just don't ask on where to find an abortion.
Siri uses a backend search algorythm named wolfram alpha, something they did not invent at all.
Again, its apple putting a fancy wrapper on what has existed for years.
Apple promotes their "ethics" as part of a sales pitch to sell their image to the pseudo-intelectualist crowd that likes to harp haphazardly on "social issues" to make them appear better peoplen than they are. Just like apple's attempt to market themselves as "open" or even "free software friendly", when in the software world like microsoft they have the reputation of paraiahs
Both are comitted to making closed parellel worlds. At least with linux, linux fanbois form a community, and this communtiy makes foward progress.(submit bug reports, small bits of code, beta test, etc...)
With apple, and now MS(yes, MS fanbois, the few the shameless), their fanbois are just a giant pyramid marketing scheme to turn paying customers into advertisers. The actuall contribution to actual computing is hot air.
Google isn't perfect but they do a far better job at openness than either apple or microsoft. But again, why trust any corporation. This isn't about Corporation vs Corporation. This is about corporate serfdom vs free software.
what? browsers where made free before then,
What MS did was package their browser to give it an unfair advantage. Like they packaged MSN instant messenger, and the client for MSN, back when dial up was still around. They tried to muscelle their way into the ISP game via windows too.
Early versions of XP shiped with MSN messenger running default at start up as a TSR with a systray icon. Really crappy horriblly written program that slowed down you computer, like most other MS Crap.
getting back to MS, most geeks over 25 who remember the internet, and desktop computers of the 1990s, don't remember MS so fondly, and they've killed many attempts to improve computers, simply because it might cost them money or marketshare down the road.
If Micrsoft's legacy was just shitty products I don't think anyone would care so much. Its the FUD, specificly flowing through the balding hot tempered miscreant of then-VP, now-CEO Steve Balmer. If there was ever a picture of unrepentant asshole who's leadership style is that of "Tank Girl" foe Keslee, its Steve Balmer.
If that wasn't enough, most of us didn't like being reffered to as un-American, or propigators of a "virus"(both spoken about linux and open source by Mr Balmer). Heck even the term "going viral" is based off linux's rise to popularity via the internet.
This article is full of shit, there HAVE been malware on iOS, its been reported here before. Macs also crash too. Its just suspense of disbelief. Mac users are so stuck up and bough so far into the cult they cannot admit failure.
Then we get back to the concept we have as a society that money == automatic quality. We have this misplaced notion that paying money to a strict central authority makes something either better or more secure.
I've measured average use of my 17" LED backlit LCD screens at 8 watts a piece(2 of them), with 16 max in torch mode.(per spec).
it might make a diffrence if you are using other technologies, but for the common joe, just get a low power monitor(s)
I knew some people in real life who's job it was to hype products online and socially engineer things "going viral" for anyone with enough cash to pay them.
What I presume but cannot confirm, and no one speaks of, is attack campaigns run by similar groups, again, for anyone with enough money to pay them. We DO know that many of these corporations collect intelligence on critics.
I've ran into other people who have huge botnets set up to fake a mass apeal in order to get other people to buy products out of need for conformity.
I am supprised this article made it on slashdot, it is almost downright slander against open source. It takes a single case, and uses it against all open source code. This is classic FUD. this is a SINGLE bug in a SINGLE product. How many recalls, errors, and bugs do more mainstream and
closed source car companies have. Many are FATAL. Toyota runaway acceleration bug of two years ago anyone?
After all the shit Big Auto has done over the years, and suddenly the open source model is under attack because of merely two recalls of a new type of product thats never really been done on a mass scale before?
Anyone has actually used software knows there are FAR less bugs in open source software than closed. Think about it or a second. You have more people looking over the code in error checking, far more man/hours going into the project than would be feasible for a for-profit closed source project, where you'd have to pay everyone who even came close to the code.(not cheap either).
Then we have quality of individual. People who program closed source don't give a shit so long as their job doesn't go away. Open Source Programmers CARE. Next your going to tell me some guy in a cubicle with a bachleors, or even associates in computer science is going to match
Back to the topic, Open Source cars are STILL a great idea. We just need some people who are better at it.
start making "concerned citizen" phone calls. Remember to be assertive, but polite. Just remember, his PRIVILEGE of being on congressman is dependent on your RIGHT to vote.
windows phone was the only option for what is now known as "smart phones", back when Windows CE tablets became PDA alternatives in the late 90s. Then PDAs like the palm, and CE started getting cell modems built in. They where all terrible, and similar but more primative types of hardware we see today in all smart phones.
Few remember old windows phones fondly.
Then we get to tablets. the only diffrence between large tablets and small tablets is the size of the screen and casing.
