Hey!!! I was waiting for someone to post that snopes article. Where do you think I got the quote? ^_^
Actually, everything there is accurate, the only one that is really off is the price of cabbage one, but there are enough laws where this is legit that the quote still serves it's purpose.
It's good to know there are still some people doing their research though. ^_^
I have a PHP book that's 567 pages long. I have two SQL books: one has 377 pages; the other has 719. Yet I consider 295-page 'Build Your Own Database Driven Website using PHP & MySQL' by Kevin Yank more valuable than any of these books.
Just because a book is long, doesn't mean it's useful.
like the great quote
The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. The Lord's prayer has only 67. The story of creation in the Bible uses only 200 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 271 words. On the other hand, a recent Federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.
I personally find, the bigger the book, the more difficult it is to navigate and the less useful it really becomes. Quick, short, to the point explanations are almost always better than long details drawn out explanations that I don't have the time or the desire to read.
1. A:= modern interpretation of quantum theory, with time and space quantized.
2. A -> C, where c:= space-time is quantum foam
3. C -> B, where B:= Hubble telescope images should be blurry due to quantum foam.
4. O:= Observations
O != B.
Therefore step 1,2,3 or 4 is incorrect. 4 is assumes to be correct, 3 is mathematically accurate from modern interpretations, 2 may be incorrect, but likely is not, since it follows very naturally from 1. Therefore, it is likely our initial assumption, A, in step 1, is the assumption in error.
(Just trying to be more mathematical about it. ^_^)
There are likely to be a lot of things in 2003 that people want to use that were not in ealier versions of the OS.
To clarify my point, a company generally isn't looking for these new features and has almost nil interest in gaining them. True, if they absolutely have to spend the money they'll take advantage of the new features, but in reality, most companies just want their old software to work.
Why do you think companies like Union Pacific and Canadian National Railways are still running their old Cobol programs in text base interfaces?
Sure, they could jazz it up and have all these neat features, but when it comes down to the bottom line, they don't need these features. So having to purchase a new OS just to run their old programs means that they are purchasing a system to do the same things they did before.
Now, on the personal user side, the issue is different. Personal users find more uses for the dongles and tweaks that are included with each OS. Personally, that's why I love Linux on my home laptop, since it's always improving and new features are being included on almost a monthly basis.
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Fine, call them idiots everytime a new security issue is found. Instead, you are insinuating that they PURPOSELY include holes PREMEDITATED before the release of the product under the ASSUMPTION that it will not be found until AFTER they release the latest greatest product.
I am not stating that they premeditate the insertion of the bug, but I am stating that they aren't going out of their way to remove them.
A majority of the bugs that have been discovered in windows would be easily caught by a proper security QA code review team.
I am more saying that they don't go out of their way to remove security bugs before release, not that they actively place bugs in there. It's not very easy to place a bug that seems like an accident and that won't be found by the public for a while.
Not a big deal that you can try to make this lousy argument. What is sad is that you found people to mod your post "Insightful" and "Interesting" while my post will soon be modded "Flamebait" and "Troll" becuase it is unpopular not to see ultimate evil in every action by M$
I find it disappointing that a person who obviously is knowledgeable and logical resorts to insulting not only me, but people who mod my post and people who mod yours. In a way it is an irony that you were wrong and your post was modded insightful (at least it was insightful when I first read it.) Personally though, I find your post very interesting and insightful, and it points out something that I had unfortunately failed to clarify my stance on.
I don't see ultimate evil in every action by Microsoft, I just see a lot of potential for abuse, and historically Microsoft has taken advantage of these opportunities. Perhaps this time they aren't, but unfortunately you and I will never truly know.
All Microsoft has to do to force people to purchase upgrades is include a fatal flaw in each of their released systems. Then, with their new found buy of a VM company, they can offer a new system (at a price) that is secure, but runs all the programs from the old system.
You are then left with a choice, stay with an unsecure system which will never be patched (unless independent sources patch the flaw,) or buy a new system at an inflated price, that will do exactly the same thing your old system did, but not have the fatal security flaw.
