I have a good friend who happens to be an expat Chinese. Since he gained citizenship last year he probabely won't return to China in the next 35 years or so except for visiting his relatives. He also happens to be very outspoken about political stuff. And he almost always supports his government.
That is the way he was brought up. Maybe a cultural thing. Mind you, I do believe our system of checks and balances including a free media is superior (and I don't like all the current changes that are going on the the name of "security") and I think it should work for all people. But I also know many people that don't share my opinion about this. Many people from China for example seem to think different about this.
I think I know I am right, but I aknowledge that there are people that have a different opinion about this.
No matter what legacy app you are using. If it is open source, you could fix it, if the bugfix would break it. Or you could pay someone to fix it for you.
"Asus is free to do as they please and if Microsoft thinks it's a good business move, let them."
But Microsoft has a monopoly and they have shown for decades, that they are using it to gain an unfair advantage. Maybe other companies are would be doing the same, or are doint the same. But Microsoft IS the company that HAS the monopoly in the desktop os market. Given what we have seen of Microsofts business practices it is very likely, that they used some of their monopoly power to arrange this pricing.
I mean why would Asus not sell cheap models with Linux and less hard drive space or models with the same space and price with both options for the os.
Nobody needs to fret about it, though. That's just the way Microsoft is, and has always been, conducting business.
And before we know it, virii, spyware, botnetclients, all the goodies Windows users can enjoy now will be distributed for Linux. Isn't that something to look forward to?
Installation is much easier with many Linux distros than with Windows. That is not a problem, because most people buy their PC with Windows pre-installed. If you don't want to learn anything (yes, some people prefer that) you can do it the Windows way. Just reinstall until everything works. Start with Ubuntu and then OpenSuse, Fedora, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS. If none of them support all the hardware out of the box and suits you, then just install Windows in the end. Worst case you get 6 reinstalls. Anyone on Slashdot that never had six reinstalls with Windows in a row?
You are giving a very good reason why hardware vendors should *not* release the specs. So that their old hardware *can't* enjoy an extended life and they can sell new stuff.
This is not surprising at all. Russians rally behind Putin. China ceased to be a communist dictatorship a long time ago. It is now a nationalistic dictatorship. Same as Russia. When we see ethnic groups rising up everywhere and demanding rights, why would we be surprised to see the same with national groups?
But I guess US-Americans don't really view nationalistic pride as a problem, since patriotism is about the only thing keeping the US together and is working great for them. And patriotism and nationalism are very close, if not the same thing. If anyone from the US is surprised about certain opinions shared among Chinese blogs please take a look at many conservative and right wing US blogs on Iraq. And please don't think I am comparing Tibet and Iraq. I REALLY don't want to get into that, OK? Thanks!
I have seen fake Nokia phones that run Nokia software. Back three years ago I didn't believe it. Now they fake IPhones, processors, mainboards. I heard (and didn't really believe) that they can, and sometimes do, fake just about everything.
Now take a step back and think about it: Pharmaceuticals, airplane spare parts, nuclear power plant spare parts... (fill in what you want)
And I am thinking. If they are that skilled, why don't they just produce originals themselves (I heard that some fakes are even better than the originals, especially with products where a lot of value is in the brand instead of the product itself).
And again, why are those critical things controlled by a networked computer? A flood gate system controlled by a Windows 98 machine and the guy working there is surfing warez sites? Why? He can have a laptop to surf his warez sites.
Again: Why do computers that control critical functions need to be connected to the internet?
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Drive by hijacks of your browser also come through paid ads in Google that are displayed on popular webpages. Some use zero day exploits of either IE, Acrobat Reader, Realpayer or other popular addons.
Also when a security hole in php is found crackers sometimes use it to turn many "trusted" webpages into hijacking webpages.
I didn't put the link there for fun. Here is an interesting part:
2007 study on global nuclear war
A study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research in July 2007[3], Nuclear winter revisited with a modern climate model and current nuclear arsenals: Still catastrophic consequences[4], used current climate models to look at the consequences of a global nuclear war involving most or all of the world's current nuclear arsenals (which the authors described as being only about a third the size of the world's arsenals twenty years earlier). The authors used a global circulation model, ModelE from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which they noted "has been tested extensively in global warming experiments and to examine the effects of volcanic eruptions on climate." The model was used to investigate the effects of a war involving the entire current global nuclear arsenal, projected to release about 150 Tg of smoke into the atmosphere (1 Tg is equal to 1012 grams), as well as a war involving about one third of the current nuclear arsenal, projected to release about 50 Tg of smoke. In the 150 Tg case they found that:
A global average surface cooling of -7C to -8C persists for years, and after a decade the cooling is still -4C (Fig. 2). Considering that the global average cooling at the depth of the last ice age 18,000 yr ago was about -5C, this would be a climate change unprecedented in speed and amplitude in the history of the human race. The temperature changes are largest over land... Cooling of more than -20C occurs over large areas of North America and of more than -30C over much of Eurasia, including all agricultural regions.
