Come on. You can generate hydrogen by dumping aluminium foil in either sodium hydroxide (cheap plumbing cleaner) or in water containing minute amounts of HgCl2 acting as a catalyst. This is elementary and was known for decades. Those guys just found out that if they use insanely fine aluminium powder they don't need sodium hydroxide or mercuric chloride anymore. But this gets us nowhere, as we still need the aluminium, and making this insanely fine powder isn't free (both financially and energetically). The immediate practical value of this work in the field of energy storage is near zero. The only thing going for it is that the authors know how to generate interest.
Had this been a communist maneuver, "we the people" would now own these companies
Actual reality: the government would now own those companies. They would run them inefficiently, and only members of the ruling party could obtain its products without restriction - others would have to wait in kilometer-long lines and have government-issued coupons. The prices for the coupons on the black market would be several times the shelf price for the item. And even if you had coupons and money you would have to find a store which actually has the items, which would be impossible.
This would only strip the elite status from the capitalists to give it to the politicians, who in the end care about the companies (they don't belong to them but "to the people"). So instead of a greedy elite we would have a greedy, incompetent elite that is not bound by law.
Of course this doesn't fit e.g. China, but they are not really communist - they only pretend to. They are just an authoritarian regime with an ideology. However, the above description fits the former Soviet bloc countries.
Unfortunately this is not a Russell paradox because you are restricting yourself to Facebook groups. The paradox applies to a set containing its power set.
#28: Linux has nothing like Device Stage. Whether this is a good or bad thing is another issue.
This looks like the prefect crapware delivery engine.
It also has a lot of confusing wording:
In the address bar for the printer: "Hardware and Sound" and "Devices and Printers" - great. Someone tried to be creative but failed, because Sound is part of Hardware. Same goes for the second name. Another interesting fact is that the phone is in "Devices and Printers" while the printer is in "Hardware ans Sound".
Customize your printer - what the HELL does that mean? Can I magically attach a spoiler or wheel caps to the printer in that dialog?
Open scan property - WTF?
You can tell Windows to download the manual whenever you plug in the phone. I always wanted that feature.
This feature is quite nice for beginners. I think for me it would be just annoying. They really need to clean up the wording though, because now it's just very confusing.
Microsoft is not a natural monopoly (like cable, electricity, water) where there is only going to be one infrastructure going to your house.
Electricity is not a natural monopoly when it is regulated to separate distribution from generation.
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Are you smoking something? This is a GNU project. The "web page" is actually a facade to appease the unenlightened. Here is a Web 1.0 concept mapping for you:
news page -> "announce" mailing list wiki -> "user" mailing list, documentation developer forum -> "dev" mailing list release notes -> in the tarball!
Free print editions...less pages and really just an advertisement "teaser" for the online version.
Another interesting niche is a free "commute newspaper" that is distributed at subway stations and major bus stops and is short enough you can read it during your commute. There is one in my city, and it's pretty popular.
So what should I use?? "if IE" comments are the cleanest solution for IE woes. Using them you can make your sites both standards compliant AND hack-free.
"Conditional comments" are perfect for linking to an additional style sheet that makes the site look decent in IE. They are the simplest and most reliable method of serving CSS/Javascript fixes, and they are W3C complaint (see this site: www.baltchem.eu - it uses those tags and is still valid XHTML 1.0 Strict).
I think that abolishing copyright would make Microsoft *less* likely to release their source. To date they have successfully prevented the public from obtaining Windows source code, except a small portion of Windows 2000 code. If copyright was abolished, they would immediately lose most of their business, and keeping the source code secret and living off contractual improvements and services would be their only chance at survival.
No, the reason you get those ads for fake pills is that someone with antisocial tendencies is sending them to you using hijacked systems.
So you were robbed because a thief stole your stuff, and not because you left the door open?
The blame goes both ways. Of course botnets wouldn't exist without malware authors, but neither would they without that many Windows and IE vulnerabilities.
