I was addressing the problem with grand-parent comment, that human rights were applied to all humans, not only citizens. But in order to actually keep the things the way they are, set of humans was limited to "white people" (or something like that).
I do see this as rational and understandable, but I cannot accept it as "applies it to all humans equally" and not calling it "hypocritical".
As for slavery as absolute necessity for creation of USA, I just couldn't care less. If you trade off liberty for economical gains, I can understand it. But then please admit that USA was not respecting human rights. You can't eat the cake and keep it.
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How do you (not YOU, but Americans) justify Civil War (1849-1865)? Killing people from your own nation just because they want to get rid of government is bit puzzling to me. Should the south be considered conquered territory? This sure sounds like flaming but I really want to know.
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It seems Microsoft has admitted the mistake. Sadly, the reaction is not security update.
Microsoft updated the advisory on Friday evening and included links to four downloadable updates that would unblock the file formats. One update was provided for each of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and CorelDraw file types.
I think digital (bucket) sorting works quite well with multicore systems. Divide to-be-sorted data among CPU-s and let them throw data into shared buckets. I don't see any theoretical problems with this. Not that I have done this, though...
P.S. Digital sorting can work better than n*log(n)
Let me see the differences... He is dead and she is alive.
Your scheme of justice fails at extremes. For instance, Alice insults Bob quite badly. Bob never forgets this incident and feels quite bad about it for all his life. Alice suffers form Bobs' weekly vengeance, yet Bob still feel bad. Everyone else feels this incident is bit silly.
By your logic offender should feel bad as long as offended feels bad. This only works when everyone is normal.
P.S. I wonder how the convicted felt in prison. By second world standards he is lucky if he wasn't raped in there.
Well for one thing the PC is not the primary player for most people. iPod's and other "MP3" players are.
And previously you said
People are familiar with it and therefore are reluctant to change.
People are not mp3 players:) Most "mp3" players support wma format, which has its own problems. And I know people how rip their CDs in wma, just because they use WMP. Ogg is as easy in Sound Juicer.
About space problem. Keep your position coherent -
which isn't a real problem in the days a of 500 gb hdd This is for PCs. As you noted, there are portable media players, where there is notable price difference for x2 storage.
They do - for business and ultimate versions: The OEM versions of Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate include downgrade rights to Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Professional x64, and Windows XP Tablet PC.
If you don't like it, them, and their business practices, then just STFU and "buy" something else.
Freedom of speech anyone? Most people are used to MS business practices and it wouldn't hurt too much to show them the world, where evil things are done in lesser extent.
That's what business is about - making as much money as you possibly can, however you can do it, and make yourself and your shareholders rich.
Al Capone pops in my mind. He did a good job of making himself rich. I am pretty sure we are better off without him and his kind.
I'm sorry, what business model should they use instead? Give everything away for free and hope that people paypal them a donation for their efforts?
They should keep the business model, choke up and die. And one will be responsible for the starving high class employees.
Seriously, if they are evil, they deserve bad things (natural or mob type). In those cases, goading is ok.
It would be much nicer if OS would take care of what should be cashed. FireFox could just write unused data to some temp file and OS cashes this file. If there is lots of unused RAM, this should work quite fast. If there is shortage of RAM, other applications won't choke.
VMware memory usage is rather tricky. I have one dedicated VMware server and guests eat only a 1/3 of maximum memory (reported by utility "top" and gnome system monitor). But that doesn't mean memory is enough (the machines start to slightly choke on that memory usage). The VMwares' web management tool says all memory is eaten up (guests have ~95% of RAM). Go figure.
If you send your messages using operational telephone and one node happens to remember what is said, informs you that every bloody node heard what you said and to top it all, says to others "hey, I heard what those guys said", than he certainly is equivalent to burglar.
What is it with your forefathers? Were they the only ones who were always right about everything in present or future? And whenever someone proposes something and opposition says "our forefathers would disagree", the only thing left to say is "oh, bugger!"
I don't know any educational software provided by Microsoft. They provide platform (Windows) and professional tools (as in, you work with them for living). The rest of software simply use this platform. As someone here already mentioned, wine could be used.
And your nail/hammer analogy is rather pointless without examples - which software needs MS platform? MS Offcie? Visual Basic?
If, for instance, a biology class uses some über Windows depended software, then Windows should be used only on those PCs'.
If I remember correctly, Hawking predicted that small enough black holes would evaporate quite fast. I was wondering, if you would know, if black hole of Pluto wouldn't evaporate before it could be interesting enough for theoretical experiments?
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I was addressing the problem with grand-parent comment, that human rights were applied to all humans, not only citizens. But in order to actually keep the things the way they are, set of humans was limited to "white people" (or something like that).
I do see this as rational and understandable, but I cannot accept it as "applies it to all humans equally" and not calling it "hypocritical".
As for slavery as absolute necessity for creation of USA, I just couldn't care less. If you trade off liberty for economical gains, I can understand it. But then please admit that USA was not respecting human rights. You can't eat the cake and keep it.
