very good point, but there is a different between co's and individuals. If a company does it and its against the policies of google, they can be more accountable and all it'd take is one person to get nailed for it, unfortunately it'd through the courts so thats another story
The courts are starting to smarten up (hopefully). its pretty obvious to most that message boards cant be considered reliable sources per say. I use the info all the time from boards, but i dont get upset and also dont expect it to be 100% accurate. Atleast the courts now realize this. Well one court, but that should follow for the rest of the US and world.
i trust google , they say something i believe it. i have no reason not to. they have always had a consistent history of being honest. politicions though, probably not the most honest indviduals out there.
What? because you are too lazy to rate something? i know i will be rating sites for many of my searches. I should hope you would. so the only minority is it takes effort to do it. Im sure they will make it easy, possibly with that toolbar? How is this a big sellout. because they are giving you the power to rate a site. This also isnt a replacement to the current system. The current system works well, but it something like this could make a very cool addition.
Google doesnt accept bribes to rate a certain website the first on the list. It doesnt matter if a company starts rating itself up. there will be restrictions on that I'm sure. but other people will be able to rate that site as not useful for a particular search. It will be the masses helping to determine what results are useful in addition with googles excellent back end
So basically the government is allowed to use this type of software, but if anyone else does, its prison time. This isnt all bad, it is how it works now. the police have more powers than citizens, but now they are having Software companies protect their power. Why should the software companies do this? its not their responsibility. What is stupid about this is that it wont matter, someone else will detect it with a small little program. so the FBI's nifty little $2 million (or whatever) will be useless against actual criminals, but against average citizens it is effective (THIS IS NOT saying they will use it against everyone)
I always looked on the cable company's as a bit more stable. The DSL were to dependant on someone else's infrastructure, while cable owned a lot of it. The DSL companys have been dropping left and right, and lately ive noticed the phone companies really pumping their service. I always wondered if the phone companies were jerking around the DSL providers to drive them out of business then clean up the pieces. Maybe cable companies are a bit dependant on the telcos at one point. id assume they would directly connect into the NAP's but who knows.
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I have trouble believing that with choosing a license is excercising power. I suppose it is, but its excercising power over your own creation. Anyone else that uses it is recieving it as a gift. The programmer did not HAVE to release it at all. He is giving rights to someone else. giving them even more power. The programmer is giving the user the power to use what software, by giving him the option of XYZ app, giving him the power to change or modify (if the programmer chose to), giving them the power on how much they can redistribute it. I use the word power here because it is a power granted by the programmer, it is not an automatic right for the end user to be able to use that programmers hardwork.
Whats the possibility a domain name company would tell them NO, we wont give up the name. Do they have control over the registers to take it and make nameservers forget the domain.?
If they didnt have that much power, some registar could just tell them to kiss off. but i doubt that would be likely
if you have a sign in your house window, and someone takes a picture of it. you cant sue that person when you find out your sign had stuff it shouldnt have
same here, i dont care if its a little less quality. if its 90% of the original, good enough. i dont have amazing speakers. im not going to get amazing speakers. if it sounds good on my sound setup, it works. thats all i care about, not audiophile quality. screw that.
patents are not necessarily bad. even thats debateable. the patent process basically takes the grounds that only one entity can come up with a unique idea. the telephone was invented by 2 people independantly (to what extent, i cant remeber). but someone else could be unaware of this idea and come up with it themselves, wouldnt it be a unique idea?
uuhhhh, linux has generally been less concerned with look and more with usability. hence the prevelance of the CLI, it may be harder to learn, but its definately powerful. lately they have been concerned with look and feel, but also building it on powerful tools. they have been making things look cool, customizable. more power to them for that.
testify, i never understood the point of pdfs. They are great for sending a document that needs to be printed. but for stuff that is going to be read on screen, what a shitty interface. the entire window moves and it doesnt have that feel of lines and pages.
im going to do something similar, except with a TV out for visualizations and divx etc. eventually get a TV tuner and its a tivo. also i am looking for nice remotes so i can customize the commands etc. one of those old gateway destination with the track ball could be pretty cool.
yes this would save money but with there activation code bs it will become hard and harder. granted that code has probably been cracked or some workaround for it. but they are basically trying to kill the casual copying or loaning of disks. that really is irritating because i hate those Restore disks hp and gateway give you. i just want to install winders on my friends machine (well I would want linux, but they want windows) they dont want all that garbage. they paid for a copy of windows, so why cant i use my install disk, and their legal cdkey?
