If you pay attention to what Linus says and writes, you can see that he has strong opinions and they are backed with lots of knowledge, experience and reason. Linus is a great example of how to not get distracted by secondary issues. When he has an opinion, it's worth listening to as it's not based on:
1. Religion 2. What everybody else does 3. Money
IIRC, Linus thinks that microkernels are slow. You have to use some ugly hacks to solve the speed issue and other problems.
Place a big chunk of ice in a container and fill it with water. Then sit back and see how the melting of ice does not rise the water level. Then get back to your physics books and figure out why it doesn't.
The problem with global warming is not with floating ice. It's with Antarctica where ice is sitting on the continent. Melting of that ice will rise the sea levels.
Computer technology is not any advanced science. If you study it, you'll notice how the fundamentals are very simple. It has just been developed rapidly during tens of years by taking lots of small steps.
Just look at particle physics. Computer science is like playing with Lego blocks compared to that.
Yes, the US military is ahead but not necessarily because of the reasons you state. USA simply spends way more on military purposes than rest of the world together.
USA will also stay ahead because there's just no point in spending as much money on the military as USA does.
Well, if you're not sure, you should check your facts instead of spreading hearsay, shouldn't you?
It's a pain to drive across Finland from east to west and vice versa. The roads were specifically built to make attacks (and travelling across the country) difficult.
Finland also paid huge war reparations to Russia after WW2. After that, trade was just trade.
Finland have received huge amounts of support from the USSR and been one of the most conservative countries in Europe.
Care to explain where you got this nonsense from?
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So you're implying that the Americans and the VAST MAJORITY of the United Nations are "invading" Iraq? You should probably tune in to the reality that is the world around you.
How about some unsensored reality? The vast majority of the United Nations is against the war. 30 countries support it publicly. 15 not publicly. That leaves 147 countries not supporting. Tell me how 45 out of 192 is the vast majority and I'll nominate you for the Nobel prize of mathematics.
Furthermore, the people of USA's most important allies are against the war. Examples are Great Britain, Spain and Turkey.
In other words: GWB started an illegal war that the world opposes. Starting this war is already a war crime. Doing it this way is pure insanity.
What makes this even more disgusting is the way how France has been blamed for this war. Wars are started by those who pull the trigger.
Not even those orbital transfer vehicles could have made a difference. The Columbia was on an orbit where it doesn't meet up with the ISS. Changing that would have required enormous amounts of fuel.
The Columbia Loss FAQ explains it very well. Look for question "Why didn't they just dock with the ISS and do repairs?"
The temperature was off spec. The shuttle was not designed to be launched at that temperature. I remember reading about one engineer who did everything to convince NASA not to launch. When he went home he was sure that those astronauts were going to die.
And yes. This is spaceflight. You don't hope that everything goes well. You make damn sure that everything goes well.
Of course, to maximize your value you should have bought XP, XP Subscription, and the XP Special Edition (with Bill's commentary and the Longhorn sneek peek) long before 2005 rolls around.
That's exactly the point. You have to buy the next generation of Windows. That's not cheap. Not to mention that we don't know anything about what Windows is like then. If Microsoft succeeds in changing to.NET, you gradually have to update all your software to.NET-versions. Win32 API will slowly die just like WIN16 did. Not cheap either.
If you use Linux, *bsd or whatever open system, you can decide yourself what to update and when.
"Microsoft is celebrating the results of a study..." Hehee. It was about time they found one study to prove how Windows 2000 costs less over a five year time span.
Never mind that Windows 2000 hasn't been around even close to that long.
Never mind that Microsoft stops supporting it in year 2005. Wonder how a six year time span would have looked like...
She could at least have linked to the study itself...
Nice idea but very difficult to implement. The problem is not the protocol. It's the content. No matter how secure a protocol is, a pinhead can always use it to send ads. It just arrived through a "secure" route.
I guess the best way is to slow down e-mail. That way it would take days to send a million messages. This would hurt mailinglists but exceptions could of course be made. Let certain known behaving servers send e-mail faster. That way you have to earn the right to send e-mail fast.
