Somebody will figure out a way to hack the reader to hook up to a PC, then we'll have a generation of kids who grow up being able to hexedit their parent's credit cards. That's WAY better than a set of MindStorms!
Those cheap skates won't part with a dime... I'll believe it when I see it. Sure they might do it for a week or so, then they'll drop it all the sudden once they have acquired everyone's email address and marketing info.
Do not forget.
This is what I use to explain to people why Macs ARE more secure than running Windows.
Ways Windows gets you hacked/virused/etc... 1) Auto-run on CD's 2) IE flaws 3) Outlook flaws 4) Services running by default 5) Trojans 6) App buffer overflows
On Macs 1) No Auto-run on CD's. You have to go and find the app to run it, which is why those Sony DRM-infecting CD's didn't actually nail any Mac users. Nobody bothered to run the app and install it. (There was a Mac version on the CD) 2) You can argue that Safari and Firefox will be just as bad as IE, but for now they both have been doing better and avoid major architectural flaws such as ActiveX and being deeply embedded in the OS. 3) In Apple's Mail.app pictures display as pictures, apps are attachments, etc... takes extra effort to run a trojan, but that's #5 4) By default on Macs no servers at all are running, whereas on Windows you must manually shut down a LOT of them. 5) Trojans will always be a problem unless perhaps companies start using Intel's method of running apps inside a sandbox VM or something. 6) Not much I can say here, Linux and some BSD's I'm sure are way better in this with random offsets in their mallocs, and I'm sure Apple could do something similar.
Okay so 4 out of 6 simply do not apply to Mac users, and the other 2 are fundamental problems that will most likely always be around.
Then it gets REALLY fun! Because if Microsoft dissess the entire EU court system and cuts off all contact with the EU legal system, then GUESS WHAT! Then Microsoft cannot avail themselves of benefits and protections of the EU court system. The EU courts can refuse to accept any cases from Microsoft attempting to sue for enforcement of copyright or patent or trademark infringment. The EU courts can effectively null and void all of Microsoft's copyrights and patents and trademarks. All of Microsoft's software would effectively become public domain.
The best part is... after that a European company can set up a website called AllofMS.com and sell legal copies of Windows to American buyers for $5...
Then of course the U.S. government will have to kick the EU out of the WTO.
So with this information and the Downing Street Memo that clearly showed the war was already planned when the president was publicly claiming it was the last option, what they heck is this guy going for? Why? And who stands to benefit from all this stuff?
Perhaps it's : The Masons Illuminati Skulls & Bones Trilateral Commission Bilderberg Group Neocons Opus Dei (Heheh) NSA
But seriously... who or what do people think Bush is working for and what evidence do they actually have?
Last time we had this article I noticed many post strongly defensive for the use of SETI. However it could EASILY be argued that it's a complete waste of time. I'm not going to say "No intelligent person runs SETI";-) But I will say this again... it got me marked Troll before, but maybe kinder eyes will see it this time.
Imagine instead of the article complained that most distributed computing computations were devoted to a wasted cause... SFAW. (Search For Angel Whispers) Now is it a little more understandable how those who don't share the same set of faith might feel SETI use is a huge loss of resources?
Weird... half my comment was gone after I submitted, this isn't the first time it's happened, maybe it's a Safari bug. Anyways... continuing my post.
Case in point... mandatory taxing of church members. 2 Corithians 9:6,7 6But as to this, he that sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he that sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7Let each one do just as he has resolved in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Of course you could argue that people are being guilt-tripped into handing over money, but the point remains that the Bible itself states that offerings should be voluntary and only as much as a person WANTS to give.
Some people honestly believe that religion is a large source of the world's problems and to truly advance we need to abandon it.
And in support of your view, even the Bible itself speaks against those very people.
2 Peter 2:1,2 2 However, there also came to be false prophets among the people, as there will also be false teachers among YOU. These very ones will quietly bring in destructive sects and will disown even the owner that bought them, bringing speedy destruction upon themselves. 2Furthermore, many will follow their acts of loose conduct, and on account of these the way of the truth will be spoken of abusively.
