A properly configured windows system is as secure as a properly configured linux system
It is also unmanageable by the operator. The IT does not have time to run around and help everyone when he needs to connect to a printer, for example, or install an approved, free or site-licensed piece of software. A simple XP user can't even change his own preferences in Word; a power user can't connect to a printer (but can install some software.) The XP privileges and their effects are as chaotic as they can be.
Why would you ever open anything not from a source you know
And how, short of digital signatures, would you know who sent the email? SMTP has no method to authenticate the sender, as spammers demonstrate every day. You can send a fake email with nothing more than a telnet app.
To conect the middle of nowhere to a place with absolutely nothing
That is only true if USA does not buy anything at all from China and Korea and Japan. But it does.
As many posters indicated, this tunnel can guarantee transportation of goods using tidal energy, in other words - even when fuel oil for ships is in short supply or becomes just too expensive. Most of the railways in the Far East already have electric power, and the new tracks for the tunnel will definitely have electric power as well. This would allow you to transport anything directly from China through Transsib and the connecting railways to Alaska, bypassing the ocean and the shipping completely.
In other words, the Peak Oil concept may be believed or disbelieved by populace, and nobody cares what you or I think about it. However large states must pay attention to the possibility, even if it is only a conjecture. The tunnel between continents would greatly add to national security of both USA and Russia - in the real sense of national security, such as the guaranteed ability to trade for centuries ahead.
Some of the former Soviet republics _might_ arguably be better off now than they were under the USSR, but that sure as hell can't be said for Russia.
This is not so. Russia is doing very well in all aspects - definitely better than in 1980-90; In 90's stores were empty; now there is no free shelf space for Moldavian products even. I would only place some Baltic states in a better position, though some of those states have a lovefest with ex-NSDAP killers right now, so it's yet unclear how they will get out of this.
Yes, that's an option. But it has its dangers too - each society has people who will share his (or anyone's) ideas, for free or for money. These followers can create plenty of social unrest, and they can be seen larger than they are. Do you want crowds of unruly people marching the streets and demanding that the government gives them money and power - just because they demand louder? When you cut your hand, do you just wait for your body to fight the infection "naturally", or you go to a doctor and he gives you antibiotics?
Gary is just bitter that he is not in power but other people are. Gary wants power, he wanted it all his life, he is born to be a politician. Even when he was wearing the chess crown he spent too much time in chess politics and too little time playing. And eventually this obsession brought him down. He still wants more than he is worth, and he has precious little to sell to people. Putin gave Russia stability, he paid all foreign debts and made the rouble a player on international markets, he resolved the Chechen problem, he has strong and respectable foreign policy, his government is also stable and consistent... what else is there to ask for? And then Gary comes up with a proposal to throw this all out and give him the reins (and be taken for a wild ride.)
IMO, pure democracy is that type of society which gives the preferential treatment to its own enemies. That's a fact. In a democracy you can gather a crowd and preach evils of democracy. That is one reason why democracies don't stay around, they migrate into more stable forms, where you have a free speech right only if your speech is either harmless or beneficial to the society at large. But who will judge your speech? Currently governments do that, and most of them (if not all) are ill-equipped for such a decision.
I wonder if Russia's really better under Putin than under his predecessors
Yes, infinitely so. That's why Putin is popular and Kasparov is not. Maybe it's just because Putin wants to save Russia and Kasparov wants to sell Russia?
A police officer's job is not nice. He has to deal with criminals, drunks and other dangerous people. He has to be in the street at odd hours, mostly when he'd rather be home. He is on the government's (or city's) payroll, paid less than he could get elsewhere. His job is repetitive, boring and sometimes dangerous. The job requires training at the Police Academy, but that does not guarantee employment. He has a gun but if he uses it he is in trouble (the same if he doesn't use the gun when necessary.) He will be in a court many times, giving testimony under oath, and he'd better remember everything and have proof of everything because the other guy's lawyer is going for his throat, trying to impeach his testimony wherever possible. When the job requires use of force he must walk a fine line between being too weak (and dead) and being too strong (and the suspect dead or hurt.) He might be sued in either case.
Now, given these highly unattractive job characteristics, maybe just a notch above the septic tank truck driver, who in his/her right mind would even consider applying?
