Why don't you make a product available, which is of good quality, cheap, readily available and doesn't force us to give up our privacy and suck your ducks just so that we can listen to a song? You know, sort of like Apple did it (and which rumour says you're in the process of killing by higer prices and enforced bundling).
Provide us with a convenient, realistically priced product, not being throttled by rediculous schemes (region coding anyone?). Stop insulting our intelligence and integrity and stop treating us like criminals and I'll promise:
We buy!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I would love to be in the business where I had a monopoly on a product that everyone from 12 to 25 is willing to go out of their way to get, and my only problem was to figure out how to get people to pay for the product.
It is quite clear that the market wants more music than they can afford to obtain legally from a store. I hate to break it to the RIAA, but we all know that recording a CD and distributing it costs practically nothing. How many CDs would you buy if they were $2 a piece? How many new artists would you try if they were $2 a piece? How many CDs would you pirate if they were $2 a piece?
We are in a time where aquiring entertainment is relatively easy, and we have a decreasing attention span. Most Americans have at least 40 channels of TV to watch, upwards to 200 channels. We have the internet, where there is practically an infinite amount of entertainment that is instantly available. But I would guess that most Americans have less than 200 CDs. 200 CDs is only about 150 hours of entertainment, assuming that each CD is about 45 minutes in length, and that every track is worth listening to. I'm guestimating that people spend at least 5 to 7 hours a day on electronic entertainment in some form or another.
Dude, Sun is f*cking nuts. First, the sell this rebranded microtel linux thing and call it java, and sell it at Walmart of all places. Then, in not the too distant past they say they are going to give away hardware and sell subscription software, and now they are saying that they are going to open source Solaris. Dunno if they plan to sell a subscription to the source or whatnot, but I think its a pretty weak business plan to open source something so that we can fix it, and then charge us for it. Btw, it should be more common knowledge that Sun's TCP/IP performance has dropped about 30% from version 7 to 9. This has been measured multiple times by a coworker of mine, and Sun has no response to our findings.
I have _some_ understanding of economics, and how supply, price, and demand are interrelated. That is why I said: Its probably much easier (for one of us) to control the prices of products that are waste that restraunts currently _pay_ to dispose of vs. going to war. It was a cheap ploy on controling the supply of oil via warfare with other countries vs. controling the supply via talking with restraunt owners.
Yes, in due time the price will "meet the demand of the market". On a separate note, maybe the people of the RIAA and MPAA need to take some basic econ classes, and find more effective ways of controlling the supply of their product or matching their price to the demand. Way, way offtopic, stop reading if this bothers you:) But its obvious that many people (me included) want more music than we can afford to pay at the record store. They have a _monopoly_ on the supply, so match the price accordingly ppl.
Gas in the us is about $2.00 a gallon, and diesel is about $1.60. I'm extrapolating the diesel number based on the current prices in our area, but it shouldn't be too far off.
Interesting enough, the prices were reversed during the 1st Iraq "war". I had a diesel at the time and paid upwards of $2.29/gallon in 1990. But then again we didn't have a vice president that was formerly in the oil business that overcharched the US military for the diesel fuel at the time.
Nifty, but if we all went out and did this, the price would skyrocket. Hell, if only all the people who read this story on Slashdot went out and did this, the price would skyrocket.
Its probably much easier (for one of us) to control the prices of products that are waste that restraunts currently _pay_ to dispose of vs. going to war.
First, I'm not that paranoid that my neighbors are that sophisticated enought to hack my wap. 2nd, I only allow certain MACs to access my wap. 3rd, I rely on the same security that I do on any other network (ssh, ssl). 4th, there is not fourth. What does wep give you over ssh and ssl? (Besides complexity).
f you go to my local [12 screen] cinema (I live in the UK) during the early afternoon on a weekday, you'll only see 3 or 4 staff working, serving food and selling tickets. None of them actually do ticket or piracy checks whilst a movie is being shown. Night-vision goggles aren't going to help much.
You know, if someone is willing to spend hours of their time and their disk space to store it, put up with variable to bad quality of the movie, and watch it on their small computer screen, I don't think that just shy of paying them, I wouldn't expect to see that person in the movie theater.
