Shure but I'm worried for what will happen when M$ if finished with that DRM of theirs. You see, RIAA members will love to charge you N times for the privilege (remember, you don't buy songs, you licence them under certain terms of use) to listen them on your PC, sitting room amplifier, car, portable player, fat cell phone... It's just a matter of time, the profiteering gluttons are waiting for the pig to get fat enough...
Think about it. What other scam has screwed hundreds of millions of people out of 15% of their life's income only to give them a piddly amount back if/when the retire?
Actually I've always known that Saddam would remain to power for as long as the US wanted to and be removed from it without going thru international law (UN). I've always had the feeling the US chose to freeze the Iraq issue to strenghen it's relation with Saudi Arabia and win good deals for it's oil (had this thought long before this last battle). Keeping Iraq out of the circuit made shure it's good reservoirs were kept aside for future needs (Western, US needs) and gave the arabs some chills (troops, base camps, air strikes etc... right on the doorstep). That's what I thought when I wondered why Clinton didn't give the old satrap the final beating Bush Senior withheld (I was too young when the Gulf War exploded)
High paying programming jobs are all about building taylor made business logic on some kind of platform. Automation tools are always built to simplify the task pushing up the complexity mark for high margin commissions. Some platforms mostly make their adoption compelling in terms of features and yield but some make it compulsory by proprietarizing the platform on which the code is supposed to run. Don't blame GPL for the first statement, but do blame Microsoft for the second though.
Well, according to MS the masses either get their stuff done through wizards or just don't get anything. In all reasonable *NIX, Linux, BSD distros you get wizards but if they fail (ie, your vendor made a mess or couldn't forsee your particular condition) there's always a console and a set of documented sysadmin commands to get the thing done. I've been messing with LDAP (the thing that MS embraced&extended to make active directory) and remember figuring out insane compatibility between apps that weren't even meant to work together by checking their live debug logs. I know it's not what the avg user would do but a human readable/etc is way much better than a registry hive.
No more wall warts! Actually these critters are a true pain to install and account for (V and Imax ratings). In the past AC was king because most appliances were electromotive consumers (say a dishwasher) or localized devices (TV sets single case PCs). Today we live with hoardes of componets each requiring their little precious AC/DC converter (broadband converter, 802.11 airport, audio speaker system... laptop, cellphone, ipod, discman, switch/hubs... aargh!) I want a CD wall-socket standard!
No way! The GPL is about commoditizing the platform and prevent standards "fencing" to stifle competition. Anyone playing by the GPL rules cannot, under any chance, wrap it's customers in a stranglehold like drug dealers do. Imagine if you didn't like the new M$ licence costs and conditions... yet your businesss process is built upon a highly custom proprietary platform you can't wriggle away even if you wanted... I'm not talking only about product differentiation that makes a particular task to implement but wholesale process captivity.
Yesterday I've seen two engineers trying to share a net connection over two win laptops. The only way they had was thu a wizard and it failed. Had the routing machine been a *nix one it wouldn't have been more difficult than ifup'ing two ports and a sysctl.
Let's all remember that the MHz jump by intel was quite a marketing op. Consumers need an easy metric to evaluate goods (Hp in cars... btw, I wonder why people don't use Watts; must sound dull, dimensioning a car on a lightbulb unit) and intel chose to give one. They went as far as re-designing their machines around the pre-condition of high clock freqs. Take a P4 and clock it to 300 MHz (assuming it would run at those speeds and not bleed all charge out of it's gates), I don't think it would perform anything decent.
I wonder if there's a way to compact more than one instruction per address; less instructions means byte-long ids could fully encode the set and fit 4 per memory location. Rather than talking out of my ass I'd better download a risc instruction set manual and check but what the heck!
This sounds soo farfetched and, of course, is a perfect excuse to put up against Kyoto conference. Lovely, awesome Star Trek jargon making your point and numbing people's brains in passive accondesendance... "The bell curve" anyone?
You drink some champagne and an hour later you're having a great time with a girl. Inkjet ink? You're fighting with a misspelled HOWTO in single user mode...
Well, when H tech will reach the point that it can be used for mass energy production don't worry, the oil industry will dive into it! Oil won't be sold for combustion but as raw material in chemical (plastic) industry... at premium prices (being a limited resource;-)
Hello M$ AstroTurfer anybody there? Yo Hoo! rpm too tough for you... tried MDK urpmi? The script will DL and install all dependencies (in the correct order too! not something to discount eh? Service Pack Chimp!) Ok, ok... won't feed the Troll anymore...
