Not so true, New hardware has a higher fail rate than hardware 2 years old, because all the hardware that dies in the first 6 months is already dead after 2 years.
Also, mass production of old hardware might not have come upto speed, components of far higher quality than required may have been used.
e.g. The first CD players have far better lasers
current CD players use top emitting laser diodes, old CD players use better side emitting laser diodes.
The spindle on old CD players was manufactured to a stupid precision ( a few atoms or something) because they could make crap spindles or amazing spindles but not ones just good enough.
I should imagine the same is true with a lot of electrical equipment
I have a 30year old Fridge,TV,hair dryer,dish washer etc.... and they all work fine.....
You can use Mosix to cluster those 486's together and get high performance file data transfer. using "The experimental MOSIX Parallel I/O (MOPI) package can read over 1,600 MB/S using 60 nodes. "
Mozilla should have far less security problems by design. IE falls over on the security front becasuse it's be designed sooooooo badly all that OLE and systems intergration stuff makes the browser an easy target.
To make IE secure Microsoft will have to vastly improve security and sandboxing of OLE and user spaces. (what's that DRM os there making at the moment?). Unix alreasy does this which makes a unix system more secure by design regardless of bugs.
Since Mozilla doesn't intergrate with the system in such an intimate way as IE there are going to be far less security flaws. and even fewer when run on a unix box.
I aggree with the 7, but for different reasons. But if mozilla Got a 7 what did IE get, a 4-5?
I rate IE as follows. Javascript debugging 5 (7 for the debugger -2 for the anoyances)
HTML rendering 5-6
User interface 3 (it crashed too much and is anoying as hell etc...)
Usability 6 (proxy bypass, zones and other things are great, and much missed when i switched to mozilla), the inability to override nasties drops the score down from 8 to 6
Security 2 ( they do fix bugs otherwise it'd have to be a 0)
I didn't say the microsoft registry was a good implementation. But a centralised database with journalling rollback and propper commits is a very good place to store you system settings. It's easy to index in an efficient manner You can run scripts to check for bad stuff Evrythging is where it's ment to be and easy to find. An if you using a fully fleged DB then you can do a lot more with the configuration.
It looks like evrything was of untill 1990, when TVT put in the public performance clause. then in 1992 the lending clause made it's nasty way in there.
1989 tvt (UK): "unauthorized duplication is a violarion of applicable laws."
1990 tvt (UK): nothing except the standard copyright 1990!
1990 tvt (Australia): "unauthorized public performance, broadcasting, leasing and copying of this disk is prohibitred"
1992 tvt (uk): "unauthorized copying, hiring, lending, public performance broadcasting of this disk prohibitred"
1994 tvt (uk): "unauthorized copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting prohibitred"
Isn't the database providing a service for storing your contracts. the ELUA is effectivly a contract I think that copyright has different rules for contracts both parties must have a copy. A you must be allowerd to make coppies so that 3rd parties can review the contract etc...
I don't know if there still available but a few years ago you could get an educational version of 3dstudio &co. for about £60 in the UK. You didn't have to be a student either. The disk included, 3d Studio MAX. The latest version of autocad. and a few other great packages. All full versions. Now thats about £6,000 of software for £60.
I too use a lot of 'trial' versions of software, I don't believe it's stolen because:- 1: the points you made, 2: I couldn't afford to buy it in the first place so there's no lost sale.
I think most 3d companies realise that they gain more from 'trial' software then they loose.
Take a look at the Portage system on gentoo, this may solve some of your problems.
"Unlike other distros, Gentoo Linux has an advanced package management system called Portage. Portage is a true ports system in the tradition of BSD ports, but is Python-based and sports a number of advanced features including: dependencies, fine-grained package management,
"fake" (OpenBSD-style) installs,
path sandboxing,
safe unmerging,
system profiles,
virtual packages,
config file management,
and more. "
My main problems with package systems are.
There not granular enough, you get everything or nothing.
