So what you're telling me is that the reliability problems that some people have reported with Windows is actually the hardware and NOT the software. Nope. If it was hardware, it would still be as flaky under VMWare.
If the software was dodgy it'd have the same reliability problems under a virtual machine as it does on the actual hardware. There's one born every day. Ever heard of asynchronous processes? Timing problems, Race conditions. They are mean to debug. VMWare presents to Windows a machine where things happen nice and orderly. Microsoft does have trouble walking and chewing gum at the same time.
"Religion is the last refuge of the scoundrel" I don't mean that religious people are scoundrels, quite the opposite. It's just that scoundrels like to use religion and warp it as "justification" for their nefarious...
you'd still be clutching your 386 technology Not a chance. Motorola, or even better, MicroVAX. Intel has a horrid machine code structure, but has been fast enough and cheap enough to dominate the market. If the Pentium were'nt there, something else would have taken its place and for all I know we'd be better off now.
"If you listen carefully the experts don't say we'll run out but that the cost will increase to a point where other fuels cost less." Oil that costs more to get out of the ground than it would be sold for will stay in the ground. First you get the stuff that's easy and cheap to get out of the ground. Then you go after stuff that gets harder and harder. You don't suddenly run out, but you can suddenly switch from supply exceeding demand to demand exceeding supply. If everybody panics, ithe situation looks like you've run out. Reserves like the oil shales require a long lead time to come online.
But sun isn't doing this out the kindness of their hearts Kindness has nothing to do with it. If I send you a document and you can't read it and you can't reply to it, I have a "failure to communicate" problem with my office software. The situation also applies to "big bad corporation" in its relations with customers and suppliers. My willingness and ability to spend x$ on office software does not translate to your willingness or ability to spend x$ on the exact same software, nor should it. Star Office and Open Office are not the same product. Even if all binaries and files are identical, they are different products. I can't call up Sun and complain about Open Office and expect to accomplish anything.
Whether they have enough energy to be distinguished above the noise floor as shown in those graphs is highly doubtful. Here we are very much in agreement. People enjoyed the old shellac(?) 78's, sometimes even to the point of believing that what they were hearing was real.
Nice graphs, but I don't think I've heard any pianos where the beginning and end of a note had the same timbre. The fact that something cannot be directly observed doesn't quite mean that it cannot be observed. There is also the possibility that inaudible overtones which would be kept inaudible by analog equipment are aliased to audible overtones by digitizing. The difference if any is small, dominated by speaker aberrations and room acoustics, but claiming that they are nonexistant seems a bit too much of a stretch. A piano is a percussion instrument. An organ is not.
Taken to its logical conclusion, if you can't handle life (all of it?), then you shouldn't be alive. The thing is that people do have to cope with things that they do not understand. Societal norms should be such that minimal damage is inflicted due to lack of understanding of consequences. This applies to adults as well as children and infants.
The differences between a piano and an organ comes from frequencies above the fundamental. Some of these differences are above 20kHz. These differences affect what sound is heard assuming within the range of hearing. This still leaves the timings of exactly when the mechanisms in the ear respond which will be affected by inaudible frequencies. To create a 440 Hz square wave accurately, the frequencies required just keep going. To detect which of two wave forms happened first may well depend on "inaudible" frequencies.
Overtones. Harmonics. What makes a piano sound different from an organ. All this information is carried in the higher frequencies. That piano note has a lot more going on than just the fundamental. Analog equipment will claim a range over which sound is reasonably reproduced but the actual range over which it does something is much greater.
It's just more interesting for virus writers to focus on MS, as it's products have the biggest share on the desktopmarket. More important, it's so much easier to find holes in Microsoft.
Like magic, the whole internet becomes more secure.
It's because of thinking like this that the Internet is inherently insecure.
Installing Linux causes Microsoft worms? ???
There are no magic bullets, but Linux and moreso the BSDs have the attitude that the user should be in control and know what is going on. Maybe not secure yet, but enough is being done with jails and sandboxes and such that before long I should be able to run unpatched exploitable code with impunity. The only significant difference between the current Microsoft wormage and the UNIX Honor Virus is the user's awareness of just what is going on.
Is Star Office that much better than open office.org? Or is it just the name/image thing? Better, maybe. But that's not the fundamental difference. If there's a problem with Star Office, it's Sun's problem. If there's a problem with Open Office, it's the user's problem. This doesn't mean that Sun can or will fix any problems faster than Open Office. It's just where the ultimate responsibility lies. If I'm a PHB, I will buy Star Office. If I'm a crafty PHB, I will buy Star Office, download Open Office, and use whatever seems to work best.
I would bet that companies like Doubleclick are paying M$ and Netscape not to develop protection from popups within their browsers. But I'm a conspiracy theorist. Now the monopoly status of Microsoft begins to get interesting. Seems like there are laws about doing something on a computing device contrary to the intent and desires of the owner of that computing device. The problem with being a monopoly is that "everybody does it" is no defense when you are "everybody".