Ever see those construction crews working on a street for literally months? Now imagine that same sort of efficiency working on a stretch of cable miles long every time they need some sort of line upgrade or repair service. Oh yeah and... imagine an earthquake that shreds a line in many places... instead of being able to visually inspect and quickly find the problem spots they'd have to dig up huge sections to work on it.
Forget it. Your power goes out now... back up in a few hours or in major emergencies months. Underground power goes out... they start digging and you wait. Get used to waiting months.
would you tolerate it if the government mandated we eat nothing but kibble for food? dog food is more nutritious than our food but would you tolerate it?
You know you just saved me a LOT of money on groceries!
SCO is trying to promote its alternative to LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) with SCAMP (SCO, Apache, etc.).
Nice name there! I thought you were making that up, but they actually named their product SCAMP. Here it is, straight from my dictionary:
scamp 1 |skamp| noun informal a person, esp. a child, who is mischievous in a likable or amusing way. a wicked or worthless person; a rogue. DERIVATIVES scampish adjective ORIGIN mid 18th cent.(denoting a highwayman): from obsolete scamp [rob on the highway,] probably from Middle Dutch schampen 'slip away,' from Old French eschamper 'flee the battlefield,' from champ 'field.'
Wow! Amazing marketing there... sign up today for SCO's highway robbery!
I agree that their enterprise support needs some serious improvements, but in the meantime I'll give you this advice.
Get a developer account and use bugreporter. It really does work. I have a free account and I can't even program anymore since I switched jobs, but the bug reports DO get looked at and they do fix them. I started reporting them a while back, every little thing that bugs me, simple stuff or anything I could think of. Surprisingly I'd get replies from an engineer very quickly asking for more information or clarification on reproducing it. Then next thing you know the bug is marked Closed and the next OS update fixes it.
Just follow the reporting guidelines, be as clear as possible, explain how it SHOULD work and how it currently does or doesn't work and you will get a geek interested somewhere on the inside. The phone lines are keeping the unwashed masses from flooding their engineers with stupid questions, but bugreporter and other developer forums get you talking to the guy responsible.
Of course this all really goes to show that you can never completely verify evolution no matter how much evidence you collect
That argument is a fallacy, I don't have the list with me right now... but that HAS to be one. The reason is, there IS a point where the gaps can be filled in enough that it's obvious to anyone that it's a continuous graduation from one to the other. Take donkeys, mules and horses, nobody argues that they are SOMEHOW related... also dogs and wolves, foxes, nobody would try to argue that they aren't of the same "family" or "kind". Just remember that species, genus, etc... are all man made terms and arbitrary boundaries, expect a little argument on that.
You aren't, after all using that argument because you secretly doubt more "missing links" will be found are you?
Hasn't the Haunted House in Disneyland had this for ohhh... 50 years or so? In one room there is a crystal ball with a fortune tellers head projected on the inside somehow. As you ride all the way around it the face somehow matches every angle even as a dozen people are looking at different spots. I always figured it was some kind of multiple projectors, but how they got the overlapping and made it so smooth I never could guess.
I was an intern working for a tech support company back in oh... 2000 or so. I was busy doing support calls constantly with the "engineers" who were getting paid big bucks. One of my assignments as an intern was to train the President's nephew how to be a tech. This guy had literally never seen a HD before. He was being PAID while I was teaching him for free. After 6 months of driving half an hour each way on my own dime and hoping to get picked up, they finally admitted I was not going to be hired, but I was welcome to continue to come everyday "for the experience" right... I was also training some of their engineers. I walked after that.
Well it's certainly not my invention, the concept has been around for a looooong time. Surely you can appreciate an idea without accepting it can't you? The basic idea is that Satan challenged God's ability to rule and mankind sided with him claiming they didn't need Gods direction in their affairs. So instead of wiping everyone out and starting over, he allowed them to give it a try and prove their case. Thousands of years of human suffering and death show that they do indeed need his direction so the case is soon to be ended and the precident set in favor of God's rule. As for the Linux = ?? part, I was being silly... But if it's the thing being challenged it would have to be right of rulership and who can determine standards of right and wrong. I don't expect you to accept those ideas, I'm just saying they SCO case is pretty similar in a way. The long, hard legal battle sets precident and lessens future problems and challenges.
