You ask for proof and when I point you in the direction of where you can find some solid evidence you start playing semantic games.
Well, sorry, but I'm not playing your game. If you want to look at the facts, then look at the facts. If you don't, then don't.
If you choose the former then come back to me after you've studied some of the data. If you choose the later then, well, it's not my fault if you don't really want to look at the facts, is it?
What sort of causative study do you want? 1,000 kids living on a farm in the middle of nowhere, 500 of them being asked to breathe noxious car exhaust fumes in an enclosed chamber for 6 hours a day?
You want to be the parent of one of the kids possibly doing permanent damage to his health? Do you?
And as for "Intelligent" Design, well, don't dare put me within a million miles of that crap, even by way of an analogy: evolution is science, based upon observable data (hey, just like the scientific studies that I first mentioned), whereas intelligent design is, by definition, a belief system.
Only an idiot would deny all the data. And all the data (in most part, carried out by highly skilled - shock, horror - scientists) points to a direct link between levels of pollution and childhood respiratory illnesses.
Just look at one of the hundreds of studies that has been performed on childhood asthmas. You'll find that children who live in areas with high levels of car traffic are orders of magnitude more likely to develop respiratory difficulties than those that are in areas with low levels of traffic.
If not directly caused by traffic pollution, the evidence at the very least shows that respiratory illnesses are exacerbated by car pollution.
Let's see, small 5-man company with basic ISDN (128Mbit/s) or ADSL (512Mbit/s)internet access used for everything including email, web access, etc that has no dedicated IT professional and whose business grinds to a halt because they can't do anything while their server is heavily attacked.
Don't assume that everyone has full-time IT professionals to hand. Also, don't assume that the messages were small: they could have been 10KB each, but they could easily have been 2MB each, 2,000 times larger than your guess.
Also remember that the crime in question took place at least two years ago, when internet access would have been slower, disk space would have been more expensive, etc, etc. The average business today has better resources now than would have been available then, at least from a bang-per-buck point of view, if nothing else.
Of course, if you're implementing IT strategy for a large corporation then DOS contingency planning will be part of your job description, but if you're running a small company, one where the guy who looks after the PCs is the same guy who puts out the rubbish at the end of the day, then DOS attacks probably won't be on your radar.
Sorry, but that's a pretty dumb comment. In fact, there isn't one line of it that I can't rip to shreds in seconds.
Do you have any idea of the size of the company involved?
For all you know, the company concerned might have no more than a handful of employees, so a mail server capable of handling 5 million emails in a short space of time would be totally inappropriate. Not all computer crime is committed against large organisations that have turnovers that are measured in millions or even billions.
Wasting police and court time? Well, if the police were involved then there's a good chance that the prosecution was brought by the Crown Prosecution Service (ie, the government), so someone in the appropriate position of authority thought it was a sensible case to persue.
And even if it was a civil case, well, then that's what courts are for: to listen to all the evidence, consider all the facts, and make a judgment one way or another when two parties are in dispute.
Sorry, I didn't realise that it needed explaining in words of two or less syllables.
Under the terms of the license, you can't use Office on your laptop at the same time as someone else uses the same single license copy of on the desktop.
Now, was that really so hard to understand?
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The reason for this is because Microsoft licenses for Windows XP (and all of its operating systems) are per machine (or per processor), whereas its licenses for Office and other applications are per user.
Hence, it's permissable for an individual to install a single copy of Office on both their desktop and laptop without requiring more than one license, as long as both aren't used simultaneously. However, installing Windows XP on both those machines would always require two licenses, regardless of how the machines are used.
One side effect of this is that people who use Office at work can normally buy a copy of Office to use at home for a nominal fee. For example, under the terms of Microsoft's licensing as it applies to her mid-sized employer, my girlfriend is entitled to purchase a copy of Office for around £10, which covers the cost of media, postage and packaging and processing her request.
Hmmm, well I get more than enough battery life to keep me happy, even when I'm using it to listen to music on long train journeys and making plenty of calls too. I have a spare battery, but it's sat in my desk drawer, and will stay that way for a while, I guess.
