Sorry, but it's not FUD. FUD is short for "fear, uncertainty and doubt" IMHO, it's spreading: - Fear of Linus spending increasingly much attention on other projects. - Uncertainty of if Linus opinions are for the best for Linux at this point. - Doubt in whether Linus' opinions are useful ones to listen to.
NOTE (with a big flashing blink tag) -- this is not necessarily my opinion.
I think there's the traditional conspiracy breeding ground at work here: lack of knowledge. I understand that can surely come off as a "high horse" opinion, so I might add that I also lacked this knowledge, more specifically in that cable cuts are this common. I think there's nothing wrong in admitting this; the problem starts when "lack of knowledge" turn into "ignorance".
Anyway, when media started reporting these cables being damaged at around the same times, the only newsworthy thing was really the coincidence, not that cables were being damaged. While at the same time, the public reading these stories (and quite likely the journalists themselves) thought that even the cable cuts themselves were uncommon ("why would this otherwise be reported as news?"), and now there was so many of them too! Apply the extra confusion on when the "fifth" cut took place, and you have the conspiracies floating around as they do now. I think it's still even commonly reported that Iran has been harmed a lot, neglecting the wide scale trouble Asia has got from this.
So all in all, from reading up on these things and being willing to be influenced by facts, I've pretty much discarded these conspiracy theories and think it's all just a widespread problem for many more regions than Iran, and also looks like a coincidence on top of that.
It was in relation to the silly Danish Muhammed drawings. There was a debate aired on TV and the moderator asked the Muslim woman to tell us exactly how bad they looked at these images, because we didn't have a good reference in typical Western culture. She then compared it to be a bit like child pornography! Yes, the image of a religious "icon" depicted even in a neutral non-sexual way is like children being abused sexually. This was also not a Muslim extremist; she was calm and well reasoning and all that in general, and lived peacefully in our country.
I then remembered why I'll never understand some religions...
Only that dark matter isn't necessarily a new particle or has to be a product of fantasy. That's among the debated things. All it seems to be is some sort of particle with a mass that doesn't reflect light or emitting much else that can be detected, making it dark. So some theories have said it could be neutrinos, or maybe neutralinos, that are actually predicted to exist by modern theories.
But dark matter seem to be unevenly distributed around various objects and not as if it was a general "constant" factor acting. It's not just theories, but observations on gravitaional lensing too.
IMO, Windows XP was never really that bad, and I've always considered it a step up from Windows 2000. Most people annoyed about XP was due to the crappy skin, but that's remedied in some time less than a minute by switching to the classic skin (and saving system resources in the process). After having done that, I can only note that XP has better stability than 2000 (ya, rly! I've had registry crashes on 2000 on a magnitude I've never seen on XP; actually XP with good drivers quite rarely crash for being a consumer OS), much improved hardware support, driver rollback support, fast user switching, networking over FireWire & Bluetooth, etc.
And since XP is getting pretty old, the recommended specs to run it fairly well is still just about 256-512 MB RAM or so on a 300+ MHz CPU.
DirectX 10 isn't all of what Vista offers, but speaking of that, I'm one of those who have played DX10 games on Vista and a Geforce 8800GTS w/ 640 MB RAM, and all I can say is that I agree with this. Yes, still. Even after new driver releases and even games. I thought that part would mature over time, but no. DirectX 10 games really do seem to cut about half the performance in bad cases.
That would be so hilarious if it just wasn't such a pathetic "solution" by them.
What are they going to do next? Keep asking ISP's to adjust their DNS records? Where to draw the line? The Pirate Bay has, after all, still not been ruled down by Swedish court, and Denmark AFAIK uses the same kind of copyright laws due to also being members of the EU. So correct me if I'm wrong, but these should be pretty harmonized as for those laws.
Yeah, either this is from Digg, or from Reddit. I saw the same old today on Reddit... I haven't bothered comparing the dates to see who was first though.
But it's an interesting new problem in social news reporting. News tend to spread like wildfire, but that also includes bad or confusing reporting. This isn't the first time it has happened, at I predict it will become tremendously more common in the future, the more interconnected and popular social news sites like Slashdot (it now is one too especially since Firehose was implemented -- and no doubt have you seen the signs of this lately), Digg, Reddit, etc.:-(
Yes, granted it would be safer security-wise to encrypt the system drive than going through the trouble of ensuring the system doesn't store anything sensitive on it without your knowledge.