Just remember Compaq had its iPaq(running windows) long before apple thought of the iPad(or iPhone)
while I agree nuclear disarment worldwide to include us, two points:
1. it is the Russians, not us that has the most nuclear weapons (we run #2), the point is almost moot because both nations have enough to nuke the world over.(both are cold war legacies).
2. Unilateral disarment does NOT solve the problem, merely leaves us vulnerable.
The solution is MUTUAL disarment as negotiated via talks and treaties with all nations with nuclear weapons programs. Given before hand, there was some skeptacism that a moritorium of nuclear weapons was not PRAGMATIC, simply because we had no way to verify a signatory to a treaty would respect their end of the bargin.
Now it seems the technology exists, and it should be possible to go ahead with a nuclear moratorium, provided all nations are willing to go along with it.
This shows how microsofts model of making people pay to beta test backfires, because no one wants to spend money on anything not 10 years old.
No one in the linux scene is bitching because they stopped maintaining kernel 2.4 (came out around the same time as XP).
yes and no. the stasi was numerically the largest secret police with well over 300,000 members.
There was a very real cost, and a very large amount of them(they cost money). Without such numbers control might have been impossible.
Compare that with 30,000 (1/10 that) of Nazi Gestapo who did an equally effectively frightening job with the same results.
Then we have today. state survialliance is cheaper, especially when the cameras are being installed anyway by private companies marketing them as a postive good. Various other institutions install cameras its just a matter of the government co-opting them when they need them, very little actual cost.
and I thought the biggest threat to personal saftey are these shadowy groups hording zero day exploits only available to the uber rich, corporates and govnerments. They openly flaunt their unwillingness to share code or data on their exploits to get the most dollar out of their insanely priced holes in other reputable companies software.
Hackitists I'd say are more ethical in general, and even petty cyber crooks who use publicly available exploits far less a threat. In fact any hacker regardless of motive who shares information of any kind his exploits is FAR better than that.
it don't matter, today's crap artists force fed to us by the RIAA(MAFIAA) sound like CRAP anyway. Its not like the insane amounts of compression hurt things too bad
What does that mean more flexible ? Our Linux servers are great at running my company's website, but they won't run our accounting software. Is that flexible?
the same kernel and userland work on both super computers, cellphones, and everything in between. there is not a computing solution that can't be made to work with gnu/linux.(not that its always the best solution. Also, your company's accounting software would run just fine on linux if someone ported it for linux. Its not because of any flaw of lack of capability, but choices made by your accounting software's developer.
At least from a techincal standpoint, when you are doing development work, and control all the code, yes, linux is far more flexable than most any other operating system., to include UNIX, which as very flexable and very portable itself.
Is IIS7 any less scalable than Apache? I manage around 100 MS and Linux servers, and the only reason we have so many is for application segmentation and security, not scalability - nearly all are running on shared hardware under VMWare. Few companies need the capability of a mainframe, so I'm ignoring the mainframe/supercomputer market, and I agree that there are definitely niches where Linux is the clear choice, but most companies aren't in that niche.
I heard IIS7 has gotten a lot better. personally, my company runs both, and I lean towards apache. Apache scales marvelouslly well. It runs great on my home 1.6ghz intel atom server with 2 gb of ram, and on massive vm slices on my companies zLinux server.
The same great powerful platform. Scalable? the only diffrence is my home box has obviously less capacity. Its fast on a low power machine, works awesome as a DIY webserver, at the same time its powerful enough to host enterprise grade apps and high work loads, again using more powerful hardware.
same great webserver, same great kernel, same great userland.
same great skill set gained with home server getting my awesome job.
while its great to learn "old school unix" as most "old school unix" leads to better linux skills(and code correct), most places who run old unix boxes are switching to linux. the company I work went from solaris on sparc, to solaris on x86 to linux on x86. Solaris being legacy boxes. again good to know both, we call this being "well rounded". Oh, and any idiot can run windows. there are no shortage of linux sys-admin jobs. There are no shortage of idiots with MCSEs either. Linux gurus are in short supply.
linux is also king shit in the super computer market, with 92% of the install base.
also linux servers are more flexable and scalable than windows, and they DO have a presence in the mainframe market(suprised but true).
Shaking windows from the desktop market is going to be hard, and there is no real concentrated effort to do so. Every other market, linux either dominates or is a major player.
now, convincing companies to run linux on the desktop is hard. it does help that we have an old UNIX guru at work as the "master hacker" and computer cult cheiftan. Being that linux is probably the most flexible, powerful, and usable of all modern day *NIX systems.(runs on more systems than netbsd)
I work in a large but otherwise nameless company. They picked up "linux" on my resume, gave me and interveiw and hired me without any real certs based on my linux knowledge.
