Do you really think the average office worker cares about examining mount points or finding out how many USER handles a process is using? That's why Microsoft doesn't ship any of that with Windows, and they probably never will.
That argument only holds water with Windows 7 Home. Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate is the mainstream developer platform.
Linux with all of the tools and Windows with, well, whatever it comes with, occupy about the same size of a DVD. I would think that Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate should come with all of these sorts of tools, and indeed, but instead, I can burn an ISO with Linux, but not Win7, out of the box.
Let me see if I've got this straight. A great set of tools that run on Windows demonstrates how rubbish Windows is. A great set of tools that run on Linux demonstrates how fantastic Linux is.
The point is not about how good the sysinternals tools are, but what it took to write them. Mark Russovich did an amazing job reverse engineering Windows to do what he did, but somebody with 1/10th of the work and savvy could have pieced the same level of information about Linux just by either asking the right people (who are not under NDA because its open source), or, just looking at the source.
And don't forget, India was mostly unaffected by our recent economic downturn
Lets not get ahead of ourselves. The reason India is doing well today is because George W Bush lifted the trade ban with India, allowing US dollars to pour into India. This is made easier by the government of India, which essentially is holding the rupee down to 1/5th of what its real worth actually is, through things like paypal.
Don't believe me? Do this experiment. Get a DBA in India. He or she makes about 25,000rs a month. That's $500 a month. But put that same person in the USA, and would make at least 2,500 USD a month. Therefor, there is a minimum error of 2000USD in the conversion of 25,000rs to 500USD.
The whole international exchange system is a joke. We see this in Japan, China, India... really, the whole idea that the free market can accurately price foreign currencies relative to each other is a colossal and complete joke. When the government can print or dig for money, it can make its exchange rate be anything and so the markets aren't really pricing the relative values of currency, as much as they are pricing what they think the governments will manipulate it as.
But currency prices are not accurate. Prices are not accurate, therefor, there is no free market. The greatest irony of so-called modern capitalism, is that the greatest sources of wealth accumulation change depend entirely on the fact that there is no market at all.
Stopping money flow and financial services innovation is, like Internet censorship, a symptom of the fundamental conflict between the traditional role the state has expanded to cover (ie governments) and the transparent, open and global nature of the Inte
What you do not get is that money is an invention of the government, therefor, it has every right to regulate it. Right now, India manipulates its currency such that the price of its workers are at an advantage to the price of work in the west, so as to get more work. The world economy really consists of states manipulating their currency to either work, such as India, or to not work, such as the USA. Right now, a DBA in India might get paid 25,000rs a month, which is roughly 500USD a month based on exchange rates as they are today. Is the work as good as an American programmer, often not, but, is it 1/50th of the price? No, its not. If you put that Indian programmer onsite, they'd get about 2500-5000USD a month, indicating a real exchange rate of 10rs per dollar, rather than 50rs as it is right now. Thus, the whole "Free flow of money" that you advocate is really a sort massive arbitrage by which the third world is made to be enslaved to the west, an effect that perversely winds up bankrupting the west. In this sense, capitalism as we call it today, with all sorts of disparate currencies and currency manipulations, is really just slavery by any other name, with the morally bankrupting effects on all sides of the equation.
Now, if you wanted to have a genuinely deregulated money system, we can, but the USA tried that from the 1860s to the 1890s, when it allowed nearly every private institution to issue its own currency, particularly banks. So you could have bank notes that could and did serve as legal tender, and genuine value of each note, although denominated in dollars, was really depedent upon what the market felt the strength of the bank was. Of course, this notion of value was completely wrong and banks collapsed in the 1890s, and it was only the internvention of JP Morgan - the person - that saved the whole system. He literally sat in a room and decided which banks were solvent enough to save, and which had to collapse, and he saved those banks he felt worth saving from loans out of his pocket. This spectacular display of person wealth and power shocked the left wing, and it was THEY that demanded the creation of a national, federal bank, the federal reserve bank, that would fufill this role. Thus, whereas we had many differnent bank notes, now we have just one, the Federal Reserve Bank Note.
