address space layout randomization I though this was a feature in OS X 10.5? Was it not implemented or just not implemented as well as other OS's? I remember hearing about it as a feature for 10.5.
There is a flaw in your logic... By having increased fraud will rase the rates making insurance too expensive for more people thus will not have insurance and will not get medical care and die from it. So letting that 1 person suffer/die who really needs it in order to save hundreds of other lives is well worth it.
You can probably get a good number. By Cross referencing all the states registered cars. And how much Tax revenue per gallon you bring in. And using the registration information to get the type of car it is and use each models estimated gas mileage and you can get a fairly good picture of what is going on. You really don't need to track individuals information you really just need to process the public information.
Most of insurance work and rules are for preventing fraud (Government or Private). It is possible that you can find a Dr. Who will prescribe you whatever you want (Just take a look at California and Marijuana). So if you want an insurance covered iPhone, just find a doctor fake a hearing test and ask for a smart phone and you are all set. When word gets out insurance will be covering hundreds of thousands of smart phones where they would be covering perhaps only 10 thousands of products that cost 5 times as much. By saying No to such products makes it easy to prevent abuse.
Democrats have a fair share in this too. They love to villainize large corporations who have the funds and desire to hire R&D scientists. The extreme left environmentalists love to find and exaggerate environmental trade offs for every science and technology. Even after calculating the risks and when they say it is perfectly safe they will go. It is a Corporate/Government conspiracy. There subconscious motto is "DDT never Again!" much like the Extreme Right "9/11 Never again!". In essence they say Science is good only if you don't make a lot of money from it. So most people especially when they choose a path in life late teens to early 20's don't want to be the Evil bad guy. They want to be the good guy who helps the world... However there are also pressures to make good money too, at least a good living wage. A lot of people don't want to teach. So they will choose a path were they can be good guys, and/or make a lot of money. I don't want to work for Exon because it is an evil company who is ruining the environment, I don't want to work in a college where I have to deal with Whiny Undergrads all day... Also I don't want to spend 4 more years really focusing on a single topic.
I don't think people have learned about the concepts of trade offs (I do get you humor in you post though.) Every thing that we do every choice we make has a trade off. Do I eat a healthy breakfast and be starving 2 hours before lunch starts, effecting my work. Or do I have an unhealthy one that will keep me full and functional until lunch time. Do I take the bus to work but have to wake up 2 hours earlier to get to work on time. Or do I just drive to work getting there faster, as well allowing me to leave at my own time. Do I go to Grad School and risk getting an early promotion for a bit more pay. Or do I go to grad school for the chance of higher promotions.
You can't always choose the best Long Term choices, as the tradeoffs for short terms could hinder you more then the Long Term Benefits. You can't always choose the Short Term benefits as the Long Term benefits will reward you greatly. The Risk from Cancer from Wi-Fi compared to the ability that your doctor can more and say during his lunch "break" can diagnose you problem earlier and possibly save you life from that cancer and cancer from an entire slew of additional factors that can cause cancer.
Part of the problem is usability is the RMS Free Software Business Model. RMS Poo-Poos almost every business model for Software except for Support, Consulting, and Distribution aka Shipping and Handling. That said there isn't that much investment in making the products easy to use. As Easy to Use products will cut into these business models. As easy to use products need much less Support and Consulting time as ordinary joe can get it working. The internet has been cutting the profit in distribution. Why do you think RedHat no longer makes Desktop Distributions. But makes their money on Support, and Consulting.
We are all human animals who are still on the lookout for number 1. We sometimes like to think we are taking the moral high road but we are not. Just look at Teaching, Teachers claim they are working to teach the next generation of children and make the world a good and happy place... However if they don't get their raises they will go on strike at expense of the children they are claiming they want to help so much. The same with the Majority of Open Source Development (THEY ARE EXCEPTIONS! I KNOW! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT APP X BEING SO MUCH EASIER THEN COMMERCIAL APP Y!) while the developer is claiming how he is so enlighten by making his product open source. However he hopes to make a living doing this. So if the product becomes popular enough they would want to hire him to support the product and show them how to use it, as he would the key expert on the product. So he isn't so interested in taking a Lot of time making the products UI ultra smooth and intuitive he wants to keep it at a geeky level for the sake (usually subconsciously) If only geeks can use the product then he and other geeks are still needed.
