a child aged one can make itself understood for all practical purposes
So can a dog, at three months.
When our border collie was about three months old, he started communicating with us - if he wanted something that wasn't his, he would nudge it with his nose, and then give us the "border collie stare" (this includes his bag of dog chow, when it's dinner time.)
If I'm awake in bed, and he wants me to get up, he'll go over to my robe, nudge it, then stare at me (my robe is the first thing I put on when I get out of bed.) If he wants to go for a walk, he'll do the same thing to my jacket (he won't actually pick up anything that's not his - he'll just nudge it.)
I don't know if this is true of all dogs, or just ours, but dogs can communicate quite effectively at a very young age.
the point is that the kind of attention that babies get from saying single words is not really any more useful than the attention they can get from crying
You are incorrect.
Humans are social animals, and like all social animals, we have a deep-seated need to belong to a group, and thus social rewards (smiling, lots of attention, etc.) often can be more useful than just food or getting your diaper changed.
Humans have a *need* to communicate with each other, and that need is just as real as the need for food. Social rewards are just as important as ones that are more tangible (and often moreso.)
If you examine other highly social animals, you see that the social group is more important to the individual animals than anything else (including food.)
No, *some compounds* in coffee are naturally bitter.
According to Alton Brown, the first 1/3rd of the brew from the bean won't be bitter at all - it's when you try to draw out more flavour that it becomes bitter.
Inability to debug hardware - You can't drop a proprietary drive in another machine that you have in your office to see if it works. You have to have another proprietary machine to see where the problem is.
What the hell are you talking about?
Who uses proprietary hard drives?!??!
Touchy hardware - Some might disagree with me, but I found Compaq hardware to be really touchy.
I disagree with you. Compaq makes the most reliable hardware I've ever used. (Unless you're talking about their consumer-grade crap... and if you're using a presario as a server, you have bigger issues than hardware reliability - such as your IQ being below room temperature.)
It can be difficult to build out a proprietary machine just that way you want it.
Again, pure bullshit. If your *vendor* (ie the guy selling it to you) is short on parts, then they're just as likely to be short on the big name stuff as they are on the white box stuff. And you can always choose another vendor (it's not like big iron stuff where you buy from the manufacturer.)
personally I'd rather you store in plain text and not have the option to email the original password.
Umm.. WHAT?!?!?!
If the passwords are stored in plain text, and thus can be seen by anyone at the company, then how, exactly, do you prevent them from emailing the password?
we have determined the issue is NOT related to a glitch in our service, but rather with a product supplied by one of our vendors.
Huh? If you're using a product to supply a service, and that product is wonky and affects your service, then by definition it's a glitch in your service.
To be simpler: It's either the service you're providing, or the client. You've established that it's not the client.
what the heck is the notion of a "FILE" menu anyway? -- What the heck is the notion of "FILE"? [...] excruciatingly dull detail about the file abstraction [...] blah, blah, blah.)). Users don't care what a file is, they don't want to know what a file is, they just want to do work. [...] end users have enough on their plate without having to incorporate geek-speak to do their work.
What the heck is the notion of a "Steering wheel" anyway? what the heck is the notion of "STEERING"? I've read the owner's manual for my car, but it's just excruciatingly dull detail about why I need to learn how to use the "pedals" and "brakes", blah, blah, blah. Drivers don't care what a steering wheel is, or how the brakes work, they have enough on their plate without having to incorporate gearhead-speak to get where they want to go.
Why do people have to learn how to use a tool? Why can't the tool just be designed so that it can guess exactly what the user wants, and just do it? It all seems so needlessly complicated.
MS knows they cannot compete with open source software
While I agree with this assertion, your support for it isn't terribly great.
why else do they lie every chance they get, about it?
Because that's what MS does. Remember OS/2? How about DR-DOS? Wordperfect? They lie about their competition, regardless of whether they can compete with it or not.
What it might take to bring about adoption would be a.sec TLD that only operates with DNSsec
The thing is that this isn't really feasable, because you have to replace all the client software to make it work - and at that point you might as well mandate IPV6 with IPSEC.
Think about it: DNS is only as secure as its weakest link, and that link is the desktop. If your suggestion is implemented without making every desktop aware of the.sec TLD's requirement to use DNSsec, all an attacker has to do is convince your desktop to talk to his DNS server (which is pretty easy, if you think about it) and it's game over.
building in indemnification for something that is still, essentially, theoretical. Isn't that like taking out insurance against alien attack?
All insurance is based on something that's theoretical - it just depends on how theoretical.
Up until last December, a tsunami that could kill a quarter of a million people was only theoretical. Up until last August, a hurricane that would force the evacuation of New Orleans was only theoretical. And up until September 11, 2001, terrorists flying jets into New York skyscrapers was only theoretical.
Personally, I feel that the chance of a patent lawsuit against open source isn't quite as remote as being attacked by aliens - especially when you have a company that has said it will do just that.
will SCO even be around anyomre when the trial starts?