Dependentancies are often compleatly mad and over strict.
There's no centrally intergrated package list (except rpmfind i suppose).
and Distribuions package things up in all kinds of weird ways, If they done things to the LSB and decided on a name/location for each package then you could use a suse package on Mandrake without any major grief.
The most visible opponent of the proposed ban was the Unite States. The Clinton administration argued that a ban would interfere with the legitimate development of the U.S. high-tech arsenal. The United States signed the weapons convention in 1981, but it wasn't until last May that the measure was sent to the Senate, where it still awaits ratification.
All microsoft is doing is pushing passport accounts so that it can say 10% of the propulation already has passport account why ujse them for tax returns.
Nope Microsoft is leveraging another software company to trick people into signing up for passport, there not being kind for the hell of it.
It looks like theyve got the techies to write something again... Doh..
Here's my list of bad things and suggestion If anyone can reply with an even better corrected we may have somthing worth sending..
'I write to you' you don't say?, put this at the end sig e.g. bill gates, OBO Microsoft.
'on behalf of Red Hat, Inc., a software services company which also distributes the open source operating system Linux.'
Ok I'm a linuxish techie I understand distribution in this context, what they do is 'Provide an intergrated package of open source and proriatary software running on a Linux operating system[ and supporting services].'
This isn't great but it's a lot better, 1st I've mentioned proriatary software/closed source software which would work under UCITA. The writer could then use this as a hammer to beet UCITA over the head with. X software can meet the UCITA, but an equally good piece of software cannot because if is open source and not cenrally supported, but somehow we manage to get the support we need etc....
Ok I've attacked the first paragraph
NCCUSL Commissioners,
Red Hat, Inc., has build up a strong businness provding software services and the Red Hat Linux distribution, an intergrated package of, open source and proriatary software running on a Linux operating system.
We are making what we appreciate is an extraordinary request. That you reverse the 1999 decision [passed by who] to adopt UCITA.
Personally I think the 'what we appreciate ' is a bit pointless if you didn't appreciate someting then you wouldn't have expressed an opinon about it[that it is extraordinary]
I think that sells the argument a bit better and gives Red hat some more ammunition.
Skeletal Fluorosis - A crippling bone disease caused by excessive consumption of fluoride
This is what I mentioned in my troll.
and the best yet Unicef wow i didn't know unicef had an anti fluride campain
I still havn't found clear stats on deaths caused McD's &co. or the name of the hormone/enzime or whetever released by fat cells that makes you hungry.
It's hard to get straight figures about food, smoking is easy because it's an easy target.
Here's what i found on food
Diet One reason why CHD rates are high in the UK is because the average diet is so unhealthy. In particular fat intake - especially of saturated fat - in the UK is too high, and fruit and vegetable consumption is too low.
The percentage of food energy derived from total fat in the UK diet is falling only gradually. It was about 42% in the mid 1970s and is now around 39% but the type of fat eaten has changed: the percentage of food energy derived from saturated fat falling from around 20% to about 15%.
The fall in saturated fat consumption is reflected in changes in the types of food consumed. For example, since the mid 1970s the consumption of whole milk has fallen by 74% and butter by 76%.
However not all recent dietary changes have been beneficial. Since the mid 1970s consumption of potatoes (other than chips) has fallen by 40% and bread by 22%. The consumption of fresh fruit has risen by 43% but vegetable consumption has not increased.
UK dietary statistics also show marked social class and regional differences in the consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables, with people on lower incomes, and those living in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the North of England eating considerably less than those on higher incomes or living in the South.
Smokers account for 111,000 deaths
CVD (cardio vascular desiese) accounted to 260,000 deaths (some of whome were smokers).
