> Nobody in his/her right mind care of the stats
of a vacuum cleaner, except complete nerds.
Pardon? You lost me at this point.
If no-one cared about the specification of a vacuum cleaner, Dyson would be an angry man with a long-lapsed patent.
There are few examples of true commodity items in the real world, other than food. Even a desk fan's box displays its specification so that customers can determine if it will cool a room of size X.
Can you really remember an occasion when you were content to lift the first item off the shelf without reading its spec?
> Aren't you aware of the Linux development paradigm that > has been the rule since Linus released Linux?
This may seem blindingly obvious, but KDE IS NOT LINUX.
There are many release paradigms in the free software world and one which may work for a bleeding-edge OS kernel may not be appropriate for a desktop environment that is destined to be immediately included in many distributions as soon as it appears to be out of RC status.
Look at OpenBSD: two releases per year, each rock-solid. How? Release snapshot after dreary release snapshot until it is TESTED and DONE. The developers suppress their ``WORLD, LOOK AT THIS COOL'' urge and buckle-down to get it right.
The people installing KDE 4.blah from a distro are not the ones who will provide useful feedback; useful feedback comes from the interminable series of RCs tested by people who care.
> I can not remember the last time I browsed to a site, expecting something useful, to be held up by flash gimmickery.
One example is the website for William Morris, spectacle frame manufacturers in London. I viewed a pair of their frames in a shop and, wishing to learn more, tried various search term permutations without success.
Questioning my sanity, I resorted to various URL permutations and eventually landed upon:
I cannot conceive any reason why a catalogue site should be implemented in such a manner. In fact, to this day I don't even KNOW what is on their site! There is no indexable content which search engines can use to correlate to query terms, so they are invisible to the searching World.
To be really pedantic, the Reliant was of the Avenger class.
Miranda was a TNG-era abomination that was then retrospectively applied to prior vessels, despite five years of publications to the contrary. Just another example of Okuda Revisionism.
Prohibited by the Carter Administration in the USA, but used throughout the World. Breeder reactors use the output of conventional fission plants as fuel and the resultant waste, once reprocessed, has a half-life of a few centuries instead of hundreds of millenia.
> Unsafe for *other* drivers (It's certainly safer for the person in it )
Not necessarily -- for example, there are many links to the crash demonstration between a Renault Espace MPV and a Land Rover Discovery. The Espace , with 5-star NCAP rating, crumpled as designed and maintained the integrity of its passenger cabin but the Discovery suffered serious internal damage.
Inappropriate charge based on misunderstanding of law;
Legal representation on basis of ambiguity.
Job done, money made; yes, even for ``Friends of Liberty'' as they call themselves.
Much better in a case like this, with a lesser penalty, to go pro se. Most judges are willing to assist self-defendants with matters of procedure, though of course they still expect that the defendant will have prepared his case.
> not as long as they have the worlds largest coal seam (and they mine it open pit too)
Domestic Chinese coal production is insufficient to meet demand. Australian coal producers are scrambling to feed the demand; at one point there were 79 cargo vessels waiting in line for loading at Newcastle.
http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=3908328
That's why Australia's government recently announced a budget surplus ( and why their inflation is now topping 4% ).
> The whole "day thing" is about the time between disclosure and patch/signature release.
Do you have any citation for your assertion?
The term derives from warez "0-day boards". These were populated by the most elite crackers who had cracked software on the 0th-day of release; that is, the software hit the shelves and was already cracked.
Try doing a web search for ``0-day'' with a date threshold prior to, say, 1995. You won't find any hits for your interpretation:
> Bad publicity made Google fix their open redirector for > URLs. Bad publicity will make them fix this
Your optimism is like a ray of Sunlight in a dark world, but I fear it is misplaced.
Many USENET groups are virtually unreadable today because of the torrent of spam posting originating from Google Groups accounts. Thousands of users have submitted precise spam reports to Google, quoting the article-IDs. Result? None. Consequence? USENETters start to block any and all Google Groups postings
( though http://improve-usenet.org/ seems to have died )
Without the pressure of blacklisting, I do not think that Google will be inclined to address the mail spam problem either. It only affects third parties at present, so why expend resources fixing it when there is no immediate benefit to their users?
> The real problem is really deciding what is a legitimate > source of e-mail, without requiring a central registry of > e-mail servers or some other sort of bureaucratic process.
Well that's the problem that SPF solves. Each domain owner creates a DNS entry that specifies which mail servers are permitted to send mail for that domain. When an MX receives a HELO it checks that the originating IP corresponds with the DNS entry; if not, the mail can be rejected or subjected to further inspection and scoring.