Possibly - they did a slash-and-burn on their personnel this summer, and recently (a week or so ago) "persuaded" their investors to chip in $10M to keep them afloat. Assuming their burn rate doesn't change, they might just stick around to see trial.
It all depends on whether Novell gets to take their money - they owe 95% of their "Unix" revenue to Novell (well, technically they owe 100%, and Novell gives them 5% back.) Novell has a motion before the court to get 95% of SCOX's money placed in escrow.
they will have little or no money to sustain a case
They claim that their legal fees are capped, so their lawyers are working for free after their cash is gone (assuming they're (a) telling the truth, and (b) SCOX manages to avoid bankruptcy altogether.)
My biggest burning question is where does UNIX (the code) go to? Who would inherit SCOs IP?
Assuming that SCOX has Unix IP to begin with (their contract with Novell says they don't,) it would be sold to the highest bidder in bankruptcy court, just like any other assets.
Will UNIX enter the public domain?
Probably not - unless someone buys it at their fire-sale and releases it as such. Rumor has it that it might already be public domain, because AT&T released it without copyright attribution (this is hearsay based on the AT&T/Berkely settlement.)
You did, however, say that *most* businesses don't do it, which was what I was addressing. As I said, most businesses I know of have at least one digital camera for staff to use in the field (and many have one per field employee.)
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it's a teenager hell where even a dog could level and grind itself to a lv60
:o)
I will thank you for not referring to my sister that way!
if the potential energy isn't really energy, then where does the energy the water picks up on the way down come from? It has to come from somewhere.
/me ducks :o)
Maybe it doesn't come from anywhere - maybe it's intelligent falling!
You wouldn't pay for the game even if you had it available under your stipulations
Seeing as you're psychic, can you tell me next week's lottery numbers?
a child aged one can make itself understood for all practical purposes
So can a dog, at three months.
When our border collie was about three months old, he started communicating with us - if he wanted something that wasn't his, he would nudge it with his nose, and then give us the "border collie stare" (this includes his bag of dog chow, when it's dinner time.)
If I'm awake in bed, and he wants me to get up, he'll go over to my robe, nudge it, then stare at me (my robe is the first thing I put on when I get out of bed.) If he wants to go for a walk, he'll do the same thing to my jacket (he won't actually pick up anything that's not his - he'll just nudge it.)
I don't know if this is true of all dogs, or just ours, but dogs can communicate quite effectively at a very young age.
the point is that the kind of attention that babies get from saying single words is not really any more useful than the attention they can get from crying
You are incorrect.
Humans are social animals, and like all social animals, we have a deep-seated need to belong to a group, and thus social rewards (smiling, lots of attention, etc.) often can be more useful than just food or getting your diaper changed.
Humans have a *need* to communicate with each other, and that need is just as real as the need for food. Social rewards are just as important as ones that are more tangible (and often moreso.)
If you examine other highly social animals, you see that the social group is more important to the individual animals than anything else (including food.)
remind them that the end-to-end nature of the Internet [...] is a big part of what's made it successful.
That will only encourage them.
Their problem is the fact that the internet *is* successful. Reminding them of that fact won't discourage them in the least.
Coffee is naturally bitter.
No, *some compounds* in coffee are naturally bitter.
According to Alton Brown, the first 1/3rd of the brew from the bean won't be bitter at all - it's when you try to draw out more flavour that it becomes bitter.
Glucose is used by every single one of your cells.
:o)
Not only that, but it's fuel for your brain.
Jolt used to be this (real sugar and twice the caffeine -- was their slogan)
Actually, their slogan was "All the sugar and twice the caffiene".
When I go to get a Coke, it is usually referenced by going for a soda.
:o)
Not a bad idea, because when you do, nobody hurts, and nobody cries.
(And nobody drowns, and nobody dies, either.
Now I have that damn song stuck in my head. Thanks a lot!
Inability to debug hardware - You can't drop a proprietary drive in another machine that you have in your office to see if it works. You have to have another proprietary machine to see where the problem is.
What the hell are you talking about?
Who uses proprietary hard drives?!??!
Touchy hardware - Some might disagree with me, but I found Compaq hardware to be really touchy.
I disagree with you. Compaq makes the most reliable hardware I've ever used. (Unless you're talking about their consumer-grade crap... and if you're using a presario as a server, you have bigger issues than hardware reliability - such as your IQ being below room temperature.)
It can be difficult to build out a proprietary machine just that way you want it.
Again, pure bullshit. If your *vendor* (ie the guy selling it to you) is short on parts, then they're just as likely to be short on the big name stuff as they are on the white box stuff. And you can always choose another vendor (it's not like big iron stuff where you buy from the manufacturer.)
personally I'd rather you store in plain text and not have the option to email the original password.
Umm.. WHAT?!?!?!
If the passwords are stored in plain text, and thus can be seen by anyone at the company, then how, exactly, do you prevent them from emailing the password?
businesses which run windows operating system usually have a systems admin who takes care of locking down the computers
/me wipes a tear from my eye
Bwahahaha! Good one!
