Kids growing up "dirty" and kids growing up "clean" tend to have the same health issues as adults.
Only there are studies that do show difference. One example is a study between kids livin in eastern Finland vs kids living across the border in Russia. Can you guess which group has more allergies as adults? As in 5x more?
Windows 7 is not special and it's not worth reporting every tidbit unless there's actually a product or a set-in-stone feature list.
It will most likely end up on 97% of new home computers bought 2010 and later. I'd call that sort of "special". Given what a big hit vista has been on business desktop I'd give it a fair shake that we won't see any major rollout of W7 in offices either. Just why bother? W2k would work fine except quite a few new apps are not tested against it => fail on wrong wrongness in some DLL.
If NT4 had USB support (ever wonder how that was not added in an SP, hmm..) it'd work just fine for getting work done if you can put up with the ugly UI.
Jeez. Somehow I've been able to manage for years with ordinary skissors. Granted, some blisters are more obnoxious than others but most succumb easily enough with ordinary household skissors.
Now and again you run into something that uses just too thick plastic and you may have to reach for a bigger set of scissors but some on..
The DRIVES do not make much noise, true. However, the damn things vibrate. Bolt the HDD tightly to the PC chassis metal and you have the entire case resonating.
With a bit of luck (..) the vibrations will be amplified in the metal parts turning, in essence, the flat metal plates of your case to a speaker.
I spent year or two dicking around with watercooling before I finally realized the damnable noise was coming from resonations caused by the HDD, not fans or water pumps at all.
Put the drives into 5.25 bay with pads and hey presto, dead silence.
Someone might even go as far as to say that investing in high tech will create jobs that will pay (through taxes) for all the feel good social services.
You know. Give a man unemployment pay and you feed him for a month. Teach a man to design radiation hardened telecom transceivers and you feed him (and 100 others) for life.
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once - Easy to obtain, in that we really only need the mail server admins to cooperate, then everyone (who wants to get their email) will play along pretty damned quick.
Yeah. Right. And after the said server admin gets laid off the "new guy" will move back to business as usual.
More damningly:
(x) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email - No one can save those who lick plugged-in lamp cords.
(x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes - Can spam as much as they want, it will never get read.
(x) Outlook - To repeat, MS already proposed something similar.
This is where the logic really falls apart.
You need to have a signature to send email, right? So you would (if this came to pass) get signature when you "sign up" to email service. So far so good.
Now then, this signature gets integrated into thunderbird/outlook/whatever so it exists in the said windows box.
When that box is pwned, it will spew as many signed spam messages as the botnet wants to send. Hey presto, your inbox fills up with spam with genuine signatures!
Not so different of the present situation where perfectly legitimate email source sends a torrent (ha) of spam.
Even if you block the SMTP port (and many ISPs do AFAIK) it won't help - You still have a big known target of windows + outlook to do the job for you.. And thanks to integrating outlook to windows, everything can happen happily in the background without the user noticing anything. Yay.
Scientists (real ones) will never say that its impossible for God to exist. They'll just say that all of the currently provided evidence are bogus, and that there isn't any valid theory that shows its existance beyond wishful thinking by a few zealots. Doesn't change that God may exist. We just have nothing to lead us to think it does.
I'd say there are more than "a few" people who at the end of the day believe into some kind of supernatural entity that we cannot observe that affects our lives in some fundamental way.
Me, I'm mostly interested when vatican finally gets over to suggest Da Boss created an universe that evolves to eventually reach godhead or whatever. Probably comes right after they let priests marry and admit that we already did go forth and fill the damn earth.
What the..? All right, I'll be modded to oblivion by saying this but it doesn't make it any less true.
Linus is an university dropout! He definitely did not create linux while he was graduating. In fact he got heck out of university as soon as he got an offer for a job that paid real money.
He then much later went back to the university when he was famous and financially secure to get his degree as a hobby!
I read his interview in some finnish geek magazine years and years ago when he was talking about how nice it was to get out of uni and how he's not going to get caught dead attending that waste of time again.
Personally I even installed very early slackware version around -94 so they already had distros way before -96. However cumbersome horrorshows they were at the time.
And to add insult to the injury, the Galileo project money is actually pulled from agriculture subsidy surplus. So no additional money is actually collected from taxpayers.
Let's have a count of hands here, how many people think it's more important to fork money to pure goverment pork (literally) rather than developing some high-tech jobs in europe?
Hey! That argument was actually the same as the tired old strawman people trot up wrt India's space program!
I design medical devices which are by their nature isolated from ground. They're also verified much more thoroughly for EMI regulations than consumer electronics. Nothing goes in or comes out unless I say so.
