I'm not a naysayer, I'm a "I'll believe it when I see it" person.
Talk's cheap, they can show all the security models they want, they can present all the security APIs they want. But until I have an installed system with a working security model, its all vaporware.
Give me a break. I remember when it was not possible to catch virus by viewing a webpage. Microsoft changed that. I remember when it was not possible to catch a virus through email. Microsoft changed that too.
The current security model would be great, if it worked. But I still get these idiotic "read only" files. I change the permissions, I can do that, they're my files. I re-open the directory and the files are read only again. I repeat the process as administrator, guess what, they're still read only! The Microsoft security model is broken. And the company as certainly had time to fix it. No you expect me to believe that this will change with the next DRM enabled system? My answer is hell no.
I see Vista as a haven for scumware writers. They're going to figure out a way of putting scumware on you system, and using the DRM to revoke your permissions to remove it.
Trying to think of a scripting language I like less than Python? AREXX? Nope; Perl? Nope; Ruby? Nope; TCL? Nope; BASH? Nope; KSH? Nope; AWK? Maybe, but that's just because the docs suck.
Learning the basics of Perl is easy, just start with perldoc perl. But mastering perl is a different matter.
Personally I like Perl, features like not having to use escaped strings for regualar expressions kick make coding the language a joy.
The average smuck uses IE for a variety of reasons.
It's already installed on his desktop.
People code websites that are IE specific.
It works well enough, and people are basically lazy
People use stuff based on marketing and not reality or sense.
Through the late 90's I would try nearly every browser, OS, and email package.
My favorite email package? Airmail for the Amiga; it had some fairly idiotic issues for setting up, but it was still better than anything else out there.
Favorite browser? NONE I loathed them all. Netscape, IE, Hotjava, Voyager, Aweb.
Favorite OS, tossup between Linux running BlackBox WM, and Amiga OS 3.1 . The biggest limitation of the Amiga OS was the lack of a built in TCP/IP stack. Mac OS 8 was a buggy downgrade from System 7. Win9x? Bring up Netscape and IE and watch your system reboot. NT 4, at least worked somewhat, but I still felt like I was pushing a boulder up a hill. NetBSD, I only used.9x to 1.1 it was very much a work in progress, especially installation. Though I did get the experimental bootloader to work.
You obviously never developed a website using IE 5.0. It sucked monkey chunks.
There was no way to turn off the browser cache. Sure there was a little box you could check, but it didn't work. I worked with a bunch of web-developers back then, 1999-2001 who didn't know WTF they were doing. They all used IE. The only reason I used IE was to check my stuff againt the broken POS that people insisted on using.
I was given a Visioneer scanner a few years ago. It didn't work for well under windows, and there was no Linux support. Visioneer scanners were not just picky about model/version but model/version/chipset and probably bios version. I gave the POS away. My Brother MFC also sucks, but its much better than the Visioneer. The other posters mentioning HP from 10+ years ago are correct, neither of my newer scanners are up to snuff of the old HP SCSI.
Sure people have retired and died since Mao, a few policies have changed. But the Chinese govt. remains a totalitarian dictatorship, and you better believe that they're as willing to gun down their own people today as they were 16 years ago. Possibly even more so, what are we going to do? Cut our own throat by cutting of our supply of cheap good and separating companies from divisions they outsourced to China?
You say this guys' science is science because he invents theories about how things work. You have obviously not read any of them.
Let's take his theory that Comets are hot and dry; not cold balls of dirty ice. Taken from Badastronomy
You use a spectroscope, you can measure the temprature of an object. Object of different tempratures have a different spectrum. Also using a stectrascope you can also tell what an object is made of. Different materials have a differnet spectrum.
In something is observed in nature, then a theory do describe it. They that theory is tested and/or modeled. The people practicing pseudoscience skip the last part. Comets emit light, therefore they must be hot? You have a theory there. Now show me the rest of your evidence? McCanney does a bunch of technobabble, but he's never pointed a stectrascope at one and actually measured the temprature. He just babbles on about magnetism.
It is unscientific to ignore observations, and just keep making stuff up.
The extensive interdisciplinary scope of the Electric Universe model is highlighted by Peratt's recent discovery that objects from antiquity manifest 56- and 28-fold symmetry. These range from concentric petroglyphs around the world to geoglyphs (stone-rings), megaliths, and other constructs. The most renowned of the 56-fold symmetric megaliths is Stonehenge.
Lets get real people! When people start using Stonehenge as evidence in their modern astronomy papers they you have a real crackpot. I mean this guy uses a preface from H.P. Lovecraft in his preface!
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality... That we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. - H. P. Lovecraft
Next think you know this guy is going to be claiming that the moon landing never happened. Oh, wait.... Perhaps calling his website hollow-science would be more appropriate.
