has fallen under traditional tribal leadership and obeys tribal law for their various tribes and the central government has dissolved.
The way I read Somalia's history, they have never moved out of tribal law. When the supposed Somali government's power was at it's peak, there were huge areas of Somalia that they didn't control. No governmental body has ever really ruled in that land. At best, they ruled Mogadishu and surrounding areas, and made a show of force in outlying areas. At worst, the capital experiences running gun battles round the clock.
England left Somalia because they were ungovernable nomads. Nothing has ever changed, that I am aware of.
You're pretty close to the target with that. I read this article earlier today, before it hit slashdot. In effect, they measured the skulls of people who have been dead for 200 years. They did NOT measure the brains, the lobes of the brain, or anything to do with the brain, other than skull capacity. Skull capacity may be an indicator of anything, or nothing.
Now, if they had evaluated brains, they may or may not have arrived at meaningful conclusions. Corpses aren't a rare commodity, after all. Fresh corpses are created every day.
Making an assumption that extra brain mass is required for good vision in poor lighting totally ignores the fact that almost all cats, as well as a number of other animals, have excellent night vision, but have brain masses that are a fraction of our own.
Well, surely you didn't expect Aaron Barr to do anything good for the world? I've seen nothing to indicate that HB Gary (and/or HB Gary Federal) has anything good to offer the world, but Barr was a giant douchebag from start to finish. His one talent seems to have been talking a good line of shit, and parting fools from their money.
Microsoft's dominance is not due to DOS, or any other of their "innovations". Microsoft's dominance is due to those accursed "exclusivity" deals that MS demanded from all computer vendors. "If you want to market our products, then you ONLY market our products!"
Even today, it's difficult to find a state of the art consumer or business computer sold with anything other than Windows. Almost all offerings are machines that were state of the art 5 years ago, or more. If you want today's hottest CPU, blazing video, and all the peripherals, with Linux, you have to install yourself. Which is no big deal for a techie - but Mom and Pop's convenience store is almost forced to pay the MS tax.
Seriously? I went straight from DOS 3.2 to MSDOS 5, then MSDOS 6.2 I never saw or used a DOS 4, or any verion, or of any flavor.
Oh - BTW - I didn't use MSDOS 3.2 - it was TRSDOS and DRDOS for me. I have little idea whether TRSDOS was licensed from MS or not, but I think we all know that DRDOS was openly competing against MS. Thanks to MS dirty tricks (done dirt cheap) DRDOS finally went belly up.
You're kinda missing the point. I'm testing G+ for Google, free of charge. I'm providing a service, in exchange for the privilege of using their alpha quality service. I do provide feedback. The question I addressed here is, whether a beta tester, or anyone else for that matter, has the right to voice an opinion. Even opinions on such esoteric things as the "Terms of Service".
There is one term in those TOS that I will not abide by. Others feel the same. We are telling Google that. Google can't really afford to delete the accounts of ALL of us - as a group, we are an important part of the way they do business.
Correct. G+ isn't really a service yet. It's in field testing. Not even officially a beta yet. It's alpha quality stuff. Great alpha quality, but alpha. So, what do you do in field testing? Test the hell out of it, and report problems. One of the problems is, the need for some degree of anonymity. My real, legal name has only ever been put "on the web", one time, accidentally, before I wised up a little bit. I did my best to "fix" that mistake, and it seems to have worked. If Google requires me to use my full legal name, then I'll not be using Google anymore. I'm not sacrificing whatever level of anonymity I still enjoy, for the "privilege" of "testing" a new service.
I don't know about you, but I'm part of a couple of circles of beta-testers. We've been beta testing Google apps and services for years now. We, beta testers, generally don't like the idea that we must use "real names" online. If Google plays hardass with this little nonsense, they'll lose a lot of reliable beta testers quickly. Oh - beta testers are a dime a dozen - baker's dozen that is - but we've been around for a long time. Like I said, we've been reliable. Google comes out with something new, we test it. Time and time again. And, we've been honest with them. When they introduce some shit idea, we tell them. When it looks like they are on to something good, we tell them, and make suggestions. Reliability. We've earned the right to voice our opinions. Thank you for your opinion, though!