How does one purchase software illegally? I mean, if you've purchased it, it's not illegal.
You must be very innocent, or very stupid.
Nowadays people just torrent, but in the old days there were places where you could go in person and buy software for a fraction of its official price. Software piracy predates the Internet.
In my city (Warsaw) there was once a big marketplace on an abandoned sports stadium where people would trade in various illegal goods, like counterfeit clothes, pirated software, alcohol and cigarettes without excise tax, and even post-Soviet weapons. It wasn't the only place like this. You didn't even need an Internet connection to have the latest games. They were sold for about $3-$6 per CD.
The more common form of selling pirated software today is shady OEMs preinstalling cracked versions of Windows and other programs.
Point is, you certainly can buy software illegally, just like you can buy a stolen car.
Your little theory is disproved by this chart: http://www.agner.org/optimize/optimizing_cpp.pdf And scroll down to page 68. GCC does everything MSVC does, and more. The chart says that GCC doesn't implement PGO yet, but currently it does.
The cause of Firefox underperforming on Linux is most certainly not using PGO in Linux builds, which is a distribution issue more than a Firefox issue.
Just for the sake of argument, maybe the real complaint should be that the W3C did a poor job "standardizing" on the rest of IE5? I don't like Microsoft, but considering it had the largest user base and its developers are least interested in listening to the W3C, it sure would have made things easier.
Standard telco / WiFi manufacturer FUD... The responsibility to obey FCC regulations rests on the user of hardware, not on its manufacturer. There is no FCC-mandated obligation to lock down hardware. This is pure blithering bullshit from hardware companies that use this lie as an excuse not to publish datahseets, lock up functionality in binary blobs, lock down devices, break GPL (if not legally then at least in spirit), and generally be total assholes.
CUPS isn't going anywhere, I don't know where the fuck those people got that idea... It may be removed from the Netbook Remix, because printing from a netbook doesn't seem to be very common.
GConf is similar in concept to the Windows Registry (a unified configuration database), but it doesn't cause too many problems. The reason is that the keys are documented, and not used for settings that shouldn't be altered by the user...
The paragraph about Ubuntu is bogus. It doesn't have MySQL or LDAP installed by default. MySQL is installed in Kubuntu though, because it is required by Amarok and Kontact/Kmail. It has SQLite, because it is needed by Firefox, but it works without a server. I don't see Ubuntu removing CUPS because that would leave us without printing support.
I think they are referring to the Netbook Remix edition, which I can imagine doing without CUPS and a lot of other things.
please bare in mind the many, many distros, dependencies, package types, kernel revisions which drivers would need to be developed for.
FUD. You write a driver once, get it included in the mainline kernel (which can take some time and work), and forget about it. You can bugfix it from time to time if you're nice but it's not required. You don't need to be concerned with distros and package managers at all. This is the lowest-level part of the system - it's the distros that support you, not the other way around.
This isn't Windows where you are expected to do everything yourself and control the user experience (installers, testing, desktop integration, etc.). This is FOSS, where you are only expected to provide working code. Many companies don't understand this and try to apply Windows deployment models to Linux and then fail miserably.
Either that, or use the server's escaping function, which will be correct. There is no way to create parametrized SQL queries with the PHP / MySQL combo if you don't have the mysqli extension (which is unfortunately far from rare).
The most dangerous ingredient of radioactive waste is plutonium, because it has a half life of 25000 years and radiates for a very long time.
In civilised European countries, the plutonium is extracted and reused as MOX fuel in the PUREX process. In the US though, this is banned for some reason. Probably because someone was afraid of proliferating nuclear weapons in a country that already has lots of them, or out of concern for the environment (which actually works backwards by generating more hazardous waste). Epic fail.
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If this was NTFS the situation would be a little more clear, but because its "the standard" FAT32, some people cannot see the similarity.