No, they wrote: "Good Morning to All" which has the same notes as Happy Birthday. Nobody know who wrote the words to "Happy Birthday". The sisters were given the rights to "Happy Birthday" 10 years after if first appeared because it was musically the same as "Good Morning to All".
Of course Intel is saying that they're a monopoly because AMD produces faulty products.
No company it its right mind is going to confess to maintaining an illegal monopoly, at least not with the current administration and weak anti-trust laws. Intel is going to go into court with a straight face and say "It's AMD's fault, and the customer's choice", and they are going to keep saying it.
Nothing has entered public domain in the latter half of last centure, and even a lot of stuff that did enter the public domain had been "returned" to the original copywrite holders.
Copywrite should be 20 years from first publication. Trademark should last indefinately. Micky Mouse (TM) would remain Da Rat, while Elvis would be PD now. But that won't happen untill 2075 or something.
Except... the whole point of free/open software is that it's/not/ controlled by one overriding personality.
Bzzt. wrong. Free/Open software is about not controlling what somebody does with the software. FSF still owns Emacs. In fact they asked author of XEmacs to sign the copywrite over to them.
GPL and other Free licenses are not about ownership, the original author still retains ownership of the original work and name. The philosophy is not about surrenduring your rights as the author, its about granting rights to others to use your work, and possibly add to it.
Look at the most popular opensource database: MySQL. If you're willing to adhere to the GPL, you can use it all you want, for free. If your are not, they will SELL you a non-GPL license. At no time are they willing to surrender their ownership of the product.
Please don't confuse distribution and usage rights ownership, copywrite, and trademark.
I have a MD player, and I did see them when I was in Japan last year.
The US release of the MD player, which I have, had the slink cable. I've never used it.
I never said it was a bad technology. I said the MP3 technology was better, (ID3 Tags, CDDB, and ipod, that's a huge stack of MDs.), and pretty much killed it over here.
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I'm not a naysayer, I'm a "I'll believe it when I see it" person.
Talk's cheap, they can show all the security models they want, they can present all the security APIs they want. But until I have an installed system with a working security model, its all vaporware.
Sparkle was a good name for the cat. And let me tell you, that cat is a real jerk, even for a cat.
Not possible based on the security model?
Give me a break. I remember when it was not possible to catch virus by viewing a webpage. Microsoft changed that. I remember when it was not possible to catch a virus through email. Microsoft changed that too.
The current security model would be great, if it worked. But I still get these idiotic "read only" files. I change the permissions, I can do that, they're my files. I re-open the directory and the files are read only again. I repeat the process as administrator, guess what, they're still read only! The Microsoft security model is broken. And the company as certainly had time to fix it. No you expect me to believe that this will change with the next DRM enabled system? My answer is hell no.
I see Vista as a haven for scumware writers. They're going to figure out a way of putting scumware on you system, and using the DRM to revoke your permissions to remove it.
If you like Python, you must love COBOL.
Trying to think of a scripting language I like less than Python? AREXX? Nope; Perl? Nope; Ruby? Nope; TCL? Nope; BASH? Nope; KSH? Nope; AWK? Maybe, but that's just because the docs suck.
Learning the basics of Perl is easy, just start with perldoc perl. But mastering perl is a different matter.
Personally I like Perl, features like not having to use escaped strings for regualar expressions kick make coding the language a joy.
This President is really good at spending my money for publicity.
Before the Columbia NASA was refused a budget increase for safty upgrades. People died, bad publicity, and now there's money.
Please UI is not why peole use IE.
The average smuck uses IE for a variety of reasons.
Through the late 90's I would try nearly every browser, OS, and email package.
My favorite email package? Airmail for the Amiga; it had some fairly idiotic issues for setting up, but it was still better than anything else out there.
Favorite browser? NONE I loathed them all. Netscape, IE, Hotjava, Voyager, Aweb .
Favorite OS, tossup between Linux running BlackBox WM, and Amiga OS 3.1 . The biggest limitation of the Amiga OS was the lack of a built in TCP/IP stack. Mac OS 8 was a buggy downgrade from System 7. Win9x? Bring up Netscape and IE and watch your system reboot. NT 4, at least worked somewhat, but I still felt like I was pushing a boulder up a hill. NetBSD, I only used .9x to 1.1 it was very much a work in progress, especially installation. Though I did get the experimental bootloader to work.
You obviously never developed a website using IE 5.0. It sucked monkey chunks.
There was no way to turn off the browser cache. Sure there was a little box you could check, but it didn't work. I worked with a bunch of web-developers back then, 1999-2001 who didn't know WTF they were doing. They all used IE. The only reason I used IE was to check my stuff againt the broken POS that people insisted on using.
Perhaps you should read your won article. For 2004 Intel had a revenue of $34.2 billion.
On thet revenue they had a profit of 10.4 billion, before taxes.
On that profit they paid $2.9 billion in income tax. No where close to the $10.6 billion you say.