This is not about free speech. It's more like free typos which is NOT up for grabs by sleazeballs. It's more like misleading billboards which look like hiway signs. It's more like false and deceptive advertising which doesn't look like advertising. Free speech does not include my right to sell your email address to spammers and your home telephone number to telemarketers.
Comcast can do whatever they damn well please with the information That's where we disagree and what the courts will decide. Methinks that an ISP is just like any other business in that it cannot do what it damn well pleases.
just because an ISP logs your activity doesn't directly imply they will sell it to the highest bidder. True, and just because they have it, doesn't imply that they have the right to sell it to anybody else, and may even have restrictions on what analyses can be legally performed on the stored data. Just because a business has customer data, the business does not have complete and unrestricted use of that data. Asking your ISP for the IP of a DNS entry means what, exactly. Too much chance that it's a broken link or something misspelled somewhere.
The ISP will log certain data to help insure that the network is up, stays up, and help diagnose problems. Any other use of the data is probably very dangerous.
Um those are different arguments *if* you monitor _and_ *what* you do with the information
Not different. *WHAT* you monitor has a lot to do with what it's possible to *DO* with the information.
Another little aspect though is that an ISP that logs your activity is not violating your privacy because what you are doing is by definition from their point of view not private. I doubt that ISP logs would be public information any more that your water bill, your gas bill, your electric bill.
Its like me asking you for directions to Toronto and expecting you to not have a clue where I am going. There is a strong possibility that you (whoever you are) are going somewhere in the vicinity of Toronto or at least in that general direction. If the conversation takes place in Dawson Creek, you could just as well be heading for the maritimes.
what *you* do with *their* network *is* their business. True but misleading. They assume a responsibility for preserving the privacy of *you* if they gather any data which allows identification. I would imagine that Walmart has some very strict rules as to what their cameras can be used for.
Or, if the participants in that project decided to modify the source for use in a Classified application, 1) They will be extremely choosy about who gets the binaries. 2) If GPL'd the only requirement is that those who get the binaries can get the sources. 3) If they don't tell anyone (except those directly affected) they're quite legal. They are under no obligation to release source to anyone that does not get the modified binaries. 4) I would assume that the binary and source would both be classified.
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So what you're telling me is that the reliability problems that some people have reported with Windows is actually the hardware and NOT the software.
Nope. If it was hardware, it would still be as flaky under VMWare.
If the software was dodgy it'd have the same reliability problems under a virtual machine as it does on the actual hardware.
There's one born every day. Ever heard of asynchronous processes? Timing problems, Race conditions. They are mean to debug.
VMWare presents to Windows a machine where things happen nice and orderly.
Microsoft does have trouble walking and chewing gum at the same time.
"Religion is the last refuge of the scoundrel" ...
I don't mean that religious people are scoundrels, quite the opposite. It's just that scoundrels like to use religion and warp it as "justification" for their nefarious
you'd still be clutching your 386 technology
Not a chance.
Motorola, or even better, MicroVAX.
Intel has a horrid machine code structure, but has been fast enough and cheap enough to dominate the market. If the Pentium were'nt there, something else would have taken its place and for all I know we'd be better off now.
You mean, like Errol Flynn?
(Of "In like Flynn" fame)
As useless as a dead Cray.
It also reflects on the value of a still-alive Cray.
"If you listen carefully the experts don't say we'll run out but that the cost will increase to a point where other fuels cost less."
Oil that costs more to get out of the ground than it would be sold for will stay in the ground. First you get the stuff that's easy and cheap to get out of the ground. Then you go after stuff that gets harder and harder.
You don't suddenly run out, but you can suddenly switch from supply exceeding demand to demand exceeding supply. If everybody panics, ithe situation looks like you've run out. Reserves like the oil shales require a long lead time to come online.
But sun isn't doing this out the kindness of their hearts
Kindness has nothing to do with it.
If I send you a document and you can't read it and you can't reply to it, I have a "failure to communicate" problem with my office software. The situation also applies to "big bad corporation" in its relations with customers and suppliers. My willingness and ability to spend x$ on office software does not translate to your willingness or ability to spend x$ on the exact same software, nor should it. Star Office and Open Office are not the same product. Even if all binaries and files are identical, they are different products. I can't call up Sun and complain about Open Office and expect to accomplish anything.
If people buy used cars, there's less money for Ford and GM, etc.
Short term, maybe. (assuming you don't plan to be around very long;)
Whether they have enough energy to be distinguished above the noise floor as shown in those graphs is highly doubtful.
Here we are very much in agreement.
People enjoyed the old shellac(?) 78's, sometimes even to the point of believing that what they were hearing was real.
Nice graphs, but I don't think I've heard any pianos where the beginning and end of a note had the same timbre.
The fact that something cannot be directly observed doesn't quite mean that it cannot be observed.
There is also the possibility that inaudible overtones which would be kept inaudible by analog equipment are aliased to audible overtones by digitizing.