It's pretty obvious don't you think? M$ marketoid drones must have flooded those executive meetings recommending the corporate managers to wait for WMP DRM "It'll-be-available-really-soon". The temptation to license 3 copies, one for the car, one for the sitting-room and one for the portable media whatnot is too compelling. Otherwise why did those "artists" complain that their concepts' complexity was crippled by one-song downloads? (hypocrites... radio pass has already done this; else why don't we hear 15+min tunes more often?) That was meant to be part of a bullet list in a powerpoint presentation... Sheesh... this damn greed is literally changing my musical tastes; once I used to dig Metallica and HM (say, at the times of Justice for All) but now I'm all into electronica subculture... there's less MTV colonization!
Ya know, these poor helpless employees from SCO look awfully like those cuban folks sent marching in Havana holding party sanctioned signs against EU governemt officials. I bet some internal memo hit their Outlooks calling for 'vigorous action' against the 'community enemies'... sad. In their small ecosystem these people are living through a cultural revolution from a Linux company to a M$ cheerleader; what a shame and what a disgrace for those C*Os acting like banana-republic dictators. U-G-H!
So when will the corporate CRM SW interfaced to the SW Agents representing customers decide to further optimize Business Processes by shutting off our life support? The machines will then happily loop in their neat routines unaware... hello HAL!
It did receive fixes. Before some 10.2.x update, Mail.app would have serious problems with nested IMAP folders. I reported the bug to apple and they fixed it. All I have to complain about is that with large folders it appears to stall indexing them but simply quitting and restarting it clears the issue (and no, Force Quit doesn't destroy anything). Also I wouldn't mind if it had parallel IMAP/POP connections but as far as I'm concerned I'm very pleased by it.
Yeah, does this mean I can claim my dinastic right and resume Jus Primae Noctis? That'd be quite cool, I know a couple of chicks I wouldn't mind exerting such right with!;-)
Bzzzt wrong! Proprietary Tools & Protocols can be ok if the final product you hold in your hands and store in the archive isn't dependent on it. AutoCAD is ok if you're looking for a tool to draw engineering docs that once printed and stored are conformant, readable for as long as you wish or just teach the engineering mind process behind the document. In that sense AutoCAD is just a digitised drawing table, not different from the one dad or mum used in their young days. On the other hand, if the information within or the workflow sustainability of a nation is kept hostage to a private enterprise a government has the duty to guarantee free and convenient access to it's citizens.
No no no, you're completely wrong and have a deviant concept of 'politically correctness'! Deep within your conscience you're free to think everything you wish and eg. if you condemn homosexuality face the personal dilemma if you actually have the inclination, but you cannnot under any circumstance interfere with the self-determination or dignity of anyone. Also, you're trying to put the blame on your parent post accusing it of negative bias to give a broader minded light to your position; it's like nazi arithmetic asking to compare funds thrown away for a loony-bin rather than invested on building homes for young, prolific arian families. To put it into current events perspective: - Infibulation: should western civilization interfere with a long standing culturally identifying practice? - islamic fundamentalism: should we recognize the right for some to beleive the west is the devil and must be annihilated in order to install a holy theocratic society? - jews: inferior race, a threatening menace to the healthy arian descendancy... - negroes: lesser humans... etc... etc...
Italian terrorist group "Red Brigades" militants responsible for the assasination of law professor Marco Biagi are said to have used encryption to store sensitive data on their Palm handhelds. Italian press mentioned something like symmetric key but nothing about key strenght (but our press is completely clueless when it comes to IT and some tech crime specialized policemen don't miss a chance to spread FUD). Sicilian Mafia bosses on the run have messengers carry carefully ironed and folded paper sheets to detect unauthorized access to the clear-text inside, while other use GSMs stolen or bought with false names. There's just an extremely wide array of information protection or obfuscation and singling one out just for the sake of 'calling enemy' is plain stupid... would you call Ford a criminal for helping bank robbers in their escape? The Wright brothers for making aeroplanes! Since dawn of mankind technology and scientific conceps have been used to kill people more efficiently but it doesn't mean we should turn back to berry-gathering.