I get a lot of emails looking for either linux admins or linux system tuners. its the hot new thing.
keep looking through monster and career builder. or mabey your city is just open source unfriendly?
Given that the wall street journal serves the financial industry which buys its credibility from the media, which keeps all the dirty little things they do to fuck over the average joe world widc legal.
Isn't it in self intrest that SOMEONE censor the internet. It doesn't matter who censors the internet, especially if they are the same people they buy PR from. Even if it wasn't they have plenty of money to buy a single source off.
Again, this comes as angst against wall street is at an all time high. they recovered from the recession on government funded dollars, while the common Joe struggles.
from Xanax, to prozac, to Ritalian, psyciatric drugs are especially prone to being used and abused recreationally. All of which are rountinely advertised in spam mail. Is this really any diffrent than illegal online pharamcies, except a grey veneer of legality provided by licensed doctors selling prescriptions(see above).
This is putting a new fancy name on an old dirty scheme.
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just don't ask on where to find an abortion. Siri uses a backend search algorythm named wolfram alpha, something they did not invent at all. Again, its apple putting a fancy wrapper on what has existed for years.
*QUICK* someone change the emporer's luggage!
Both are comitted to making closed parellel worlds. At least with linux, linux fanbois form a community, and this communtiy makes foward progress.(submit bug reports, small bits of code, beta test, etc...)
With apple, and now MS(yes, MS fanbois, the few the shameless), their fanbois are just a giant pyramid marketing scheme to turn paying customers into advertisers. The actuall contribution to actual computing is hot air.
Google isn't perfect but they do a far better job at openness than either apple or microsoft. But again, why trust any corporation. This isn't about Corporation vs Corporation. This is about corporate serfdom vs free software.
getting back to MS, most geeks over 25 who remember the internet, and desktop computers of the 1990s, don't remember MS so fondly, and they've killed many attempts to improve computers, simply because it might cost them money or marketshare down the road.
If Micrsoft's legacy was just shitty products I don't think anyone would care so much. Its the FUD, specificly flowing through the balding hot tempered miscreant of then-VP, now-CEO Steve Balmer. If there was ever a picture of unrepentant asshole who's leadership style is that of "Tank Girl" foe Keslee, its Steve Balmer.
If that wasn't enough, most of us didn't like being reffered to as un-American, or propigators of a "virus"(both spoken about linux and open source by Mr Balmer). Heck even the term "going viral" is based off linux's rise to popularity via the internet.
Then we get back to the concept we have as a society that money == automatic quality. We have this misplaced notion that paying money to a strict central authority makes something either better or more secure.
I've measured average use of my 17" LED backlit LCD screens at 8 watts a piece(2 of them), with 16 max in torch mode.(per spec). it might make a diffrence if you are using other technologies, but for the common joe, just get a low power monitor(s)
What I presume but cannot confirm, and no one speaks of, is attack campaigns run by similar groups, again, for anyone with enough money to pay them. We DO know that many of these corporations collect intelligence on critics.
I've ran into other people who have huge botnets set up to fake a mass apeal in order to get other people to buy products out of need for conformity.
exploding toliets, set it to the william tell overature.
After all the shit Big Auto has done over the years, and suddenly the open source model is under attack because of merely two recalls of a new type of product thats never really been done on a mass scale before?
Anyone has actually used software knows there are FAR less bugs in open source software than closed. Think about it or a second. You have more people looking over the code in error checking, far more man/hours going into the project than would be feasible for a for-profit closed source project, where you'd have to pay everyone who even came close to the code.(not cheap either).
Then we have quality of individual. People who program closed source don't give a shit so long as their job doesn't go away. Open Source Programmers CARE. Next your going to tell me some guy in a cubicle with a bachleors, or even associates in computer science is going to match
Back to the topic, Open Source cars are STILL a great idea. We just need some people who are better at it.
Of course, here is his official contact info: http://mikerogers.house.gov/Contact/
start making "concerned citizen" phone calls. Remember to be assertive, but polite. Just remember, his PRIVILEGE of being on congressman is dependent on your RIGHT to vote.
Few remember old windows phones fondly.
Then we get to tablets. the only diffrence between large tablets and small tablets is the size of the screen and casing.
Just remember Compaq had its iPaq(running windows) long before apple thought of the iPad(or iPhone)
this, qft
before you start talking about modern consumer electronics which are the best they've ever been, think about consumer grade hardware in the 1990s.
boot times where 5+ min. never worked right. plug and play didn't work, no standards on HW.Drivers sucked.
sheet, we got it easy today.
while I agree nuclear disarment worldwide to include us, two points: 1. it is the Russians, not us that has the most nuclear weapons (we run #2), the point is almost moot because both nations have enough to nuke the world over.(both are cold war legacies). 2. Unilateral disarment does NOT solve the problem, merely leaves us vulnerable. The solution is MUTUAL disarment as negotiated via talks and treaties with all nations with nuclear weapons programs. Given before hand, there was some skeptacism that a moritorium of nuclear weapons was not PRAGMATIC, simply because we had no way to verify a signatory to a treaty would respect their end of the bargin. Now it seems the technology exists, and it should be possible to go ahead with a nuclear moratorium, provided all nations are willing to go along with it.
