Encarta almost certainly doesn't try to introduce a bias, but I don't think it's possible to present things such as historical events and personal bios without having bias.
For instance, what does Encarta say about the 9/11 terrorist attacks? I bet it's US-biased from research that all or almost all came from US publications and analysis of the event.
I don't think an unbiased point of view exists. I, for example, am biased to believe that bias exists everywhere, so I'm less likely to believe anybody who says otherwise. Then there are other people who believe that FoxNews is unbiased because they say "We Report. You Decide."
The Mozilla Suite has all of that as well. Where do you think NS got it from? The whole point of Firefox is that it doesn't have tons of stuff like the Suite does... it's a streamlined browser. Being faster is why it exists.
So, paste the Debian repository URLs into Synaptic and double-click on 'Java'. Man, that's hard. Firefox will even install Java for you if you double-click on an unloaded applet.
No, spyware spies on you, delivers ads, etc. Toolbars can be hidden from the View menu and Speakeasy's custom stuff can be removed by removing the Speakeasy FF extension.
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Canada's oil sands can meet the world's demands during the year 2020 for about 39 years. Combining that with the rest of the oil producers means we still have at least a couple hundred years left, although it will start to get very expensive to mine the oil once it gets too low.
What's most interesting is that when a story is posted about somebody blaming a game company for some sort of crime, everyone here says "I've played GTA for 72 hours straight and never carjacked anyone!". Yet here we are and everyone's agreeing that the lines can get blurred, even momentarily.
Is carrying out video game violence just the next logical step to what you all have experienced? You'll probably never reach that point, but what social or mental deficiency would you have to have before acting out a game becomes reality? Do we maybe start looking at Columbine and other tradegies and saying that maybe games to have some role in some violent acts.
Most difficult of all, is if we can find a link, what do we do about it? Go back to NES-style graphics?
This is why I play games like Counter-Strike. Even if I get the urge to fire of a few rounds into a nearby terrorist, I don't have the gun to do it anyway.
Of course, if anybody ever drops an M4 Carbine assault rifle in front of me, we're all in trouble.
The difference is that the Firefox patch works with Firefox -- it's an upgrade on all affected Firefox products -- while the Windows patch does not work with non-XP versions of Windows, which still accounts for at least half the market. There is no patch for all affected Windows products.
The Toronto Star took part in the Energy Challenge Rally and wrote about it. The concept was to do several rally stages in different cars and try to get the best mileage. This was done in city traffic.
I know we all hate Microsoft's business practices and Bill Gates' view of OSS, but it's impossible to deny the great things his foundation has done worldwide.
Please, folks, separate the man from the business.
I wonder what happens if you visit with Firefox. They are obviously using an ActiveX control for this, so will FF users pass right by or be denied access to downloads? Windows Update won't work anyway, but will this affect manually downloads?
That study, if it's the one I remember, used a flawed model for determining when to start the timer for bug fixes.
OSS bugs were termed live once they were informed about it while MS' were live once MS acknowledged the bug, often months after they were informed about it. Check out some Eeye data:
Maybe you should have read the article. This study only included corporate systems, so the userbase is identical to that of the NT and 2K systems.
I'm sure the problem is that MS tried to make XP everything to everyone when they trashed the 9x series. Maybe poor reliability is just a hiccup in XP or maybe it's something we'll have to watch out for in later releases, until they can finally drop all 9x compatibility and go back to NT.
I, too, am in a heavy IBM Websphere and DB2 environment and when we bought new hardware I looked into upgrading the distro from Red Hat 7.3.
First, the install on Debian isn't smooth. I tried the latest stable Debian as well as some updated packages that I knew I'd need. I installed Websphere and had some problems. Stuff worked, eventually, but it was a pain that I wasn't willing to deal with on an ongoing basis (fixpacks and such). Java GUIs were particularly troublesome, although the web console is really all you ever need. Java problems worried me a lot.
I tried Suse and Red Hat's enterprise offerings, which I had been given demo disks for, as well as their free counterparts. One major hurdle with Red Hat was that there are some major Java threading issues with RHEL 3.0 and Red Hat 9 and above, so I'd be stuck with RHEL 2.1 or RH 8. I decided to go with Suse 8.2, which is supported as a development platform (no free Linux is supported for production use).
