That's right. Because we all know that government's never do anything beneficial to the community
avalys didn't argue that the government should provide less services. He stated that the government providing those services more cheaply saves the taxpayers' money. Surely we can all agree that regardless of what level of service we think they should handle, we want them doing it as efficiently as possible, right?
You started defending against an attack that was never made. Re-read what he said and I think you'd have to agree with his conclusion.
All these 3 programs have one thing in common: They're NOT windows-users friendly!
Actually, they have more than that in common: they're not designed for Windows users. Kate and gedit are the editors that GUI users want to be using, and they're clearly superior to anything Microsoft ships with the base operating system.
Since you brought it up, what command line editors does Windows come with for when you need to SSH in to tweak the registry on a default system? See, I can raise new straw men, too.
For starters, why isn't there a shell that emulates the windows CMD? As useful greps / finds / pipe chains are, they can't match the simplicity of a DIR/S. I've been using MS-DOS for more than 15 years, moving to Linux is restarting everything from scratch. Is that really NECESSARY?
Yes, because you're wishing for a one-to-one mapping that simply doesn't exist. I think it could be argued (actually, I know it can - I'm about to do it) that it's better to discard any misleading abstractions and learn a new way of doing things than to doggedly hold on to the old, poor-fitting emulation.
I mean, I used an Amiga from '85 to '98. While it was certainly more Unix-ish than was DOS, it never occurred to me to try to find an AmigaDOS clone. What would it have bought me? Nothing but a false sense of security that I knew what was really going on. I also don't try to write Java in Python, or C++ in Perl (although I try to sneak some Lisp into any language I can), because they're just not the same paradigm.
At some point you have to say, "look, here's what I learned over the last 15 years. Let's see how I can apply them to the new situation at hand." This is not unique to computers, but is the way of cars, jobs, relationships, and the world in general.
With all this porting of gigabytes of accumulated personal data
1. If you're the kind with "gigabytes of accumulated person data", then you're probably savvy enough to migrate without help.
2. If you're like everyone else, then moving to Linux is probably no more difficult than upgrading to a new computer (which is how probably 95% of the population gets a new version of Windows). Do you really think that Jane Grandma will have less trouble getting digital photos of the grandkids from her Gateway 2000 to her new Dell running Windows than she would to a Linux system or a Mac?
There are also people who will help you switch to other operating systems if you really need the assistance.
As for my own real-life mom? She was a DEC hacker back when RMS had a soul patch and a student ID. I'm not too worried about her coping skills.
Unless the other "new" software is identical to the old software they used to use they wont use it.
That's BS. Otherwise, everyone would be using Office 97 on Windows 95; newer versions of either product are nothing like the old ones.
Upgrades are the perfect time to switch. If you're going to have to re-learn the system anyway, there's not much penalty for adopting something completely new.
Right here on my desktop. None of the values you listed are interesting at all to me. I'm quite capable of hand-configuring my system to get a degree of control that no GUI could hope to achieve.
Understand, though, that I'm not saying that to be a 1337 h4xx0r. My point is that Linux is cryptic because of its flexibility, not as a design goal. That's a perfectly acceptable tradeoff for some of us and it's traditionally been a positive-feedback loop; the people drawn to such a system are the ones extending it in the same manner.
EASE, not FREE or OPEN should be the buzzword of Linux.
Again, those are your values and not mine. I value Free and Open much more than Ease - I consider the latter impossible without both of the former. The great part is, though, that people who like Easy are Free to take it in that direction, and others are Open to incorporate their work if it looks good.
Until I RTFA I didn't realise that inter-server communication was the really useful thing about Jabber.
I never thought of it as the useful thing, but definitely high up on the list. I consider it almost exactly analogous to the SMTP server network. You get all the advantages of a private intraoffice server if you want, but also have the ability to send messages to other networks without having to create accounts on those networks: just route a message to the appropriate server and let it do the right thing.
Put another way, I don't see Google's (currently-)closed server as an improvement over AIM or MSN. I'd have to get all my friends to use it and set up Yet Another Buddy List (or another set of contacts to add to the Kopete metacontacts I've already defined). I can't just add myfriendsaccount@gmail.com to my current Jabber roster and be done with it.
Here's to hoping that they open it up. Until then, it's just another account taking up space in my IM client.
