A couple friends of mine just got their MacBooks. And I couldn't believe it, they didn't come with eSata. I am also holding back on a purchase for one of those Ubuntu Dells.
Notebook drives are expensive. And I had some really bad experience with SLOW USB connections, because of different reasons. With eSata there is no difference, because there are no other chipsets involved.
Seriously. I read a credible article that stated that the NSA suggested a certain group of algorithms back in the 70s. At the end of the 90s a method was "discovered" to make it easier to break the algorithm. The suggest group was most resistent to the attack.
That's more than 20 years ahead. Now they suggest something and after a couple month people find flaws in that?
While for western countries this might be more of an entertaining acadamic excercise, this (give your vote away for money) is applied in some countries. IIRC the oil rich nations of Saudi Arabia, Kuweit and the Emirates are among them. The ruling class (monarchs) offer a wide range of financial benefits in exchange for not challenging their rule.
Your moral compass seems to be way off. Maybe because of the current dumb pres.
But back then it was democracy vs. evil.
Remeber Stalin? He killed more ppl than Hitler. Maybe if the US would have stayed the only one eastern Europe wouldn't have had to endure 40 years of iron Soviet rule. They even tried uprising, but were crushed. Maybe the majority of UN members wouldn't be crocked dictatorships. Maybe! Because thx to the spy we never found out.
These days, after Vietnam and Iraq the US is seen in an entire different light. Probabely for good reason.
But back then, the world was different. Except for the Philippines and maybe some Mexican stuff the US had a clean slate. And they had just helped free the world from the Japanese and German armies. Stalin OTOH is now seen being about on par with Hitler when it comes to "evilness".
You have to see things in a historical perspective. And in this light he looks like a spy for the evil empire. But then again you also have to take into account that there was no free press in Russia and no Internet. Maybe he believed the FUD they fed him. I wouldn't judge him so quickly. But I also wouldn't call him a hero.
Carrier groups (with very large carriers as the centerpiece) pretty much account for the worldwide domination of the US military. The ability to move a whole airbase around the world and put it wherever you like (well not on land, but you get the point) means that the US can throw a LOT of weight around. "Talk softly, but carry a big stick".
Maybe it doesn't help against China or Russia, the UK or France. But did the US fight those nations recently? Those nations also have the H-Bomb and China put a man into orbit. So they can build ICBMs. With the mutial assured destruction looming, do you really want to fight China? (btw. everyone and their dog knows that the missile shield is being constructed against China).
Carrier groups are also outragiously expensive. So the ability to come by any country you want (except China and Russia) and bomb them (kinda like a drive by shooting) is a pretty heavyset foreign policy tool. Maybe Carter didn't think he would need it. Foreign policy is a dificult beast. You might want to blame Carter for the Iran hostage crises. Compare it to Bush and Iraq. Also have a look at how Reagon dealt with the hostage crises. But this is all OT.
Large ships only impress the small guys. And that is what they are made for.
Someone said that the box everyone clicks away at the installation of IE somewhere says that you are only allowed to run IE in Windows. But if you need sth. that is only available to IE and can't or don't want to run a full virtualized Windows...
Or should they go: "Oh no, we are going out of business soon!" I suppose investors wouldn't like to hear this.
Symbian was formed and supported out of one single reason: Microsoft The mobile phone makers, that used to hold a stake in Symbian (Motorola, Nokia and Ericsson each a quarter with Psion having the last quarter IIRC) bought the IP of Epoc from Psion and founded Symbian, because they were scared that Microsoft (with Windows Mobile) would attain the same dominance in the mobile phone market that it held in the PC market.
That danger is over and Symbian ownership has shifted around a bit. Also Microsoft did not yet become such a threat. I suppose that in the mobile phone market there is enough space for everyone. The numbers of units is much higher than in the PC market and it is still growing much faster. Apple just joined it btw. And even if they were to capture only 1% of the world market, they would make a huge profit from the huge amount of sales that this would mean in numbers.