Simple to implement, I've done it in 20 minutes for my domain ( 20 minutes from ``What is this project?'' to submitting the DNS change ).
> Either that or they agree that a little information is better for the > chinese people than none at all.
Your statement assumes that without Google, the people of China would have no information. This is blatantly incorrect: Google ( 25% market share ) implements the same Government-mandated filters as Baidu ( 62% market share ).
Google's presence in China is simply about gaining a foothold in a potentially lucrative market. ``Empowering the people'' has nothing to do corporate strategy.
> being able to read anything I fancy with a few keyboard strokes.
Anything? OK then:
ISBN: 1857801776 Tupolev Tu-16 Badger (Aerofax) by Yefim Gordon, Vladimir Rigmant
Nope, no eBook.
eBooks address only a small subset of published works: ephemeral, fictive works for people who read to pass the time.
The best that I can say about eBook Readers is that they may eventually eliminate the paperback novel industry and bookshops might then concentrate on stocking books for those of us who wish to be educated, not titillated.
So Comcast are deploying more aggressive lowpass filters?
/reads
Oh, they're limiting MONTHLY DATA TRANSFER QUOTA.
Come on, this is a technical site.
For all the wailing on this site about the cracker / hacker distinction there seem to be a lot of people who are happy to corrupt other, precisely-defined technical terms.
> I can meter a scene at least as well as any DSLR with a 1 degree spotmeter
Which is exactly the way photographers use DSLR meters; set to spot mode, meter on the darkest highlights that you want to keep and then adjust exposure stops by a favourite rule-of-thumb to pull that to 18% gray.
>You're assuming 1) Biofuels are using areable land
``Spurred by generous subsidies and an EU commitment to increase the use of biofuels to counter climate change, at least 8m hectares (20m acres) of maize, wheat, soya and other crops which once provided animal feed and food have been taken out of production in the US.''
``This year 18% of all US grain production will go to biofuels. In the last two years the US has diverted 60m tonnes of food to fuel.''
SQL Server remains off-limits for benchmarking. From the EULA for SS2005 Std / Ent:
5. BENCHMARK TESTING. You must obtain Microsoft's prior written approval to disclose to a third party the results of
any benchmark test of the software.
However the company has now changed its restrictions for.Net benchmarking. One can release results according to certain ( sane ) requirements on the condition that Microsoft can reciprocally benchmark your software:
> How about just having a third party review that compares products
That is difficult to achieve when, for example, Microsoft and Oracle EULAs prohibit releasing the results of benchmarking.
In Microsoft's case, this prohibition originated with SQL Server and now encompasses any product which uses the.Net frameworks including, apparently, WMP 11.
Fortunately I don't have any such concerns with the software I use, OpenBSD. Does that make me a shill?
> It's quite obvius that ITIF does not have broadband, I'm downloading the PDF-file at 1.5 Kbps.....
Your transfer speed has no correlation with whether or not something is ``broadband''. Is the bandwidth shared by more than one discrete signal frequency? That's broadband.
``Since I consider non-free software to be unethical and antisocial, I
think it would be wrong for me to recommend it to others.''
Richard Stallman, 2007-12-10 15:18:47, OpenBSD-Misc.
That is, by implication, the entire set of ( OpenBSD + ports ) was, his view, non-free. He would recommend it to those whom he deemed strong enough to resist the temptation of installing the non-free components, but in general OBSD != free for his purposes.
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> Nobody in his/her right mind care of the stats of a vacuum cleaner, except complete nerds.
Pardon? You lost me at this point.
If no-one cared about the specification of a vacuum cleaner, Dyson would be an angry man with a long-lapsed patent.
There are few examples of true commodity items in the real world, other than food. Even a desk fan's box displays its specification so that customers can determine if it will cool a room of size X.
Can you really remember an occasion when you were content to lift the first item off the shelf without reading its spec?
> I look at a vehicle this small and wonder what would happen if it
> was hit by a 3000lb vehicle.
Meh, eventually the SUV will be hit by a Freightliner and everything
will be evened-out.
Just call the The Equilibrium of Life.
> Aren't you aware of the Linux development paradigm that
> has been the rule since Linus released Linux?
This may seem blindingly obvious, but KDE IS NOT LINUX.
There are many release paradigms in the free software world
and one which may work for a bleeding-edge OS kernel may not
be appropriate for a desktop environment that is destined to
be immediately included in many distributions as soon as it
appears to be out of RC status.
Look at OpenBSD: two releases per year, each rock-solid. How?
Release snapshot after dreary release snapshot until it is TESTED
and DONE. The developers suppress their ``WORLD, LOOK AT THIS
COOL'' urge and buckle-down to get it right.
