Which is basically a form of command economy called socialism.
No, it's basically a form of command economy called fascism, a right wing problem. And, appropriately, is the right that is doing it, along with many of the other right-wing missteps, such as pseudo-Christian ideologies, violations of privacy rights, discrimination against minorities, etc.
A significant part of the Republican party is now composed of what can only be described as right wing extremists. The whole US political spectrum is so tilted to the right that there are no socialists or communists at all anymore in government.
Fascism and communism are generally totalitarian. Socialism is the left wing counterpart of capitalism, bracketing the moderate ends of the political spectrum. Neither socialism nor capitalism are usually totalitarian.
Joking aside, the article is puzzling and it reeks of FUD: if the iCrooks were bad enough to get the authorities
The police nabbing crooks is good. But the concern is about what happens if the crooks steal an iPhone. Are the passwords still secure? So far, people have been assuming that if they use a third part password manager that's reasonably well written, their passwords are secure. Now, it turns out, that if you look up a password and then close the application with the Home button, your password is being captured and stored unencrypted in a screenshot.
The OS X user experience is anything but "smooth": between spinning beach balls, a bloated and slow window server, lack of software uninstallers, crashes, and inconsistent interfaces, OS X is basically just another desktop.
It's the circumvention that's prohibited, not the copying itself. So, if you can get at the data without circumvention, fair use provisions should still apply.
Fact is the only good Xserver implementation I've used is NoMachine - which runs an Xserver proxy on the server end which it translates into its own actually efficient protocol to send to the (client/xserver). Then it works fine, but not because of the X implementation.
Sorry, you don't know what you're talking about.
NoMachine is the equivalent of RDP: it's a separate protocol specifically designed for low bandwidth connections (there are several others, including LBX and DXPC). Performance of those low bandwidth protocols has nothing to do with server performance. Those protocols spend a lot of CPU and memory to reduce latency and bandwidth. They are not used for local display.
The X11 protocol is designed for high bandwidth connection, such as local IPC and high speed LAN connections. The equivalent of that is the Windows display server internal IPC protocol and the Quartz local IPC protocol; Microsoft and Apple simply have chosen not even to expose those protocols. If they had, they would be worse than X11 over a LAN.
The fuck wha? Have you actually used X11 remotely vs RDP?
You are really confused.
X11 is designed for local and LAN use. It is very good for that purpose, better than Windows' display server or Macintosh Quartz: it gives very fast local performance and works well over high speed LANs. It was not targeted at WAN or low-bandwidth use. Trying to use Windows display sever or Quartz over a network is so hopeless that it's simply been disabled.
RDP is a completely separate protocol, designed for low bandwidth. The X11 equivalents are LBX, VNC, NoMachine, and a bunch of others. They work very well.
The first touch screen phones came from Handspring/Palm, and they were excellent at the time. In fact, they are still a decent choice for a low cost touch screen phone. Although they were designed for use with a stylus, there were many third party add-ons that allowed finger typing, many of them better than what the iPhone has.
The next touch screen phones came from Microsoft. Although the user interface is the usual Microsoft-ugly, they crash a lot, and the whole thing is trying to enslave you to Microsoft software, those were and still are powerful phones with a lot of third party software for them.
The iPhone? Yes, it's prettier than Palm and easier to use than Microsoft. It's slimmer and sleeker than both. It crashes a lot, but it does it with oh-so-much-style that you barely notice. Its games are hot, although its productivity software is limited due to Apple's attempts to protect its own business. No Flash and no Java limit it significantly. And the iPhone is more locked down and locked in than either Palm or Windows Mobile phones.
The iPhone will gather a significant percentage of market share in many markets, but it will not be the majority smartphone platform of the future. Between Nokia/Symbian, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung, Apple has some tough competitors.
...whaaaaaaaat? Microsoft and Apple have moved *away* from X11 window systems.
Bullshit. Microsoft and Apple never used X11 or anything like it. They used to have hokey direct-to-memory graphics libraries. Now, both of them have moved to a client-sever architecture, with a display server in user space, just like X11.
To get any reasonable desktop performance out of X, you have to replace about half of the server
X11 is actually more efficient than either the Windows or the Mac display servers.