<offtopic>
How do you (not YOU, but Americans) justify Civil War (1849-1865)? Killing people from your own nation just because they want to get rid of government is bit puzzling to me. Should the south be considered conquered territory? This sure sounds like flaming but I really want to know.
</offtopic>
What were these "human rights"? If they had anything to do with freedom, how did the slavery happen?
It seems Microsoft has admitted the mistake. Sadly, the reaction is not security update.
It is "couldn't care less". The point of this expression is "I do not care at all, so I cannot care less, because there is no such thing as negative care"
You essentially said "Microsoft cares about average home user and is threatening to care less." Which, I believe, is not what you tried to say.
Faithfully yours, semantics Nazi
I think digital (bucket) sorting works quite well with multicore systems.
Divide to-be-sorted data among CPU-s and let them throw data into shared buckets. I don't see any theoretical problems with this.
Not that I have done this, though...
P.S. Digital sorting can work better than n*log(n)
Let me see the differences... He is dead and she is alive.
Your scheme of justice fails at extremes. For instance, Alice insults Bob quite badly. Bob never forgets this incident and feels quite bad about it for all his life. Alice suffers form Bobs' weekly vengeance, yet Bob still feel bad. Everyone else feels this incident is bit silly.
By your logic offender should feel bad as long as offended feels bad. This only works when everyone is normal.
P.S. I wonder how the convicted felt in prison. By second world standards he is lucky if he wasn't raped in there.
And I thought everybody used Wikipedia.
FUD: Female urination device
Bit more abstract (offtopic/boring)
It seems the quick way to win is to
*be open (or free)
*be good
*storm the market
good example - XML. It's good (AFAIK), open and first implementation in its class.
bad example - RSS. IIRC it had loose implementation.
In this case mp3 stormed the market and was more or less good, but proprietary. So we are in long one but with chance to win (no other is much better)
And previously you said
People are not mp3 players :) Most "mp3" players support wma format, which has its own problems. And I know people how rip their CDs in wma, just because they use WMP. Ogg is as easy in Sound Juicer.
About space problem. Keep your position coherent -
which isn't a real problem in the days a of 500 gb hdd This is for PCs. As you noted, there are portable media players, where there is notable price difference for x2 storage.And what makes mp3 more easy than ogg? On Ubuntu box making oggs is far more easier than mp3.
If people don't care about quality, they do care about space taken.
And end users don't need DRM, so if W3C tries to help end users, this is advantage.
The OEM versions of Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate include downgrade rights to Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Professional x64, and Windows XP Tablet PC.
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Freedom of speech anyone? Most people are used to MS business practices and it wouldn't hurt too much to show them the world, where evil things are done in lesser extent.
That's what business is about - making as much money as you possibly can, however you can do it, and make yourself and your shareholders rich.Al Capone pops in my mind. He did a good job of making himself rich. I am pretty sure we are better off without him and his kind.
I'm sorry, what business model should they use instead? Give everything away for free and hope that people paypal them a donation for their efforts?They should keep the business model, choke up and die. And one will be responsible for the starving high class employees.
Seriously, if they are evil, they deserve bad things (natural or mob type). In those cases, goading is ok.
Cheers!
In the heat of the battle it is easy to forget the ODF - I guess the only "lose" moment for MS
Original crime - guilty of being alive. Somewhat like original sin (which is quite unoriginal), except that you accumulate it along the way.
there is a law on everybodyThat means each and everyone has committed a crime, it's just that authorities haven't figured out - which ones. Al Capone anyone?
Are you saying costumers should suffer so some cinema owners wouldn't? (I know you don't, I'm making a point here)
Nice! :)
Checked with 'free' - VMware only uses ~ 15%, the rest is cache.
It would be much nicer if OS would take care of what should be cashed.
FireFox could just write unused data to some temp file and OS cashes this file.
If there is lots of unused RAM, this should work quite fast.
If there is shortage of RAM, other applications won't choke.
VMware memory usage is rather tricky. I have one dedicated VMware server and guests eat only a 1/3 of maximum memory (reported by utility "top" and gnome system monitor). But that doesn't mean memory is enough (the machines start to slightly choke on that memory usage).
The VMwares' web management tool says all memory is eaten up (guests have ~95% of RAM). Go figure.
If you send your messages using operational telephone and one node happens to remember what is said, informs you that every bloody node heard what you said and to top it all, says to others "hey, I heard what those guys said", than he certainly is equivalent to burglar.
What is it with your forefathers? Were they the only ones who were always right about everything in present or future? And whenever someone proposes something and opposition says "our forefathers would disagree", the only thing left to say is "oh, bugger!"
I don't know any educational software provided by Microsoft. They provide platform (Windows) and professional tools (as in, you work with them for living). The rest of software simply use this platform. As someone here already mentioned, wine could be used.
And your nail/hammer analogy is rather pointless without examples - which software needs MS platform? MS Offcie? Visual Basic?
If, for instance, a biology class uses some über Windows depended software, then Windows should be used only on those PCs'.
If I remember correctly, Hawking predicted that small enough black holes would evaporate quite fast. I was wondering, if you would know, if black hole of Pluto wouldn't evaporate before it could be interesting enough for theoretical experiments?