There is no tangible benefit to having these notices. The user receiving the notice either knows what it means or doesn't know what it means and either way receiving the notice wouldn't change their behavior regardless.
Now that my Inbox is overflowing and my ISP's mail server is rejecting emails because I'm over the account size limit, I'm a little more wary of these supposed "user friendly" helping hands that virus scanner companies are building into their products.
Or should we brutally rape blue haired old ladies?
What kind of question is that?
Software has every right to phone home. It's what software does, i.e. it executes code that it was told to execute. If you believe (as I believe) that software has the right to be Free (as in Freedom), then you have to be in favor of software publishers reserving the right to verify that you are not using their software in violation of agreement (or lack thereof in the case of warez).
Freedom for software also entails Freedom for developers, though sometimes these are quite at odds. In those cases the developers' Freedom ought to take priority over the software.
Though Wei Long Hee was found to be not at fault for the disappearance of the top secret hard disks, there does seem to be a concerted effort by the Chinese government to infiltrate the Los Alamos lab. It is well-known that the Opteron chips and mobos are manufactured in mainland China. It is also well-known that the Chinese (as well as the Russians, but they aren't exactly a superpower anymore) put bugs (listening devices) in the walls of the governmental buildings around the country. What would stop them from putting data-wrangling code into the Opteron chips?
This is one case where supporting a U.S. company like Intel who manufactures all of their hardware in the USA is a good idea. I'm not one to be tooting Intel's horn, especially considering their heavy handed tactics, but when it comes to national security it doesn't make sense to contract that out to a potential enemy.
In America (the leading consumer of air travel) the FAA has limits on the noise level generated by an airport. From the article, this is such a big problem that the development of this engine in passenger aircraft may be halted because of the inability to dampen the noise output. Strictly speaking, this is going to be a rocket engine, not an passenger jet engine. It probably won't even be a military jet engine either, the military doesn't like their pilots deaf.
The FAA rules were never a big problem for me, though. The reindeer are fairly silent except for the actual landing part.
Though it's simply a number of files and number of lines, SCO is actually putting their ass on the line by giving a description of where the code resides.
Finally, this case has become interesting.
But I'm sure/. can find a way to beat the topic to death.
Unless he's willing to support these machines at no charge indefinitely, then it's unlikely he will have very many takers. It's all about the TCO, of which startup costs (which he is offering to bring to zero) is only a small portion.
I thought about getting Mrs. Claus one of these fake diamonds as an engagement ring stone, but then I thought about what I was saying by doing such a thing. Is my love for her just a facsimile of true love? Though chemically and physically the manufactured diamond is identical to a mined diamond, there is the lingering feeling that it is somewhat untrue to the spirit of diamonds. It is a perfect, fake diamond.
I didn't want to have that sort of guilt hanging over my head, so I didn't go with the cheaper diamond.
I decided to buy her a cheapy cubic zirconium instead.
Buy a couple dozen Krispy Kreme donuts for your coworkers.
Start a community watch program in your neighborhood.
There are so many things you can do that do not necessarily require technology. These things are easier to give and easier to receive because people in need do not always have the means to support technological donations. It's the human touch that is important in charity.
The Chinese and population control
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Chimera Twins Story
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· Score: -1, Flamebait
Though the Chinese in these later days have implemented a sound and sustainable one-child policy to control their out of control population growth, this has no doubt led to the introduction of these Chimera babies.
It is certainly a travesty that these genetically malformed children are brought into the world despite their severe handicaps. Coupled with poor prenatal care in the outer provinces and you have a system that rewards parents who abort at the first sign of pregnancy and punishes those who would see their newborns brought into the world. Without the ability to screen for these handicapped children, hundreds of couples are left in dire straits as their lots are made worse by the constant care necessitated by these poor children.
Though infanticide is clearly something unpalatable and not warranted in very many situations, it may in fact be applicable in the case of these Chimera babies. So much better off would the parents be with a strong, healthy child than a sickly, potentially economically and emotionally draining child.
The biggest 'fact' is that Microsoft is a big company that has the resources to actually pursue this kind of 'fact finding' mission.
No Linux company is in any position to set up a Windows lab to discover the relative merits of Linux in opposition to Windows. Luckily, the OSS fans are willing to gobble gobble up any anti-MS FUD available.
Not so with MS 'fans'.
The Matrix is just a movie
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Powered by Blood
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· Score: 0, Offtopic
Computers can never be as smart as humans because of the simple fact that humans have souls which allow a creative nature. Computers cannot be programmed to have souls. They can perhaps be programmed to have weighted levels of preference for certain things, but they can never appreciate things at the level that we humans can.
Despite what fear-mongers like Bill Joy say about computers achieving then surpassing humans in intelligence, just consider that intelligence isn't a matter of MIPS, but one of creativity and the ability to think outside of the box. These are things computers can't do, and will never be able to do.