I work making Closed Source SaaS Software Why don't we open source it... Simple We want to make money off the product. We do not want to make money from support and consulting we want the people to buy the permission to use the product and be delighted with it. If we open sourced the product and only did support we would probably not make any money as the UI is highly polished and well designed. (We spent 2/3 of the development time on the UI) That anyone could use the product without much issues. We even made the back end easy to use so we don't have a lot of overhead costs operating it. Now we feel that it is a very fair cost for its value and it is much cheaper then the competition. We are not trying to Rip people off. But we are trying to make money with the product.
Games. I would love to have 6 displays but not for games. I can a full screen app in each one. or better yet go to text mode and have 80x25 text resolution on them. So I can really see what I am typing.
Many Hardware vender will not make Linux drivers because of GPL restrictions (I am sorry not everyone likes or agrees with the GPL, there will never be a world where they will). Leaving OpenSource developers to make drivers for hardware... Now this isn't a company each developer has their own itch to scratch now most of the fixes are with drivers that means most of their itches are with drivers... DUH. So I would suspect a lot of people are having a lot of problems with drivers. If by the nature of open source if there is a problem they can fix it.
Secondly a lot of people especially people who is switching to Linux doesn't buy a PC to run linux. They have a PC and wants to put Linux on it. Then when you put linux on it you find a bunch of things fail that you were use to working rather seamlessly. As Well doing your homework upfront doesn't always work. Because old products get discontinued and new products come out without informing the buyer. Here is a real Old Example. I ran Linux back in 1996 and my Modem broke. (Lightning strike) I went to buy a new internal modem. I went to the store and got the modem that should work. The box had a picture of it. I saw all the DIP Switches and I knew an ISA modem where I just flip the Dip Switches for the COM port will just work in Linux... However when I got home opened the box. It was a completely different modem. No Dip Switches it expected to use Windows 95 Plug and play features, heck the shape of the card was not even what was on the box. I returned it and argued to not pay a repacking fee because of false advertising. I had to get an external modem from now on because I couldn't trust internal modems for compatibility with Linux. So they often upgrade their product without really letting people know. Perhaps adding a litter to the model number or something... but overall very misleading.
If you use that driver for that hardware you will see a bigger need to get it to work would be far more important then a 1/100 second improvement in memory management. Having things work is a bit more important then speeds that you will only notice if you benchmark them.
Until you make a type and misspell your banks website domain name. (or are you stupid enough to have a nice bookmark wide open for anyone to click on to see who you bank with) then you go to a site that look just like your bank. Heck it may even have a valid security certificate, and you just got fished.
So you know how you got onto you site. However you a simple mistake... To bad you didn't have a Phishing protection to tell you that you went somewhere wrong.
It is not that people are stupid. But they let their guards down at some point when they do most of the time they are lucky but you can get that one point where you let you guard down and you make the mistake then bingo you are in trouble.
The really stupid people in the world think everyone else is stupid. The smart people in the world realize that they are not that smart and know to take advantage of help and tools to help offset their shortcomings.
I don't think they are pulling much Business use. As most professional IT people will have a fit of that information being sent to an other company. Most people for home use whatever software they have installed.
Most people have newer computer 2007+ (About 2 years old... Expected average life for a PC is about 4-5 years) And still there are people buying their first computer or have let their old computers really get out of date. Then there are some who upgraded their office. Because they are getting those cRaZy docx files Needs to open them. Students also need office 2007 compatibility for their school work.
Now the Office 2003 seems about right for people who haven't upgraded their PC's yet. Also the some business use as well.
OpenOffice Has replaced Microsoft Works, for the most part. As OpenOffice is more compatible then Works and does what most people needs to do. ANd it is free.
Well driver problems are the real problem with Linux. It always has been. When push come to shove comparing Linux with other OS's even the Linux Zealots admit that it is a driver problem. Most kernel features will not directly effect us like driver issues. Once Linux fixes its driver problems then it should focus on getting more features in... However in the mean time, the kernel should be improved on what the kernel is supposed to do Manage Hardware interface with software. And Drivers help with the hardware interfacing.