Be aware that this is a benchmark for jvm's, and has little to do with machine performance. According to the benchmarks results page. A PIV 3.0 GHz computer can score anywhere between 228 and 557. This benchark also seems biased towards 32bit machines. One thing that is essential for any test is for it to at least be internally reliable.
Silly student: "If they had pulled me up with my first essay at the beginning and warned me of the problems and consequences, it would be fair enough."
Yes folks, here in the US, unless you are the victem of the Patriot Act, you are not only untitled to a speedy trial, but a speedy arrest as well! Hmm.
Maybe, just maybe, musicians should go back to the "old" way of doing things and make money playing music, vs trying to live off of making 2 or 3 albums, and expecting royalties for the rest of their life.
Look at many of the older bands that need to rustle up some funds. What do they do? Put out a new album? Rarely. Most of the time they go out on tour.
The problem with this is that these studio creations mush be able to play and or sing.
I believe there are two types of music as well, but I describe it more generally than you do. you have:
Musicians who are in the music biz to make money.
Musicians who are in the music biz to make music.
The funny thing is that the people in the 1 category are litteraly one in a million or billion, and they usually do not last very long and often end up bankrupt. It kinda reminds me of the Brady Bunch episode, where Greg almost gets into the music biz because he fit the costume, and he thought they were interested in him because of his talent (yes I'm dating myself:)
I guess its kinda like that for software too.
One interesting thing to do is to look at old billboard top 40 lists from 10,20,30 years ago. Rarely will you find music that is still listened to, nor are those songs what I remember from that time period.
I could see this as being true "6 or 7 years" ago, but any remotely modern linux distribution will NOT have a problem with this, even on 32-bit platforms. Here is a screenshot debunking your claims for both rcp and cat.
I realize that this could be corrected, even on 32bit systems, and that there are applications like tar that have had "large file support" for some time, but on my 64bit systems (alpha) running rh 7.1, this is not true. Upgrading is not really an option for me, and I consider them "remotely modern" because they are about 2.5 years old. I realize that compiling with the OFFSET_BITS or whaever the define is will give you large file support, but you cannot say that I did not have the problem with large files recently, because I did on the system that I mentioned.
ronically, the one limitation that you do state correctly is also one of the limitations that only applies to 32-bit systems. It sounds like you need a 64-bit system after all, preferably a modern distribution like Fedora 2 or SuSE 9.1 that doesn't have any of the weird userspace problems that you bring up.
This is regarding the 1 or 2 Tb limit. Well, I'm running RH AW 2.1 on 64bit Itaniums machines, and when I called RH support the polite Indian guy on the phone told me "maybe 4.0 will support this", I otherwise would have to partition my array. Logical volumes can be created beyond 2Tb, but block devices cannot. There are many kernel posts about this and this kernel trap article about it.
And you have corrected everyone by saying platform does matter, how? I still say for large memory applications, thats about it.
Poker, Blackjack or other such games are the only sort of gambling I would be remotely willing to participate in because it involves much more than straight chance as involved in slots, roulette or craps. Sure statistics come into play, but nothing forces the stats to hold consistently.
Poker is a skill game, and a good player can win time and time again. Blackjack can be considered a skill game, but even the best can only marginally do better than the house.
If you wanna bet, I would bet that you (assuming you are an amatuer) would make as much (read 0 or more money spending $10,000 on a slot machine, vs playing $10,000 on poker or blackjack.
Having twice the general purpose registers will typically improve performance 10-20% just by recompiling everything into 64 bit mode.
Data please? this thread mentions povray, well this povray benchmark site clearly shows that the $259 amd64 chip is slower than the $200 Intel offering.
this site has some benchmarks. Note that they use gcc for the pentium machines, which is not a very good optimizing compiler. For floating point apps, I typically see 2x speedup when using the Intel compiler (like oggenc, povray, etc). I cannot say which is faster, but being that there is no good (free) compiler for the amd64 you will just have to take the numbers for what they are (meaningless).