Avoid committees's like the plague. No matter the organization, too much dependance on a seperate group making the decisions will only foster a failure. Its not as much a problem with splitting the group into sections, but rather the people that oversee those groups. can you make descions together between sections, or will you be needing to go to the higher up, which then calls the dreaded meeting.
no, thats wrong. 2.2 is meant for mission critical. 2.4 will work, but it doesnt have the time tested "garuntee." Anyone running 2.4 as mission critical system had better have one hell of a good backup system in place. Not to say 2.4 is completely unstable and such, but for mission critical applications, you dont want to take those chances.
yes this is quite a serious bug, but 2 things set this apart from MS. It will be fixed within 24-48 hours. The frequency of these bugs are a bit smaller than MS's bug of the day (which very often are large holes).
not a flame, but ive had more corruption on win2k. our server at work had a corrupt file that hosed backups. MS's response to getting rid of this file, format the drive. that may not count as corrupt filesystem, but it was quite a serious problem.
Personally ive never had a corrupt filesystem (that wasnt fsck fixable) in linux using ext2, reiser, or xfs.
From the looks of the post this bug occurs regardless of filesystem. Is that accurate? or would certain fs's be unaffected, im guessing that it doesnt matter, anyone care to clarify that
Not so much jumping through hoops and regulations. One group (cant remeber which one) said that if the epa gave them any guff they would just go south across the mexican border, or somewhere else that wouldnt have soo many laws and regulations. But the money is still a huge advantage obviousely for china, although that may not be as important, look at NASA's successes/failures. The budget has been cut, yet they have basically been using scrap piles to find parts. But thats a fine balance of knowledge and money so this will be interesting space race between amatures and china?
That reminds me of an old forward, the difference between drug dealers and programmers:
Drug Dealers:
-Refer to their clients as "users"
-"The first one's free!"
-Have important South-East Asian connections (to help move the stuff)
-Strange jargon: "Stick," "Rock,", "Dime bag,"
-Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market.
-Job is assisted by the industry's producing
newer, more potent mixes.
-Often seen in the company of pushers,pimps and hustlers.
-Their product causes unhealthy addictions.
-Do your job well, and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you.
Programmers:
-Refer to their clients as "users"
-"Download a free trial version!"
-Have important South-East Asian connections (to help debug code)
-Strange jargon:"SCSI," "RTFM", "Java," "ISDN".
-Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market.
-Job is assisted by the industry's producing newer, faster, more potent machines.
-Often seen in the company of salesman,
marketing people and venture capitalists.
-DOOM. Marathon. SimCity. Command&Conquor. 'Nuff said
-Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!
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very good point, but there is a different between co's and individuals. If a company does it and its against the policies of google, they can be more accountable and all it'd take is one person to get nailed for it, unfortunately it'd through the courts so thats another story
The courts are starting to smarten up (hopefully). its pretty obvious to most that message boards cant be considered reliable sources per say. I use the info all the time from boards, but i dont get upset and also dont expect it to be 100% accurate. Atleast the courts now realize this. Well one court, but that should follow for the rest of the US and world.
i trust google , they say something i believe it. i have no reason not to. they have always had a consistent history of being honest. politicions though, probably not the most honest indviduals out there.
What? because you are too lazy to rate something? i know i will be rating sites for many of my searches. I should hope you would. so the only minority is it takes effort to do it. Im sure they will make it easy, possibly with that toolbar? How is this a big sellout. because they are giving you the power to rate a site. This also isnt a replacement to the current system. The current system works well, but it something like this could make a very cool addition.
Google doesnt accept bribes to rate a certain website the first on the list. It doesnt matter if a company starts rating itself up. there will be restrictions on that I'm sure. but other people will be able to rate that site as not useful for a particular search. It will be the masses helping to determine what results are useful in addition with googles excellent back end
So basically the government is allowed to use this type of software, but if anyone else does, its prison time. This isnt all bad, it is how it works now. the police have more powers than citizens, but now they are having Software companies protect their power. Why should the software companies do this? its not their responsibility. What is stupid about this is that it wont matter, someone else will detect it with a small little program. so the FBI's nifty little $2 million (or whatever) will be useless against actual criminals, but against average citizens it is effective (THIS IS NOT saying they will use it against everyone)
I always looked on the cable company's as a bit more stable. The DSL were to dependant on someone else's infrastructure, while cable owned a lot of it. The DSL companys have been dropping left and right, and lately ive noticed the phone companies really pumping their service. I always wondered if the phone companies were jerking around the DSL providers to drive them out of business then clean up the pieces. Maybe cable companies are a bit dependant on the telcos at one point. id assume they would directly connect into the NAP's but who knows.
I have trouble believing that with choosing a license is excercising power. I suppose it is, but its excercising power over your own creation. Anyone else that uses it is recieving it as a gift. The programmer did not HAVE to release it at all. He is giving rights to someone else. giving them even more power. The programmer is giving the user the power to use what software, by giving him the option of XYZ app, giving him the power to change or modify (if the programmer chose to), giving them the power on how much they can redistribute it. I use the word power here because it is a power granted by the programmer, it is not an automatic right for the end user to be able to use that programmers hardwork.
