nobody has to buy Windows. Even if there was no excellent free alternative, which there is.
then why is it that you need to go out of your way to get anything else than a windows pre-loaded machine? why is it that 95% of the software that is made only works in windows leaving any other OS to use WINE + the performance penalty? why is it that IE makes up over 70% of the browser market even though 1) it is the least standards compliant 2) only after IE7 did it finally have tabs/popup blocker both having been standard in other browsers. MS uses their desktop monopoly to wedge themselves into the top spot elsewhere as well. they don't compete on quality, they are simply "just there" and "good enough" to the average consumer. were the situation reversed, that is to say that if Firefox were installed by default and ingrained into the OS internals, IE would be the underdog.
something also of note is that the comparison is also invalid because p2p was designed to assist in the sharing of files, ie information. the fact it is often used to share music/movies whatever legal or not does not mean p2p should be outlawed any more than cars should be because they are occasionally used for illegal purposes. Mbr/>guns are designed as a weapon, not necessarily to kill. their primary function is to disable which doesn't in of its self require the death of whatever you're aiming at. even then, there's nothing saying that they are even used as "weapons" to disable/kill something- a lot of people use them for target shooting and don't actually hit anything alive. in any case, regardless of what the tool was designed for, it is the human controlling it that decides what it is used for good or ill.
He also said that neither Windows nor Linux are relevant in the long term, thanks to Web 2.0 business models
web 2.0 is fine and all but I suspect that in the long term you're still going to need an OS to do the work required to access web 2.0 in the first place. Then there's the fact that everything based on web 2.0 will not function without a connection and that is a critical flaw. web 2.0 is *not* a replacement, it is complementary.
*yet* being the key word here. never mind that silverlight has nothing worth noting that flash doesn't, or that it is not cross-platform, MS doesn't need any of that, just for marketing to say how fantastic and "innovative" it is. either that or find a way to make it appear critical [like others have noted about microsoft.com]
they are cheaper now but just wait a few years, robots don't need food or housing or entertainment or well most everything humans do. they are also more efficient at doing work and there is no real limit to what the robot can do, it doesn't need years of training, just a software upgrade.
stupid and useless doesn't stop them from trying to enforce this anyway. it's probably more important to make it appear that any and all attempts to circumvent this embargo will not be tolerated, never mind if it fails miserably, it's all theater anyway.
It said Mr. Marshall's company had helped Americans evade restrictions on travel to Cuba and was 'a generator of resources that the Cuban regime uses to oppress its people.'
I don't think they fully appreciate the irony of that statement. trying to stop funds from tourism being used to oppress cuba by restricting the travel of americans and censoring anyone remotely connected to the USA.
speaking of "avalanches" of dust and rock, the image that was thought to indicate present day water movement on mars may actually be the result of one of these dust avalanches instead.
oooo can I add some? * nylon eating bacteria *human chromosome 2 *whale ancestors with legs *haemoglobin *HIV's Vpu *why there are more regions of DNA in the human genome derived from viruses than there is DNA coding for proteins......
I would carry that idea even further and ask the question: how can an OS fix a fundamental problem of the security of the user. There's a saying: I'd rather have a security minded user on an insecure OS than a click-happy user on the most secure OS. just as an example, there are Windows users who haven't suffered from a virus in years. they surf online just as much as the fscked computer users do, they do not however click everything that comes in front of them so to speak. then there's the recent Mac garbageware that was on/. not very long ago. Now I'd argue that Mac has considerably better security compared to Windows but in this case it didn't really matter if the user was hell bent on installing whatever they like. FREE SCREENSAVERS INSTALL NOW!!!!
getting the idea in the first place doesn't have a method but testing that idea does. I would argue that the single most important difference between the time our technology advanced exponentially and the dark ages is the scientific method. People always had ideas- tons of them and no real method to test them. once they figured out how to evaluate claims they could make true use of these ideas. without ideas there is nothing, without the scientific method there may as well have been nothing.
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did anyone else see that part and immediately think Java? anyway, this is actually a pretty good idea- the current educational system tends to destroy any interest in writing/math/the sciences so perhaps this will spark some interest where there was none before.
Why not give an elementary discussion of 'heat capacity' or energy that is associated with phase transitions, etc?
you know, it's important to know concepts important to thermodynamics although it's infinitely more important and useful to understand the scientific method its self. The facts and theories are the result of the scientific method and would be pretty much unthinkable without it. knowing that we know something is not as important as knowing HOW we know something. It's always been something that has been lacking severely in the general population's understanding of science and it is also why pseudoscience has become as widespread as it has. There is a disconnect between the logic used to create knowledge and people's understanding of how their world works. If shows can find a way to start with the science using the scientific method and make that more entertaining than it will improve things a great deal.
density of carbon nanotubes: 2.6 grams/cm^3 density of aluminum: ~2.7 grams/cm^3 mass=density*volume and assuming the shapes are the same and thickness is the same, so is the volume and in this case nanotubes are slightly less dense than aluminum therfore less mass, and therefore lighter.