I've been a VB developer for 6 years. I was good at it. I knew how to make good quality software with it. Yes, it was a piece of cake until you have to do something more advanced. Well, you can buy components to do more advanced stuff. So I bought a few and solved the problem.
Then comes the kicker. Microsoft released a VB update. I tried to use it but it broke a lot of things. Those 3rd party components also changed and they weren't compatible any more. I decided to write a C DLL to solve the problems. While doing that I noticed how utterly horrible VB really is when you try to do anything more advanced.
Because of all the problems, I decided to not upgrade VB and continue with an older version. Then came the real kicker. Windows 2000 and XP don't supprt it that well any more. There are systematic crashes that do not make any sense whatsoever.
At this point I noticed what a big mess I was in. I had lots of source code that only worked in VB. I couln't upgrade VB without lots of work. At this moment I decided to try Borland Delphi. I rewrote a small part of my software to test what it'd be like to work in it. It was difficult first as I wasn't familiar with Pascal but the results blew me away. My Delphi version was about 20 times faster than VB. I took a long look at my codebase and made a tough decision - I'll rewrite it in Delphi.
That was 4 years ago. I now write everything with Delphi. The quality of our products have skyrocketed. They are smaller and a lot faster. Thanks to Delphi, I can write multithreaded, object-oriented software without any 3rd party components. Since then I've updated Delphi4->Delphi5->Delphi7 and only needed to recompile. With Borland Kylix I've been able to recompile some to even Linux.
I'm a happy man now. I do most development on Windows as my clients use Windows. But I can port all my codebase to Linux easily any time I want. My work doesn't depend on Microsoft any more.
Believe me. There's nothing worse than depend on Microsoft Visual Basic. If I had continued to work with VB, I'd now have to deal with all the changes moving to VB.NET.
How convenient for you to totally change subject when you've lost the argument. We were talking about freedom, remember?
In the countries I mentioned freedom is a given. It's such a natural part of life that we don't have the need to mention it all the time. It's like writing frontpage news about breathing air.
The country you live in has some weird need of pointing out that you are free. Why is that? Quite frankly, it sounds ridiculous. Maybe it's because you really aren't free? Or did you only get used to doing that during the cold war?
I could be wrong, though. After all, we don't have fences around our houses, metal detectors at schools or a spying organisation. We don't get to enjoy frivolous lawsuits or lovely laws like the Patriot Act and DMCA.
In fact, it's even MORE pathetic if you're talking about ignoring little Joey's sprained ankle, than if you're talking about a serious injury. What kind of asshole would ignore a kid who banged his head falling down because he's afraid of a lawsuit?
Now which one is it? Did little Joey sprain his ancle or bang his head? If his ancle, little Joey should get a ride to a hospital for proper care. Including x-ray to make sure nothing serious is broken. However, this is really no brain surgery or even urgent. Plenty of time to call parents etc.
If he banged his head, little Joey needs an ambulance and qualified personnel with proper equipment who make sure he's transferred to a hospital safely. Moving him or trying to do your own checkup may cause bad injuries if he has broken his neck.
The doctor can call the hospital/parents/ambulance just like any normal person. But if he says that he's a doctor, parents can sue for a) treating the kid or b) not treating the kid depending on the outcome. It's a lose-lose situation.
I think it's pretty pathetic that you took the worst case scenario and based your bashing on that. The previous writer didn't mention risk of life at all. The biggest number of cases don't include any risk of life. Those are the cases the advice is for.
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If you pay attention to what Linus says and writes, you can see that he has strong opinions and they are backed with lots of knowledge, experience and reason. Linus is a great example of how to not get distracted by secondary issues. When he has an opinion, it's worth listening to as it's not based on:
1. Religion
2. What everybody else does
3. Money
IIRC, Linus thinks that microkernels are slow. You have to use some ugly hacks to solve the speed issue and other problems.