Threads are still better for the majority of computing tasks,
The majority of computing tasks use neither threads nor multiple processes.
if only due to shared address space (because IPC sucks to write and debug).
You can have shared address space with multiple processes.
Get off the crack pipe.
Stop mindlessly repeating Microsoft and Apple marketing babble.
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Actually, there are choices other than buying, pirating, or lying. Think about it for a moment, maybe you'll figure it out.
Well, maybe not you. But most people would be able to.
This wasn't Google's, it was the Tribune that posted the story as new. Google just picked it up and republished it, as they do with all news, without any guarantee that it's accurate.
And the people who caused United to lose the money were automated trading programs. Maybe they should be made a bit more robust? Just a thought.
UNIX didn't have threads for many years because its developers thought that processes were a better choice. Then, a whole bunch of people coming from other systems pushed for threads to be added to UNIX, and they did. Now, 30 years later, people are moving back to the processes-are-better view that UNIX originally was pushing.
Microsoft and Apple have moved to X11-like window systems, Microsoft and Google are moving from threads to processes,... Maybe it's time to switch to V7 (or Plan 9)?:-)
If you want less bloat, faster boot times, etc. you can install a different version of Linux. DSL boots almost instantaneously. Xubuntu is a lot faster and less bloated than Ubuntu.
With Windows, your only choice is obsolete and fast or up-to-date and bloated. With Linux, you can choose different tradeoffs and still run up-to-date, maintained software.
as evolution in action. Only if we have multiple rendering engines do people have a choice, and only as long as there are multiple implementations does it make sense to speak of a standard (Sun: take notice). This is good for everybody.
Firefox should complain loudly when such cookies are being sent:
"Server error: server has sent cookies unsafely. You can add an exception, by clicking below, but until the web site operator fixes the site, you should consider your session not secure."
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following the growth of a species from the cellular level to galactic domination was an ambitious goal
It's a good game, but it's still a fairly traditional combination of elements: a bit arcade style action, a bit of Civilization. You can also think of it as a bunch of different variants of a game all rolled into one.
However, it's not the artificial life game that it could have been, and it has nothing to do with species or evolution. Furthermore, there isn't a lot of variation in the game play depending on your choices, so in some ways, it's actually worse than many other games.
ThorpeGlen's vice president of global sales showed off the company's tools by mining a dataset of a single week's worth of call data from 50 million users in Indonesia, which it has crunched in order to try and discover small anti-social groups that only call each other.
Data mining can work, but it requires a lot of care and validation. This sounds like snake oil to me: people finding patterns in data, and then putting some interpretation on it.
If you're running a "home server" then that's probably a violation of your service agreement.
No, it isn't. I checked with my ISP. The terms are clear: I can run servers, I just can't offer services to the public.
It may be your home, and it may be "enormously important" to you, but your desire (and that's all it is) to share CC material is immaterial to me when your home P2P server floods the local router to the point I might as well have a 98K modem.
Are you stupid or something? I keep arguing against P2P flooding of networks. I keep arguing for volume caps.
Once again, you don't live in a vacuum
I know. Neither do you. But your brain seems to be a big vacuous. Try to fill it up some time.
That's already what's happening: ISPs have always had monthly volume caps, they simply weren't spelled out and only enforced when bandwidth hogs were actually a noticeable problem.
Comcast has now been forced to spell it out (250G); I'm fine with that. I'm fine with a 250G monthly volume cap at current prices, and so are probably 99.99% of all users.
In return, I expect my ISP to leave my traffic alone. And, you know what? Despite all the bad press, Comcast actually has been leaving my traffic alone, both outgoing and incoming.
ISPs might offer lower volume caps (10G, 50G, whatever) at lower monthly prices, although I don't see either an obligation or a big need for that.
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Which is basically a form of command economy called socialism.
No, it's basically a form of command economy called fascism, a right wing problem. And, appropriately, is the right that is doing it, along with many of the other right-wing missteps, such as pseudo-Christian ideologies, violations of privacy rights, discrimination against minorities, etc.
A significant part of the Republican party is now composed of what can only be described as right wing extremists. The whole US political spectrum is so tilted to the right that there are no socialists or communists at all anymore in government.