Linux has no games? Nice try, Troll. Obviously, you've never looked in the repositories - there is a nice little list of games in mine. Just as obviously, you've never explored the possibilities of Wine. Literally thousands of Windows games will load via Wine. Then there are the commercial tools like Cedega. They load most of the "latest and greatest" games commercially available. Not to mention that any online games that rely on Java or Flash runs great on Linux. Oh yeah - Steam for Linux. I don't subscribe to Steam, so I googled to be sure. http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux
"Linux has no games" is nothing more than trolling. Go find something better to troll.
I've scrolled down this far, and no one has mentioned that the GOP and the Democrats each have that magic 10%. So - what does "science" have to say about opposing ideas, or ideologies, colliding? Hmmmm......
I think you sorta misinterpreted my post. Windows is very efficient with driver installation. They are the BEST, because every vendor in the world wants to be Windows certified.
It's all the OTHER stuff, after installation is finished, that I was referring to. You've got to find all the installation disks for your favorite programs, you've got to get Adobe's stuff, whichever flavor of Java you prefer (almost always Sun Java, on Windows) along with your favorite antivirus, software firewall, anti-malware, browser, and the list goes on. It takes a lot of time to set up a really customized Windows - I know, from experience.
But, you're right - the drivers are the LEAST of my worries!
Sadly, ATI/AMD only offers support for newer kernels, AND newer cards. In order to get drivers for older cards, you have to use older kernels. There is no proprietary driver for 2.6.39 kernel and an old AGP video card. But, in that case, you still have the Xorg driver to fall back on. And, let's face it - people who demand the best video performance aren't going to be running a six year old card anyway.
I was an avid supporter of ATI, until they started discontinuing support for those older cards. My last three new video cards have been nVidia, simply because their support is better. Every nVidia card that I possess (mostly discarded by people who wanted upgrades) has support, right now, on the newest kernel, or any older kernel I might wish to isntall.
I suppose I might run into trouble if I tested some of the really old AGP cards, but I don't have any that old!
There was work being done on bios's that were actually Linux boot loaders. They had times of ~5 seconds from start to a linux prompt, at which point the operating system took over. I lost track of things, really, but so summarize, it was only good on certain boards, and the focus of the project got muddied by a few things, funds are short, and basically they appear to have stopped development. In fact, they changed names at least once, maybe twice. There was a real lack of focus, it seems to me.
Sorry, I gotta argue that one. The proprietary drivers always work better than the open source Xorg drivers. I've not experienced a single case in which the Xorg drivers actually equalled the proprietary drivers. They often come close, these days, which is a huge improvement over what we had 5 years ago. But, they are still not up to snuff.
That said - it's simply not that big a deal to go to nVidia or to ATI/AMD to find the driver. I disagree with Hairy Feet when he makes it into a big deal.
Hell, with Windows, you have to search around for all the basic software anyway. So, in that respect, it's a tradeoff - with Linux, you go find your driver, with Windows, you have to go search for Flash, Java, Acrobat, etc ad nauseum. Even with finding my video driver at nVidia, a complete setup of Ubuntu takes far less than half the time that a complete setup of Windows takes. Everything is available in a trusted repository, there is no need to remember who makes Firefox, or Spybot, or any other required software.
There are hundreds of hits for "microsoft sues". I grabbed the first one that looked remotely relevant. I insist that Microsoft's grand strategy hasn't changed - it's just slower moving, and sneaky. They still dream of being the only operating system on earth, or at least having every other operating system paying them royalties.
No, you should have been using a Unix-like system that hasn't been corrupted by Microsoft. Your fourth post can be blamed on a fourth-rate operating system.
Embrace, extend, extinguish. You can pretend that MS never actually used that strategy - but it's historically true. Today, they have to be a bit more sneaky.
Uhhhmmm - it's not the computers that are borked with this worm, but the logic chips in or on the centrifuges. But, your point stands - why not just replace those logic chips? Now, I'll have to admit, I don't think that I could do the job. But, I do know that embedded chips are replaceable. Order up a hundred, or a thousand, replace the damned things, and create an air gap between them and all other networks.
Oh - wait. Even highly touted techs aren't capable of maintaining a proper air gap - what am I thinking?
