MD5 sums are fine. The problem is that MD5 sums should be treated like PGP keyprints...they have to be transmitted out-of-band of your normal communications or they are (relatively) meaningless.
Thanks for showing a complete lack of understanding of what Mandatory Access Controls are. OpenBSD can't get you anywhere close to what SELinux provides, regardless of how "trusted" the code is.
So you're a guy and you have to put a hole in the street and put a cover on it. You realize if you make it a big fucking square then the union needs to assign another guy to job to help you with the damn thing and your buddy gets on the $20/hour city job gravy train.
Yeah, I live in Boston too and you seem to have somehow not seen the Big Dig, the biggest and most expensive public works project in history. What is it running at now, $12 billion? $14 billion? Five years late? Seven years late? All to restructure downtown to accomodate the traffic we have today. Rush hour in Boston lasts over 5 hours. You call that designed appropriately to handle the amount of traffic we have today? I get on Route 128 at 3:30 in the afternoon and traffic is stopped.
And Boston has a pretty crappy underground compared to London (in terms of coverage). Imagine what it would be like if politicians took the $15 billion from the Big Dig and spent it on improving the public transportation infrastructure?
You want to learn, right? That takes time, right? You won't have any more time if you do self-study in a book, you'll just have fewer resources to help you over the stumbling blocks.
No, PDAs and consoles are solidly reliable because they don't offer you any choice. Decide that your Palm III doesn't have enough space for all of your contacts anymore and you can't just put in a new 120 GB Maxtor hard drive. Realize that your NES doesn't support T&L, you can't just slot in a new video card.
You could say that some people don't need all of the flexibility that a PC offers. The problem is finding a subset that satisfies enough people to make a profit. PDAs and consoles are one particular subset that (occasionally) make a profit.
But look at the number of net appliances that have come and gone: They failed for a reason, not completely related to marketing.
Word and Excel have four billion functions because someone finds every single one of those functions useful. What is the point of a PDA having a gigahertz processor if all you do is manage contacts on it?
Yes, PDF is proprietary, unless you mean something other than what the rest of us English speakers mean when we say proprietary. According the specification that Adobe has released, "Adobe owns the copyright in the data structures, operators, and the written specification for the particular interchange format called the Portable Document Format. These elements may not be copied without Adobe's permission. Adobe will enforce its copyright."
Adobe has simply chosen to give limited right to use copyrighted intellectual property and published the file format specification. Just because something has a published, publicly available definition does not make it an open standard. For instance, no one would call CIFS an open standard, even though Microsoft has chosen to give limited right to use copyrighted and patented intellectual property to some people.
This was the 50s. No one ate pasta at the time. It would be like me telling your average American that rambutans grow in the ground like carrots or potatoes. It is only obvious in retrospect because in the 70s pasta was the nouveau cuisine and has now become a deeply entrenched part of our culture.
He shot three films at the same time. Never Been Done Before.
No, he shot one film that is very long and will be released in three installments. The Thin Red Line, for comparison, had about 100 hours of footage. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz was over 15 hours long. Andy Warhol released a movie that was 24 hours in length.
Re:The oscars aren't about the best films...
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It's not in hollywood's best interest to admit that a 'silly' sci-fi, fantasy, or comedy movie was the best they had that year.
Your theory doesn't make much sense given that comedies like Annie Hall, fluff pieces like Shakespeare in Love, and fantasy like Gladiator and Titanic and Forrest Gump have all won Best Picture Awards. Do you really think The Sound of Music and Oliver! weren't "silly" films?
Maybe we didn't see The Fellowship of the Ring take top honors for best film because it didn't deserve it?
you're pretty much stuck using one computer as a central repository for everything--programs and data
No, you're stuck using something that looks to the end user like one computer. It is pretty easy to have satisfactory amounts of redudancy with clustering, SANs, etc.
And if you do replicate everything, what about keeping consistency??
