful lot of us will have been working with supercomputers without even realising it. A low-cost supercomputer node, perhaps.
That's a good question, and one suspects the answer is that they ask security consultants and companies, who have a stake in hyping up these costs, to pull figures out of the air. Googling gives for example this article, quote
"In order to figure out the financial losses businesses incurred during 2009, Symantec asked companies to look at a range of factors which negatively impacted them as a result of cyber crime – such as lost revenue, loss of customer relationships and damage to their firm’s brand. This came out at a mean average of £1.2 million per company. "
Putting a dollar value on "loss of customer relationships", "damage to the firms brand" etc is not even guesswork, it really is just pick-a-number. If the firm wasn't lax in it's security, there shouldn't be any significant damage to the brand. Losses directly due to downtime could be established meaningfully, but overall I think the figures are pretty much as meaningless as the figures the record companies come up with for losses due to piracy.
Yes, he'd have to worry more about securing his own backdoor, rather than exploiting anyone else's.
Yes, in fact this would actually be a good thing if it cuts down on emissions into and out of the house. We have people complaining about emissions from powerline ethernet (been a bit of fuss about that here in the UK recently) interfering with DAB and FM radio reception, and of course we have video senders and baby monitors jamming the 2.4GHz band and making it hard to find a usable wifi channel. Personally I'd be happy to live in a faraday cage.
I don't understand why people get so upset over burning the flag, because it's just a flag.
But the fact is they do get upset, as you recognise; "why" doesn't really matter.
And I've never understood why people think it's such a great protest because again, it's just a flag.
Because people get upset about it, Q.E.D..
That's a very limited, and to be honest immature, view of it, and neglects the reality of coalition politics. If you want to say that you're against coalition governments of any sort, fine, say so. But if no parties win an election outright, and some of those parties then form a coalition government, the coalition partners are going to have to compromise on some of the policies they started out with, and the smaller the party, the more they're going to have to compromise. They still get some of their policies implemented, as opposed to none if they didn't form a coalition, but a smaller coalition partner is simply not in a position to implement all the policies they may have had in their pre-coalition manifesto; deal with it.
Even cars such as my VW Scirocco GT have similar systems (VW calls it Adaptive Chassis Control), it's not the preserve of supercars anymore. However according to the article, existing systems use hydraulic actuators, this system is apparently electromagnetic only, reacts faster and uses less power. Yes, I know, it's almost cheating to RTFA.
I don't think it's that ballsy, as Amazon definitely has a case, but it's definitely an argument that needs to be had, so props to them for taking it on. As the summary points out, Amazon aren't providing the music, they're providing you with the means to stream your music to yourself. You can already do that in countless ways, and while I'm sure the music industry would like to charge you for a license for each and every one of those means, that doesn't mean they legally can. I don't know the My.MP3 history, but it sounds from the wikipedia link you posted like that was about streaming to everybody, not just to yourself, so doesn't sound directly comparable.
In the UK, warning others of a police speed trap e.g. by flashing your lights is a criminal offence which will get you hauled into court and fined. So I wonder if these apps would even be legal in the UK (I don't have an iOS device, so I don't know if such things are on sale here).
On the other hand, satnavs with speed camera warnings seem to be legal, but in that case you can argue that the aim is to help you keep your speed down in dangerous areas, i.e. to avoid committing the offence in the first place, whereas with dodging DUI checks, the offence has already been committed, you're just trying to avoid being caught.
My 11.6" tablet suddenly seems a bit undersized. Still, I reckon it will come into it's own when I have to get up and take it home with me ;).
Worst is when people end up with multiple different ones; I had a guy with Dell laptop recently, he had wireless assistant type utilities from Dell, his ISP, and the wifi chip maker all trying to mess with his connection at the same time, which took ages to connect, and kept disconnecting and doing weird stuff. Uninstalled all of those utilities, fast and reliable connections ensued. Curses on those utilities.
Don't be so boring; it's battles like these that make life interesting. Will the mighty Google be able to gain enough traction for WebM to actually make a fight of this in the first place? Or is the de-facto-standard status of h.264 unassailable? Does the works-everywhere combo of Flash and h.264 now become even more the option of choice for web developers trying to keep their jobs simple, or will they persevere with HTML5 and cope with supporting multiple codecs? Tune in to future episodes to find out. It's like reality TV, except interesting.
The Buy This Satellite site was mentioned on The Register a couple of months ago; that's the fundraising site for this project. I'll let The Register article speak for itself as far as casting doubt on the viability, but I think you get the gist from the headline; "Crazed buy-a-satellite-for-the-poor scheme raises $16k - Only a $hitload and a clue to find now"
Seems like there may be two simulations here, a full-season simulation done before the start of the actual season, and a one-match simulation of the final alone done shortly before the actual final. The former came up with the Packers, the latter picked the Steelers.
He didn't say "app" means "small widgets of code for smartphones", he said it became synonymous with that. Try asking someone outside of IT "what's an app?" and you'll find the author is entirely right, irritating as it is for those of us who have always used the term in the traditional sense as an abbreviation of "application".
Well, the whole reason Murdoch has been paywalling his content is that he claims the ad revenue is so low that a tiny number of paying subscribers brings in more revenue than huge numbers of non-paying readers. So the implication of that is that the majority of the revenue raised will indeed be from the subscription charges, at least that's Murdoch's expectation. I'd imagine that's even more true given that paying subscribers will expect fewer ads than if they were reading the same content for free on the web.
Yes. I have a substantial library of DRM-protected Microsoft Reader and Palm Reader books, which I'm now trying to deprotect and convert to read on modern hardware, as those formats are now practically abandoned. I gave the DRM a fair shot, and I'm not feeling like I got a good deal. I'm not aware of any stores that let you re-download a book in a different format if you buy different hardware, which they could easily do; seems to me the DRM is as much about trying to lock you in to a platform as it is about copy protection. Anyway from here on in, I'll only accept DRM-free books, whichever way I have to get them.
But I don't actually have ChromeOS yet, so I guess I proved I need it ;).
Of course I'm not an actual first post troll either, so maybe I'm just too slow on the draw.