Maybe you should either tell us what kind of applications that you want to run. Video drivers aren't too important for a headless box that sits in a closet.
I'm guessing that you are planning on running very large memory applications (> 2 Gig per process), otherwise 64bit support is useless. Especially since _many_ of Linux's applications still have 32bit limitations, even when compiled for 64bit platforms. I've run 64bit linux for 6 or 7 years now, and I'm still pissed that I run into 2Gb file size limits. Remember an int on 64bit linux is still 4 bytes as it is on 32bit systems, so each application has to either use size_t or long to get 64bit integers (which will work on either a 32bit or 64bit machine). Just today I had a user mail me with an error with rcp because it could not transfer a file that was 2.1Gigs. I believe 'cat' has the same limitation, unless it is done as a pipe. For example, cat over_2Gig_file >/dev/null will fail, but cat/dev/null will not. You will find these limitations from time to time, and rarely does the platform matter.
Also, Linux has other limitations like it cannot access a block device over 1 or 2 Tb (depending on the kernel version).
I think that the 64bit hype is amusing. I'm not sure, but an amd64 system running int 64bit mode might be slower than a 32bit offering from either intel or amd. You will have to look at the numbers, but they are hard to find. All of the benchmarks for the opteron that I have seen were run on 32bit applications that were complied with the _Intel_ compiler, or sometimes gcc (and then I believe that they were in 32bit mode).
Patents have nothing to do with the real world. They are a legal tool for businesses, so prior art has nothing to do with it.
Anyway, the dead's policy can be found here. And yes, I remember this, its been going on since 1965 (the year the dead started). And yes, the grateful dead are the most successful touring band in the history of rock. Yes, I have hundreds of CDs worth of their shows. For those of you that are into bands that are into playing music vs. making a buck off of a hit or two there are thousands of great sounding shows to be downloaded. Its legal, its fun. (Thanks for not spelling grateful "greatful":).
I remember a few years ago, seeing a bunch of high-end wrist watches that charged up through regular motion while wearing the watch.
My dad had one in the late seventies, I'm not sure what you ment about "a few years ago".
While we are talking about infantry gear, I think/.ers would find this funny. The military here in the US wanted more streamlined uniforms that didnt have complicated things like zippers or buttons, and the new thing was velcro. So they made the uniforms with velcro fastners.
The only problem was that when a soldier was being quiet in the woods and he went to open up his pocket for a smoke or something, the velcro would make that familiar velcro sound, and he would get shot:(
I can't seem to find any good info besides this news post that talks about it. Does anyone else remember this or have any other info?
Old versions of Windows crashed a lot. Current versions don't. Fact.
I guess your not old enough to have gone through the pain of the older versions. I have, it sucked, and I see no compelling reason to ever use another microsoft product again.
Also, current versions may not crash, but I dare you to put a service pack on a production windows machine and expect things to work "right out of the box" afterwards.
I boot up in the morning, switch between video and photo editing software hundreds of times throughout the day with regular use of MSIE and Eudora as well, and then I shut it down at night without it having crashed once. Every day. For years.
Being that many of my HPC apps take 5 days to run, an 8 hour uptime is not that impressive. When windows uptime is limited to hardware problems and lack of electricity, let us know. For the past 2 1/2 years, I've seen Linux/Solaris hickup maybe less than a dozen times, and that is with a sample of those OSes running over 300 CPUs.
My anecdotal evidence appears to be a little stronger than yours:)
The problem isn't with passwords. The problem is with the 40 year old women in the office who use their kids names over and over with different numbers at the end of the password, and then write even that simple to remember password down at their desk. The problem is with an HR department that doesn't care if IT policies are enforced, and management that doesn't care if HR isn't doing their job.
<sarcasm> Yeah, I'm a super for an apartment complex, and I have these problems all the time. These fucking 40 year old women use thier kids names as their passwords to get in their apartments, and then complain to me about how getto the apartment complex is because their apartments get broken into all the time. These dumbasses also have me call up tow trucks and passwordsmiths all the time because they cannot remember thier password for their car. I keep telling them to make better, easier to remember passwords, but they are all just morons.