This has always been the case. Say for example I take a 10 terabyte harddrive full of Data. Then I Take an airplane across country and give them the drive. Say 8 Hours later I transported 10 terrabytes of data. That is about 3 GigaBit/Second transfer rate.
Who cares about the browser. Microsoft and Apple are two very different companies. Apple has a much smaller product line then Microsoft. Also Apple is almost completely B2C. Microsoft has a huge product line of software B2B, B2C and Government. Server, Client, Thin Client, etc... The Microsoft site has a tons of stuff on it. Apple has much less.
I doubt it. For the Zune to be a turn-around product will need to be one of the following.
1. A LOT better then Apples products (not a little bit better) and about the same price as apples products.
2. A LOT cheaper then Apples Products (not a little bit cheaper) and the same quality as the apple products.
Right now the Zune is relegated to Ripoff iPod Wannabe status. Any advantages is replaced by Apple larger market share advantages (more apps, more music). Apple as far as product quality hasn't done much to waver most people trust. Microsoft record is much more shaky.
Yea that doesn't yell Linux Zealot to me. I know I use to be one.
When I started linux, everything took a/long/ time to learn and do. Now that I'm good (by which I mean quite good as compared to the average linux user), I feel crippled when I am forced to use windows. Everything is slower. I can't customize things the way I want (Equilibrium, anyone?).
This means I spend all my time configuring my OS and little to none actually working. But If I wanted to stop configuring my OS. I would be really quick... Just as long as the job I am doing is compatible with my configuration. Windows, OS X more or less has a good interface that fits most uses quite well. Overall you are better off, Having use Linux, Windows Virutalized in Linux, and Mac OS. I can honestly tell you there is no real speed improvement in the OS's for common tasks. Linux you may save 10 minutes off a huge compile. Windows will render those graphics better. The Mac will be in the middle.
Before linux, I was very good at windows (very familiar with customizations through the mmc, did my own registry hacks, etc.). Was is the keyword. Like anything your skill drops when you don't use it much anymore. I use to tune my own custom kernel after every release. Now I reboot after apt gives me an update and tells me to reboot. Work having me do a lot of Windows Development I have learned how to use Windows more efficiently and found that I can do a lot of things better then in Linux.
I still use windows, but not for anything serious - not any more. In other words you need to use windows for the stuff that just won't work in Linux. By nothing serious you mean you can go days without it. However every once in a while there is something that you need Windows for. And at the time it is serious otherwise you wouldn't need to use windows.
In the land of the cyclops, the two-eyed man is king - or something like that. Ummm..... the Cyclops is a mythical monster. Yes the humans defeat it. That is because humans wrote the story. The two-eyed man is king in a world of insects too where they have hundreds of eyes.
It's not that I can't use windows, but I find it painful. To be honest, sometimes I find linux painful - but at least I can fix it. In other words I can't bring myself to liking windows so I will point out all its faults. I am going to seem balanced by saying Linux has it problems too, however I will put weight that if I have enough time and motivation in my life I could possibly fix them. Altho I lack either.
Poetic. But lets face the facts. We as humans has expanded beyond what our planet can provide for us. We need more space to survive. Now even if we cannot have full self containing colonies on the Moon and Mars, The Technology created towards that goal will help us on Earth immensely as we can optimize what we have. Hey we can extract water from the Moon. Cool. Heck we can do it in the earths driest deserts and get a better effect. We can make energy from the carbon dioxide from mars and solar power enough to fly a ship back to earth. Great we should be able to do the same on Earth. Most inspirations from invention comes from mistakes and part of the engineering/scientific process. Human Space travel pushes engineering and assures it goes to the next level. Sure we will make mistakes and yes sadly some people may even die from them. But over all the continuation of human space travel will be a positive to the human race. Yes they are tradeoffs... But lets not be cynical for the sake of being cynical. Lets be smart weight options and realize that Human Space travel may not be the most efficent use of money. But will the an efficient use of humanity.
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There just as immune as Linux is.
address space layout randomization
I though this was a feature in OS X 10.5? Was it not implemented or just not implemented as well as other OS's?
I remember hearing about it as a feature for 10.5.
There is a flaw in your logic... By having increased fraud will rase the rates making insurance too expensive for more people thus will not have insurance and will not get medical care and die from it. So letting that 1 person suffer/die who really needs it in order to save hundreds of other lives is well worth it.