CHD by itself is the most common cause of death in the UK. One in four men and one in five women die from the disease. CHD caused over 140,000 deaths in the UK in 1997
There's quite a bit of stuff on Fluorosis &co out there if you look
Here's a cracker
Materials and dosages:
Calcium Citrate and Magnesium (Nature's Life, Garden Grove, CA 92841) containing Calcium (Citrate) 1000 mg, Magnesium (Oxide) 667 mg) 2 tablets with 1 capsule of Potassium 99 mg (Nature's Way Products, 10 Mountain Springs Parkway, Springville, Utah 84663) - 99 mg Potassium amino acid chelate
In addition, nutrients may be supplemented with a good multivitamin preparation (which must contain choline and inositol, and very low - or no - iron). The best one I have turned up is "Green Multi" from Nature's Life, Garden Grove, California 92841. Because the organophosphates diminish absorption of nutrients while increasing the requirement for them, both this preparation, plus the calcium/magnesium and potassium mentioned above, can be dissolved in the mouth - absorbing through the mucous membranes of the mouth. Individual supplements can be taken as desired - such as vitamin E (an antioxidant), vitamin A (to help protect vision), copper (which phosphorus binds to), zinc (balances copper), and B complex (balanced - the only balanced formula I know of is "Balanced B-Complex Formula" from General Nutrition Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222). Vitamin C is also useful, although I don't recommend dissolving that in the mouth. The teeth (and bones) are under sufficient stress as it is - both from the corrosive effect of the phosphorus, and from the storage of fluoride which makes teeth and bones brittle. Dissolved Green Multi dissolves through the skin, too.
All fluorine exposure should be avoided - which may be difficult considering water supplies are being increasingly fluoridated. Fluoride absorbs through the skin as well as via mouth, making hot tubs and swimming pools places to add to the body's already excessive fluoride.
Food is the #1 killer in the UK. Well, high fat and energy foods, a poor diet and lack of exercise. Basically MacDonald's &co...
Don't worry about people smoking in public places, worry about the cheep? junk food that they promote to kids, worry about the KFC opening up around the corner. There far more lightly to kill you than smoking. (per capita)
This information is based upon UK death rates, heart disease coming out #1, followed by cancers.
1st download a trial copy of CBuilder or Delphi and give there IDE a go...
Here's my top hates....to the point of frastration.
1: (this is trully evil) the MDI interface. 2: Dialogues have loads of tabs but arn't resizeable. 3: Options arn't natural, e.g. right click on a project and I get..... 4: (part of 3) Options are hidden all over the place. 5: MSDN HTML help is shit (not the use of HTML for help, but the way MS have used it)
Here's a few things in CBuilder Delphi (as an example) that are farrrr superior.
1: No evil MDI 2: Options are quite easy to find 3: Fully RAD 4: Code compleation is highly typed e.g. int a =... only lists things that can return or be cast to an int. 5: The help is generally quite good. 6: The api for extending CBuilder/Delphi is great and easy to use (easier than Visual Studio).
Slashdot Mirror
Not so true,
New hardware has a higher fail rate than hardware 2 years old, because all the hardware that dies in the first 6 months is already dead after 2 years.
Also, mass production of old hardware might not have come upto speed, components of far higher quality than required may have been used.
e.g. The first CD players have far better lasers
current CD players use top emitting laser diodes,
old CD players use better side emitting laser diodes.
The spindle on old CD players was manufactured to a stupid precision ( a few atoms or something)
because they could make crap spindles or amazing spindles but not ones just good enough.
I should imagine the same is true with a lot of electrical equipment
I have a 30year old
Fridge,TV,hair dryer,dish washer etc.... and they all work fine.....
Found it
'MOSIX'
You can use Mosix to cluster those 486's together and get high performance file data transfer.
using
"The experimental MOSIX Parallel I/O (MOPI) package can read over 1,600 MB/S using 60 nodes. "
Try not to engage in work that prevents you from doing what you want in your spare time. ;).
Just a thought
Mozilla should have far less security problems by design.
IE falls over on the security front becasuse it's be designed sooooooo badly all that OLE and systems intergration stuff makes the browser an easy target.