The difference is that NTFS is not patented. (Nobody besides Microsoft knows the journal file format though.)
Come on. You can generate hydrogen by dumping aluminium foil in either sodium hydroxide (cheap plumbing cleaner) or in water containing minute amounts of HgCl2 acting as a catalyst. This is elementary and was known for decades. Those guys just found out that if they use insanely fine aluminium powder they don't need sodium hydroxide or mercuric chloride anymore. But this gets us nowhere, as we still need the aluminium, and making this insanely fine powder isn't free (both financially and energetically). The immediate practical value of this work in the field of energy storage is near zero. The only thing going for it is that the authors know how to generate interest.
Had this been a communist maneuver, "we the people" would now own these companies
Actual reality: the government would now own those companies. They would run them inefficiently, and only members of the ruling party could obtain its products without restriction - others would have to wait in kilometer-long lines and have government-issued coupons. The prices for the coupons on the black market would be several times the shelf price for the item. And even if you had coupons and money you would have to find a store which actually has the items, which would be impossible.
This would only strip the elite status from the capitalists to give it to the politicians, who in the end care about the companies (they don't belong to them but "to the people"). So instead of a greedy elite we would have a greedy, incompetent elite that is not bound by law.
Of course this doesn't fit e.g. China, but they are not really communist - they only pretend to. They are just an authoritarian regime with an ideology. However, the above description fits the former Soviet bloc countries.
Unfortunately this is not a Russell paradox because you are restricting yourself to Facebook groups. The paradox applies to a set containing its power set.
#28: Linux has nothing like Device Stage. Whether this is a good or bad thing is another issue.
This looks like the prefect crapware delivery engine.
It also has a lot of confusing wording:
This feature is quite nice for beginners. I think for me it would be just annoying. They really need to clean up the wording though, because now it's just very confusing.
Microsoft is not a natural monopoly (like cable, electricity, water) where there is only going to be one infrastructure going to your house.
Electricity is not a natural monopoly when it is regulated to separate distribution from generation.
Are you smoking something? This is a GNU project. The "web page" is actually a facade to appease the unenlightened. Here is a Web 1.0 concept mapping for you:
news page -> "announce" mailing list
wiki -> "user" mailing list, documentation
developer forum -> "dev" mailing list
release notes -> in the tarball!
Free print editions...less pages and really just an advertisement "teaser" for the online version.
Another interesting niche is a free "commute newspaper" that is distributed at subway stations and major bus stops and is short enough you can read it during your commute. There is one in my city, and it's pretty popular.
So what should I use?? "if IE" comments are the cleanest solution for IE woes. Using them you can make your sites both standards compliant AND hack-free.
"Conditional comments" are perfect for linking to an additional style sheet that makes the site look decent in IE. They are the simplest and most reliable method of serving CSS/Javascript fixes, and they are W3C complaint (see this site: www.baltchem.eu - it uses those tags and is still valid XHTML 1.0 Strict).
The critical difference is that Nintendo is not a monopoly player, so this analogy fails.
There are fixes: .desktop files to be executable to launch them
1. Require
2. Ignore the Exec= line in user overrides
It's just a matter of someone contributing a suitable patch. It is not an architectural problem.
I think that abolishing copyright would make Microsoft *less* likely to release their source. To date they have successfully prevented the public from obtaining Windows source code, except a small portion of Windows 2000 code. If copyright was abolished, they would immediately lose most of their business, and keeping the source code secret and living off contractual improvements and services would be their only chance at survival.
No, the reason you get those ads for fake pills is that someone with antisocial tendencies is sending them to you using hijacked systems.
So you were robbed because a thief stole your stuff, and not because you left the door open?
The blame goes both ways. Of course botnets wouldn't exist without malware authors, but neither would they without that many Windows and IE vulnerabilities.
How does one purchase software illegally? I mean, if you've purchased it, it's not illegal.
You must be very innocent, or very stupid.