Amazingly enough people have been researching this for years and that's why we have things like RAID and Amoeba and AFS that solve all the complaints you've brought up.
It's not that there aren't solutions out there, it's that the solutions aren't viable in many settings either because of bandwidth constraints or because people like having a computer they can call their own.
I wouldn't have thought it necessary to provide links or information for Kohan considering Wargamer gave it Best Strategy Game of the Year, Computer Gaming World gave it Strategy Game of the Year, PC Gamer gave it Strategy Game of the Year, Computer Games Magazine gave it Real-time Strategy Game of the Year, Games Domain gave it Strategy Game of the Year, IGN gave it an Editor's Choice, Gamespy gave it runner up to PC Strategy Game of the Year, Adrenaline Vault gave it a Seal of Excellence, and it was mentioned on/. when the Linux version shipped.
The real twist on WarIII that breathe life into a dying RTS genre are the Heros,the addition of Neutral units (in that they hate all players equally), and Upkeep.
So what you're saying is that Warcraft III offers no real advancements over Kohan which came out over a year ago?
People with training in formal economics believe that all interaction among intelligent life forms can be explained by the "laws" of economics, particularly classical microeconomics and utility theory.
Um. Yeah. Whatever. I guess you don't count people like Nobel Prize in Economics winners and professors of endowed chairs of economics at the University of Chicago when you make sweeping, erroneous, and out-of-touch-with-reality generalizations like that, huh?
To cite just one minor problem: preferences of real humans are not transitive. This is a non- resolvable argument, since the economists say "you don't understand economics"
You neglect to mention that it was, in fact, an economist who first "discovered" that preferences aren't always transitive. One such economist who did work in this field, rather than being told he didn't understand economics, was given a Nobel Prize.
without defining and justifing your argument
Hey, maybe you could justify your argument that all people with training in formal economics believe what you say they do?
Firewire can do daisy chaining. The speed difference also isn't huge. Serial ATA starts out at 150MB/s, while 1394b starts at 800Mb/s; SATA is planned up to 600MB/s while 1394b is 3.2Gb/s.
Since neither one is really what I would call widely available at the moment speed comparisons are kinda moot, kinda like asking if the Enterpise is faster than a Star Destroyer:-)
The first problem is that people don't use either of these things. The second problem is the don't really address the problem of dealing with spam.
If you only want to receive email from pre-designated people, you can already do that. Hotmail, for instance, provides a filter that says, "Throw everything in the trash unless I specifically tell you otherwise." But generally people don't know in advance who they want to receive email from. This is what spam takes advantage of.
Providing authentication doesn't solve this problem. One idea that has been put forward is to charge people to accept unsolicited email. The idea is that you have to pay me $1 if you aren't on my white-list. Then I can look at the email and refund you that $1 if I decide the email isn't junk. There are problems with this approach but it is an interesting idea.
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Isn't "outrageous" a pretty subjective term? Have you ever tried running GNOME + Mozilla on 32MB of RAM? Not possible due to the outrageous amounts of RAM that Mozilla and GNOME chew up.
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If you were really a power user I would hope you'd be able to figure out how to get that icon back. I have it on my WinXP install.
Regardless of what movement Stallman is the head of and which GNOME is associated with, it is in fact completely correct to refer to it as an open source project. There is a reason the Open Source Initiative couldn't get a trademark, because the phrase "open source" is in common usage. And in that common usage it completely and accurately describes GNOME.
Just because they are ECMA standards doesn't mean MS can't "embrace and extend" them should they choose to. It just means that their extended version won't be the "ECMA" version. Microsoft doesn't control the IETF Kerberos specification but that didn't keep them from embracing and extending it.
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MD5 sums are fine. The problem is that MD5 sums should be treated like PGP keyprints...they have to be transmitted out-of-band of your normal communications or they are (relatively) meaningless.