To make IE secure Microsoft will have to vastly improve security and sandboxing of OLE and user spaces. (what's that DRM os there making at the moment?).
Unix alreasy does this which makes a unix system more secure by design regardless of bugs.
Since Mozilla doesn't intergrate with the system in such an intimate way as IE there are going to be far less security flaws. and even fewer when run on a unix box.
I aggree with the 7, but for different reasons.
But if mozilla Got a 7 what did IE get, a 4-5?
I rate IE as follows.
Javascript debugging 5 (7 for the debugger -2 for the anoyances)
HTML rendering 5-6
User interface 3 (it crashed too much and is anoying as hell etc...)
Usability 6 (proxy bypass, zones and other things are great, and much missed when i switched to mozilla), the inability to override nasties drops the score down from 8 to 6
Security 2 ( they do fix bugs otherwise it'd have to be a 0)
Plugins &co 4 (OLE embeding is a mojor anoyance!)
overall 4.7 (try harder)
So mozilla 7 (getting there)
IE 4.7 (try harder)
I didn't say the microsoft registry was a good implementation.
But a centralised database with journalling rollback and propper commits is a very good place to store you system settings.
It's easy to index in an efficient manner
You can run scripts to check for bad stuff
Evrythging is where it's ment to be and easy to find.
An if you using a fully fleged DB then you can do a lot more with the configuration.
I'd like to know if there are and codecs that support constant quality but a variable bit rate?
A codec with a target bitrate of 64k but maintains quality by channing between say 1k(for silence) and 100k through the streem would be nice.
merged with island records
then time warner
That's a level 7 i think,
anyhows for a level 5.....
some fonts were installed,
XFS go a little unhappy
x failed to start because it couldn't find it's default font.
and kept resporning
Crust force 5 on linux.
User desides to install an updated RPM,but not from the same disrtibution.
X now sits in an infinate respawn loop at startup.
the user can only logon in single user mode using linux 1
There are a few apps out there to defragment and rebuild the registry
which brings it upto speedish again.
all in all the registry as an idea isn't too bad. but like every database it needs tuning and maintaining.
It looks like evrything was of untill 1990, when TVT put in the public performance clause.
then in 1992 the lending clause made it's nasty way in there.
1989 tvt (UK):
"unauthorized duplication is a violarion of applicable laws."
1990 tvt (UK):
nothing except the standard copyright 1990!
1990 tvt (Australia):
"unauthorized public performance, broadcasting, leasing and copying of this disk is prohibitred"
1992 tvt (uk):
"unauthorized copying, hiring, lending, public performance broadcasting of this disk prohibitred"
1994 tvt (uk):
"unauthorized copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting prohibitred"
source:
a few CD's of my cd rack.
Isn't the database providing a service for storing your contracts.
the ELUA is effectivly a contract
I think that copyright has different rules for contracts
both parties must have a copy.
A you must be allowerd to make coppies so that 3rd parties can review the contract etc...
The eu has just put up a huge (70,000 pages)
site about europian rights
here's the link relating to unfair contracts in the uk
basicly it says you can ignore any shit or non plain language in the contracts, anything thats in contrntion lends to the side of the consumer.
all good stuff
I don't know if there still available but a few years ago you could get an educational version of 3dstudio &co. for about £60 in the UK.
You didn't have to be a student either.
The disk included,
3d Studio MAX.
The latest version of autocad.
and a few other great packages.
All full versions.
Now thats about £6,000 of software for £60.
I too use a lot of 'trial' versions of software, I don't believe it's stolen because:-
1: the points you made,
2: I couldn't afford to buy it in the first place so there's no lost sale.
I think most 3d companies realise that they gain more from 'trial' software then they loose.
Take a look at the Portage system on gentoo, this may solve some of your problems.
