Erm, did you actually read the further up posts? There was quite a good reason given as to why average Joe wouldn't use it, namely THEY CAN'T BE ARSED. They want to be hand held all the way through the "computer world", hence M$ success
There was the dos 6.2 drivespace problem which could wipe your hdd, hence 6.22
other than that, not sure...
ah yes, reinstalled win98 on a system with win2k booting from the second disk, on an ntfs partition. without warning that it would do this, it altered the mbr on the second disk to read that the disk was fat16! it's a 30gig drive! fuckers.
Erm, you're missing the major point: The agreement with "security vendors" menas they will will not be allowed to publish for 30 DAYS after an exploit is found. They will not be able to say there is a problem, and even when a patch is out wil lnot be able to publish more than "it fixes this problem" THAT is why microsoft is talking up "information anarchy" - if vendors can't tell people there's a problem, there is little incentive for MS to rush a patch out - that might cost money by getting people to stay after hours. Much easier for them to do regular 9-5's and get a patch out in a week or 2.
THAT is the problem - the ENTIRE concept of security through obscurity is massively flawed
Oh, and who said that testing was gonna catch EVERY bug? NOBODY! they just saif that, quite rightly, inspection of the source leads to fixing more problems than not. IT won't catch every bug, that is pretty much impossible, unless you don't want a product to be changed at all for about 10 years. Win95 had something like 50,000 documented bugs, 98 about 20,000, and ME, well we'll ignore that one - MS certainly have! - and that is without the proven best method for finding them - imagine how many there actually are still!
But most people don't actually USE most of the "functionality" of windows/office/etc - they add "features" by the dozen, when only a few make it through to the general public as being genuinely useful.
Anyway, it seems that more "features", whether they are useful or not, tends to be M$ "come buy me" hook, and is their excuse for bloatware - XP wanting 1.5 GIG!!!!!!
Erm, i thought ex post facto was in making something illegial retroactively, and has nothing to do with retroactively _LEGALISING_ something? In that they could say it was legal, and replay oculd carry on.....
hmm, "canadian anomaly" [not spelling!] in pronouncing the letter "z" correctly? I think you will find the UK does as well. and australia. ah well, guess you forgot you aren't the country that invented the language....
Well, it's _supposed_ to be seperate form the government, although the director-general did donate £50,000 [$70,000] to the labour party......
They also run 5 national radio stations, 20 or so regional stations, a few digital broadcast [still free] channels, the World Service [still going strong, a colonial on e that] as well as sponsering the BBC proms, one of [if not the] biggest music festival in the world [6 weeks of music every summer, cukminating in the very moving last night of the proms]
Stephen Baxter, a phd physicis, writes very good science fiction with some actual hard science in it, and some of this is taken from there, as well as new scientist etc. Dark matter is postulated to be the result of the symmetry of particles, so for each photon, there are photinos, and so on. These are thought to only interact with each other via the weakest [but also, conversely, the strongest!] force, gravity. Hence a disc of dark matter would consistently hold the galaxy as if it were embedded in a solid disc. This is unlike a single point source, which would have orbital motion, much like the earth and satellites - the tidal forces would rip the galaxy apart if there were a large enough mass to do what was being described.[1] Even a million star mass isn't enough!
[1] the inner and outer edges [well, the whole body really, simplifying here] would be trying to move at different speeds around the central core, so a stress would be exerted along the body. too close and the stress would rip it apart. IE if the moon pass the ROche limit it owuld be torn apart by the earths gravitational field. we probabky wouldn't fair wonderfully well either...
Ok, fair point - but how many kernel specific patches come out? Generally, unless you are supporting new hware so need a new kernel you can get away without rebooting, which is his point, whereas most win installs of patches seem to need a reboot.
he didn't have to - fileman is still in win95/98 and poss MER [although i doubt it....] I think it is under winfile.exe
I had to use it when my computer ddecided it had 2 cdrom drives when there was only one...when i open my computer it would hang as it tried to read from the ghost cd-rom....
