Unfortunately NO. If you read the license, the OEM kind, you see that this particular instance of Windows is only authorized to run on the hardware it was sold on. technically nothing block you to run it on another computer, but Legally, you can't (Especially if you can't get the little sticker sticked on the back of the computer).
'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
Abstract: In this short essay, written for a symposium in the San Diego Law Review, Professor Daniel Solove examines the nothing to hide argument. When asked about government surveillance and data mining, many people respond by declaring: I've got nothing to hide. According to the nothing to hide argument, there is no threat to privacy unless the government uncovers unlawful activity, in which case a person has no legitimate justification to claim that it remain private. The nothing to hide argument and its variants are quite prevalent, and thus are worth addressing. In this essay, Solove critiques the nothing to hide argument and exposes its faulty underpinnings.
That will not work. For governments: ISO certified = standard. And you will not change it of one iota whatever you can say and do. What you can do is to demonstrate that Microsoft office doesn't respect its own standard and PERHAPS you will have one point against it. But One point can't be enough if the competition is worst than Microsoft on all the other points. For gov tenders it is not that you have all checks or not, it is that you need to have the more checks than the others. Otherwise, if they do not do like that they will never have a successful tender.
80GB is actually enough to install the system, the swap, some softwares and some games. I do it with a Raptor. Data are stored on 2 other 250GB drives. I have never filed my Raptor to render it unusable. Now I have only 6 games installed on my computer and when I am fed up of one, I uninstall it and load a newer one...
In my company, all the web based application that doesn't work well in IE7 and firefox were application developed with IEism and activeX components... Some have some minor displays bugs but vastly due to some IEism corrected in IE7 in the interpretation of the CSS:/
As mrchaotica (681592) says the v1 is "currently it is not suitable for users", and I would personally add "and for high level application developers who need functional and stable stacks to work on". This is why I wait for the V2, and perhaps a little more for USB2 & multi touch screen. I have a lot of ideas for this phone/plateform, but I don't want to fight with unstable APIs and to make a stable phone call:) (Actually I don't want to struggle with the telephony part of the phone except from the point of view of integration of my applications and the usability of the phone in low usability situations (like during driving))
'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
Abstract:
In this short essay, written for a symposium in the San Diego Law Review, Professor Daniel Solove examines the nothing to hide argument. When asked about government surveillance and data mining, many people respond by declaring: I've got nothing to hide. According to the nothing to hide argument, there is no threat to privacy unless the government uncovers unlawful activity, in which case a person has no legitimate justification to claim that it remain private. The nothing to hide argument and its variants are quite prevalent, and thus are worth addressing. In this essay, Solove critiques the nothing to hide argument and exposes its faulty underpinnings.
What? I'm speechless. Read how BitTorrent works. From a distribution standpoint BT is infinitely more efficient than FTP. In Belgium due to quotas (20GB/month) and the very Assimetric DSL (10Mo/256Kb) FTP is infinitely more efficient and faster:(
I never used IIS but I have get Apache running with my domain name and some sub-domain in less than 4 hour the first time I installed it. It was a 'simple' matter of reading the sample config file, changing option here and there with the guidance of the comments and copy/pasting the sample sub-domains to create all my sub-domains. The biggest difficulty I have got with Apache was to install SSL and WebDav on SSL. I have put 2 days to have them all up and running with my home made certificate (one of the hardest parts was to find how to create the certificate and configuring apache to have both SSL and non-SSL sub-domains)... The next step is to have SVN installed and get a versioning filesystem in a webdav folder on SLL... But I have already worked 2 weekends on SVN without having it running as a standalone server:(
I am far from mastering Apache, but I can say that I am able to make it do what I want it to do. And I have do it in a reasonable time frame from a complete newbie point of view.
In windows, there is the possibility to have some windows always on top like for the task manager (Options/always on top). It is just your application who doesn't use this possibility. Don't blame windows on this but the application you want to do this...
Machine don't need to invent, keep this 'work' to humans. The robots 'just' need to do the grunt work of building your invention.
Machines understanding human language is a best but not a necessity. As long you can provide them all the information needed to realize your idea (plans, build sequence, whatever is needed...)