Then again, with the nuclear reactor you have all the power anyone could ask for, in relative perpetuity.
As an EE engineer I could imagine limitless energy source would allow you to have several particle accelerator stages and you could use the waste heat to do all manner of useful stuff inside the space vehicle. Can't do that with batteries and/or solar panels.
There are also the more "radical" nuclear drives I've seen proposed without touching the good old nuclear impulse engine.
One proposal was something like you "blow" gas through the reactor so it works a bit like water cooled reactor and heats up to plasma levels, giving you rather respectable thrust.
Plus, well, if you're going to mars, I rather imagine it'd be good to have your very own nuclear reactor while you're there. Energy is life as they say.
Or look at the nuclear-reactor powered ion thrusters that were under development until Bush decided we were going to Mars (NEXUS and HiPEP). Maybe you explain to us forehead slope challenged viewers why nuclear ion engine wouldn't be perfect for something that is going to Mars?
The project was canceled because they had an intractable exhaust problem. The engine would actually emit huge amounts of uranium and carbon from the lining of the reactor during use, creating a pollution and service life problem. It's also true that nobody wanted to risk a nuclear explosion in the atmosphere over populated areas just to make space exploration cheaper, but there were plenty of other problems with the system. That was 40 years ago, thought. Doesn't mean that with all the advances we've made in materials science and with applications from fusion research nuclear propulsion shouldn't be actively researched.
Good luck proposing nucular engine project for goverment funding, thought.
In any case, sans the cool orion nuclear impulse drive, I don't think any of these things would be appropriate to do heavy lifting in atmosphere. Would be good for a propulsion when you're in the orbit for much the same reasons as ion engine, except you can have proper thrust..
Come on guys, you're being lazy! I haven't seen one decent "perfect" solution to spam attached to this story yet!
My own solution still stands - The parasite will eventually destroy the host at which point "huge investment to existing SMTP infra" becomes dodgy enough that it will be replaced by something else.
Hard to see how you can stop zombie-nets, thought. Even if you had some super-duper cryptographic challenge system in place, spammers can throw 100k botnet at that which can do whatever the legitimate user could do.
I'm also disappointed nobody has trotted up the dead horse "stop buying from spammers"-argument. Revenue stream isn't from people to spammers, it's from spammers to organized crime maintaining the botnets. Botnet hosters don't give a toss if the spammer makes money on their â99.95 email marketing starter kit, there's a get-rich-quick loser born every minute.
OK, I suppose spammers with quasi-legit product such as pharma-spammers may actually do some business.
Does not compare. Standardization of electrical devices stipulates performance and safety requirements of a finished product. I have never seen an ISO engineering standard refer to a "brand" or patentable method. Grandparent had a point about a bunch of standards for manufacturing aluminium. Plenty of there about impurities and such for the finished product.
In any case national authorities and notified bodies have the final say on actual implementation of the standards. If you want to look for corruption, there's plenty in southern europe in the certification and validation processes and probably in the ex comblock countries too these days.
For example, FramAtome (Areva) have problems building nuclear reactor in Finland because local bureaucrats actually demand you have to build and validate according to the regs.
FramAtome got used to passing around papers inside a goverment-backed good old boys network without anyone being too strict about things..
To make things simple, let's say each car costs the company $10,000 to produce (in materials and labor costs), and they sell the car for $12,500. If you suddenly can lower the costs (due to your magical technology) for each car to $100, then to get the same profit per unit (again ignoring changes in supply or demand) they would only charge $2,600. In one case we only reduced the price by 10%, in the other we reduced it by almost 80%. Ah, taking lessons from badanalogguy?
First of all, it takes way way big pile of money to design a new car, especially if it's in fact new-new design with chassis and everything and not just minor revamp of last years model.
Especially with the newfangled automatic stabilization and the like.
So if anything, making a car has higher development costs than software. And, well, hell of a lot of embedded software goes into ABS and the like. And it has to work right every time or they will sue your butt off.
For this reason, it's easier for a person to justify spending $100 on an object they know costs about $95 in materials to produce, while they hesitate to spend $15 on a CD they know costs only pennies to create. I bite.
How do you explain the phenomenom that the most successfull and long-selling CDs can cost as much as brand new big-name releases do? Something like NiN pretty hate machine used to retail for something like 20â until they dropped NiN back catalogue prices just recently (no doubt a little due to mr Reznor blowing a gasket publicly and telling everyone to steal the albums)
Ditto for Metallica back catalogue and what have you.
How does that fit your theories of poor hungry record companies having to break even and barely being able to scrape by?