How do you certify that a whole ISP is sane? You only need one spammer to ruin it.
Sorry to say but Samba is a better implementation than Windows. These guys even report bugs to Microsoft engineers.
You, sir, are so wrong it hurts my eyes to read!
Place a big chunk of ice in a container and fill it with water. Then sit back and see how the melting of ice does not rise the water level. Then get back to your physics books and figure out why it doesn't.
The problem with global warming is not with floating ice. It's with Antarctica where ice is sitting on the continent. Melting of that ice will rise the sea levels.
Computer technology is not any advanced science. If you study it, you'll notice how the fundamentals are very simple. It has just been developed rapidly during tens of years by taking lots of small steps.
Just look at particle physics. Computer science is like playing with Lego blocks compared to that.
Yes, the US military is ahead but not necessarily because of the reasons you state. USA simply spends way more on military purposes than rest of the world together.
USA will also stay ahead because there's just no point in spending as much money on the military as USA does.
Well, if you're not sure, you should check your facts instead of spreading hearsay, shouldn't you?
It's a pain to drive across Finland from east to west and vice versa. The roads were specifically built to make attacks (and travelling across the country) difficult.
Finland also paid huge war reparations to Russia after WW2. After that, trade was just trade.
Finland have received huge amounts of support from the USSR and been one of the most conservative countries in Europe.
Care to explain where you got this nonsense from?
So you're implying that the Americans and the VAST MAJORITY of the United Nations are "invading" Iraq? You should probably tune in to the reality that is the world around you.
How about some unsensored reality? The vast majority of the United Nations is against the war. 30 countries support it publicly. 15 not publicly. That leaves 147 countries not supporting. Tell me how 45 out of 192 is the vast majority and I'll nominate you for the Nobel prize of mathematics.
Furthermore, the people of USA's most important allies are against the war. Examples are Great Britain, Spain and Turkey.
In other words: GWB started an illegal war that the world opposes. Starting this war is already a war crime. Doing it this way is pure insanity.
What makes this even more disgusting is the way how France has been blamed for this war. Wars are started by those who pull the trigger.
Not even those orbital transfer vehicles could have made a difference. The Columbia was on an orbit where it doesn't meet up with the ISS. Changing that would have required enormous amounts of fuel.
The Columbia Loss FAQ explains it very well. Look for question "Why didn't they just dock with the ISS and do repairs?"
The temperature was off spec. The shuttle was not designed to be launched at that temperature. I remember reading about one engineer who did everything to convince NASA not to launch. When he went home he was sure that those astronauts were going to die.
And yes. This is spaceflight. You don't hope that everything goes well. You make damn sure that everything goes well.
No, it's a lot paranoid.
The shuttle was moving way too fast and way too high for anything to hit it. You've been watching too many Star Wars movies :)
Let me know if these can be improved.
Sure. Upgrade from that IIS to a better web server so that we can even read your suggestions.
Of course, to maximize your value you should have bought XP, XP Subscription, and the XP Special Edition (with Bill's commentary and the Longhorn sneek peek) long before 2005 rolls around.
That's exactly the point. You have to buy the next generation of Windows. That's not cheap. Not to mention that we don't know anything about what Windows is like then. If Microsoft succeeds in changing to .NET, you gradually have to update all your software to .NET-versions. Win32 API will slowly die just like WIN16 did. Not cheap either.
If you use Linux, *bsd or whatever open system, you can decide yourself what to update and when.
"Microsoft is celebrating the results of a study..." Hehee. It was about time they found one study to prove how Windows 2000 costs less over a five year time span.
Never mind that Windows 2000 hasn't been around even close to that long.
Never mind that Microsoft stops supporting it in year 2005. Wonder how a six year time span would have looked like...
She could at least have linked to the study itself...
Nice idea but very difficult to implement. The problem is not the protocol. It's the content. No matter how secure a protocol is, a pinhead can always use it to send ads. It just arrived through a "secure" route.