IBM long ago had the opportunity to buy SCO off, or even buy them outright. Their strategy is to make all claims against Linux GO AWAY. If they buy SCO off, they still leave themselves (and everyone else) open to future claims against Linux. By winning the case, they close that door forever.
Interesting... and off topic I know, but that's the EXACT reasoning Christians use to explain why God permits suffering in the world today. Your post just cleared the concept in my head a lot better than anything I've read over the years. So if IBM = God, SCO = Satan... then Linux = ?? Hmmmm....
Okay, go to the "resource centre link", provided herehere for your convenience. What do you notice? I'll give a hint:
Download the Windows Vista Product Guide
Available in Microsoft Word format (60 MB) or the new Windows Vista XPS document format (12 MB) . (emph mine)
And ya know what else... they lie about the file sizes. The DOC is listed as being 60MB, when it's actually 59.1MB, and the XPS is listed as being 12MB, when it's actually zipped to 12MB, the unzipped size is 56.7MB! But they IMPLY that XPS is some AMAZINGLY EFFICIENT file type! I can just see it now...
"Wow! XPS is 5x smaller than DOC files NO WAY! We gotta start using this NOW, even PDF isn't that small!"
Funny that they could take the time to zip the XPS but not the DOC file. They truly are fudmasters.
On the plus side, XPS files show up as a bundle on a Mac... I can go inside and look at all their PNG and JPGs without loading up some huge office suite. Oh, by the way, what the heck is an ODTTF file?
What I don't get is how all the articles say the lake was only 3 feet deep before the disaster, then 1,500 after that. Okay, so the Tripod rip of some newspaper article said 3 feet, wikipedia uses that number and the take at damninteresting.com claims it was 11 feet deep previously. Neither one of those sounds need enough to have 11 barges and a tugboat on it.
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Somebody will figure out a way to hack the reader to hook up to a PC, then we'll have a generation of kids who grow up being able to hexedit their parent's credit cards. That's WAY better than a set of MindStorms!
Those cheap skates won't part with a dime... I'll believe it when I see it. Sure they might do it for a week or so, then they'll drop it all the sudden once they have acquired everyone's email address and marketing info. Do not forget.
This is what I use to explain to people why Macs ARE more secure than running Windows.
Ways Windows gets you hacked/virused/etc...
1) Auto-run on CD's
2) IE flaws
3) Outlook flaws
4) Services running by default
5) Trojans
6) App buffer overflows
On Macs
1) No Auto-run on CD's. You have to go and find the app to run it, which is why those Sony DRM-infecting CD's didn't actually nail any Mac users. Nobody bothered to run the app and install it. (There was a Mac version on the CD)
2) You can argue that Safari and Firefox will be just as bad as IE, but for now they both have been doing better and avoid major architectural flaws such as ActiveX and being deeply embedded in the OS.
3) In Apple's Mail.app pictures display as pictures, apps are attachments, etc... takes extra effort to run a trojan, but that's #5
4) By default on Macs no servers at all are running, whereas on Windows you must manually shut down a LOT of them.
5) Trojans will always be a problem unless perhaps companies start using Intel's method of running apps inside a sandbox VM or something.
6) Not much I can say here, Linux and some BSD's I'm sure are way better in this with random offsets in their mallocs, and I'm sure Apple could do something similar.
Okay so 4 out of 6 simply do not apply to Mac users, and the other 2 are fundamental problems that will most likely always be around.
The best part is... after that a European company can set up a website called AllofMS.com and sell legal copies of Windows to American buyers for $5
Then of course the U.S. government will have to kick the EU out of the WTO.
So with this information and the Downing Street Memo that clearly showed the war was already planned when the president was publicly claiming it was the last option, what they heck is this guy going for? Why? And who stands to benefit from all this stuff?
Perhaps it's :
The Masons
Illuminati
Skulls & Bones
Trilateral Commission
Bilderberg Group
Neocons
Opus Dei (Heheh)
NSA
But seriously... who or what do people think Bush is working for and what evidence do they actually have?
Last time we had this article I noticed many post strongly defensive for the use of SETI. However it could EASILY be argued that it's a complete waste of time. I'm not going to say "No intelligent person runs SETI" ;-) But I will say this again... it got me marked Troll before, but maybe kinder eyes will see it this time.