This "water" is often sold to the public on the premise that is is totally harmless, which isn't true. I just want truth in advertising-"not as lethal", "virtually non-lethal", etc. But then, the bottlers wouldn't sell as much, would they:) There is a definite place for this water-I just don't wan't it misrepresented.
The difference, of course, is that these weapons are specifically designed to cause as little harm as possible. That's part of their design: not to kill people, but to deter them or render them ineffective. Everything is lethal to someone - you could kill someone with osteogenesis imperfecta by macing them and watching as the resulting coughing fit broke all their ribs. That's far, far different from, say, a military rifle that's explicitly meant to kill.
I think it's fair to call them "non-lethal", since that's what they're designed to be. The unexpected will always happen, but that doesn't invalidate their purpose.
a virus that destroys the computer it infects before spreading does not make it to 75% of computers.
I inserted the words you left out. Would Slammer or Code Red have spread more slowly if they nuked C: after 4 days? No. By that point, the infection had pretty much reached saturation and was on the decline.
So how long until this special subject line is either released and/or "bruteforced"?
No kidding. What's wrong with a mail rule that says "if message is PGP-signed by the security team, put in folder 'READ_NOW!' and play 'ALERT_SIREN.WAV'". Seems a lot less prone to accidents or abuse.
I've read thousands of books, and I seem to retain much more than most people.
Again, if you're the kind who willingly read thousands of books, then there's a 99.99% probability that you are very intelligent. The contrapositive: if you weren't smart, you probably wouldn't have read that many - right?
What seems like creativity to other people is just the result of recombinations of existing components, whereas the few truly creative people I know are sometimes pulling something out of nothing--their creations come from nowhere that I can understand.
Similarly, those people probably don't think anything of their own talents; they're just recombining existing components, but this time in ways you don't understand. An old saying is that "there's nothing new under the sun", and that's largely correct. I can't think of a single purely original idea - that is, one that wasn't built on previous work - in recent history. Bach didn't invent the scales he used, but used them in new ways. Newton built upon previous mathematical discoveries. Einstein had interest insights into material that already existed. That doesn't mean that they weren't amazingly creative, but even they made incremental updates to human knowledge.
You seem to be selling yourself short, and that's a damn shame. Intelligence is not something to hide or belittle, but something to take pride in as you apply it to the problems that interest you. Learn to enjoy the talent that you were born with and shaped through years of independent study, and never, never let someone make you feel inferior simply because you can process ideas faster and more accurately than they can.
If the carriers die off too soon there is no propagation.
Key phrase: too soon. Imagine a worm that replicated for a day or so before cleaning house. It would spread almost as quickly as non-limited worms, but would inflict far, far more damage.
So there's little point in going through the extra effort to add in the destructive payload.
The kid that wiped out 75% of America's computers would pretty much be (in)famous forever. You don't think that's an attraction? I'm amazed it hasn't happened already.
How are you so sure you've gotten the "young-and-stupid" out of your life?
Without going into details, let me say that you've just got to trust me on this one, OK?:-)
It's natural for people to change and there's no way to predict that you'll change in the same direction as your spouse.
I absolutely agree with that. On the other hand, most of the older people I've spoken to say that your 20s are the most volatile time in your life. That's the age where you step out from under your parents, begin a career, and generally try to find your place in the world. You'll (hopefully) keep changing throughout your life, but the people I know agree that it'll never be as drastic as when you're first starting out. In short, there's a pretty good chance that you and she will still be basically similar when you turn 40.
It's nice to hear the occasional success story.
There are a lot more of them than you'd think. The key is that when it works well, we don't tend to make a big deal about it. The grousers are far and away the most vocal. Above that, there's a certain amount of good-natured grousing that's basically expected from married people. When talking to friends, I'll refer to my wife as "the ol' ball-and-chain", and she'll punch me in the arm and ask me how the couch sounds for the weekend. What the casual (unmarried) observer may not realize is that a lot of couples joke with each other like that, particularly if they're very comfortable with each other. You might see two people who don't like each other. We, on the other hand, see some teasing humor that we mutually enjoy.
Marriage is probably not for me, but I sometimes forget that, in a society that pushes marriage so hard.
Whatever you do, don't succumb to that pressure. Unless you can't bear the thought of not growing old and senile with that woman, she's not Ms. Right. I have friends who're at the same place in life as you and I'd much rather they not marry and stay happy than marry for dumb reasons and be miserable.
