As an engineer in a big multi-national I also see similar things going on in our company. They try to prevent untrained/unauthorized technicians from doing what we call "low-level" maintenance even though our equipment might be of vital importance of that buyer. In our company this is not necessary bad intent towards the customer, but more a way of protection our own business because selling only gives you 1 paycheck, service gives you hundreds in the course of years. Our machines are pretty comparable in complexity to modern tractors I believe as years of research and development have made it so they are of higher quality for the customer. This does not immediately relate to longer life times of our products but does improve on requirements because of new industry, government & environmental standards. But it also makes it harder to do a correct maintenance if you don't know the complete working of the machines.
Anyways, I don't want to justify John Deer's way of working, or any other car manufacturer ( because that seems to be the case here in Europe), but I do understand their position better.
The customer should be informed when they buy a product that their new product can only be maintained by the approved technicians, there for the EULA probably that has been forced onto the farmers. I also don't know how the market competition is for farming vehicles in USA, Europe or the rest of the world. And I think that part should be fixed then, if there is no (reasonable) competition/alternative for the farmers then there is a problem there.
It only takes one stupid uncooperative idiot ( maybe from a certain news station) to spread the disease.
And I wouldn't compare USA (or for that matter EU ) citizens to Nigerian citizens, Nigeria is known for it scare tactics, I don't see our governments try the same tactics without getting trouble back. Let alone that no lower class person will stay home from their job for 3 weeks without pay, they will lose their job and get evicted. Or is the government finally going to pay for those kind of expenses?
if that hurting yourself brings other people in danger, yes. Some people are that stupid that this is the only way of learning from their mistakes.
I can go and discuss a lot of reasons why this is off course stupid but if people already read my post that means they probably are smart enough to see that this is not realistic with current laws and consequences but hell, somebody had to say it.
Why don't people still not kill the zombie computers when a botnet is discovered and they have control over a Command Server? In my perspective that would teach the people that security is more important than they realize. And yeah i know that could kill some essential piece of hardware. And to that my response is. WTF. Why is an essential piece of hardware on the internet and not secure? This isn't 1970 when the internet was 2 computers and they had line of sight to validate trust.
As far as I know (and even google claims I'm correct in think this), doesn't manure also generate H2S in a limited amount? Ok the link between manure and growing food was maybe incomplete since they only thought the nutrients where mainly the nitrogen based compounds.
The only application I see is the hydro-culture vegetables/fruits here in Belgium and they already have no taste compared to real soil cultivated vegetables, and now they will get rotten egg taste?
I don't see the loss for us as consumers in this. The consumer has more opportunities when buying expensive stuff and it gets broken. (And yes for us as belgians products are more expensive then in our surrounding countries)
And I don't see a loss of opportunity for producers either since it is the seller that pays for the guarantee and the producer only has to make sure it has a good image.
In Europe there is a consumer law that demands that the sales person of a electronics device is required to give 2 years guarantee for free.
So what our consumer-organisation is suing for is that apple only give 1 year and sells the other year for a profit while this should be free.
(Or roughly something like that)
But off course this will not make a lot of difference since 1million euros is hardly a dent in Apple profits around here since a couple of schools are starting to make iPad a basic necessity for education and others are looking at them as an example instead of going for the open-source android communities.
FF9 doesn't crash my NVidea drivers, FF10 does, and this because all the 3d bullshit after FF 4
Now I'm on Chrome which also uses 3d rendering but doesn't crash my XP. and i'm getting used to it being faster and smoother most of the time.
Oh yeah, upgrading Hardware and OS isn't a real fast option in our company because the IT guys still promote IE 6
ok then why not talk about how 100y ago nobody thought the speed of sound could ever be broken by human beings.
The point isn't the myth about "the earth that once was flat and now is round" but the fact that sometimes humans limit their own way of thinking until somebody proves it to them right before their eyes. And physics still being a science that eventually needs to prove it's statements is a real incarnation of that way of thinking.
(This doesn't prove that the research isare correct but that we might not be smart enough yet to see past the speed of light if that where somehow possible)
Try that with chrome,ie8,safari,... please and let us know if your windows is crashing. Because chrome will open up a seperate sub-process for each task resulting in much more overhead for windows. And ie8, well i don't have to draw a picture of it.
I hope your not a big shot in a company because that would be to easy to shoot your arguments down. Wasn't it capitalistic American companies that forced drinking, smoking and fastfood on they're people to make a profit an make there shareholders even richer on the money of the shareholders neighbours? Are these rich people not obligated to help the people they extorted into sickness?
And what about people with genetic diseases that where caused by toxic substances they (or there parents, grandparents,...) had to work with to support the rich Americans?
