Why DON'T the artists set up something on their official sites so you can paypal them money?
I don't buy CDs from major labels anymore, I only buy CDs from smaller independant labels or labels belonging directly to the artist.
While I see that the artists only became popular with the help of record labels (actually in my case, my favourite artists became popular due to singing in films, not because they had best selling singles, but that doesn't really matter) I do see that the record companies did make a lot of bands that now have their own labels popular in the first place.
But still, I would like to 'donate' $5 to my favourite artists - because just downloading their album in a matter of minutes does give me a guilty conscience. That is why I do go out and buy the CD when I know the artist is getting more than 25 cents when I buy a CD for approx. $17.
I have the same with shareware I use really often, in the end, I do register it, usually well after the testing period though.
So what I am hoping for is that artists just open up sites for "Donations here please". Problem is, the record companies will want to have some of that money. Give THEM.26% of the proceeds;-)
I don't even have XP, nor any other XP product (my only windows is the one that came with my IBM thinkpad which is 98), on my desktop I use linux, but I was curious, so I debase64ed this program, virus scanned it and tested it.
It only contains 4 keys.
If you click on about, it says:
"This is the first of many XP keygens to come. As new numbers are being discovered, they will be added to the final version. Email us for more info on this and other keygens! crackware_y2k@hotmail.com"
My first thoughts after reading this:
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What is .NET?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
- All in all I like it.
- Will future processors be able to run the IL in some sort of protected mode?
- What scares me is all the public/private key signing. While this is good for preventing viruses, it makes hacking software (almost?) impossible. I am thinking of hacking a DVD player to play all DVDs from all regions (of course in DMCA free zones LOL), or just in general being able to make versions of a program work with an alternative library.
The more I think about it, this.Net stuff together with MS's patent on a "secure" computer that only runs DRM enforcing applications is all starting to come together. Perhaps they really are developing a.NET processor and a hardware public key hash checker making running non.NET stuff next to impossible. People will buy it because of the speed increase in applications.
"The smartest people are having the fewest kids and the dumest are having the most. This means that eventually the world will be filled with stupid people! (it already is)"
I disagree with that statement entirely. The difference between rich and poor has NOTHING to do with intelligence. At least if you consider entire geographic regions.
The people in poor regions of the world have to be pretty smart to survive. Think no (or little) power, no hardware stores, little or no ready made toold, they have to make everything themselves.
Could YOU do all that?
They are intelligent allright, just on a different level. They don't have formal education which would make their lives easier if they had access to communications technology and share ideas, etc.
But saying they are not smart, and that it would cause a degredation of the gene pool? Definately not.
About China - it's the best solution for them, IMO.
But different region, different rules. Here in Germany population is shrinking pretty drastically. We only have around 1.3-1.5 (depending on statistic) kids per person on average. 2.0 would sustain the population we have, but since this is not happening, we have a problem.
That's why we are opening doors little by little for immigration, but you can only have so much.
If you have too much, the cultural identity of an area gets totally lost. There has to be cultural integration, not cultural replacement.
Why do people think of girls only as sex partners and egg carriers?
Off course sex is is a good thing, but for me sex is just a damn good bonus when you have a good relationship. I have problems screwing a girl I hardly know.
Most of my best friends are female. They have different perspectives on things that I value and want to know about. They can listen a lot better in my opinion. A world without girls? Not me.
First of all, I don't think the parent should be modded "Funny". Some may be of a different opinion, but this is very very scary technology.
I didn't think of Matrix at first, but of an Arnold Schwarzenegger film "The Sixth Day" with all the "human shells" floating around in artificial wombs waiting for the final character traits.
Just imagine being killed and being replaced by a clone because you saw something you shouldn't have. Thank god it's still science fiction, but for how long?
First of all, burning a methanol fuel cell will create CO2 and H20. CH3OH is what methanol is, but that is not what I really want to say.
You say:
When charging a standard chemical battery, we rely on the cleanliness of the source powering the outlet.
You have to consider though that when charging a battery, you have to put a LOT more power into it when you get out of it.
