Microsoft was aked to open up it's protocols. Microsoft gave them the source code. I would not be happy with this if I were the EU. Semi-"open" source code is worth nothing.
The EU didn't ask Microsoft to open up it's source code. It asked Microsoft to open up it's protocols! Thats not the same!
Upon Microsofts declaration that it selflessly "overfulfilled" the EUs demands someone of the EU stated explicitly that Microsoft has no say in when the demands are fulfilled. The EU has. Right they are.
Someone trying to implement an interface to Microsoft products after seeing Microsoft's "opened up" source-code could face severe legal problems. Heck, even Microsofties are not allowed to even look at free software (be it GPL, MIT or BSD licence).
So I suggest we move along. Nothing interresting to see here... yet.:-)
"Another good question would be: why is the Earth not completely flat after millions of years of erosion?" Because the tectonic plates are still moving?
It's completely understandable why you choose to associate such an obvious - yet not widely thought about - question with questions regarding evolution. If one can not find the answer to this question which he understands, he is likely to concur with your statement that there is no solution to this answer and apply this to evolution as well.
Shame on you! This is not argumentation through logic. It is deception!
I could go into great detail about why Evolutionary theory is full of bunk. But I'd only get flamed.
I see nothing in your current post that could provoke such an reaction from me. I do not seek disagreement, I seek reason from you. All I heard up until now was (paraphrased) "It can't be because scientists disagree.". And please explain carefully what you mean by "[...] more quickly." in comparison to "[...] over time [...]". I can not quite grasp the logic behind that.
Try to reason. Nobody is forcing you to abandon your belief in God, nor is anybody forcing you to "believe" in science.
You live in your own view of the world, and everything that doesn't fit in it you reject as something "someone other than me beliefs in".
Yet it isn't belief, but reason which led to this theory. Please read the explanation of the scientific theory to understand its difference to the colloquial theory.
Science does not need anyone to believe in it, as it is all either proveable or rejected.
Sorry sir, but this is utter bullshit. Science is not a religion. If it were it would be more popular.
It sadly seems science is so disconnected from the rest of society (language and understanding-barrier) that most people turn to information sources that are easier to access: Religions, because religions tell you EXACTLY what you want (or expect) to hear!
And if you really consider yourself a scientist (and not a troll) then debunk evolution right here, right now.
It has something to do with our historic legacy. It would be different if history would repeat itself in Germany as opposed to any other state which does not yet have that legacy. Imagine the reaction of other countries...
To ensure it does not happen ever again, german kids are thought about WWII in every aspect throughout their school careers.
The sad thing about this is, after studying history to that great extent the feeling prevails that the only thing you learn about history is that it WILL repeat itself in one way or another, in one place or another. Thats how the "system" humanity works apparently.
Anyway, I think educating kids to learn how dictatorships come (coupled with psychology etc.) to be is a GoodThing(tm) and should not only be practiced in places where dictatorships happened. This could possibly ring the alarmbells before it is too late.
I guess he would be electrocuted if the engine is connected to the ground. Ions are charged particles and enough of them will make a huge potential differential.
In fact... no.:) The Deutsche Bundesbahn (German National Railways) is known (or better, infamous) for many things, but punctuality is not one of them. I almost have a feeling that trains are more on time if YOU are late.
Try warming your 5 buck watch to 50C (don't know how much that is in F) hold it there for a few hours and then cool it down again to room temperature. Do this every day for a few months.
You will see your 5 buck watch will track the time as good as the Dallas chips.
Confirm Are you sure you want to perform this action? Performing operation "Remove File" on Target "C:\segphault\Desktop\testdir\file1". [Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "Y"):
Man. This IS the best thing since sliced bread (on Windows). In contrast: Explorer has a more binary behaviour. Do it... or not.
suppose someone gained non-root access (by help of crappy software or somehow else) to your linux-laptop and your sound-device is chmod 777. he/she then can use the sound recorded by your built in microphone to hear you type your root password.
Recently I went to a movie. The 30 minutes of ads and movie previews were very interesting.
The commercials were bad enough, but the movie previews topped them all.
Can't recall what it was, some sort of robo-ai-fighterjet-calamity. Totally stupid. Yet the local countryside-themoreexplosionsthebetterthemovie-you th cheered. The guy right behind me asserted "We'll go to that one!".
So... if the moviegoers decline, yet the stupid still find the movies great it must mean the people are getting more intelligent!? Nah... can't be.
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Do the right thing. The thing you are asked to do.
Read: Free Software Foundation Europe: "Microsoft offers poisoned apple" - "Praises premature in hindsight"
I second. This subject is too important and too complex to be polemized.
Microsoft was aked to open up it's protocols. Microsoft gave them the source code. I would not be happy with this if I were the EU. Semi-"open" source code is worth nothing.
The EU didn't ask Microsoft to open up it's source code. It asked Microsoft to open up it's protocols! Thats not the same!
:-)
Upon Microsofts declaration that it selflessly "overfulfilled" the EUs demands someone of the EU stated explicitly that Microsoft has no say in when the demands are fulfilled. The EU has. Right they are.
Someone trying to implement an interface to Microsoft products after seeing Microsoft's "opened up" source-code could face severe legal problems. Heck, even Microsofties are not allowed to even look at free software (be it GPL, MIT or BSD licence).
So I suggest we move along. Nothing interresting to see here... yet.