As for SD cards, well, I've got a 1GB card, which carries more than enough music to keep me happy, regardless of my musical mood at any given time. Also, the volume on the Treo when making calls isn't fantastic, but with the supplied hands-free earphones it's not a problem at all.
Any device of this nature is bound to have a few minor niggles but I can't say that I've come across anything that makes me wish I had something else in my pocket.
I have a Treo 650. It's a phone, it's a PDA, it's a pretty good MP3 player, it's a pretty good games machine to pass the time when I'm bored travelling and it's power-efficient too (and has a removable battery). All in a small form factor.
People who make generic statements such as "PDAs have failed" are just simply wrong.
Duh, that was The New York Times coverage, this is The LA Times coverage. Everyone knows that PST is behind EST, don't they? The first story was for people on the US's Atlantic seaboard, this one is for people on the US's Pacific seaboard, nothing more, nothing less.
Of course, people inbetween the US's east and west coasts mainly voted for Bush, so their version, linking to Fox News, will follow later with a suitable spin ("It's the fault of those damn terrorists!"). Meanwhile, people outside the US will get their own frontpage story too, citing news sources such as the BBC, that will point out that it's the American film industry that's in decline, not the global one...
If you have evidence, even anecdotal evidence, that the latest version of Opera for Linux has these issues then provide it.
Linking to an article that's over a year old, and which refers to a version of the browser that's more than a couple of versions old is, frankly, rather poor proof of anything.
Talk about the here and now, not the past, and there won't be any reason for people like me to doubt the veracity of your words.
Really? Printing? The post on the Opera Community site that you point to refers to "Version 7.52 Final", and was made over a year ago.
Right now, Opera for Linux is on version 8.50. Unless you intentionally plan to run a version of the browser that's been superceded more than once, how is this an issue?
What's your next trick? Complaining about Windows not being a true 32-bit OS and using Windows 95 as your evidence?
Seriously, unless the current version of Opera for Linux has the same issues, your post is just a pathetic troll, and you know it.
Ah, but then the US post-invasion governorship of Iraq beat that too.
Several (14?) billion dollars went missing under the watch of the US-controlled Coalition Provisional Authority, yet the CPA head's best response to where it went when asked about it recently was something along the lines of "it's not important that it's gone; you don't have to worry about it because it was Iraq's billions, not ours".
I'll give you one guess where most of those missing billions ended up. Hint: if I was in charge of billions of dollars that went AWOL because I helped them go AWOL then I wouldn't be too concerned about tracking it down.
Oh, and then there's all the no-contest contracts for all of the current US administration's friends, like the folks at Halliburton, and the major oil companies, who've all profitted massively from the latest war.
So Sony only gives its employees discounts on products that aren't successful in the marketplace?
Wow, great way to demotivate your workforce and discourage them from evangelising about your hot new technologies!
Compare and contrast this with, say, Apple, which gives new employees (even Apple Store sales people) iPods and gives them generous staff discounts that they can use for themselves, or for their friends and family, on everything that Apple makes.
Sorry, but the powers-that-be at Sony who made that decision are rather short-sighted. If nothing else, haven't they heard of the power of word-of-mouth, or of viral marketing?
This is exactly the sort of thing that we hear from Microsoft when it's selling us its Next Big Thing: "Old Thing couldn't do _____ but Next Big Thing handles it in its sleep."
Microsoft's PR machine often does a good job of telling the truth (or, at least, part of the truth) about old issues when they have a new solution but, until that time, they are usually in full "la-la-la-la, we're not listening" mode.
To be honest, this sort of selective spin isn't just something that's unique to Microsoft but they are by far the best at it.
"Fees and hazzle [sic] associated with obtaining new versions"? A once-off registration cost somewhere down the line that's less than you would pay for an average night out for two is what's stopping you from trying Opera today? You do know that there is a free version that's supported by unobtrustive Google text ads, right?
"I know roughly what the unique features of Opera are..." Yeah, right. Sure, buddy. There are some things that just have to be tried to be appreciated. Yes, you can look at checklists but they only tell half the story. On paper, Opera arguably beats Mozilla/Firefox hands down. But it's when you actually try Opera and see how much better implimented the features are that you really appreciate how well it works. This is true for not just Opera's unique features but also the ones that have been copied by its rival browsers.
