Hey, you just explained the omnipresent Unix vs. Windows debate: one who wants "just to use" uses guess what, and one who wants all the world to be at his hand uses the other:)
Internet in 10-15 years will be what phone or TV is now: a media. One who will know to use it, will get more money than one who deosn't. But it won't be The Thing. Probably, The Thing will be nanotechnology, or biotechnology, or something else (like new energy sources, whatever it be)
For me, as a professional, Linux *is* easier to use than windows. Not to install (yet), but to use - definitely. Because Linux is an open system - not open source, but open in the meaning that you know where to look to make thing done and where to look if something breaks. With windows, your best remedy to all troubles is reinstall - since it's designed to be closed system.
Of course, for a Joe Avg. User, it should be different - I have 10 years of experience with comps, should make me want other things that JAU wants:)
As statistic shows, Russians drink less then Spanish, for example, if you count per capita. The problem is that one man drinking a liter of vodka daily is not the same as 10 people drinking 100 grams daily. In the first case you should have an alcoholic, in the second case you can say "nothing unusual".
As for Zhiri, he is far from being psycho. He's just a commercial punk, a man which makes money from looking and acting like a psycho. And he knows to do it pretty good.
Well, it could be $18M/day, if they sell real-estate via the web, for example (and there's an idiot that would by it from the web), so one sale of $18M per day will do. However, they won't lose $18M from the downtime then - the person that is determined to spend $18M on you won't leave so easily:)
Coffee can't be *too hot*. Coffee is made with a boiling water. Water boils at 100C. There's no way (under atmosphere pressure, without any special tricks) to get water over 100C. And under 100C it's not a coffee. So if you get a freshly-made coffee, you got to expect it contains water at close too 100C. I, personally, never eat at McD - their food sucks - so I do not care if they'd make coffee of a cold water. But someone that goes there should care.
Almost all today's software/computer training (including even university courses) is, in fact, producing trained monkeys. Average user will never try to understand what he's doing or, God forbid, why he is doing this. That's because book (or course instructor) tells them to do so. And if you can make a man programmer in 2-month courses, why can't you make a 3 year old an executive? Children remember things very good and are *very* teachable (much more that average adult, believe me). Just show where to click and you get a Microsoft Certified Computer Professional.
And then you wonder why is it so much trash-quality software and "computer malfunctions" out there. Don't talk to me about life...
That's silly. If you get offended with such things, seek professional help (I mean doctor, not lawyer). Next time you will require to change "black" to "zero-value-color", because it could offend some people with black skin.
What about contract relationship between you and your provider? Sure, nobody reads the small print, but was there in small print that they can pull your site for whatever reason they like, or wasn't? If it wasn't, too bad for them. If it was, too bad for their clients.
With this US habit of everything solved by lawyers, why this man doesn't go and sue his provider? He didn't have any illegal content, and I suppose even didn't violate Terms Of Usage?
BTW, why the man just didn't go and make 1001 mirrors on every free hosting provider in the world, when he heard from FBI and knew it was coming? Or even on one such provider, say, in Russia? I'd see FBI persuading russians to pull out pages from their server... It seems technical ignorance from the both sides is exposed. Hell, I think I could even make site that will mirror itself on Geocities/Xoom/whatever free provider automatically! BTW, now that's an idea for a virus...
Zope is a framework, PHP isn't - it's a language plus a set of modules. Zope's language is Python, for what it worth. From what I know, Zope is suited for large to very large projects, with well-defined standard site structure, while using it for small project could be a great over-kill. Also a concern is that it's way slower - just because of a complication involved.
It can't be PHP vs. Perl - Perl in general-purpose language, and PHP is task-oriented language. It will be Perl vs. Python and usual PHP vs. ASP, as it goes:)
AFAIK, PHP4 supports DCOM - and DCOM is the main power of ASP. Besides that, all plain ASp objects, like Request, Responce, etc., can be easily translated into a set of PHP classes which do analogous functions.
That's exactly what's happening - market is adjusting. They call you to help this adjustment by phasing out old, bad and patent-ridden format and moving to better free one. If you don't want - you may still use BMP, TIFF or EPS on your pages.