Whats the possibility a domain name company would tell them NO, we wont give up the name. Do they have control over the registers to take it and make nameservers forget the domain.?
If they didnt have that much power, some registar could just tell them to kiss off. but i doubt that would be likely
but software doesnt have a finite limit, copy millions of times, for a relatively low cost
if you have a sign in your house window, and someone takes a picture of it. you cant sue that person when you find out your sign had stuff it shouldnt have
same here, i dont care if its a little less quality. if its 90% of the original, good enough. i dont have amazing speakers. im not going to get amazing speakers. if it sounds good on my sound setup, it works. thats all i care about, not audiophile quality. screw that.
patents are not necessarily bad. even thats debateable. the patent process basically takes the grounds that only one entity can come up with a unique idea. the telephone was invented by 2 people independantly (to what extent, i cant remeber). but someone else could be unaware of this idea and come up with it themselves, wouldnt it be a unique idea?
uuhhhh, linux has generally been less concerned with look and more with usability. hence the prevelance of the CLI, it may be harder to learn, but its definately powerful. lately they have been concerned with look and feel, but also building it on powerful tools. they have been making things look cool, customizable. more power to them for that.
testify, i never understood the point of pdfs. They are great for sending a document that needs to be printed. but for stuff that is going to be read on screen, what a shitty interface. the entire window moves and it doesnt have that feel of lines and pages.
im going to do something similar, except with a TV out for visualizations and divx etc. eventually get a TV tuner and its a tivo. also i am looking for nice remotes so i can customize the commands etc. one of those old gateway destination with the track ball could be pretty cool.
yes this would save money but with there activation code bs it will become hard and harder. granted that code has probably been cracked or some workaround for it. but they are basically trying to kill the casual copying or loaning of disks. that really is irritating because i hate those Restore disks hp and gateway give you. i just want to install winders on my friends machine (well I would want linux, but they want windows) they dont want all that garbage. they paid for a copy of windows, so why cant i use my install disk, and their legal cdkey?
Avoid committees's like the plague. No matter the organization, too much dependance on a seperate group making the decisions will only foster a failure. Its not as much a problem with splitting the group into sections, but rather the people that oversee those groups. can you make descions together between sections, or will you be needing to go to the higher up, which then calls the dreaded meeting.
no, thats wrong. 2.2 is meant for mission critical. 2.4 will work, but it doesnt have the time tested "garuntee." Anyone running 2.4 as mission critical system had better have one hell of a good backup system in place. Not to say 2.4 is completely unstable and such, but for mission critical applications, you dont want to take those chances.
yes this is quite a serious bug, but 2 things set this apart from MS. It will be fixed within 24-48 hours. The frequency of these bugs are a bit smaller than MS's bug of the day (which very often are large holes).
not a flame, but ive had more corruption on win2k. our server at work had a corrupt file that hosed backups. MS's response to getting rid of this file, format the drive. that may not count as corrupt filesystem, but it was quite a serious problem.
Personally ive never had a corrupt filesystem (that wasnt fsck fixable) in linux using ext2, reiser, or xfs.
From the looks of the post this bug occurs regardless of filesystem. Is that accurate? or would certain fs's be unaffected, im guessing that it doesnt matter, anyone care to clarify that
Not so much jumping through hoops and regulations. One group (cant remeber which one) said that if the epa gave them any guff they would just go south across the mexican border, or somewhere else that wouldnt have soo many laws and regulations. But the money is still a huge advantage obviousely for china, although that may not be as important, look at NASA's successes/failures. The budget has been cut, yet they have basically been using scrap piles to find parts. But thats a fine balance of knowledge and money so this will be interesting space race between amatures and china?
Uh what prices enterprise's are paying? they are a hell of a lot cheaper than pricewatch when you are buying 1000 dimms ram etc.
That reminds me of an old forward, the difference between drug dealers and programmers:
Drug Dealers:
-Refer to their clients as "users"
-"The first one's free!"
-Have important South-East Asian connections (to help move the stuff)
-Strange jargon: "Stick," "Rock,", "Dime bag,"
-Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market.
-Job is assisted by the industry's producing
newer, more potent mixes.
-Often seen in the company of pushers,pimps and hustlers.
-Their product causes unhealthy addictions.
-Do your job well, and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you.
Programmers:
-Refer to their clients as "users"
-"Download a free trial version!"
-Have important South-East Asian connections (to help debug code)
-Strange jargon:"SCSI," "RTFM", "Java," "ISDN".
-Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market.
-Job is assisted by the industry's producing newer, faster, more potent machines.
-Often seen in the company of salesman,
marketing people and venture capitalists.
-DOOM. Marathon. SimCity. Command&Conquor. 'Nuff said
-Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!