Imagine instead of the article complained that most distributed computing computations were devoted to a wasted cause... SFAW. (Search For Angel Whispers) Now is it a little more understandable how those who don't share the same set of faith might feel SETI use is a huge loss of resources?
Weird... half my comment was gone after I submitted, this isn't the first time it's happened, maybe it's a Safari bug. Anyways... continuing my post.
Case in point... mandatory taxing of church members.
2 Corithians 9:6,7
6But as to this, he that sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he that sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7Let each one do just as he has resolved in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Of course you could argue that people are being guilt-tripped into handing over money, but the point remains that the Bible itself states that offerings should be voluntary and only as much as a person WANTS to give.
Some people honestly believe that religion is a large source of the world's problems and to truly advance we need to abandon it.
And in support of your view, even the Bible itself speaks against those very people.
2 Peter 2:1,2
2 However, there also came to be false prophets among the people, as there will also be false teachers among YOU. These very ones will quietly bring in destructive sects and will disown even the owner that bought them, bringing speedy destruction upon themselves. 2Furthermore, many will follow their acts of loose conduct, and on account of these the way of the truth will be spoken of abusively.
I see many comments leaning way over on the defensive side, and it's certainly true that you're all free to do what you like with your computers.
However... To help you understand how those who feel SETI is a collosal waste of time and energy, let me rephrase the story a bit.
Imagine the report of most distributed computing being devoted to SFAW that is the Search For Angel Whispers.
Can you at least comprehend how others who do not have the same faithed based system of reasoning may feel your efforts could be better used?
And yes, belief in extraterestrials is just that, and running SETI for all time knowing that SOMEDAY you'll hear something is faith.
Ever see those construction crews working on a street for literally months? Now imagine that same sort of efficiency working on a stretch of cable miles long every time they need some sort of line upgrade or repair service. Oh yeah and... imagine an earthquake that shreds a line in many places... instead of being able to visually inspect and quickly find the problem spots they'd have to dig up huge sections to work on it.
Forget it. Your power goes out now... back up in a few hours or in major emergencies months. Underground power goes out... they start digging and you wait. Get used to waiting months.
would you tolerate it if the government mandated we eat nothing but kibble for food? dog food is more nutritious than our food but would you tolerate it?
You know you just saved me a LOT of money on groceries!
SCO is trying to promote its alternative to LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) with SCAMP (SCO, Apache, etc.).
Nice name there! I thought you were making that up, but they actually named their product SCAMP. Here it is, straight from my dictionary:
scamp 1 |skamp| noun informal a person, esp. a child, who is mischievous in a likable or amusing way. a wicked or worthless person; a rogue. DERIVATIVES scampish adjective ORIGIN mid 18th cent.(denoting a highwayman): from obsolete scamp [rob on the highway,] probably from Middle Dutch schampen 'slip away,' from Old French eschamper 'flee the battlefield,' from champ 'field.'
Wow! Amazing marketing there... sign up today for SCO's highway robbery!
A ghost detector? Amazing new technology comes around and all you can think of is a ghost detector?? Sheesh...
:)
dowsers already do that just fine.
I agree that their enterprise support needs some serious improvements, but in the meantime I'll give you this advice.
Get a developer account and use bugreporter. It really does work. I have a free account and I can't even program anymore since I switched jobs, but the bug reports DO get looked at and they do fix them. I started reporting them a while back, every little thing that bugs me, simple stuff or anything I could think of. Surprisingly I'd get replies from an engineer very quickly asking for more information or clarification on reproducing it. Then next thing you know the bug is marked Closed and the next OS update fixes it.
Just follow the reporting guidelines, be as clear as possible, explain how it SHOULD work and how it currently does or doesn't work and you will get a geek interested somewhere on the inside. The phone lines are keeping the unwashed masses from flooding their engineers with stupid questions, but bugreporter and other developer forums get you talking to the guy responsible.
You give me hardware which allows me to feel up the ladies on screen, and I'd be willing to pay a lot of money for that.
It sounds great at first... until you start grabbing around and the scene changes, taking your arms with it.
Oh I'm sure at least one guy would pay for that.