Traffic per month is a pain in the a**. As you say, I tend to use direct download, newsgroups or rapidshare & co. And if a really need to use bittorent because there is no other source, I set the upload to a minimum to reduce my monthly traffic. A second problem with bittorent is that the difference between upload and download is big (6-20Mb down, 768Kb up) here that letting bittorent use as he wish the upload bandwidth is a recipe to a saturation of the link and rendering it unusable to other application and bittorent itself:( How many times I have seen bittorent getting his download speed to the floor because he capped the upload bandwidth:/
From the hortibot site: "Illustration of the synergy obtained by combining the commercial remote controlled Spider (top left) with the autonomous AgRobot research platform (top left) from Aarhus University, Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Research Centre Bygholm."
This idea of society is not novel, Isaac Asimov books have this kind of society depicted as background of his stories. I dream too of this kind of society but not to the point of putting a web site online:)
For your objections, here are my reflection on theses subjects:
Design of the robots: It is the transition phase between our society model and the new society model. And for the second, third, Nth generation of theses robots see 'Invent the stuff'
Repair the robots: Create some robots to replace (easier) or repair (more ecological) damaged/destroyed ones (themselves included)
Invent the stuff: As a hobby or personal interest, humans can invent and design stuff and 'ask' (need a better definition of ask) the robots to produce them. You will just do it for fun and if you want it, not as a work in a company with the attached constraints.
Not gonna happen: In this kind of society the last thing you can exchange will be works of art (everything else is nonsense because the robots can make it for you for nothing). And because no money is needed in this kind of society, you can only exchange it for another work of art or 'just' for fame and glory (like acting in a film dreamed by someone else).
It will not gonna happen because of a lot more other reasons that the one you said. Reasons like the desire of money, power, self interest and short term view... from peoples, corporations and governments:(
Go for the Z80 architecture. They had 3 decades to ironing theses pesty bugs. And big advantage for your electricity bill is that they are low power !!!
I have just downloaded it when I saw this story, but safari doesn't seems to work very well with slashdot or other more simples web page on my XP 64 box:(
Unfortunately a bot just need to try them or 'click' on one at random and have 1/9 chance to 'guess' it right:/ Adding more picture just reduce a little bit the chances to 'guess' at a growing pain for the reals users...
At home I have 4x250GB in a RAID-5 setup. I duplicate all my datas from time to time to a bunch of USB drives (250GB & 500GB) for my backups. Plus a 3rd copy for files of very high importance (my photos and some videos) I put off site (at work).
But what I am searching for is a good versionned file system to put on top of my Raid 5. Then if I delete a file I can get the previous version (the non deleted one). True that I mkfs is always a killer in this case...
I think that RAID-5 or 6 + versionned file system + rsync to USB drives could make a very good start for home setup in the 1+ GB range.
How many American on the American soil being killed by a terrorist attack since 9/11? How many American on the American soil being killed in a car accident since 9/11? How many American on the American soil being killed by the cancer since 9/11? How many American on the American soil being killed by whatever since 9/11?
How much was spent to reduce the number of American killed by terrorist attacks since 9/11? Where to money goes? How much was spent to reduce the number of American killed by a car accident since 9/11? Where to money goes? How much was spent to reduce the number of American killed by a cancer since 9/11? Where to money goes? How much was spent to reduce the number of American killed by whatever since 9/11? Where to money goes?
There is a shift between the plane hijacking in the 70 and now. In the 70, the hijackers have the goal to be alive and their wish accepted. And it was not in their best interest to kill one hostage. Then letting them hijack a plane was not a problem as far their is no victims. Having a lock on the cockpit could only make them more dangerous because then they will need to make some menace to have the door open and then making all this process more dangerous for the passengers. But now, they don't care anymore to kill someone and be alive. And then locking the door is not anymore more dangerous (in fact less) because they can kill all the passengers, the plane will not crash on a building making more victims. And putting 2 and 2 together is not so simple in this case. It is very easy and cheap to create a suicide bomber. Take the most stupid idiot in your groups and 'train' him to push on the little button only when he is at his destinations. It cost 'nothing' and get rid of the more stupid of your group. Now, with the plane you need educated people with enough intelligence to have the capability to learn to flight and train them to it. It cost time, money and you can't take anyone anymore. You need enough educated and suicidal persons. And this step is not easy to overcome to add 2 and 2 to put lock on the cockpit...
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Unfortunately NO. If you read the license, the OEM kind, you see that this particular instance of Windows is only authorized to run on the hardware it was sold on. technically nothing block you to run it on another computer, but Legally, you can't (Especially if you can't get the little sticker sticked on the back of the computer).