Nowadays people just torrent, but in the old days there were places where you could go in person and buy software for a fraction of its official price. Software piracy predates the Internet.
In my city (Warsaw) there was once a big marketplace on an abandoned sports stadium where people would trade in various illegal goods, like counterfeit clothes, pirated software, alcohol and cigarettes without excise tax, and even post-Soviet weapons. It wasn't the only place like this. You didn't even need an Internet connection to have the latest games. They were sold for about $3-$6 per CD.
The more common form of selling pirated software today is shady OEMs preinstalling cracked versions of Windows and other programs.
Point is, you certainly can buy software illegally, just like you can buy a stolen car.
Your little theory is disproved by this chart:
http://www.agner.org/optimize/optimizing_cpp.pdf
And scroll down to page 68. GCC does everything MSVC does, and more. The chart says that GCC doesn't implement PGO yet, but currently it does.
The cause of Firefox underperforming on Linux is most certainly not using PGO in Linux builds, which is a distribution issue more than a Firefox issue.
Just for the sake of argument, maybe the real complaint should be that the W3C did a poor job "standardizing" on the rest of IE5? I don't like Microsoft, but considering it had the largest user base and its developers are least interested in listening to the W3C, it sure would have made things easier.
And braindead broken. (OOXML anyone?)
Standard telco / WiFi manufacturer FUD... The responsibility to obey FCC regulations rests on the user of hardware, not on its manufacturer. There is no FCC-mandated obligation to lock down hardware. This is pure blithering bullshit from hardware companies that use this lie as an excuse not to publish datahseets, lock up functionality in binary blobs, lock down devices, break GPL (if not legally then at least in spirit), and generally be total assholes.
CUPS isn't going anywhere, I don't know where the fuck those people got that idea... It may be removed from the Netbook Remix, because printing from a netbook doesn't seem to be very common.
GConf is similar in concept to the Windows Registry (a unified configuration database), but it doesn't cause too many problems. The reason is that the keys are documented, and not used for settings that shouldn't be altered by the user...
Except they weren't installed by default at all, and that paragraph is bogus.
It ships with Kubuntu as a storage backend for Amarok and Akonadi (Kontact/Kmail data server). It doesn't ship with vanilla Ubuntu.
The paragraph about Ubuntu is bogus. It doesn't have MySQL or LDAP installed by default. MySQL is installed in Kubuntu though, because it is required by Amarok and Kontact/Kmail. It has SQLite, because it is needed by Firefox, but it works without a server. I don't see Ubuntu removing CUPS because that would leave us without printing support.
I think they are referring to the Netbook Remix edition, which I can imagine doing without CUPS and a lot of other things.
please bare in mind the many, many distros, dependencies, package types, kernel revisions which drivers would need to be developed for.
FUD. You write a driver once, get it included in the mainline kernel (which can take some time and work), and forget about it. You can bugfix it from time to time if you're nice but it's not required. You don't need to be concerned with distros and package managers at all. This is the lowest-level part of the system - it's the distros that support you, not the other way around.
This isn't Windows where you are expected to do everything yourself and control the user experience (installers, testing, desktop integration, etc.). This is FOSS, where you are only expected to provide working code. Many companies don't understand this and try to apply Windows deployment models to Linux and then fail miserably.
Either that, or use the server's escaping function, which will be correct. There is no way to create parametrized SQL queries with the PHP / MySQL combo if you don't have the mysqli extension (which is unfortunately far from rare).
Food for thought:
The most dangerous ingredient of radioactive waste is plutonium, because it has a half life of 25000 years and radiates for a very long time.
In civilised European countries, the plutonium is extracted and reused as MOX fuel in the PUREX process. In the US though, this is banned for some reason. Probably because someone was afraid of proliferating nuclear weapons in a country that already has lots of them, or out of concern for the environment (which actually works backwards by generating more hazardous waste). Epic fail.