Since your variables are not independent I would say that the total of people that think that internet is IE is 88% (assuming that your numbers are in fact correct). This would be due the fact that the set of people who think that internet is IE and don't think the internet is the web is most likely empty.
This is just stupid. "PowerPC" doesn't make the Mac.
Yes that is the point, power PC is not the apple Macintosh, as much as the old 68k was not an apple and the old MacOSIX (or is it MacOs9?) is not the apple and the pentiums will not be apple also.
And who says what will constitute an apple in 2010? There is no way to know if the company will not simply change direction aggain to the CPU du jour or the platafor du hour. I believe this is wrong and is taxing the faifull costomer, all of that to keep the name Apple in the headlines. I hope those costumers will get tired sometime.
Making the space available for the formulas restricted would help also, since the students would have to think about what is more important and ways to condense the information.
I remember that many people who made "colas" (cheats in Brazilian portuguese) in tiny written letters in their legs just under their skirts, or maybe in small pieces of paper that would fit inside the pen or in a pocket os something. But they woudn't need to reference te paper, or maybe do it less then they would have expected.
In fact I realy thought that the act of doing these "colas" were an exercise, sometimes better then repeating the same thing 100 times with different values and wordings as the text books would tell you to.
Not that anything mattered anyway, all knowledge that was necessary to compleat the test would be erased from everyone's head in about five minutes after the test were compleated.
Actually, I didn't know, a quick check in the wikipedia enlightmed the details. I aways had assumed that fedora was some greek reference.:-P Nice to know, thanks...:-D
Corruption can cause legal use and is a pro factor to MS and other expensive service or goods. It happens like this, at least here in Brazil, you send an estimate to the government, who by law need estimates from more then one vendor.
If you're in your turn to have the ball all of your pals that are making estimates too will have bigger prices then yours, even though your estimate is 10x higher then the street price for the same product or service. You get the contract and give a percentage to the person who contacted you.
So the manager has the option to install 100s of windows machines and get a percentage for his pocket or have a free operational system that will get him next to nothing. Guess what he will choose.
I don't use it, in fact I do not use anything from MS. But fact is people use it, and sure they are not encrypted per see (I was exaggerating, since it was after all a rant). But my girlfriend is doing her masters and she have to write her dissertation with word.
Why? Because the retarded standard for her university is a word document full of scripting and other annoyances. This text she is producing when written in the word format is not entirely her's anymore. She can't print it reliably in other computers without a 3rd party tool (that makes pdfs).
And since she works with book design and typography a txt will not be enough. In fact she don't have open tools to do what she needs. She have to use expensive adobe stuff that save into closed formats, that will not work anymore in a few years, just like those 1000s of word documents.
If I come up with a camera with features that no one else has, I would do anything to lock users to my camera - including having a closed format.
That's the point where I think is useless, I think that you can't lock anyone's work. If you want to work with top-secret lenses, ships and firmware, that's ok. But if I take a picture with your camera I sure bet I want to have access to all the information in the picture, and I should use whatever tool I think it is usefull (even if it is a binary editor). It is my work and I have all the rights on it.
I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but I'm a fan of capitalism.
Pure-capitalism is a failure as much as socialism was. It broke even earlier, remember the crash when people flew out of windows like crazy? The only solution to this was enforcing politics to the enterprises and the market. I believe that in the government should make sure the people live well. It doesn't matter if it's a capitalism, socialism or an anarchy. If the people are happy it is enough.
Microsoft has made a good move here, and rather than accept that, folks here go pedantic about how they could have done better.
If it is really a good move or not is yet to be seen, as I stated somewhere else I don't trust MS to do as it is saying it will do. If they do as announced it will be a good move that everyone will benefit, but I just will not applaud yet.
I am not saying that they should use the format X or Y (but having a single open format is better then the babel tower we have now). I applaud this initiative from MS, but I don't trust Ms to be that open (yet I sure hope so...:-)). What I don't want is a pseudo open format that in the end will be different (slightly, but different enough) from the documentation.
Ms is renown for it's attempts to maintain their monopoly, and surely this is one of those attempts. I just hope thatit is a "let's make it open so they will not be able to complain anymore" instead of a "let's make it appear to be open so we can both shut them up and maintain our monopoly intact".