However, if the encryption is only about personal documents, mails, and simple things like that, and you don't need "deep" encryption of various stuff that may risk ending up on the system drive without your knowledge, I would also rather encrypt a non-system drive. That way, you would as you say not always have to enter a passphrase, and also gain a lot of performance boosts since an operating system that's running encrypted (swap file and all) could have a noticeable performance penalty.
However, it again doesn't separate the changes in the kernel from the rest, but to a reasonably experienced programmer, one should be able to distinguish some of that from the rest. For example, the new random number generator is likely a kernel change, etc...
... who feels like they may have simplified the most interesting parts clear out of the game, filled the gaps liberally with WoW, and ended up with a game that, admittedly, has a much lower barrier to entry but is also not particularly interesting? That is what I felt began with D&D 3e, but unlike this time, I felt that sort of change was needed. D&D 3e ended up pretty nicely IMO, and 3.5 touching up some of the problems and adding minor improvements to some other things. It started feeling quite mature. Then this arrived.:-S No, I can't say I'm sitting on nails with my expectations up.
Microsoft is the guys here with the massive OEM deals to push their products onto the market, and using the economy gained from that to make "impossible" deals when they're thirsty of making a deal.
What has Google made? The main things would be... A search engine that beats the pants off Microsoft, designed while they were still a startup company? It hasn't really evolved much since that (actually that's a bit to my dismay). Oh, and their ads. Thanks to their (mostly) text-based ads, they found a niche and sucessfully expanded upon it as (surprise, surprise!) people found those ads more likeable than the banner shit spewn forth by competing advertising programs.
Anyway, trying to take a neutral stance on this, I think the thing here is that regardless if Microsoft and Yahoo merges, or Google and Yahoo does it, it will form a company with a very powerful web platform. So maybe neither should be allowed to? But if one should be, I think both should. Microsoft's abuse of their position is another matter than the power in the market this merge would form IMHO, and they should be caught for that stuff when that happens.
His idea assumes the existence of a bizarre substance called "phantom matter", which has been proposed to explain how wormholes might stay open. So they not only exist, but they have been shown to stay open too!?
Dark matter is a shim used to make our theory of gravity and the motion of the observed universe match. No, it's also indirectly observerd through gravitational lensing where the theories tell it should be.
Ambiguous graph aside, alexa still ranks yahoo.com number one. Alexa is IMHO a stupid measurement of popularity.
It's not a measurement of the Internet population at large; it's a measurement of who installs the Alexa Toolbar. I don't know even one person who I have seen it had installed. The demography Alexa measures is most likely the most clueless of clueless users, since there's nothing even in it for you if you use it, just for Alexa. Not exactly geek material, or even an adequately seasoned online user.
Since the demography is likely skewed and since it's becoming a nich product in comparison to e.g. the Google toolbar that actually offers some convenient benefits too (and seems to be bundled with more applications), I wouldn't seriously use it when discussing the Internet population at large.
Actually, I rarely hear anyone even using Yahoo! besides for side services like Flickr (but that's not counted as Yahoo by Alexa as it counts domains). However, I'm for that reason not surprised that Alexa lists Yahoo so highly. That actually rather confirms my belief in that it has skewed statistics due to the special demography it targets with their useless toolbar.
I agree, that tag was sort of useful before, because it was tagged for stuff that held unusually big risks (or at least so the uninformed reader would be led to believe after glancing over the story), but now the entire category has been ruined.:-(
I like most of it! I like how it separates the text from the comments in a distinct way. I also like how the new comment system works faster for me than the old one, and the extra features it brings.
I don't like the now very small text boxes to input text in though, among a few things.:-S
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I heard it's something about sports they're crazy about in the USA, even more than the world cup in soccer, believe it or not! It's supposedly about bowling.:-p
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- Fear of Linus spending increasingly much attention on other projects.
- Uncertainty of if Linus opinions are for the best for Linux at this point.
- Doubt in whether Linus' opinions are useful ones to listen to.
NOTE (with a big flashing blink tag) -- this is not necessarily my opinion.
I think there's the traditional conspiracy breeding ground at work here: lack of knowledge. I understand that can surely come off as a "high horse" opinion, so I might add that I also lacked this knowledge, more specifically in that cable cuts are this common. I think there's nothing wrong in admitting this; the problem starts when "lack of knowledge" turn into "ignorance".