Recycling of an old post:
'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
Abstract:
In this short essay, written for a symposium in the San Diego Law Review, Professor Daniel Solove examines the nothing to hide argument. When asked about government surveillance and data mining, many people respond by declaring: I've got nothing to hide. According to the nothing to hide argument, there is no threat to privacy unless the government uncovers unlawful activity, in which case a person has no legitimate justification to claim that it remain private. The nothing to hide argument and its variants are quite prevalent, and thus are worth addressing. In this essay, Solove critiques the nothing to hide argument and exposes its faulty underpinnings.
I've Got Nothing to Hide
Especially when you deactivate checks.
That will not work. For governments: ISO certified = standard. And you will not change it of one iota whatever you can say and do.
What you can do is to demonstrate that Microsoft office doesn't respect its own standard and PERHAPS you will have one point against it. But One point can't be enough if the competition is worst than Microsoft on all the other points. For gov tenders it is not that you have all checks or not, it is that you need to have the more checks than the others. Otherwise, if they do not do like that they will never have a successful tender.
80GB is actually enough to install the system, the swap, some softwares and some games. I do it with a Raptor. Data are stored on 2 other 250GB drives. I have never filed my Raptor to render it unusable. Now I have only 6 games installed on my computer and when I am fed up of one, I uninstall it and load a newer one...
In my company, all the web based application that doesn't work well in IE7 and firefox were application developed with IEism and activeX components... Some have some minor displays bugs but vastly due to some IEism corrected in IE7 in the interpretation of the CSS :/
As mrchaotica (681592) says the v1 is "currently it is not suitable for users", and I would personally add "and for high level application developers who need functional and stable stacks to work on". This is why I wait for the V2, and perhaps a little more for USB2 & multi touch screen. I have a lot of ideas for this phone/plateform, but I don't want to fight with unstable APIs and to make a stable phone call :) (Actually I don't want to struggle with the telephony part of the phone except from the point of view of integration of my applications and the usability of the phone in low usability situations (like during driving))
'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
Abstract:
In this short essay, written for a symposium in the San Diego Law Review, Professor Daniel Solove examines the nothing to hide argument. When asked about government surveillance and data mining, many people respond by declaring: I've got nothing to hide. According to the nothing to hide argument, there is no threat to privacy unless the government uncovers unlawful activity, in which case a person has no legitimate justification to claim that it remain private. The nothing to hide argument and its variants are quite prevalent, and thus are worth addressing. In this essay, Solove critiques the nothing to hide argument and exposes its faulty underpinnings.
I've Got Nothing to Hide
You can put a single letter password on your zip files?
I never used IIS but I have get Apache running with my domain name and some sub-domain in less than 4 hour the first time I installed it. It was a 'simple' matter of reading the sample config file, changing option here and there with the guidance of the comments and copy/pasting the sample sub-domains to create all my sub-domains. :(
The biggest difficulty I have got with Apache was to install SSL and WebDav on SSL. I have put 2 days to have them all up and running with my home made certificate (one of the hardest parts was to find how to create the certificate and configuring apache to have both SSL and non-SSL sub-domains)...
The next step is to have SVN installed and get a versioning filesystem in a webdav folder on SLL... But I have already worked 2 weekends on SVN without having it running as a standalone server
I am far from mastering Apache, but I can say that I am able to make it do what I want it to do. And I have do it in a reasonable time frame from a complete newbie point of view.
In windows, there is the possibility to have some windows always on top like for the task manager (Options/always on top). It is just your application who doesn't use this possibility. Don't blame windows on this but the application you want to do this...
Machine don't need to invent, keep this 'work' to humans. The robots 'just' need to do the grunt work of building your invention.
Machines understanding human language is a best but not a necessity. As long you can provide them all the information needed to realize your idea (plans, build sequence, whatever is needed...)
Traffic per month is a pain in the a**. As you say, I tend to use direct download, newsgroups or rapidshare & co. And if a really need to use bittorent because there is no other source, I set the upload to a minimum to reduce my monthly traffic. A second problem with bittorent is that the difference between upload and download is big (6-20Mb down, 768Kb up) here that letting bittorent use as he wish the upload bandwidth is a recipe to a saturation of the link and rendering it unusable to other application and bittorent itself :( How many times I have seen bittorent getting his download speed to the floor because he capped the upload bandwidth :/
It is not suspiciously similar but similar:
From the hortibot site:
"Illustration of the synergy obtained by combining the commercial remote controlled Spider (top left) with the autonomous AgRobot research platform (top left) from Aarhus University, Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Research Centre Bygholm."
and the lawnmower was a Spider.
