precisely. Microsoft was the answer to locked in hardware back in the 80s. Supporting Apple not only continues to support software lock in, but it also supports one of the few remaining hardware lock in companies left in the consumer market.
There is nothing good for the consumer in companies like this.
As far as I understand, the peak daily usage is not all that profitable. It requires generating plants to have much more capacity than is needed most of the day. If solar panels take the edge off those peak hours, and make consumption that much more consistent throughout the day, and from hot to cool seasons, then they may actually make more money.
There is a major pragmatic purpose to the GPL for the developer. Any new developments by any party are conveyed back to the original author. Thats why people like Linus love to use it.
People that complain about the GPL are almost always parties interested in taking working code from the original author, and using/improving on it, without giving anything back. Why should we care if you want to freeload on someone else's work?
I particularily liked: Ubuntu: It's become something of a truism that Linux is more secure than Windows, but that doesn't say much for how secure it is on its own.
Mac: The Mac operating system itself is extremely secure. It uses the Unix model for separating administrative functions, requiring admin access to make most modifications to the operating system.
What the heck?? Those are the first sentences under their respective "Security" sections -- no editing. How is that even remotely unbiased? Mac is secure because it is UNIX, and Linux, well, in theory, any operating system is potentially hackable. Yes, both are true, but come on!
Proprietary software is going backwards? It seems that about half the upgrades you hear about involve adding restrictions (DRM) or intentionally crippling the software (unless you buy Ultimate).
Giving away 5% to charity is a much better business decision than paying taxes. Especially when you can invest the other 95% in some of the nastiest companies in the world.
4. Enact a bill that hampers research on encryption, setting the country behind the rest of the world. Maybe call it Digital Millennium Copyrights act.
Neither situations are going to exist naturally, at least in the longer term, as they are basically unstable equilibriums. A large number of deleterious genotypes will be weeded out by natural selection. An advantageous recessive gene is just as likely to be increased as it is likely to be decreased due to inbreeding -ie. inbreeding will only cause that specific allele to move to fixation based on chance.
plug in hybrids have all the benefits of pure electric cars, but you're not stuck in one city. Want to go on a road trip? just fill up the tank. Otherwise, its electric.
So a page loading best on one of the many Gecko based browsers available on virtually every os, including osx, is the same thing as a page turning you away because you are not using ie6 on windows >2k??
Web standards are preferable, but all you are doing here is making the term "vendor lock-in" weaker and less usefull.
If you don't want to use a Mozilla browser, but want your pages to load well, try Camino, it uses gecko and is quite nice.
If your referring to the parent which talks about the balance - it is in fact referring correctly to mass. A balance measures mass, a spring scale or other force measuring device measures weight.
Am I correct in understanding that in Vista, the web-based msn search engine crawls your hard drive? or is it a build in search engine? (ie. daemon running on the local machine)
I'm sure there would be some major security risks inherint in this, particularily if they opened it up to compeditors.
Your comment seems logical, except for the comparison with inbreeding.
Inbreeding decreases genotypic diversity, thus *slowing* adaptation. This is quite the opposite of introducing a higher mutation rate (as with radiation). In one case, you end up with more expressed deleterious phenotypes, but the same amount of genotypes. In the other, you get many new genotypes, many of which leads to deleterious phenotypes, but also leading to adaptations.
> The only reason that C would die is if another fast, portable, general-purpose language like it came along that offered significant benefits over C. I can't personally see that happening any time soon.
That probably won't happen untill CPU's have many, many cores, and threading in C has become too awkward. However, I have a feeling in this case, C's replacement will look as close to C as possible.
Exactly, how is the language replacing Java going to be programmed? You need access to these low level operations to properly write a language/compiler/runtime.
So how long before someone manages to get a nice x-site script into their page. This could be rather annoying since facebook doesn't work without javascript turned on.
So, lets say you operate a web site, and use google's add words. Lets say you fashon yourself as a reputable source of information for something acedemic.
How long would *YOU* put up with perpetual adds for acedemic fraud, when you could use another add service which posts more relivant and ethical adds for the same price??
If this really was the problem that most ISP's have with p2p, then why have the ISP's not created/supported a specific client that is designed to play nice with the ISP's networks. I.E., push a "torrent" client that prefers to seed to people within the network, and do not function as supernodes. If it was fast (because lots of customers are using it), then I'm sure it would be easy to push. Problem is, that would "endorse" using more bandwidth than average joe currently uses.
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precisely. Microsoft was the answer to locked in hardware back in the 80s. Supporting Apple not only continues to support software lock in, but it also supports one of the few remaining hardware lock in companies left in the consumer market.
There is nothing good for the consumer in companies like this.
As far as I understand, the peak daily usage is not all that profitable. It requires generating plants to have much more capacity than is needed most of the day. If solar panels take the edge off those peak hours, and make consumption that much more consistent throughout the day, and from hot to cool seasons, then they may actually make more money.