Anyway, when media started reporting these cables being damaged at around the same times, the only newsworthy thing was really the coincidence, not that cables were being damaged. While at the same time, the public reading these stories (and quite likely the journalists themselves) thought that even the cable cuts themselves were uncommon ("why would this otherwise be reported as news?"), and now there was so many of them too! Apply the extra confusion on when the "fifth" cut took place, and you have the conspiracies floating around as they do now. I think it's still even commonly reported that Iran has been harmed a lot, neglecting the wide scale trouble Asia has got from this.
So all in all, from reading up on these things and being willing to be influenced by facts, I've pretty much discarded these conspiracy theories and think it's all just a widespread problem for many more regions than Iran, and also looks like a coincidence on top of that.
It was in relation to the silly Danish Muhammed drawings. There was a debate aired on TV and the moderator asked the Muslim woman to tell us exactly how bad they looked at these images, because we didn't have a good reference in typical Western culture. She then compared it to be a bit like child pornography! Yes, the image of a religious "icon" depicted even in a neutral non-sexual way is like children being abused sexually. This was also not a Muslim extremist; she was calm and well reasoning and all that in general, and lived peacefully in our country.
I then remembered why I'll never understand some religions...
Almost! Over here it was GameCopyWorld.
Only that dark matter isn't necessarily a new particle or has to be a product of fantasy. That's among the debated things. All it seems to be is some sort of particle with a mass that doesn't reflect light or emitting much else that can be detected, making it dark. So some theories have said it could be neutrinos, or maybe neutralinos, that are actually predicted to exist by modern theories.
But dark matter seem to be unevenly distributed around various objects and not as if it was a general "constant" factor acting. It's not just theories, but observations on gravitaional lensing too.
IMO, Windows XP was never really that bad, and I've always considered it a step up from Windows 2000. Most people annoyed about XP was due to the crappy skin, but that's remedied in some time less than a minute by switching to the classic skin (and saving system resources in the process). After having done that, I can only note that XP has better stability than 2000 (ya, rly! I've had registry crashes on 2000 on a magnitude I've never seen on XP; actually XP with good drivers quite rarely crash for being a consumer OS), much improved hardware support, driver rollback support, fast user switching, networking over FireWire & Bluetooth, etc.
And since XP is getting pretty old, the recommended specs to run it fairly well is still just about 256-512 MB RAM or so on a 300+ MHz CPU.
DirectX 10 isn't all of what Vista offers, but speaking of that, I'm one of those who have played DX10 games on Vista and a Geforce 8800GTS w/ 640 MB RAM, and all I can say is that I agree with this. Yes, still. Even after new driver releases and even games. I thought that part would mature over time, but no. DirectX 10 games really do seem to cut about half the performance in bad cases.
That would be so hilarious if it just wasn't such a pathetic "solution" by them.
What are they going to do next? Keep asking ISP's to adjust their DNS records? Where to draw the line? The Pirate Bay has, after all, still not been ruled down by Swedish court, and Denmark AFAIK uses the same kind of copyright laws due to also being members of the EU. So correct me if I'm wrong, but these should be pretty harmonized as for those laws.
Yeah, either this is from Digg, or from Reddit. I saw the same old today on Reddit... I haven't bothered comparing the dates to see who was first though.
:-(
But it's an interesting new problem in social news reporting. News tend to spread like wildfire, but that also includes bad or confusing reporting. This isn't the first time it has happened, at I predict it will become tremendously more common in the future, the more interconnected and popular social news sites like Slashdot (it now is one too especially since Firehose was implemented -- and no doubt have you seen the signs of this lately), Digg, Reddit, etc.
Yes, granted it would be safer security-wise to encrypt the system drive than going through the trouble of ensuring the system doesn't store anything sensitive on it without your knowledge.
However, if the encryption is only about personal documents, mails, and simple things like that, and you don't need "deep" encryption of various stuff that may risk ending up on the system drive without your knowledge, I would also rather encrypt a non-system drive. That way, you would as you say not always have to enter a passphrase, and also gain a lot of performance boosts since an operating system that's running encrypted (swap file and all) could have a noticeable performance penalty.
Speaking of security, IPv6 also has IPsec part of the standard, which IPv4 doesn't.