I knew that there was no age limit for posting, but for moderating?
Three or four guards with semiautomatic weapons in concealed loactions within the facility? How are they not going to attack if the locations are concealed (those are not visible). You really want people shooting around your servers?
Running high voltage through the walls??? How do you want to insulate 230 kV? Btw. Voltage knocks people several meters away only in movies. Also what good would that do?
And in the very end: Halon does NOT BOND. That is the whole purpose.
The more I think about this post the more I think this is actually a really smart troll post. And the moderators played along. So I am the dumb one by answering.
My observation is that the US justice system is set up around the concept of revenge. Your comment is the first I have ever seen that it is about rehabilitation. And I spent a year in California. I guess I was wrong.
I can assure you, that the people at c't know a whole lot more about firewalls, networks and Apple OSX than you, me or those moronic Apple fanboys.
In fact, c't in itself has a large Mac fanbase that has written so many articles about it, that as a general computer magazine (with the majority of its content about hardware, Windows and its software) it is also known as the best Apple Mac magazine in Germany.
Leopard has some huge issues. In addition to the mentioned problems the firewall is a gaping hole. Microsoft would have been torn apart. Even a Linux distro would have had to endure some flaming. But with Leopard they get praise, because they threw a half baked OS on the market? They obviously pulled to many resources away for the 0phone.
You obviously have no idea about Nigeria (or most of earth nations), where a little sth. goes a long way to sooth a business deal. It has been illegal for American companies to bribe in foreign countries for much longer now than it has been for European countries. So many European companies still gripe about the fact that American companies have much more experience in covering their tracks.
That's just how business is done in many places. And we can pretty much assume, that money changed hands here. But at least one third party was involved, since direct stuff is way too risky for American businesses. The suits certainly don't want to go to jail.
Because a friend of mine sells music related computer hardware and last time I was around we tested a bunch of current cards on a current kernel. None of them worked. He said he heard that some of the older cards are supposed to work, but he doesn't sell those anymore.
if Ubuntu isn't there yet, neither is Vista nor XP. Only because Apple tightly integrates their Ipod with their software and chooses not to release said software for Ubuntu (code should be portable already, since they release for OS 9, PowerPC, for OSX both PowerPC and i386 as well as Windows i386) you cant fault Ubuntu for that.
And any reverse engineered Ipod app that does not come from Apple has to fight an uphill battle, since Apple can change the protocol with each new gen and make it even harder for 3rd party apps. This is the case for all hardware developers.
If you take unwilling hardware developers out you are left with a MUCH easier to install AND use system than anything Microsoft ever came out with and will come out with for some time.
so the US should, because otherwise US companies will loose. We have seen this with Iran and their nuclear power program. Because of stupid restrictions Pakistan and Russia now supply the Iranians. No more boundaries for US companies for those only hurt the US economy.
And, if you feel like it you can get a cheap Pilot off of Ebay and sync it so you can carry all the data that you entered into your PIM with you at any time. Or even sometimes try and enter data on the road (I am kidding).
Many people are scared of math. If your failure in math really proved to be so devastatig for you, I guess you really qualify for this. Find yourself a fun tutor that you can relax with and try to work with him.
Sorry, but internet service is a so called natural monopoly. Look it up on wikipedia or elsewhere. Natural monopolies have to be regulated. The market here only works as good as the regulation is designed. And they are still working on that. I heard that in the US (I am from Europe) they actually have some very good regulation frameworks for stuff like energy.
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Now that's brand marketing for you, Bill! (sucker!)
Anyways, gimme the URL, I'd like to send them some stuff. (hehehe)
China is catching up fast, though. Take a look at Burma or Sudan.
He translated liberal correct. Churchill didn't mean the libertarian, but rather the socialist type.
A couple friends of mine just got their MacBooks. And I couldn't believe it, they didn't come with eSata.
I am also holding back on a purchase for one of those Ubuntu Dells.
Notebook drives are expensive. And I had some really bad experience with SLOW USB connections, because of different reasons. With eSata there is no difference, because there are no other chipsets involved.