Plus, when you burn something, only 30-40% of the energy contained in coal or gas can get converted into electricity. With a fuel cell, you are turning the energy directly into electricity in the way of a chemical reation and you get figures without looking it up, so I may be wronng, along 90% or more.
Another plus is that methanol occurs abundently on the earth. Methane gets produced almost everywhere, add a bit of water to that and let the reaction happen over time, you get methanol. You don't need electricity to create it.
So it is actually quite clean, except for the disposable plastic containers. But if these can be reused, then it's a big environmental plus.
But, [not an expert, here] I had thought that one symptom of NAT was a plethora of high numbered ports being used.
A tcpdump on ppp0 only reveals relatively low port numbers while NATing to my DSL Modem using iptables.
Using the ipwfadmin of 2.0.36 before I replaced the server which used isdn, I had pretty high port numbers.
I don't think they will be able to tell if you use iptables.
I think it is a good thing though that students have to start paying once they have passed a certain number of semesters (say expected time to be finished + 5 semesters or something) is a good thing.
I am saying this as a student.
"expected time to graduate" is always VERY VERY optimistic. I know of NOONE who has finished electrical engineering in the "expected" time of 9. The very best students we had finished it in 11. I am now in my 13th but will be finished soon.
That's why I am saying expected time + 5 or something.
There are some "students" who just use their student status to get the cheap transportation tickets and stuff and stay students for 15 years. There a quite a few of those.
Also, it adds an extra initiative "kick in the butt" to finally get those exams passed.
Our national ID card is basically used in the exact same situations where in the US you would be asked for a drivers or non-drivers license.
That is:
- To prove who you are (open a bank account, etc)
- Buy alcohol or rent a video with an age restriction to prove your age
There is no other form of tracking taking place.
The only thing which sounds weird for people coming from abroad is that when you have a residence in a town, you have to go to the registration office and register.
You need to be registered to get a voting card so you can vote, so you can get a tax card every year so you can work (legally) (same thing as presenting your SSN card in the US), to receive unemployment benefits and stuff like that- also tpo ensure you are not getting it more than once.
The Germany are really paranoid about "Datenschutz" = Privacy issues, at least 10 times more than in the US.
American companies in the USA collect and exchange a lot more information than in Germany. The data gathering and exchange laws here are very very strict.
In the US, all a company needs is your SSN and they basically know your whole life history, In Germany that doesn't happen, while it is possible to find out if people have not been paying bills in the past. Negative financial data is tracked (Schufa) but you have a right to gain access to the information they store on you and if it is wrong and you can proove it, correct it. Also, data gets deleted automatically after so and so many years.
In the USA you are asked for your SSN almost everywhere, and the companies exchange the data. Here the companies (for example when signing up for a cell phone contract) gets the information from the central Schufa whether you have problems paying bills or not.
You can compare it to peer to peer and centralized networks. While p2p is great for "broadcasting" information, it is very bad for privacy critical data, because with p2p you have no control over who has the data.
But while all "debit" cards ("EC-Karten") have (well, at the moment they still do, see below) a money-chip on them, only like 0.5% of the people use them.
Every shop that accepts the "Geldkarte" (money chip) also accepts payment by "EC-Karte" either by signature or with a PIN number. The difference is, paying with EC-Karte on not with the chip on it, the money is deducted from your checking account, and not the chip which means you don't need to have the chip loaded. And virtually noone has any money loaded at all on it.
I only have roughly 3 Euros on my "Geldkarte", it is very handy for paying parking fees. I put 5 Euros on it (10 DM) when I got the card almost 2 years ago, and have not put any money on it since then. In fact, because the Geldkarte (money chip)is only being used by 0.5% or even less of those who have them, banks are already starting to issue cards again without the chip on it.
The Dutch use their money chips (ChipKnip) like mad though.
This is done because sometimes the judge has a better understanding of the law and the technicalities than the jury
Which is why in Germany the "jury" is always includes a fixed (often AFIK 100%) percentage of legal experts und only in certain types of cases do you even have non-legal-experts part of the "jury".