Most of us don't fully choose there destructive lives some of us where born in it or even pushed into it and are to tired fighting it when there first thought is to stay alive.
Sorry that this sounds cruel but my father had to work hard to make a good live for his family and died early of cancer and I was lucky to climb up in live and have a nice education and a good payed job, so I'm one of the persons that can appreciate such safety nets even if it only helps 1 million of the 35 million people. And less then 1% off the American defense budget is small change for 35 million people.
If i understand the US-founders correctly they had a country in mind where everybody is equal and even the poorest have right to a respectable life in America.
This bill tries to get the people who earn more help the people who earn less get a healthy life. If you earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year then you can spare a couple of grant to help a poor family get health insurance that is most likely required because of doing the kind of jobs the rich don't wanna do anymore.
I'm having the exact same problems with PulseAudio, some of them are related to SDL not being 100% compatible with pulseaudio, but not all of them use SDL.
Actually i never said the catalyst would change the direction of the reaction. I said the catalyst change the circumstances, In fewer words than you do.
Your contradicting yourself, if it is energetically favorable then no catalyst should be necessary because a catalyst is used to circumvent a difficult step in the making process which would normally not accure.
While this company claims they have found a way to use IR to deteriorate plastic back to oil-like products without a catalyst. And this is seen (more or less) over long periodes of time in nature itself for some plastics. So it's not completely nonsens.
But most of us disable the build in firewall because my dog keeps out more virusses than it does in XP and install a 3rd party firewall of which we cannot yet be sure it well filter out the problem and it shouldn't have to do so either.
So i have to agree with the mentality of most readers here, microsoft is ending support of XP 4 years earlier then what they promised when they extended the support to 2014.
2 simple solutions, we force microsoft to fix it, or we fix it our selfs. And the last one is no option because it would be illegal according to most copyright laws.
but one that can easily be made more difficult for malware writers, computers containing malware often have no or bad security, if they improve this per user then the average difficulty for malware writers will increase and hopefully make our lifes beter.
There is my problem: " after 2 weeks or so".
I suspect you mean hourly use during those 2 weeks. Because it's on my pc for the last 6 months and i use Ms Office like once a week for simple excel stuff and once every 2 weeks for real typing and i'm still at a loss. Numbering is a hell in 2007 and generating a decent table of content failed the first 10 times i tried it. For those things i save and open in OOo, because in that layout i can find my way around it in a matter of seconds and have the job done in, o i don't know, 1% of the time it takes me in 2007. We are a small firm, we don't have the time to follow courses like in big firms. And what i have heard from friends and family, they all work slower in 2007 then when they were using office 2000/xp or even 2003.
I have to agree with sunderland that i hope OOo drops the idee or at least allows multiple UIs so we can select which one to use.
mac address protection is useless on a descent computer. Most networkcards are able to spoof another mac address. So you simply change mac address each time you get blocked and eventually the blocking will go down because they started blocking a computer from some "important high up the ladder" person.
Unless nerds like us can help then make a transition to linux if they don't really need Vista. Like just for mail checking, some text editing, some surfing. Some good old clasic games...
Problem is javascript engine in firefox (haven't tested it with 3.1 yet) is very leaky, we tried programming a complex application website for a project using javascript. IE had no problem with memory, but firefox kept loosing memory up to 800mb every 12hours.
Now we switched to silverlight and it's going much more smootly.
So firefox can be a hell for webdevelopers and website with bad scripts.
I doubt it will go that fast,
first of all not everybody has visa (or simular), which is often required for online buying thins online. And some people don't want to buy things online because they don't trust the visa-processors (see recent problems with visa-data). Others only buy things when they can physicly see them when shopping for other stuff.
And what about people who don't want to have an internet connection on there gaming computer/console?
This would be cutting there own sales-capabilities, even now when a lot of people buy songs via i-tunes (or simular) others want to have it on cd or vinyl just for show or nostalgy.
A couple of years ago, simular research was done by belgian researchers. Claiming to use a flaw in the virusses design to stop reproduction of virusses. We are now a couple of years later and there is no more news about this supercure.
As others have indicated, in current crisis situation this would cause the downfall of the pharmaceutical giants and that is something goverments cannot allow at this moment.
It is microsoft and other software companies that need to be carefull with there online contracts. There contract is invalid when it's illegal according to a law.
And if a parent finds i funny they can press charges against software companies because there kid (not of legal age) was able to buy or use something for which it should have it's parents permission.
Let's hope nobody reads this and gets crazy idees.
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As an engineer in a big multi-national I also see similar things going on in our company.
They try to prevent untrained/unauthorized technicians from doing what we call "low-level" maintenance even though our equipment might be of vital importance of that buyer.
In our company this is not necessary bad intent towards the customer, but more a way of protection our own business because selling only gives you 1 paycheck, service gives you hundreds in the course of years.