This idea of society is not novel, Isaac Asimov books have this kind of society depicted as background of his stories. I dream too of this kind of society but not to the point of putting a web site online :)
:(
For your objections, here are my reflection on theses subjects:
Design of the robots:
It is the transition phase between our society model and the new society model. And for the second, third, Nth generation of theses robots see 'Invent the stuff'
Repair the robots:
Create some robots to replace (easier) or repair (more ecological) damaged/destroyed ones (themselves included)
Invent the stuff:
As a hobby or personal interest, humans can invent and design stuff and 'ask' (need a better definition of ask) the robots to produce them. You will just do it for fun and if you want it, not as a work in a company with the attached constraints.
Not gonna happen:
In this kind of society the last thing you can exchange will be works of art (everything else is nonsense because the robots can make it for you for nothing). And because no money is needed in this kind of society, you can only exchange it for another work of art or 'just' for fame and glory (like acting in a film dreamed by someone else).
It will not gonna happen because of a lot more other reasons that the one you said. Reasons like the desire of money, power, self interest and short term view... from peoples, corporations and governments
Don't feed the trolls...
Go for the Z80 architecture. They had 3 decades to ironing theses pesty bugs. And big advantage for your electricity bill is that they are low power !!!
I think he wanted to say hardwired and not microcoded.
I have just downloaded it when I saw this story, but safari doesn't seems to work very well with slashdot or other more simples web page on my XP 64 box :(
See by yourself: Screen shot
Yes, users need to answer riddles like in notpron. The kind you need 10 hours to find the solution /Grin/ :D
Unfortunately a bot just need to try them or 'click' on one at random and have 1/9 chance to 'guess' it right :/
Adding more picture just reduce a little bit the chances to 'guess' at a growing pain for the reals users...
Could be good if we revoke them too :)
At home I have 4x250GB in a RAID-5 setup. I duplicate all my datas from time to time to a bunch of USB drives (250GB & 500GB) for my backups. Plus a 3rd copy for files of very high importance (my photos and some videos) I put off site (at work).
But what I am searching for is a good versionned file system to put on top of my Raid 5. Then if I delete a file I can get the previous version (the non deleted one). True that I mkfs is always a killer in this case...
I think that RAID-5 or 6 + versionned file system + rsync to USB drives could make a very good start for home setup in the 1+ GB range.
Mod parent up.
You can count in an other way:
How many American on the American soil being killed by a terrorist attack since 9/11?
How many American on the American soil being killed in a car accident since 9/11?
How many American on the American soil being killed by the cancer since 9/11?
How many American on the American soil being killed by whatever since 9/11?
How much was spent to reduce the number of American killed by terrorist attacks since 9/11? Where to money goes?
How much was spent to reduce the number of American killed by a car accident since 9/11? Where to money goes?
How much was spent to reduce the number of American killed by a cancer since 9/11? Where to money goes?
How much was spent to reduce the number of American killed by whatever since 9/11? Where to money goes?
Where is the best spend dollar?
There is a shift between the plane hijacking in the 70 and now. In the 70, the hijackers have the goal to be alive and their wish accepted. And it was not in their best interest to kill one hostage. Then letting them hijack a plane was not a problem as far their is no victims. Having a lock on the cockpit could only make them more dangerous because then they will need to make some menace to have the door open and then making all this process more dangerous for the passengers. But now, they don't care anymore to kill someone and be alive. And then locking the door is not anymore more dangerous (in fact less) because they can kill all the passengers, the plane will not crash on a building making more victims.
And putting 2 and 2 together is not so simple in this case. It is very easy and cheap to create a suicide bomber. Take the most stupid idiot in your groups and 'train' him to push on the little button only when he is at his destinations. It cost 'nothing' and get rid of the more stupid of your group. Now, with the plane you need educated people with enough intelligence to have the capability to learn to flight and train them to it. It cost time, money and you can't take anyone anymore. You need enough educated and suicidal persons. And this step is not easy to overcome to add 2 and 2 to put lock on the cockpit...