Idealists who want to "make the difference". They are "good cops."
Realists who want to play their domination fantasies out in the real world. They are really bad cops.
Idiots who can't tell (1) from (2) above. They make indifferent cops.
There was a documentary on TV, years ago, about how New Orleans police was overrun by the type 2 from this list. It was just like a mafia. And if an officer was unwilling to turn to the dark side he was pushed out, one way or another.
One unexpected side effect of this mod would be a reduction in mass of the iPod, and that is generally useful if you keep it in a pocket, for example. HDDs are heavy. Also, Flash does not require spinning up, so the modded device should be somewhat faster. But I can't be sure because I don't have any iPod, either modded or original.
It does not matter if Vista allows you to create a USB bootable flash disk - other OSes will do that. If your computer is not physically secure then it is not secure at all. Even today you can come with your own USB flash disk, boot someone's computer from it (barring the BIOS password) and have access to anything that is on the HDD.
"Capable" means "Capable", in plain language: it means it's capable of running Vista.
Yes, just like humans in general are capable of running a marathon distance (42 km). [small]Most will die from heart attack before finishing, though.[/small]
"Is Microsoft selling Vista as Aero, or is it selling it as an OS?", and that is one heck of a dicey thing to determine in a forum, and in a court, it will be fairly near impossible to prove.
It's actually easy to prove. Gather a representative set of sample ads and ask a MS witness what theme is shown - an Aero/Glass or a Windows Classic. Then ask the same witness if the shown theme will work on a "Capable" PC. If not then you have a clear case of false advertising. Splitting legal hairs between "$foo Capable", "Designed for $foo", "Works great with $foo", or "Ready for $foo" is pointless, and the jury will only see it as another way to question the meaning of "is".
The sticker says "Vista Capable", and it's unreasonable to expect that the customer gets his PhD degree in MicrosoftSpeak before buying. "Vista Capable" means "Fully Supported" to a typical customer. If I were a member of the jury I would vote against MS here.
This is a trap that is well known, and other more experienced advertisers do not neglect to provide a fine print with tons of disclaimers. MS was just doing a sloppy ad job, just as it does most of all other things, and the system of stickers was intentionally designed to confuse the customer; he has no way of knowing that "Capable" actually means "Incapable".
Is there going to be an active market for XP licenses? Will WGA prevent people from buying ne naked PCs and loading old XP licenses?
I'm unsure what you are talking about. There *is* a market of XP licenses already, and it always was, and probably will be for a while. I know because I build XP boxes, and the price of a license is today quite acceptable, just about the cost of a motherboard, or about 1/3 of a decent CPU, or about 15% of the total cost of the hardware.
Since these licenses are 100% legitimate the WGA will not stop you.
Can't you see what the wipers are doing on your windshield?
In my car the wipers control is a lever and a ring, I can feel their positions, but I don't need to know what they are set to now if I want to make the wipers go slower or faster - and that is a known, simple action.
Presumably LCDs and chips can be made so cheaply that a sliding plastic indicator actually involves a significant increase in the cost.
Yes.
A sliding plastic indicator needs rails, needle, thread, spring, axis and the traction wheel. A digital indicator requires a common LCD, which is basically a piece of glass.
A plastic indicator needs to be assembled separately from the board, by hand. A digital indicator is installed onto the board automatically, and soldered along with all other parts.
A plastic indicator needs to be calibrated, so that the needle points to the right frequency. A digital indicator requires no such work.
A plastic indicator may jam if it is poorly designed. A digital indicator does not jam.
A plastic indicator is not precise enough to point stations out, especially when they announce themselves by their frequency. A digital indicator is right on the money.
A plastic indicator has no backlight and is useless in darkness. A backlight for an LCD can be easily provided.
It is a good, valid point for corporations considering partial migration of some employees to Linux+OOO. But it is a very weak selling point when you talk to an individual - s/he has already a computer with an OS on it, and the fact that the OOO can run on some other computer is not that interesting.
It's far more important to mention that OOO allows you to do nice documents with pictures and fancy formatting... pretty much like free WordPad does, though, with some additional functions. MS Office 2003 Pro can be bought today for about $110-180.