Really, it's quite an ingenious business plan, because they aren't forcing you to do anything, just making sure they get paid for all these patches they've been releasing for free.
I would not be surprised to start seeing them stop patching all their older OSes, and seeing their new OSes all include legacy VM support so you can run the old programs without the security bugs.
Then you are left to a choice, buy more software from Microsoft (so you can run securely), use OS software with respective VMs (and take the risk that all of your software won't work), or keep using your unsecure OS.
Unfortunately, for most businesses only one of those 3 options is viable.
You'll get the shits after you go blind and die. Yeah.
Phenopthalein doesn't instantly give you the shits. If you are a stupid alcoholic drinking rubbing alcohol, you'll likely go blind and probably die before you get the shits. After which, It's more of a insult that you shit yourself than a preventative measure.
If they follow the Redbook standard, and thus can be played in _any_ CD player, then they can be labelled as a CD.
If they don't, then they cannot be labelled or sold as a CD. As that would be false advertising.
Same thing with any of these other copyright protections. If you don't want to label them as copy-protected products, then don't label as if they are not copy-protected. Simple as that.
If my CD player on my computer cannot play the CD, then the CD is not following the standard properly. So, it cannot be labeled as a CD. Same for any other product.
Let these companies produce as much copyright protected material as they want. Heck, let them invent their own standards, etc. But, don't let them pretend they are something they are not. If you aren't going to sell me a legitimate CD, don't tell me it is a CD. (even though it is like a CD.)
That's like selling me a go cart and saying it's a car.
So true. Far too many people misunderstand what it meant by laws of nature.
The real, true laws of nature cannot be surpassed or broken. They are how the world really works.
Unfortunately though, we don't know the complete laws, so what we call "laws of nature" are kinda equivalent to us not knowing anything about chess, or being told anything about chess, but deducing from observations what the rules are from observation. Every once and a while, we'll notice that we were wrong when someone castles their king , or performs an en passant, and from these errors we learn more.
The Laws of Nature can never be broken. Yet, since there was no "laws of nature" rule book given to us at birth, our deductions of what the laws can change.
So if you have to report on something like this, instead of saying "Laws of Nature Broken!" which sounds absolutely ridiculous, rather say about the results being not expected by theory, or surprising.
The biggest problem with this system is it just makes it so much easier to do fraud.
Look at everquest, when that bug was found that gave you millions of dollars. The inflation became absolutely rampant, and many people who didn't have the millions to survive the inflation were screwed.
And now these guys are offering way to convert your real money to and from fake money so you can buy nonexistant products? I so see this being a major economical security risk. Especially since there is no guarantees anywhere on the money, and all it would take is a simple bug and the entire economy of "There" would basically become meaningless.
Canada 22.4% Export, 19% Import German 4.1% Export, 5.2% Import France 4.1% Export, Import not marked. (5%)
Thus, cutting off just these 3 partners, they would lose over a quarter of their exports, which I think considering the war losses would be absolutely absurd for them to do.
Well, it's a well proven fact in mathematics that given enough random points on a graph, patterns have to emerge.
I don't remember the exact name of the theorem, but Erdös, and his contemporaries were main figures in the development of it.
Given a billion prime numbers, you have essentially a billion points on a graph, naturally meaningless patterns are going to emerge. It doesn't really tell you anything though.
Those who prefer to change their "poisoned" number rather than face punishment incur the fees and inconvenience of switching, and also lose any business their ad might have generated.
This is an interesting statement to be made against spam in general. Those who get spammed incessently have to incur all of the costs, and either suffer through it (as most people do), or lose the revenue/contacts that have the old "poisoned" address.
I think from this point on, I am going to call my addresses that receive 20+ spams a day "poisoned" addresses. Because that is basically what they are.
Download music to try it out, and see if you'll get sick of an artist or band after a few songs. Also it will give you the chance to really get to listen to an entire CD.
If you download more than half of a CD and you enjoy the music, and you have the money. Buy that CD. That way, you know more of hte music you enjoy will continue to be produced, you are going to get a CD that you like (since you already know that you like the songs on that CD), and everyone is happy.