First, my wife can't stand Slashdot, so this is just between us guys, OK?
In general, I love being married. My wife is my best friend. We have the same sense of humor. We have the same goals and ambitions. We notice the same obscure details of everything around us. Sure, there are times when we want to wring each others' neck - which any two people, married or otherwise, don't? - but they're the exception to the rule.
I think a big difference is that we married in our late 20s / early 30s. By that point in life, we'd gotten the young-and-stupid life out of our system and had pretty much figured out what we want out of life and who we wanted to share it with. Quite frankly, neither of us were the kind of people the other one would've been interested in when we were younger. I know that some high school sweethearts are married until they die of old age, but I think that slightly older couples are more likely to work out for the long haul.
No, I honestly wouldn't change things if I could. No relationship is bliss 100% of the time, but that's OK. Even during the hard times, my best friend is there beside me. I hope that you and your friends may one day be so lucky.
I have an old Alpha PC64 - 21064A @ 275 MHz, 256MB of RAM - that's currently being replaced as my firewall by a WRT54GS. Is there any chance of getting OpenVMS or another non-Unix system running on it? I've seen the website for the OpenVMS hobbyist licenses, but I don't know anything whatsoever about installing such a system.
I should mention here that my budget for such adventures is roughly $0 (my Wifely Tolerance Account is close to overdrawn), and I doubt that I'd ever have the time to do much with it, but I'd like to have such a system up and running if I could do it on the cheap.
So, the more I make fun of people who want to learn mainframes, the more likely the people at American Education Services are to lose track of my student loans?
I work with mainframes myself
Have another Twinkie, Big Iron. Don't let that Beowulf hit you in the butt on the way out.
Was that an OK start, or are there other sore points I should concentrate on?
Thing is, American IQ tests I've done seem to ask questions like "Who was the American president after Eisenhower"
They give IQ tests in your American History class? Weird.
The ones I've seen have pattern recognition, sequential inference, short-term memory, logic, and "benchmark" sections. I have never - literally, not once ever - seen one that asked for factual information from outside the test.
Soon she will learn to become comfortable in her isolation from the rest of society.
My cousin-in-law got a 4.0 in her mechanical engineering undergrad, then went on to pursue her doctorate in aerospace engineering while interning at NASA. She's also pretty, funny, nice, and gets her pick of men.
Yeah, intelligence is a social death sentence for a woman, I tell ya.
Funny? Insightful! I wish your message would catch on universally - and for boys, too.
I just sent my little girl to kindergarten for the first time last week. I sat her down and had a heart-to-heart talk about what school would be like. I told her about how fun it's going to be to get better at reading, and learning math, and seeing the world of science, and I could see her eyes light up at the idea of the wonders in front of her.
I also told her that some people would tell her that girls can't learn or do as much as boys. I told her that those people are stupid and scared, and most importantly, wrong. She's lucky in that she has an automatic counterproof: my wife's a doctor, and graduated from Army Airborne school while in ROTC. My daughters and son know what women can do because their mommy showed them.
I also want the other little girls (and boys) to know that while there are differences between all of us, each individual can rise to the level they want. People who would tell them otherwise are murderers, as far as I'm concerned.
By the way, I almost always score in the top 1% on every standardized written test, including IQ tests. The only exception I can recall was the LSAT, where I only scored in the top 10%. However, I'm not foolish enough to think those tests indicate anything of significance.
And yet you're foolish enough to refuse to admit that maybe, just maybe, you really do have greater mental abilities than most others. Why is that? Are you from a culture that disparages intelligence? Are you in a field of study that values creativity over logic (as though the two can be separated)?
I'm genuinely curious. Most intelligent people are not quite so proud of the fact that they don't want to be one.
BTW, I'm sure that placing in the top 10% of the LSAT still puts you in the top 99% of the general population. It's not the sort of test that just anyone is likely to have taken. Sorry, but it probably confirms that you're smarter than you'd like.
I imagine ANYTHING that dulls pain is going to be, by nature, addictive.
Ibuprofen is marketed as an analgesic (largely because it reduces the swelling that causes some pain), but it's not addictive. Analgesics that are CNS depressants are often (always?) addictive, but that's not the only pain relieving mechanism.
