You say that animals generaly have the same number of heart beats in a life time and than state that a mouse can live 3x as long by physicaly capping the DNA strands.
Here is one that I came accross a few years back. It is a fairly well developed system with background, charts/tables and well organized. Incidentaly, the rule book is formatted in LaTex, which is a nice touch.
Actually, what I heard is that the whole New Coke fiasco was a marketing ploy from the beginning. Do you remember the commercial where the President of Coke came on to personnally apologize to an outraged and bewildered nation for changing the formula and that consumers could rest assured that "Classic Coke" would be made available as well as "New Coke". Brilliant.
I'm not really down with the whole "micro-payment" thing. I do believe that there are some types of services, like communication, that are best provided for by a blanket cost payed for by, say, the government. Somehow the "micro" part of payment does'nt seem to stick over time and we end up with charges like those the banks and phone companies are now getting away with. I like the internet being a quasi public service, with sections offlimits to commercial traffic like it was before the 90's.
I don't want the concept of micro-payments to be embedded in the very protocals we must use to connect to one another.
" Depending on the importance of the person, now wouldn't that be a terrible scheme - no, depending on whatever the person wants it to be..."
The deal is that spammers would be willing to pay more in order to get access to Bill G's inbox than they would be to get access to mine. It's also likely that Bill G's spam might actually be a personalized proposition where as my spam would be the mass market stuff that we all know and hate. I do think that this system would end spam as we know it becuase the marginal costs would go up and make it less attractive, which is good. But this type of system would also create yet another economic desparity in our society only now it would be engrained in the very protocals we use to exchange information, a bad thing in my opinion.
Anyway, as I said, I think the solution rests more with old school legal action of harrasment. The trick is to get the courts to understand that spam really is a form of harrasment, at least after someone has been told to stop.
Mentions this scheme in her book "Release 2.0", 1997. This was a popular idea amoung ultra capitalist "let the market handle it" folks in the mid 90's. Nothing new.
One point made in "Release 2.0" is that the cost of sending spam would vary depending on the importaince of an individual. I might only be able to charge a penny to a spammer for sending me an e-mail but Bill Gates might command $100 or more per spam.
I don't really like the idea myself. Basicaly, if I tell someone to stop sending me junk I should expect that they will be compelled to stop, otherwise I should be able to sue for harrasment.
You sort of answered your own question when you mentioned that "some" ditrobutions make it easy to get updates to software. The thing to do is pick the one that you like best. Try aptget, Redhat/Suse/Mandrake autoupdate, emerge from Gentoo for source level updates and compiles, Ximian's redcarpet, and many others. Pick one and stick with it if that's what it takes.
For Mozilla I generally just rm -rf the old version's directory and install the latest and greatest.
Many of the updaters I mentioned above are easier than anything Microsoft has come up with in my opinion. Particuarly Redcarpet from Ximian and emerge from Gentoo.
This is'nt just IE, it effects IIS as well so it's releavent for both User types and admins.
I'd have to agree with you that it gets tiring seeing IE exploit of the week ( or day ) and the retreaded jokes and karma hores. But then maybe you can filter them in your preference?
The thing is MS is the system that is allegedly on 90%+ of the desktops in the USA and maybe the world. They did'nt get there legally and they do not take security, law, or human rights seriously. They spend millions on advertising, FUD and outright lies. So in the end I guess I don't mind suffering the constant reminders as to why I don't use any of their products. What other news source reports this stuff?
Besides, nothing puts I smile on my face in the morning like a cup of coffee and a new MS exploit.
They got very far concidering the amount of earth they moved leveling the various land formations. The French were burdened by a blueprint for success in the Suez Canal project which was a sea-level chanal but unfortunatly for them was impractical in Panama. But the work they did that prepared the way for the US effort was substantial in many ways, earth moved, infrastructure and equipment left behind, etc.
Anyway, my point being that the US did not dream up the Canal, nor did it dig the chanal wholly on it's own blood sweat and tears. It swooped in almost 20 years after the project was started, with the benefit of seeing how the French attempt failed.