It used to be (in the 50s) that scientists predicted the survival of human civilisation in Africa and Australia after a nuclear war.
After the 60s pretty much everyone predicted (maybe they now predict, if they didn't factor in the dust problem, but calculated with nuclear stockpiles ready somewhere around the 1960s) the end of life as we know it if there was a nuclear war.
The reason is pretty simple. Because of the large detonations a lot of dust would be thrown into the air. It would be so much and would be thrown so high that it would turn the earth dark shutting out the sun. That is called nuclear winter. It would kill all live that depends in some way on the sun.
While radiation is a problem, it is by far not the biggest one. The term "nuclear winter" can be a bit misleading.
Actually the problem is that there are not binding international treaties at all. Because there is no enforcement. The powerful entities, EU, US just force their will onto everyone else. And you know who's got the biggest guns? The US is not restricted in any way. This is not really good, but OTOH, who is to decide what is good and what is not good? After all, the US is much more democratic than most of the rest of the world.
But the myth that the US is in some way bound by any treaty is is just that: A myth.
One problem for example is the ABM treaty, that the US signed and ratified, but don't feel bound to, just ignoring it and triggering a new arms race.
Vista sucks and the next version won't be compatible with what users are running. Then everyone will stay with XP or switch to ReactOS. And for everyone else who doesn't rely on legacy code there is Linux.
Even seeing a baby smile can make my day. I like playing with children. But they don't turn me on in any way at all. Never have, and I can't image they ever will. But I have started to pay less attention to children in general for the above reasons.
What I badly need is a replacement for that awful Flash player. There is so much Flash content on the web now, that unfortunately I need a viewer for this. Firefox 2 is fine. The need for better/faster viewing or more features is not very big.
So please Mozilla foundation: If you want to do something to improve my web exprerience just put some effort into Swfdec or Gnash or do something from scratch and put it into Firefox.
Many people still seem to believe that free trade means free trade. This is bs to the highest degree. Everyone learns that free trade benefits everyone. That is economics 101. Completely correct. So to benefit everyone the Bush administration tries to encourage free trade. At least they say so. What the EU and the US have been doing for decades is to open up foreign markets and to keep domestic markets closed. The Japanese are also very good in this game. They even manage to keep out US and EU products.
So free trade has gotten a bad name. And many, many stupid people have been arguing against free trade, because they have seen the results not benefitting many third world countries. But the whole point is that trade had never been free. All that bs talk about free trade has never been about actual free trade, but just talk.
W once stated that they would defend Taiwan if China attacked.
Some people at the state department said this was a blunder, because this was not supposed to be stated openly, but always assumed and the PRC understood this. But what do I know. Maybe Bush is a brilliant foreign policy strategy maker and said that on purpose to (fill in something here).
Comeon! The browser is the os of the future. And Microsoft is rapidly loosing marketshare with Firefox having so many developers creating extensions and Apple driving Safari down the throat of every Quicktime user out there (Itunes came with Quicktime and now Safari comes with Itunes). And Safari is far better than IE, so as soon as some of the users try it many will never go back to IE.
With the browser being the os Flash is by far the biggest monopoly. And with Silverlight MS is creating an open source alternative. Same goes with PDF vs. EPS.
They are loosing the OOXML-battle (even though OOXML might be dangerous, because they "own" the standard, it is far better documented than.doc, so it is more like PDF, where one company "owns" the standard, but it is still a standard and many apps work with it).
And finally Vista is the single biggest selling point for Ubuntu and the likes, because it is a little too awful and has no advantage except for the eyecandy. Back in 2001 XP was also awful, but at least it brought the NT-core to the desktop. Remember what Windows 98SE was then? Compare that to XP now. Is Microsoft really that evil any more?
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I have a good friend who happens to be an expat Chinese. Since he gained citizenship last year he probabely won't return to China in the next 35 years or so except for visiting his relatives. He also happens to be very outspoken about political stuff. And he almost always supports his government.
That is the way he was brought up. Maybe a cultural thing. Mind you, I do believe our system of checks and balances including a free media is superior (and I don't like all the current changes that are going on the the name of "security") and I think it should work for all people. But I also know many people that don't share my opinion about this. Many people from China for example seem to think different about this.
I think I know I am right, but I aknowledge that there are people that have a different opinion about this.