I don't remember the exact details, I learnt about our legal system in school about 8 or 9 years ago but have forgotten about most of it.
What I thought was most funny is that I drove to the DMV with my rental car to get a license. Had I failed the test I could have just walked out side, got in th e car and driven away since I still had a valid license.
The only thing I had problems with was the imperial mesurements you guys use in the US. You get used to it pretty soon, but taking the test like 7 days after you have just arrived and being asked how many fluid ounces of this you are still allowed to drink to be able to drive was a bit complicated for a European used to milliliters.
Actually, they do ask you for that information (indirectly).
When you apply for a US license (at least in NJ) you need to show them as a foreigner: A birth certificate or passport, some photo ID (you can use your passport),your SSID card, you have to prove that you are legally in the USA and if I remember rightly a utility bill or other proof of address.
And they photocopied everything. Twice.
First they photocopied my German national driving license, German international driving license, passport, SSID-Card, visa forms etc. just for the permit. Then I went over to take the "written" computer "test" (in quotes because I just laughed about it more or less - come on - what shape has a stop sign got). After that, everything got photocopied again, eventhough the same person had only done it 30 minutes earlier. 20 minutes later I got my license (I didn't have to take the driving test - my friend living in CA now also had to take the driving test).
My point is - having to show them a birth certificate or passport and showing them proof that you are legally in the US is basically the same thing as you proving to them if you have an american citizenship and if not what citizenship you have.
Apparently some company Gravenreuth worked for has a patent on some form of device that locks up a floppy drive.
Some company in the far east was producing these things without a patent license.
He sent out "test buyer" explaining to computer dealers exactly what he wanted, described what it looked like etc.
The honest computer dealers then did a lot of research and some found this floppy lock in the far east, imported and got sued.
Yet another thing he went after is the Intel Triton chipset. Whenever a computer dealer had a motherboard with a triton chipset in his price list he/she got sued by Gravenreuth.
This is all as far as I remember it, may not be 100% accurate, and so I'll copy the last sentence of the parent because it goes for this post too:
So, of course this whole posting is just IMHO, AFAIK and AFAIR, and IANAL, and nothing of all this is true anyway.... (I'm living in Germany.)
From the way companies like Microsoft whine about piracy, I'd assumed the figures were increasing, not decreasing."
I honestly believe that if Microsoft really went about going after piracy, then they would loose a lot of business. Also, it would break their Monopoly.
Why? Say they really went after the pirates in the non-commercial area (mainly home users) and people really began to be scared shit of copying software and nobody would do it because of the real threat of being prosecuted.
Now say you need an office suite - since you can't copy one, you go to the store to buy one. Do you buy the MS office suite or one just as good for your needs for 1/10th (or even less) of the price?
Microsoft forcing people to register their products online will undoubtably reduce piracy a hell of a lot. I also think it will dramatically decrease theirmarket share.
This is because in the past, everybody was using office because everyone knew how to work it and everybody had a copy at home more or less. Now say this is no longer the case and most people suddenly have different packages. Companies now no longer see the need to also go along with the MS suite becaus ethe reason they didi this in the past (everybody being able to use it because they use it at home or at their previous work) is not necessarily a given.
Also for open source software, MS going after piracy and introducing their forced registration may be the best thing that ever happened to the open source community and other small commercial software vendors. It may be the worst thing microsoft have ever done to themselves (because it will break their monopoly).
. The gas pump doesn't stop supporting your old car!
Actually, that isn't true. They do stop supporting old cars.
Think cars that only ran on leaded fuel. Think cars that didn't run on sulphur free fuels.
I too still use Word 97 on my laptop (it doesn't run Linux well) - and don't see the point of updating.
Pity. I would really have been interested in this link.
Having worked as a tester in the past for one of the major backup software companies and tested the backup-ability of the NTFS5 filesystem, I have got to know all the internals of the NTFS5 filesystem and I think it rocks.