Actually it was the French who dug the Canal, and the story is one of torture and torment. When the French finally abandond the project, the US stepped in, finished it and claimed it.
and IBM, and HP and Lockheed Martin and Boing and all the other the other corporate entities that suck up to the tax payer funded government tit. Why is it that only supporting GPL software should be illegal? Why only the software that I use? Don't I count as a citizen? Sheesh, some people...
Actually, what your describing is COM, which is the binary codification of virtual pointer tables.
ActiveX is a BS marketing term MS came up with so they could promote the things you can do with COM. It's splitting hairs I know but ActiveX, the vptrs, marketing, application integration and the whole ball of wax really are a serious problem for security. COM and DCOM have no effective security model, at least when I was using them in '98. I never really got into COM+ or whatever it was as I never opted to take another MS platform job after that last one.
The Epson 1650 has been highly regarded by the Linux community as a great USB scanner. The frustrating part is that my mom actually did some good research into which scanner to get.
I'm very close to getting all this working but I think the clock has just run out. Frustration is setting in and, to my mother, Windows looks like the easy way out.
Thanks for the reply though. If I get a scanner I'll look into the one you mentioned.
Because I can't get her Epson Perfection 1650 scanner working. SANE 1.0.7 ships with SuSE 8.0 but does not work "out of the box" with the Epson 1650. I've tried compiling SANE 1.0.8 from source, downloading Mandrake RPM's from rpmfind, nothing is working. I live 2 states away and am frigin pulling my hair out. She has been running SuSE for 2 years now ( 6.x something ) and it's all going to end because of a frigin' scanner!
Ugh.
If anyone has any suggestions please please post. I have found some info on he problem I'm receiving with ISCAN "Can not send comand to scanner", but have been unable to resolve. The scanner shows up on USB bus.
My idea of a convenient tool set is one that resides on my client PC, not on the server. I cringe whenever I see those ham-fisted NT admin consultents standing in front of one of the servers using it as a workstation trying to figure out what the fsck is wrong with it.
Much better to research the problem on your own PC from the comfort of your office. Then check the server config files out of CVS, make changes, SSH into the box and perform your testing.
As for the Novell and Linux servers that "had problems", it does'nt surprise me as I doubt you have the proper experience to effectivly administer either.
Think about it, you have to wait for the SP's from MS don't you? As for having to pay, that is not true. You can download the update from SuSE's servers or update your system through YaST without having to purchase a new boxxed set of CD's. Now try updating from Win98 -> XP and tell me who makes it easier and cheaper.;)
As for the next big Linux leap... it already lept. People just need to know about it. There are many tools that accomplish what you are looking for, some are enumerated in my previous post.
My point about waiting for a distro to catch up is not equteable to MS SP's. KDE3 is not released yet, it's still in RC status. SuSE will have it April 22, not to long to wait if you ask me. Gentoo Linux has it now ( still compiling btw ).
First of all, you must have known that straying from the "blessed" rpm's of your distro is atkin to waiding out into the deep end of the pool.;) SuSE 8.0 will include the 3.0 desktop and is due to ship April 22. For a new user, it's safest just to have a little patience, but not as educational, of course.
I have used SuSE since the 5.3 release and have been generaly pleased. 7.3 was a big disapointment however and I only hope that the 8.0 release solves the install problems I've encountered.
I am in the process of installing a Gentoo ( www.gentoo.org ) distro on a new computer and so far have been very pleased with how they handle things. I'm compiling X and KDE3 now, from source, which their distro makes very easy to do with the command:
emerge kde
Wiz bange all the X dependencies are resolved, source is downloaded and compiled and... well... it's still compiling so I'm not really sure.
Debian has aptget which I have never used but have heard will resolve dependencies and download and install software packages in one fell swoop. SuSE does have their software manager in YaST that will do similiar things. Ximian has Red Carpet, a very nice gnome based software manager that will also manage the entire SuSE software library for you.
You just need to wait for the distros to get their packgaes updated.
Well OK, but that's not a very effective way to get your message across, is it ?
Neither is talking to walls. If you go back and read my post and actually try to decern what I did say we might have a descusion.