Our machines are pretty comparable in complexity to modern tractors I believe as years of research and development have made it so they are of higher quality for the customer. This does not immediately relate to longer life times of our products but does improve on requirements because of new industry, government & environmental standards.
But it also makes it harder to do a correct maintenance if you don't know the complete working of the machines.
Anyways, I don't want to justify John Deer's way of working, or any other car manufacturer ( because that seems to be the case here in Europe), but I do understand their position better.
The customer should be informed when they buy a product that their new product can only be maintained by the approved technicians, there for the EULA probably that has been forced onto the farmers.
I also don't know how the market competition is for farming vehicles in USA, Europe or the rest of the world.
And I think that part should be fixed then, if there is no (reasonable) competition/alternative for the farmers then there is a problem there.
It only takes one stupid uncooperative idiot ( maybe from a certain news station) to spread the disease.
And I wouldn't compare USA (or for that matter EU ) citizens to Nigerian citizens, Nigeria is known for it scare tactics, I don't see our governments try the same tactics without getting trouble back.
Let alone that no lower class person will stay home from their job for 3 weeks without pay, they will lose their job and get evicted.
Or is the government finally going to pay for those kind of expenses?
if that hurting yourself brings other people in danger, yes.
Some people are that stupid that this is the only way of learning from their mistakes.
I can go and discuss a lot of reasons why this is off course stupid but if people already read my post that means they probably are smart enough to see that this is not realistic with current laws and consequences but hell, somebody had to say it.
Why don't people still not kill the zombie computers when a botnet is discovered and they have control over a Command Server?
In my perspective that would teach the people that security is more important than they realize.
And yeah i know that could kill some essential piece of hardware. And to that my response is. WTF. Why is an essential piece of hardware on the internet and not secure? This isn't 1970 when the internet was 2 computers and they had line of sight to validate trust.
As far as I know (and even google claims I'm correct in think this), doesn't manure also generate H2S in a limited amount?
Ok the link between manure and growing food was maybe incomplete since they only thought the nutrients where mainly the nitrogen based compounds.
The only application I see is the hydro-culture vegetables/fruits here in Belgium and they already have no taste compared to real soil cultivated vegetables, and now they will get rotten egg taste?
I don't see the loss for us as consumers in this.
The consumer has more opportunities when buying expensive stuff and it gets broken.
(And yes for us as belgians products are more expensive then in our surrounding countries)
And I don't see a loss of opportunity for producers either since it is the seller that pays for the guarantee and the producer only has to make sure it has a good image.
In Europe there is a consumer law that demands that the sales person of a electronics device is required to give 2 years guarantee for free. So what our consumer-organisation is suing for is that apple only give 1 year and sells the other year for a profit while this should be free. (Or roughly something like that) But off course this will not make a lot of difference since 1million euros is hardly a dent in Apple profits around here since a couple of schools are starting to make iPad a basic necessity for education and others are looking at them as an example instead of going for the open-source android communities.
FF9 doesn't crash my NVidea drivers, FF10 does, and this because all the 3d bullshit after FF 4 Now I'm on Chrome which also uses 3d rendering but doesn't crash my XP. and i'm getting used to it being faster and smoother most of the time. Oh yeah, upgrading Hardware and OS isn't a real fast option in our company because the IT guys still promote IE 6
ok then why not talk about how 100y ago nobody thought the speed of sound could ever be broken by human beings. The point isn't the myth about "the earth that once was flat and now is round" but the fact that sometimes humans limit their own way of thinking until somebody proves it to them right before their eyes. And physics still being a science that eventually needs to prove it's statements is a real incarnation of that way of thinking. (This doesn't prove that the research isare correct but that we might not be smart enough yet to see past the speed of light if that where somehow possible)
Is my math wrong but i come to different numbers:
20'x8'
135TB * 280 = 36.9 PB
2^88 Bytes = 274 877 906 944 PB
=> ~ 7.5 Billion shipping containers
1 container = 160 ft => 1miles = ~174240 containers => ~43000miles
=> stack 8 high => 5380miles => 73 miles to each side
40'x8'
135TB * 1400 = 184.6PB
=> ~ 1.5 Billion shipping containers
1 container = 320ft => 1 miles = ~87120 containers => ~17220miles
=> stack 8 high => 2152miles => 47 miles to each side
maybe there is some space left beneath area 51
Try that with chrome,ie8,safari,... please and let us know if your windows is crashing. Because chrome will open up a seperate sub-process for each task resulting in much more overhead for windows. And ie8, well i don't have to draw a picture of it.