I like the idea of having multiple streams in a file or support for sparse files, or files that are stored in remote storage which are browsable, but only when they are accessed are they restored from tape or whatever.
I personally work with linux a lot and I actually did some research of my own about encrypted filesystems. I found only old projects.
What I like about NTFS5 is the transparency of the filesystem for not only encrypted, but also of compressed files (available since NTFS4).
By the way, the key used to encrypt the files does not have to be stored on the disk - this is only one option. Plugins allow you to have this maybe on a smart card reader or something.
Is anything planned in the way of linux filesystems that allows files and directories to be encrypted as transparently as under NTFS5?
OK, I said you can either be one or the other. I forgot the import word usually.
The other thing is, that of course you have to be creative when creating software.
Creating Software is an engineering science. Of course you have to be creative.
Architects have to be creative as well, and it is also an engineering Art.
Also music. The melodicity of songs follows certain rules, so I can imagine them being good computer engineers as well.
But in these cases you are technically creative.
The people I would not say are so technically minded (which I meant with artistic) are usually people who produce literature - I do not mean the best seller authors - I mean the people that try to say things in rhymes, try to write like Goethe or Schiller. People who write stories about church towers, but who are not talking about church towers at all but that you are supposed to figure out that church towers is meant to represent society or something. This is the thinking around corners which I meant.
While I agree that plain software engineers can write damn good technical programs, they sometimes totally miss the point of what people actually want to have because they know nothing about a subject matter.
In my experience, some of the industries (especially medium sized business with appox 50-100 employees in special sectors like business selling medical care equipment) rely on a program without a proper database, but the software is really the only one they can use because it has all the features they need, e.g. automatically sending bills in the correct format to the health insurance companies etc.
The software companies that produce this software has now after years and years started writing a new version using an SQL server, but no client wants to use it yet because it is too new and they don't want to be the one beta testing it.
But to write technically good programs, you need to have a lot of experience and knowledge. While you can get away with sloppy programs in a lot of cases, in the majority you cannot, especially when programes grow. Writing scalable programs just takes a lot of practice and experience.
And you cannot just learn how to write good programs by going to a school a year or two. You need a lot more than that.
Same is true for would be admins. People come to the company who used to work in a totally different field (ie social studies teacher or something) who was laid off and went to an MCSE course and now thinks they can do everything.
I have seen a couple of these.
Some, who always worked in the past with computers as a hobby and have maybe administered a school network get on OK after a while, but the majority, no. You still have to explain what a subnet is to them, what a default gateway is, and when you see them repeatedly doing the same thing over and over again, and you gently suggest why he's spending so long on the task and doesn't write a script or but when you give them a book, they just don't understand a simple loop or even how to go about explaining a problem to a computer in a step by step way needed for scripting.
This may be contraversial what I am about to say now - there are two kind of people, and you can only be one or the other - and not both.
You are either artistically talented or technically.
The artistically they can draw, write poems, and stuff. Then there are the technically minded. When they write something, they prefer plain prose as they want to get on with things and don't see the point in cryptically expressing things. They can think more logically as they take things as given and do not question them. While the artistic tend to think around a lot of corners and have problems sperating stuff into simple steps.
As far as age goes - it is not really an age thing but of experience and if you can think logically or not.
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Why DON'T the artists set up something on their official sites so you can paypal them money?
.26% of the proceeds ;-)
I don't buy CDs from major labels anymore, I only buy CDs from smaller independant labels or labels belonging directly to the artist.
While I see that the artists only became popular with the help of record labels (actually in my case, my favourite artists became popular due to singing in films, not because they had best selling singles, but that doesn't really matter) I do see that the record companies did make a lot of bands that now have their own labels popular in the first place.
But still, I would like to 'donate' $5 to my favourite artists - because just downloading their album in a matter of minutes does give me a guilty conscience. That is why I do go out and buy the CD when I know the artist is getting more than 25 cents when I buy a CD for approx. $17.
I have the same with shareware I use really often, in the end, I do register it, usually well after the testing period though.
