I also fail to see why this invention is in any kind usefull. It has the old caveat, I need to bring the key A to B without beeing seen/intercepted/exchanged etc.
Except that virus scanners are actually only a fight against a sympthon. Virus would not there in first place if the OS would not have such a crapled security system. Try to write a virus for unix, you will have a hard time, since OS security will clap your fingers all the time, you can't hop from one user account to another, or infect any system files if beeing user and so on.
Isn't the Halley's Comet then also a planet? Or how about crommelin?
Or how is it with Charon? Can you really say it's a moon of pluto? I mean the difference in masses is not that great, actually you could also say it are two planet orbiting around each other, while orbiting around sun.
I think to recall there is also some comet orbiting the sun, somewhere between saturn and uran, or other two planets, currently considered to be an comet, but it's as large as pluto. etc.
And? What if it is dangerous to run? For singleuser systems for non geeks, it's okay enough. Afterall this is not a server, or a "serious" workstation.
Maybe try to not see lindows as a linux derivate, just see it as a new windows that pesters microsoft. As a geek you're not going to run it at home anyway. However it's existence if successful hurts microsoft, isn't that good enough for you taste?
By the same token, you can keep people off your property by putting up a nine foot tall fence with razor wire on top and using guard dogs inside. Since this technical solution works, why bother with property rights?
One question, you have a front door in your house right? Do you lock it if you leave? I guess so. Locking the front door is a technical solution, altough people are not allowed to go in. You're suggesting people should keep their door unlocked, safing the money for locks, and to sue everbody that just walks through it.
Oh and something else I thinked of, rating something -1 Overrated because you don't agree is an absolut indication that you didn't understand the moderation details. If you don't agree hit reply, not moderate. If you think the post falls into one of the catagories avaible to moderate then moderate, but you personals views or agreenes on the answer should not affect your moderation (in an ideal world).
and anyone who puts style above substance deserves whatever flawed ideas they end up believing.
You don't have any idea how human thinking works. And unfortunally style is important, it's just the the way it is, ignoring that will bet you in position to deserves whatever flawed ideas they end you are believing.
I also say, yes it's all true, but _please_ stop with the stupid M$, anybody used to a corporate world sees this in the post, and ignores the rest, as he files the whole as stupid childs posts, just because the $ letter. Cooperation do make money, and thats perfectly okay in itself, the discussion just goes about not doing evil ways like misusing monopoly status, forcing people into contracts, simply lieing and all that, but $ is okay. So get your guts together and just write microsoft, everything else is just childisch and actually hurting the free community in their public relations into the commercial world.
Right here girl, so you're different than others and thats very good that way. As others above have mentioned who understand at last a little about girls (yes some nerds of this kind do exist). It soly depends on what the girl wants, thats what you learn as male wanting to be a good lover. On first place are _her_ desires, you're come at second, or maybe third after probable desires or forth after her unspoken desires or.... I enjoying beeing with girl whoms desires I like and I feel good with them, and yes those wanting expensive rings are not mine (those were number criteria is beeing expensive, thats something completly different than beein beautiful)
Most people who are using Windows didn't install their OS, it came on their machine when they bought it. So practically, when someone buys a PC, they spend no time installing their OS. Just a thought.
Of course it isn't fair. But over years and years the windows advocades told us how nasty linux installs are, and how unsuitable it is about windows installs, etc. they always only concentrated on installs. Silently many agreed that linux itself runs quite fine and effective once it's installed. So all the distro concentrated a lot of energies on the installs, and surprise what happened today? Linux installs are even easier than windows installs, I know this from personal experience, installed a dual win98/Suse Linux boot on a laptop, guess which install was straight awawy (Suse Linux) and which install was a bitch to do (win98 required a lot of manufacturer extra drivers, than refused to use the CDROM, etc.) And what tell us the advocades today, okay guys the install procedure you improved so much, well it isn't that important after all.
Here's what bugs me: Redhat is on 3 CD's, Windows 2000 is on 1. There's 3 times the chance of something going wrong.
With Redhat you get far more software than the win2k installation, it includes a number of editors, office suits, etc. etc.. I think it's far to need 3 CDs for a set of anything you might want, whilst win2k is the operating system with some things sodlered directly into it.
If you make a Redhat minimum installation you should also need only CD 1.
