Have you ever bothered to live here? I'm not claiming it's paradise, but it's not bad. My metro area has over two million people in it, but the crime is very low. Our local economy is good, we have decent schools, excellent health care, low poverty rate, and (of course) beautiful weather.
And for the record, no one in my family, or among my friends or their families has a single weapon (except the police officer), nor has anyone I know ever been in jail. And 25% of women will be raped? That's ridiculous. Where'd you get that?
Not just money, but recognition as well. In a socialist system, it's not "Look what I made," it's "Look what we made." Humans are basically egoistical, selfish beings. Deal with it.
How can OSS claim this as a benefit unto itself? Natural selection occurs every day in the market place we call capitalism. Generally, good ideas prosper, bad ones fall by the wayside. In fact, your entire post, though you've used it to describe the benefits of an open source environment, actually describe a capitalistic market!
Bingo! That's exactly what I'm saying. OSS is the basically the same philosophy as the pure capitalist market. The reason that OSS is so good is the same reason that capitalist markets are the most efficient over time: Both respond almost immediately to the forces in the market. Who said capitalism isn't compatible with OSS?
Why the hell would a soundcard need the power of the PCI bus?
Mine does. SB Live!'s processor does ~100 MIPS. Talking to the system @ 8MHz would hurt.
or ISDN cards. Or modem cards.
With you all the way here. What does a 56Kbps or 128Kbps card do with the speed, other than take it from the video and sound card? Modems firmly belong on the ISA bus, and I'm dubious about the need for ISA-based PnP. Are people really that incompetent about jumpers? If they are, should they even be inside their boxes?
Actually, our fiscal years vary. My company's fiscal year started on 1 April, and my mom's follows the calendar year. There is no "official" nationwide start of the fiscal year. If we were all to take off on the most widely used fiscal year, it would fall on the first Monday in January. Add that to potential Y2K oddities, and we could have a fun time.
Decently written, and it shows a good understanding of the differing viewpoints of the OSS philosophy. I'm glad someone said what I've always thought: The best method of creation is what nature has settled on -- natural selection.
Think about it: The Linux kernel and tools look like they do because someone needed them to. Unlike proprietary software, the unused parts of the Linux kernel get selected out, causing much greater efficiency. In the closed-source market, the company might add something no one needs (animated titlebars, anyone?), taking developers away from other, more important functions (networking). In open systems, developers act as the environmental forces shaping the evolved entity into the state it needs to be in.
This is why OSS works so well and closed systems do not: response to market forces.
The man is a bulldog, once he sinks his teeth into something, he never ever lets it go - and it seems that this whole "It's not Linux! It's GNU!" thing is _really_ under his skin.
Oh Richard, are you there? Isn't this supposed to be about *freedom*? Isn't the fact that Linux is Free Software more important that what it is called? Isn't part of freedom the freedom to call a given piece of software whatever the hell **I** want to?
I agree totally. If he were really that concerned about freedom, he wouldn't give a damn what it was called. He's just bitter cuz Linus is much more adept at this PR game than he is.
Sorry. Actually, I got my timezones mixed up with my timechanges. I knew that only Vanderburgh, Posey & such had something about the time, just got confused.
I am originally from Evansville, and my mom's from Mt. Vernon; I guess I've been in FL so long that my brain's turned to mush.
I always preferred to change the title bar of "Program Manager" to "Bill Gates' Personal Fortune Machine". That wasn't hard...just make a program item with whatever name you wanted. After the File Manager crashed and wiped out \windows et al, I changed it's name to File Mangler. I also enjoyed changing the caption bitmaps.
go to http://www.cryptonomicon.com/main.html. the questions are unnecessary.
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Subject says it all. The man is an excellent writer. "Should we send another human wave of structural engineers at the Leaning Tower of Pisa, or should we let the damn thing fall over and build one that doesn't suck?" Comparing MacOS/Win to the Leaning Tower is all too accurate. This essay is a near perfect balance of humor, seriousness, brevity, and technical language. Bravo!
RFC = request for comment. Most of the standards of the net were decided on in this manner. Go here for an indexed list. Search on "Avian" for a good time.
Buried in their website, the page lamely suggests that "all affected customers" - i.e., every one of the tens of millions of Word users! - "download the patch to protect their computers." Those customers have had over two months to do exactly that, and the tiny fraction who did are presumably at least partially immune to Melissa's spread.
What's really laughable is this patch. It simply changes Word so that when you open a document with a macro, Word says "This document contains macros. Would you like to disable them?" It gives no clue what effect these macros may have. This is a fix?
Just did this in WPWin 8. 1.23 KB. Contains "!This is a test!" once, and never mentions my name, even though I am the registered user. Time for you to switch, mayhaps?
I'd have to agree, the poor bastard that owns SkyRoket@aol.com is toast.
His AOL profile is full of valid information (he's a civil engineer in Lynnwood, WA and owns an AST).
Whose brilliant idea was that! Oh well. Anyone dumb enough to post a 'virus' with they're own e-mail address should get whatever they throw at them. Social darwinism.:)
There is no way that he is the real author. Virus authors do not fill their profiles with valid info. The poor man was spoofed. 5cr1P7 k1DD13z put things like '31337357 h4x0R d00d' in their profiles.
Try this. Straight from the horse's mouth, but this spec does not require that one use the MAC. MS apparently decided to use the MAC as the "spatially unique node identifier" field.
It's not hard at all. The GUID is stored as cleartext (!) in the Office documents. Open one of yours (if you don't have one, you can download a template from Office Update). For instance, the person who put together the PowerPoint "Project Overview" template has this GUID: {DB2F2831-22EE-11D0-BC57-00805F883DE4}. For those who are interested in conspiracies, you should rewrite the last part as 00:80:5F:88:3D:E4. That's right: The GUID contains the MAC.