Fascism and communism are generally totalitarian. Socialism is the left wing counterpart of capitalism, bracketing the moderate ends of the political spectrum. Neither socialism nor capitalism are usually totalitarian.
they absolutely need to provide some sort of relief to homeowners
Why? If you bought more house than you can afford, why should I pay for your folly?
Microsoft Windows is like ill-fitting underwear and shoes that are too tight?
Joking aside, the article is puzzling and it reeks of FUD: if the iCrooks were bad enough to get the authorities
The police nabbing crooks is good. But the concern is about what happens if the crooks steal an iPhone. Are the passwords still secure? So far, people have been assuming that if they use a third part password manager that's reasonably well written, their passwords are secure. Now, it turns out, that if you look up a password and then close the application with the Home button, your password is being captured and stored unencrypted in a screenshot.
The OS X user experience is anything but "smooth": between spinning beach balls, a bloated and slow window server, lack of software uninstallers, crashes, and inconsistent interfaces, OS X is basically just another desktop.
It's the circumvention that's prohibited, not the copying itself. So, if you can get at the data without circumvention, fair use provisions should still apply.
None of them are Ubuntu packages yet, so they don't count either :-)
You forgot RIM
Does RIM have a touch screen phone now?
I would say that the P800 from Sony Ericcson was out before M$ arived on the scene.
The P800 came out in 2002; there were several Pocket PC-based touch screen phones a couple of years before that. Microsoft clones quickly :-)
Fact is the only good Xserver implementation I've used is NoMachine - which runs an Xserver proxy on the server end which it translates into its own actually efficient protocol to send to the (client/xserver). Then it works fine, but not because of the X implementation.
Sorry, you don't know what you're talking about.
NoMachine is the equivalent of RDP: it's a separate protocol specifically designed for low bandwidth connections (there are several others, including LBX and DXPC). Performance of those low bandwidth protocols has nothing to do with server performance. Those protocols spend a lot of CPU and memory to reduce latency and bandwidth. They are not used for local display.
The X11 protocol is designed for high bandwidth connection, such as local IPC and high speed LAN connections. The equivalent of that is the Windows display server internal IPC protocol and the Quartz local IPC protocol; Microsoft and Apple simply have chosen not even to expose those protocols. If they had, they would be worse than X11 over a LAN.
The fuck wha? Have you actually used X11 remotely vs RDP?
You are really confused.
X11 is designed for local and LAN use. It is very good for that purpose, better than Windows' display server or Macintosh Quartz: it gives very fast local performance and works well over high speed LANs. It was not targeted at WAN or low-bandwidth use. Trying to use Windows display sever or Quartz over a network is so hopeless that it's simply been disabled.
RDP is a completely separate protocol, designed for low bandwidth. The X11 equivalents are LBX, VNC, NoMachine, and a bunch of others. They work very well.
The first touch screen phones came from Handspring/Palm, and they were excellent at the time. In fact, they are still a decent choice for a low cost touch screen phone. Although they were designed for use with a stylus, there were many third party add-ons that allowed finger typing, many of them better than what the iPhone has.
The next touch screen phones came from Microsoft. Although the user interface is the usual Microsoft-ugly, they crash a lot, and the whole thing is trying to enslave you to Microsoft software, those were and still are powerful phones with a lot of third party software for them.
The iPhone? Yes, it's prettier than Palm and easier to use than Microsoft. It's slimmer and sleeker than both. It crashes a lot, but it does it with oh-so-much-style that you barely notice. Its games are hot, although its productivity software is limited due to Apple's attempts to protect its own business. No Flash and no Java limit it significantly. And the iPhone is more locked down and locked in than either Palm or Windows Mobile phones.
The iPhone will gather a significant percentage of market share in many markets, but it will not be the majority smartphone platform of the future. Between Nokia/Symbian, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung, Apple has some tough competitors.
...whaaaaaaaat? Microsoft and Apple have moved *away* from X11 window systems.
Bullshit. Microsoft and Apple never used X11 or anything like it. They used to have hokey direct-to-memory graphics libraries. Now, both of them have moved to a client-sever architecture, with a display server in user space, just like X11.
To get any reasonable desktop performance out of X, you have to replace about half of the server
X11 is actually more efficient than either the Windows or the Mac display servers.
Threads are still better for the majority of computing tasks,
The majority of computing tasks use neither threads nor multiple processes.
if only due to shared address space (because IPC sucks to write and debug).