When the planes landed, the scientists found what they were hoping for: The clocks on the high-speed journeys were ticking a few billionths of a second behind their stationary friends.
Motion, it turns out, slows time - one of the funny effects of the law of relativity. At low speeds, the effect is slight and makes no difference to our daily lives.
The article is wrong. As far I remember abck the clocks in the planes were running infront of the clocks on earth. Why? They moved? Yes thats a special relativistic effect, but there is a second, the general relativity. Time flows slower near masses, and since the planes fly at 10.000km or so above the earth they are further away from the eart mass, so flowing faster. Yes these two effects work against each other, but as I recall the general time increasing effect was stronger in this case.
Umm, are you implying that OS developers don't deserve jobs? What should they do in order to feed, shelter, and clothe their families?
No, of course they deserve, as long they do something that helps others, and they want to pay for it. However I don't see how something can be anti-business if it offers something for free others want to get paid for. Or how sharing code is anti-competative. After all the worth of computing is how much energy our social community put into it, and how much we get out. If there is a way to put less into it to get out equal it's better for all of us. However cutting down something thats cheaper just so _I_ can get money for it is hurting the social community, everbody (but me).
It's the very same thing as moby said recently, he questioned why the worth of music is measured by the amount of sales. I agree with him that the music that really matters and defines our culture is not the charts.
Same for the operating system, what is it worth for humanity and our social system? How much of our resources we would have needed to spent (to microsoft) if it wouldn't be there? What money would the companies miss that use linux?
And note again becase it's free does not mean it costs anybody a job or is evil. After all not a single job should be just a occupational therapy. (thats where the anti GPL comments fail, or where the adversaries miss the global sight. A job should be good for something, if we can save the work then better leave it, and leave us all more freetime, spent the time on the beach, etc.
A lot of evidence points to asteroid impact likely being the biggest actual threat to mankind
Oh come on, what for evidence? Compared to other threats? I say there are dozends dangers far more likely, and which need a lot more attendance for now than stupid astroids. They didn't kill mankind for 10.000 years, so they most likely will not do in the next 100 one. I don't say there never will be something large looking into our direction, but take it easy guys, and additionally asteroids is not the only astronomical accident that may happen, there are far more, just not spectaluar enough to make movies from. How about a supernova in our quater of the galaxy? We will be ripped away. How about things that we don't even know about? Or a strong neurino star far far away, pointing it's north pole exactly on erath for a while? We will radiated to nothingness. Who says the whole univese is not suddendly slipping into a hole of some kind of superuniverse we don't even have an idea of today? (and stops to exist as whole?) Just calm down.
However what about global earth warming? Oil resources? Malaria? The pest coming back? Wars in near east, American Nations believing they a are the gloval polica and can let do whatever they want. etc. etc.
I think the PATH system could be replaced with a better paradigm, what exactly has to thought of.
After all the PATH is only for the shell to decide which executables should be visible by default.
A global XML file listing all applications would be one possibility. However this has to extended by a way for a local running process to extend it's path, with an environment variable.
I know this is all a crazy idea, but I think if done proparly it could dramatically ease system administration, and maybe get rid of decade old cords like the PATH variable. Is this so a good idea after all?
First of all I'm a linux user myself, and yes to some part a geek.
However in private use on the home tables IMHO linux is not ready for the non geek user, it are sometimes the problems I run over and solve, however I say a non geek user could have never solved this problem.
Like I've upgraded KDE, and libpng suddendly malfunctions, viewable only in the.xsession error logs. A non geek would never look there. All that was wrong was symlink in the/lib directory, however is a non geek ever capable of fixing this? Or installing xcdroast, xcdroast expected the cdrw tools in/usr/bin, howver the cdrw tools installed themselfs per default at/usr/local/bin, no problem for me, however a "normal" enduser? Or LD_LIBRARY_PATH beeing wrong and all such things. GNU/Linux is not ready for the end user.
In my personal view I think a fundamental "problem" is the System V filesystem. what is good for anyways, Why doesn't each software packet have _one_ directory and everything it needs beneth it? I think administring such strucutre is far more transparent than system V.
There was an actual GPL court challenge regarding a product that used GNU bison because bison generates code that USES GPL code. I beleive the bison license was modified to allow people to continue using it without having to GPL their entire fucking software just because of using bison.