A buddy of mine is a super at another apartment complex, and they still use "old school" technology like keys to get into their apartments and cars, and they rarely if ever have these problems. </sarcasm>
The moral of the story is that there are such things a physical tokens, smartcards, etc that can provide keys to authentiate people to access computer systems. I hate to break it to you, but username/password schemes only authenticate usernames and passwords.
The only thing that has not been worked out cleanly with keys is revocation. Any ideas here?
Homosexuality was in the DSM as a treatable psychological disorder up till 1973.
I knew someone would bring that up. Also remember that women and minorities had specific laws against them in the US up until the 60s, so I guess we can pick and choose which laws are real and which are not (I do anyway:).
Medicalizing everything is a specialty of psychology in general.
Wrong. psychology is the study of behaviour, psychiatry is a medical field.
Shizophrenia means split personality, meaning a split between afect or expressed emtion and cognition or thought. So a person with Schizophrenia cannot connect emotion with thought. Not a good thing for a human being.
In fact there is no such thing as multipule personality disorder. They have never found a case study where the subject had no prioir knowdge of the movie "Two Faces of Eve."
Its the "3 Faces of Eve", and you can't forget Syble either. MPD exists as much as any other personality disorder does. Scizophrenia is an axis 1 criteria according to the DSM (Diagnostic Statistical Manual). MPD is an axis 2 disorder. Schiz is a medical problem, mpd is a personal problem.
Schizophrenia is what people often think about when someone says that someone else is "crazy".
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Why don't you make a product available, which is of good quality, cheap, readily available and doesn't force us to give up our privacy and suck your ducks just so that we can listen to a song? You know, sort of like Apple did it (and which rumour says you're in the process of killing by higer prices and enforced bundling).
Provide us with a convenient, realistically priced product, not being throttled by rediculous schemes (region coding anyone?). Stop insulting our intelligence and integrity and stop treating us like criminals and I'll promise:
We buy!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I would love to be in the business where I had a monopoly on a product that everyone from 12 to 25 is willing to go out of their way to get, and my only problem was to figure out how to get people to pay for the product.
It is quite clear that the market wants more music than they can afford to obtain legally from a store. I hate to break it to the RIAA, but we all know that recording a CD and distributing it costs practically nothing. How many CDs would you buy if they were $2 a piece? How many new artists would you try if they were $2 a piece? How many CDs would you pirate if they were $2 a piece?
We are in a time where aquiring entertainment is relatively easy, and we have a decreasing attention span. Most Americans have at least 40 channels of TV to watch, upwards to 200 channels. We have the internet, where there is practically an infinite amount of entertainment that is instantly available. But I would guess that most Americans have less than 200 CDs. 200 CDs is only about 150 hours of entertainment, assuming that each CD is about 45 minutes in length, and that every track is worth listening to. I'm guestimating that people spend at least 5 to 7 hours a day on electronic entertainment in some form or another.
So, keep doing what your doing RIAA.
Dude, Sun is f*cking nuts. First, the sell this rebranded microtel linux thing and call it java, and sell it at Walmart of all places. Then, in not the too distant past they say they are going to give away hardware and sell subscription software, and now they are saying that they are going to open source Solaris. Dunno if they plan to sell a subscription to the source or whatnot, but I think its a pretty weak business plan to open source something so that we can fix it, and then charge us for it. Btw, it should be more common knowledge that Sun's TCP/IP performance has dropped about 30% from version 7 to 9. This has been measured multiple times by a coworker of mine, and Sun has no response to our findings.
I have _some_ understanding of economics, and how supply, price, and demand are interrelated. That is why I said: Its probably much easier (for one of us) to control the prices of products that are waste that restraunts currently _pay_ to dispose of vs. going to war. It was a cheap ploy on controling the supply of oil via warfare with other countries vs. controling the supply via talking with restraunt owners.
:) But its obvious that many people (me included) want more music than we can afford to pay at the record store. They have a _monopoly_ on the supply, so match the price accordingly ppl.