You can have shared address space with multiple processes.
Get off the crack pipe.
Stop mindlessly repeating Microsoft and Apple marketing babble.
Actually, there are choices other than buying, pirating, or lying. Think about it for a moment, maybe you'll figure it out.
Well, maybe not you. But most people would be able to.
This wasn't Google's, it was the Tribune that posted the story as new. Google just picked it up and republished it, as they do with all news, without any guarantee that it's accurate.
And the people who caused United to lose the money were automated trading programs. Maybe they should be made a bit more robust? Just a thought.
UNIX didn't have threads for many years because its developers thought that processes were a better choice. Then, a whole bunch of people coming from other systems pushed for threads to be added to UNIX, and they did. Now, 30 years later, people are moving back to the processes-are-better view that UNIX originally was pushing.
Microsoft and Apple have moved to X11-like window systems, Microsoft and Google are moving from threads to processes, ... Maybe it's time to switch to V7 (or Plan 9)? :-)
If you want less bloat, faster boot times, etc. you can install a different version of Linux. DSL boots almost instantaneously. Xubuntu is a lot faster and less bloated than Ubuntu.
With Windows, your only choice is obsolete and fast or up-to-date and bloated. With Linux, you can choose different tradeoffs and still run up-to-date, maintained software.
Because the name is juvenile flamebait?
It's a themed distro.
The creator of the distro isn't a Satanist, and neither are the posters on his board.
And how exactly do you know this?
Besides, 99.9% of the people who call themselves "Christian" aren't Christian either, they just use the name.
It doesn't mean that Distro Watch has to give a crap about your distro either.
DistroWatch can do whatever they want. But if they start deciding what's a valid religion or cause and what is not, they are losing credibility.
as evolution in action. Only if we have multiple rendering engines do people have a choice, and only as long as there are multiple implementations does it make sense to speak of a standard (Sun: take notice). This is good for everybody.
No, but you should care and think twice about buying snake oil like this.
Data mining is easy. Meaningful data mining is hard, and it's even harder to demonstrate that it's working.
Firefox should complain loudly when such cookies are being sent:
"Server error: server has sent cookies unsafely. You can add an exception, by clicking below, but until the web site operator fixes the site, you should consider your session not secure."
following the growth of a species from the cellular level to galactic domination was an ambitious goal
It's a good game, but it's still a fairly traditional combination of elements: a bit arcade style action, a bit of Civilization. You can also think of it as a bunch of different variants of a game all rolled into one.
However, it's not the artificial life game that it could have been, and it has nothing to do with species or evolution. Furthermore, there isn't a lot of variation in the game play depending on your choices, so in some ways, it's actually worse than many other games.
ThorpeGlen's vice president of global sales showed off the company's tools by mining a dataset of a single week's worth of call data from 50 million users in Indonesia, which it has crunched in order to try and discover small anti-social groups that only call each other.
Data mining can work, but it requires a lot of care and validation. This sounds like snake oil to me: people finding patterns in data, and then putting some interpretation on it.
If you're running a "home server" then that's probably a violation of your service agreement.
No, it isn't. I checked with my ISP. The terms are clear: I can run servers, I just can't offer services to the public.
It may be your home, and it may be "enormously important" to you, but your desire (and that's all it is) to share CC material is immaterial to me when your home P2P server floods the local router to the point I might as well have a 98K modem.
Are you stupid or something? I keep arguing against P2P flooding of networks. I keep arguing for volume caps.
Once again, you don't live in a vacuum
I know. Neither do you. But your brain seems to be a big vacuous. Try to fill it up some time.
That's already what's happening: ISPs have always had monthly volume caps, they simply weren't spelled out and only enforced when bandwidth hogs were actually a noticeable problem.
Comcast has now been forced to spell it out (250G); I'm fine with that. I'm fine with a 250G monthly volume cap at current prices, and so are probably 99.99% of all users.
In return, I expect my ISP to leave my traffic alone. And, you know what? Despite all the bad press, Comcast actually has been leaving my traffic alone, both outgoing and incoming.
ISPs might offer lower volume caps (10G, 50G, whatever) at lower monthly prices, although I don't see either an obligation or a big need for that.