Seriously. I read a credible article that stated that the NSA suggested a certain group of algorithms back in the 70s. At the end of the 90s a method was "discovered" to make it easier to break the algorithm. The suggest group was most resistent to the attack.
That's more than 20 years ahead. Now they suggest something and after a couple month people find flaws in that?
While for western countries this might be more of an entertaining acadamic excercise, this (give your vote away for money) is applied in some countries. IIRC the oil rich nations of Saudi Arabia, Kuweit and the Emirates are among them. The ruling class (monarchs) offer a wide range of financial benefits in exchange for not challenging their rule.
Your moral compass seems to be way off. Maybe because of the current dumb pres.
But back then it was democracy vs. evil.
Remeber Stalin? He killed more ppl than Hitler. Maybe if the US would have stayed the only one eastern Europe wouldn't have had to endure 40 years of iron Soviet rule. They even tried uprising, but were crushed. Maybe the majority of UN members wouldn't be crocked dictatorships. Maybe! Because thx to the spy we never found out.
I agree
These days, after Vietnam and Iraq the US is seen in an entire different light. Probabely for good reason.
But back then, the world was different. Except for the Philippines and maybe some Mexican stuff the US had a clean slate. And they had just helped free the world from the Japanese and German armies. Stalin OTOH is now seen being about on par with Hitler when it comes to "evilness".
You have to see things in a historical perspective. And in this light he looks like a spy for the evil empire. But then again you also have to take into account that there was no free press in Russia and no Internet. Maybe he believed the FUD they fed him. I wouldn't judge him so quickly. But I also wouldn't call him a hero.
Carrier groups (with very large carriers as the centerpiece) pretty much account for the worldwide domination of the US military. The ability to move a whole airbase around the world and put it wherever you like (well not on land, but you get the point) means that the US can throw a LOT of weight around. "Talk softly, but carry a big stick".
Maybe it doesn't help against China or Russia, the UK or France. But did the US fight those nations recently? Those nations also have the H-Bomb and China put a man into orbit. So they can build ICBMs. With the mutial assured destruction looming, do you really want to fight China? (btw. everyone and their dog knows that the missile shield is being constructed against China).
Carrier groups are also outragiously expensive. So the ability to come by any country you want (except China and Russia) and bomb them (kinda like a drive by shooting) is a pretty heavyset foreign policy tool. Maybe Carter didn't think he would need it. Foreign policy is a dificult beast. You might want to blame Carter for the Iran hostage crises. Compare it to Bush and Iraq. Also have a look at how Reagon dealt with the hostage crises. But this is all OT.
Large ships only impress the small guys. And that is what they are made for.
Someone said that the box everyone clicks away at the installation of IE somewhere says that you are only allowed to run IE in Windows. But if you need sth. that is only available to IE and can't or don't want to run a full virtualized Windows...
So does NBC work in IE + Wine?
Thx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincity
Totally useless software for the OLPC and free PR for EA (they were NOT making money on the game any more).
What is next? Mircosoft donating free Minesweeper to the OLPC and getting press for it?
Or should they go: "Oh no, we are going out of business soon!" I suppose investors wouldn't like to hear this.
Symbian was formed and supported out of one single reason: Microsoft
The mobile phone makers, that used to hold a stake in Symbian (Motorola, Nokia and Ericsson each a quarter with Psion having the last quarter IIRC) bought the IP of Epoc from Psion and founded Symbian, because they were scared that Microsoft (with Windows Mobile) would attain the same dominance in the mobile phone market that it held in the PC market.
That danger is over and Symbian ownership has shifted around a bit. Also Microsoft did not yet become such a threat. I suppose that in the mobile phone market there is enough space for everyone. The numbers of units is much higher than in the PC market and it is still growing much faster. Apple just joined it btw. And even if they were to capture only 1% of the world market, they would make a huge profit from the huge amount of sales that this would mean in numbers.
Same with Google.