I guess the best way is to slow down e-mail. That way it would take days to send a million messages. This would hurt mailinglists but exceptions could of course be made. Let certain known behaving servers send e-mail faster. That way you have to earn the right to send e-mail fast.
...Browzilla
According to Helsingin Sanomat, IBM will build two of these giants. One of them will run Linux.
I've been a VB developer for 6 years. I was good at it. I knew how to make good quality software with it. Yes, it was a piece of cake until you have to do something more advanced. Well, you can buy components to do more advanced stuff. So I bought a few and solved the problem.
Then comes the kicker. Microsoft released a VB update. I tried to use it but it broke a lot of things. Those 3rd party components also changed and they weren't compatible any more. I decided to write a C DLL to solve the problems. While doing that I noticed how utterly horrible VB really is when you try to do anything more advanced.
Because of all the problems, I decided to not upgrade VB and continue with an older version. Then came the real kicker. Windows 2000 and XP don't supprt it that well any more. There are systematic crashes that do not make any sense whatsoever.
At this point I noticed what a big mess I was in. I had lots of source code that only worked in VB. I couln't upgrade VB without lots of work. At this moment I decided to try Borland Delphi. I rewrote a small part of my software to test what it'd be like to work in it. It was difficult first as I wasn't familiar with Pascal but the results blew me away. My Delphi version was about 20 times faster than VB. I took a long look at my codebase and made a tough decision - I'll rewrite it in Delphi.
That was 4 years ago. I now write everything with Delphi. The quality of our products have skyrocketed. They are smaller and a lot faster. Thanks to Delphi, I can write multithreaded, object-oriented software without any 3rd party components. Since then I've updated Delphi4->Delphi5->Delphi7 and only needed to recompile. With Borland Kylix I've been able to recompile some to even Linux.
I'm a happy man now. I do most development on Windows as my clients use Windows. But I can port all my codebase to Linux easily any time I want. My work doesn't depend on Microsoft any more.
Believe me. There's nothing worse than depend on Microsoft Visual Basic. If I had continued to work with VB, I'd now have to deal with all the changes moving to VB.NET.
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How convenient for you to totally change subject when you've lost the argument. We were talking about freedom, remember?
In the countries I mentioned freedom is a given. It's such a natural part of life that we don't have the need to mention it all the time. It's like writing frontpage news about breathing air.
The country you live in has some weird need of pointing out that you are free. Why is that? Quite frankly, it sounds ridiculous. Maybe it's because you really aren't free? Or did you only get used to doing that during the cold war?
I could be wrong, though. After all, we don't have fences around our houses, metal detectors at schools or a spying organisation. We don't get to enjoy frivolous lawsuits or lovely laws like the Patriot Act and DMCA.
We are the freest society on earth. Until you can point to a freer one, you're the one with dElusions.
Yawn, stretch, here we go: Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands to say a few from around where I live.
And guess what? I don't even try to point out which one of those tops the list.
You apparently work cheap. Downloading updates and especially defragging Windows drives takes a long time.
In fact, it's even MORE pathetic if you're talking about ignoring little Joey's sprained ankle, than if you're talking about a serious injury. What kind of asshole would ignore a kid who banged his head falling down because he's afraid of a lawsuit?
Now which one is it? Did little Joey sprain his ancle or bang his head? If his ancle, little Joey should get a ride to a hospital for proper care. Including x-ray to make sure nothing serious is broken. However, this is really no brain surgery or even urgent. Plenty of time to call parents etc.
If he banged his head, little Joey needs an ambulance and qualified personnel with proper equipment who make sure he's transferred to a hospital safely. Moving him or trying to do your own checkup may cause bad injuries if he has broken his neck.
The doctor can call the hospital/parents/ambulance just like any normal person. But if he says that he's a doctor, parents can sue for a) treating the kid or b) not treating the kid depending on the outcome. It's a lose-lose situation.
I think it's pretty pathetic that you took the worst case scenario and based your bashing on that. The previous writer didn't mention risk of life at all. The biggest number of cases don't include any risk of life. Those are the cases the advice is for.