When deciding what to put in the new version of Office, MS asked a bunch of people what they wanted, and found most of it was already in that version of Office, just that nobody could find it. It is no good having these powerful tools hidden away - how would you find out how to do some new task, apart from looking through the menus till you find the one which might work. Or, in *nix, you could just do a man -k "unknown command" and you would have a fair chance of finding it.....you may have to scan through a bit of text first....
Yes, I know you said "well designed", but you can't be talking about Windows, surely!
Oh yes, and what about the -[foo|bar] style switches, and the cases where the number of switches can be large - they make sense all in a line, but split up into columns as checkboxes become more obstruse? and the cases where the switch can have a level, or other qualififer? back to typing it in, or having a drop down list, and you have just bumped up the complexity another level, and it is even less likely to be well laid out! I think you were being a little facetious with your "easily....represented" comment!
Ill ask one more: PIPES. Show me the gui equivalent for taking the output of one program and putting it into another,easily, and consistently [not buried deep in a menu] obtainable?
The precise reason people "percieve" CLIs as more powerful is they CAN be - by the time you have gone through the check boxes you so dearly lovew, checking the ones you want - remember, be careful in your quest for speed not to accidentally miss one box, or double check [ie clear] another, analogous to spelling mistakes but less easy to spot - and hit "go", and it screws up, what do you do now? you reopen the box [involving moving you mouse from where it was, slow, remember no shortcuts - you may mis-spell a shortcut [crtl-f instead of alt-f] which is your criticism of CLI] , put in all the boxes you think you want [going slower now, double checking and possibly referring to that bastardisatiuon of the man page, the windows "help" files], and try again.
Or from the command line, esc-k [for vi on the command line, if you have set -o vi in your.profile] / up-arrow change one try again. which is more powerful? The CLI offers more flexibility, such as automating repetitive/slightly changing tasks, which i have yet to see a windows manager do.
Well, apparently the bots have been told to be quite nice about reregistration.....
Anyways, you can sell you oem M$ stuff, as long as you sell it "with hardware" - i find a small resistor works well.....
as far as selling you retail copy on, apparently you have to sell EVERYTHING that came in the box - like the "10 reasons why microsoft doesn't give customers the shaft" leaflet that fluttered away the first time you opened it, otherwise it doesn't comply with the license...
utter bollocks in my impression, as they have no proof i ever agreed to the license in the first place!
back when i used to get chemistry review, there was an article in which there was an agreeement to change the spelling to aluminium for all, while we in the uk got to use the spelling "sulfur"
don't think it made the blind bit of difference in the end....
The reason it is slow is because of the parity calculations of RAID 5. a mirrored array has fast read speeds [2N] and about the same write times [using cache improves this in write back mode]
But surely, with things like TiVo and other PVR solutions, timeshifting must still be allowed - the bill doesn't make mention of VCRs as the device for timeshifting, so couldn't stop TiVO
Still, sucks big time. Wonder when the UK will get such a thing - after all, we seem to suck up big time to most corporations thankis to dood ol'' Tony
Hmm, asa european i don't think that germany is about the size of michigan, unless michigan has about 81million! just checked, michigan has 9.9million, so only one order of magnitudse out.....
It isn't really a false analogy but he should have had it on a per capita basis, not raw count. Anyways, the main reason we have so many deaths in the uk is still terrrorism [1], which accounts for most of the gun related deaths - m,ost of the reast are murder-suicides, with only a few being actual non-political/religious motivated killings. So don't say we are worse than the US, that really would take the piss!;-)
The rates really are a lot lower [btw total pop for europe is more like 500mil - uk, france & germany makes up 190mil +] in europe, and if you want to contrast gun controls, how about sweden [apart form this week!] with texas - in sweden, 100% gun ownership, very VERY low use of guns illegialy - same said for the us, even texas?
[1] mainly the IRA/real IRA etc, who get most of their funding from "irish"-americans - HINT HINT!