The most retarded thing you've ever heard was the idea that throwing more money into a failed system would somehow improve the system. Those who want to know, can't be stopped from learning. Those who don't care, can't be forced to learn.
Before you jump up and down, reciting the "politically correct" statements, think about it. I never went to any school to learn about computers - I've learned because I WANTED to know. But, I can sure enough walk down the street, and find 100 or more people who had "computer science" in school, and can't navigate to the DOS prompt on their computers, can't tell you the difference between RAM and ROM, and have no idea what the CPU does.
That's just one small example - we can start looking at all the online videos, of American being interviewed about geography, politics, or any other subject. We piss away trillions on education, and the graduates can't navigate to the neighboring state unless they have an iPad or some such bullshit to hold their hands along the way.
HA HA! You actually made me look at your comparison twice. 20 years experience with Win7 - yeah! I probably shouldn't even have admitted that it took me 5 seconds to catch on.:^(
Public sector, or private, pouring money into education is a waste. Some of the smartest people in history acquired their educations quite informally. Some of the biggest failures in history have had all the benefits of whatever education system was current at the time.
Look at our economy today. All the "experts" with all their high-dollar educations have proven themselves to be inept bunglers.
Give the kids the basic 3-r's, make them go to school through the 8th grade, then cut them loose. Those who wish to be educated will be educated, one way or another. The rest can work at McDonald's or whatever. This NCLB nonsense is going to break us, along with all the rest of the meaningless drivel coming out of Washington.
I agree with you, at least 80% - maybe even a bit more. I can't remember the last time anyone even ATTEMPTED to ascertain that I actually had a right to use a credit card. I've let the wife use mine, and I've used hers. No one asks. The card has a woman's name of it, and I'm obviously male - but no one bats an eye.
Yes, the vendors are as guilty as anyone, for making no attempt to check the identity of the card user.
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has fallen under traditional tribal leadership and obeys tribal law for their various tribes and the central government has dissolved.
The way I read Somalia's history, they have never moved out of tribal law. When the supposed Somali government's power was at it's peak, there were huge areas of Somalia that they didn't control. No governmental body has ever really ruled in that land. At best, they ruled Mogadishu and surrounding areas, and made a show of force in outlying areas. At worst, the capital experiences running gun battles round the clock.
England left Somalia because they were ungovernable nomads. Nothing has ever changed, that I am aware of.
You're pretty close to the target with that. I read this article earlier today, before it hit slashdot. In effect, they measured the skulls of people who have been dead for 200 years. They did NOT measure the brains, the lobes of the brain, or anything to do with the brain, other than skull capacity. Skull capacity may be an indicator of anything, or nothing.
Now, if they had evaluated brains, they may or may not have arrived at meaningful conclusions. Corpses aren't a rare commodity, after all. Fresh corpses are created every day.
Making an assumption that extra brain mass is required for good vision in poor lighting totally ignores the fact that almost all cats, as well as a number of other animals, have excellent night vision, but have brain masses that are a fraction of our own.
Well, surely you didn't expect Aaron Barr to do anything good for the world? I've seen nothing to indicate that HB Gary (and/or HB Gary Federal) has anything good to offer the world, but Barr was a giant douchebag from start to finish. His one talent seems to have been talking a good line of shit, and parting fools from their money.
Microsoft's dominance is not due to DOS, or any other of their "innovations". Microsoft's dominance is due to those accursed "exclusivity" deals that MS demanded from all computer vendors. "If you want to market our products, then you ONLY market our products!"
Even today, it's difficult to find a state of the art consumer or business computer sold with anything other than Windows. Almost all offerings are machines that were state of the art 5 years ago, or more. If you want today's hottest CPU, blazing video, and all the peripherals, with Linux, you have to install yourself. Which is no big deal for a techie - but Mom and Pop's convenience store is almost forced to pay the MS tax.
Forget the monitor nonsense. The youngster said "hard disk". We booted from floppy, and cloaded our programs!
Seriously? I went straight from DOS 3.2 to MSDOS 5, then MSDOS 6.2 I never saw or used a DOS 4, or any verion, or of any flavor.