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Shure but I'm worried for what will happen when M$ if finished with that DRM of theirs. You see, RIAA members will love to charge you N times for the privilege (remember, you don't buy songs, you licence them under certain terms of use) to listen them on your PC, sitting room amplifier, car, portable player, fat cell phone... It's just a matter of time, the profiteering gluttons are waiting for the pig to get fat enough...
Think about it. What other scam has screwed hundreds of millions of people out of 15% of their life's income only to give them a piddly amount back if/when the retire?
Insurance companies?
Actually I've always known that Saddam would remain to power for as long as the US wanted to and be removed from it without going thru international law (UN). I've always had the feeling the US chose to freeze the Iraq issue to strenghen it's relation with Saudi Arabia and win good deals for it's oil (had this thought long before this last battle). Keeping Iraq out of the circuit made shure it's good reservoirs were kept aside for future needs (Western, US needs) and gave the arabs some chills (troops, base camps, air strikes etc... right on the doorstep). That's what I thought when I wondered why Clinton didn't give the old satrap the final beating Bush Senior withheld (I was too young when the Gulf War exploded)
High paying programming jobs are all about building taylor made business logic on some kind of platform. Automation tools are always built to simplify the task pushing up the complexity mark for high margin commissions. Some platforms mostly make their adoption compelling in terms of features and yield but some make it compulsory by proprietarizing the platform on which the code is supposed to run. Don't blame GPL for the first statement, but do blame Microsoft for the second though.
Good luck rewiring downtown towers! Innovation is cool but even Apple bent down to PCI!
Well, according to MS the masses either get their stuff done through wizards or just don't get anything. In all reasonable *NIX, Linux, BSD distros you get wizards but if they fail (ie, your vendor made a mess or couldn't forsee your particular condition) there's always a console and a set of documented sysadmin commands to get the thing done. I've been messing with LDAP (the thing that MS embraced&extended to make active directory) and remember figuring out insane compatibility between apps that weren't even meant to work together by checking their live debug logs. I know it's not what the avg user would do but a human readable /etc is way much better than a registry hive.
No more wall warts! Actually these critters are a true pain to install and account for (V and Imax ratings). In the past AC was king because most appliances were electromotive consumers (say a dishwasher) or localized devices (TV sets single case PCs). Today we live with hoardes of componets each requiring their little precious AC/DC converter (broadband converter, 802.11 airport, audio speaker system... laptop, cellphone, ipod, discman, switch/hubs... aargh!)
I want a CD wall-socket standard!
No way! The GPL is about commoditizing the platform and prevent standards "fencing" to stifle competition. Anyone playing by the GPL rules cannot, under any chance, wrap it's customers in a stranglehold like drug dealers do. Imagine if you didn't like the new M$ licence costs and conditions... yet your businesss process is built upon a highly custom proprietary platform you can't wriggle away even if you wanted... I'm not talking only about product differentiation that makes a particular task to implement but wholesale process captivity.
Yesterday I've seen two engineers trying to share a net connection over two win laptops. The only way they had was thu a wizard and it failed. Had the routing machine been a *nix one it wouldn't have been more difficult than ifup'ing two ports and a sysctl.
Let's all remember that the MHz jump by intel was quite a marketing op. Consumers need an easy metric to evaluate goods (Hp in cars... btw, I wonder why people don't use Watts; must sound dull, dimensioning a car on a lightbulb unit) and intel chose to give one. They went as far as re-designing their machines around the pre-condition of high clock freqs. Take a P4 and clock it to 300 MHz (assuming it would run at those speeds and not bleed all charge out of it's gates), I don't think it would perform anything decent.
I wonder if there's a way to compact more than one instruction per address; less instructions means byte-long ids could fully encode the set and fit 4 per memory location. Rather than talking out of my ass I'd better download a risc instruction set manual and check but what the heck!
This sounds soo farfetched and, of course, is a perfect excuse to put up against Kyoto conference. Lovely, awesome Star Trek jargon making your point and numbing people's brains in passive accondesendance... "The bell curve" anyone?
You drink some champagne and an hour later you're having a great time with a girl. Inkjet ink? You're fighting with a misspelled HOWTO in single user mode...
No it ain't ironic... it's paradoxical.
Well, when H tech will reach the point that it can be used for mass energy production don't worry, the oil industry will dive into it! Oil won't be sold for combustion but as raw material in chemical (plastic) industry... at premium prices (being a limited resource ;-)
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Hello M$ AstroTurfer anybody there? Yo Hoo! rpm too tough for you... tried MDK urpmi? The script will DL and install all dependencies (in the correct order too! not something to discount eh? Service Pack Chimp!) Ok, ok... won't feed the Troll anymore...