Maybe dinosaurs, being cold-blooded, could not adapt to suddenly much colder climate, whereas warm-blooded mammals just had to eat more and run more to stay warm. Lizards that we have today could be the last dinosaurs alive.
No, not all of them, of course - just one or two, a very typical ratio. And when they work they do it well, so prodding them periodically is the easiest way to get things done. That's what managers are for.
The missing factor here is that F/OSS developers are unpaid volunteers, not paid employees.
An employee must be either a co-owner of the business, or an angel, to efficiently work from home. I have employees who need constant supervision to work at the office even; at home they'd be surfing pr0n all day long - and you can't monitor them, and you can't prove anything. Hard to fire in such conditions; the employee may file a lawsuit against you and win - because it was *you* who set up the work this way.
I can't imagine that the lease is one of your problems. If you and your employees earn $50,000/yr it's, say, $500K per year in "bring home" cash, or roughly $1M with burdening. This place wants $1,500/mo, or $18K/yr - which is 2% of your salary budget. And that is not the cheapest place; other people rent for $0.50/sq.ft, for example, and there are tons of offers (not surprising with this market.)
By isolating people you make social workings of the company impossible. You can't have face to face meetings, you can't casually walk up to someone and sketch a diagram or two, you complicate things that don't have to be complicated. IMO, you will lose far more in productivity than you gain in giving up the office space. How many companies do that? Hardly any; even one-man companies often maintain an office which is their public face - where they have an address, where they meet visitors, where they make phone calls, where they are a business. And at home they are at home - relaxing, reading, having family etc. Mixing work and home is bad. It's even difficult to work at home, where other distractions are present.
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It is also unmanageable by the operator. The IT does not have time to run around and help everyone when he needs to connect to a printer, for example, or install an approved, free or site-licensed piece of software. A simple XP user can't even change his own preferences in Word; a power user can't connect to a printer (but can install some software.) The XP privileges and their effects are as chaotic as they can be.
And how, short of digital signatures, would you know who sent the email? SMTP has no method to authenticate the sender, as spammers demonstrate every day. You can send a fake email with nothing more than a telnet app.
That is only true if USA does not buy anything at all from China and Korea and Japan. But it does.
As many posters indicated, this tunnel can guarantee transportation of goods using tidal energy, in other words - even when fuel oil for ships is in short supply or becomes just too expensive. Most of the railways in the Far East already have electric power, and the new tracks for the tunnel will definitely have electric power as well. This would allow you to transport anything directly from China through Transsib and the connecting railways to Alaska, bypassing the ocean and the shipping completely.
In other words, the Peak Oil concept may be believed or disbelieved by populace, and nobody cares what you or I think about it. However large states must pay attention to the possibility, even if it is only a conjecture. The tunnel between continents would greatly add to national security of both USA and Russia - in the real sense of national security, such as the guaranteed ability to trade for centuries ahead.
The terminal velocity of a bullet is not that high (300 mph?)
This is not so. Russia is doing very well in all aspects - definitely better than in 1980-90; In 90's stores were empty; now there is no free shelf space for Moldavian products even. I would only place some Baltic states in a better position, though some of those states have a lovefest with ex-NSDAP killers right now, so it's yet unclear how they will get out of this.
Gary is just bitter that he is not in power but other people are. Gary wants power, he wanted it all his life, he is born to be a politician. Even when he was wearing the chess crown he spent too much time in chess politics and too little time playing. And eventually this obsession brought him down. He still wants more than he is worth, and he has precious little to sell to people. Putin gave Russia stability, he paid all foreign debts and made the rouble a player on international markets, he resolved the Chechen problem, he has strong and respectable foreign policy, his government is also stable and consistent ... what else is there to ask for? And then Gary comes up with a proposal to throw this all out and give him the reins (and be taken for a wild ride.)
IMO, pure democracy is that type of society which gives the preferential treatment to its own enemies. That's a fact. In a democracy you can gather a crowd and preach evils of democracy. That is one reason why democracies don't stay around, they migrate into more stable forms, where you have a free speech right only if your speech is either harmless or beneficial to the society at large. But who will judge your speech? Currently governments do that, and most of them (if not all) are ill-equipped for such a decision.