Because, numnutz, you ddin't pay your money for the property in advance,THEN find that in order to enter the property you had to walk through a adoor marked "by entering this property you agree to these conditions" on the floor beyond, which if you don't like the terms you can get a refund. But ooops! the letting agent doesn't allow refunds on purchases where you have opened the door. [ok, slightly screwy analogy, but it's the end of the week]
The point is that BEFORE you handed over your money for the property, you go to see what the contract was. This is not the case with supposed "shrink wrap" agreements. When i walk into a store, and actually buy software, I have NOT entered into any kind of licensing, as I have not *signed* anything that says I have, and that names _me_ specifically as a party to the license. A click thru canot constitute a contract - for example if a 17 year old clicks it. They have NOT made a contract, as no minor can without the additional consent of their parent[s] or guardian[s]. Therefore no restrictions on the transfer of the software can occur.
The most succesful console ever was the PS, which i am sure had to do with the sheer ease with which you could get pirated games. sure, a person may have 10 pirated games, but they would also prob have 10 or more real games,as they had seen one type of game, liked it and bought others. With MP3's. i download a song or two i haven't heard, and then if i like the group i might buy the album or the single. Now without MP3's, if io'd taken a chance on the artistm, bought the album and then didn't like it, i would have wasted [uk here] about £12-£15 [circa $16-$20] on something i didn't want.
So does that mean we should give up ever doing anything again, just in case we are seen to be arrogant by your petty minded, vengeful,angry god? Why shouldn't we create things just for the joy in creation - after all, i thought that was why we were supposedly created?
How about we find out what the divine is and then stop with science. After all, we have the whole universe to explore!
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We had our [british] civil war back i n1642, which instituted democracy pretty much firmly, taxes to government not the monarch etcetera
only 130 years before you claim you invented it!
bad luck old chap....
And we brought democracy to more countries than america ever did. but i like your open source comment!
The audigy doesn't have a 1394, it has an SB1394 - it only provides 2 watts of power, ie below the spec for powered 1394
still, as a video capture it'll still work fine
Just a warning
Erm, did you actually read the further up posts? There was quite a good reason given as to why average Joe wouldn't use it, namely THEY CAN'T BE ARSED. They want to be hand held all the way through the "computer world", hence M$ success
There was the dos 6.2 drivespace problem which could wipe your hdd, hence 6.22
other than that, not sure...
ah yes, reinstalled win98 on a system with win2k booting from the second disk, on an ntfs partition. without warning that it would do this, it altered the mbr on the second disk to read that the disk was fat16! it's a 30gig drive! fuckers.
Erm, you're missing the major point: The agreement with "security vendors" menas they will will not be allowed to publish for 30 DAYS after an exploit is found. They will not be able to say there is a problem, and even when a patch is out wil lnot be able to publish more than "it fixes this problem" THAT is why microsoft is talking up "information anarchy" - if vendors can't tell people there's a problem, there is little incentive for MS to rush a patch out - that might cost money by getting people to stay after hours. Much easier for them to do regular 9-5's and get a patch out in a week or 2.
THAT is the problem - the ENTIRE concept of security through obscurity is massively flawed
Oh, and who said that testing was gonna catch EVERY bug? NOBODY! they just saif that, quite rightly, inspection of the source leads to fixing more problems than not. IT won't catch every bug, that is pretty much impossible, unless you don't want a product to be changed at all for about 10 years. Win95 had something like 50,000 documented bugs, 98 about 20,000, and ME, well we'll ignore that one - MS certainly have! - and that is without the proven best method for finding them - imagine how many there actually are still!
But most people don't actually USE most of the "functionality" of windows/office/etc - they add "features" by the dozen, when only a few make it through to the general public as being genuinely useful.
Anyway, it seems that more "features", whether they are useful or not, tends to be M$ "come buy me" hook, and is their excuse for bloatware - XP wanting 1.5 GIG!!!!!!