You can probably get a good number. By Cross referencing all the states registered cars. And how much Tax revenue per gallon you bring in. And using the registration information to get the type of car it is and use each models estimated gas mileage and you can get a fairly good picture of what is going on. You really don't need to track individuals information you really just need to process the public information.
I like taking showers. I find them Both Relaxing and Invigorating.
Most of insurance work and rules are for preventing fraud (Government or Private). It is possible that you can find a Dr. Who will prescribe you whatever you want (Just take a look at California and Marijuana). So if you want an insurance covered iPhone, just find a doctor fake a hearing test and ask for a smart phone and you are all set. When word gets out insurance will be covering hundreds of thousands of smart phones where they would be covering perhaps only 10 thousands of products that cost 5 times as much. By saying No to such products makes it easy to prevent abuse.
So they will realize the Data is useless and go with what the CEO has asked for.
Democrats have a fair share in this too.
They love to villainize large corporations who have the funds and desire to hire R&D scientists. The extreme left environmentalists love to find and exaggerate environmental trade offs for every science and technology. Even after calculating the risks and when they say it is perfectly safe they will go. It is a Corporate/Government conspiracy. There subconscious motto is "DDT never Again!" much like the Extreme Right "9/11 Never again!". In essence they say Science is good only if you don't make a lot of money from it. So most people especially when they choose a path in life late teens to early 20's don't want to be the Evil bad guy. They want to be the good guy who helps the world... However there are also pressures to make good money too, at least a good living wage. A lot of people don't want to teach. So they will choose a path were they can be good guys, and/or make a lot of money. I don't want to work for Exon because it is an evil company who is ruining the environment, I don't want to work in a college where I have to deal with Whiny Undergrads all day... Also I don't want to spend 4 more years really focusing on a single topic.
How About calling them Spacenauts. Give a different name for private space pioneers.
I don't think people have learned about the concepts of trade offs (I do get you humor in you post though.) Every thing that we do every choice we make has a trade off.
Do I eat a healthy breakfast and be starving 2 hours before lunch starts, effecting my work. Or do I have an unhealthy one that will keep me full and functional until lunch time.
Do I take the bus to work but have to wake up 2 hours earlier to get to work on time. Or do I just drive to work getting there faster, as well allowing me to leave at my own time.
Do I go to Grad School and risk getting an early promotion for a bit more pay. Or do I go to grad school for the chance of higher promotions.
You can't always choose the best Long Term choices, as the tradeoffs for short terms could hinder you more then the Long Term Benefits. You can't always choose the Short Term benefits as the Long Term benefits will reward you greatly.
The Risk from Cancer from Wi-Fi compared to the ability that your doctor can more and say during his lunch "break" can diagnose you problem earlier and possibly save you life from that cancer and cancer from an entire slew of additional factors that can cause cancer.
Part of the problem is usability is the RMS Free Software Business Model. RMS Poo-Poos almost every business model for Software except for Support, Consulting, and Distribution aka Shipping and Handling. That said there isn't that much investment in making the products easy to use. As Easy to Use products will cut into these business models. As easy to use products need much less Support and Consulting time as ordinary joe can get it working. The internet has been cutting the profit in distribution. Why do you think RedHat no longer makes Desktop Distributions. But makes their money on Support, and Consulting.
We are all human animals who are still on the lookout for number 1. We sometimes like to think we are taking the moral high road but we are not. Just look at Teaching, Teachers claim they are working to teach the next generation of children and make the world a good and happy place... However if they don't get their raises they will go on strike at expense of the children they are claiming they want to help so much. The same with the Majority of Open Source Development (THEY ARE EXCEPTIONS! I KNOW! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT APP X BEING SO MUCH EASIER THEN COMMERCIAL APP Y!) while the developer is claiming how he is so enlighten by making his product open source. However he hopes to make a living doing this. So if the product becomes popular enough they would want to hire him to support the product and show them how to use it, as he would the key expert on the product. So he isn't so interested in taking a Lot of time making the products UI ultra smooth and intuitive he wants to keep it at a geeky level for the sake (usually subconsciously) If only geeks can use the product then he and other geeks are still needed.