There is a major pragmatic purpose to the GPL for the developer. Any new developments by any party are conveyed back to the original author. Thats why people like Linus love to use it.
People that complain about the GPL are almost always parties interested in taking working code from the original author, and using/improving on it, without giving anything back. Why should we care if you want to freeload on someone else's work?
Precisely,
I particularily liked:
Ubuntu: It's become something of a truism that Linux is more secure than Windows, but that doesn't say much for how secure it is on its own.
Mac: The Mac operating system itself is extremely secure. It uses the Unix model for separating administrative functions, requiring admin access to make most modifications to the operating system.
What the heck?? Those are the first sentences under their respective "Security" sections -- no editing. How is that even remotely unbiased? Mac is secure because it is UNIX, and Linux, well, in theory, any operating system is potentially hackable. Yes, both are true, but come on!
Proprietary software is going backwards? It seems that about half the upgrades you hear about involve adding restrictions (DRM) or intentionally crippling the software (unless you buy Ultimate).
Yeah, Philanthropy... Right.
Giving away 5% to charity is a much better business decision than paying taxes. Especially when you can invest the other 95% in some of the nastiest companies in the world.
4. Enact a bill that hampers research on encryption, setting the country behind the rest of the world. Maybe call it Digital Millennium Copyrights act.
Everyone puts in their 2 cents, no one reads past the summary.
Neither situations are going to exist naturally, at least in the longer term, as they are basically unstable equilibriums. A large number of deleterious genotypes will be weeded out by natural selection. An advantageous recessive gene is just as likely to be increased as it is likely to be decreased due to inbreeding -ie. inbreeding will only cause that specific allele to move to fixation based on chance.
Damn, I read the title and thought someone had figured out where /dev/null goes.
It will work perfectly!
A roof covered in solar panels, which powers a celing covered in flourescent lighting!
Brilliant!
plug in hybrids have all the benefits of pure electric cars, but you're not stuck in one city. Want to go on a road trip? just fill up the tank. Otherwise, its electric.
So a page loading best on one of the many Gecko based browsers available on virtually every os, including osx, is the same thing as a page turning you away because you are not using ie6 on windows >2k??
Web standards are preferable, but all you are doing here is making the term "vendor lock-in" weaker and less usefull.
If you don't want to use a Mozilla browser, but want your pages to load well, try Camino, it uses gecko and is quite nice.
A clear and justified point... right up untill that FUD flamebait at the end.
If your referring to the parent which talks about the balance - it is in fact referring correctly to mass. A balance measures mass, a spring scale or other force measuring device measures weight.
If you meant a different parent, then disregard.
Am I correct in understanding that in Vista, the web-based msn search engine crawls your hard drive? or is it a build in search engine? (ie. daemon running on the local machine)
I'm sure there would be some major security risks inherint in this, particularily if they opened it up to compeditors.
Thats the trouble with anti-compedative behavior... Apple, OS/2, Netscape, Word Perfect, etc.
All better compedators, all examples of why compeditors should "duck and cover" when MS starts talking about helping/interoperating/working with them.
Your comment seems logical, except for the comparison with inbreeding.
Inbreeding decreases genotypic diversity, thus *slowing* adaptation. This is quite the opposite of introducing a higher mutation rate (as with radiation). In one case, you end up with more expressed deleterious phenotypes, but the same amount of genotypes. In the other, you get many new genotypes, many of which leads to deleterious phenotypes, but also leading to adaptations.
Yeah, but then we can just create another giant ball of space garbage and fire it at the old one, knocking it out of the way. Oh, the wisdom of Fry.
You forgot Security
> The only reason that C would die is if another fast, portable, general-purpose language like it came along that offered significant benefits over C. I can't personally see that happening any time soon.
That probably won't happen untill CPU's have many, many cores, and threading in C has become too awkward. However, I have a feeling in this case, C's replacement will look as close to C as possible.
Exactly, how is the language replacing Java going to be programmed? You need access to these low level operations to properly write a language/compiler/runtime.
So how long before someone manages to get a nice x-site script into their page. This could be rather annoying since facebook doesn't work without javascript turned on.
So, lets say you operate a web site, and use google's add words. Lets say you fashon yourself as a reputable source of information for something acedemic.
How long would *YOU* put up with perpetual adds for acedemic fraud, when you could use another add service which posts more relivant and ethical adds for the same price??
Google *IS* thinking about their customers.
If this really was the problem that most ISP's have with p2p, then why have the ISP's not created/supported a specific client that is designed to play nice with the ISP's networks. I.E., push a "torrent" client that prefers to seed to people within the network, and do not function as supernodes. If it was fast (because lots of customers are using it), then I'm sure it would be easy to push. Problem is, that would "endorse" using more bandwidth than average joe currently uses.