No matter what legacy app you are using. If it is open source, you could fix it, if the bugfix would break it. Or you could pay someone to fix it for you.
"Asus is free to do as they please and if Microsoft thinks it's a good business move, let them."
But Microsoft has a monopoly and they have shown for decades, that they are using it to gain an unfair advantage. Maybe other companies are would be doing the same, or are doint the same. But Microsoft IS the company that HAS the monopoly in the desktop os market. Given what we have seen of Microsofts business practices it is very likely, that they used some of their monopoly power to arrange this pricing.
I mean why would Asus not sell cheap models with Linux and less hard drive space or models with the same space and price with both options for the os.
Nobody needs to fret about it, though. That's just the way Microsoft is, and has always been, conducting business.
And before we know it, virii, spyware, botnetclients, all the goodies Windows users can enjoy now will be distributed for Linux. Isn't that something to look forward to?
"the one big gap in the Linux stack is in messaging / collaboration"
Ever heard of Kolab KDE? Nothing is missing.And this is not the only one. Especially if you just use web-based solutions like everyone else.
http://www.gltron.org/
can be played on one keyboard
great group fun
and free
btw. usually for many games it sucks to play on one screen, because it has to be divided up some way
Installation is much easier with many Linux distros than with Windows. That is not a problem, because most people buy their PC with Windows pre-installed. If you don't want to learn anything (yes, some people prefer that) you can do it the Windows way. Just reinstall until everything works. Start with Ubuntu and then OpenSuse, Fedora, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS. If none of them support all the hardware out of the box and suits you, then just install Windows in the end. Worst case you get 6 reinstalls. Anyone on Slashdot that never had six reinstalls with Windows in a row?
I'm with you, when can we start? I got a nice hunting rifle ready.
You are giving a very good reason why hardware vendors should *not* release the specs. So that their old hardware *can't* enjoy an extended life and they can sell new stuff.
This is not surprising at all. Russians rally behind Putin. China ceased to be a communist dictatorship a long time ago. It is now a nationalistic dictatorship. Same as Russia. When we see ethnic groups rising up everywhere and demanding rights, why would we be surprised to see the same with national groups?
But I guess US-Americans don't really view nationalistic pride as a problem, since patriotism is about the only thing keeping the US together and is working great for them. And patriotism and nationalism are very close, if not the same thing. If anyone from the US is surprised about certain opinions shared among Chinese blogs please take a look at many conservative and right wing US blogs on Iraq. And please don't think I am comparing Tibet and Iraq. I REALLY don't want to get into that, OK? Thanks!
... and all levels. Just the prices are lower at that level. His new job probabely doesn't earn seven figures a year as it would a some higher level.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_(politics)
I checked it also and found that Bild (bigges tabloid) indeed reported on it first. But another, more respectable newspaper di their own story on it:
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/weltspiegel/Astronomie;art1117,2512033
The things weighs in at 200 billion tons, a speed of about 50.000 kilometers per hour and is 320 meter in diameter.
I have seen fake Nokia phones that run Nokia software. Back three years ago I didn't believe it. Now they fake IPhones, processors, mainboards. I heard (and didn't really believe) that they can, and sometimes do, fake just about everything.
... (fill in what you want)
Now take a step back and think about it: Pharmaceuticals, airplane spare parts, nuclear power plant spare parts
And I am thinking. If they are that skilled, why don't they just produce originals themselves (I heard that some fakes are even better than the originals, especially with products where a lot of value is in the brand instead of the product itself).
And again, why are those critical things controlled by a networked computer? A flood gate system controlled by a Windows 98 machine and the guy working there is surfing warez sites? Why? He can have a laptop to surf his warez sites.
Again: Why do computers that control critical functions need to be connected to the internet?
http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed§Hdr=on&spellToler=on&search=panzer&relink=on
Und für Deutsche:
http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Panzer
"Beispiele: [1] Durch ihren Panzer sind die Gürteltiere gut vor Feinden geschützt."
For all non-German speakers: Parent is wrong, his parent is right.
Drive by hijacks of your browser also come through paid ads in Google that are displayed on popular webpages. Some use zero day exploits of either IE, Acrobat Reader, Realpayer or other popular addons.
Also when a security hole in php is found crackers sometimes use it to turn many "trusted" webpages into hijacking webpages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter
... Cooling of more than -20C occurs over large areas of North America and of more than -30C over much of Eurasia, including all agricultural regions.