Thanks for showing a complete lack of understanding of what Mandatory Access Controls are. OpenBSD can't get you anywhere close to what SELinux provides, regardless of how "trusted" the code is.
The web page says they use Apache for all of their networking. That means you get SSL for free.
So you're a guy and you have to put a hole in the street and put a cover on it. You realize if you make it a big fucking square then the union needs to assign another guy to job to help you with the damn thing and your buddy gets on the $20/hour city job gravy train.
Yeah, I live in Boston too and you seem to have somehow not seen the Big Dig, the biggest and most expensive public works project in history. What is it running at now, $12 billion? $14 billion? Five years late? Seven years late? All to restructure downtown to accomodate the traffic we have today. Rush hour in Boston lasts over 5 hours. You call that designed appropriately to handle the amount of traffic we have today? I get on Route 128 at 3:30 in the afternoon and traffic is stopped.
And Boston has a pretty crappy underground compared to London (in terms of coverage). Imagine what it would be like if politicians took the $15 billion from the Big Dig and spent it on improving the public transportation infrastructure?
Um, no. An IME is completely different from selecting a keyboard mapping.
You want to learn, right? That takes time, right? You won't have any more time if you do self-study in a book, you'll just have fewer resources to help you over the stumbling blocks.
No, PDAs and consoles are solidly reliable because they don't offer you any choice. Decide that your Palm III doesn't have enough space for all of your contacts anymore and you can't just put in a new 120 GB Maxtor hard drive. Realize that your NES doesn't support T&L, you can't just slot in a new video card.
You could say that some people don't need all of the flexibility that a PC offers. The problem is finding a subset that satisfies enough people to make a profit. PDAs and consoles are one particular subset that (occasionally) make a profit.
But look at the number of net appliances that have come and gone: They failed for a reason, not completely related to marketing.
Word and Excel have four billion functions because someone finds every single one of those functions useful. What is the point of a PDA having a gigahertz processor if all you do is manage contacts on it?
Sure there is. What do you think mountvol does?
The security fix is 500 kilobytes. That's about a minute to download over a modem.
You have a contract
No you don't.
that they can't change at will.
Actually it is called exactly that "At Will Employment".
Yes, PDF is proprietary, unless you mean something other than what the rest of us English speakers mean when we say proprietary. According the specification that Adobe has released, "Adobe owns the copyright in the data structures, operators, and the written specification for the particular interchange format called the Portable Document Format. These elements may not be copied without Adobe's permission. Adobe will enforce its copyright."
Adobe has simply chosen to give limited right to use copyrighted intellectual property and published the file format specification. Just because something has a published, publicly available definition does not make it an open standard. For instance, no one would call CIFS an open standard, even though Microsoft has chosen to give limited right to use copyrighted and patented intellectual property to some people.
This was the 50s. No one ate pasta at the time. It would be like me telling your average American that rambutans grow in the ground like carrots or potatoes. It is only obvious in retrospect because in the 70s pasta was the nouveau cuisine and has now become a deeply entrenched part of our culture.
He shot three films at the same time. Never Been Done Before.
No, he shot one film that is very long and will be released in three installments. The Thin Red Line, for comparison, had about 100 hours of footage. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz was over 15 hours long. Andy Warhol released a movie that was 24 hours in length.
It's not in hollywood's best interest to admit that a 'silly' sci-fi, fantasy, or comedy movie was the best they had that year.
Your theory doesn't make much sense given that comedies like Annie Hall, fluff pieces like Shakespeare in Love, and fantasy like Gladiator and Titanic and Forrest Gump have all won Best Picture Awards. Do you really think The Sound of Music and Oliver! weren't "silly" films?
Maybe we didn't see The Fellowship of the Ring take top honors for best film because it didn't deserve it?
you're pretty much stuck using one computer as a central repository for everything--programs and data
No, you're stuck using something that looks to the end user like one computer. It is pretty easy to have satisfactory amounts of redudancy with clustering, SANs, etc.