The sad truth about libertarian movements is that usually there is a colossal failure on the part of the private sector that triggered the creation of a new law. WE have the FDIC, because banks failed. We have the Federal Reserve, because banks failed. We have a paper currency, whose worth is based on the whole economy, in conjunction with Federal Reserve management, because gold strikes and silver strikes of the late 18th century also screwed up the value of money. We have regulations on monitoring transactions, because self reporting has previously not been enough to alert authorities of impending collapse. We have SOX, because despite existing laws on the books, business leaders were still not convinced of the need to tell the truth in their reporting.
I mean, I don't like any of these laws, as they are a huge pain in the ass, but as they say, there wouldn't be a law against murder, if people didn't murder, and so it is with financial affairs.
It's not national security you're talking about, it's a trade agreement.
As an American protectionist, I would think that the issue is really about how Asia approaches trade. They are all mercantile nations, not genuinely free trading ones, and, after waiting for 30 years for trade to somehow balance, I'm done with waiting and am ready to pull the plug on trade with at least Asia.
Australia, and Europe, I am not so worried about. Those nations come from the same cultural background, have been long allies, and at least play by similar rules. Like, I have no problem buying a Pontiac GTO, which was made in Australia, because Australians have similar wages, legal and cultural underpinnings, and hey, the first two Men at Work albums were pretty good stuff to listen to. Plus, 400hp RWD is always nice to have.
You know, sysinternals was amazing piece of reverse engineering work and some of the utilities that came out of it were pretty interesting as examples of that reverse engineering work.
But...
All that stuff is junk compared to what Linux does for utilities!
I mean, my ubuntu has had burning ISOs and copying them any which way now for at leas 5 years. I can type sensors and get the motherboard temperature, fan speeds, everything. I mean, if you are into doing hardware and low level OS hardware interfacing stuff, there's enough gobblygook in/proc to keep anyone happy from Linux, and then there's all the log files and then the source.
I mean, yeah, Windows has its advantages, but sysinternals isn't one of them. sysinternals is just proof that for a lot of applications you have to be a hero to get it to do anything simply because the source is closed.
Very true. And, for a business oriented website, it may seem foolish to blow 40 - 80 hours on getting the look of a page right. But, if you are making a more media oriented site, its probably nowhere near enough.
Estimating accurately isn't so much of an art of estimating accurately, as it is being able to figure what to chop that still gets the product in on some semblance of being on time and in a way that people like it. The deal is, you have to be able to get a screen or database up and running ok in some x number of hours, and prioritize, to fit that estimate. Once you start doing that, then you can adjust your estimates to allow for more features or yes.
I guess when they have dual CPU notebooks with full size keyboards and 21" displays, I might be more interested in them. But I'd also want solid state hard drives and hdmi cables to wire them to the TV...
Wrong. Real encryption with real key management can be either impossible (OTP) or effectively-impossible (AES) for someone to get around, even if they have physical access to your machin
You forget that humans are the weakest link. Torture the shit out of someone that knows the password, and you'll be home free.
But that's not suing over science. One doctor attacked another. Whose right? Let the courts decide.
“I never intended any specific damage to Tim Ball’s reputation,” Dan Johnson said today. “But climate change is a critical global issue and I thought it was important to set the record straight. If people want to argue the science, I’m all for that, but Tim Ball was claiming expertise and specific credentials that he does not have. That needed to be corrected.”
Essentially, it was two guys doing a hatchet job on each other.
It's interesting that as much as we Americans deride the terrible space shuttle, only the Russians were able to build anything like it, but only the Americans were ever able to operate one.
Kinda makes you wonder, that, if we are not going back to the moon, can we at least keep these shuttles flying, or gasp, build a more modern one. I mean, the whole point of the new NASA way is to perfect in orbit assembly, and it seems we're kinda doing that now with the space shuttle and...
maybe we just need to make a new space shuttle that can be boosted farther into deep space, if we need to.
The reason many researchers, especially climate scientists, are not so happy about divulging their models and data is that they can be sued by crackpots, as it has already happene
On what basis of damages can a researcher be sued?