[[ the fastest and biggest bank of information (um... that would be the Internet) doesn't need help from geeks ]] Weren't it geeks who built it to be as it is now?
And to add insult to injury, this yahoo page has an awful design. It has images on white background, but dumb lycosers (Modified: $ 1999-04-22 11:23:04 by Johnny Girl) forgot to put BODY tag with background (or any BODY at all) in the HTML. With such an amateurish approach to site design, how good can they be anyway? Not that I was going to use Lycos at the first place - but now I see why I'm smart not to use it.
First point - copying of software doesn't make previous owner lose a thing (expected profit is not a thing, it's imaginary and not material), while stealing does. So copying software is not stealing, is this clear?
Second point - doesn't mass software copying constitute "vote with the feet" against current software prices? If software sellers would deliver good value for money they charge, they would get the money, not? But if a legal copy of the disk doesn't have value over the illegal copy, why should I shell out the money? I have no sentiments about s/w makers - if they think they have to low salary, they could always leave and work as a pizza delivery driver.
Third point - why are you calling this thing "piracy"? Pirates were people who killed sailors and robbed them, not? Who is robbing or killing the puny clerk who took a copy of Latest-And-Greatest game from friend to play with? You could also call this thing "first degree software-murder", would it make your point through?
Your remarks repeat exactly those of Jim, from Mark Twain's "Adventures of Heckelberry Finn". He said: "If the French are men, why won't they speak in men's language?" But Jim was under-educated black slave, while you are... Who? Possibly you even have an university degree...
This site isn't just poor. It's abomination, it's a shame. The suckers could at least make a white background, if they paint images on white. The site looks so pathetic that I won't even read it - people that can't afford web-developer with 1/10 of a clue obviously can't do anything worth seeing.
In Russia, there's such a beast. It's called Arvid, IIRC, and it's exactly for this - for backing up data from the computer to video-tape. It works, though I don't know details - never used it.
How is it that something which is illegal for one person to do (e.g. a non-voluntary transfer of money) becomes legal when the "community" does it?
First, you are obviously mixing "legal" with "good, moral, just". Legal is what is written in law books, isn't it? So it's because it's written so in the books.
But I also have answer on the question you tried to ask. It's because community is (or intended to be) more than individual, just as a brains is more than neuron and a computer is more than transistor. Ideal communicty combines and amplifies good points of it's members, while masking bad points. The capability of community to do so it the source of additional rights - one who acts (or has chances to act) better should be more capable to act.
I'm not sure about guns, etc., but I'm pretty sure about trains, medicines and stuff alike.
Everything that can be potentially lethal or endangering life (like trains or drugs) should be certified. Since I do not pocess necessary capabilities to test if new pill won't make me blind in 5 years or just paint my skin in blue immediately - I will happily delegate this to a well-equipped agency. And I want to be pretty damn sure that no greedy pharmacologist will sell me uncertified pill just because he gets them for cheap - at least not without being zapped out of the field afterwards.
I know that the agency in question can be bribed, can err, etc., etc. - but at least I have reasonable level of safety and have the address to complain.
I understand, you are strong redneck american, that knows exactly what medicine to take, what trains to board, where to point you gun and when to pull the trigger. I even can believe you *actually can* differ bad medicine from good one just looking on it - you are Superman himself. But most of people aren't and can't - so let's dump them? Let the Ubermensh live and the Untermenshes perish? Well, well - didn't I hear it elsewhere yet?
P.S. AFAIK, in US you also can't sell medical substances without certification, isn't it?
You don't like ESR's characterization of socialism as evil, but whether you like it or not the most evil regimes of the 20th century referred to themselves as socialist.
This argument is completely false. Most of those regimes also used words "democratic" (China, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodga too, I think), "republic" (all soviet and sattelites), "freedom" - almost everyone. So does this means we need no democracy, no republican form of government and no freedom? Or you just are under-educated to prove why socialism as economic and government model may be bad and use comparation with some filthy regimes just to bash your opponent?