Erm, i thought ex post facto was in making something illegial retroactively, and has nothing to do with retroactively _LEGALISING_ something? In that they could say it was legal, and replay oculd carry on.....
hmm, "canadian anomaly" [not spelling!] in pronouncing the letter "z" correctly? I think you will find the UK does as well. and australia. ah well, guess you forgot you aren't the country that invented the language....
Well, it's _supposed_ to be seperate form the government, although the director-general did donate £50,000 [$70,000] to the labour party......
They also run 5 national radio stations, 20 or so regional stations, a few digital broadcast [still free] channels, the World Service [still going strong, a colonial on e that] as well as sponsering the BBC proms, one of [if not the] biggest music festival in the world [6 weeks of music every summer, cukminating in the very moving last night of the proms]
I think we get a lot for £110 a year!
Stephen Baxter, a phd physicis, writes very good science fiction with some actual hard science in it, and some of this is taken from there, as well as new scientist etc. Dark matter is postulated to be the result of the symmetry of particles, so for each photon, there are photinos, and so on. These are thought to only interact with each other via the weakest [but also, conversely, the strongest!] force, gravity. Hence a disc of dark matter would consistently hold the galaxy as if it were embedded in a solid disc. This is unlike a single point source, which would have orbital motion, much like the earth and satellites - the tidal forces would rip the galaxy apart if there were a large enough mass to do what was being described.[1] Even a million star mass isn't enough!
[1] the inner and outer edges [well, the whole body really, simplifying here] would be trying to move at different speeds around the central core, so a stress would be exerted along the body. too close and the stress would rip it apart. IE if the moon pass the ROche limit it owuld be torn apart by the earths gravitational field. we probabky wouldn't fair wonderfully well either...
And i have a perfectly serviceable mylex scsi raid card that likes to be set under dos....
Ok, fair point - but how many kernel specific patches come out? Generally, unless you are supporting new hware so need a new kernel you can get away without rebooting, which is his point, whereas most win installs of patches seem to need a reboot.
he didn't have to - fileman is still in win95/98 and poss MER [although i doubt it....] I think it is under winfile.exe
I had to use it when my computer ddecided it had 2 cdrom drives when there was only one...when i open my computer it would hang as it tried to read from the ghost cd-rom....
When deciding what to put in the new version of Office, MS asked a bunch of people what they wanted, and found most of it was already in that version of Office, just that nobody could find it. It is no good having these powerful tools hidden away - how would you find out how to do some new task, apart from looking through the menus till you find the one which might work. Or, in *nix, you could just do a man -k "unknown command" and you would have a fair chance of finding it.....you may have to scan through a bit of text first....
.profile] / up-arrow change one try again. which is more powerful? The CLI offers more flexibility, such as automating repetitive/slightly changing tasks, which i have yet to see a windows manager do.
Yes, I know you said "well designed", but you can't be talking about Windows, surely!
Oh yes, and what about the -[foo|bar] style switches, and the cases where the number of switches can be large - they make sense all in a line, but split up into columns as checkboxes become more obstruse? and the cases where the switch can have a level, or other qualififer? back to typing it in, or having a drop down list, and you have just bumped up the complexity another level, and it is even less likely to be well laid out! I think you were being a little facetious with your "easily....represented" comment!
Ill ask one more: PIPES. Show me the gui equivalent for taking the output of one program and putting it into another,easily, and consistently [not buried deep in a menu] obtainable?
The precise reason people "percieve" CLIs as more powerful is they CAN be - by the time you have gone through the check boxes you so dearly lovew, checking the ones you want - remember, be careful in your quest for speed not to accidentally miss one box, or double check [ie clear] another, analogous to spelling mistakes but less easy to spot - and hit "go", and it screws up, what do you do now? you reopen the box [involving moving you mouse from where it was, slow, remember no shortcuts - you may mis-spell a shortcut [crtl-f instead of alt-f] which is your criticism of CLI] , put in all the boxes you think you want [going slower now, double checking and possibly referring to that bastardisatiuon of the man page, the windows "help" files], and try again.