I know this one, and it was an _accident_, repeat an accident. Not on purpose, addionally no one was forced to put out the source code of his private code. You believe they changed the license or so what, well I do know it, the issue was that bison copied the "bison.simple", into the output file it was actual GPL'ed code, so they later discovered that the output countained GPL code. An exception was put the bison.simple, so it does not fall under the GPL if it is copied through bison. Again mister, this was an accident and no harm was done to anyone. Possibilities would manigfold to smuggle the GPL in, but this never has been and never will be a subject and goal of the GNU project.
The GPL is NOT designed to destroy IP, it will not function either way. It's designed to show an alternative, and to provide a solid framework for freesoftware, in places where it is due. IMHO personal opinion a better framework than BSD'ish style, but thats a very pesonal view only. And sometimes there are places where free software is really the best choice. Hobbiest works, university work, sometimes federal projects, commercial work on market attending projects (projects to favor your main or core business) etc. etc.
it's the section of the GPL that says that all software created by GPL'ed software is subject to the terms of the GPL
Absolutly not. You can make properitary software as well with vi, gcc, bison, and all that.
Software derived from GPL software is subject to the terms of the GPL.
Thats something completly different, note that on Microsoft products, deriving your own software from them is not even an option. (deriving in the sense of incooperating source code).
XML maybe very cool and ideal to store data, for config files and all that. How cool would be a completly XML based/etc directory?
However I don't see any real benefits for protocols.
In example what does XML-RPC do any good? Is conventional RPC suddendly uncool? What can XML-RPC do, what normal RPC can't? Except that it uses 5 times more bandwith.
It's just sad, if you type RPC in google, the first five links you get is all about XML-RPC. So marketing words can boost a whole technology? Nobody seems to remember what RPC itself is, and a lot of developers mismatch it today if you talk with them about RPC, you say hey why don't we use RPC? Instead of stuffing sockets ourself, and they start to talk about XML, RPC does not need XML at all.
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I also fail to see why this invention is in any kind usefull. It has the old caveat, I need to bring the key A to B without beeing seen/intercepted/exchanged etc.
be more $$$ like virus scanners
Except that virus scanners are actually only a fight against a sympthon. Virus would not there in first place if the OS would not have such a crapled security system. Try to write a virus for unix, you will have a hard time, since OS security will clap your fingers all the time, you can't hop from one user account to another, or infect any system files if beeing user and so on.
Not quite true, first a planet is something that orbits any star, must not be our sun by definition, or?
Second it may not be a star itself (binary star system), or brown dwarf or something like that.
Isn't the Halley's Comet then also a planet? Or how about crommelin?
Or how is it with Charon? Can you really say it's a moon of pluto? I mean the difference in masses is not that great, actually you could also say it are two planet orbiting around each other, while orbiting around sun.
I think to recall there is also some comet orbiting the sun, somewhere between saturn and uran, or other two planets, currently considered to be an comet, but it's as large as pluto. etc.
All your planet are belong to us!
And? What if it is dangerous to run? For singleuser systems for non geeks, it's okay enough. Afterall this is not a server, or a "serious" workstation.
Maybe try to not see lindows as a linux derivate, just see it as a new windows that pesters microsoft. As a geek you're not going to run it at home anyway. However it's existence if successful hurts microsoft, isn't that good enough for you taste?
By the same token, you can keep people off your property by putting up a nine foot tall fence with razor wire on top and using guard dogs inside. Since this technical solution works, why bother with property rights?
One question, you have a front door in your house right? Do you lock it if you leave? I guess so. Locking the front door is a technical solution, altough people are not allowed to go in. You're suggesting people should keep their door unlocked, safing the money for locks, and to sue everbody that just walks through it.
The more we learn about the universe, the more we see it all has an intelligent design, leading to a higher power (God).
:o)
You obviouly didn't look too deep into quantumn mechanics. They are 'designed' pretty badly
Oh and something else I thinked of, rating something -1 Overrated because you don't agree is an absolut indication that you didn't understand the moderation details. If you don't agree hit reply, not moderate. If you think the post falls into one of the catagories avaible to moderate then moderate, but you personals views or agreenes on the answer should not affect your moderation (in an ideal world).
and anyone who puts style above substance deserves whatever flawed ideas they end up believing.
You don't have any idea how human thinking works. And unfortunally style is important, it's just the the way it is, ignoring that will bet you in position to deserves whatever flawed ideas they end you are believing.
