Do a google search for "Microsoft and Virus". Skip past the 4,023,821,349,128,312 entries that refer to viruses that affect MS products and you'll find a quote from Bill equating software libre with viruses.
Read, please. The poster said there was no difference between "socialism" and fascism in their implementation under USSR and Nazi Germany. I think he probably meant to choose the word "communism" in reference to the USSR. But, in the real world, one word labels really have little bearing on reality anyway.
BTW, I'd be happy if some Swedish babes socialized me any day they wanted;)
Harsh, but generally correct. The problem is that software developers often feel like they need to please too many people at once. The software could have a built in filter that scales all imported graphics to 100DPI (or whatever) but the 10% of the population that knows what DPI stands for aren't going to like you messing with their file; "If I say I want 600DPI, then dammit, give me 600DPI.". I used to work in a service bureau making powerpoint slides (this was before LCD projectors took over the world) and you never could guess what kind of user you had unless you had a chance to talk with them.
Possibly a solution is to default to idiot settings, but allow an option to override that setting. But there is another problem here where the advanced but occasional user can't remember where to find the option button that does what you want. How many occasional Word users out there have to spend ten minutes searching to find that damn setting that prevents Word from replacing "i" with "I"?
In a couple of years there will be no legal mp3's on your HD because any mp3's that you have ripped must have broken the DCMA's security on your CD (which are coming onto the market now).
Therefore you either broke the copyright law or you broke the DCMA or both. Of to jail for you, you scum-sucking criminal...
I know I was in his basement, but under the RIAA's bill, I caused less than $5000 damage while entering his basement.
I only fired after the homeowner refused to allow me to search his basement for my bicycle and threatened me with a handgun.
I'm sorry that his wife and kids are starving, but maybe the homeowner should have read up on the laws of our country. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
The problem is the disenfrachized are a polarized as the staunch Republocrats. Half of the people you're talking about would join the Libertarians the other half would join the Greens. And, in the end, they'd end up voting Republocrat for fear the real enemy (i.e. the Greens or the Libertarians) would win.
Nice simplication. As much as Rush and the other populist talking heads want to blame them damn environmentalists, that story was always a battle between corporate farming versus corporate fishing. There wasn't enough water for both business interests to get everything they wanted so they took to the airwaves to win their position.
Why would it sell high?
You just said it's selling poorly and about to become illegal. I can't think of anyone who would want to pay an excessive amount of money for that. If PGP can't market PGP, who can? We need a -1 Unable to Grasp Sarcasm moderation. What's even scarier is that he was modded up a point as insightful.
Probably as large a down-side as an up-side from the public relations point of view.
Wrong, companies never suffer from negative press unless the stock is so weakened that some other company is able to buy it. That Exxon stock is worth 4 times what it was worth ten years ago despite, supposedly, paying a 1 bil fine. Union Carbide doesn't exist anymore, but all of its products and manufacturing now belong to Dow. I bet the managers in charge of Bhopal are still doing whatever it is that managers do...
This doesn't have anything to do with bloat, really. The concept is to integrate RAM and HD in a integrated box that the OS calls in the same way that the HD is called now. Integrating RAM and HD may allow synergies where one technology is strong to supplement where the other technology is weak. As far as the OS is concerned, it simple gets the data it requests faster and than it used too.
RAM -> fast HD-> slow Solution : Use RAM to speed up the unit.
RAM -> expensive (though much less now), HD -> cheap Solution: continue to use the HD to store your 40GB of pr0n and pirated MP3s. Only your most commonly used pr0n jpegs are stored in RAM.
RAM -> needs constant current HD -> can power down. Solution: back up data to HD regularly in case of power failure.
RAM -> needs relatively little current (a integrated battery is not out of the question) HD -> moving parts need more power. Solution: Use RAM to simulate an "always on and ready" state for the unit while the HD takes time to start up. Laptop manufacturers might be interested.
The entire idea is based on a poster's comment that while we have 60GB HD we are only really using 1 or 2 GB actively. The HD manufacturers, it seems, could take advantage of this and an entire graduating class of CS&E PhD candidates get something to work on. Seagate may decide that the best method is to simple boost disk cache. Maxtor decides to implement a statistic-based prefetch. IBM decides to simply cache key indexes. In any case, within the box relatively huge amounts of cheap DRAM are being used to optimize the HD functions.
More standards equals more jobs for high tech employees. Cisco gets to make more routers. Lucent gets to make more network cards. More sysadmin jobs, etc. etc.. This is wonderful... Defintely, let them have a network!
I hope that the joe at the MacDonald's counter is happy subsidizing my career choice with his income tax.
Okay, to jump on the nostalgia bandwagon. I remember the Amiga 1000 we had would allow you to create a RAM disk. I don't remember using it much, though I was impressed when the games I'd save there loaded instantly.