So what I am hoping for is that artists just open up sites for "Donations here please". Problem is, the record companies will want to have some of that money. Give THEM
I don't even have XP, nor any other XP product (my only windows is the one that came with my IBM thinkpad which is 98), on my desktop I use linux, but I was curious, so I debase64ed this program, virus scanned it and tested it.
It only contains 4 keys.
If you click on about, it says:
"This is the first of many XP keygens to come. As new numbers are being discovered, they will be added to the final version. Email us for more info on this and other keygens! crackware_y2k@hotmail.com"
- All in all I like it.
.Net stuff together with MS's patent on a "secure" computer that only runs DRM enforcing applications is all starting to come together. Perhaps they really are developing a .NET processor and a hardware public key hash checker making running non .NET stuff next to impossible. People will buy it because of the speed increase in applications.
- Will future processors be able to run the IL in some sort of protected mode?
- What scares me is all the public/private key signing. While this is good for preventing viruses, it makes hacking software (almost?) impossible. I am thinking of hacking a DVD player to play all DVDs from all regions (of course in DMCA free zones LOL), or just in general being able to make versions of a program work with an alternative library.
The more I think about it, this
"The smartest people are having the fewest kids and the dumest are having the most. This means that eventually the world will be filled with stupid people! (it already is)"
I disagree with that statement entirely. The difference between rich and poor has NOTHING to do with intelligence. At least if you consider entire geographic regions.
The people in poor regions of the world have to be pretty smart to survive. Think no (or little) power, no hardware stores, little or no ready made toold, they have to make everything themselves.
Could YOU do all that?
They are intelligent allright, just on a different level. They don't have formal education which would make their lives easier if they had access to communications technology and share ideas, etc.
But saying they are not smart, and that it would cause a degredation of the gene pool? Definately not.
About China - it's the best solution for them, IMO.
But different region, different rules. Here in Germany population is shrinking pretty drastically. We only have around 1.3-1.5 (depending on statistic) kids per person on average. 2.0 would sustain the population we have, but since this is not happening, we have a problem.
That's why we are opening doors little by little for immigration, but you can only have so much.
If you have too much, the cultural identity of an area gets totally lost. There has to be cultural integration, not cultural replacement.
Why do people think of girls only as sex partners and egg carriers?
Off course sex is is a good thing, but for me sex is just a damn good bonus when you have a good relationship. I have problems screwing a girl I hardly know.
Most of my best friends are female. They have different perspectives on things that I value and want to know about. They can listen a lot better in my opinion. A world without girls? Not me.
First of all, I don't think the parent should be modded "Funny". Some may be of a different opinion, but this is very very scary technology.
I didn't think of Matrix at first, but of an Arnold Schwarzenegger film "The Sixth Day" with all the "human shells" floating around in artificial wombs waiting for the final character traits.
Just imagine being killed and being replaced by a clone because you saw something you shouldn't have. Thank god it's still science fiction, but for how long?
Would you want a repet?
First of all, burning a methanol fuel cell will create CO2 and H20. CH3OH is what methanol is, but that is not what I really want to say.
You say:
When charging a standard chemical battery, we rely on the cleanliness of the source powering the outlet.
You have to consider though that when charging a battery, you have to put a LOT more power into it when you get out of it.
Plus, when you burn something, only 30-40% of the energy contained in coal or gas can get converted into electricity. With a fuel cell, you are turning the energy directly into electricity in the way of a chemical reation and you get figures without looking it up, so I may be wronng, along 90% or more.
Another plus is that methanol occurs abundently on the earth. Methane gets produced almost everywhere, add a bit of water to that and let the reaction happen over time, you get methanol. You don't need electricity to create it.
So it is actually quite clean, except for the disposable plastic containers. But if these can be reused, then it's a big environmental plus.
But, [not an expert, here] I had thought that one symptom of NAT was a plethora of high numbered ports being used.
A tcpdump on ppp0 only reveals relatively low port numbers while NATing to my DSL Modem using iptables.
Using the ipwfadmin of 2.0.36 before I replaced the server which used isdn, I had pretty high port numbers.
