"Remote attacker can get full control of your machine..." is something I read in patch descriptions on a monthly basis. It simply doesn't get any more straightforward than this.
Both Napster and iTunes use IE MSHTML component to do their browsing. This has nothing to do with whether IE is better or worse, it's just that it's so damn simple to include it in your app, you'd look stupid if you reivnented the wheel with Mozilla. Besides, Mozilla isn't installed on every freakin' windows machine.
Believe it or not, there was some "prohibition" there, too, when Gorbatchev came to power. So people simply rolled their own. Lots of sugar, a little bit of yeast, apricots or grapes if you feel sophisticated then rectify and drink. Sure it sometimes was 140 proof, and didn't smell good at all, but it was a lot better than drinking hecks knows what.
The situation changes quite a bit if you can't afford the treatment. The cure is right there, yet you can't get it because you're not rich enough. Sadly this is the case for most people suffering from currently non-curable diseases and illnesses (AIDS, cancer, etc).
And when they finally find the cure for cancer, they'll suck your significant other DRY selling the drug to him/her. That's what concerns me. I want to know if the knowledge obtained by using free computing power will be free, too. Or at least affordable.
Do what you always do and you'll get what you always get, or so the wisdom says. I know some folks who have actually been to China last year and 20 years ago. They say A LOT of things have changed for the better there. I won't be surprised if China becomes the world's most powerful country in 50 years. The have all it takes to become one - huge, well controlled population, ideology, science, and most of all the desire to get better and patience in getting there. They don't rush things. They say if it takes fifty years, so be it. They invest a lot into their industry and science. If they say they'll get a man to the moon, they will get people there, eventually.
Sure, space exploration and quality of life are not terribly related if you look at the surface. But without things like these China will always be the country in which large American corporations exploit cheap labor. Give it time, they'll make their own computers, write their own software, make their own satellites, spaceships, nuclear weapons, anti-missile systems, and so on and so forth. And then suddenly we'll find ourselves going there to work on "H1-B" visas.
I use Canon EOS 10D for my photography, so Photoshop really is a must (mainly because of 48 bit color, color management and L*a*b color space support). And I do know how things work and that's exactly why I've chosen Photoshop. Too bad you have no choice here. GIMP is about the only halfway decent image editor for Linux and it lacks some vital features.
And then Microsoft comes in and offers an independent test with these folks in the same lab, so that Linux people configure Linux machines and Windows people configure Windows machines. This happened once to Apache, it was simply ripped apart by properly configured IIS (remember post-Mindcraft face-to-face independent test?).
Alas, Linux community is not learning lessons. I'd like to see Bill Almighty issue a smackdown order now.:0)
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You don't really expect there won't be any new Windows NT 5.x versions, do you? I think there will be at least one major revamp of XP before Longhorn ships. But what do I know.
who's got strong opinions. So far Thunderbird sucks major balls when compared to just about anything, which is understandable as it is not finished yet. And OE is no less secure than anything else out there. It even disables potentially harmful attachments by default.
48 bit color is a must for today's digital cameras. That's why I shelled out $300 for PS 7.0 (actually $150 for PS 5.5 and $150 for PS7 upgrade).
It looks like you don't need much from your computer. Too bad (for linux) some people need more than buggy basics.
Uh-uh, wake me up when GIMP supports 48bit color. Quicken is total POS when compared to MS Money. OO is total POS when compared to Office XP and Mozilla, KMail are total POS when compared to even Outlook Express. Sure they are free, but this is their only advantage.
IBM isn't making money on their Intel hardware (nobody but Dell and HP do) they make money on mainframes and support. So the main reason for them to come to Russia is to try sell their overpriced junk.
As far as I know Sun has MUCH stronger market presence there than IBM. Why? Because their hardware is cheaper. The main purpose of IBM coming to this market is to push their hardware there (and then services when buyers discover what kind of poorly-cobbled-together crap they've bought). In Russia this is a hard thing to do, there are not that many companies with multimillion dollar IT budgets. Some can afford Sun servers and workstations, and virtually nobody can afford ultra-expensive IBM mainframes. Also, there is a great shortage of UNIX/Linux specialists. In a situation when you can buy the latest release of Windows (or, say, Photoshop or Visual Studio or whatever) for a couple of bucks Linux being free doesn't sound as compelling.