Websites access this by an ActiveX control in your %WINDIR%. Microsoft accesses it so that they can put it in your microsoft.com cookie. You can read about this, and how to disable the control, at Winmag.
That's the first or second website everyone goes to when they get an internet account, and they never visit again.
No kidding. And the Wired story is hardly what I would call `well-researched'. Sounds like rumors and speculation based on a minimal set of facts. Knocking out a server that no one uses while not touching the related e-mail server makes absolutely no sense. I'm willing to believe it was a hardware failure -- computer hardware does in fact fail.
Howard Roark? I find it odd that someone who apparently believes he is Objectivist would take the name and use a quote from Ms. Rand without attributing it.
Unless, of course, your real name is Howard Roark; in that case, I've made half an ass of myself. The unattributed quote still bothers me.
As they approached DOS 2.0, MS also had a program called MultiPlan. Real POS, so Lotus 1-2-3 was hammering it in the market. To combat this, MS put bombs in 2.0 that would prevent 1-2-3 from running.
In Windows 2.11 (or was it 3.0? hmm...), if Win detected the presence of DR-DOS, it would refuse to run. And stories of undocumented API calls in Win are rampant.
And remember: You type `win' because you win with Windows!
The problem with the LöBrau is that "Ö" is not pronounced like "Oh" in German. "Oh" in German is spelled "oo" (like Das Boot). Ö is pronounced by forming your mouth like "Ö" and pronouncing "A" like in day. So that would be more like Lerrrbrow.
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And for the record, no one in my family, or among my friends or their families has a single weapon (except the police officer), nor has anyone I know ever been in jail. And 25% of women will be raped? That's ridiculous. Where'd you get that?
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Bingo! That's exactly what I'm saying. OSS is the basically the same philosophy as the pure capitalist market. The reason that OSS is so good is the same reason that capitalist markets are the most efficient over time: Both respond almost immediately to the forces in the market. Who said capitalism isn't compatible with OSS?
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Mine does. SB Live!'s processor does ~100 MIPS. Talking to the system @ 8MHz would hurt.
or ISDN cards. Or modem cards.
With you all the way here. What does a 56Kbps or 128Kbps card do with the speed, other than take it from the video and sound card? Modems firmly belong on the ISA bus, and I'm dubious about the need for ISA-based PnP. Are people really that incompetent about jumpers? If they are, should they even be inside their boxes?
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Think about it: The Linux kernel and tools look like they do because someone needed them to. Unlike proprietary software, the unused parts of the Linux kernel get selected out, causing much greater efficiency. In the closed-source market, the company might add something no one needs (animated titlebars, anyone?), taking developers away from other, more important functions (networking). In open systems, developers act as the environmental forces shaping the evolved entity into the state it needs to be in.
This is why OSS works so well and closed systems do not: response to market forces.
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This is wrong. Isn't selfishness the impetus behind the Open Source movement in general?
"This software doesn't work the way I want it to. I should fix it for my needs, so it does what I want."
The reason that this software spreads is that anyone can modify it for his/her needs, not for yours.
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Oh Richard, are you there? Isn't this supposed to be about *freedom*? Isn't the fact that Linux is Free Software more important that what it is called? Isn't part of freedom the freedom to call a given piece of software whatever the hell **I** want to?
I agree totally. If he were really that concerned about freedom, he wouldn't give a damn what it was called. He's just bitter cuz Linus is much more adept at this PR game than he is.
RMS: Lighten up!
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I am originally from Evansville, and my mom's from Mt. Vernon; I guess I've been in FL so long that my brain's turned to mush.
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What's really laughable is this patch. It simply changes Word so that when you open a document with a macro, Word says "This document contains macros. Would you like to disable them?" It gives no clue what effect these macros may have. This is a fix?
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His AOL profile is full of valid information (he's a civil engineer in Lynnwood, WA and owns an AST).
Whose brilliant idea was that! Oh well. Anyone dumb enough to post a 'virus' with they're own e-mail address should get whatever they throw at them. Social darwinism. :)
There is no way that he is the real author. Virus authors do not fill their profiles with valid info. The poor man was spoofed. 5cr1P7 k1DD13z put things like '31337357 h4x0R d00d' in their profiles.
Damned irresponsible reporting's what that is.
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It's not hard at all. The GUID is stored as cleartext (!) in the Office documents. Open one of yours (if you don't have one, you can download a template from Office Update). For instance, the person who put together the PowerPoint "Project Overview" template has this GUID: {DB2F2831-22EE-11D0-BC57-00805F883DE4}. For those who are interested in conspiracies, you should rewrite the last part as 00:80:5F:88:3D:E4. That's right: The GUID contains the MAC.
Websites access this by an ActiveX control in your %WINDIR%. Microsoft accesses it so that they can put it in your microsoft.com cookie. You can read about this, and how to disable the control, at Winmag.
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No kidding. And the Wired story is hardly what I would call `well-researched'. Sounds like rumors and speculation based on a minimal set of facts. Knocking out a server that no one uses while not touching the related e-mail server makes absolutely no sense. I'm willing to believe it was a hardware failure -- computer hardware does in fact fail.
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Unless, of course, your real name is Howard Roark; in that case, I've made half an ass of myself. The unattributed quote still bothers me.
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In Windows 2.11 (or was it 3.0? hmm...), if Win detected the presence of DR-DOS, it would refuse to run. And stories of undocumented API calls in Win are rampant.
And remember: You type `win' because you win with Windows!
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