The people installing KDE 4.blah from a distro are not the ones
who will provide useful feedback; useful feedback comes from the
interminable series of RCs tested by people who care.
> I can not remember the last time I browsed to a site, expecting something useful, to be held up by flash gimmickery.
One example is the website for William Morris, spectacle frame manufacturers in London. I viewed a pair of their frames in a shop and, wishing to learn more, tried various search term permutations without success.
Questioning my sanity, I resorted to various URL permutations and eventually landed upon:
William Morris ( London )
I cannot conceive any reason why a catalogue site should be implemented in such a manner. In fact, to this day I don't even KNOW what is on their site! There is no indexable content which search engines can use to correlate to query terms, so they are invisible to the searching World.
> Screw that. I want miranda-class reliability.
To be really pedantic, the Reliant was of the Avenger class.
Miranda was a TNG-era abomination that was then retrospectively
applied to prior vessels, despite five years of publications to
the contrary. Just another example of Okuda Revisionism.
> we haven't figured out what to do with the tons of nuclear
> waster we have NOW,much less if we did like McCain wants and
> added 45 new plants.
Of course ``we'' have:
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Fast_neutron_reactors_(FBR)
Prohibited by the Carter Administration in the USA, but used
throughout the World. Breeder reactors use the output of
conventional fission plants as fuel and the resultant waste,
once reprocessed, has a half-life of a few centuries instead
of hundreds of millenia.
> Unsafe for *other* drivers (It's certainly safer for the person in it )
Not necessarily -- for example, there are many links to the crash demonstration between a Renault Espace MPV and a Land Rover Discovery. The Espace , with 5-star NCAP rating, crumpled as designed and maintained the integrity of its passenger cabin but the Discovery suffered serious internal damage.
http://www.hardingsrenault.co.uk/renault-dealer-renault-safety.htm
Good observation. You might also be interested in: Mao and the Art of Management:
``Where is the role model for the manager who really needs a role model most?''
Tongue-in-cheek but enlightening.
> Sheesh, 10% of the Estonian adult population was deported to
> gulags and death camps by the Russians.
Stalin was Georgian, not Russian. As was the majority of his retinue.
If you're going to tar an entire national group, be accurate.
> The kid should consult a solicitor
Thereby perpetuating the legal cycle.
Job done, money made; yes, even for ``Friends of Liberty'' as they call themselves.
Much better in a case like this, with a lesser penalty, to go pro se. Most judges are willing to assist self-defendants with matters of procedure, though of course they still expect that the defendant will have prepared his case.
> not as long as they have the worlds largest coal seam (and they mine it open pit too)
Domestic Chinese coal production is insufficient to meet demand. Australian coal producers are scrambling to feed the demand; at one point there were 79 cargo vessels waiting in line for loading at Newcastle. http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=3908328That's why Australia's government recently announced a budget surplus ( and why their inflation is now topping 4% ).
> The whole "day thing" is about the time between disclosure and patch/signature release.
Do you have any citation for your assertion?
The term derives from warez "0-day boards". These were populated by the most elite crackers who had cracked software on the 0th-day of release; that is, the software hit the shelves and was already cracked.
Try doing a web search for ``0-day'' with a date threshold prior to, say, 1995. You won't find any hits for your interpretation:
http://www.alltheweb.com/search?advanced=1&cat=web&jsact=&_stype=norm&type=all&q=%220-day%22&itag=crv&l=en&ics=utf-8&cs=iso88591&wf%5Bn%5D=3&wf%5B0%5D%5Br%5D=%2B&wf%5B0%5D%5Bq%5D=&wf%5B0%5D%5Bw%5D=&wf%5B1%5D%5Br%5D=%2B&wf%5B1%5D%5Bq%5D=&wf%5B1%5D%5Bw%5D=&wf%5B2%5D%5Br%5D=-&wf%5B2%5D%5Bq%5D=&wf%5B2%5D%5Bw%5D=&dincl=&dexcl=&geo=&doctype=&dfr%5Bu%5D=on&dfr%5Bd%5D=1&dfr%5Bm%5D=1&dfr%5By%5D=1990&dto%5Bu%5D=on&dto%5Bd%5D=16&dto%5Bm%5D=5&dto%5By%5D=1995&hits=10
Try USENET for certainty ( blocked in work ).
> Bad publicity made Google fix their open redirector for
> URLs. Bad publicity will make them fix this
Your optimism is like a ray of Sunlight in a dark world, but I
fear it is misplaced.
Many USENET groups are virtually unreadable today because of the
torrent of spam posting originating from Google Groups accounts.