Yes, in due time the price will "meet the demand of the market". On a separate note, maybe the people of the RIAA and MPAA need to take some basic econ classes, and find more effective ways of controlling the supply of their product or matching their price to the demand. Way, way offtopic, stop reading if this bothers you
Gas in the us is about $2.00 a gallon, and diesel is about $1.60. I'm extrapolating the diesel number based on the current prices in our area, but it shouldn't be too far off.
Interesting enough, the prices were reversed during the 1st Iraq "war". I had a diesel at the time and paid upwards of $2.29/gallon in 1990. But then again we didn't have a vice president that was formerly in the oil business that overcharched the US military for the diesel fuel at the time.
Nifty, but if we all went out and did this, the price would skyrocket. Hell, if only all the people who read this story on Slashdot went out and did this, the price would skyrocket.
Its probably much easier (for one of us) to control the prices of products that are waste that restraunts currently _pay_ to dispose of vs. going to war.
First, I'm not that paranoid that my neighbors are that sophisticated enought to hack my wap. 2nd, I only allow certain MACs to access my wap. 3rd, I rely on the same security that I do on any other network (ssh, ssl). 4th, there is not fourth. What does wep give you over ssh and ssl? (Besides complexity).
f you go to my local [12 screen] cinema (I live in the UK) during the early afternoon on a weekday, you'll only see 3 or 4 staff working, serving food and selling tickets. None of them actually do ticket or piracy checks whilst a movie is being shown. Night-vision goggles aren't going to help much.
You know, if someone is willing to spend hours of their time and their disk space to store it, put up with variable to bad quality of the movie, and watch it on their small computer screen, I don't think that just shy of paying them, I wouldn't expect to see that person in the movie theater.
Be aware that this is a benchmark for jvm's, and has little to do with machine performance. According to the benchmarks results page. A PIV 3.0 GHz computer can score anywhere between 228 and 557. This benchark also seems biased towards 32bit machines. One thing that is essential for any test is for it to at least be internally reliable.
the average consumer WILL NOT be running 64-bit until Windows does get its 64-bit edition running perfectly
Being that microsfoft's current history with 16 and 32, and 64bit versions of their OSes, I would put "perfectly" as an unreasonable expectation.
I'll buy the "shipping with it" part. That is 100% correct.
Although I do think they should have at least benchmarked it with some type of *nix for 64-bit...
Yes they should, there is a big market for these things, and the 64bit arena has been dominated by big iron up to this point.
Silly student: "If they had pulled me up with my first essay at the beginning and warned me of the problems and consequences, it would be fair enough."
Yes folks, here in the US, unless you are the victem of the Patriot Act, you are not only untitled to a speedy trial, but a speedy arrest as well! Hmm.
Maybe, just maybe, musicians should go back to the "old" way of doing things and make money playing music, vs trying to live off of making 2 or 3 albums, and expecting royalties for the rest of their life.
Look at many of the older bands that need to rustle up some funds. What do they do? Put out a new album? Rarely. Most of the time they go out on tour.
The problem with this is that these studio creations mush be able to play and or sing.
- Musicians who are in the music biz to make money.
- Musicians who are in the music biz to make music.
The funny thing is that the people in the 1 category are litteraly one in a million or billion, and they usually do not last very long and often end up bankrupt. It kinda reminds me of the Brady Bunch episode, where Greg almost gets into the music biz because he fit the costume, and he thought they were interested in him because of his talent (yes I'm dating myself:)I guess its kinda like that for software too.
One interesting thing to do is to look at old billboard top 40 lists from 10,20,30 years ago. Rarely will you find music that is still listened to, nor are those songs what I remember from that time period.
I could see this as being true "6 or 7 years" ago, but any remotely modern linux distribution will NOT have a problem with this, even on 32-bit platforms. Here is a screenshot debunking your claims for both rcp and cat.
I realize that this could be corrected, even on 32bit systems, and that there are applications like tar that have had "large file support" for some time, but on my 64bit systems (alpha) running rh 7.1, this is not true. Upgrading is not really an option for me, and I consider them "remotely modern" because they are about 2.5 years old. I realize that compiling with the OFFSET_BITS or whaever the define is will give you large file support, but you cannot say that I did not have the problem with large files recently, because I did on the system that I mentioned.
ronically, the one limitation that you do state correctly is also one of the limitations that only applies to 32-bit systems. It sounds like you need a 64-bit system after all, preferably a modern distribution like Fedora 2 or SuSE 9.1 that doesn't have any of the weird userspace problems that you bring up.