Seeing as the likelyhood of you doing that is next to nill, I'll repost my main point here:
Whats so frustrating about your argument is that you manage to brush off a tremendous amount of effort in research without adding or substituting a single shred of fact in it's place.
and
The evidence for the extreme brutality/racism exhibited by the USA throughout it's history is so easy to find that if you don't see it you must be working real hard.
There you go, if you have something you'd like to say about this, please do, I'd like to hear it. As the thread now stands, you've added exactly zero insight to anything that I have said. Instead, you post knee jerk responses that have nothing to do with me or my post. You read to much into things and assume way to much.
Ho Chi Minh turned to the Soviet block for assistence only after being repeatedly rebuffed by the United States for assistence. Minh was a very enthusiastic supporter of the US government. Until we destroyed his country.
Actually, you have no clue about what I was exhibiting in my post. Don't think the world is divided between hippie liberal freaks and blue balled Christain idiots. There are other perspectives, like the one I am coming from. Since you seem to have zero interest in actually understanding where I am coming from or what my facts are, I won't bore you with the details.
Let this message serve as a reply to all the hostile pissants who responded to my post.
And quite frankly, judging from your statements, you could'nt handle the facts if they were writen in a book and handed to you.
Whats so frustrating about your argument is that you manage to brush off a tremendous amount of effort in research without adding or substituting a single shred of fact in it's place. It must be extremely comforting to just except the status quo, like a good "sheeple" as you say.
The evidence for the extreme brutality/racism exhibited by the USA throughout it's history is so easy to find that if you don't see it you must be working real hard.
And don't feed me a line about weak moral perspectives. If you can handle slaughtering and torturing generations of people to preserve your precious lifestyle then you are a sick human being.
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You say that animals generaly have the same number of heart beats in a life time and than state that a mouse can live 3x as long by physicaly capping the DNA strands.
It does'nt add up.
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I'm not really down with the whole "micro-payment" thing. I do believe that there are some types of services, like communication, that are best provided for by a blanket cost payed for by, say, the government. Somehow the "micro" part of payment does'nt seem to stick over time and we end up with charges like those the banks and phone companies are now getting away with. I like the internet being a quasi public service, with sections offlimits to commercial traffic like it was before the 90's.
I don't want the concept of micro-payments to be embedded in the very protocals we must use to connect to one another.
Kind Regards
The deal is that spammers would be willing to pay more in order to get access to Bill G's inbox than they would be to get access to mine. It's also likely that Bill G's spam might actually be a personalized proposition where as my spam would be the mass market stuff that we all know and hate. I do think that this system would end spam as we know it becuase the marginal costs would go up and make it less attractive, which is good. But this type of system would also create yet another economic desparity in our society only now it would be engrained in the very protocals we use to exchange information, a bad thing in my opinion.
Anyway, as I said, I think the solution rests more with old school legal action of harrasment. The trick is to get the courts to understand that spam really is a form of harrasment, at least after someone has been told to stop.
Kind Regards
One point made in "Release 2.0" is that the cost of sending spam would vary depending on the importaince of an individual. I might only be able to charge a penny to a spammer for sending me an e-mail but Bill Gates might command $100 or more per spam.
I don't really like the idea myself. Basicaly, if I tell someone to stop sending me junk I should expect that they will be compelled to stop, otherwise I should be able to sue for harrasment.
Kind Regards
For Mozilla I generally just rm -rf the old version's directory and install the latest and greatest.
Many of the updaters I mentioned above are easier than anything Microsoft has come up with in my opinion. Particuarly Redcarpet from Ximian and emerge from Gentoo.
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To bad there is nothing else there of interest.
I'd have to agree with you that it gets tiring seeing IE exploit of the week ( or day ) and the retreaded jokes and karma hores. But then maybe you can filter them in your preference?
The thing is MS is the system that is allegedly on 90%+ of the desktops in the USA and maybe the world. They did'nt get there legally and they do not take security, law, or human rights seriously. They spend millions on advertising, FUD and outright lies. So in the end I guess I don't mind suffering the constant reminders as to why I don't use any of their products. What other news source reports this stuff?