I don't think they will be able to tell if you use iptables.
I think it is a good thing though that students have to start paying once they have passed a certain number of semesters (say expected time to be finished + 5 semesters or something) is a good thing.
I am saying this as a student.
"expected time to graduate" is always VERY VERY optimistic. I know of NOONE who has finished electrical engineering in the "expected" time of 9. The very best students we had finished it in 11. I am now in my 13th but will be finished soon.
That's why I am saying expected time + 5 or something.
There are some "students" who just use their student status to get the cheap transportation tickets and stuff and stay students for 15 years. There a quite a few of those.
Also, it adds an extra initiative "kick in the butt" to finally get those exams passed.
Our national ID card is basically used in the exact same situations where in the US you would be asked for a drivers or non-drivers license.
That is:
- To prove who you are (open a bank account, etc)
- Buy alcohol or rent a video with an age restriction to prove your age
There is no other form of tracking taking place.
The only thing which sounds weird for people coming from abroad is that when you have a residence in a town, you have to go to the registration office and register.
You need to be registered to get a voting card so you can vote, so you can get a tax card every year so you can work (legally) (same thing as presenting your SSN card in the US), to receive unemployment benefits and stuff like that- also tpo ensure you are not getting it more than once.
The Germany are really paranoid about "Datenschutz" = Privacy issues, at least 10 times more than in the US.
American companies in the USA collect and exchange a lot more information than in Germany. The data gathering and exchange laws here are very very strict.
In the US, all a company needs is your SSN and they basically know your whole life history, In Germany that doesn't happen, while it is possible to find out if people have not been paying bills in the past. Negative financial data is tracked (Schufa) but you have a right to gain access to the information they store on you and if it is wrong and you can proove it, correct it. Also, data gets deleted automatically after so and so many years.
In the USA you are asked for your SSN almost everywhere, and the companies exchange the data. Here the companies (for example when signing up for a cell phone contract) gets the information from the central Schufa whether you have problems paying bills or not.
You can compare it to peer to peer and centralized networks. While p2p is great for "broadcasting" information, it is very bad for privacy critical data, because with p2p you have no control over who has the data.
True, we don't use credit cards.
But while all "debit" cards ("EC-Karten") have (well, at the moment they still do, see below) a money-chip on them, only like 0.5% of the people use them.
Every shop that accepts the "Geldkarte" (money chip) also accepts payment by "EC-Karte" either by signature or with a PIN number. The difference is, paying with EC-Karte on not with the chip on it, the money is deducted from your checking account, and not the chip which means you don't need to have the chip loaded. And virtually noone has any money loaded at all on it.
I only have roughly 3 Euros on my "Geldkarte", it is very handy for paying parking fees. I put 5 Euros on it (10 DM) when I got the card almost 2 years ago, and have not put any money on it since then. In fact, because the Geldkarte (money chip)is only being used by 0.5% or even less of those who have them, banks are already starting to issue cards again without the chip on it.
The Dutch use their money chips (ChipKnip) like mad though.
This is done because sometimes the judge has a better understanding of the law and the technicalities than the jury
Which is why in Germany the "jury" is always includes a fixed (often AFIK 100%) percentage of legal experts und only in certain types of cases do you even have non-legal-experts part of the "jury".
I don't remember the exact details, I learnt about our legal system in school about 8 or 9 years ago but have forgotten about most of it.
What I thought was most funny is that I drove to the DMV with my rental car to get a license. Had I failed the test I could have just walked out side, got in th e car and driven away since I still had a valid license.
The only thing I had problems with was the imperial mesurements you guys use in the US. You get used to it pretty soon, but taking the test like 7 days after you have just arrived and being asked how many fluid ounces of this you are still allowed to drink to be able to drive was a bit complicated for a European used to milliliters.
This is getting off-topic now. Sorry.
Actually, they do ask you for that information (indirectly).
When you apply for a US license (at least in NJ) you need to show them as a foreigner: A birth certificate or passport, some photo ID (you can use your passport),your SSID card, you have to prove that you are legally in the USA and if I remember rightly a utility bill or other proof of address.