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Hey, you just explained the omnipresent Unix vs. Windows debate: one who wants "just to use" uses guess what, and one who wants all the world to be at his hand uses the other :)
Internet in 10-15 years will be what phone or TV is now: a media. One who will know to use it, will get more money than one who deosn't. But it won't be The Thing. Probably, The Thing will be nanotechnology, or biotechnology, or something else (like new energy sources, whatever it be)
For me, as a professional, Linux *is* easier to use than windows. Not to install (yet), but to use - definitely. Because Linux is an open system - not open source, but open in the meaning that you know where to look to make thing done and where to look if something breaks. With windows, your best remedy to all troubles is reinstall - since it's designed to be closed system.
:)
Of course, for a Joe Avg. User, it should be different - I have 10 years of experience with comps, should make me want other things that JAU wants
As statistic shows, Russians drink less then Spanish, for example, if you count per capita. The problem is that one man drinking a liter of vodka daily is not the same as 10 people drinking 100 grams daily. In the first case you should have an alcoholic, in the second case you can say "nothing unusual".
As for Zhiri, he is far from being psycho. He's just a commercial punk, a man which makes money from looking and acting like a psycho. And he knows to do it pretty good.
Well, it could be $18M/day, if they sell real-estate via the web, for example (and there's an idiot that would by it from the web), so one sale of $18M per day will do. However, they won't lose $18M from the downtime then - the person that is determined to spend $18M on you won't leave so easily :)
I wonder if they publish it? And if so - is it possible to make distribution-independent tool to use it?
Coffee can't be *too hot*. Coffee is made with a boiling water. Water boils at 100C. There's no way (under atmosphere pressure, without any special tricks) to get water over 100C. And under 100C it's not a coffee. So if you get a freshly-made coffee, you got to expect it contains water at close too 100C.
I, personally, never eat at McD - their food sucks - so I do not care if they'd make coffee of a cold water. But someone that goes there should care.
Almost all today's software/computer training (including even university courses) is, in fact, producing trained monkeys. Average user will never try to understand what he's doing or, God forbid, why he is doing this. That's because book (or course instructor) tells them to do so. And if you can make a man programmer in 2-month courses, why can't you make a 3 year old an executive? Children remember things very good and are *very* teachable (much more that average adult, believe me). Just show where to click and you get a Microsoft Certified Computer Professional.
And then you wonder why is it so much trash-quality software and "computer malfunctions" out there. Don't talk to me about life...
That's silly. If you get offended with such things, seek professional help (I mean doctor, not lawyer). Next time you will require to change "black" to "zero-value-color", because it could offend some people with black skin.
What about contract relationship between you and your provider? Sure, nobody reads the small print, but was there in small print that they can pull your site for whatever reason they like, or wasn't? If it wasn't, too bad for them. If it was, too bad for their clients.
With this US habit of everything solved by lawyers, why this man doesn't go and sue his provider? He didn't have any illegal content, and I suppose even didn't violate Terms Of Usage?
BTW, why the man just didn't go and make 1001 mirrors on every free hosting provider in the world, when he heard from FBI and knew it was coming? Or even on one such provider, say, in Russia? I'd see FBI persuading russians to pull out pages from their server... It seems technical ignorance from the both sides is exposed. Hell, I think I could even make site that will mirror itself on Geocities/Xoom/whatever free provider automatically! BTW, now that's an idea for a virus...
Zope is a framework, PHP isn't - it's a language plus a set of modules. Zope's language is Python, for what it worth.
From what I know, Zope is suited for large to very large projects, with well-defined standard site structure, while using it for small project could be a great over-kill. Also a concern is that it's way slower - just because of a complication involved.
It can't be PHP vs. Perl - Perl in general-purpose language, and PHP is task-oriented language. It will be Perl vs. Python and usual PHP vs. ASP, as it goes :)
AFAIK, PHP4 supports DCOM - and DCOM is the main power of ASP. Besides that, all plain ASp objects, like Request, Responce, etc., can be easily translated into a set of PHP classes which do analogous functions.
If you need serious animation, you go Flash. If you need something like flashing "new" button, you better don't.
That's exactly what's happening - market is adjusting. They call you to help this adjustment by phasing out old, bad and patent-ridden format and moving to better free one. If you don't want - you may still use BMP, TIFF or EPS on your pages.