And if you do replicate everything, what about keeping consistency??
Amazingly enough people have been researching this for years and that's why we have things like RAID and Amoeba and AFS that solve all the complaints you've brought up.
It's not that there aren't solutions out there, it's that the solutions aren't viable in many settings either because of bandwidth constraints or because people like having a computer they can call their own.
I wouldn't have thought it necessary to provide links or information for Kohan considering Wargamer gave it Best Strategy Game of the Year, Computer Gaming World gave it Strategy Game of the Year, PC Gamer gave it Strategy Game of the Year, Computer Games Magazine gave it Real-time Strategy Game of the Year, Games Domain gave it Strategy Game of the Year, IGN gave it an Editor's Choice, Gamespy gave it runner up to PC Strategy Game of the Year, Adrenaline Vault gave it a Seal of Excellence, and it was mentioned on /. when the Linux version shipped.
It's hardly my fault you haven't heard of Kohan.
The real twist on WarIII that breathe life into a dying RTS genre are the Heros ,the addition of Neutral units (in that they hate all players equally), and Upkeep.
So what you're saying is that Warcraft III offers no real advancements over Kohan which came out over a year ago?
People with training in formal economics believe that all interaction among intelligent life forms can be explained by the "laws" of economics, particularly classical microeconomics and utility theory.
Um. Yeah. Whatever. I guess you don't count people like Nobel Prize in Economics winners and professors of endowed chairs of economics at the University of Chicago when you make sweeping, erroneous, and out-of-touch-with-reality generalizations like that, huh?
To cite just one minor problem: preferences of real humans are not transitive. This is a non- resolvable argument, since the economists say "you don't understand economics"
You neglect to mention that it was, in fact, an economist who first "discovered" that preferences aren't always transitive. One such economist who did work in this field, rather than being told he didn't understand economics, was given a Nobel Prize.
without defining and justifing your argument
Hey, maybe you could justify your argument that all people with training in formal economics believe what you say they do?
Firewire can do daisy chaining. The speed difference also isn't huge. Serial ATA starts out at 150MB/s, while 1394b starts at 800Mb/s; SATA is planned up to 600MB/s while 1394b is 3.2Gb/s.
:-)
Since neither one is really what I would call widely available at the moment speed comparisons are kinda moot, kinda like asking if the Enterpise is faster than a Star Destroyer
RFC 2554: SMTP AUTH.
RFC 2487: SMTP over TLS.
The first problem is that people don't use either of these things. The second problem is the don't really address the problem of dealing with spam.
If you only want to receive email from pre-designated people, you can already do that. Hotmail, for instance, provides a filter that says, "Throw everything in the trash unless I specifically tell you otherwise." But generally people don't know in advance who they want to receive email from. This is what spam takes advantage of.
Providing authentication doesn't solve this problem. One idea that has been put forward is to charge people to accept unsolicited email. The idea is that you have to pay me $1 if you aren't on my white-list. Then I can look at the email and refund you that $1 if I decide the email isn't junk. There are problems with this approach but it is an interesting idea.
Isn't "outrageous" a pretty subjective term? Have you ever tried running GNOME + Mozilla on 32MB of RAM? Not possible due to the outrageous amounts of RAM that Mozilla and GNOME chew up.
If you were really a power user I would hope you'd be able to figure out how to get that icon back. I have it on my WinXP install.
Regardless of what movement Stallman is the head of and which GNOME is associated with, it is in fact completely correct to refer to it as an open source project. There is a reason the Open Source Initiative couldn't get a trademark, because the phrase "open source" is in common usage. And in that common usage it completely and accurately describes GNOME.
Just because they are ECMA standards doesn't mean MS can't "embrace and extend" them should they choose to. It just means that their extended version won't be the "ECMA" version. Microsoft doesn't control the IETF Kerberos specification but that didn't keep them from embracing and extending it.