Again, I'll reiterate my point: you reject something out of hand not because it's inferior but because you cannot accept the possibility that you might actually prefer it. That to me makes you close-minded, unwilling to try something for no rational reason. Your loss.
Your own personal user experience with Opera could be an order of magnitude better with your own personal user experience with Mozilla, yet you choose to dismiss it out of hand. Something you haven't tried might be better for you but it can't be better because you've convinced yourself that "Mozilla is good enough for me".
George Orwell had a name for that kind of cognitive dissonance: he called it doublethink.
There are none so blind, as those who will not see.
Congratulations on having a closed mind. Ever considered that, if you were open-minded enough to try it, that you might like Opera more than you like Mozilla?
And yet,despite your disapproval, Chris Martin is an internationally-acclaimed recording artist with millions of records sold, a wife who's a beautiful internationally-acclaimed actress, is a champion of worthy causes such as fair trade, whilst you have a Slashdot nickname that references This Is Spinal Tap.
Stop one hundred people in the street and ask them whose shoes they'd rather be in and, well, without wanting to put you down, not many people are going to opt for anything other than walking in Mr. Martin's shoes.
But, all this is rather tangential to the original point that I was making. To suggest, as the poster I orginally replied to suggested, that Chris Martin and the rest Coldplay are thick as two planks is rather foolish seeing as they each have a respectable degree to their names.
Well, I think you and I would both agree that people who went to UCL aren't likely to be dumb and only capable of letting "their genitalia control them".
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Really, you have some issues that you need to sort out. "Emotional pansy ass pussy whipped lameo"? What the hell does that mean? Are you referring to anyone that doesn't produce manly, chest-beating music?
If so, where do Franz Ferdinand rank then? For example, you do know that Michael has a homoerotic subtext, don't you? How's that any different?
Really, it's a good thing that you're posting anonymously because otherwise you'd just be embarassing yourself.
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OK, so my Python trivia was flawed. I stand corrected.
FYI, his real name is John Cheese, he adopted the professional name John Cleese.
You ask for proof and when I point you in the direction of where you can find some solid evidence you start playing semantic games.
Well, sorry, but I'm not playing your game. If you want to look at the facts, then look at the facts. If you don't, then don't.
If you choose the former then come back to me after you've studied some of the data. If you choose the later then, well, it's not my fault if you don't really want to look at the facts, is it?
What sort of causative study do you want? 1,000 kids living on a farm in the middle of nowhere, 500 of them being asked to breathe noxious car exhaust fumes in an enclosed chamber for 6 hours a day?
You want to be the parent of one of the kids possibly doing permanent damage to his health? Do you?
And as for "Intelligent" Design, well, don't dare put me within a million miles of that crap, even by way of an analogy: evolution is science, based upon observable data (hey, just like the scientific studies that I first mentioned), whereas intelligent design is, by definition, a belief system.
Only an idiot would deny all the data. And all the data (in most part, carried out by highly skilled - shock, horror - scientists) points to a direct link between levels of pollution and childhood respiratory illnesses.
Just look at one of the hundreds of studies that has been performed on childhood asthmas. You'll find that children who live in areas with high levels of car traffic are orders of magnitude more likely to develop respiratory difficulties than those that are in areas with low levels of traffic.
If not directly caused by traffic pollution, the evidence at the very least shows that respiratory illnesses are exacerbated by car pollution.
I wondered how long it would take for someone to notice that I had typed 128Mbits/s and 512Mbits/s...
Let's see, small 5-man company with basic ISDN (128Mbit/s) or ADSL (512Mbit/s)internet access used for everything including email, web access, etc that has no dedicated IT professional and whose business grinds to a halt because they can't do anything while their server is heavily attacked.
Don't assume that everyone has full-time IT professionals to hand. Also, don't assume that the messages were small: they could have been 10KB each, but they could easily have been 2MB each, 2,000 times larger than your guess.
Also remember that the crime in question took place at least two years ago, when internet access would have been slower, disk space would have been more expensive, etc, etc. The average business today has better resources now than would have been available then, at least from a bang-per-buck point of view, if nothing else.