IT's the price of a society that doesn't actually value the liberal arts and the technology. Studying the greeks and romans matters and you need to be a well rounded thinker.
That's the thing. Around 2000, the only game in town for a serious on-line application would be an oracle database on a sun ultra enterprise with a sun workstation class box acting as the application server. Sun absolutely ruled in that space.
* The side effect of AMD's 64 bit Opteron lunge at Intel was to make every computer 64 bit RISC workstations, so now SPARC is kinda pointless.
* For personal computer, Apple has elegant worskstations down to a science
Bottom line is, computing is a volume business, not a high end one, and Sun was focused on the wrong end of the scale.
Franky, if I was a shareholder of Oracle, I'd be kinda angry that they actually made this buy. The only good thing the company has is MySQL, and that could have been gotten a lot cheaper by waiting for Sun to go BK.
This is because the average person probably isn't thinking much farther ahead than what he'll have for lunch tomorrow.
I'm pretty average and I'm thinking about pizza a couple of days from now. You must be pretty smart, to know so much about average people, and pretty arrogant, to be so wrong.
My wife wants a Nook super-bad. I have to find one. Somewhere. She puts up with my creeking ancient conservative pain in the rear self and deserves [mushy love stuff]. So I'm going to get her a Nook... or she will kill me!
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Do you really think the average office worker cares about examining mount points or finding out how many USER handles a process is using? That's why Microsoft doesn't ship any of that with Windows, and they probably never will.
That argument only holds water with Windows 7 Home. Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate is the mainstream developer platform.
Linux with all of the tools and Windows with, well, whatever it comes with, occupy about the same size of a DVD. I would think that Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate should come with all of these sorts of tools, and indeed, but instead, I can burn an ISO with Linux, but not Win7, out of the box.
Let me see if I've got this straight. A great set of tools that run on Windows demonstrates how rubbish Windows is. A great set of tools that run on Linux demonstrates how fantastic Linux is.
The point is not about how good the sysinternals tools are, but what it took to write them. Mark Russovich did an amazing job reverse engineering Windows to do what he did, but somebody with 1/10th of the work and savvy could have pieced the same level of information about Linux just by either asking the right people (who are not under NDA because its open source), or, just looking at the source.
And don't forget, India was mostly unaffected by our recent economic downturn
Lets not get ahead of ourselves. The reason India is doing well today is because George W Bush lifted the trade ban with India, allowing US dollars to pour into India. This is made easier by the government of India, which essentially is holding the rupee down to 1/5th of what its real worth actually is, through things like paypal.
Don't believe me? Do this experiment. Get a DBA in India. He or she makes about 25,000rs a month. That's $500 a month. But put that same person in the USA, and would make at least 2,500 USD a month. Therefor, there is a minimum error of 2000USD in the conversion of 25,000rs to 500USD.
The whole international exchange system is a joke. We see this in Japan, China, India... really, the whole idea that the free market can accurately price foreign currencies relative to each other is a colossal and complete joke. When the government can print or dig for money, it can make its exchange rate be anything and so the markets aren't really pricing the relative values of currency, as much as they are pricing what they think the governments will manipulate it as.
But currency prices are not accurate. Prices are not accurate, therefor, there is no free market. The greatest irony of so-called modern capitalism, is that the greatest sources of wealth accumulation change depend entirely on the fact that there is no market at all.
Stopping money flow and financial services innovation is, like Internet censorship,
a symptom of the fundamental conflict between the traditional role the state has expanded
to cover (ie governments) and the transparent, open and global nature of the Inte
What you do not get is that money is an invention of the government, therefor, it has every right to regulate it. Right now, India manipulates its currency such that the price of its workers are at an advantage to the price of work in the west, so as to get more work. The world economy really consists of states manipulating their currency to either work, such as India, or to not work, such as the USA. Right now, a DBA in India might get paid 25,000rs a month, which is roughly 500USD a month based on exchange rates as they are today. Is the work as good as an American programmer, often not, but, is it 1/50th of the price? No, its not. If you put that Indian programmer onsite, they'd get about 2500-5000USD a month, indicating a real exchange rate of 10rs per dollar, rather than 50rs as it is right now. Thus, the whole "Free flow of money" that you advocate is really a sort massive arbitrage by which the third world is made to be enslaved to the west, an effect that perversely winds up bankrupting the west. In this sense, capitalism as we call it today, with all sorts of disparate currencies and currency manipulations, is really just slavery by any other name, with the morally bankrupting effects on all sides of the equation.