In longhorn the entire UI will be vectorized and scalable via hotkeys. Icons, buttons, fonts, whatever. So that if you have that 200dpi IBM monitor you'll be able to just set up the scaling and move on.
Scaling will be even supported in old non-vectorized "compatibility mode", but of course you'll see pixelation in this case.
People will soon start to getting medical services offshore. I went to my dentist last week to get an estimate on how much it will cost me to get 2 implants installed and the guy quoted me $5.5K. It's $5.5K for two tiny incisions in my mouth and 40 minutes of drilling my jawbone and stitching (then I have to shell out $2K more for the actual crowns). The same shit done in Russia (INCLUDING the roundtrip) would cost me $2600. Everything is the same, implants, equipment, medications - everything but the doctor's appetite for my money.
I'm actively looking for something closer than Russia (where I'm from myself) though. I'll take a good look at Canada or have this stuff done in another state. I just feel a significant disproportion in incomes. I make $20 an hour, and this guy makes $5.5K an hour.
Just let those outsourced projects fail (most of them do) and see those "bright minds" who came up with the idea of outsourcing getting fired without a severance package.
I've seen the results of several outsourced projects. These projects are so fucked up, it's unbelievable. This must have to do something with the management there, because I've seen some very impressive Indian developers over here in the US (not that many, either, but then I'm hard to impress) and I don't believe they can't find any good developers there. It's just that the results of the outsourced work are often unmaintainable piles of horrendously written spaghetti code.
It is a widely known fact that 9 out of 10 German casualties were on Eastern (to them) front. Even when (in the end of the war) Allies landed in western Europe Hitler was still sending 80% of his troops towards the East. It sure was easy to liberate France considering the fact they fought with less than 20% of the worst-trained German troops. Americans weren't kicked out of Europe by Russians only because after the relentless 5 years in this war (yes, FIVE years) the economy and troops were so taxed it wasn't the time to start another war, especially with someone who provided you with financial support (however insignificant) and even with political support towards the end of the war.
So who defeated Hitler again?
Forget the propaganda you've read in your high school textbook. The US winning this war sound like if someone joined a fight when those fighting were already on the ground tired catching up with their breath and kicked the butt of the guy who seemed more tired. Had Hitler won in the USSR, there's little doubt the US would have joined him instead.
What you'd read in high school history textbook wasn't true.:0) And no, Americans did not win WWII. They only chimed in in the end when it was already won.
More correct figure is about 35mln. Most of Stalin's repressions occured in late 30's, and they're not a part of 35 mln. There was no "alliance" with Hitler. There was, hovewer a pact that USSR and Germany won't attack each other which made a lot of sense, because in early 40's Germany had more military power than any single other country on the planet, and it was pointless for Russia to even try to defeat them alone.
Nobody turned over Jews, SS troops were good at finding them themselves. Nobody protected them much either, that's true. And nobody "enslaved" anybody. Yes, they've established socialist regimes in some Eastern European countries, but this is FAR from what one would call "enslavement" (the nations weren't even economically related). Merely a change of political regime (kinda what the US did in Afghanistan and Iraq TWICE, horribly shooting themselves in the foot in process of doing that).
Not Americans. Americans only chimed in when it became clear that the Russians are kicking the crap out of Hitler. You can't imagine how seriously all this talk about Americans "winning" the WWII pisses off the people who fought with Wermacht for 5 years and lost 35 million brothers and sisters in combat to actually win the war.
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"Remote attacker can get full control of your machine..." is something I read in patch descriptions on a monthly basis. It simply doesn't get any more straightforward than this.
Could you provide a factual example to #1?