However, the distributor must comply with the terms of the copyright holder. If SCO holds any copyrights that are not covered by the GPL on the Linux codebase, your distributor is in violation of SCO's copyright unless they have specific exemptions granted by SCO.
The upshot of this is that you as a consumer are safe from litigation, but if you were a distributor of the code (even passing a CD around the office would suffice) then you can be charged with copyright violations of SCO's code.
I used to think it had something to do with the freedom of developers to use the source, but it really has nothing to do with developers at all.
Rather it is the source code/software itself that is Free. Like you and I are free in that we have laws that prevent someone else from chaining us up in a basement somewhere, Free software cannot be chained up in someone's pet project. According to the license, all Free software must be set free.
Once I understood this, I finally understood what is meant by "Information wants to be Free". Information doesn't want to be locked up, just like you don't want to be locked up.
This personification of information is one of the most backwards and retarded ways of looking at intellectual property I've seen. I really didn't understand how weird it was until I finally understood what the FSF was really saying.
What's the performance like with Redhat Server and MySQL?
Knuth is only one foundation that won't be lost
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Software Archaeology
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· Score: 4, Interesting
If the problem is that knoweldge of the underlying foundations of technology is being lost it is because of the concept of abstraction, of which.Net is the latest and greatest incarnation.
It really all started when some engineers decided that machine code was too hard and invented assembler. Nowadays it's not even necessary to know what a bit is or how an ALU works to make programs. Just point and click and you've got yourself a brand spanking new database app courtesy of VB.
No one ought to knock VB because it really is the best tool for what it does, but it also lowers the barrier to entry for would-be programmers. This can only lead to worse programs.
The most fundamental concept in computer science is logic, not algorithms (or worse programming languages). If a 'programmer' hasn't written a program in a low level language like C or assembler, the hiring manager should beware. Without hands-on experience with the fundamentals of computer science that person is lacking at the most basic level, regardless of whether he knows 1 language or 50 languages. He is handicapped.
It's a good thing to abstract, but it's also important to remember and study the bases of our science.
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Neither runs faster than the Orchid Farenheit 180.
I used Lotus 123 and WordPerfect 5.1 as the test applications.
There is no tangible benefit to having these notices. The user receiving the notice either knows what it means or doesn't know what it means and either way receiving the notice wouldn't change their behavior regardless.
Now that my Inbox is overflowing and my ISP's mail server is rejecting emails because I'm over the account size limit, I'm a little more wary of these supposed "user friendly" helping hands that virus scanner companies are building into their products.
Or should we brutally rape blue haired old ladies?
What kind of question is that?
Software has every right to phone home. It's what software does, i.e. it executes code that it was told to execute. If you believe (as I believe) that software has the right to be Free (as in Freedom), then you have to be in favor of software publishers reserving the right to verify that you are not using their software in violation of agreement (or lack thereof in the case of warez).
Freedom for software also entails Freedom for developers, though sometimes these are quite at odds. In those cases the developers' Freedom ought to take priority over the software.
Though Wei Long Hee was found to be not at fault for the disappearance of the top secret hard disks, there does seem to be a concerted effort by the Chinese government to infiltrate the Los Alamos lab. It is well-known that the Opteron chips and mobos are manufactured in mainland China. It is also well-known that the Chinese (as well as the Russians, but they aren't exactly a superpower anymore) put bugs (listening devices) in the walls of the governmental buildings around the country. What would stop them from putting data-wrangling code into the Opteron chips?
This is one case where supporting a U.S. company like Intel who manufactures all of their hardware in the USA is a good idea. I'm not one to be tooting Intel's horn, especially considering their heavy handed tactics, but when it comes to national security it doesn't make sense to contract that out to a potential enemy.
In America (the leading consumer of air travel) the FAA has limits on the noise level generated by an airport. From the article, this is such a big problem that the development of this engine in passenger aircraft may be halted because of the inability to dampen the noise output. Strictly speaking, this is going to be a rocket engine, not an passenger jet engine. It probably won't even be a military jet engine either, the military doesn't like their pilots deaf.
The FAA rules were never a big problem for me, though. The reindeer are fairly silent except for the actual landing part.
So 50% of all system crashes are caused by 3rd party drivers and the other 50% are caused by Microsoft code.
Sounds bad, but compared to the number of application crashes, the number of actual OS crashes is infinitesimal.
Though it's simply a number of files and number of lines, SCO is actually putting their ass on the line by giving a description of where the code resides.
/. can find a way to beat the topic to death.
Finally, this case has become interesting.
But I'm sure
Unless he's willing to support these machines at no charge indefinitely, then it's unlikely he will have very many takers. It's all about the TCO, of which startup costs (which he is offering to bring to zero) is only a small portion.
I thought about getting Mrs. Claus one of these fake diamonds as an engagement ring stone, but then I thought about what I was saying by doing such a thing. Is my love for her just a facsimile of true love? Though chemically and physically the manufactured diamond is identical to a mined diamond, there is the lingering feeling that it is somewhat untrue to the spirit of diamonds. It is a perfect, fake diamond.