You point is correct but the parent's point is correct as well. We may have 40GB drives, but we are only using a small amount at any given time. Using the strengths of RAM with the strengths of HD's we could see some really interesting hardware. It seems like the middle road (similar to what another poster mentioned) is to substancially boost the amount of RAM used as a disk cache. Add some pseudo-AI drivers and you end up with a situation like this.
User starts Word. As the application is loading and initializing and as the user is working, the hard drive is automatically loading all dictionaries, the other Office programs, the equation editor, the charting program, the clip art, the help files, all.docs you've ever edited, all.txt files, local.html files into your 2 GB RAM buffer on the hard drive. You may never, ever use Word to edit html files, but since RAM is so cheap it doesn't matter.
A complete directory of all files is also stored in the drive's RAM buffer. Searches become instananeous.
As you save files, the saved files are mirrored back to the platter to ensure against power failures, but they are also saved in RAM (with a battery backup) to ensure against head crashes.
Now that the hard drive has memory to burn (so to speak) it stops being a mere storage device and becomes a "autonomous storage unit" that has it's own CPU to assist the computer in it's search for information. Seagate, Maxtor, and all the other drive manufacturers who are about to declare banckrupcy start marketing "ASU : Storage for the 22nd Century" in partnership with the struggling memory companies (who would love to have another market for the slower / cheaper memory technologies).
The technology companies are saved thanks to my idea (until, of course, we find out that Rambus actually owns the patent on ASU's and they start sueing everyone;-)
As a lobbiest, do you feel partially responsible for the lack of respect most taxpayers and citizens of the U.S.A. have for our govenment and the larcenous cretins that run it?
Something has got to be better than the situation we have now. Everyone who is happy with their local phone monopoly please raise your hand. Okay, those of you that work for the monopoly can put your hands down. Anyone left.... anyone... hello???
2-way sattelite internet access and cellular phone. Now, if I can find a way to get the alarm system to patch into the cellular network instead of using a land line, I can finally tell Verizon to fuck off! When the prices come down so that most people can afford these options then the local companies will be forced to compete in the real world. I am really looking forward to that day.
So, unfortunately, I guess that spamming is not going to be considered a terrorist act since it is done for financial gain? Damn, Ashcroft could have actually accomplished something useful here.
On a more serious note, I'm really worried about that first high school student who installs SETI@Home in the school computer lab who spends the rest of his life in jail because some clueless school administrator thinks that qualifies as "hacking".
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Do a google search for "Microsoft and Virus". Skip past the 4,023,821,349,128,312 entries that refer to viruses that affect MS products and you'll find a quote from Bill equating software libre with viruses.
BTW, I'd be happy if some Swedish babes socialized me any day they wanted ;)
Harsh, but generally correct. The problem is that software developers often feel like they need to please too many people at once. The software could have a built in filter that scales all imported graphics to 100DPI (or whatever) but the 10% of the population that knows what DPI stands for aren't going to like you messing with their file; "If I say I want 600DPI, then dammit, give me 600DPI.". I used to work in a service bureau making powerpoint slides (this was before LCD projectors took over the world) and you never could guess what kind of user you had unless you had a chance to talk with them.
Possibly a solution is to default to idiot settings, but allow an option to override that setting. But there is another problem here where the advanced but occasional user can't remember where to find the option button that does what you want. How many occasional Word users out there have to spend ten minutes searching to find that damn setting that prevents Word from replacing "i" with "I"?
Therefore you either broke the copyright law or you broke the DCMA or both. Of to jail for you, you scum-sucking criminal...
Yes, your honor, it was self defense.
I know I was in his basement, but under the RIAA's bill, I caused less than $5000 damage while entering his basement.
I only fired after the homeowner refused to allow me to search his basement for my bicycle and threatened me with a handgun.
I'm sorry that his wife and kids are starving, but maybe the homeowner should have read up on the laws of our country. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
I was impressed that the two senator's from NH had the courage to vote against this bill...
what?
never mind...
I thought they wanted to stop people from gambling and copying MP3's illegally. What version of the bill were you reading?
The problem is the disenfrachized are a polarized as the staunch Republocrats. Half of the people you're talking about would join the Libertarians the other half would join the Greens. And, in the end, they'd end up voting Republocrat for fear the real enemy (i.e. the Greens or the Libertarians) would win.
Nice simplication. As much as Rush and the other populist talking heads want to blame them damn environmentalists, that story was always a battle between corporate farming versus corporate fishing. There wasn't enough water for both business interests to get everything they wanted so they took to the airwaves to win their position.
Or, even better, just start the letter with...
...,
"Dear Senator
I know where the money came from!
I think we should discuss this.
Sincerely,
A concern citizen with documents in three different secret locations."