Of course, if you're implementing IT strategy for a large corporation then DOS contingency planning will be part of your job description, but if you're running a small company, one where the guy who looks after the PCs is the same guy who puts out the rubbish at the end of the day, then DOS attacks probably won't be on your radar.
Sorry, but that's a pretty dumb comment. In fact, there isn't one line of it that I can't rip to shreds in seconds.
Do you have any idea of the size of the company involved?
For all you know, the company concerned might have no more than a handful of employees, so a mail server capable of handling 5 million emails in a short space of time would be totally inappropriate. Not all computer crime is committed against large organisations that have turnovers that are measured in millions or even billions.
Wasting police and court time? Well, if the police were involved then there's a good chance that the prosecution was brought by the Crown Prosecution Service (ie, the government), so someone in the appropriate position of authority thought it was a sensible case to persue.
And even if it was a civil case, well, then that's what courts are for: to listen to all the evidence, consider all the facts, and make a judgment one way or another when two parties are in dispute.
Sorry, I didn't realise that it needed explaining in words of two or less syllables.
Under the terms of the license, you can't use Office on your laptop at the same time as someone else uses the same single license copy of on the desktop.
Now, was that really so hard to understand?
The reason for this is because Microsoft licenses for Windows XP (and all of its operating systems) are per machine (or per processor), whereas its licenses for Office and other applications are per user.
Hence, it's permissable for an individual to install a single copy of Office on both their desktop and laptop without requiring more than one license, as long as both aren't used simultaneously. However, installing Windows XP on both those machines would always require two licenses, regardless of how the machines are used.
One side effect of this is that people who use Office at work can normally buy a copy of Office to use at home for a nominal fee. For example, under the terms of Microsoft's licensing as it applies to her mid-sized employer, my girlfriend is entitled to purchase a copy of Office for around £10, which covers the cost of media, postage and packaging and processing her request.
Hmmm, well I get more than enough battery life to keep me happy, even when I'm using it to listen to music on long train journeys and making plenty of calls too. I have a spare battery, but it's sat in my desk drawer, and will stay that way for a while, I guess.
As for SD cards, well, I've got a 1GB card, which carries more than enough music to keep me happy, regardless of my musical mood at any given time. Also, the volume on the Treo when making calls isn't fantastic, but with the supplied hands-free earphones it's not a problem at all.
Any device of this nature is bound to have a few minor niggles but I can't say that I've come across anything that makes me wish I had something else in my pocket.
I have a Treo 650. It's a phone, it's a PDA, it's a pretty good MP3 player, it's a pretty good games machine to pass the time when I'm bored travelling and it's power-efficient too (and has a removable battery). All in a small form factor.
People who make generic statements such as "PDAs have failed" are just simply wrong.
Duh, that was The New York Times coverage, this is The LA Times coverage. Everyone knows that PST is behind EST, don't they? The first story was for people on the US's Atlantic seaboard, this one is for people on the US's Pacific seaboard, nothing more, nothing less.
Of course, people inbetween the US's east and west coasts mainly voted for Bush, so their version, linking to Fox News, will follow later with a suitable spin ("It's the fault of those damn terrorists!"). Meanwhile, people outside the US will get their own frontpage story too, citing news sources such as the BBC, that will point out that it's the American film industry that's in decline, not the global one...
If you have evidence, even anecdotal evidence, that the latest version of Opera for Linux has these issues then provide it.
Linking to an article that's over a year old, and which refers to a version of the browser that's more than a couple of versions old is, frankly, rather poor proof of anything.
Talk about the here and now, not the past, and there won't be any reason for people like me to doubt the veracity of your words.
Really? Printing? The post on the Opera Community site that you point to refers to "Version 7.52 Final", and was made over a year ago.
Right now, Opera for Linux is on version 8.50. Unless you intentionally plan to run a version of the browser that's been superceded more than once, how is this an issue?
What's your next trick? Complaining about Windows not being a true 32-bit OS and using Windows 95 as your evidence?
Seriously, unless the current version of Opera for Linux has the same issues, your post is just a pathetic troll, and you know it.
How is the quality of these boards? Will they still be working in two or three years? Or will they have leaking capacitors by that time?
You want to know if they'll still be working in two or three years time? Ok, let me just take a short trip in my time machine so I can find out.
Oh wait...