I knew that there was no age limit for posting, but for moderating?
Three or four guards with semiautomatic weapons in concealed loactions within the facility? How are they not going to attack if the locations are concealed (those are not visible). You really want people shooting around your servers?
Running high voltage through the walls??? How do you want to insulate 230 kV? Btw. Voltage knocks people several meters away only in movies. Also what good would that do?
And in the very end: Halon does NOT BOND. That is the whole purpose.
The more I think about this post the more I think this is actually a really smart troll post. And the moderators played along. So I am the dumb one by answering.
Well, I guess I was duped. Congrats!
My observation is that the US justice system is set up around the concept of revenge. Your comment is the first I have ever seen that it is about rehabilitation. And I spent a year in California. I guess I was wrong.
I can assure you, that the people at c't know a whole lot more about firewalls, networks and Apple OSX than you, me or those moronic Apple fanboys.
In fact, c't in itself has a large Mac fanbase that has written so many articles about it, that as a general computer magazine (with the majority of its content about hardware, Windows and its software) it is also known as the best Apple Mac magazine in Germany.
Leopard has some huge issues. In addition to the mentioned problems the firewall is a gaping hole. Microsoft would have been torn apart. Even a Linux distro would have had to endure some flaming. But with Leopard they get praise, because they threw a half baked OS on the market? They obviously pulled to many resources away for the 0phone.
You obviously have no idea about Nigeria (or most of earth nations), where a little sth. goes a long way to sooth a business deal. It has been illegal for American companies to bribe in foreign countries for much longer now than it has been for European countries. So many European companies still gripe about the fact that American companies have much more experience in covering their tracks.
That's just how business is done in many places. And we can pretty much assume, that money changed hands here. But at least one third party was involved, since direct stuff is way too risky for American businesses. The suits certainly don't want to go to jail.
If you want BSD, get a real BSD.
They even come in flavours:
www.freebsd.org (for the bleeding edge riding speed monkey)
www.netbsd.org (for the toaster owner)
www.openbsd.org (for the paranoid)
Because a friend of mine sells music related computer hardware and last time I was around we tested a bunch of current cards on a current kernel. None of them worked. He said he heard that some of the older cards are supposed to work, but he doesn't sell those anymore.
"Wow, Ed got 20 this week, I gotta get more to stay in the game and get the promotion."
if Ubuntu isn't there yet, neither is Vista nor XP. Only because Apple tightly integrates their Ipod with their software and chooses not to release said software for Ubuntu (code should be portable already, since they release for OS 9, PowerPC, for OSX both PowerPC and i386 as well as Windows i386) you cant fault Ubuntu for that.
And any reverse engineered Ipod app that does not come from Apple has to fight an uphill battle, since Apple can change the protocol with each new gen and make it even harder for 3rd party apps. This is the case for all hardware developers.
If you take unwilling hardware developers out you are left with a MUCH easier to install AND use system than anything Microsoft ever came out with and will come out with for some time.
so the US should, because otherwise US companies will loose. We have seen this with Iran and their nuclear power program. Because of stupid restrictions Pakistan and Russia now supply the Iranians. No more boundaries for US companies for those only hurt the US economy.
For normal PIM the Palm desktop software is pretty good. It also used to race on slower PCs. It is still free for download:
http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/windesk414.html
And, if you feel like it you can get a cheap Pilot off of Ebay and sync it so you can carry all the data that you entered into your PIM with you at any time. Or even sometimes try and enter data on the road (I am kidding).
Many people are scared of math. If your failure in math really proved to be so devastatig for you, I guess you really qualify for this. Find yourself a fun tutor that you can relax with and try to work with him.
Sorry, but internet service is a so called natural monopoly. Look it up on wikipedia or elsewhere. Natural monopolies have to be regulated. The market here only works as good as the regulation is designed. And they are still working on that. I heard that in the US (I am from Europe) they actually have some very good regulation frameworks for stuff like energy.
So don't blame this one on that market, please.
Thx
A free market believer