Actually, IPv6 has a large amount of features besides the increased address space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/c/5/9c5b2167-8017-4bae-9fde-d599bac8184a/kernel-en.doc Oops, sorry, that isn't quite it, it's for the SP1-less Vista and Server Longhorn. Well, some parts of it may apply, because Vista SP1 *is* largely the "Windows Server Longhorn" kernel, now named Windows Server 2008.
Here's something that should be a bit more accurate:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/4/a/f4a35b2b-2f62-4104-a3e6-5f7bc1318e9f/Notable%20changes%20in%20Windows%20Vista%20SP1.pdf
However, it again doesn't separate the changes in the kernel from the rest, but to a reasonably experienced programmer, one should be able to distinguish some of that from the rest. For example, the new random number generator is likely a kernel change, etc...
I agree. Horrible article. I looked for new info about what the kernel upgrade had, but he didn't know...? WTF?
That Windows Vista SP1 would have a kernel upgrade has been known for almost since the start of SP1, easily for months at least.
Articles have even already been written about what the new kernel contains. Even by Microsoft, something this guy doesn't seem to even know!
Here's the deal, although in some sort of "prerelease" form:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/c/5/9c5b2167-8017-4bae-9fde-d599bac8184a/kernel-en.doc
And here's a pretty detailed "changelog", although it doesn't separate kernel changes from the rest:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20071208/vista-sp1-changelog/
Slashdot has to be wrong, unless this was a damn short competiton.
... who feels like they may have simplified the most interesting parts clear out of the game, filled the gaps liberally with WoW, and ended up with a game that, admittedly, has a much lower barrier to entry but is also not particularly interesting? That is what I felt began with D&D 3e, but unlike this time, I felt that sort of change was needed. D&D 3e ended up pretty nicely IMO, and 3.5 touching up some of the problems and adding minor improvements to some other things. It started feeling quite mature. Then this arrived.Microsoft is the guys here with the massive OEM deals to push their products onto the market, and using the economy gained from that to make "impossible" deals when they're thirsty of making a deal.
What has Google made? The main things would be... A search engine that beats the pants off Microsoft, designed while they were still a startup company? It hasn't really evolved much since that (actually that's a bit to my dismay). Oh, and their ads. Thanks to their (mostly) text-based ads, they found a niche and sucessfully expanded upon it as (surprise, surprise!) people found those ads more likeable than the banner shit spewn forth by competing advertising programs.
Anyway, trying to take a neutral stance on this, I think the thing here is that regardless if Microsoft and Yahoo merges, or Google and Yahoo does it, it will form a company with a very powerful web platform. So maybe neither should be allowed to? But if one should be, I think both should. Microsoft's abuse of their position is another matter than the power in the market this merge would form IMHO, and they should be caught for that stuff when that happens.
What is this guy smoking!
It's not a measurement of the Internet population at large; it's a measurement of who installs the Alexa Toolbar. I don't know even one person who I have seen it had installed. The demography Alexa measures is most likely the most clueless of clueless users, since there's nothing even in it for you if you use it, just for Alexa. Not exactly geek material, or even an adequately seasoned online user.
Since the demography is likely skewed and since it's becoming a nich product in comparison to e.g. the Google toolbar that actually offers some convenient benefits too (and seems to be bundled with more applications), I wouldn't seriously use it when discussing the Internet population at large.
Actually, I rarely hear anyone even using Yahoo! besides for side services like Flickr (but that's not counted as Yahoo by Alexa as it counts domains). However, I'm for that reason not surprised that Alexa lists Yahoo so highly. That actually rather confirms my belief in that it has skewed statistics due to the special demography it targets with their useless toolbar.
I agree, that tag was sort of useful before, because it was tagged for stuff that held unusually big risks (or at least so the uninformed reader would be led to believe after glancing over the story), but now the entire category has been ruined. :-(
Then that's disgusting. :-(
So that money will now go into a financial black hole instead of that?
I like most of it! I like how it separates the text from the comments in a distinct way. I also like how the new comment system works faster for me than the old one, and the extra features it brings.
:-S
I don't like the now very small text boxes to input text in though, among a few things.
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Well, are you One of Them with Jesus Christ hanging above your TV set?
Maybe that could qualify. This is yet another disadvantage of being religious!
I heard it's something about sports they're crazy about in the USA, even more than the world cup in soccer, believe it or not! It's supposedly about bowling. :-p