And they photocopied everything. Twice.
First they photocopied my German national driving license, German international driving license, passport, SSID-Card, visa forms etc. just for the permit. Then I went over to take the "written" computer "test" (in quotes because I just laughed about it more or less - come on - what shape has a stop sign got). After that, everything got photocopied again, eventhough the same person had only done it 30 minutes earlier. 20 minutes later I got my license (I didn't have to take the driving test - my friend living in CA now also had to take the driving test).
My point is - having to show them a birth certificate or passport and showing them proof that you are legally in the US is basically the same thing as you proving to them if you have an american citizenship and if not what citizenship you have.
Another interesting story is the "floppy lock".
Apparently some company Gravenreuth worked for has a patent on some form of device that locks up a floppy drive.
Some company in the far east was producing these things without a patent license.
He sent out "test buyer" explaining to computer dealers exactly what he wanted, described what it looked like etc.
The honest computer dealers then did a lot of research and some found this floppy lock in the far east, imported and got sued.
Yet another thing he went after is the Intel Triton chipset. Whenever a computer dealer had a motherboard with a triton chipset in his price list he/she got sued by Gravenreuth.
This is all as far as I remember it, may not be 100% accurate, and so I'll copy the last sentence of the parent because it goes for this post too:
So, of course this whole posting is just IMHO, AFAIK and AFAIR, and IANAL, and nothing of all this is true anyway.... (I'm living in Germany.)
Just a small correction:
a = g / r^2 (acceleration is measured in meters per seconds squared)
The gravity force is F = m*a = m*g/r^2.
And I made a mistake too.
OK, here is the correct formular:
a(t) = a(t)
v(t) = v0 + integrate(a(t))
v(t) = v0 + a(t)*t - Integrate (t * a'(t))
So the speed also increases because of decreasing gravity over time
s(t) = s0 + Integrate(v(t))
s(t) = s0 + v0 * t + a(t)* 1/2 * t^2 - Integrate(1/2*a'(t)*t^2) - Integrate ( Integrate (t * a'(t)))
This is more correct. But what it essentially means is that the higher you go with less gravity, the more easier it is to gain distance (=height)
You are making a fundamental mistake.
You are assuming gravity is a constant a= 9.81 m/s^2 at every height.
The formular s = 0.5 * a * t^2 works perfectly at managable heights around sea level, but the higher you go, the less that is true.
The formular s = 0.5 * a * t^2 comes from:
v(t) = v0 + a(t) * t
s(t) = s0 + Integrate(v(t))
or s(t) = s0 + v0*t + a(t)* 1/2 * t^2 - Integrate(1/2*a'(t)*t^2)
When a is a constant (which it isn't) the integral term would become zero because differating a constant becomes zero.
But since the pull of gravity drecreases at a rate the higher you go, a'(t) is a negative term, thus adding to the distance gained.
From the way companies like Microsoft whine about piracy, I'd assumed the figures were increasing, not decreasing."
I honestly believe that if Microsoft really went about going after piracy, then they would loose a lot of business. Also, it would break their Monopoly.
Why? Say they really went after the pirates in the non-commercial area (mainly home users) and people really began to be scared shit of copying software and nobody would do it because of the real threat of being prosecuted.
Now say you need an office suite - since you can't copy one, you go to the store to buy one. Do you buy the MS office suite or one just as good for your needs for 1/10th (or even less) of the price?
Microsoft forcing people to register their products online will undoubtably reduce piracy a hell of a lot. I also think it will dramatically decrease theirmarket share.
This is because in the past, everybody was using office because everyone knew how to work it and everybody had a copy at home more or less. Now say this is no longer the case and most people suddenly have different packages. Companies now no longer see the need to also go along with the MS suite becaus ethe reason they didi this in the past (everybody being able to use it because they use it at home or at their previous work) is not necessarily a given.