This is regarding the 1 or 2 Tb limit. Well, I'm running RH AW 2.1 on 64bit Itaniums machines, and when I called RH support the polite Indian guy on the phone told me "maybe 4.0 will support this", I otherwise would have to partition my array. Logical volumes can be created beyond 2Tb, but block devices cannot. There are many kernel posts about this and this kernel trap article about it.
And you have corrected everyone by saying platform does matter, how? I still say for large memory applications, thats about it.
Poker, Blackjack or other such games are the only sort of gambling I would be remotely willing to participate in because it involves much more than straight chance as involved in slots, roulette or craps. Sure statistics come into play, but nothing forces the stats to hold consistently.
Poker is a skill game, and a good player can win time and time again. Blackjack can be considered a skill game, but even the best can only marginally do better than the house.
If you wanna bet, I would bet that you (assuming you are an amatuer) would make as much (read 0 or more money spending $10,000 on a slot machine, vs playing $10,000 on poker or blackjack.
Having twice the general purpose registers will typically improve performance 10-20% just by recompiling everything into 64 bit mode.
Data please? this thread mentions povray, well this povray benchmark site clearly shows that the $259 amd64 chip is slower than the $200 Intel offering.
this site has some benchmarks. Note that they use gcc for the pentium machines, which is not a very good optimizing compiler. For floating point apps, I typically see 2x speedup when using the Intel compiler (like oggenc, povray, etc). I cannot say which is faster, but being that there is no good (free) compiler for the amd64 you will just have to take the numbers for what they are (meaningless).
The grandparent is smoking some major crack.
Damn, I've gotta be more discreet.
the second cat command should be cat < over_2Gig_file > /dev/null
the 1st one took I guess because the < > were unbalanced.
Maybe you should either tell us what kind of applications that you want to run. Video drivers aren't too important for a headless box that sits in a closet.
/dev/null will fail, but cat /dev/null will not. You will find these limitations from time to time, and rarely does the platform matter.
I'm guessing that you are planning on running very large memory applications (> 2 Gig per process), otherwise 64bit support is useless. Especially since _many_ of Linux's applications still have 32bit limitations, even when compiled for 64bit platforms. I've run 64bit linux for 6 or 7 years now, and I'm still pissed that I run into 2Gb file size limits. Remember an int on 64bit linux is still 4 bytes as it is on 32bit systems, so each application has to either use size_t or long to get 64bit integers (which will work on either a 32bit or 64bit machine). Just today I had a user mail me with an error with rcp because it could not transfer a file that was 2.1Gigs. I believe 'cat' has the same limitation, unless it is done as a pipe. For example, cat over_2Gig_file >
Also, Linux has other limitations like it cannot access a block device over 1 or 2 Tb (depending on the kernel version).
I think that the 64bit hype is amusing. I'm not sure, but an amd64 system running int 64bit mode might be slower than a 32bit offering from either intel or amd. You will have to look at the numbers, but they are hard to find. All of the benchmarks for the opteron that I have seen were run on 32bit applications that were complied with the _Intel_ compiler, or sometimes gcc (and then I believe that they were in 32bit mode).
My recommendation is to 1) kill you cat (just kidding), and 2) just by a stock machine that is either 32bits or look for an integrated 64bit system for linux already, or get a really nice 64bit system (but I wouldn't put Linux on one of those).
Maybe the grassroots, word-of-mouth approach isn't that bad afterall...
Nah, thats just hippie bs. Look at the failure of linux, *bsd, gnu, etc.
Patents have nothing to do with the real world. They are a legal tool for businesses, so prior art has nothing to do with it.
:).