Yes, infinitely so. That's why Putin is popular and Kasparov is not. Maybe it's just because Putin wants to save Russia and Kasparov wants to sell Russia?
Now, given these highly unattractive job characteristics, maybe just a notch above the septic tank truck driver, who in his/her right mind would even consider applying?
There was a documentary on TV, years ago, about how New Orleans police was overrun by the type 2 from this list. It was just like a mafia. And if an officer was unwilling to turn to the dark side he was pushed out, one way or another.
One unexpected side effect of this mod would be a reduction in mass of the iPod, and that is generally useful if you keep it in a pocket, for example. HDDs are heavy. Also, Flash does not require spinning up, so the modded device should be somewhat faster. But I can't be sure because I don't have any iPod, either modded or original.
You may sign at your local Toyota dealer, of course.
It does not matter if Vista allows you to create a USB bootable flash disk - other OSes will do that. If your computer is not physically secure then it is not secure at all. Even today you can come with your own USB flash disk, boot someone's computer from it (barring the BIOS password) and have access to anything that is on the HDD.
As far as I know, one can legally install an evaluation copy of Vista, with a blank CD key, and evaluate it for some number of days. Then it expires.
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Yes, just like humans in general are capable of running a marathon distance (42 km). [small]Most will die from heart attack before finishing, though.[/small]
"Is Microsoft selling Vista as Aero, or is it selling it as an OS?", and that is one heck of a dicey thing to determine in a forum, and in a court, it will be fairly near impossible to prove.
It's actually easy to prove. Gather a representative set of sample ads and ask a MS witness what theme is shown - an Aero/Glass or a Windows Classic. Then ask the same witness if the shown theme will work on a "Capable" PC. If not then you have a clear case of false advertising. Splitting legal hairs between "$foo Capable", "Designed for $foo", "Works great with $foo", or "Ready for $foo" is pointless, and the jury will only see it as another way to question the meaning of "is".
This is a trap that is well known, and other more experienced advertisers do not neglect to provide a fine print with tons of disclaimers. MS was just doing a sloppy ad job, just as it does most of all other things, and the system of stickers was intentionally designed to confuse the customer; he has no way of knowing that "Capable" actually means "Incapable".
I'm unsure what you are talking about. There *is* a market of XP licenses already, and it always was, and probably will be for a while. I know because I build XP boxes, and the price of a license is today quite acceptable, just about the cost of a motherboard, or about 1/3 of a decent CPU, or about 15% of the total cost of the hardware. Since these licenses are 100% legitimate the WGA will not stop you.
In my car the wipers control is a lever and a ring, I can feel their positions, but I don't need to know what they are set to now if I want to make the wipers go slower or faster - and that is a known, simple action.
Yes.
Good that you never mentioned this on Slashdot. Opportunities here are countless :-)
It's far more important to mention that OOO allows you to do nice documents with pictures and fancy formatting ... pretty much like free WordPad does, though, with some additional functions. MS Office 2003 Pro can be bought today for about $110-180.
Maybe dinosaurs, being cold-blooded, could not adapt to suddenly much colder climate, whereas warm-blooded mammals just had to eat more and run more to stay warm. Lizards that we have today could be the last dinosaurs alive.
Ask your manager who is standing right behind you :-)
No, not all of them, of course - just one or two, a very typical ratio. And when they work they do it well, so prodding them periodically is the easiest way to get things done. That's what managers are for.
An employee must be either a co-owner of the business, or an angel, to efficiently work from home. I have employees who need constant supervision to work at the office even; at home they'd be surfing pr0n all day long - and you can't monitor them, and you can't prove anything. Hard to fire in such conditions; the employee may file a lawsuit against you and win - because it was *you* who set up the work this way.
By isolating people you make social workings of the company impossible. You can't have face to face meetings, you can't casually walk up to someone and sketch a diagram or two, you complicate things that don't have to be complicated. IMO, you will lose far more in productivity than you gain in giving up the office space. How many companies do that? Hardly any; even one-man companies often maintain an office which is their public face - where they have an address, where they meet visitors, where they make phone calls, where they are a business. And at home they are at home - relaxing, reading, having family etc. Mixing work and home is bad. It's even difficult to work at home, where other distractions are present.