However, many pages have shocking number or flashing blinking noisy piece of shit flash gimmicks that hock up 100% CPU and slow the machine to crawl. On top of annoying me to death, that is.
It's like you'd have to watch the most annoying tv spot over and over and over on a 2nd tv which you couldn't mute.
Not to mention that with ads the page layout changes so the actual content is more like 50% of the page with rest being taken up by ads.
So, yeah, I don't mind static image ads or text ads but goddamn animated images or flash ads that play some stupid jingle over and over..
Reminds me of an old motorcycle adage... there's old riders, and there's bold riders. You don't see any old bold riders.
Well.
You are aware that the real carnage is in the 1st year you drive.
Stats say you're way way way in the danger zone in the 1st year. If you survive that, your likelyhood to have severe accident in the 2nd year is something like 1/6th compared to 1st year because you most likely have had some educational "near death" experiences along the way and start to have healthy paranoid view toward the blind deaf and homicidal idiots in the cages.
Yeah, bold driving and all that but a few healthy "omigodimgonnadie!"-experiences make MOST bikers drive more defensively.
Driving skill takes distant 2nd place. Actually emergency braking on a bike is very very difficult and not something you will EVER pick up by just driving around. You have to explicitly practice it. Generic idea is that you have to start treating the brake like it has six stages (or whatever) and condition yourself to move between those. Key here is of course that when you lock the front wheel (aieeegonnadie-part) you go to 1 stop less which allows the wheel to rotate and you to gain control.
Very very hard and you have to do it perfect when scared shitless by some soccer mom blindsiding you in a bloody SUV with zero warning.
But it isn't so much lazy coding as it's MS becoming real estabilished big company with internal politics etc crap. So there's everyone's pet project and in this case "everyone" doesn't represent just one guy but can be a department of 100 guys. So that DLL has to stay in, OK? And the user doesn't need to be confused with any silly YES/NO dialogs, all right?
For what it's worth the major, major bloatware in windows is the user interface that's IE these days. Can't change it, can't do anything about it, just have to suck it down. You can't replace it with a minimal graphical UI for servers, for example.
No, I'm not referring to the insane gee-whizz feature to gee-whizz them all here, just plain old 2D UI.
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Kids growing up "dirty" and kids growing up "clean" tend to have the same health issues as adults.
Only there are studies that do show difference. One example is a study between kids livin in eastern Finland vs kids living across the border in Russia. Can you guess which group has more allergies as adults? As in 5x more?
I'd give you a link but the national newspaper web page (www.hs.fi) seems to be kaput today. Here's one for a study starting/started just now studying the phenomenom: http://savotta.helsinki.fi/halvi/tiedotus/lehti.nsf/e1e392ad852e72f5c225680000404fa8/94bdf837e42b8b9cc225745700419453?OpenDocument
All in Finnish of course, but that's your problem, not mine! You should find something with "DIABIMMUNE" as the study is multinational.
Windows 7 is not special and it's not worth reporting every tidbit unless there's actually a product or a set-in-stone feature list.
It will most likely end up on 97% of new home computers bought 2010 and later. I'd call that sort of "special". Given what a big hit vista has been on business desktop I'd give it a fair shake that we won't see any major rollout of W7 in offices either. Just why bother? W2k would work fine except quite a few new apps are not tested against it => fail on wrong wrongness in some DLL.
If NT4 had USB support (ever wonder how that was not added in an SP, hmm..) it'd work just fine for getting work done if you can put up with the ugly UI.
I dunno ... is she really hot?
Or more to the point, worth dying for?
Jeez. Somehow I've been able to manage for years with ordinary skissors. Granted, some blisters are more obnoxious than others but most succumb easily enough with ordinary household skissors.
Now and again you run into something that uses just too thick plastic and you may have to reach for a bigger set of scissors but some on..
The DRIVES do not make much noise, true. However, the damn things vibrate. Bolt the HDD tightly to the PC chassis metal and you have the entire case resonating.
With a bit of luck (..) the vibrations will be amplified in the metal parts turning, in essence, the flat metal plates of your case to a speaker.
I spent year or two dicking around with watercooling before I finally realized the damnable noise was coming from resonations caused by the HDD, not fans or water pumps at all.
Put the drives into 5.25 bay with pads and hey presto, dead silence.
Someone might even go as far as to say that investing in high tech will create jobs that will pay (through taxes) for all the feel good social services.
You know. Give a man unemployment pay and you feed him for a month. Teach a man to design radiation hardened telecom transceivers and you feed him (and 100 others) for life.