In addition, they paied $4.8 billion in R&D and $4.7 billion in Marketing
They paied the stock holders a dividend of 8 cents/share on a diluted earnings per share of $1.16
The number's were all in the article you gererously provided, no need for handwaving and bs.
What, so application developers can put even bigger, more intrusive sidebars?
Mayber they'll want to add more layers of tabs to the apps, or even better yet, tabs + sidebar + statusbar + searchbar.
Hey I just described Firefox and Mozilla!
Please explain where the amplifier is in a crystal radio? It is possible to add an amplifier circuit, it isn't necessary.
I was given a Visioneer scanner a few years ago. It didn't work for well under windows, and there was no Linux support. Visioneer scanners were not just picky about model/version but model/version/chipset and probably bios version. I gave the POS away. My Brother MFC also sucks, but its much better than the Visioneer. The other posters mentioning HP from 10+ years ago are correct, neither of my newer scanners are up to snuff of the old HP SCSI.
Please, they're already using Exchange. The security in Sendmail, and whatever OS its running under would be an upgrade.
You mean like thay didn't in Tiananmen Square
Sure people have retired and died since Mao, a few policies have changed. But the Chinese govt. remains a totalitarian dictatorship, and you better believe that they're as willing to gun down their own people today as they were 16 years ago. Possibly even more so, what are we going to do? Cut our own throat by cutting of our supply of cheap good and separating companies from divisions they outsourced to China?
They should have created their fake screen shots using Linux instead of XP. Then the /. crowd would have bought it. :-)
Which time might you be talking about where there was more god, and good pensions?
Jim,
You are the idiot.
You say this guys' science is science because he invents theories about how things work. You have obviously not read any of them.
Let's take his theory that Comets are hot and dry; not cold balls of dirty ice. Taken from Badastronomy
You use a spectroscope, you can measure the temprature of an object. Object of different tempratures have a different spectrum. Also using a stectrascope you can also tell what an object is made of. Different materials have a differnet spectrum.
In something is observed in nature, then a theory do describe it. They that theory is tested and/or modeled. The people practicing pseudoscience skip the last part. Comets emit light, therefore they must be hot? You have a theory there. Now show me the rest of your evidence? McCanney does a bunch of technobabble, but he's never pointed a stectrascope at one and actually measured the temprature. He just babbles on about magnetism.
It is unscientific to ignore observations, and just keep making stuff up.
Lets get real people! When people start using Stonehenge as evidence in their modern astronomy papers they you have a real crackpot. I mean this guy uses a preface from H.P. Lovecraft in his preface!
Next think you know this guy is going to be claiming that the moon landing never happened. Oh, wait.... Perhaps calling his website hollow-science would be more appropriate.
No, they wrote: "Good Morning to All" which has the same notes as Happy Birthday. Nobody know who wrote the words to "Happy Birthday". The sisters were given the rights to "Happy Birthday" 10 years after if first appeared because it was musically the same as "Good Morning to All".
Of course Intel is saying that they're a monopoly because AMD produces faulty products.
No company it its right mind is going to confess to maintaining an illegal monopoly, at least not with the current administration and weak anti-trust laws. Intel is going to go into court with a straight face and say "It's AMD's fault, and the customer's choice", and they are going to keep saying it.
It would be news if they said anyting else.
Public Domain is dead.
Nothing has entered public domain in the latter half of last centure, and even a lot of stuff that did enter the public domain had been "returned" to the original copywrite holders.
Copywrite should be 20 years from first publication. Trademark should last indefinately. Micky Mouse (TM) would remain Da Rat, while Elvis would be PD now. But that won't happen untill 2075 or something.
Like when the govt. allowed two sisters to copywrite "Happy Birthday"?
They compare x86 Linux and Windows to Solaris SPARC. To be fare they should have used Solaris x86.
Secondly since they're comparing with Solaris SPARC, where is AIX solution? Come on IBM lets disclose the TCO of AIX in relation to Solaris.
Bzzt. wrong. Free/Open software is about not controlling what somebody does with the software. FSF still owns Emacs. In fact they asked author of XEmacs to sign the copywrite over to them.
GPL and other Free licenses are not about ownership, the original author still retains ownership of the original work and name. The philosophy is not about surrenduring your rights as the author, its about granting rights to others to use your work, and possibly add to it.
Look at the most popular opensource database: MySQL. If you're willing to adhere to the GPL, you can use it all you want, for free. If your are not, they will SELL you a non-GPL license. At no time are they willing to surrender their ownership of the product.
Please don't confuse distribution and usage rights ownership, copywrite, and trademark.
Remember HP Printers shipping with Alexia?
Oh wait, HP delibrately put that in there.
I have a MD player, and I did see them when I was in Japan last year.
The US release of the MD player, which I have, had the slink cable. I've never used it.
I never said it was a bad technology. I said the MP3 technology was better, (ID3 Tags, CDDB, and ipod, that's a huge stack of MDs.), and pretty much killed it over here.