Now, if you wanted to have a genuinely deregulated money system, we can, but the USA tried that from the 1860s to the 1890s, when it allowed nearly every private institution to issue its own currency, particularly banks. So you could have bank notes that could and did serve as legal tender, and genuine value of each note, although denominated in dollars, was really depedent upon what the market felt the strength of the bank was. Of course, this notion of value was completely wrong and banks collapsed in the 1890s, and it was only the internvention of JP Morgan - the person - that saved the whole system. He literally sat in a room and decided which banks were solvent enough to save, and which had to collapse, and he saved those banks he felt worth saving from loans out of his pocket. This spectacular display of person wealth and power shocked the left wing, and it was THEY that demanded the creation of a national, federal bank, the federal reserve bank, that would fufill this role. Thus, whereas we had many differnent bank notes, now we have just one, the Federal Reserve Bank Note.
The sad truth about libertarian movements is that usually there is a colossal failure on the part of the private sector that triggered the creation of a new law. WE have the FDIC, because banks failed. We have the Federal Reserve, because banks failed. We have a paper currency, whose worth is based on the whole economy, in conjunction with Federal Reserve management, because gold strikes and silver strikes of the late 18th century also screwed up the value of money. We have regulations on monitoring transactions, because self reporting has previously not been enough to alert authorities of impending collapse. We have SOX, because despite existing laws on the books, business leaders were still not convinced of the need to tell the truth in their reporting.
I mean, I don't like any of these laws, as they are a huge pain in the ass, but as they say, there wouldn't be a law against murder, if people didn't murder, and so it is with financial affairs.
It's not national security you're talking about, it's a trade agreement.
As an American protectionist, I would think that the issue is really about how Asia approaches trade. They are all mercantile nations, not genuinely free trading ones, and, after waiting for 30 years for trade to somehow balance, I'm done with waiting and am ready to pull the plug on trade with at least Asia.
Australia, and Europe, I am not so worried about. Those nations come from the same cultural background, have been long allies, and at least play by similar rules. Like, I have no problem buying a Pontiac GTO, which was made in Australia, because Australians have similar wages, legal and cultural underpinnings, and hey, the first two Men at Work albums were pretty good stuff to listen to. Plus, 400hp RWD is always nice to have.
You know, sysinternals was amazing piece of reverse engineering work and some of the utilities that came out of it were pretty interesting as examples of that reverse engineering work.
But...
All that stuff is junk compared to what Linux does for utilities!
I mean, my ubuntu has had burning ISOs and copying them any which way now for at leas 5 years. I can type sensors and get the motherboard temperature, fan speeds, everything. I mean, if you are into doing hardware and low level OS hardware interfacing stuff, there's enough gobblygook in /proc to keep anyone happy from Linux, and then there's all the log files and then the source.
I mean, yeah, Windows has its advantages, but sysinternals isn't one of them. sysinternals is just proof that for a lot of applications you have to be a hero to get it to do anything simply because the source is closed.
I guess you must be wrong.
Here's the crazy part. I don't even care about battery life or even having a battery. I just want something I can plug in wherever.
One size does not fit all.
Very true. And, for a business oriented website, it may seem foolish to blow 40 - 80 hours on getting the look of a page right. But, if you are making a more media oriented site, its probably nowhere near enough.
Estimating accurately isn't so much of an art of estimating accurately, as it is being able to figure what to chop that still gets the product in on some semblance of being on time and in a way that people like it. The deal is, you have to be able to get a screen or database up and running ok in some x number of hours, and prioritize, to fit that estimate. Once you start doing that, then you can adjust your estimates to allow for more features or yes.