I didn't want to have that sort of guilt hanging over my head, so I didn't go with the cheaper diamond.
I decided to buy her a cheapy cubic zirconium instead.
Help in a gubernatorial election campaign.
Volunteer at the soup kitchen.
Donate unused stuff to Goodwill.
Offer your time to the old-folks home.
Pick up litter in your neighborhood.
Give money to the Salvation Army.
Offer to read to children in the hospital.
Drop a few dimes into a homeless person's cup.
Buy a couple dozen Krispy Kreme donuts for your coworkers.
Start a community watch program in your neighborhood.
There are so many things you can do that do not necessarily require technology. These things are easier to give and easier to receive because people in need do not always have the means to support technological donations. It's the human touch that is important in charity.
Tin, not aluminium.
Though the Chinese in these later days have implemented a sound and sustainable one-child policy to control their out of control population growth, this has no doubt led to the introduction of these Chimera babies.
It is certainly a travesty that these genetically malformed children are brought into the world despite their severe handicaps. Coupled with poor prenatal care in the outer provinces and you have a system that rewards parents who abort at the first sign of pregnancy and punishes those who would see their newborns brought into the world. Without the ability to screen for these handicapped children, hundreds of couples are left in dire straits as their lots are made worse by the constant care necessitated by these poor children.
Though infanticide is clearly something unpalatable and not warranted in very many situations, it may in fact be applicable in the case of these Chimera babies. So much better off would the parents be with a strong, healthy child than a sickly, potentially economically and emotionally draining child.
I can say that 240 miles away from the wife is about as good a honeymoon as you can get.
You can't keep a stranglehold if you fall asleep.
The biggest 'fact' is that Microsoft is a big company that has the resources to actually pursue this kind of 'fact finding' mission.
No Linux company is in any position to set up a Windows lab to discover the relative merits of Linux in opposition to Windows. Luckily, the OSS fans are willing to gobble gobble up any anti-MS FUD available.
Not so with MS 'fans'.
Computers can never be as smart as humans because of the simple fact that humans have souls which allow a creative nature. Computers cannot be programmed to have souls. They can perhaps be programmed to have weighted levels of preference for certain things, but they can never appreciate things at the level that we humans can.
Despite what fear-mongers like Bill Joy say about computers achieving then surpassing humans in intelligence, just consider that intelligence isn't a matter of MIPS, but one of creativity and the ability to think outside of the box. These are things computers can't do, and will never be able to do.
However, the distributor must comply with the terms of the copyright holder. If SCO holds any copyrights that are not covered by the GPL on the Linux codebase, your distributor is in violation of SCO's copyright unless they have specific exemptions granted by SCO.
The upshot of this is that you as a consumer are safe from litigation, but if you were a distributor of the code (even passing a CD around the office would suffice) then you can be charged with copyright violations of SCO's code.
I used to think it had something to do with the freedom of developers to use the source, but it really has nothing to do with developers at all.
Rather it is the source code/software itself that is Free. Like you and I are free in that we have laws that prevent someone else from chaining us up in a basement somewhere, Free software cannot be chained up in someone's pet project. According to the license, all Free software must be set free.
Once I understood this, I finally understood what is meant by "Information wants to be Free". Information doesn't want to be locked up, just like you don't want to be locked up.
This personification of information is one of the most backwards and retarded ways of looking at intellectual property I've seen. I really didn't understand how weird it was until I finally understood what the FSF was really saying.
Her legs are like nanotubes.
10 print "Reindeer are good shags"
20 print chr$7
30 goto 10
She's changed Tuesday's menu from Mexican burritos to Tofu burgers.
The elves are breathing a little easier on Wednesday mornings.
I mean, whitespace hasn't even been made meaningful yet.
Where's $\space and $\tab ?
Maybe if they'd require them, we'd have found the real killers by now.
Starburst: The Juice is Loose
What's the performance like with Redhat Server and MySQL?
If the problem is that knoweldge of the underlying foundations of technology is being lost it is because of the concept of abstraction, of which .Net is the latest and greatest incarnation.
It really all started when some engineers decided that machine code was too hard and invented assembler. Nowadays it's not even necessary to know what a bit is or how an ALU works to make programs. Just point and click and you've got yourself a brand spanking new database app courtesy of VB.
No one ought to knock VB because it really is the best tool for what it does, but it also lowers the barrier to entry for would-be programmers. This can only lead to worse programs.
The most fundamental concept in computer science is logic, not algorithms (or worse programming languages). If a 'programmer' hasn't written a program in a low level language like C or assembler, the hiring manager should beware. Without hands-on experience with the fundamentals of computer science that person is lacking at the most basic level, regardless of whether he knows 1 language or 50 languages. He is handicapped.
It's a good thing to abstract, but it's also important to remember and study the bases of our science.