I also say, yes it's all true, but _please_ stop with the stupid M$, anybody used to a corporate world sees this in the post, and ignores the rest, as he files the whole as stupid childs posts, just because the $ letter. Cooperation do make money, and thats perfectly okay in itself, the discussion just goes about not doing evil ways like misusing monopoly status, forcing people into contracts, simply lieing and all that, but $ is okay. So get your guts together and just write microsoft, everything else is just childisch and actually hurting the free community in their public relations into the commercial world.
Right here girl, so you're different than others and thats very good that way. As others above have mentioned who understand at last a little about girls (yes some nerds of this kind do exist). It soly depends on what the girl wants, thats what you learn as male wanting to be a good lover. On first place are _her_ desires, you're come at second, or maybe third after probable desires or forth after her unspoken desires or .... I enjoying beeing with girl whoms desires I like and I feel good with them, and yes those wanting expensive rings are not mine (those were number criteria is beeing expensive, thats something completly different than beein beautiful)
Most people who are using Windows didn't install their OS, it came on their machine when they bought it. So practically, when someone buys a PC, they spend no time installing their OS. Just a thought.
Of course it isn't fair. But over years and years the windows advocades told us how nasty linux installs are, and how unsuitable it is about windows installs, etc. they always only concentrated on installs. Silently many agreed that linux itself runs quite fine and effective once it's installed. So all the distro concentrated a lot of energies on the installs, and surprise what happened today? Linux installs are even easier than windows installs, I know this from personal experience, installed a dual win98/Suse Linux boot on a laptop, guess which install was straight awawy (Suse Linux) and which install was a bitch to do (win98 required a lot of manufacturer extra drivers, than refused to use the CDROM, etc.) And what tell us the advocades today, okay guys the install procedure you improved so much, well it isn't that important after all.
Here's what bugs me: Redhat is on 3 CD's, Windows 2000 is on 1. There's 3 times the chance of something going wrong.
With Redhat you get far more software than the win2k installation, it includes a number of editors, office suits, etc. etc.. I think it's far to need 3 CDs for a set of anything you might want, whilst win2k is the operating system with some things sodlered directly into it.
If you make a Redhat minimum installation you should also need only CD 1.
Port 6346 is the Gnutella network thats not a DOS attack, but normal gnutella operation.
When the planes landed, the scientists found what they were hoping for: The clocks on the high-speed journeys were ticking a few billionths of a second behind their stationary friends.
Motion, it turns out, slows time - one of the funny effects of the law of relativity. At low speeds, the effect is slight and makes no difference to our daily lives.
The article is wrong. As far I remember abck the clocks in the planes were running infront of the clocks on earth. Why? They moved? Yes thats a special relativistic effect, but there is a second, the general relativity. Time flows slower near masses, and since the planes fly at 10.000km or so above the earth they are further away from the eart mass, so flowing faster. Yes these two effects work against each other, but as I recall the general time increasing effect was stronger in this case.
Umm, are you implying that OS developers don't deserve jobs? What should they do in order to feed, shelter, and clothe their families?
No, of course they deserve, as long they do something that helps others, and they want to pay for it. However I don't see how something can be anti-business if it offers something for free others want to get paid for. Or how sharing code is anti-competative. After all the worth of computing is how much energy our social community put into it, and how much we get out. If there is a way to put less into it to get out equal it's better for all of us. However cutting down something thats cheaper just so _I_ can get money for it is hurting the social community, everbody (but me).
It's the very same thing as moby said recently, he questioned why the worth of music is measured by the amount of sales. I agree with him that the music that really matters and defines our culture is not the charts.
Same for the operating system, what is it worth for humanity and our social system? How much of our resources we would have needed to spent (to microsoft) if it wouldn't be there? What money would the companies miss that use linux?
And note again becase it's free does not mean it costs anybody a job or is evil. After all not a single job should be just a occupational therapy.
(thats where the anti GPL comments fail, or where the adversaries miss the global sight. A job should be good for something, if we can save the work then better leave it, and leave us all more freetime, spent the time on the beach, etc.