Hear ye!
You don't mean that. Really.
"Another good question would be: why is the Earth not completely flat after millions of years of erosion?"
Because the tectonic plates are still moving?
It's completely understandable why you choose to associate such an obvious - yet not widely thought about - question with questions regarding evolution. If one can not find the answer to this question which he understands, he is likely to concur with your statement that there is no solution to this answer and apply this to evolution as well.
Shame on you! This is not argumentation through logic. It is deception!
From your first post:
I could go into great detail about why Evolutionary theory is full of bunk. But I'd only get flamed.
I see nothing in your current post that could provoke such an reaction from me. I do not seek disagreement, I seek reason from you. All I heard up until now was (paraphrased) "It can't be because scientists disagree.". And please explain carefully what you mean by "[...] more quickly." in comparison to "[...] over time [...]". I can not quite grasp the logic behind that.
Argue with logic, not with emotion.
Try to reason. Nobody is forcing you to abandon your belief in God, nor is anybody forcing you to "believe" in science.
You live in your own view of the world, and everything that doesn't fit in it you reject as something "someone other than me beliefs in".
Yet it isn't belief, but reason which led to this theory. Please read the explanation of the scientific theory to understand its difference to the colloquial theory.
Science does not need anyone to believe in it, as it is all either proveable or rejected.
None of the 3 is science simply because all of them take efficient causality as if it was the same as formal causality.
Yet neither efficient nor formal causality imply a temporal relation between cause and effect, so they are both not used in science but philosophy.
Evolution is science, not religion or philosophy.
Sorry sir, but this is utter bullshit. Science is not a religion. If it were it would be more popular.
It sadly seems science is so disconnected from the rest of society (language and understanding-barrier) that most people turn to information sources that are easier to access: Religions, because religions tell you EXACTLY what you want (or expect) to hear!
And if you really consider yourself a scientist (and not a troll) then debunk evolution right here, right now.
It has something to do with our historic legacy. It would be different if history would repeat itself in Germany as opposed to any other state which does not yet have that legacy. Imagine the reaction of other countries...
To ensure it does not happen ever again, german kids are thought about WWII in every aspect throughout their school careers.
The sad thing about this is, after studying history to that great extent the feeling prevails that the only thing you learn about history is that it WILL repeat itself in one way or another, in one place or another. Thats how the "system" humanity works apparently.
Anyway, I think educating kids to learn how dictatorships come (coupled with psychology etc.) to be is a GoodThing(tm) and should not only be practiced in places where dictatorships happened. This could possibly ring the alarmbells before it is too late.
I guess he would be electrocuted if the engine is connected to the ground. Ions are charged particles and enough of them will make a huge potential differential.
In fact... no. :) The Deutsche Bundesbahn (German National Railways) is known (or better, infamous) for many things, but punctuality is not one of them. I almost have a feeling that trains are more on time if YOU are late.
Try warming your 5 buck watch to 50C (don't know how much that is in F) hold it there for a few hours and then cool it down again to room temperature. Do this every day for a few months.
You will see your 5 buck watch will track the time as good as the Dallas chips.
Temperature affects the speed of clocks.
Do you really believe the author used real names and real IP-Addresses to register the sites?
isn't this something that belongs in the filesystem?
Filesystems are generally(*) implemented in kernelspace.
(*) HURD and FUSE excluded.
I don't understand how you can enable kernel-level features via the registry.
May or may not be what you search. Quite expensive but impressive featurelist.
f tware/gpfs.html
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/clusters/so
From TFA (pg11):
msh> remove-item *[1-3] -confirm
Confirm
Are you sure you want to perform this action?
Performing operation "Remove File" on Target "C:\segphault\Desktop\testdir\file1".
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help
(default is "Y"):
Man. This IS the best thing since sliced bread (on Windows). In contrast: Explorer has a more binary behaviour. Do it... or not.
And what if the electronics of the drive fails? Or the motor? Or the drive-head actuator?
Sorry sir, but this is a bad idea.
>> Come on, try to hack my 31337 firewall! [127.0.0.1]
> I just ssh'd in and apparently your root user has the same password as mine!
Quick! Delete all his data before he has a chance of changing passwords!
designed to protect against intruders
Don't make me laugh!
The next 50 years of computing will see the introduction of intruding AIs to PCs in order to control the integrity and lawfulness of the user.
suppose someone gained non-root access (by help of crappy software or somehow else) to your linux-laptop and your sound-device is chmod 777. he/she then can use the sound recorded by your built in microphone to hear you type your root password.
;-)
pretty far fetched, but you asked for it.
Recently I went to a movie. The 30 minutes of ads and movie previews were very interesting.
u th cheered. The guy right behind me asserted "We'll go to that one!".
The commercials were bad enough, but the movie previews topped them all.
Can't recall what it was, some sort of robo-ai-fighterjet-calamity. Totally stupid. Yet the local countryside-themoreexplosionsthebetterthemovie-yo
So... if the moviegoers decline, yet the stupid still find the movies great it must mean the people are getting more intelligent!? Nah... can't be.
Nice thought, though.
2) He would have launched an Orion on the back of a Saturn.
As this could have happend I still do not think they would have done it, even if possible. The cold-war politic situation would have prevented it.
Who guarantees you that the bombs from the Orion do not go straight to Moscow? An Orion in space is a massive battlestation.