Thanks, I needed that.
If you were being serious, I think you need to do a s/usually/sometimes/ on that sentence.
we have determined the issue is NOT related to a glitch in our service, but rather with a product supplied by one of our vendors.
Huh? If you're using a product to supply a service, and that product is wonky and affects your service, then by definition it's a glitch in your service.
To be simpler: It's either the service you're providing, or the client. You've established that it's not the client.
what the heck is the notion of a "FILE" menu anyway? -- What the heck is the notion of "FILE"? [...] excruciatingly dull detail about the file abstraction [...] blah, blah, blah.)). Users don't care what a file is, they don't want to know what a file is, they just want to do work. [...] end users have enough on their plate without having to incorporate geek-speak to do their work.
What the heck is the notion of a "Steering wheel" anyway? what the heck is the notion of "STEERING"? I've read the owner's manual for my car, but it's just excruciatingly dull detail about why I need to learn how to use the "pedals" and "brakes", blah, blah, blah. Drivers don't care what a steering wheel is, or how the brakes work, they have enough on their plate without having to incorporate gearhead-speak to get where they want to go.
Why do people have to learn how to use a tool? Why can't the tool just be designed so that it can guess exactly what the user wants, and just do it? It all seems so needlessly complicated.
MS knows they cannot compete with open source software
While I agree with this assertion, your support for it isn't terribly great.
why else do they lie every chance they get, about it?
Because that's what MS does. Remember OS/2? How about DR-DOS? Wordperfect? They lie about their competition, regardless of whether they can compete with it or not.
call it a hunch, I just dont think The Woz see's many Real Poor People at the country club.
Which country club would you be referring to?
Would that be the one where he teaches computing to underprivileged children, and provides them with free laptops?
HERATIC
Because you think he's affiliated with a greek goddess?
it's better to have a system in place that gives such people something productive to do
:o)
You mean like Telephone Sanitizers, Management Consultants, and hairdressers?
What it might take to bring about adoption would be a .sec TLD that only operates with DNSsec
.sec TLD's requirement to use DNSsec, all an attacker has to do is convince your desktop to talk to his DNS server (which is pretty easy, if you think about it) and it's game over.
The thing is that this isn't really feasable, because you have to replace all the client software to make it work - and at that point you might as well mandate IPV6 with IPSEC.
Think about it: DNS is only as secure as its weakest link, and that link is the desktop. If your suggestion is implemented without making every desktop aware of the
I find it rather ironic that someone who's talking about being a responsible pet owner thinks it's OK to let their cat outside uncontrolled.
Responsible cat owners keep their cats indoors. The cats live longer, are happier, and healthier.
And for the record, I have both a cat and a dog.
building in indemnification for something that is still, essentially, theoretical. Isn't that like taking out insurance against alien attack?
All insurance is based on something that's theoretical - it just depends on how theoretical.
Up until last December, a tsunami that could kill a quarter of a million people was only theoretical. Up until last August, a hurricane that would force the evacuation of New Orleans was only theoretical. And up until September 11, 2001, terrorists flying jets into New York skyscrapers was only theoretical.
Personally, I feel that the chance of a patent lawsuit against open source isn't quite as remote as being attacked by aliens - especially when you have a company that has said it will do just that.
will SCO even be around anyomre when the trial starts?
Possibly - they did a slash-and-burn on their personnel this summer, and recently (a week or so ago) "persuaded" their investors to chip in $10M to keep them afloat. Assuming their burn rate doesn't change, they might just stick around to see trial.
It all depends on whether Novell gets to take their money - they owe 95% of their "Unix" revenue to Novell (well, technically they owe 100%, and Novell gives them 5% back.) Novell has a motion before the court to get 95% of SCOX's money placed in escrow.
they will have little or no money to sustain a case
They claim that their legal fees are capped, so their lawyers are working for free after their cash is gone (assuming they're (a) telling the truth, and (b) SCOX manages to avoid bankruptcy altogether.)
My biggest burning question is where does UNIX (the code) go to? Who would inherit SCOs IP?
Assuming that SCOX has Unix IP to begin with (their contract with Novell says they don't,) it would be sold to the highest bidder in bankruptcy court, just like any other assets.
Will UNIX enter the public domain?
Probably not - unless someone buys it at their fire-sale and releases it as such. Rumor has it that it might already be public domain, because AT&T released it without copyright attribution (this is hearsay based on the AT&T/Berkely settlement.)
What are the technical details?
:o)
Don't know - you have to "sign up" to get that info.
Platforms?
They don't mention anything for the server software, but the client is apparently Windows XP only.
I guess I'll be sticking with NWN for the time being
I didn't say it doesn't happen
You did, however, say that *most* businesses don't do it, which was what I was addressing. As I said, most businesses I know of have at least one digital camera for staff to use in the field (and many have one per field employee.)