I am tired of this "they're a business, they are interested in profit not xxxx". Just because they're a business it don't mean that they're free of any responsibility. They must have responsibility, and those responsibilities must be enforced by the government.
Microsoft should be punished if they attempt to lock you in so you can't have access your data (this include data made for you) unless you pay them some money. Every format should be open and available to other developers (be them open source or not).
If I make a text, book, memorandum with word I expect it to be mine not encrypted in some proprietary mambo jumbo that MS thinks it's the solution for me. Just like I expect to have access to the raw format of my cameras. It dosen't matter to me, and it shouldn't matter for you too, that opening the office format will make thousand of microsoft stock holders a few cents poorer.
It does has some work in other languages, I agree that it's a minority, but it do have penty of translated to english works, it should not be dificult (for google even less dificult) to digitize the orinal.
> do you want modern machine translation to read like 19th century prose?
And by the way things are escalating in the copyright arena we should consider our selves luck that those aren't 17th century book...
All the good translations are like this, since this is the only way to capture the rich detais that are lost when you switch cultures. Sure this is a double edged knife, since a bad translator can very easily destroy a work in the process.
laws appart (you could use public material like project guthemberg), I think that a translated book is, or at least seem like a bad input for this. Since the text say it expects whole sentences translated 1 - 1.
A novel or book is not translated like this, the best translation aren't word for word or sentence to sentece. Good translators almost rewrite the whole thing, some times with a different style.
Language has a lot of cultural meaning into it, and even the same language sometimes needs to be adpted to mean the same (and I am not saying anything about accent). Computers will hardly get to this point, I would expect from this a good 'well, at least I got the point' translation.
This would make the (countless) reruns have a smaller audience. They will launch it on DVD after the 3rd or 4th season when the public is tired of yet another end-to-end rerun of buff.. gallatica.
Well I heard about this on the libération.fr a french paper. Local (for me, here in Rio de Janeiro) paper had nothing on this also, but they did anounced a much smaller (then the NY and other places) outage that happend in london.
Some coutries are more inclined to get the meaning of international then others. Here in Brazil international mostly means USA and Europe, we don't even get to know what happens in Argentina or Chile, if it does not involve Brazil in some manner.
I was going exactly into this, sure I don't want more add as much as the next person, but what the hell???? If I had point I would certainly had modded you up, since this was the first thing that crossed my head (and maybe that crossed everyone else's head).
Join every wingle thing in one package and when you loose this single (and probably very small) package you loose every single thing.
Add to that the fact that those "all in one" deals usualy are of poorer quality then the dedicated one. I don't see digital cameras disapearing, sure those cheap "for the clueless consumer" will become the celular phone. But there will be always a better dedicated one.
For those reasons I would say no. I would expect that all the devices would integrate more easily. I see a future where you could use your cell phone to send the picture you just taken with your camera to some buddy, witch phone is in your PDA. All of that would be possible only by those appareils being near each other.
I see you getting close with your pda to your computer and the pda would sudenly being able to use your keyboard and your 15" ou 20" screen to display their contents. All of this if the computer "turned off".
When the computer is on it could request to automagicly backup every thing in all devices with a given priority for each device. All of that would be authorized by a master device that would have your private key, this could be a small item in your keychain or inside your wallet.
Sure there are details to think of, but all of this is possible with the tecnology we have today. Bluetooth make some of those things, and there is a wireless USB on the way.
Sure you will still be able to take pictures with your phone camera, and use your cell to store some (or all) of the phones from your PDA. But those will be for times where you are caught off guard.
As far as know, insecure memory is worst than that. insecure memory can be paged to the disk, and stay there for a very long time.
So even if you did not have any spyware running when you encrypted your secret files on where is the key to satellite that could melt the poles and flood all coastal cities, you would still be in trouble when 007 gets your laptop and searches throught your swap partition and find a suitable random looking bytes that luckily can decrypt everything, once more the free world is saved by Bond, James Bond....
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I am not aware of those holes and you got me curious, could you point to the holes you're refering? Please?
Since your variables are not independent I would say that the total of people that think that internet is IE is 88% (assuming that your numbers are in fact correct). This would be due the fact that the set of people who think that internet is IE and don't think the internet is the web is most likely empty.