Nice ranty response, here's why it's wrong:
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once - Easy to obtain, in that we really only need the mail server admins to cooperate, then everyone (who wants to get their email) will play along pretty damned quick.
Yeah. Right. And after the said server admin gets laid off the "new guy" will move back to business as usual.
More damningly:
(x) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email - No one can save those who lick plugged-in lamp cords.
(x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes - Can spam as much as they want, it will never get read.
(x) Outlook - To repeat, MS already proposed something similar.
This is where the logic really falls apart.
You need to have a signature to send email, right? So you would (if this came to pass) get signature when you "sign up" to email service. So far so good.
Now then, this signature gets integrated into thunderbird/outlook/whatever so it exists in the said windows box.
When that box is pwned, it will spew as many signed spam messages as the botnet wants to send. Hey presto, your inbox fills up with spam with genuine signatures!
Not so different of the present situation where perfectly legitimate email source sends a torrent (ha) of spam.
Even if you block the SMTP port (and many ISPs do AFAIK) it won't help - You still have a big known target of windows + outlook to do the job for you.. And thanks to integrating outlook to windows, everything can happen happily in the background without the user noticing anything. Yay.
And here I thought the definition on being different species is that you cannot produce *viable* offspring!
Non-viable hybrids do not need to apply. Yes, I know small percentage of mules may be fertile but that's besides the point.
Scientists (real ones) will never say that its impossible for God to exist. They'll just say that all of the currently provided evidence are bogus, and that there isn't any valid theory that shows its existance beyond wishful thinking by a few zealots. Doesn't change that God may exist. We just have nothing to lead us to think it does.
I'd say there are more than "a few" people who at the end of the day believe into some kind of supernatural entity that we cannot observe that affects our lives in some fundamental way.
Me, I'm mostly interested when vatican finally gets over to suggest Da Boss created an universe that evolves to eventually reach godhead or whatever. Probably comes right after they let priests marry and admit that we already did go forth and fill the damn earth.
What the..? All right, I'll be modded to oblivion by saying this but it doesn't make it any less true.
Linus is an university dropout! He definitely did not create linux while he was graduating. In fact he got heck out of university as soon as he got an offer for a job that paid real money.
He then much later went back to the university when he was famous and financially secure to get his degree as a hobby!
I read his interview in some finnish geek magazine years and years ago when he was talking about how nice it was to get out of uni and how he's not going to get caught dead attending that waste of time again.
Personally I even installed very early slackware version around -94 so they already had distros way before -96. However cumbersome horrorshows they were at the time.
And to add insult to the injury, the Galileo project money is actually pulled from agriculture subsidy surplus. So no additional money is actually collected from taxpayers.
Let's have a count of hands here, how many people think it's more important to fork money to pure goverment pork (literally) rather than developing some high-tech jobs in europe?
Hey! That argument was actually the same as the tired old strawman people trot up wrt India's space program!
No there isn't!
I design medical devices which are by their nature isolated from ground. They're also verified much more thoroughly for EMI regulations than consumer electronics. Nothing goes in or comes out unless I say so.
Then again, with the nuclear reactor you have all the power anyone could ask for, in relative perpetuity.
As an EE engineer I could imagine limitless energy source would allow you to have several particle accelerator stages and you could use the waste heat to do all manner of useful stuff inside the space vehicle. Can't do that with batteries and/or solar panels.
There are also the more "radical" nuclear drives I've seen proposed without touching the good old nuclear impulse engine.
One proposal was something like you "blow" gas through the reactor so it works a bit like water cooled reactor and heats up to plasma levels, giving you rather respectable thrust.
Plus, well, if you're going to mars, I rather imagine it'd be good to have your very own nuclear reactor while you're there. Energy is life as they say.
Good luck proposing nucular engine project for goverment funding, thought.
In any case, sans the cool orion nuclear impulse drive, I don't think any of these things would be appropriate to do heavy lifting in atmosphere. Would be good for a propulsion when you're in the orbit for much the same reasons as ion engine, except you can have proper thrust..
No.
If that was the case, no mobile phone or PDA would ever pass EMC testing.
Come on guys, you're being lazy! I haven't seen one decent "perfect" solution to spam attached to this story yet!
My own solution still stands - The parasite will eventually destroy the host at which point "huge investment to existing SMTP infra" becomes dodgy enough that it will be replaced by something else.
Hard to see how you can stop zombie-nets, thought. Even if you had some super-duper cryptographic challenge system in place, spammers can throw 100k botnet at that which can do whatever the legitimate user could do.