I didn't put the link there for fun. Here is an interesting part:
2007 study on global nuclear war
A study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research in July 2007[3], Nuclear winter revisited with a modern climate model and current nuclear arsenals: Still catastrophic consequences[4], used current climate models to look at the consequences of a global nuclear war involving most or all of the world's current nuclear arsenals (which the authors described as being only about a third the size of the world's arsenals twenty years earlier). The authors used a global circulation model, ModelE from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which they noted "has been tested extensively in global warming experiments and to examine the effects of volcanic eruptions on climate." The model was used to investigate the effects of a war involving the entire current global nuclear arsenal, projected to release about 150 Tg of smoke into the atmosphere (1 Tg is equal to 1012 grams), as well as a war involving about one third of the current nuclear arsenal, projected to release about 50 Tg of smoke. In the 150 Tg case they found that:
A global average surface cooling of -7C to -8C persists for years, and after a decade the cooling is still -4C (Fig. 2). Considering that the global average cooling at the depth of the last ice age 18,000 yr ago was about -5C, this would be a climate change unprecedented in speed and amplitude in the history of the human race. The temperature changes are largest over land
It used to be (in the 50s) that scientists predicted the survival of human civilisation in Africa and Australia after a nuclear war.
After the 60s pretty much everyone predicted (maybe they now predict, if they didn't factor in the dust problem, but calculated with nuclear stockpiles ready somewhere around the 1960s) the end of life as we know it if there was a nuclear war.
The reason is pretty simple. Because of the large detonations a lot of dust would be thrown into the air. It would be so much and would be thrown so high that it would turn the earth dark shutting out the sun. That is called nuclear winter. It would kill all live that depends in some way on the sun.
While radiation is a problem, it is by far not the biggest one. The term "nuclear winter" can be a bit misleading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter
Actually the problem is that there are not binding international treaties at all. Because there is no enforcement. The powerful entities, EU, US just force their will onto everyone else. And you know who's got the biggest guns? The US is not restricted in any way. This is not really good, but OTOH, who is to decide what is good and what is not good? After all, the US is much more democratic than most of the rest of the world.
But the myth that the US is in some way bound by any treaty is is just that: A myth.
One problem for example is the ABM treaty, that the US signed and ratified, but don't feel bound to, just ignoring it and triggering a new arms race.
Vista sucks and the next version won't be compatible with what users are running. Then everyone will stay with XP or switch to ReactOS. And for everyone else who doesn't rely on legacy code there is Linux.
Even seeing a baby smile can make my day. I like playing with children. But they don't turn me on in any way at all. Never have, and I can't image they ever will. But I have started to pay less attention to children in general for the above reasons.
What I badly need is a replacement for that awful Flash player. There is so much Flash content on the web now, that unfortunately I need a viewer for this. Firefox 2 is fine. The need for better/faster viewing or more features is not very big.
So please Mozilla foundation: If you want to do something to improve my web exprerience just put some effort into Swfdec or Gnash or do something from scratch and put it into Firefox.
http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/wiki/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swfdec
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnash
Many people still seem to believe that free trade means free trade. This is bs to the highest degree. Everyone learns that free trade benefits everyone. That is economics 101. Completely correct. So to benefit everyone the Bush administration tries to encourage free trade. At least they say so. What the EU and the US have been doing for decades is to open up foreign markets and to keep domestic markets closed. The Japanese are also very good in this game. They even manage to keep out US and EU products.
So free trade has gotten a bad name. And many, many stupid people have been arguing against free trade, because they have seen the results not benefitting many third world countries. But the whole point is that trade had never been free. All that bs talk about free trade has never been about actual free trade, but just talk.
Nothing to see here. Please move on.
W once stated that they would defend Taiwan if China attacked.
Some people at the state department said this was a blunder, because this was not supposed to be stated openly, but always assumed and the PRC understood this. But what do I know. Maybe Bush is a brilliant foreign policy strategy maker and said that on purpose to (fill in something here).
Comeon! The browser is the os of the future. And Microsoft is rapidly loosing marketshare with Firefox having so many developers creating extensions and Apple driving Safari down the throat of every Quicktime user out there (Itunes came with Quicktime and now Safari comes with Itunes). And Safari is far better than IE, so as soon as some of the users try it many will never go back to IE.
.doc, so it is more like PDF, where one company "owns" the standard, but it is still a standard and many apps work with it).
With the browser being the os Flash is by far the biggest monopoly. And with Silverlight MS is creating an open source alternative. Same goes with PDF vs. EPS.
They are loosing the OOXML-battle (even though OOXML might be dangerous, because they "own" the standard, it is far better documented than
And finally Vista is the single biggest selling point for Ubuntu and the likes, because it is a little too awful and has no advantage except for the eyecandy. Back in 2001 XP was also awful, but at least it brought the NT-core to the desktop. Remember what Windows 98SE was then? Compare that to XP now. Is Microsoft really that evil any more?