What I found on my distro adventures is that IBM supports anything, but they do complain about it. For instance, even our old environment had RH 7.3 while only 7.2 is supported. During my Debian install it was IBM who helped me get it working. When supporting these distros they constantly question the Java version and go through a checklist of software versions to make sure everything's ok. But like I said, they will support it.
While I have gotten bad support from IBM before, overall they are much better than any other company I've had to deal with on an ongoing basis. They really do try to help out. A couple times I've had some idiot at their help desk so I asked to be transfered to someone else, but other than that they've been great.
I haven't checked the terms of use to see if I'm allowed to use this for my work web site, though maybe with a cash or hardware donation, or by running a high-bandwidth node, I can get permission.
What I'm thinking is that at work I run a multi-server site that gets massively bogged down for short periods when it tries to handle upwards of 35,000 concurrent sessions. Bandwidth is not the problem, the application is, and it can't be rewritten for reasons that piss me off and I have no budget for more servers and no management support to run a static cached version of the site.
So I was wondering if it was possible to have the site automatically direct visitors to the Coralized URL when the site load gets too high. Either a manual change or an automatic one would be ok. I have some ideas on how this could be done using a failover server config on our ServerIron. Possibly a router config can also do this, though we don't run our own router since it's at a colocation facility. Worst case scenario is I can edit the home page to redirect to Coral when the load gets high.
Are there any other Slashdotters looking to use Coral in similar ways? If you have any ideas to share I'd be all ears.
Beastiality hurts animals: they can't make the choice.
Furthermore, I fully support your right to eat a banana by shoving it up your nose and down your throat. You say that it's not "right", but I fail to see how it has anything to do with right or wrong. It's just different.
3. One who secretly keeps watch on another or others.
So, as you can see, spying is all about watching without the watchee knowing about it. The problem with spyware has never been that it's capable of capturing your private information, it's that it's capable of doing so without your knowledge or permission. Nielson isn't committing any sort of fraud, just asking people to do this in exchange for money or product.
Maybe. I've definitely worked with very smart IBMers, but I've usually had to wade through several levels of idiots first, and I'm not just talking about phone support. They Websphere and DB2 support is littered with idiots.
I had the power button break on one new server during shipping and they had some guy come in to replace the circuit board. No problem, except that the guy didn't recognize the server and started trying to take apart a Nortel switch that was sitting beside it on the workbench. He admitted he had never replaced the circuit board on one of these servers (don't they have training?) and after 20 minutes of fiddling he finally got it in.
Having said that, I'm glad I'm using IBM solutions rather than Unisys solutions.
This sounds like another technology that improves upon something nobody ever complained about. Personally, I'm as happy watching an old VHS tape on my 15 year old 25" Toshiba TV in the bedroom as I am watching a DVD on my 32" Sony Wega with surround sound. Yes, the DVD and Wega offers a better picture, but it doesn't improve the experience for me.
Never have I complained about lack of colour on my TV, yet in 15 years will I be looking at RGBCMY in my living room and telling people it doesn't improve upon my old Sony Wega?
I want to control the camera angle and watch in 3D. Now those are improvements that would be worth paying for.
The problem is that MS still wins because they retain their market share. Their market share is what is causing their customers to threaten them with Linux.
Don't these companies see what they're doing? They finally have some ammo to shoot MS down with and yet they are handing MS their monopoly. Unless Linux makes some serious inroads into the desktop market there will be nothing to negotiate with after this 4-year deal is up. MS can waltz in and say, "well, we gave you a grea deal last time because you were thinking of using Linux, but with Open Source out of the picture we'll double the price". And of course once there is no alternative then there is no choice but to pay. This is what MS has been doing for years, so let's not hand it back to them.
The only people I've ever heard say "it's open source, it must be secure" are anti-OSS people who are trying to paint the OSS advocates in a bad light.
What is said is that opening the source offers more opportunity for review and quicker response time to problems. It's hard to deny that this means OSS has the ability to become more secure than close source software since it can be reviewed more. Not all is, but then not all closed source software is reviewed at all either.
The best of both worlds is that OSS is more reviewed than CSS and in the worst case neither gets any review.
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Encarta almost certainly doesn't try to introduce a bias, but I don't think it's possible to present things such as historical events and personal bios without having bias.
For instance, what does Encarta say about the 9/11 terrorist attacks? I bet it's US-biased from research that all or almost all came from US publications and analysis of the event.
I don't think an unbiased point of view exists. I, for example, am biased to believe that bias exists everywhere, so I'm less likely to believe anybody who says otherwise. Then there are other people who believe that FoxNews is unbiased because they say "We Report. You Decide."
