They also had a really great system like this in "Deadlocked; escape from zone 13", where the inmates wore a collar with an explosive device on it which went off if they crossed the perimeter. Until the imprisoned geek hooks his collar to the signal of the one worn by a beautiful girl (Nia Peeples) and escapes. Great action sequences follow. Every geek should watch it.
This is an outrageous example of governmental negligence. Instead of properly "wait"ing, SIGCHLD pleas from dying children are being callously ignored by government officials. They are wholly responsible for the hordes of bloodthirsty zombies roaming the streets of Baltimore and terrorizing the voting booths!
And then the department of homeland security can go through your site with every possible permutation of terrorist equipment and patent the resulting methods. Then no terrorist will be allowed to ever think of them again! Isn't patent law grand?
> you mostly like the gui rather than the logs themselves
It's more than that. The format matters too. The Linux way is to dump everything into a text file and let the human figure it out. There is no clear boundary between log messages, for example. Some messages are logged with several entries. There is no way to tell what the severity of the error is except by filtering certain logs into different files.
You know what logs I really like? The Windows 2000 system logs. All the services write in them, so there is never any hunting for files. They can have a lot of information packed into them, if the application takes some time to do it. They rotate automatically. They have severity icons so you know which ones are the errors and which are not. And they are all in a nice GUI list, so you don't need a command line PhD to view them. User friendly, indeed!
> cookies are files. Cached pages and images are files.
The browser is writing those. My question is why should scripts be allowed to write anything? Yes, the browser writes cookies, but there is no reason for this functionality to be exposed in any other way than "set cookie to x" to anything outside the browser executable. Scripts should have no access to internal APIs whatsoever. IMO, scripts should be running in a sandboxed interpreter, not allowed to do write, read, or modify anything outside the webpage that they are embedded in.
> Why on earth the browser thinks it's necessary to allow > scripts to create executeable files is beyond me.
Why on earth would the browser allow scripts to create any files at all? Is there some legitimate usage for this capability? I would not expect any new files on my computer unless I explicitly download them.
> Texting is better when I'm in a situation where I > don't want others to know what I'm talking about.
Real men speak Klingon for this purpose.
> Texting is better when I need to tell someone > something but I don't want to have to have a full > conversation with them.
So call them, say it, and hang up. If it's important, they'll call back and use up their minutes.
> I love using Google text (46645) when I'm > looking for something like a restaraunt
Real men aren't afraid of asking for directions.
> Texting saves minutes.
Sounds like you need to work on your words per minute. Some people speak very slowly at as little as 15 wpm. With a little practice you can work up to 175 wpm. Not only will that save you valuable minutes (although real men buy unlimited calling plans), but it works as an excellent device for winning arguments. Just imagine, being able to say ten words for each one your opponent utters! He'll never be able to come up with a counter argument before you completely devastate him with an astounding verbal barrage and move through seven topics before he gathers enough wits to reply to the first one. If he tries, just sneer and invoke the three-second rule.
Did I mention that women are really impressed by verbal prowess? Typing up these voluminous Slashdot comments is gonna pay off today!
I assume from your post that you are unaware that exposure to loud music causes hearing loss. I would put your problem in the "Doctor, it hurts when I do this" category.
Where would I find on which architectures fpmath is set to sse by default? The info file doesn't seem to have that information. And is it possible to tell the compiler to always use SSE instead of the FP registers, so I wouldn't have to have so many emms's all over the code? (In generic MMX-using routines which don't usually know what'll happen after them)
> anyone who has to boot more than once per day is either a masochist
Or someone who can't stand the noise of the damn computer when not using it. Hell, I even made a watercooling setup for the CPUs, that's how much it bothers me. I still have that power supply fan though, and when it's on, I HEAR IT. Silence is golden.
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No, this one. A TV movie; check your cable listings, it's played occasionally.
They also had a really great system like this in "Deadlocked; escape from zone 13", where the inmates wore a collar with an explosive device on it which went off if they crossed the perimeter. Until the imprisoned geek hooks his collar to the signal of the one worn by a beautiful girl (Nia Peeples) and escapes. Great action sequences follow. Every geek should watch it.
This is an outrageous example of governmental negligence. Instead of properly "wait"ing, SIGCHLD pleas from dying children are being callously ignored by government officials. They are wholly responsible for the hordes of bloodthirsty zombies roaming the streets of Baltimore and terrorizing the voting booths!