"Unlike other distros, Gentoo Linux has an advanced package management system called Portage. Portage is a true ports system in the tradition of BSD ports, but is Python-based and sports a number of advanced features including:
dependencies,
fine-grained package management,
"fake" (OpenBSD-style) installs,
path sandboxing,
safe unmerging,
system profiles,
virtual packages,
config file management,
and more. "
My main problems with package systems are.
There not granular enough, you get everything or nothing.
Dependentancies are often compleatly mad and over strict.
There's no centrally intergrated package list (except rpmfind i suppose).
and
Distribuions package things up in all kinds of weird ways, If they done things to the LSB and decided on a name/location for each package then you could use a suse package on Mandrake without any major grief.
News times article from 1995.
Here's an interesting extract.
The most visible opponent of the proposed ban was
the Unite States. The
Clinton administration argued that a ban would interfere with the legitimate
development of the U.S. high-tech arsenal. The United States signed the
weapons convention in 1981, but it wasn't until last May that the measure was
sent to the Senate, where it still awaits ratification.
hang on a min, /. coes it's easy
Here's a few URLS to toss some more wood on the fire.
from
6 U.S. Considers Microsoft Passport as National ID
Microsoft: The Gatekeeper of the Internet
MSDN Subscriber Forced to use Passport
EPIC Urges State AGs to Pursue Microsoft Passport
From the register possibly some duplicates
US govt evaluates Microsoft Passport for services
Microsoft secures Passport while lobbying interest groups
Now if you still have any doubt's then flame away, maybe it was flamebate.
All microsoft is doing is pushing passport accounts so that it can say 10% of the propulation already has passport account why ujse them for tax returns.
Nope Microsoft is leveraging another software company to trick people into signing up for passport, there not being kind for the hell of it.
All really is evil at Microsoft
It looks like theyve got the techies to write something again... Doh..
Here's my list of bad things and suggestion
If anyone can reply with an even better corrected we may have somthing worth sending..
'I write to you'
you don't say?, put this at the end sig e.g. bill gates, OBO Microsoft.
'on behalf of Red Hat, Inc., a software services company which also distributes the open source operating system Linux.'
Ok I'm a linuxish techie I understand distribution in this context, what they do is 'Provide an intergrated package of open source and proriatary software running on a Linux operating system[ and supporting services].'
This isn't great but it's a lot better, 1st I've mentioned proriatary software/closed source software which would work under UCITA. The writer could then use this as a hammer to beet UCITA over the head with. X software can meet the UCITA, but an equally good piece of software cannot because if is open source and not cenrally supported, but somehow we manage to get the support we need etc....
Ok I've attacked the first paragraph
NCCUSL Commissioners,
Red Hat, Inc., has build up a strong businness provding software services and the Red Hat Linux distribution, an intergrated package of, open source and proriatary software running on a Linux operating system.
We are making what we appreciate is an extraordinary request. That you reverse the 1999 decision [passed by who] to adopt UCITA.
Personally I think the 'what we appreciate ' is a bit pointless if you didn't appreciate someting then you wouldn't have expressed an opinon about it[that it is extraordinary]
I think that sells the argument a bit better and gives Red hat some more ammunition.
Skeletal Fluorosis - A crippling bone disease caused by excessive consumption of fluoride
This is what I mentioned in my troll.
and the best yet Unicef wow i didn't know unicef had an anti fluride campain
I still havn't found clear stats on deaths caused McD's &co. or the name of the hormone/enzime or whetever released by fat cells that makes you hungry.
The truth behind the troll
All those things they don't wan't you to know about flouride and junk food
Coronary heart disease statistics
Eating habbits and desiese
It's hard to get straight figures about food, smoking is easy because it's an easy target.
Here's what i found on food
Diet
One reason why CHD rates are high in the UK is because the average diet is so unhealthy. In particular fat intake - especially of saturated fat - in the UK is too high, and fruit and vegetable consumption is too low.