Or from the command line, esc-k [for vi on the command line, if you have set -o vi in your
Well, apparently the bots have been told to be quite nice about reregistration.....
Anyways, you can sell you oem M$ stuff, as long as you sell it "with hardware" - i find a small resistor works well.....
as far as selling you retail copy on, apparently you have to sell EVERYTHING that came in the box - like the "10 reasons why microsoft doesn't give customers the shaft" leaflet that fluttered away the first time you opened it, otherwise it doesn't comply with the license...
utter bollocks in my impression, as they have no proof i ever agreed to the license in the first place!
back when i used to get chemistry review, there was an article in which there was an agreeement to change the spelling to aluminium for all, while we in the uk got to use the spelling "sulfur"
don't think it made the blind bit of difference in the end....
The reason it is slow is because of the parity calculations of RAID 5. a mirrored array has fast read speeds [2N] and about the same write times [using cache improves this in write back mode]
But surely, with things like TiVo and other PVR solutions, timeshifting must still be allowed - the bill doesn't make mention of VCRs as the device for timeshifting, so couldn't stop TiVO
Still, sucks big time. Wonder when the UK will get such a thing - after all, we seem to suck up big time to most corporations thankis to dood ol'' Tony
Hmm, asa european i don't think that germany is about the size of michigan, unless michigan has about 81million! just checked, michigan has 9.9million, so only one order of magnitudse out.....
;-)
It isn't really a false analogy but he should have had it on a per capita basis, not raw count. Anyways, the main reason we have so many deaths in the uk is still terrrorism [1], which accounts for most of the gun related deaths - m,ost of the reast are murder-suicides, with only a few being actual non-political/religious motivated killings. So don't say we are worse than the US, that really would take the piss!
The rates really are a lot lower [btw total pop for europe is more like 500mil - uk, france & germany makes up 190mil +] in europe, and if you want to contrast gun controls, how about sweden [apart form this week!] with texas - in sweden, 100% gun ownership, very VERY low use of guns illegialy - same said for the us, even texas?
[1] mainly the IRA/real IRA etc, who get most of their funding from "irish"-americans - HINT HINT!
rofl......
and another round of "in out in out
and shake it all about"
Because, numnutz, you ddin't pay your money for the property in advance,THEN find that in order to enter the property you had to walk through a adoor marked "by entering this property you agree to these conditions" on the floor beyond, which if you don't like the terms you can get a refund. But ooops! the letting agent doesn't allow refunds on purchases where you have opened the door. [ok, slightly screwy analogy, but it's the end of the week]
The point is that BEFORE you handed over your money for the property, you go to see what the contract was. This is not the case with supposed "shrink wrap" agreements. When i walk into a store, and actually buy software, I have NOT entered into any kind of licensing, as I have not *signed* anything that says I have, and that names _me_ specifically as a party to the license. A click thru canot constitute a contract - for example if a 17 year old clicks it. They have NOT made a contract, as no minor can without the additional consent of their parent[s] or guardian[s]. Therefore no restrictions on the transfer of the software can occur.
sam as in the now defunct openmail...which happily runs on linux
shame HP canned it! [pressure from MS....]
It's commonly accepted that log2=log-ln unless otherwise specified
The most succesful console ever was the PS, which i am sure had to do with the sheer ease with which you could get pirated games. sure, a person may have 10 pirated games, but they would also prob have 10 or more real games,as they had seen one type of game, liked it and bought others. With MP3's. i download a song or two i haven't heard, and then if i like the group i might buy the album or the single. Now without MP3's, if io'd taken a chance on the artistm, bought the album and then didn't like it, i would have wasted [uk here] about £12-£15 [circa $16-$20] on something i didn't want.
No MP3s, less cd sales, at least in my case!
So does that mean we should give up ever doing anything again, just in case we are seen to be arrogant by your petty minded, vengeful,angry god? Why shouldn't we create things just for the joy in creation - after all, i thought that was why we were supposedly created? How about we find out what the divine is and then stop with science. After all, we have the whole universe to explore!