I work making Closed Source SaaS Software Why don't we open source it... Simple We want to make money off the product. We do not want to make money from support and consulting we want the people to buy the permission to use the product and be delighted with it. If we open sourced the product and only did support we would probably not make any money as the UI is highly polished and well designed. (We spent 2/3 of the development time on the UI) That anyone could use the product without much issues. We even made the back end easy to use so we don't have a lot of overhead costs operating it. Now we feel that it is a very fair cost for its value and it is much cheaper then the competition. We are not trying to Rip people off. But we are trying to make money with the product.
So it would be like a car who parks in a factory and uses it engine to power the factory to make more cars?
Linux driver support is more complete than at least that of Windows Vista.
Thats setting the bar high.
Excellent we are slightly more successful then Microsoft worst product in the same sector.
Games. I would love to have 6 displays but not for games. I can a full screen app in each one. or better yet go to text mode and have 80x25 text resolution on them. So I can really see what I am typing.
Many Hardware vender will not make Linux drivers because of GPL restrictions (I am sorry not everyone likes or agrees with the GPL, there will never be a world where they will). Leaving OpenSource developers to make drivers for hardware... Now this isn't a company each developer has their own itch to scratch now most of the fixes are with drivers that means most of their itches are with drivers... DUH. So I would suspect a lot of people are having a lot of problems with drivers. If by the nature of open source if there is a problem they can fix it.
Secondly a lot of people especially people who is switching to Linux doesn't buy a PC to run linux. They have a PC and wants to put Linux on it. Then when you put linux on it you find a bunch of things fail that you were use to working rather seamlessly. As Well doing your homework upfront doesn't always work. Because old products get discontinued and new products come out without informing the buyer. Here is a real Old Example. I ran Linux back in 1996 and my Modem broke. (Lightning strike) I went to buy a new internal modem. I went to the store and got the modem that should work. The box had a picture of it. I saw all the DIP Switches and I knew an ISA modem where I just flip the Dip Switches for the COM port will just work in Linux... However when I got home opened the box. It was a completely different modem. No Dip Switches it expected to use Windows 95 Plug and play features, heck the shape of the card was not even what was on the box. I returned it and argued to not pay a repacking fee because of false advertising. I had to get an external modem from now on because I couldn't trust internal modems for compatibility with Linux. So they often upgrade their product without really letting people know. Perhaps adding a litter to the model number or something... but overall very misleading.
If you use that driver for that hardware you will see a bigger need to get it to work would be far more important then a 1/100 second improvement in memory management. Having things work is a bit more important then speeds that you will only notice if you benchmark them.
Until you make a type and misspell your banks website domain name. (or are you stupid enough to have a nice bookmark wide open for anyone to click on to see who you bank with) then you go to a site that look just like your bank. Heck it may even have a valid security certificate, and you just got fished.
So you know how you got onto you site. However you a simple mistake... To bad you didn't have a Phishing protection to tell you that you went somewhere wrong.
It is not that people are stupid. But they let their guards down at some point when they do most of the time they are lucky but you can get that one point where you let you guard down and you make the mistake then bingo you are in trouble.
The really stupid people in the world think everyone else is stupid. The smart people in the world realize that they are not that smart and know to take advantage of help and tools to help offset their shortcomings.
I don't think they are pulling much Business use. As most professional IT people will have a fit of that information being sent to an other company. Most people for home use whatever software they have installed.
Most people have newer computer 2007+ (About 2 years old... Expected average life for a PC is about 4-5 years) And still there are people buying their first computer or have let their old computers really get out of date.
Then there are some who upgraded their office. Because they are getting those cRaZy docx files Needs to open them. Students also need office 2007 compatibility for their school work.
Now the Office 2003 seems about right for people who haven't upgraded their PC's yet. Also the some business use as well.
OpenOffice Has replaced Microsoft Works, for the most part. As OpenOffice is more compatible then Works and does what most people needs to do. ANd it is free.
Well driver problems are the real problem with Linux. It always has been. When push come to shove comparing Linux with other OS's even the Linux Zealots admit that it is a driver problem. Most kernel features will not directly effect us like driver issues. Once Linux fixes its driver problems then it should focus on getting more features in... However in the mean time, the kernel should be improved on what the kernel is supposed to do Manage Hardware interface with software. And Drivers help with the hardware interfacing.