The percentage of food energy derived from total fat in the UK diet is falling only gradually. It was about 42% in the mid 1970s and is now around 39% but the type of fat eaten has changed: the percentage of food energy derived from saturated fat falling from around 20% to about 15%.
The fall in saturated fat consumption is reflected in changes in the types of food consumed. For example, since the mid 1970s the consumption of whole milk has fallen by 74% and butter by 76%.
However not all recent dietary changes have been beneficial. Since the mid 1970s consumption of potatoes (other than chips) has fallen by 40% and bread by 22%. The consumption of fresh fruit has risen by 43% but vegetable consumption has not increased.
UK dietary statistics also show marked social class and regional differences in the consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables, with people on lower incomes, and those living in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the North of England eating considerably less than those on higher incomes or living in the South.
Smokers account for 111,000 deaths
CVD (cardio vascular desiese) accounted to 260,000 deaths (some of whome were smokers).
CHD by itself is the most common cause of death in the UK. One in four men and one in five women die from the disease. CHD caused over 140,000 deaths in the UK in 1997
an article on fluride in water etc
There's quite a bit of stuff on Fluorosis &co out there if you look
Here's a cracker
Materials and dosages:
Calcium Citrate and Magnesium (Nature's Life, Garden Grove, CA 92841) containing Calcium (Citrate) 1000 mg, Magnesium (Oxide) 667 mg) 2 tablets with 1 capsule of Potassium 99 mg (Nature's Way Products, 10 Mountain Springs Parkway, Springville, Utah 84663) - 99 mg Potassium amino acid chelate
In addition, nutrients may be supplemented with a good multivitamin preparation (which must contain choline and inositol, and very low - or no - iron). The best one I have turned up is "Green Multi" from Nature's Life, Garden Grove, California 92841. Because the organophosphates diminish absorption of nutrients while increasing the requirement for them, both this preparation, plus the calcium/magnesium and potassium mentioned above, can be dissolved in the mouth - absorbing through the mucous membranes of the mouth. Individual supplements can be taken as desired - such as vitamin E (an antioxidant), vitamin A (to help protect vision), copper (which phosphorus binds to), zinc (balances copper), and B complex (balanced - the only balanced formula I know of is "Balanced B-Complex Formula" from General Nutrition Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222). Vitamin C is also useful, although I don't recommend dissolving that in the mouth. The teeth (and bones) are under sufficient stress as it is - both from the corrosive effect of the phosphorus, and from the storage of fluoride which makes teeth and bones brittle. Dissolved Green Multi dissolves through the skin, too.
All fluorine exposure should be avoided - which may be difficult considering water supplies are being increasingly fluoridated. Fluoride absorbs through the skin as well as via mouth, making hot tubs and swimming pools places to add to the body's already excessive fluoride.
I Troll no more
Just to be off topic.
Food is the #1 killer in the UK. Well, high fat and energy foods, a poor diet and lack of exercise.
Basically MacDonald's &co...
Don't worry about people smoking in public places, worry about the cheep? junk food that they promote to kids, worry about the KFC opening up around the corner. There far more lightly to kill you than smoking. (per capita)
This information is based upon UK death rates, heart disease coming out #1, followed by cancers.
Also,
1st download a trial copy of CBuilder or Delphi and give there IDE a go...
.....
...
Here's my top hates....to the point of frastration.
1: (this is trully evil) the MDI interface.
2: Dialogues have loads of tabs but arn't resizeable.
3: Options arn't natural, e.g. right click on a project and I get
4: (part of 3) Options are hidden all over the place.
5: MSDN HTML help is shit (not the use of HTML for help, but the way MS have used it)
Here's a few things in CBuilder Delphi (as an example) that are farrrr superior.
1: No evil MDI
2: Options are quite easy to find
3: Fully RAD
4: Code compleation is highly typed e.g.
int a =
only lists things that can return or be cast to an int.
5: The help is generally quite good.
6: The api for extending CBuilder/Delphi is great and easy to use (easier than Visual Studio).