Also for open source software, MS going after piracy and introducing their forced registration may be the best thing that ever happened to the open source community and other small commercial software vendors. It may be the worst thing microsoft have ever done to themselves (because it will break their monopoly).
. The gas pump doesn't stop supporting your old car!
Actually, that isn't true. They do stop supporting old cars. Think cars that only ran on leaded fuel. Think cars that didn't run on sulphur free fuels.
I too still use Word 97 on my laptop (it doesn't run Linux well) - and don't see the point of updating.
Pity. I would really have been interested in this link.
Having worked as a tester in the past for one of the major backup software companies and tested the backup-ability of the NTFS5 filesystem, I have got to know all the internals of the NTFS5 filesystem and I think it rocks.
I like the idea of having multiple streams in a file or support for sparse files, or files that are stored in remote storage which are browsable, but only when they are accessed are they restored from tape or whatever.
I personally work with linux a lot and I actually did some research of my own about encrypted filesystems. I found only old projects.
What I like about NTFS5 is the transparency of the filesystem for not only encrypted, but also of compressed files (available since NTFS4).
By the way, the key used to encrypt the files does not have to be stored on the disk - this is only one option. Plugins allow you to have this maybe on a smart card reader or something.
Is anything planned in the way of linux filesystems that allows files and directories to be encrypted as transparently as under NTFS5?
I am very interested in the name of a program that can do that and where to get it from.
I do a lot of IT support and this would really be useful.
I need to clarify a few things.
OK, I said you can either be one or the other. I forgot the import word usually.
The other thing is, that of course you have to be creative when creating software.
Creating Software is an engineering science. Of course you have to be creative.
Architects have to be creative as well, and it is also an engineering Art.
Also music. The melodicity of songs follows certain rules, so I can imagine them being good computer engineers as well.
But in these cases you are technically creative.
The people I would not say are so technically minded (which I meant with artistic) are usually people who produce literature - I do not mean the best seller authors - I mean the people that try to say things in rhymes, try to write like Goethe or Schiller. People who write stories about church towers, but who are not talking about church towers at all but that you are supposed to figure out that church towers is meant to represent society or something. This is the thinking around corners which I meant.
While I agree that plain software engineers can write damn good technical programs, they sometimes totally miss the point of what people actually want to have because they know nothing about a subject matter.
In my experience, some of the industries (especially medium sized business with appox 50-100 employees in special sectors like business selling medical care equipment) rely on a program without a proper database, but the software is really the only one they can use because it has all the features they need, e.g. automatically sending bills in the correct format to the health insurance companies etc.
The software companies that produce this software has now after years and years started writing a new version using an SQL server, but no client wants to use it yet because it is too new and they don't want to be the one beta testing it.
But to write technically good programs, you need to have a lot of experience and knowledge. While you can get away with sloppy programs in a lot of cases, in the majority you cannot, especially when programes grow. Writing scalable programs just takes a lot of practice and experience.
And you cannot just learn how to write good programs by going to a school a year or two. You need a lot more than that.
Same is true for would be admins. People come to the company who used to work in a totally different field (ie social studies teacher or something) who was laid off and went to an MCSE course and now thinks they can do everything.
I have seen a couple of these.
Some, who always worked in the past with computers as a hobby and have maybe administered a school network get on OK after a while, but the majority, no. You still have to explain what a subnet is to them, what a default gateway is, and when you see them repeatedly doing the same thing over and over again, and you gently suggest why he's spending so long on the task and doesn't write a script or but when you give them a book, they just don't understand a simple loop or even how to go about explaining a problem to a computer in a step by step way needed for scripting.
This may be contraversial what I am about to say now - there are two kind of people, and you can only be one or the other - and not both.
You are either artistically talented or technically.
The artistically they can draw, write poems, and stuff. Then there are the technically minded. When they write something, they prefer plain prose as they want to get on with things and don't see the point in cryptically expressing things. They can think more logically as they take things as given and do not question them. While the artistic tend to think around a lot of corners and have problems sperating stuff into simple steps.
As far as age goes - it is not really an age thing but of experience and if you can think logically or not.