I was going to say that that would be a stupid thing for an employee to do but considering MS's repair track record, they don't seem to do any of the paperwork that would link employee x to bad service/fubared consoles. It's going to be as bad as gamers are willing to allow- the only thing that truely gets MS's attention is a decreasing marketshare which leads to a loss of cash. granted they only recently started making any cash off their consoles but that could change if they get any worse.
maybe I'm missing something here but what repair could possibly justify the work of scrubbing signatures off of a gaming console? If somehow the repair did require that they not have ink/signatures on the case, why not take the case off, so the repairs, put the case back? For that matter, who thought it was easier/more efficient to take all that time to scrub it off when they could have used another case and returned this one?
it's much worse than that, the article was pretty much mirrored from the source university of south hampton article here: http://www.soton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2008/feb/08_31.shtml which has absolutely nothing to add on the subject. three years of work and they don't even say what it is that they were modeling... what exactly was the point? perhaps a better article is required like the one here: http://www.physorg.com/news121963192.html
They've been doing this for years. some of the oxygen is used to oxidize the hydrogen and some of it is used to breathe. In this case, you would probably be using the hydrogen/oxygen to power fuel cells during the night time as solar power is available to regenerate the oxygen and hydrogen stores during the day. It's probably not going to be used as the only power source sue to the fact you would need to carry all of it up there from Earth at an expense hovering around 10,000$ a kg. More likely is that it will serve like a battery storing power for emergencies and night-time.
there is no infrastructure in place to support current hydrogen fueled cars. About the best thing we could do right now in regard to hydrogen fueled cars would be to have on board reformers that "crack" gasoline/diesel with water to make carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide,light hydrocarbons and hydrogen. filter out the hydrogen whilst sending everything not CO2 back through again. use the hydrogen produced to power fuel cells. The big problem here of course is getting the hydrogen pure enough as to not poison the catalysts. perhaps a zeolite based high temperature fuel cell [not as easily poisoned] but they need to run at a very high temperature, good for cracking the hydrocarbons but bad for getting it to just start up. At least this way we wouldn't need the hydrogen tanks everyone was so freaked out about the other day, nor would we need to immediately create a whole separate infrastructure. It's by definition not zero emission in any way but it opens the door to building a more efficient hydrogen producing infrastructure.
you're assuming that people who are registering at ubuntu brainstorm are in a vaccuum. even if the casual user doesn't register themselves, they are almost assured to have a nerdy friend who did. you can bet that a lot of nerds like us are going to be posting suggestions as to how to help grandma make the switch from windows to linux a little more comfortably.
So...do we pounce on VMWare for being closed source and therefore _obviously_ insecure, now?
no, we pounce on them if they don't bother to fix this... ever. from TFA:
Successful exploitation requires that the Shared Folder's feature to be enabled which is the default on VMware products that have the feature AND at least one folder of the Host system is configured for sharing.
not only does this feature need to be enabled but you also have to configure at least one folder for sharing. makes sense. until it gets fixed, it is best to disable the shared folders feature and use another method that has not yet been compromised.
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something also of note is that the comparison is also invalid because p2p was designed to assist in the sharing of files, ie information. the fact it is often used to share music/movies whatever legal or not does not mean p2p should be outlawed any more than cars should be because they are occasionally used for illegal purposes. />guns are designed as a weapon, not necessarily to kill. their primary function is to disable which doesn't in of its self require the death of whatever you're aiming at. even then, there's nothing saying that they are even used as "weapons" to disable/kill something- a lot of people use them for target shooting and don't actually hit anything alive. in any case, regardless of what the tool was designed for, it is the human controlling it that decides what it is used for good or ill.
Mbr
*yet* being the key word here. never mind that silverlight has nothing worth noting that flash doesn't, or that it is not cross-platform, MS doesn't need any of that, just for marketing to say how fantastic and "innovative" it is. either that or find a way to make it appear critical [like others have noted about microsoft.com]
they are cheaper now but just wait a few years, robots don't need food or housing or entertainment or well most everything humans do. they are also more efficient at doing work and there is no real limit to what the robot can do, it doesn't need years of training, just a software upgrade.
stupid and useless doesn't stop them from trying to enforce this anyway. it's probably more important to make it appear that any and all attempts to circumvent this embargo will not be tolerated, never mind if it fails miserably, it's all theater anyway.
speaking of "avalanches" of dust and rock, the image that was thought to indicate present day water movement on mars may actually be the result of one of these dust avalanches instead.
oooo can I add some?