If you download only one song from a CD, don't worry about it. If you download a lot of songs from a CD, and they suck, just delete them after a while. Don't become a packrat storing hundreds of bad songs on your 80Gb harddrive just because you can. You know you don't listen them anywaiz.
Keep the songs you like, buy the albums you know you are going to enjoy (when you have the money), and everyone should be happy.
I can tell you my biggest problem, and the reason I stopped playing was the linear gameplay.
The game was fun and exciting for the first episode, but then after that it was like paying for a really slow television show. Everything was predetermined to fit a very specific timeline, and there wasn't that much you could do to get out of it.
I just had to stop after playing for a few months because I just got sick and tired of being led by the hand through the episodes, and not really being able to change the direction of the storyline myself.
Now, if someone were to make a game like Majestic, but with a nonlinear storyline. I would pay big bucks for that. I loved majestic (I am a bit of an x-files fan), I just quit because I got tired of being led by the hand through it. I want a game, not a "reality storybook."
I think the most ethical way of handling this is to allow research into expanding lifespans of people, but to also not force that "extra life" onto people if they do not desire to have it.
I believe that if a person honestly believes that they don't want to continue this temporal existance, then it is their decision. (Of course, this excludes people who do it on a whim or have serious psychological problems.)
Slashdot Mirror
Hey!!! I was waiting for someone to post that snopes article. Where do you think I got the quote? ^_^
Actually, everything there is accurate, the only one that is really off is the price of cabbage one, but there are enough laws where this is legit that the quote still serves it's purpose.
It's good to know there are still some people doing their research though. ^_^
I have a PHP book that's 567 pages long. I have two SQL books: one has 377 pages; the other has 719. Yet I consider 295-page 'Build Your Own Database Driven Website using PHP & MySQL' by Kevin Yank more valuable than any of these books.
Just because a book is long, doesn't mean it's useful.
like the great quote
The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. The Lord's prayer has only 67. The story of creation in the Bible uses only 200 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 271 words. On the other hand, a recent Federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.
I personally find, the bigger the book, the more difficult it is to navigate and the less useful it really becomes. Quick, short, to the point explanations are almost always better than long details drawn out explanations that I don't have the time or the desire to read.
Okay...
:= modern interpretation of quantum theory, with time and space quantized.
:= space-time is quantum foam
:= Hubble telescope images should be blurry due to quantum foam.
:= Observations
1. A
2. A -> C, where c
3. C -> B, where B
4. O
O != B.
Therefore step 1,2,3 or 4 is incorrect. 4 is assumes to be correct, 3 is mathematically accurate from modern interpretations, 2 may be incorrect, but likely is not, since it follows very naturally from 1. Therefore, it is likely our initial assumption, A, in step 1, is the assumption in error.
(Just trying to be more mathematical about it. ^_^)
If English doesn't float your boat, how about German
tsay-eff-noin?
Or french
say-eu-neuf? (where eu is like Eu in Europe.)
Or a variety of other languages? I am pretty sure we could find one you like. ^_^
A question from the Phys 253 final (Magnetism final.)
This is such an amazingly important invention, but you are 2 hours early on the release. No one was supposed to know that.
Darn! You have already thwarted my evil plans yet again.
There are likely to be a lot of things in 2003 that people want to use that were not in ealier versions of the OS.
To clarify my point, a company generally isn't looking for these new features and has almost nil interest in gaining them. True, if they absolutely have to spend the money they'll take advantage of the new features, but in reality, most companies just want their old software to work.
Why do you think companies like Union Pacific and Canadian National Railways are still running their old Cobol programs in text base interfaces?
Sure, they could jazz it up and have all these neat features, but when it comes down to the bottom line, they don't need these features. So having to purchase a new OS just to run their old programs means that they are purchasing a system to do the same things they did before.
Now, on the personal user side, the issue is different. Personal users find more uses for the dongles and tweaks that are included with each OS. Personally, that's why I love Linux on my home laptop, since it's always improving and new features are being included on almost a monthly basis.