I guess when they have dual CPU notebooks with full size keyboards and 21" displays, I might be more interested in them. But I'd also want solid state hard drives and hdmi cables to wire them to the TV...
these guys are close...
http://hothardware.com/News/Eurocom_launches_QuadCore_XEON_Based_Notebook_/
But oddly, I would like to have an SSI EEB desktop case, that lies flat, like old PCs used to...
Wrong. Real encryption with real key management can be either impossible (OTP) or effectively-impossible (AES) for someone to get around, even if they have physical access to your machin
You forget that humans are the weakest link. Torture the shit out of someone that knows the password, and you'll be home free.
This one line changes things:
The new attack discovered by Christopher Tarnovsky is difficult to pull off, partly because it requires physical access to a computer.
You can't have a piece of hardware make your data safe forever. It only needs to be safe for as long as you use it.
But that's not suing over science. One doctor attacked another. Whose right? Let the courts decide.
“I never intended any specific damage to Tim Ball’s reputation,” Dan Johnson said today. “But climate change is a critical global issue and I thought it was important to set the record straight. If people want to argue the science, I’m all for that, but Tim Ball was claiming expertise and specific credentials that he does not have. That needed to be corrected.”
Essentially, it was two guys doing a hatchet job on each other.
It's interesting that as much as we Americans deride the terrible space shuttle, only the Russians were able to build anything like it, but only the Americans were ever able to operate one.
Kinda makes you wonder, that, if we are not going back to the moon, can we at least keep these shuttles flying, or gasp, build a more modern one. I mean, the whole point of the new NASA way is to perfect in orbit assembly, and it seems we're kinda doing that now with the space shuttle and...
maybe we just need to make a new space shuttle that can be boosted farther into deep space, if we need to.
The reason many researchers, especially climate scientists, are not so happy about divulging their models and data is that they can be sued by crackpots, as it has already happene
On what basis of damages can a researcher be sued?
IT's the price of a society that doesn't actually value the liberal arts and the technology. Studying the greeks and romans matters and you need to be a well rounded thinker.
then you must be pretty arrogant by your own standards!?
Well, I am! :-)
That's the thing. Around 2000, the only game in town for a serious on-line application would be an oracle database on a sun ultra enterprise with a sun workstation class box acting as the application server. Sun absolutely ruled in that space.
They are payouts as specified in the executives' employment contracts. Next time you hire executives try to negotiate better contracts.
Our socialist friends only believe in negotiations with a rifle.
Develop great products
Where's the great product?
* Java isn't a product, because its free.
* Solaris lost the unix mindshare ware to Linux.
* The side effect of AMD's 64 bit Opteron lunge at Intel was to make every computer 64 bit RISC workstations, so now SPARC is kinda pointless.
* For personal computer, Apple has elegant worskstations down to a science
Bottom line is, computing is a volume business, not a high end one, and Sun was focused on the wrong end of the scale.
Franky, if I was a shareholder of Oracle, I'd be kinda angry that they actually made this buy. The only good thing the company has is MySQL, and that could have been gotten a lot cheaper by waiting for Sun to go BK.
This is because the average person probably isn't thinking much farther ahead than what he'll have for lunch tomorrow.
I'm pretty average and I'm thinking about pizza a couple of days from now. You must be pretty smart, to know so much about average people, and pretty arrogant, to be so wrong.
Come on dude, do you really think people here are retards?
Nobody's forcing you to gamble. By your logic they should outlaw Rent-A-Center.
They probably should. I mean, is it so reasonable to ask that investors create companies that have some social redeeming value?
My wife wants a Nook super-bad. I have to find one. Somewhere. She puts up with my creeking ancient conservative pain in the rear self and deserves [mushy love stuff]. So I'm going to get her a Nook... or she will kill me!
government's role should protect you from ME
It is, that's why we want to ban your gambling sites. Gambling is just another way to screw with poor people, that don't need to be screwed with.