I hope your not a big shot in a company because that would be to easy to shoot your arguments down. Wasn't it capitalistic American companies that forced drinking, smoking and fastfood on they're people to make a profit an make there shareholders even richer on the money of the shareholders neighbours? Are these rich people not obligated to help the people they extorted into sickness? And what about people with genetic diseases that where caused by toxic substances they (or there parents, grandparents,...) had to work with to support the rich Americans? Most of us don't fully choose there destructive lives some of us where born in it or even pushed into it and are to tired fighting it when there first thought is to stay alive. Sorry that this sounds cruel but my father had to work hard to make a good live for his family and died early of cancer and I was lucky to climb up in live and have a nice education and a good payed job, so I'm one of the persons that can appreciate such safety nets even if it only helps 1 million of the 35 million people. And less then 1% off the American defense budget is small change for 35 million people.
If i understand the US-founders correctly they had a country in mind where everybody is equal and even the poorest have right to a respectable life in America. This bill tries to get the people who earn more help the people who earn less get a healthy life. If you earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year then you can spare a couple of grant to help a poor family get health insurance that is most likely required because of doing the kind of jobs the rich don't wanna do anymore.
I'm having the exact same problems with PulseAudio, some of them are related to SDL not being 100% compatible with pulseaudio, but not all of them use SDL.
Actually i never said the catalyst would change the direction of the reaction. I said the catalyst change the circumstances, In fewer words than you do.
Your contradicting yourself, if it is energetically favorable then no catalyst should be necessary because a catalyst is used to circumvent a difficult step in the making process which would normally not accure. While this company claims they have found a way to use IR to deteriorate plastic back to oil-like products without a catalyst. And this is seen (more or less) over long periodes of time in nature itself for some plastics. So it's not completely nonsens.
But most of us disable the build in firewall because my dog keeps out more virusses than it does in XP and install a 3rd party firewall of which we cannot yet be sure it well filter out the problem and it shouldn't have to do so either. So i have to agree with the mentality of most readers here, microsoft is ending support of XP 4 years earlier then what they promised when they extended the support to 2014. 2 simple solutions, we force microsoft to fix it, or we fix it our selfs. And the last one is no option because it would be illegal according to most copyright laws.
but one that can easily be made more difficult for malware writers, computers containing malware often have no or bad security, if they improve this per user then the average difficulty for malware writers will increase and hopefully make our lifes beter.
There is my problem: " after 2 weeks or so". I suspect you mean hourly use during those 2 weeks. Because it's on my pc for the last 6 months and i use Ms Office like once a week for simple excel stuff and once every 2 weeks for real typing and i'm still at a loss. Numbering is a hell in 2007 and generating a decent table of content failed the first 10 times i tried it. For those things i save and open in OOo, because in that layout i can find my way around it in a matter of seconds and have the job done in, o i don't know, 1% of the time it takes me in 2007. We are a small firm, we don't have the time to follow courses like in big firms. And what i have heard from friends and family, they all work slower in 2007 then when they were using office 2000/xp or even 2003. I have to agree with sunderland that i hope OOo drops the idee or at least allows multiple UIs so we can select which one to use.
mac address protection is useless on a descent computer. Most networkcards are able to spoof another mac address. So you simply change mac address each time you get blocked and eventually the blocking will go down because they started blocking a computer from some "important high up the ladder" person.
Unless nerds like us can help then make a transition to linux if they don't really need Vista. Like just for mail checking, some text editing, some surfing. Some good old clasic games...
Problem is javascript engine in firefox (haven't tested it with 3.1 yet) is very leaky, we tried programming a complex application website for a project using javascript. IE had no problem with memory, but firefox kept loosing memory up to 800mb every 12hours. Now we switched to silverlight and it's going much more smootly. So firefox can be a hell for webdevelopers and website with bad scripts.
I doubt it will go that fast, first of all not everybody has visa (or simular), which is often required for online buying thins online. And some people don't want to buy things online because they don't trust the visa-processors (see recent problems with visa-data). Others only buy things when they can physicly see them when shopping for other stuff. And what about people who don't want to have an internet connection on there gaming computer/console? This would be cutting there own sales-capabilities, even now when a lot of people buy songs via i-tunes (or simular) others want to have it on cd or vinyl just for show or nostalgy.
A couple of years ago, simular research was done by belgian researchers. Claiming to use a flaw in the virusses design to stop reproduction of virusses. We are now a couple of years later and there is no more news about this supercure. As others have indicated, in current crisis situation this would cause the downfall of the pharmaceutical giants and that is something goverments cannot allow at this moment.
It is microsoft and other software companies that need to be carefull with there online contracts. There contract is invalid when it's illegal according to a law. And if a parent finds i funny they can press charges against software companies because there kid (not of legal age) was able to buy or use something for which it should have it's parents permission. Let's hope nobody reads this and gets crazy idees.