A lot of evidence points to asteroid impact likely being the biggest actual threat to mankind
Oh come on, what for evidence? Compared to other threats? I say there are dozends dangers far more likely, and which need a lot more attendance for now than stupid astroids. They didn't kill mankind for 10.000 years, so they most likely will not do in the next 100 one. I don't say there never will be something large looking into our direction, but take it easy guys, and additionally asteroids is not the only astronomical accident that may happen, there are far more, just not spectaluar enough to make movies from. How about a supernova in our quater of the galaxy? We will be ripped away. How about things that we don't even know about? Or a strong neurino star far far away, pointing it's north pole exactly on erath for a while? We will radiated to nothingness. Who says the whole univese is not suddendly slipping into a hole of some kind of superuniverse we don't even have an idea of today? (and stops to exist as whole?) Just calm down.
However what about global earth warming? Oil resources? Malaria? The pest coming back? Wars in near east, American Nations believing they a are the gloval polica and can let do whatever they want. etc. etc.
I think the PATH system could be replaced with a better paradigm, what exactly has to thought of.
After all the PATH is only for the shell to decide which executables should be visible by default.
A global XML file listing all applications would be one possibility. However this has to extended by a way for a local running process to extend it's path, with an environment variable.
I know this is all a crazy idea, but I think if done proparly it could dramatically ease system administration, and maybe get rid of decade old cords like the PATH variable. Is this so a good idea after all?
First of all I'm a linux user myself, and yes to some part a geek.
.xsession error logs. A non geek would never look there. All that was wrong was symlink in the /lib directory, however is a non geek ever capable of fixing this? Or installing xcdroast, xcdroast expected the cdrw tools in /usr/bin, howver the cdrw tools installed themselfs per default at /usr/local/bin, no problem for me, however a "normal" enduser? Or LD_LIBRARY_PATH beeing wrong and all such things. GNU/Linux is not ready for the end user.
However in private use on the home tables IMHO linux is not ready for the non geek user, it are sometimes the problems I run over and solve, however I say a non geek user could have never solved this problem.
Like I've upgraded KDE, and libpng suddendly malfunctions, viewable only in the
In my personal view I think a fundamental "problem" is the System V filesystem. what is good for anyways, Why doesn't each software packet have _one_ directory and everything it needs beneth it? I think administring such strucutre is far more transparent than system V.
This is why Microsoft is right and you are dumb.
Grow up.
There was an actual GPL court challenge regarding a product that used GNU bison because bison generates code that USES GPL code. I beleive the bison license was modified to allow people to continue using it without having to GPL their entire fucking software just because of using bison.
I know this one, and it was an _accident_, repeat an accident. Not on purpose, addionally no one was forced to put out the source code of his private code. You believe they changed the license or so what, well I do know it, the issue was that bison copied the "bison.simple", into the output file it was actual GPL'ed code, so they later discovered that the output countained GPL code. An exception was put the bison.simple, so it does not fall under the GPL if it is copied through bison. Again mister, this was an accident and no harm was done to anyone. Possibilities would manigfold to smuggle the GPL in, but this never has been and never will be a subject and goal of the GNU project.
The GPL is NOT designed to destroy IP, it will not function either way. It's designed to show an alternative, and to provide a solid framework for freesoftware, in places where it is due. IMHO personal opinion a better framework than BSD'ish style, but thats a very pesonal view only. And sometimes there are places where free software is really the best choice. Hobbiest works, university work, sometimes federal projects, commercial work on market attending projects (projects to favor your main or core business) etc. etc.
it's the section of the GPL that says that all software created by GPL'ed software is subject to the terms of the GPL
Absolutly not. You can make properitary software as well with vi, gcc, bison, and all that.
Software derived from GPL software is subject to the terms of the GPL.
Thats something completly different, note that on Microsoft products, deriving your own software from them is not even an option. (deriving in the sense of incooperating source code).
What are we doing tomorrow evening brain?
The same thing is every evening, we try to dominate the world! This time with ms action figures....
I'm completly sharing your visions.
/etc directory?
XML maybe very cool and ideal to store data, for config files and all that. How cool would be a completly XML based
However I don't see any real benefits for protocols.
In example what does XML-RPC do any good? Is conventional RPC suddendly uncool? What can XML-RPC do, what normal RPC can't? Except that it uses 5 times more bandwith.
It's just sad, if you type RPC in google, the first five links you get is all about XML-RPC. So marketing words can boost a whole technology? Nobody seems to remember what RPC itself is, and a lot of developers mismatch it today if you talk with them about RPC, you say hey why don't we use RPC? Instead of stuffing sockets ourself, and they start to talk about XML, RPC does not need XML at all.