Anyway, the dead's policy can be found here. And yes, I remember this, its been going on since 1965 (the year the dead started). And yes, the grateful dead are the most successful touring band in the history of rock. Yes, I have hundreds of CDs worth of their shows. For those of you that are into bands that are into playing music vs. making a buck off of a hit or two there are thousands of great sounding shows to be downloaded. Its legal, its fun. (Thanks for not spelling grateful "greatful"
I remember a few years ago, seeing a bunch of high-end wrist watches that charged up through regular motion while wearing the watch.
/.ers would find this funny. The military here in the US wanted more streamlined uniforms that didnt have complicated things like zippers or buttons, and the new thing was velcro. So they made the uniforms with velcro fastners.
:(
My dad had one in the late seventies, I'm not sure what you ment about "a few years ago".
While we are talking about infantry gear, I think
The only problem was that when a soldier was being quiet in the woods and he went to open up his pocket for a smoke or something, the velcro would make that familiar velcro sound, and he would get shot
I can't seem to find any good info besides this news post that talks about it. Does anyone else remember this or have any other info?
Old versions of Windows crashed a lot. Current versions don't. Fact.
:)
I guess your not old enough to have gone through the pain of the older versions. I have, it sucked, and I see no compelling reason to ever use another microsoft product again.
Also, current versions may not crash, but I dare you to put a service pack on a production windows machine and expect things to work "right out of the box" afterwards.
I boot up in the morning, switch between video and photo editing software hundreds of times throughout the day with regular use of MSIE and Eudora as well, and then I shut it down at night without it having crashed once. Every day. For years.
Being that many of my HPC apps take 5 days to run, an 8 hour uptime is not that impressive. When windows uptime is limited to hardware problems and lack of electricity, let us know. For the past 2 1/2 years, I've seen Linux/Solaris hickup maybe less than a dozen times, and that is with a sample of those OSes running over 300 CPUs.
My anecdotal evidence appears to be a little stronger than yours
$ echo "deltree
It would be a little funnier if the command would work. It should be either for double quotes: As you have it now the shell would wait for a terminating " . Or simpler with single quotes:
The problem isn't with passwords. The problem is with the 40 year old women in the office who use their kids names over and over with different numbers at the end of the password, and then write even that simple to remember password down at their desk. The problem is with an HR department that doesn't care if IT policies are enforced, and management that doesn't care if HR isn't doing their job.
<sarcasm>
Yeah, I'm a super for an apartment complex, and I have these problems all the time. These fucking 40 year old women use thier kids names as their passwords to get in their apartments, and then complain to me about how getto the apartment complex is because their apartments get broken into all the time. These dumbasses also have me call up tow trucks and passwordsmiths all the time because they cannot remember thier password for their car. I keep telling them to make better, easier to remember passwords, but they are all just morons.
A buddy of mine is a super at another apartment complex, and they still use "old school" technology like keys to get into their apartments and cars, and they rarely if ever have these problems.
</sarcasm>
The moral of the story is that there are such things a physical tokens, smartcards, etc that can provide keys to authentiate people to access computer systems. I hate to break it to you, but username/password schemes only authenticate usernames and passwords.
The only thing that has not been worked out cleanly with keys is revocation. Any ideas here?
Homosexuality was in the DSM as a treatable psychological disorder up till 1973.
I knew someone would bring that up. Also remember that women and minorities had specific laws against them in the US up until the 60s, so I guess we can pick and choose which laws are real and which are not (I do anyway:).
Medicalizing everything is a specialty of psychology in general.
Wrong. psychology is the study of behaviour, psychiatry is a medical field.
Shizophrenia means split personality, meaning a split between afect or expressed emtion and cognition or thought. So a person with Schizophrenia cannot connect emotion with thought. Not a good thing for a human being.
In fact there is no such thing as multipule personality disorder. They have never found a case study where the subject had no prioir knowdge of the movie "Two Faces of Eve."
Its the "3 Faces of Eve", and you can't forget Syble either. MPD exists as much as any other personality disorder does. Scizophrenia is an axis 1 criteria according to the DSM (Diagnostic Statistical Manual). MPD is an axis 2 disorder. Schiz is a medical problem, mpd is a personal problem.
Schizophrenia is what people often think about when someone says that someone else is "crazy".