Both Napster and iTunes use IE MSHTML component to do their browsing. This has nothing to do with whether IE is better or worse, it's just that it's so damn simple to include it in your app, you'd look stupid if you reivnented the wheel with Mozilla. Besides, Mozilla isn't installed on every freakin' windows machine.
Is the prices on the older tunes. There's no way in hell anyone will pay buck-per-song for the older shit if you can buy a real CD for 3 bucks.
99.5% of Linux apps are blatant rip-offs from Windows/MacOS. What innovation are we talking about here?
Believe it or not, there was some "prohibition" there, too, when Gorbatchev came to power. So people simply rolled their own. Lots of sugar, a little bit of yeast, apricots or grapes if you feel sophisticated then rectify and drink. Sure it sometimes was 140 proof, and didn't smell good at all, but it was a lot better than drinking hecks knows what.
The situation changes quite a bit if you can't afford the treatment. The cure is right there, yet you can't get it because you're not rich enough. Sadly this is the case for most people suffering from currently non-curable diseases and illnesses (AIDS, cancer, etc).
This answers the original question. Too bad Oxford thingie doesn't work on my dual hyperthreaded Xeon.
And when they finally find the cure for cancer, they'll suck your significant other DRY selling the drug to him/her. That's what concerns me. I want to know if the knowledge obtained by using free computing power will be free, too. Or at least affordable.
Kids can't even decline to recite the Pledge of Allegiance altogether. And doing so every day is a brutal case of brainwashing.
Do what you always do and you'll get what you always get, or so the wisdom says. I know some folks who have actually been to China last year and 20 years ago. They say A LOT of things have changed for the better there. I won't be surprised if China becomes the world's most powerful country in 50 years. The have all it takes to become one - huge, well controlled population, ideology, science, and most of all the desire to get better and patience in getting there. They don't rush things. They say if it takes fifty years, so be it. They invest a lot into their industry and science. If they say they'll get a man to the moon, they will get people there, eventually.
Sure, space exploration and quality of life are not terribly related if you look at the surface. But without things like these China will always be the country in which large American corporations exploit cheap labor. Give it time, they'll make their own computers, write their own software, make their own satellites, spaceships, nuclear weapons, anti-missile systems, and so on and so forth. And then suddenly we'll find ourselves going there to work on "H1-B" visas.
I use Canon EOS 10D for my photography, so Photoshop really is a must (mainly because of 48 bit color, color management and L*a*b color space support). And I do know how things work and that's exactly why I've chosen Photoshop. Too bad you have no choice here. GIMP is about the only halfway decent image editor for Linux and it lacks some vital features.
And then Microsoft comes in and offers an independent test with these folks in the same lab, so that Linux people configure Linux machines and Windows people configure Windows machines. This happened once to Apache, it was simply ripped apart by properly configured IIS (remember post-Mindcraft face-to-face independent test?).
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Alas, Linux community is not learning lessons. I'd like to see Bill Almighty issue a smackdown order now.
You don't really expect there won't be any new Windows NT 5.x versions, do you? I think there will be at least one major revamp of XP before Longhorn ships. But what do I know.
who's got strong opinions. So far Thunderbird sucks major balls when compared to just about anything, which is understandable as it is not finished yet. And OE is no less secure than anything else out there. It even disables potentially harmful attachments by default.
48 bit color is a must for today's digital cameras. That's why I shelled out $300 for PS 7.0 (actually $150 for PS 5.5 and $150 for PS7 upgrade).
It looks like you don't need much from your computer. Too bad (for linux) some people need more than buggy basics.
Uh-uh, wake me up when GIMP supports 48bit color. Quicken is total POS when compared to MS Money. OO is total POS when compared to Office XP and Mozilla, KMail are total POS when compared to even Outlook Express. Sure they are free, but this is their only advantage.
IBM isn't making money on their Intel hardware (nobody but Dell and HP do) they make money on mainframes and support. So the main reason for them to come to Russia is to try sell their overpriced junk.