It's pretty obvious don't you think? M$ marketoid drones must have flooded those executive meetings recommending the corporate managers to wait for WMP DRM "It'll-be-available-really-soon". The temptation to license 3 copies, one for the car, one for the sitting-room and one for the portable media whatnot is too compelling. Otherwise why did those "artists" complain that their concepts' complexity was crippled by one-song downloads? (hypocrites... radio pass has already done this; else why don't we hear 15+min tunes more often?) That was meant to be part of a bullet list in a powerpoint presentation... Sheesh... this damn greed is literally changing my musical tastes; once I used to dig Metallica and HM (say, at the times of Justice for All) but now I'm all into electronica subculture... there's less MTV colonization!
Ya know, these poor helpless employees from SCO look awfully like those cuban folks sent marching in Havana holding party sanctioned signs against EU governemt officials. I bet some internal memo hit their Outlooks calling for 'vigorous action' against the 'community enemies'... sad. In their small ecosystem these people are living through a cultural revolution from a Linux company to a M$ cheerleader; what a shame and what a disgrace for those C*Os acting like banana-republic dictators. U-G-H!
So when will the corporate CRM SW interfaced to the SW Agents representing customers decide to further optimize Business Processes by shutting off our life support? The machines will then happily loop in their neat routines unaware... hello HAL!
It did receive fixes. Before some 10.2.x update, Mail.app would have serious problems with nested IMAP folders. I reported the bug to apple and they fixed it.
All I have to complain about is that with large folders it appears to stall indexing them but simply quitting and restarting it clears the issue (and no, Force Quit doesn't destroy anything). Also I wouldn't mind if it had parallel IMAP/POP connections but as far as I'm concerned I'm very pleased by it.
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Yeah, does this mean I can claim my dinastic right and resume Jus Primae Noctis? That'd be quite cool, I know a couple of chicks I wouldn't mind exerting such right with! ;-)
Bzzzt wrong! Proprietary Tools & Protocols can be ok if the final product you hold in your hands and store in the archive isn't dependent on it. AutoCAD is ok if you're looking for a tool to draw engineering docs that once printed and stored are conformant, readable for as long as you wish or just teach the engineering mind process behind the document. In that sense AutoCAD is just a digitised drawing table, not different from the one dad or mum used in their young days. On the other hand, if the information within or the workflow sustainability of a nation is kept hostage to a private enterprise a government has the duty to guarantee free and convenient access to it's citizens.
No no no, you're completely wrong and have a deviant concept of 'politically correctness'! Deep within your conscience you're free to think everything you wish and eg. if you condemn homosexuality face the personal dilemma if you actually have the inclination, but you cannnot under any circumstance interfere with the self-determination or dignity of anyone. Also, you're trying to put the blame on your parent post accusing it of negative bias to give a broader minded light to your position; it's like nazi arithmetic asking to compare funds thrown away for a loony-bin rather than invested on building homes for young, prolific arian families. To put it into current events perspective:
- Infibulation: should western civilization interfere with a long standing culturally identifying practice?
- islamic fundamentalism: should we recognize the right for some to beleive the west is the devil and must be annihilated in order to install a holy theocratic society?
- jews: inferior race, a threatening menace to the healthy arian descendancy...
- negroes: lesser humans... etc... etc...
I propose a new -1 mod value... astroturf...
Italian terrorist group "Red Brigades" militants responsible for the assasination of law professor Marco Biagi are said to have used encryption to store sensitive data on their Palm handhelds. Italian press mentioned something like symmetric key but nothing about key strenght (but our press is completely clueless when it comes to IT and some tech crime specialized policemen don't miss a chance to spread FUD). Sicilian Mafia bosses on the run have messengers carry carefully ironed and folded paper sheets to detect unauthorized access to the clear-text inside, while other use GSMs stolen or bought with false names. There's just an extremely wide array of information protection or obfuscation and singling one out just for the sake of 'calling enemy' is plain stupid... would you call Ford a criminal for helping bank robbers in their escape? The Wright brothers for making aeroplanes! Since dawn of mankind technology and scientific conceps have been used to kill people more efficiently but it doesn't mean we should turn back to berry-gathering.