Oh - BTW - I didn't use MSDOS 3.2 - it was TRSDOS and DRDOS for me. I have little idea whether TRSDOS was licensed from MS or not, but I think we all know that DRDOS was openly competing against MS. Thanks to MS dirty tricks (done dirt cheap) DRDOS finally went belly up.
You're kinda missing the point. I'm testing G+ for Google, free of charge. I'm providing a service, in exchange for the privilege of using their alpha quality service. I do provide feedback. The question I addressed here is, whether a beta tester, or anyone else for that matter, has the right to voice an opinion. Even opinions on such esoteric things as the "Terms of Service".
There is one term in those TOS that I will not abide by. Others feel the same. We are telling Google that. Google can't really afford to delete the accounts of ALL of us - as a group, we are an important part of the way they do business.
Correct. G+ isn't really a service yet. It's in field testing. Not even officially a beta yet. It's alpha quality stuff. Great alpha quality, but alpha. So, what do you do in field testing? Test the hell out of it, and report problems. One of the problems is, the need for some degree of anonymity. My real, legal name has only ever been put "on the web", one time, accidentally, before I wised up a little bit. I did my best to "fix" that mistake, and it seems to have worked. If Google requires me to use my full legal name, then I'll not be using Google anymore. I'm not sacrificing whatever level of anonymity I still enjoy, for the "privilege" of "testing" a new service.
I don't know about you, but I'm part of a couple of circles of beta-testers. We've been beta testing Google apps and services for years now. We, beta testers, generally don't like the idea that we must use "real names" online. If Google plays hardass with this little nonsense, they'll lose a lot of reliable beta testers quickly. Oh - beta testers are a dime a dozen - baker's dozen that is - but we've been around for a long time. Like I said, we've been reliable. Google comes out with something new, we test it. Time and time again. And, we've been honest with them. When they introduce some shit idea, we tell them. When it looks like they are on to something good, we tell them, and make suggestions. Reliability. We've earned the right to voice our opinions. Thank you for your opinion, though!
Linux has no games? Nice try, Troll. Obviously, you've never looked in the repositories - there is a nice little list of games in mine. Just as obviously, you've never explored the possibilities of Wine. Literally thousands of Windows games will load via Wine. Then there are the commercial tools like Cedega. They load most of the "latest and greatest" games commercially available. Not to mention that any online games that rely on Java or Flash runs great on Linux. Oh yeah - Steam for Linux. I don't subscribe to Steam, so I googled to be sure. http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux
"Linux has no games" is nothing more than trolling. Go find something better to troll.
I've scrolled down this far, and no one has mentioned that the GOP and the Democrats each have that magic 10%. So - what does "science" have to say about opposing ideas, or ideologies, colliding? Hmmmm......
I think you sorta misinterpreted my post. Windows is very efficient with driver installation. They are the BEST, because every vendor in the world wants to be Windows certified.
It's all the OTHER stuff, after installation is finished, that I was referring to. You've got to find all the installation disks for your favorite programs, you've got to get Adobe's stuff, whichever flavor of Java you prefer (almost always Sun Java, on Windows) along with your favorite antivirus, software firewall, anti-malware, browser, and the list goes on. It takes a lot of time to set up a really customized Windows - I know, from experience.
But, you're right - the drivers are the LEAST of my worries!
Sadly, ATI/AMD only offers support for newer kernels, AND newer cards. In order to get drivers for older cards, you have to use older kernels. There is no proprietary driver for 2.6.39 kernel and an old AGP video card. But, in that case, you still have the Xorg driver to fall back on. And, let's face it - people who demand the best video performance aren't going to be running a six year old card anyway.
I was an avid supporter of ATI, until they started discontinuing support for those older cards. My last three new video cards have been nVidia, simply because their support is better. Every nVidia card that I possess (mostly discarded by people who wanted upgrades) has support, right now, on the newest kernel, or any older kernel I might wish to isntall.
I suppose I might run into trouble if I tested some of the really old AGP cards, but I don't have any that old!
I wasn't aware that Oracle had bought up Ksplice. That bites . . .