The difference if any is small, dominated by speaker aberrations and room acoustics, but claiming that they are nonexistant seems a bit too much of a stretch.
A piano is a percussion instrument. An organ is not.
Taken to its logical conclusion, if you can't handle life (all of it?), then you shouldn't be alive.
The thing is that people do have to cope with things that they do not understand. Societal norms should be such that minimal damage is inflicted due to lack of understanding of consequences. This applies to adults as well as children and infants.
The differences between a piano and an organ comes from frequencies above the fundamental. Some of these differences are above 20kHz.
These differences affect what sound is heard assuming within the range of hearing.
This still leaves the timings of exactly when the mechanisms in the ear respond which will be affected by inaudible frequencies. To create a 440 Hz square wave accurately, the frequencies required just keep going. To detect which of two wave forms happened first may well depend on "inaudible" frequencies.
Overtones. Harmonics. What makes a piano sound different from an organ.
All this information is carried in the higher frequencies. That piano note has a lot more going on than just the fundamental. Analog equipment will claim a range over which sound is reasonably reproduced but the actual range over which it does something is much greater.
It's just more interesting for virus writers to focus on MS, as it's products have the biggest share on the desktopmarket.
More important, it's so much easier to find holes in Microsoft.
Like magic, the whole internet becomes more secure.
It's because of thinking like this that the Internet is inherently insecure.
Installing Linux causes Microsoft worms? ???
There are no magic bullets, but Linux and moreso the BSDs have the attitude that the user should be in control and know what is going on. Maybe not secure yet, but enough is being done with jails and sandboxes and such that before long I should be able to run unpatched exploitable code with impunity. The only significant difference between the current Microsoft wormage and the UNIX Honor Virus is the user's awareness of just what is going on.
Is Star Office that much better than open office.org? Or is it just the name/image thing?
Better, maybe. But that's not the fundamental difference. If there's a problem with Star Office, it's Sun's problem. If there's a problem with Open Office, it's the user's problem. This doesn't mean that Sun can or will fix any problems faster than Open Office. It's just where the ultimate responsibility lies. If I'm a PHB, I will buy Star Office. If I'm a crafty PHB, I will buy Star Office, download Open Office, and use whatever seems to work best.
The design flaw is assuming that everybody spells everything correctly and is prepared to accept the consequences of any typos.
I would bet that companies like Doubleclick are paying M$ and Netscape not to develop protection from popups within their browsers. But I'm a conspiracy theorist.
Now the monopoly status of Microsoft begins to get interesting. Seems like there are laws about doing something on a computing device contrary to the intent and desires of the owner of that computing device. The problem with being a monopoly is that "everybody does it" is no defense when you are "everybody".
This is not about free speech. It's more like free typos which is NOT up for grabs by sleazeballs. It's more like misleading billboards which look like hiway signs. It's more like false and deceptive advertising which doesn't look like advertising. Free speech does not include my right to sell your email address to spammers and your home telephone number to telemarketers.
Comcast can do whatever they damn well please with the information
That's where we disagree and what the courts will decide. Methinks that an ISP is just like any other business in that it cannot do what it damn well pleases.
just because an ISP logs your activity doesn't directly imply they will sell it to the highest bidder.
True, and just because they have it, doesn't imply that they have the right to sell it to anybody else, and may even have restrictions on what analyses can be legally performed on the stored data. Just because a business has customer data, the business does not have complete and unrestricted use of that data.
Asking your ISP for the IP of a DNS entry means what, exactly. Too much chance that it's a broken link or something misspelled somewhere.
The ISP will log certain data to help insure that the network is up, stays up, and help diagnose problems. Any other use of the data is probably very dangerous.
Um those are different arguments
*if* you monitor
_and_
*what* you do with the information
Not different.
*WHAT* you monitor has a lot to do with what it's possible to *DO* with the information.
Another little aspect though is that an ISP that logs your activity is not violating your privacy because what you are doing is by definition from their point of view not private.
I doubt that ISP logs would be public information any more that your water bill, your gas bill, your electric bill.
Its like me asking you for directions to Toronto and expecting you to not have a clue where I am going.
There is a strong possibility that you (whoever you are) are going somewhere in the vicinity of Toronto or at least in that general direction. If the conversation takes place in Dawson Creek, you could just as well be heading for the maritimes.
what *you* do with *their* network *is* their business.
True but misleading. They assume a responsibility for preserving the privacy of *you* if they gather any data which allows identification. I would imagine that Walmart has some very strict rules as to what their cameras can be used for.
Or, if the participants in that project decided to modify the source for use in a Classified application,
1) They will be extremely choosy about who gets the binaries.
2) If GPL'd the only requirement is that those who get the binaries can get the sources.
3) If they don't tell anyone (except those directly affected) they're quite legal. They are under no obligation to release source to anyone that does not get the modified binaries.
4) I would assume that the binary and source would both be classified.
No, it's more like one bad modem breaks the Internet.
Fortunately, most of the Internet does not run on Microsoft Windows.