Of course this all really goes to show that you can never completely verify evolution no matter how much evidence you collect
That argument is a fallacy, I don't have the list with me right now... but that HAS to be one. The reason is, there IS a point where the gaps can be filled in enough that it's obvious to anyone that it's a continuous graduation from one to the other. Take donkeys, mules and horses, nobody argues that they are SOMEHOW related... also dogs and wolves, foxes, nobody would try to argue that they aren't of the same "family" or "kind". Just remember that species, genus, etc... are all man made terms and arbitrary boundaries, expect a little argument on that.
You aren't, after all using that argument because you secretly doubt more "missing links" will be found are you?
Hasn't the Haunted House in Disneyland had this for ohhh... 50 years or so? In one room there is a crystal ball with a fortune tellers head projected on the inside somehow. As you ride all the way around it the face somehow matches every angle even as a dozen people are looking at different spots. I always figured it was some kind of multiple projectors, but how they got the overlapping and made it so smooth I never could guess.
I was an intern working for a tech support company back in oh... 2000 or so. I was busy doing support calls constantly with the "engineers" who were getting paid big bucks. One of my assignments as an intern was to train the President's nephew how to be a tech. This guy had literally never seen a HD before. He was being PAID while I was teaching him for free. After 6 months of driving half an hour each way on my own dime and hoping to get picked up, they finally admitted I was not going to be hired, but I was welcome to continue to come everyday "for the experience" right... I was also training some of their engineers. I walked after that.
Well it's certainly not my invention, the concept has been around for a looooong time. Surely you can appreciate an idea without accepting it can't you? The basic idea is that Satan challenged God's ability to rule and mankind sided with him claiming they didn't need Gods direction in their affairs. So instead of wiping everyone out and starting over, he allowed them to give it a try and prove their case. Thousands of years of human suffering and death show that they do indeed need his direction so the case is soon to be ended and the precident set in favor of God's rule. As for the Linux = ?? part, I was being silly... But if it's the thing being challenged it would have to be right of rulership and who can determine standards of right and wrong. I don't expect you to accept those ideas, I'm just saying they SCO case is pretty similar in a way. The long, hard legal battle sets precident and lessens future problems and challenges.
IBM long ago had the opportunity to buy SCO off, or even buy them outright. Their strategy is to make all claims against Linux GO AWAY. If they buy SCO off, they still leave themselves (and everyone else) open to future claims against Linux. By winning the case, they close that door forever.
Interesting... and off topic I know, but that's the EXACT reasoning Christians use to explain why God permits suffering in the world today. Your post just cleared the concept in my head a lot better than anything I've read over the years. So if IBM = God, SCO = Satan... then Linux = ?? Hmmmm....
Okay, go to the "resource centre link", provided herehere for your convenience. What do you notice? I'll give a hint:
Download the Windows Vista Product Guide
Available in Microsoft Word format (60 MB) or the new Windows Vista XPS document format (12 MB) . (emph mine)
And ya know what else... they lie about the file sizes. The DOC is listed as being 60MB, when it's actually 59.1MB, and the XPS is listed as being 12MB, when it's actually zipped to 12MB, the unzipped size is 56.7MB! But they IMPLY that XPS is some AMAZINGLY EFFICIENT file type! I can just see it now...
"Wow! XPS is 5x smaller than DOC files NO WAY! We gotta start using this NOW, even PDF isn't that small!"
Funny that they could take the time to zip the XPS but not the DOC file. They truly are fudmasters.
On the plus side, XPS files show up as a bundle on a Mac... I can go inside and look at all their PNG and JPGs without loading up some huge office suite. Oh, by the way, what the heck is an ODTTF file?
Those were the days! Tiny oil eating shrimp that grew larger than a house, did you find all the possible endings?
Maybe those books lead me into computers... Taught us loops and branching as kids, no wonder I used GOTOs for so long.
What I don't get is how all the articles say the lake was only 3 feet deep before the disaster, then 1,500 after that. Okay, so the Tripod rip of some newspaper article said 3 feet, wikipedia uses that number and the take at damninteresting.com claims it was 11 feet deep previously. Neither one of those sounds need enough to have 11 barges and a tugboat on it.
The problem is that they designed and built Archimedes Death Ray.
w /160/27
*GASPS* But MYTHBUSTERS said that's impossible!
http://www.mythbustersfanclub.com/mb2/content/vie