The Mozilla Suite has all of that as well. Where do you think NS got it from? The whole point of Firefox is that it doesn't have tons of stuff like the Suite does... it's a streamlined browser. Being faster is why it exists.
So, paste the Debian repository URLs into Synaptic and double-click on 'Java'. Man, that's hard. Firefox will even install Java for you if you double-click on an unloaded applet.
No, spyware spies on you, delivers ads, etc. Toolbars can be hidden from the View menu and Speakeasy's custom stuff can be removed by removing the Speakeasy FF extension.
Canada's oil sands can meet the world's demands during the year 2020 for about 39 years. Combining that with the rest of the oil producers means we still have at least a couple hundred years left, although it will start to get very expensive to mine the oil once it gets too low.
" I want to know what happens in the year 2525, if Man is still alive."
The CIA knows this, but you said you didn't want to know.
What's most interesting is that when a story is posted about somebody blaming a game company for some sort of crime, everyone here says "I've played GTA for 72 hours straight and never carjacked anyone!". Yet here we are and everyone's agreeing that the lines can get blurred, even momentarily.
Is carrying out video game violence just the next logical step to what you all have experienced? You'll probably never reach that point, but what social or mental deficiency would you have to have before acting out a game becomes reality? Do we maybe start looking at Columbine and other tradegies and saying that maybe games to have some role in some violent acts.
Most difficult of all, is if we can find a link, what do we do about it? Go back to NES-style graphics?
This is why I play games like Counter-Strike. Even if I get the urge to fire of a few rounds into a nearby terrorist, I don't have the gun to do it anyway.
Of course, if anybody ever drops an M4 Carbine assault rifle in front of me, we're all in trouble.
You MARRIED a blonde you lucky dork :)
"Intel® EM64T is one of a number of platform innovations Intel is delivering"
So... copying somebody else is "innovation". So that's the definition Microsoft has been using all these years!
The difference is that the Firefox patch works with Firefox -- it's an upgrade on all affected Firefox products -- while the Windows patch does not work with non-XP versions of Windows, which still accounts for at least half the market. There is no patch for all affected Windows products.
The Toronto Star took part in the Energy Challenge Rally and wrote about it. The concept was to do several rally stages in different cars and try to get the best mileage. This was done in city traffic.
Read about it here
As well as the Fortwo, the drivers tried out a hybrid Civic, a Prius and a Mercedes E320 CDI.
What idiot modded this funny?
I know we all hate Microsoft's business practices and Bill Gates' view of OSS, but it's impossible to deny the great things his foundation has done worldwide.
Please, folks, separate the man from the business.
I wonder what happens if you visit with Firefox. They are obviously using an ActiveX control for this, so will FF users pass right by or be denied access to downloads? Windows Update won't work anyway, but will this affect manually downloads?
That study, if it's the one I remember, used a flawed model for determining when to start the timer for bug fixes.
OSS bugs were termed live once they were informed about it while MS' were live once MS acknowledged the bug, often months after they were informed about it. Check out some Eeye data:
Upcoming advisories
Published advisories (click to see time to fix)
IBM is also bad, but Microsoft seems to be the worst, with most vulnerabilities taking well over 130 days to fix.
Maybe you should have read the article. This study only included corporate systems, so the userbase is identical to that of the NT and 2K systems.
I'm sure the problem is that MS tried to make XP everything to everyone when they trashed the 9x series. Maybe poor reliability is just a hiccup in XP or maybe it's something we'll have to watch out for in later releases, until they can finally drop all 9x compatibility and go back to NT.
There is no such thing as a brontosaurus. You are thinking of Apatosaurus.
I, too, am in a heavy IBM Websphere and DB2 environment and when we bought new hardware I looked into upgrading the distro from Red Hat 7.3.
First, the install on Debian isn't smooth. I tried the latest stable Debian as well as some updated packages that I knew I'd need. I installed Websphere and had some problems. Stuff worked, eventually, but it was a pain that I wasn't willing to deal with on an ongoing basis (fixpacks and such). Java GUIs were particularly troublesome, although the web console is really all you ever need. Java problems worried me a lot.
I tried Suse and Red Hat's enterprise offerings, which I had been given demo disks for, as well as their free counterparts. One major hurdle with Red Hat was that there are some major Java threading issues with RHEL 3.0 and Red Hat 9 and above, so I'd be stuck with RHEL 2.1 or RH 8. I decided to go with Suse 8.2, which is supported as a development platform (no free Linux is supported for production use).