Yes that is the point, power PC is not the apple Macintosh, as much as the old 68k was not an apple and the old MacOSIX (or is it MacOs9?) is not the apple and the pentiums will not be apple also.
And who says what will constitute an apple in 2010? There is no way to know if the company will not simply change direction aggain to the CPU du jour or the platafor du hour. I believe this is wrong and is taxing the faifull costomer, all of that to keep the name Apple in the headlines. I hope those costumers will get tired sometime.
clearly 13... oh wait... 11
nooooooooooooo !!!!! (right hand fall from arm.)
Making the space available for the formulas restricted would help also, since the students would have to think about what is more important and ways to condense the information.
I remember that many people who made "colas" (cheats in Brazilian portuguese) in tiny written letters in their legs just under their skirts, or maybe in small pieces of paper that would fit inside the pen or in a pocket os something. But they woudn't need to reference te paper, or maybe do it less then they would have expected.
In fact I realy thought that the act of doing these "colas" were an exercise, sometimes better then repeating the same thing 100 times with different values and wordings as the text books would tell you to.
Not that anything mattered anyway, all knowledge that was necessary to compleat the test would be erased from everyone's head in about five minutes after the test were compleated.
Actually, I didn't know, a quick check in the wikipedia enlightmed the details. I aways had assumed that fedora was some greek reference. :-P Nice to know, thanks... :-D
As if fedora wasn't a bad enough name. :-D
"Fedor" in portuguese means bad smell. Fedora seems to us here in Brazil like a invented feminine form of stink. "o fedor / a fedora"
Corruption can cause legal use and is a pro factor to MS and other expensive service or goods. It happens like this, at least here in Brazil, you send an estimate to the government, who by law need estimates from more then one vendor.
If you're in your turn to have the ball all of your pals that are making estimates too will have bigger prices then yours, even though your estimate is 10x higher then the street price for the same product or service. You get the contract and give a percentage to the person who contacted you.
So the manager has the option to install 100s of windows machines and get a percentage for his pocket or have a free operational system that will get him next to nothing. Guess what he will choose.
I don't use it, in fact I do not use anything from MS. But fact is people use it, and sure they are not encrypted per see (I was exaggerating, since it was after all a rant). But my girlfriend is doing her masters and she have to write her dissertation with word.
Why? Because the retarded standard for her university is a word document full of scripting and other annoyances. This text she is producing when written in the word format is not entirely her's anymore. She can't print it reliably in other computers without a 3rd party tool (that makes pdfs).
And since she works with book design and typography a txt will not be enough. In fact she don't have open tools to do what she needs. She have to use expensive adobe stuff that save into closed formats, that will not work anymore in a few years, just like those 1000s of word documents.
That's the point where I think is useless, I think that you can't lock anyone's work. If you want to work with top-secret lenses, ships and firmware, that's ok. But if I take a picture with your camera I sure bet I want to have access to all the information in the picture, and I should use whatever tool I think it is usefull (even if it is a binary editor). It is my work and I have all the rights on it.
Pure-capitalism is a failure as much as socialism was. It broke even earlier, remember the crash when people flew out of windows like crazy? The only solution to this was enforcing politics to the enterprises and the market. I believe that in the government should make sure the people live well. It doesn't matter if it's a capitalism, socialism or an anarchy. If the people are happy it is enough.
If it is really a good move or not is yet to be seen, as I stated somewhere else I don't trust MS to do as it is saying it will do. If they do as announced it will be a good move that everyone will benefit, but I just will not applaud yet.
I am not saying that they should use the format X or Y (but having a single open format is better then the babel tower we have now). I applaud this initiative from MS, but I don't trust Ms to be that open (yet I sure hope so... :-)). What I don't want is a pseudo open format that in the end will be different (slightly, but different enough) from the documentation.
Ms is renown for it's attempts to maintain their monopoly, and surely this is one of those attempts. I just hope thatit is a "let's make it open so they will not be able to complain anymore" instead of a "let's make it appear to be open so we can both shut them up and maintain our monopoly intact".
I am tired of this "they're a business, they are interested in profit not xxxx". Just because they're a business it don't mean that they're free of any responsibility. They must have responsibility, and those responsibilities must be enforced by the government.