* nylon eating bacteria
*human chromosome 2
*whale ancestors with legs
*haemoglobin
*HIV's Vpu
*why there are more regions of DNA in the human genome derived from viruses than there is DNA coding for proteins......
I would carry that idea even further and ask the question: how can an OS fix a fundamental problem of the security of the user. There's a saying: I'd rather have a security minded user on an insecure OS than a click-happy user on the most secure OS. just as an example, there are Windows users who haven't suffered from a virus in years. they surf online just as much as the fscked computer users do, they do not however click everything that comes in front of them so to speak. then there's the recent Mac garbageware that was on /. not very long ago. Now I'd argue that Mac has considerably better security compared to Windows but in this case it didn't really matter if the user was hell bent on installing whatever they like. FREE SCREENSAVERS INSTALL NOW!!!!
getting the idea in the first place doesn't have a method but testing that idea does. I would argue that the single most important difference between the time our technology advanced exponentially and the dark ages is the scientific method. People always had ideas- tons of them and no real method to test them. once they figured out how to evaluate claims they could make true use of these ideas. without ideas there is nothing, without the scientific method there may as well have been nothing.
We have a similar thing going at the University I go to. It's nice to be around other people that are as academically minded as yourself.
anyway, this is actually a pretty good idea- the current educational system tends to destroy any interest in writing/math/the sciences so perhaps this will spark some interest where there was none before.
density of carbon nanotubes: 2.6 grams/cm^3 density of aluminum: ~2.7 grams/cm^3 mass=density*volume and assuming the shapes are the same and thickness is the same, so is the volume and in this case nanotubes are slightly less dense than aluminum therfore less mass, and therefore lighter.
I was going to say that that would be a stupid thing for an employee to do but considering MS's repair track record, they don't seem to do any of the paperwork that would link employee x to bad service/fubared consoles. It's going to be as bad as gamers are willing to allow- the only thing that truely gets MS's attention is a decreasing marketshare which leads to a loss of cash. granted they only recently started making any cash off their consoles but that could change if they get any worse.
from TFA, he enclosed a photo with what appear to be smudges on the console from the signatures that said technician didn't finish scrubbing off.
maybe I'm missing something here but what repair could possibly justify the work of scrubbing signatures off of a gaming console? If somehow the repair did require that they not have ink/signatures on the case, why not take the case off, so the repairs, put the case back? For that matter, who thought it was easier/more efficient to take all that time to scrub it off when they could have used another case and returned this one?
it's much worse than that, the article was pretty much mirrored from the source university of south hampton article here: http://www.soton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2008/feb/08_31.shtml which has absolutely nothing to add on the subject. three years of work and they don't even say what it is that they were modeling... what exactly was the point? perhaps a better article is required like the one here: http://www.physorg.com/news121963192.html
They've been doing this for years. some of the oxygen is used to oxidize the hydrogen and some of it is used to breathe. In this case, you would probably be using the hydrogen/oxygen to power fuel cells during the night time as solar power is available to regenerate the oxygen and hydrogen stores during the day. It's probably not going to be used as the only power source sue to the fact you would need to carry all of it up there from Earth at an expense hovering around 10,000$ a kg. More likely is that it will serve like a battery storing power for emergencies and night-time.
there is no infrastructure in place to support current hydrogen fueled cars. About the best thing we could do right now in regard to hydrogen fueled cars would be to have on board reformers that "crack" gasoline/diesel with water to make carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide,light hydrocarbons and hydrogen. filter out the hydrogen whilst sending everything not CO2 back through again. use the hydrogen produced to power fuel cells. The big problem here of course is getting the hydrogen pure enough as to not poison the catalysts. perhaps a zeolite based high temperature fuel cell [not as easily poisoned] but they need to run at a very high temperature, good for cracking the hydrocarbons but bad for getting it to just start up. At least this way we wouldn't need the hydrogen tanks everyone was so freaked out about the other day, nor would we need to immediately create a whole separate infrastructure. It's by definition not zero emission in any way but it opens the door to building a more efficient hydrogen producing infrastructure.
no need, it already passed WGA: http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/06/18/ubuntu-now-even-more-windows-user-friendly
you're assuming that people who are registering at ubuntu brainstorm are in a vaccuum. even if the casual user doesn't register themselves, they are almost assured to have a nerdy friend who did. you can bet that a lot of nerds like us are going to be posting suggestions as to how to help grandma make the switch from windows to linux a little more comfortably.
from TFA: not only does this feature need to be enabled but you also have to configure at least one folder for sharing. makes sense. until it gets fixed, it is best to disable the shared folders feature and use another method that has not yet been compromised.