What I found on my distro adventures is that IBM supports anything, but they do complain about it. For instance, even our old environment had RH 7.3 while only 7.2 is supported. During my Debian install it was IBM who helped me get it working. When supporting these distros they constantly question the Java version and go through a checklist of software versions to make sure everything's ok. But like I said, they will support it.
While I have gotten bad support from IBM before, overall they are much better than any other company I've had to deal with on an ongoing basis. They really do try to help out. A couple times I've had some idiot at their help desk so I asked to be transfered to someone else, but other than that they've been great.
I haven't checked the terms of use to see if I'm allowed to use this for my work web site, though maybe with a cash or hardware donation, or by running a high-bandwidth node, I can get permission.
What I'm thinking is that at work I run a multi-server site that gets massively bogged down for short periods when it tries to handle upwards of 35,000 concurrent sessions. Bandwidth is not the problem, the application is, and it can't be rewritten for reasons that piss me off and I have no budget for more servers and no management support to run a static cached version of the site.
So I was wondering if it was possible to have the site automatically direct visitors to the Coralized URL when the site load gets too high. Either a manual change or an automatic one would be ok. I have some ideas on how this could be done using a failover server config on our ServerIron. Possibly a router config can also do this, though we don't run our own router since it's at a colocation facility. Worst case scenario is I can edit the home page to redirect to Coral when the load gets high.
Are there any other Slashdotters looking to use Coral in similar ways? If you have any ideas to share I'd be all ears.
Beastiality hurts animals: they can't make the choice.
Furthermore, I fully support your right to eat a banana by shoving it up your nose and down your throat. You say that it's not "right", but I fail to see how it has anything to do with right or wrong. It's just different.
spy
n. pl. spies (spz)
3. One who secretly keeps watch on another or others.
So, as you can see, spying is all about watching without the watchee knowing about it. The problem with spyware has never been that it's capable of capturing your private information, it's that it's capable of doing so without your knowledge or permission. Nielson isn't committing any sort of fraud, just asking people to do this in exchange for money or product.
"That doesn't cut it when the competition is IBM"
Maybe. I've definitely worked with very smart IBMers, but I've usually had to wade through several levels of idiots first, and I'm not just talking about phone support. They Websphere and DB2 support is littered with idiots.
I had the power button break on one new server during shipping and they had some guy come in to replace the circuit board. No problem, except that the guy didn't recognize the server and started trying to take apart a Nortel switch that was sitting beside it on the workbench. He admitted he had never replaced the circuit board on one of these servers (don't they have training?) and after 20 minutes of fiddling he finally got it in.
Having said that, I'm glad I'm using IBM solutions rather than Unisys solutions.
This sounds like another technology that improves upon something nobody ever complained about. Personally, I'm as happy watching an old VHS tape on my 15 year old 25" Toshiba TV in the bedroom as I am watching a DVD on my 32" Sony Wega with surround sound. Yes, the DVD and Wega offers a better picture, but it doesn't improve the experience for me.
Never have I complained about lack of colour on my TV, yet in 15 years will I be looking at RGBCMY in my living room and telling people it doesn't improve upon my old Sony Wega?
I want to control the camera angle and watch in 3D. Now those are improvements that would be worth paying for.
The problem is that MS still wins because they retain their market share. Their market share is what is causing their customers to threaten them with Linux.
Don't these companies see what they're doing? They finally have some ammo to shoot MS down with and yet they are handing MS their monopoly. Unless Linux makes some serious inroads into the desktop market there will be nothing to negotiate with after this 4-year deal is up. MS can waltz in and say, "well, we gave you a grea deal last time because you were thinking of using Linux, but with Open Source out of the picture we'll double the price". And of course once there is no alternative then there is no choice but to pay. This is what MS has been doing for years, so let's not hand it back to them.
The only people I've ever heard say "it's open source, it must be secure" are anti-OSS people who are trying to paint the OSS advocates in a bad light.
What is said is that opening the source offers more opportunity for review and quicker response time to problems. It's hard to deny that this means OSS has the ability to become more secure than close source software since it can be reviewed more. Not all is, but then not all closed source software is reviewed at all either.
The best of both worlds is that OSS is more reviewed than CSS and in the worst case neither gets any review.