Where I grew up, the mayor was also the Junior High librarian. That "representitive of the people" kept telling me to Shush! Bastard...
Why would it sell high?
You just said it's selling poorly and about to become illegal. I can't think of anyone who would want to pay an excessive amount of money for that. If PGP can't market PGP, who can?
We need a -1 Unable to Grasp Sarcasm moderation. What's even scarier is that he was modded up a point as insightful.
Wrong, companies never suffer from negative press unless the stock is so weakened that some other company is able to buy it. That Exxon stock is worth 4 times what it was worth ten years ago despite, supposedly, paying a 1 bil fine. Union Carbide doesn't exist anymore, but all of its products and manufacturing now belong to Dow. I bet the managers in charge of Bhopal are still doing whatever it is that managers do...
This doesn't have anything to do with bloat, really. The concept is to integrate RAM and HD in a integrated box that the OS calls in the same way that the HD is called now. Integrating RAM and HD may allow synergies where one technology is strong to supplement where the other technology is weak. As far as the OS is concerned, it simple gets the data it requests faster and than it used too.
The entire idea is based on a poster's comment that while we have 60GB HD we are only really using 1 or 2 GB actively. The HD manufacturers, it seems, could take advantage of this and an entire graduating class of CS&E PhD candidates get something to work on. Seagate may decide that the best method is to simple boost disk cache. Maxtor decides to implement a statistic-based prefetch. IBM decides to simply cache key indexes. In any case, within the box relatively huge amounts of cheap DRAM are being used to optimize the HD functions.
More standards equals more jobs for high tech employees. Cisco gets to make more routers. Lucent gets to make more network cards. More sysadmin jobs, etc. etc.. This is wonderful... Defintely, let them have a network!
I hope that the joe at the MacDonald's counter is happy subsidizing my career choice with his income tax.
Okay, to jump on the nostalgia bandwagon. I remember the Amiga 1000 we had would allow you to create a RAM disk. I don't remember using it much, though I was impressed when the games I'd save there loaded instantly.
You point is correct but the parent's point is correct as well. We may have 40GB drives, but we are only using a small amount at any given time. Using the strengths of RAM with the strengths of HD's we could see some really interesting hardware. It seems like the middle road (similar to what another poster mentioned) is to substancially boost the amount of RAM used as a disk cache. Add some pseudo-AI drivers and you end up with a situation like this.
User starts Word. As the application is loading and initializing and as the user is working, the hard drive is automatically loading all dictionaries, the other Office programs, the equation editor, the charting program, the clip art, the help files, all .docs you've ever edited, all .txt files, local .html files into your 2 GB RAM buffer on the hard drive. You may never, ever use Word to edit html files, but since RAM is so cheap it doesn't matter.
A complete directory of all files is also stored in the drive's RAM buffer. Searches become instananeous.
As you save files, the saved files are mirrored back to the platter to ensure against power failures, but they are also saved in RAM (with a battery backup) to ensure against head crashes.
Now that the hard drive has memory to burn (so to speak) it stops being a mere storage device and becomes a "autonomous storage unit" that has it's own CPU to assist the computer in it's search for information. Seagate, Maxtor, and all the other drive manufacturers who are about to declare banckrupcy start marketing "ASU : Storage for the 22nd Century" in partnership with the struggling memory companies (who would love to have another market for the slower / cheaper memory technologies).
The technology companies are saved thanks to my idea (until, of course, we find out that Rambus actually owns the patent on ASU's and they start sueing everyone ;-)
As a lobbiest, do you feel partially responsible for the lack of respect most taxpayers and citizens of the U.S.A. have for our govenment and the larcenous cretins that run it?
y finer is cuh in he oor!
sen hel!!
Something has got to be better than the situation we have now. Everyone who is happy with their local phone monopoly please raise your hand. Okay, those of you that work for the monopoly can put your hands down. Anyone left.... anyone... hello???
2-way sattelite internet access and cellular phone. Now, if I can find a way to get the alarm system to patch into the cellular network instead of using a land line, I can finally tell Verizon to fuck off! When the prices come down so that most people can afford these options then the local companies will be forced to compete in the real world. I am really looking forward to that day.
No one knows if OBL is responsible. Bush's popularity ratings are about 90% from about 45% before 9/11. Now we know one person with a motive.
;)
The conspiracy theories begin here...
So, unfortunately, I guess that spamming is not going to be considered a terrorist act since it is done for financial gain? Damn, Ashcroft could have actually accomplished something useful here.
On a more serious note, I'm really worried about that first high school student who installs SETI@Home in the school computer lab who spends the rest of his life in jail because some clueless school administrator thinks that qualifies as "hacking".
We who live in the D.C. area are much more impressed with the editorial balance of the Washington Times ;^)
You are an evil, evil person for making me aware of this project. So much for getting any work done this year...