As far as I know Sun has MUCH stronger market presence there than IBM. Why? Because their hardware is cheaper. The main purpose of IBM coming to this market is to push their hardware there (and then services when buyers discover what kind of poorly-cobbled-together crap they've bought). In Russia this is a hard thing to do, there are not that many companies with multimillion dollar IT budgets. Some can afford Sun servers and workstations, and virtually nobody can afford ultra-expensive IBM mainframes. Also, there is a great shortage of UNIX/Linux specialists. In a situation when you can buy the latest release of Windows (or, say, Photoshop or Visual Studio or whatever) for a couple of bucks Linux being free doesn't sound as compelling.
In longhorn the entire UI will be vectorized and scalable via hotkeys. Icons, buttons, fonts, whatever. So that if you have that 200dpi IBM monitor you'll be able to just set up the scaling and move on.
Scaling will be even supported in old non-vectorized "compatibility mode", but of course you'll see pixelation in this case.
People will soon start to getting medical services offshore. I went to my dentist last week to get an estimate on how much it will cost me to get 2 implants installed and the guy quoted me $5.5K. It's $5.5K for two tiny incisions in my mouth and 40 minutes of drilling my jawbone and stitching (then I have to shell out $2K more for the actual crowns). The same shit done in Russia (INCLUDING the roundtrip) would cost me $2600. Everything is the same, implants, equipment, medications - everything but the doctor's appetite for my money.
I'm actively looking for something closer than Russia (where I'm from myself) though. I'll take a good look at Canada or have this stuff done in another state. I just feel a significant disproportion in incomes. I make $20 an hour, and this guy makes $5.5K an hour.
Just let those outsourced projects fail (most of them do) and see those "bright minds" who came up with the idea of outsourcing getting fired without a severance package.
I've seen the results of several outsourced projects. These projects are so fucked up, it's unbelievable. This must have to do something with the management there, because I've seen some very impressive Indian developers over here in the US (not that many, either, but then I'm hard to impress) and I don't believe they can't find any good developers there. It's just that the results of the outsourced work are often unmaintainable piles of horrendously written spaghetti code.
I have yet to see one single exception from this.
It is a widely known fact that 9 out of 10 German casualties were on Eastern (to them) front. Even when (in the end of the war) Allies landed in western Europe Hitler was still sending 80% of his troops towards the East. It sure was easy to liberate France considering the fact they fought with less than 20% of the worst-trained German troops. Americans weren't kicked out of Europe by Russians only because after the relentless 5 years in this war (yes, FIVE years) the economy and troops were so taxed it wasn't the time to start another war, especially with someone who provided you with financial support (however insignificant) and even with political support towards the end of the war.
So who defeated Hitler again?
Forget the propaganda you've read in your high school textbook. The US winning this war sound like if someone joined a fight when those fighting were already on the ground tired catching up with their breath and kicked the butt of the guy who seemed more tired. Had Hitler won in the USSR, there's little doubt the US would have joined him instead.
What you'd read in high school history textbook wasn't true. :0) And no, Americans did not win WWII. They only chimed in in the end when it was already won.
More correct figure is about 35mln. Most of Stalin's repressions occured in late 30's, and they're not a part of 35 mln. There was no "alliance" with Hitler. There was, hovewer a pact that USSR and Germany won't attack each other which made a lot of sense, because in early 40's Germany had more military power than any single other country on the planet, and it was pointless for Russia to even try to defeat them alone.
Nobody turned over Jews, SS troops were good at finding them themselves. Nobody protected them much either, that's true. And nobody "enslaved" anybody. Yes, they've established socialist regimes in some Eastern European countries, but this is FAR from what one would call "enslavement" (the nations weren't even economically related). Merely a change of political regime (kinda what the US did in Afghanistan and Iraq TWICE, horribly shooting themselves in the foot in process of doing that).
Not Americans. Americans only chimed in when it became clear that the Russians are kicking the crap out of Hitler. You can't imagine how seriously all this talk about Americans "winning" the WWII pisses off the people who fought with Wermacht for 5 years and lost 35 million brothers and sisters in combat to actually win the war.
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