What steps might the U.S. take to attempt to counter it? We could stop buying Chinese textiles, for one.
Actually, the picture shows the internet as a disk, which is both ROUND and FLAT simultaneously.
And then the department of homeland security can go through your site with every possible permutation of terrorist equipment and patent the resulting methods. Then no terrorist will be allowed to ever think of them again! Isn't patent law grand?
What's E3?
So that's why Einstein slept 10 hours every day!
> you mostly like the gui rather than the logs themselves
It's more than that. The format matters too. The Linux way is to dump everything into a text file and let the human figure it out. There is no clear boundary between log messages, for example. Some messages are logged with several entries. There is no way to tell what the severity of the error is except by filtering certain logs into different files.
You know what logs I really like? The Windows 2000 system logs. All the services write in them, so there is never any hunting for files. They can have a lot of information packed into them, if the application takes some time to do it. They rotate automatically. They have severity icons so you know which ones are the errors and which are not. And they are all in a nice GUI list, so you don't need a command line PhD to view them. User friendly, indeed!
> cookies are files. Cached pages and images are files.
The browser is writing those. My question is why should scripts be allowed to write anything? Yes, the browser writes cookies, but there is no reason for this functionality to be exposed in any other way than "set cookie to x" to anything outside the browser executable. Scripts should have no access to internal APIs whatsoever. IMO, scripts should be running in a sandboxed interpreter, not allowed to do write, read, or modify anything outside the webpage that they are embedded in.
> im a firm beliver in just going over there myself before anyone gets called
That might work if you happen to be a 300 lb gorilla. Most people reading slashdot would get beat up if they tried that.
Is it a coincidence that President Bush's first name is 'George'?
> Why on earth the browser thinks it's necessary to allow
> scripts to create executeable files is beyond me.
Why on earth would the browser allow scripts to create any files at all? Is there some legitimate usage for this capability? I would not expect any new files on my computer unless I explicitly download them.
I really did not want to know this...
The really scary part is that people buy virtual gold.
> Texting is better when I'm in a situation where I
> don't want others to know what I'm talking about.
Real men speak Klingon for this purpose.
> Texting is better when I need to tell someone
> something but I don't want to have to have a full
> conversation with them.
So call them, say it, and hang up. If it's important, they'll call back and use up their minutes.
> I love using Google text (46645) when I'm
> looking for something like a restaraunt
Real men aren't afraid of asking for directions.
> Texting saves minutes.
Sounds like you need to work on your words per minute. Some people speak very slowly at as little as 15 wpm. With a little practice you can work up to 175 wpm. Not only will that save you valuable minutes (although real men buy unlimited calling plans), but it works as an excellent device for winning arguments. Just imagine, being able to say ten words for each one your opponent utters! He'll never be able to come up with a counter argument before you completely devastate him with an astounding verbal barrage and move through seven topics before he gathers enough wits to reply to the first one. If he tries, just sneer and invoke the three-second rule.
Did I mention that women are really impressed by verbal prowess? Typing up these voluminous Slashdot comments is gonna pay off today!
I assume from your post that you are unaware that exposure to loud music causes hearing loss. I would put your problem in the "Doctor, it hurts when I do this" category.
> Or someone hacking into a computer with 3 keystrokes.
;)
Entirely possible. After all, one of the most common passwords is "sex"
Hey! Whom are you calling 'women'?...
> Its not that I seriously mind messing with the wine config files
I do. Want to tell us what to do to get Microsoft Word to run? Or where to find out?
> Apple, Tiger, Windows, whats next?
Air
> has a melting point of 58%C
My water cooling setup keeps the CPU at around 55C. I don't see how this would be an improvement.
Where would I find on which architectures fpmath is set to sse by default? The info file doesn't seem to have that information. And is it possible to tell the compiler to always use SSE instead of the FP registers, so I wouldn't have to have so many emms's all over the code? (In generic MMX-using routines which don't usually know what'll happen after them)
> anyone who has to boot more than once per day is either a masochist
Or someone who can't stand the noise of the damn computer when not using it. Hell, I even made a watercooling setup for the CPUs, that's how much it bothers me. I still have that power supply fan though, and when it's on, I HEAR IT. Silence is golden.