Ah, but then the US post-invasion governorship of Iraq beat that too.
Several (14?) billion dollars went missing under the watch of the US-controlled Coalition Provisional Authority, yet the CPA head's best response to where it went when asked about it recently was something along the lines of "it's not important that it's gone; you don't have to worry about it because it was Iraq's billions, not ours".
I'll give you one guess where most of those missing billions ended up. Hint: if I was in charge of billions of dollars that went AWOL because I helped them go AWOL then I wouldn't be too concerned about tracking it down.
Oh, and then there's all the no-contest contracts for all of the current US administration's friends, like the folks at Halliburton, and the major oil companies, who've all profitted massively from the latest war.
So Sony only gives its employees discounts on products that aren't successful in the marketplace?
Wow, great way to demotivate your workforce and discourage them from evangelising about your hot new technologies!
Compare and contrast this with, say, Apple, which gives new employees (even Apple Store sales people) iPods and gives them generous staff discounts that they can use for themselves, or for their friends and family, on everything that Apple makes.
Sorry, but the powers-that-be at Sony who made that decision are rather short-sighted. If nothing else, haven't they heard of the power of word-of-mouth, or of viral marketing?
This is exactly the sort of thing that we hear from Microsoft when it's selling us its Next Big Thing: "Old Thing couldn't do _____ but Next Big Thing handles it in its sleep."
Microsoft's PR machine often does a good job of telling the truth (or, at least, part of the truth) about old issues when they have a new solution but, until that time, they are usually in full "la-la-la-la, we're not listening" mode.
To be honest, this sort of selective spin isn't just something that's unique to Microsoft but they are by far the best at it.
Frankly, you're talking rubbish.
"Fees and hazzle [sic] associated with obtaining new versions"? A once-off registration cost somewhere down the line that's less than you would pay for an average night out for two is what's stopping you from trying Opera today? You do know that there is a free version that's supported by unobtrustive Google text ads, right?
"I know roughly what the unique features of Opera are..." Yeah, right. Sure, buddy. There are some things that just have to be tried to be appreciated. Yes, you can look at checklists but they only tell half the story. On paper, Opera arguably beats Mozilla/Firefox hands down. But it's when you actually try Opera and see how much better implimented the features are that you really appreciate how well it works. This is true for not just Opera's unique features but also the ones that have been copied by its rival browsers.
Again, I'll reiterate my point: you reject something out of hand not because it's inferior but because you cannot accept the possibility that you might actually prefer it. That to me makes you close-minded, unwilling to try something for no rational reason. Your loss.
Your own personal user experience with Opera could be an order of magnitude better with your own personal user experience with Mozilla, yet you choose to dismiss it out of hand. Something you haven't tried might be better for you but it can't be better because you've convinced yourself that "Mozilla is good enough for me".
George Orwell had a name for that kind of cognitive dissonance: he called it doublethink.
There are none so blind, as those who will not see.
Congratulations on having a closed mind. Ever considered that, if you were open-minded enough to try it, that you might like Opera more than you like Mozilla?
And yet,despite your disapproval, Chris Martin is an internationally-acclaimed recording artist with millions of records sold, a wife who's a beautiful internationally-acclaimed actress, is a champion of worthy causes such as fair trade, whilst you have a Slashdot nickname that references This Is Spinal Tap.
Stop one hundred people in the street and ask them whose shoes they'd rather be in and, well, without wanting to put you down, not many people are going to opt for anything other than walking in Mr. Martin's shoes.
But, all this is rather tangential to the original point that I was making. To suggest, as the poster I orginally replied to suggested, that Chris Martin and the rest Coldplay are thick as two planks is rather foolish seeing as they each have a respectable degree to their names.
Well, I think you and I would both agree that people who went to UCL aren't likely to be dumb and only capable of letting "their genitalia control them".
Really, you have some issues that you need to sort out. "Emotional pansy ass pussy whipped lameo"? What the hell does that mean? Are you referring to anyone that doesn't produce manly, chest-beating music?
If so, where do Franz Ferdinand rank then? For example, you do know that Michael has a homoerotic subtext, don't you? How's that any different?
Really, it's a good thing that you're posting anonymously because otherwise you'd just be embarassing yourself.