[[ the fastest and biggest bank of information (um... that would be the Internet) doesn't need help from geeks ]]
Weren't it geeks who built it to be as it is now?
And to add insult to injury, this yahoo page has an awful design. It has images on white background, but dumb lycosers (Modified: $ 1999-04-22 11:23:04 by Johnny Girl) forgot to put BODY tag with background (or any BODY at all) in the HTML. With such an amateurish approach to site design, how good can they be anyway?
Not that I was going to use Lycos at the first place - but now I see why I'm smart not to use it.
First point - copying of software doesn't make previous owner lose a thing (expected profit is not a thing, it's imaginary and not material), while stealing does. So copying software is not stealing, is this clear?
Second point - doesn't mass software copying constitute "vote with the feet" against current software prices? If software sellers would deliver good value for money they charge, they would get the money, not? But if a legal copy of the disk doesn't have value over the illegal copy, why should I shell out the money? I have no sentiments about s/w makers - if they think they have to low salary, they could always leave and work as a pizza delivery driver.
Third point - why are you calling this thing "piracy"? Pirates were people who killed sailors and robbed them, not? Who is robbing or killing the puny clerk who took a copy of Latest-And-Greatest game from friend to play with? You could also call this thing "first degree software-murder", would it make your point through?
Your remarks repeat exactly those of Jim, from Mark Twain's "Adventures of Heckelberry Finn". He said: "If the French are men, why won't they speak in men's language?" But Jim was under-educated black slave, while you are... Who? Possibly you even have an university degree...
This site isn't just poor. It's abomination, it's a shame. The suckers could at least make a white background, if they paint images on white. The site looks so pathetic that I won't even read it - people that can't afford web-developer with 1/10 of a clue obviously can't do anything worth seeing.
In Russia, there's such a beast. It's called Arvid, IIRC, and it's exactly for this - for backing up data from the computer to video-tape. It works, though I don't know details - never used it.
5.5.4 should be unstable kernel...
How is it that something which is illegal for one person to do (e.g. a non-voluntary transfer of money) becomes legal when the "community" does it?
First, you are obviously mixing "legal" with "good, moral, just". Legal is what is written in law books, isn't it? So it's because it's written so in the books.
But I also have answer on the question you tried to ask. It's because community is (or intended to be) more than individual, just as a brains is more than neuron and a computer is more than transistor. Ideal communicty combines and amplifies good points of it's members, while masking bad points. The capability of community to do so it the source of additional rights - one who acts (or has chances to act) better should be more capable to act.
I'm not sure about guns, etc., but I'm pretty sure
about trains, medicines and stuff alike.
Everything that can be potentially lethal or endangering life (like trains or drugs) should be certified. Since I do not pocess necessary capabilities to test if new pill won't make me blind in 5 years or just paint my skin in blue immediately - I will happily delegate this to a well-equipped agency. And I want to be pretty damn sure that no greedy pharmacologist will sell me uncertified pill just because he gets them for cheap - at least not without being zapped out of the field afterwards.
I know that the agency in question can be bribed, can err, etc., etc. - but at least I have reasonable level of safety and have the address to complain.
I understand, you are strong redneck american, that knows exactly what medicine to take, what trains to board, where to point you gun and when to pull the trigger. I even can believe you *actually can* differ bad medicine from good one just looking on it - you are Superman himself. But most of people aren't and can't - so let's dump them? Let the Ubermensh live and the Untermenshes perish? Well, well - didn't I hear it elsewhere yet?
P.S. AFAIK, in US you also can't sell medical substances without certification, isn't it?
You don't like ESR's characterization of socialism as evil, but whether you like it or not the most evil regimes of the 20th century referred to themselves as socialist.
This argument is completely false. Most of those regimes also used words "democratic" (China, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodga too, I think), "republic" (all soviet and sattelites), "freedom" - almost everyone. So does this means we need no democracy, no republican form of government and no freedom? Or you just are under-educated to prove why socialism as economic and government model may be bad and use comparation with some filthy regimes just to bash your opponent?