There was work being done on bios's that were actually Linux boot loaders. They had times of ~5 seconds from start to a linux prompt, at which point the operating system took over. I lost track of things, really, but so summarize, it was only good on certain boards, and the focus of the project got muddied by a few things, funds are short, and basically they appear to have stopped development. In fact, they changed names at least once, maybe twice. There was a real lack of focus, it seems to me.
http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot
Sorry, I gotta argue that one. The proprietary drivers always work better than the open source Xorg drivers. I've not experienced a single case in which the Xorg drivers actually equalled the proprietary drivers. They often come close, these days, which is a huge improvement over what we had 5 years ago. But, they are still not up to snuff.
That said - it's simply not that big a deal to go to nVidia or to ATI/AMD to find the driver. I disagree with Hairy Feet when he makes it into a big deal.
Hell, with Windows, you have to search around for all the basic software anyway. So, in that respect, it's a tradeoff - with Linux, you go find your driver, with Windows, you have to go search for Flash, Java, Acrobat, etc ad nauseum. Even with finding my video driver at nVidia, a complete setup of Ubuntu takes far less than half the time that a complete setup of Windows takes. Everything is available in a trusted repository, there is no need to remember who makes Firefox, or Spybot, or any other required software.
http://mashable.com/2011/03/21/microsoft-sues-barnes-noble/
There are hundreds of hits for "microsoft sues". I grabbed the first one that looked remotely relevant. I insist that Microsoft's grand strategy hasn't changed - it's just slower moving, and sneaky. They still dream of being the only operating system on earth, or at least having every other operating system paying them royalties.
No, you should have been using a Unix-like system that hasn't been corrupted by Microsoft. Your fourth post can be blamed on a fourth-rate operating system.
Embrace, extend, extinguish. You can pretend that MS never actually used that strategy - but it's historically true. Today, they have to be a bit more sneaky.
Uhhhmmm - it's not the computers that are borked with this worm, but the logic chips in or on the centrifuges. But, your point stands - why not just replace those logic chips? Now, I'll have to admit, I don't think that I could do the job. But, I do know that embedded chips are replaceable. Order up a hundred, or a thousand, replace the damned things, and create an air gap between them and all other networks.
Oh - wait. Even highly touted techs aren't capable of maintaining a proper air gap - what am I thinking?
The most retarded thing you've ever heard was the idea that throwing more money into a failed system would somehow improve the system. Those who want to know, can't be stopped from learning. Those who don't care, can't be forced to learn.
Before you jump up and down, reciting the "politically correct" statements, think about it. I never went to any school to learn about computers - I've learned because I WANTED to know. But, I can sure enough walk down the street, and find 100 or more people who had "computer science" in school, and can't navigate to the DOS prompt on their computers, can't tell you the difference between RAM and ROM, and have no idea what the CPU does.
That's just one small example - we can start looking at all the online videos, of American being interviewed about geography, politics, or any other subject. We piss away trillions on education, and the graduates can't navigate to the neighboring state unless they have an iPad or some such bullshit to hold their hands along the way.
HA HA! You actually made me look at your comparison twice. 20 years experience with Win7 - yeah! I probably shouldn't even have admitted that it took me 5 seconds to catch on. :^(
Public sector, or private, pouring money into education is a waste. Some of the smartest people in history acquired their educations quite informally. Some of the biggest failures in history have had all the benefits of whatever education system was current at the time.
Look at our economy today. All the "experts" with all their high-dollar educations have proven themselves to be inept bunglers.
Give the kids the basic 3-r's, make them go to school through the 8th grade, then cut them loose. Those who wish to be educated will be educated, one way or another. The rest can work at McDonald's or whatever. This NCLB nonsense is going to break us, along with all the rest of the meaningless drivel coming out of Washington.
I agree with you, at least 80% - maybe even a bit more. I can't remember the last time anyone even ATTEMPTED to ascertain that I actually had a right to use a credit card. I've let the wife use mine, and I've used hers. No one asks. The card has a woman's name of it, and I'm obviously male - but no one bats an eye.
Yes, the vendors are as guilty as anyone, for making no attempt to check the identity of the card user.
This does hurt those 675,000 people, PLUS it hurts tens of thousand, possibly even millions, of investors in those businesses that are affected.
Theft is theft. It hurts SOMEONE. And, unlike all the talk about IP theft, this is theft of tangible goods, ie, hard currency.