Thousands of users have submitted precise spam reports to Google,
quoting the article-IDs. Result? None. Consequence? USENETters
start to block any and all Google Groups postings
( though http://improve-usenet.org/ seems to have died )
Without the pressure of blacklisting, I do not think that Google
will be inclined to address the mail spam problem either. It only
affects third parties at present, so why expend resources fixing
it when there is no immediate benefit to their users?
> The real problem is really deciding what is a legitimate
> source of e-mail, without requiring a central registry of
> e-mail servers or some other sort of bureaucratic process.
Well that's the problem that SPF solves. Each domain owner
creates a DNS entry that specifies which mail servers are
permitted to send mail for that domain. When an MX receives
a HELO it checks that the originating IP corresponds with
the DNS entry; if not, the mail can be rejected or subjected
to further inspection and scoring.
Simple to implement, I've done it in 20 minutes for my domain
( 20 minutes from ``What is this project?'' to submitting the
DNS change ).
http://www.openspf.org/
> Either that or they agree that a little information is better for the
> chinese people than none at all.
Your statement assumes that without Google, the people of China would have no
information. This is blatantly incorrect: Google ( 25% market share ) implements the same Government-mandated filters as Baidu ( 62% market share ).
Google's presence in China is simply about gaining a foothold in a potentially
lucrative market. ``Empowering the people'' has nothing to do corporate
strategy.
> being able to read anything I fancy with a few keyboard strokes.
Anything? OK then:
ISBN: 1857801776
Tupolev Tu-16 Badger (Aerofax)
by Yefim Gordon, Vladimir Rigmant
Nope, no eBook.
eBooks address only a small subset of published works: ephemeral, fictive works for people who read to pass the time.
The best that I can say about eBook Readers is that they may eventually eliminate the paperback novel industry and bookshops might then concentrate on stocking books for those of us who wish to be educated, not titillated.
So Comcast are deploying more aggressive lowpass filters?
Oh, they're limiting MONTHLY DATA TRANSFER QUOTA.
Come on, this is a technical site.
For all the wailing on this site about the cracker / hacker distinction there seem to be a lot of people who are happy to corrupt other, precisely-defined technical terms.
Also, get off my lawn.
> I can meter a scene at least as well as any DSLR with a 1 degree spotmeter
Which is exactly the way photographers use DSLR meters; set to spot mode, meter on the darkest highlights that you want to keep and then adjust exposure stops by a favourite rule-of-thumb to pull that to 18% gray.
Just like with your old-style hand-held meter.
> Im not saying nobody has the taskbar at the top but its just one of many signs that hes a fan of apple.
Every other menu in the Windows GUI drops-down from the top. Why should the Start Menu break that paradigm?
>You're assuming 1) Biofuels are using areable land
``Spurred by generous subsidies and an EU commitment to increase the use of biofuels to counter climate change, at least 8m hectares (20m acres) of maize, wheat, soya and other crops which once provided animal feed and food have been taken out of production in the US.''
``This year 18% of all US grain production will go to biofuels. In the last two years the US has diverted 60m tonnes of food to fuel.''
Crop switch worsens global food price crisis
Follow-up.
SQL Server remains off-limits for benchmarking. From the EULA for SS2005 Std / Ent:
5. BENCHMARK TESTING. You must obtain Microsoft's prior written approval to disclose to a third party the results of any benchmark test of the software.
However the company has now changed its restrictions for .Net benchmarking. One can release results according to certain ( sane ) requirements on the condition that Microsoft can reciprocally benchmark your software:
Benchmark Testing, Microsoft .NET Framework
Still glad I don't use proprietary software.
> How about just having a third party review that compares products
That is difficult to achieve when, for example, Microsoft and Oracle EULAs prohibit releasing the results of benchmarking.
In Microsoft's case, this prohibition originated with SQL Server and now encompasses any product which uses the .Net frameworks including, apparently, WMP 11.
Fortunately I don't have any such concerns with the software I use, OpenBSD. Does that make me a shill?
> It's quite obvius that ITIF does not have broadband, I'm downloading the PDF-file at 1.5 Kbps.....
Your transfer speed has no correlation with whether or not something is ``broadband''. Is the bandwidth shared by more than one discrete signal frequency? That's broadband.
``Since I consider non-free software to be unethical and antisocial, I think it would be wrong for me to recommend it to others.''
Richard Stallman, 2007-12-10 15:18:47, OpenBSD-Misc.
That is, by implication, the entire set of ( OpenBSD + ports ) was, his view, non-free. He would recommend it to those whom he deemed strong enough to resist the temptation of installing the non-free components, but in general OBSD != free for his purposes.