Besides, nothing puts I smile on my face in the morning like a cup of coffee and a new MS exploit.
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Anyway, my point being that the US did not dream up the Canal, nor did it dig the chanal wholly on it's own blood sweat and tears. It swooped in almost 20 years after the project was started, with the benefit of seeing how the French attempt failed.
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Anyway, my mom seems to want to stick with Linux after all, just in case you were worried.
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ActiveX is a BS marketing term MS came up with so they could promote the things you can do with COM. It's splitting hairs I know but ActiveX, the vptrs, marketing, application integration and the whole ball of wax really are a serious problem for security. COM and DCOM have no effective security model, at least when I was using them in '98. I never really got into COM+ or whatever it was as I never opted to take another MS platform job after that last one.
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Your certainly free too.
The Epson 1650 has been highly regarded by the Linux community as a great USB scanner. The frustrating part is that my mom actually did some good research into which scanner to get.
I'm very close to getting all this working but I think the clock has just run out. Frustration is setting in and, to my mother, Windows looks like the easy way out.
Thanks for the reply though. If I get a scanner I'll look into the one you mentioned.
Kind regards
Ugh.
If anyone has any suggestions please please post. I have found some info on he problem I'm receiving with ISCAN "Can not send comand to scanner", but have been unable to resolve. The scanner shows up on USB bus.
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Much better to research the problem on your own PC from the comfort of your office. Then check the server config files out of CVS, make changes, SSH into the box and perform your testing.
As for the Novell and Linux servers that "had problems", it does'nt surprise me as I doubt you have the proper experience to effectivly administer either.
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As for the next big Linux leap... it already lept. People just need to know about it. There are many tools that accomplish what you are looking for, some are enumerated in my previous post.
My point about waiting for a distro to catch up is not equteable to MS SP's. KDE3 is not released yet, it's still in RC status. SuSE will have it April 22, not to long to wait if you ask me. Gentoo Linux has it now ( still compiling btw ).
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I have used SuSE since the 5.3 release and have been generaly pleased. 7.3 was a big disapointment however and I only hope that the 8.0 release solves the install problems I've encountered.
I am in the process of installing a Gentoo ( www.gentoo.org ) distro on a new computer and so far have been very pleased with how they handle things. I'm compiling X and KDE3 now, from source, which their distro makes very easy to do with the command:
emerge kde
Wiz bange all the X dependencies are resolved, source is downloaded and compiled and... well... it's still compiling so I'm not really sure.
Debian has aptget which I have never used but have heard will resolve dependencies and download and install software packages in one fell swoop. SuSE does have their software manager in YaST that will do similiar things. Ximian has Red Carpet, a very nice gnome based software manager that will also manage the entire SuSE software library for you.
You just need to wait for the distros to get their packgaes updated.
Kind Regards
Neither is talking to walls. If you go back and read my post and actually try to decern what I did say we might have a descusion.
Seeing as the likelyhood of you doing that is next to nill, I'll repost my main point here:
Whats so frustrating about your argument is that you manage to brush off a tremendous amount of effort in research without adding or substituting a single shred of fact in it's place.
and
The evidence for the extreme brutality/racism exhibited by the USA throughout it's history is so easy to find that if you don't see it you must be working real hard.
There you go, if you have something you'd like to say about this, please do, I'd like to hear it. As the thread now stands, you've added exactly zero insight to anything that I have said. Instead, you post knee jerk responses that have nothing to do with me or my post. You read to much into things and assume way to much.
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Let this message serve as a reply to all the hostile pissants who responded to my post.
Kind Regards
Whats so frustrating about your argument is that you manage to brush off a tremendous amount of effort in research without adding or substituting a single shred of fact in it's place. It must be extremely comforting to just except the status quo, like a good "sheeple" as you say.
The evidence for the extreme brutality/racism exhibited by the USA throughout it's history is so easy to find that if you don't see it you must be working real hard.
And don't feed me a line about weak moral perspectives. If you can handle slaughtering and torturing generations of people to preserve your precious lifestyle then you are a sick human being.
Kind Regards