This has always been the case. Say for example I take a 10 terabyte harddrive full of Data. Then I Take an airplane across country and give them the drive. Say 8 Hours later I transported 10 terrabytes of data. That is about 3 GigaBit/Second transfer rate.
Who cares about the browser. Microsoft and Apple are two very different companies. Apple has a much smaller product line then Microsoft. Also Apple is almost completely B2C. Microsoft has a huge product line of software B2B, B2C and Government. Server, Client, Thin Client, etc... The Microsoft site has a tons of stuff on it. Apple has much less.
I doubt it. For the Zune to be a turn-around product will need to be one of the following.
1. A LOT better then Apples products (not a little bit better) and about the same price as apples products.
2. A LOT cheaper then Apples Products (not a little bit cheaper) and the same quality as the apple products.
Right now the Zune is relegated to Ripoff iPod Wannabe status. Any advantages is replaced by Apple larger market share advantages (more apps, more music).
Apple as far as product quality hasn't done much to waver most people trust. Microsoft record is much more shaky.
Lets watch x at 480p and watch x at 1080p you will see a difference...
Watch y at 480p and watch z at 1080p you may know as much. Until you see y at 1080p
The new USA modo.
Reach for the bare minimum!
Strive for mediocracy!
Obtain what is already in front of you.
Take what people are forcing to you.
Yea that doesn't yell Linux Zealot to me.
I know I use to be one.
When I started linux, everything took a /long/ time to learn and do. Now that I'm good (by which I mean quite good as compared to the average linux user), I feel crippled when I am forced to use windows. Everything is slower. I can't customize things the way I want (Equilibrium, anyone?).
This means I spend all my time configuring my OS and little to none actually working. But If I wanted to stop configuring my OS. I would be really quick... Just as long as the job I am doing is compatible with my configuration.
Windows, OS X more or less has a good interface that fits most uses quite well. Overall you are better off, Having use Linux, Windows Virutalized in Linux, and Mac OS. I can honestly tell you there is no real speed improvement in the OS's for common tasks. Linux you may save 10 minutes off a huge compile. Windows will render those graphics better. The Mac will be in the middle.
Before linux, I was very good at windows (very familiar with customizations through the mmc, did my own registry hacks, etc.).
Was is the keyword. Like anything your skill drops when you don't use it much anymore. I use to tune my own custom kernel after every release. Now I reboot after apt gives me an update and tells me to reboot. Work having me do a lot of Windows Development I have learned how to use Windows more efficiently and found that I can do a lot of things better then in Linux.
I still use windows, but not for anything serious - not any more.
In other words you need to use windows for the stuff that just won't work in Linux. By nothing serious you mean you can go days without it. However every once in a while there is something that you need Windows for. And at the time it is serious otherwise you wouldn't need to use windows.
In the land of the cyclops, the two-eyed man is king - or something like that.
Ummm..... the Cyclops is a mythical monster. Yes the humans defeat it. That is because humans wrote the story. The two-eyed man is king in a world of insects too where they have hundreds of eyes.
It's not that I can't use windows, but I find it painful. To be honest, sometimes I find linux painful - but at least I can fix it.
In other words I can't bring myself to liking windows so I will point out all its faults. I am going to seem balanced by saying Linux has it problems too, however I will put weight that if I have enough time and motivation in my life I could possibly fix them. Altho I lack either.
Poetic. But lets face the facts. We as humans has expanded beyond what our planet can provide for us. We need more space to survive. Now even if we cannot have full self containing colonies on the Moon and Mars, The Technology created towards that goal will help us on Earth immensely as we can optimize what we have. Hey we can extract water from the Moon. Cool. Heck we can do it in the earths driest deserts and get a better effect. We can make energy from the carbon dioxide from mars and solar power enough to fly a ship back to earth. Great we should be able to do the same on Earth. Most inspirations from invention comes from mistakes and part of the engineering/scientific process. Human Space travel pushes engineering and assures it goes to the next level. Sure we will make mistakes and yes sadly some people may even die from them. But over all the continuation of human space travel will be a positive to the human race. Yes they are tradeoffs... But lets not be cynical for the sake of being cynical. Lets be smart weight options and realize that Human Space travel may not be the most efficent use of money. But will the an efficient use of humanity.