This shows how microsofts model of making people pay to beta test backfires, because no one wants to spend money on anything not 10 years old. No one in the linux scene is bitching because they stopped maintaining kernel 2.4 (came out around the same time as XP).
1. We want this
2. We are somehow responsible for this.
3. Expect the stereotypes not to be returned in kind.
yes and no. the stasi was numerically the largest secret police with well over 300,000 members. There was a very real cost, and a very large amount of them(they cost money). Without such numbers control might have been impossible. Compare that with 30,000 (1/10 that) of Nazi Gestapo who did an equally effectively frightening job with the same results. Then we have today. state survialliance is cheaper, especially when the cameras are being installed anyway by private companies marketing them as a postive good. Various other institutions install cameras its just a matter of the government co-opting them when they need them, very little actual cost.
and I thought the biggest threat to personal saftey are these shadowy groups hording zero day exploits only available to the uber rich, corporates and govnerments. They openly flaunt their unwillingness to share code or data on their exploits to get the most dollar out of their insanely priced holes in other reputable companies software.
Hackitists I'd say are more ethical in general, and even petty cyber crooks who use publicly available exploits far less a threat. In fact any hacker regardless of motive who shares information of any kind his exploits is FAR better than that.
it don't matter, today's crap artists force fed to us by the RIAA(MAFIAA) sound like CRAP anyway. Its not like the insane amounts of compression hurt things too bad
What does that mean more flexible ? Our Linux servers are great at running my company's website, but they won't run our accounting software. Is that flexible?
the same kernel and userland work on both super computers, cellphones, and everything in between. there is not a computing solution that can't be made to work with gnu/linux.(not that its always the best solution. Also, your company's accounting software would run just fine on linux if someone ported it for linux. Its not because of any flaw of lack of capability, but choices made by your accounting software's developer. At least from a techincal standpoint, when you are doing development work, and control all the code, yes, linux is far more flexable than most any other operating system., to include UNIX, which as very flexable and very portable itself.
Is IIS7 any less scalable than Apache? I manage around 100 MS and Linux servers, and the only reason we have so many is for application segmentation and security, not scalability - nearly all are running on shared hardware under VMWare. Few companies need the capability of a mainframe, so I'm ignoring the mainframe/supercomputer market, and I agree that there are definitely niches where Linux is the clear choice, but most companies aren't in that niche.
I heard IIS7 has gotten a lot better. personally, my company runs both, and I lean towards apache. Apache scales marvelouslly well. It runs great on my home 1.6ghz intel atom server with 2 gb of ram, and on massive vm slices on my companies zLinux server.
The same great powerful platform. Scalable? the only diffrence is my home box has obviously less capacity. Its fast on a low power machine, works awesome as a DIY webserver, at the same time its powerful enough to host enterprise grade apps and high work loads, again using more powerful hardware.
same great webserver, same great kernel, same great userland.
same great skill set gained with home server getting my awesome job.
oh, your a troll, fuck off.
also linux servers are more flexable and scalable than windows, and they DO have a presence in the mainframe market(suprised but true).
Shaking windows from the desktop market is going to be hard, and there is no real concentrated effort to do so. Every other market, linux either dominates or is a major player.
oh an make sure you know your shit.
I work in a large but otherwise nameless company. They picked up "linux" on my resume, gave me and interveiw and hired me without any real certs based on my linux knowledge.
I get a lot of emails looking for either linux admins or linux system tuners. its the hot new thing.
keep looking through monster and career builder. or mabey your city is just open source unfriendly?
Isn't it in self intrest that SOMEONE censor the internet. It doesn't matter who censors the internet, especially if they are the same people they buy PR from. Even if it wasn't they have plenty of money to buy a single source off.
Again, this comes as angst against wall street is at an all time high. they recovered from the recession on government funded dollars, while the common Joe struggles.
A new wave of protests might stiffle that.
Does this sound like fly-by-night operations setting up new pill-mills. like the old Florida "Pain Clinics". http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501263_162-2872835-501263.html
from Xanax, to prozac, to Ritalian, psyciatric drugs are especially prone to being used and abused recreationally. All of which are rountinely advertised in spam mail. Is this really any diffrent than illegal online pharamcies, except a grey veneer of legality provided by licensed doctors selling prescriptions(see above).
This is putting a new fancy name on an old dirty scheme.