Fine, call them idiots everytime a new security issue is found. Instead, you are insinuating that they PURPOSELY include holes PREMEDITATED before the release of the product under the ASSUMPTION that it will not be found until AFTER they release the latest greatest product.
I am not stating that they premeditate the insertion of the bug, but I am stating that they aren't going out of their way to remove them.
A majority of the bugs that have been discovered in windows would be easily caught by a proper security QA code review team.
I am more saying that they don't go out of their way to remove security bugs before release, not that they actively place bugs in there. It's not very easy to place a bug that seems like an accident and that won't be found by the public for a while.
Not a big deal that you can try to make this lousy argument. What is sad is that you found people to mod your post "Insightful" and "Interesting" while my post will soon be modded "Flamebait" and "Troll" becuase it is unpopular not to see ultimate evil in every action by M$
I find it disappointing that a person who obviously is knowledgeable and logical resorts to insulting not only me, but people who mod my post and people who mod yours. In a way it is an irony that you were wrong and your post was modded insightful (at least it was insightful when I first read it.) Personally though, I find your post very interesting and insightful, and it points out something that I had unfortunately failed to clarify my stance on.
I don't see ultimate evil in every action by Microsoft, I just see a lot of potential for abuse, and historically Microsoft has taken advantage of these opportunities. Perhaps this time they aren't, but unfortunately you and I will never truly know.
All Microsoft has to do to force people to purchase upgrades is include a fatal flaw in each of their released systems. Then, with their new found buy of a VM company, they can offer a new system (at a price) that is secure, but runs all the programs from the old system.
You are then left with a choice, stay with an unsecure system which will never be patched (unless independent sources patch the flaw,) or buy a new system at an inflated price, that will do exactly the same thing your old system did, but not have the fatal security flaw.
Really, it's quite an ingenious business plan, because they aren't forcing you to do anything, just making sure they get paid for all these patches they've been releasing for free.
I would not be surprised to start seeing them stop patching all their older OSes, and seeing their new OSes all include legacy VM support so you can run the old programs without the security bugs.
Then you are left to a choice, buy more software from Microsoft (so you can run securely), use OS software with respective VMs (and take the risk that all of your software won't work), or keep using your unsecure OS.
Unfortunately, for most businesses only one of those 3 options is viable.
They can just put their site on slashdot, and let their overheated server sauter for them.
You'll get the shits after you go blind and die. Yeah.
Phenopthalein doesn't instantly give you the shits. If you are a stupid alcoholic drinking rubbing alcohol, you'll likely go blind and probably die before you get the shits. After which, It's more of a insult that you shit yourself than a preventative measure.
Just require that the CDs be properly labelled.
If they follow the Redbook standard, and thus can be played in _any_ CD player, then they can be labelled as a CD.
If they don't, then they cannot be labelled or sold as a CD. As that would be false advertising.
Same thing with any of these other copyright protections. If you don't want to label them as copy-protected products, then don't label as if they are not copy-protected. Simple as that.
If my CD player on my computer cannot play the CD, then the CD is not following the standard properly. So, it cannot be labeled as a CD. Same for any other product.
Let these companies produce as much copyright protected material as they want. Heck, let them invent their own standards, etc. But, don't let them pretend they are something they are not. If you aren't going to sell me a legitimate CD, don't tell me it is a CD. (even though it is like a CD.)
That's like selling me a go cart and saying it's a car.
So true. Far too many people misunderstand what it meant by laws of nature.
The real, true laws of nature cannot be surpassed or broken. They are how the world really works.
Unfortunately though, we don't know the complete laws, so what we call "laws of nature" are kinda equivalent to us not knowing anything about chess, or being told anything about chess, but deducing from observations what the rules are from observation. Every once and a while, we'll notice that we were wrong when someone castles their king , or performs an en passant, and from these errors we learn more.
The Laws of Nature can never be broken. Yet, since there was no "laws of nature" rule book given to us at birth, our deductions of what the laws can change.
So if you have to report on something like this, instead of saying "Laws of Nature Broken!" which sounds absolutely ridiculous, rather say about the results being not expected by theory, or surprising.