I'm also disappointed nobody has trotted up the dead horse "stop buying from spammers"-argument. Revenue stream isn't from people to spammers, it's from spammers to organized crime maintaining the botnets. Botnet hosters don't give a toss if the spammer makes money on their â99.95 email marketing starter kit, there's a get-rich-quick loser born every minute.
OK, I suppose spammers with quasi-legit product such as pharma-spammers may actually do some business.
Er, no.
Does not compare. Standardization of electrical devices stipulates performance and safety requirements of a finished product. I have never seen an ISO engineering standard refer to a "brand" or patentable method. Grandparent had a point about a bunch of standards for manufacturing aluminium. Plenty of there about impurities and such for the finished product.
In any case national authorities and notified bodies have the final say on actual implementation of the standards. If you want to look for corruption, there's plenty in southern europe in the certification and validation processes and probably in the ex comblock countries too these days.
For example, FramAtome (Areva) have problems building nuclear reactor in Finland because local bureaucrats actually demand you have to build and validate according to the regs.
FramAtome got used to passing around papers inside a goverment-backed good old boys network without anyone being too strict about things..
True to the form, thought, this does not work in Windows.
Indeed. As an EE engineer all these cries about how ISO is irrelevant seem not a little hilarious.
Grow up dammit. ALL electrical gadgets you have (in europe at least) are manufactured according to ISO standards. How is that "irrelevant?"
Two words:
Hollywood Accounting.
First of all, it takes way way big pile of money to design a new car, especially if it's in fact new-new design with chassis and everything and not just minor revamp of last years model.
Especially with the newfangled automatic stabilization and the like.
So if anything, making a car has higher development costs than software. And, well, hell of a lot of embedded software goes into ABS and the like. And it has to work right every time or they will sue your butt off. For this reason, it's easier for a person to justify spending $100 on an object they know costs about $95 in materials to produce, while they hesitate to spend $15 on a CD they know costs only pennies to create. I bite.
How do you explain the phenomenom that the most successfull and long-selling CDs can cost as much as brand new big-name releases do? Something like NiN pretty hate machine used to retail for something like 20â until they dropped NiN back catalogue prices just recently (no doubt a little due to mr Reznor blowing a gasket publicly and telling everyone to steal the albums)
Ditto for Metallica back catalogue and what have you.
How does that fit your theories of poor hungry record companies having to break even and barely being able to scrape by?
No.
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If it was done like in
However, many pages have shocking number or flashing blinking noisy piece of shit flash gimmicks that hock up 100% CPU and slow the machine to crawl. On top of annoying me to death, that is.
It's like you'd have to watch the most annoying tv spot over and over and over on a 2nd tv which you couldn't mute.
Not to mention that with ads the page layout changes so the actual content is more like 50% of the page with rest being taken up by ads.
So, yeah, I don't mind static image ads or text ads but goddamn animated images or flash ads that play some stupid jingle over and over..
Reminds me of an old motorcycle adage... there's old riders, and there's bold riders. You don't see any old bold riders.
Well.
You are aware that the real carnage is in the 1st year you drive.
Stats say you're way way way in the danger zone in the 1st year. If you survive that, your likelyhood to have severe accident in the 2nd year is something like 1/6th compared to 1st year because you most likely have had some educational "near death" experiences along the way and start to have healthy paranoid view toward the blind deaf and homicidal idiots in the cages.
Yeah, bold driving and all that but a few healthy "omigodimgonnadie!"-experiences make MOST bikers drive more defensively.
Driving skill takes distant 2nd place. Actually emergency braking on a bike is very very difficult and not something you will EVER pick up by just driving around. You have to explicitly practice it. Generic idea is that you have to start treating the brake like it has six stages (or whatever) and condition yourself to move between those. Key here is of course that when you lock the front wheel (aieeegonnadie-part) you go to 1 stop less which allows the wheel to rotate and you to gain control.
Very very hard and you have to do it perfect when scared shitless by some soccer mom blindsiding you in a bloody SUV with zero warning.
I'm sure this has been pointed out many times..
But it isn't so much lazy coding as it's MS becoming real estabilished big company with internal politics etc crap. So there's everyone's pet project and in this case "everyone" doesn't represent just one guy but can be a department of 100 guys. So that DLL has to stay in, OK? And the user doesn't need to be confused with any silly YES/NO dialogs, all right?
For what it's worth the major, major bloatware in windows is the user interface that's IE these days. Can't change it, can't do anything about it, just have to suck it down. You can't replace it with a minimal graphical UI for servers, for example.
No, I'm not referring to the insane gee-whizz feature to gee-whizz them all here, just plain old 2D UI.