Microsoft should be punished if they attempt to lock you in so you can't have access your data (this include data made for you) unless you pay them some money. Every format should be open and available to other developers (be them open source or not).
If I make a text, book, memorandum with word I expect it to be mine not encrypted in some proprietary mambo jumbo that MS thinks it's the solution for me. Just like I expect to have access to the raw format of my cameras. It dosen't matter to me, and it shouldn't matter for you too, that opening the office format will make thousand of microsoft stock holders a few cents poorer.
ahh it feels good to rant sometimes....
I think we should with those foaming lawyers the same thing we do when we see a puppy foaming... ... put them out of their misery.
It does has some work in other languages, I agree that it's a minority, but it do have penty of translated to english works, it should not be dificult (for google even less dificult) to digitize the orinal.
> do you want modern machine translation to read like 19th century prose?
And by the way things are escalating in the copyright arena we should consider our selves luck that those aren't 17th century book...
All the good translations are like this, since this is the only way to capture the rich detais that are lost when you switch cultures. Sure this is a double edged knife, since a bad translator can very easily destroy a work in the process.
laws appart (you could use public material like project guthemberg), I think that a translated book is, or at least seem like a bad input for this. Since the text say it expects whole sentences translated 1 - 1.
A novel or book is not translated like this, the best translation aren't word for word or sentence to sentece. Good translators almost rewrite the whole thing, some times with a different style.
Language has a lot of cultural meaning into it, and even the same language sometimes needs to be adpted to mean the same (and I am not saying anything about accent). Computers will hardly get to this point, I would expect from this a good 'well, at least I got the point' translation.
This would make the (countless) reruns have a smaller audience. They will launch it on DVD after the 3rd or 4th season when the public is tired of yet another end-to-end rerun of buff.. gallatica.
Well I heard about this on the libération.fr a french paper. Local (for me, here in Rio de Janeiro) paper had nothing on this also, but they did anounced a much smaller (then the NY and other places) outage that happend in london.
Some coutries are more inclined to get the meaning of international then others. Here in Brazil international mostly means USA and Europe, we don't even get to know what happens in Argentina or Chile, if it does not involve Brazil in some manner.
Possible deny of service, advertise your competition in space and it will have to stop doing business in the USA. :-/
>Right. Foreign, married men _never_ use prostitutes.
:-)
Well at least not in chicago.
I was going exactly into this, sure I don't want more add as much as the next person, but what the hell???? If I had point I would certainly had modded you up, since this was the first thing that crossed my head (and maybe that crossed everyone else's head).
Not yet anyway.
Join every wingle thing in one package and when you loose this single (and probably very small) package you loose every single thing.
Add to that the fact that those "all in one" deals usualy are of poorer quality then the dedicated one. I don't see digital cameras disapearing, sure those cheap "for the clueless consumer" will become the celular phone. But there will be always a better dedicated one.
For those reasons I would say no. I would expect that all the devices would integrate more easily. I see a future where you could use your cell phone to send the picture you just taken with your camera to some buddy, witch phone is in your
PDA. All of that would be possible only by those appareils being near each other.
I see you getting close with your pda to your computer and the pda would sudenly being able to use your keyboard and your 15" ou 20" screen to display their contents. All of this if the computer "turned off".
When the computer is on it could request to automagicly backup every thing in all devices with a given priority for each device. All of that would be authorized by a master device that would have your private key, this could be a small item in your keychain or inside your wallet.
Sure there are details to think of, but all of this is possible with the tecnology we have today. Bluetooth make some of those things, and there is a wireless USB on the way.
Sure you will still be able to take pictures with your phone camera, and use your cell to store some (or all) of the phones from your PDA. But those will be for times where you are caught off guard.
As far as know, insecure memory is worst than that. insecure memory can be paged to the disk, and stay there for a very long time.
So even if you did not have any spyware running when you encrypted your secret files on where is the key to satellite that could melt the poles and flood all coastal cities, you would still be in trouble when 007 gets your laptop and searches throught your swap partition and find a suitable random looking bytes that luckily can decrypt everything, once more the free world is saved by Bond, James Bond....
I don't think MS has done this, yet, But the american laws as they stand now can, and were already used in such manner.
Patents are exactly this, I have this idea and no one can have it. Pay me because you're inteligent and had an idea similar to mine.