The biggest problem with this system is it just makes it so much easier to do fraud.
Look at everquest, when that bug was found that gave you millions of dollars. The inflation became absolutely rampant, and many people who didn't have the millions to survive the inflation were screwed.
And now these guys are offering way to convert your real money to and from fake money so you can buy nonexistant products? I so see this being a major economical security risk. Especially since there is no guarantees anywhere on the money, and all it would take is a simple bug and the entire economy of "There" would basically become meaningless.
Exactly, considering
(Percentage of trading (from CIA World Factbook 2002, US Page))
Canada 22.4% Export, 19% Import
German 4.1% Export, 5.2% Import
France 4.1% Export, Import not marked. (5%)
Thus, cutting off just these 3 partners, they would lose over a quarter of their exports, which I think considering the war losses would be absolutely absurd for them to do.
That I am very glad I get that 20 minutes warning with my subscription.
I got most of the download done before the slashdot crowd reduced by speed considerably.
Well, it's a well proven fact in mathematics that given enough random points on a graph, patterns have to emerge.
I don't remember the exact name of the theorem, but Erdös, and his contemporaries were main figures in the development of it.
Given a billion prime numbers, you have essentially a billion points on a graph, naturally meaningless patterns are going to emerge. It doesn't really tell you anything though.
Those who prefer to change their "poisoned" number rather than face punishment incur the fees and inconvenience of switching, and also lose any business their ad might have generated.
This is an interesting statement to be made against spam in general. Those who get spammed incessently have to incur all of the costs, and either suffer through it (as most people do), or lose the revenue/contacts that have the old "poisoned" address.
I think from this point on, I am going to call my addresses that receive 20+ spams a day "poisoned" addresses. Because that is basically what they are.
I am understand by obscure acronyms!
.... !
GRUB, NIC, SIB, USA, NOB, FSCK,
Will someone please think of the children!
Download music to try it out, and see if you'll get sick of an artist or band after a few songs. Also it will give you the chance to really get to listen to an entire CD.
If you download more than half of a CD and you enjoy the music, and you have the money. Buy that CD. That way, you know more of hte music you enjoy will continue to be produced, you are going to get a CD that you like (since you already know that you like the songs on that CD), and everyone is happy.
If you download only one song from a CD, don't worry about it. If you download a lot of songs from a CD, and they suck, just delete them after a while. Don't become a packrat storing hundreds of bad songs on your 80Gb harddrive just because you can. You know you don't listen them anywaiz.
Keep the songs you like, buy the albums you know you are going to enjoy (when you have the money), and everyone should be happy.
I can tell you my biggest problem, and the reason I stopped playing was the linear gameplay.
The game was fun and exciting for the first episode, but then after that it was like paying for a really slow television show. Everything was predetermined to fit a very specific timeline, and there wasn't that much you could do to get out of it.
I just had to stop after playing for a few months because I just got sick and tired of being led by the hand through the episodes, and not really being able to change the direction of the storyline myself.
Now, if someone were to make a game like Majestic, but with a nonlinear storyline. I would pay big bucks for that. I loved majestic (I am a bit of an x-files fan), I just quit because I got tired of being led by the hand through it. I want a game, not a "reality storybook."
Install a microchip radio transmitter into a ring with a large key in it, or maybe just a bit of disk space, or a msg or something to that effect.
Then you can use it as a key for anything digital, or a micro storage device.
Personally I think that would really be cool to get, but then I am just a geek.
This is great and I am quite excited about this release, but I am curious what is planned for the next iteration of Mozilla?
They found a strange building they've called "the worlds oldest Chinese Mann's Theatre", and also in the ground they found the cryptic words:
"Charles Heston"
and two handprints.
Scientists are trying to decode this strange oddity.
I think the most ethical way of handling this is to allow research into expanding lifespans of people, but to also not force that "extra life" onto people if they do not desire to have it.
I believe that if a person honestly believes that they don't want to continue this temporal existance, then it is their decision. (Of course, this excludes people who do it on a whim or have serious psychological problems.)