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avalys didn't argue that the government should provide less services. He stated that the government providing those services more cheaply saves the taxpayers' money. Surely we can all agree that regardless of what level of service we think they should handle, we want them doing it as efficiently as possible, right?
You started defending against an attack that was never made. Re-read what he said and I think you'd have to agree with his conclusion.
Enough, already! The joKe is dead, already! Is there a law or something that says that everything in KDE has to start with a "k"?
Oh, wait...
Actually, they have more than that in common: they're not designed for Windows users. Kate and gedit are the editors that GUI users want to be using, and they're clearly superior to anything Microsoft ships with the base operating system.
Since you brought it up, what command line editors does Windows come with for when you need to SSH in to tweak the registry on a default system? See, I can raise new straw men, too.
For starters, why isn't there a shell that emulates the windows CMD? As useful greps / finds / pipe chains are, they can't match the simplicity of a DIR /S. I've been using MS-DOS for more than 15 years, moving to Linux is restarting everything from scratch. Is that really NECESSARY?
Yes, because you're wishing for a one-to-one mapping that simply doesn't exist. I think it could be argued (actually, I know it can - I'm about to do it) that it's better to discard any misleading abstractions and learn a new way of doing things than to doggedly hold on to the old, poor-fitting emulation.
I mean, I used an Amiga from '85 to '98. While it was certainly more Unix-ish than was DOS, it never occurred to me to try to find an AmigaDOS clone. What would it have bought me? Nothing but a false sense of security that I knew what was really going on. I also don't try to write Java in Python, or C++ in Perl (although I try to sneak some Lisp into any language I can), because they're just not the same paradigm.
At some point you have to say, "look, here's what I learned over the last 15 years. Let's see how I can apply them to the new situation at hand." This is not unique to computers, but is the way of cars, jobs, relationships, and the world in general.
You just have to keep abreast of the job market.
1. If you're the kind with "gigabytes of accumulated person data", then you're probably savvy enough to migrate without help.
2. If you're like everyone else, then moving to Linux is probably no more difficult than upgrading to a new computer (which is how probably 95% of the population gets a new version of Windows). Do you really think that Jane Grandma will have less trouble getting digital photos of the grandkids from her Gateway 2000 to her new Dell running Windows than she would to a Linux system or a Mac?
There are also people who will help you switch to other operating systems if you really need the assistance.
As for my own real-life mom? She was a DEC hacker back when RMS had a soul patch and a student ID. I'm not too worried about her coping skills.
That's BS. Otherwise, everyone would be using Office 97 on Windows 95; newer versions of either product are nothing like the old ones.
Upgrades are the perfect time to switch. If you're going to have to re-learn the system anyway, there's not much penalty for adopting something completely new.
Right here on my desktop. None of the values you listed are interesting at all to me. I'm quite capable of hand-configuring my system to get a degree of control that no GUI could hope to achieve.
Understand, though, that I'm not saying that to be a 1337 h4xx0r. My point is that Linux is cryptic because of its flexibility, not as a design goal. That's a perfectly acceptable tradeoff for some of us and it's traditionally been a positive-feedback loop; the people drawn to such a system are the ones extending it in the same manner.
EASE, not FREE or OPEN should be the buzzword of Linux.
Again, those are your values and not mine. I value Free and Open much more than Ease - I consider the latter impossible without both of the former. The great part is, though, that people who like Easy are Free to take it in that direction, and others are Open to incorporate their work if it looks good.
I never thought of it as the useful thing, but definitely high up on the list. I consider it almost exactly analogous to the SMTP server network. You get all the advantages of a private intraoffice server if you want, but also have the ability to send messages to other networks without having to create accounts on those networks: just route a message to the appropriate server and let it do the right thing.
Put another way, I don't see Google's (currently-)closed server as an improvement over AIM or MSN. I'd have to get all my friends to use it and set up Yet Another Buddy List (or another set of contacts to add to the Kopete metacontacts I've already defined). I can't just add myfriendsaccount@gmail.com to my current Jabber roster and be done with it.
Here's to hoping that they open it up. Until then, it's just another account taking up space in my IM client.
There! You're all done for another few months, or until you feel the need to upgrade again.
<baptist class="southern">I kept my kids out of a local private school that we otherwise loved because they taught ID.</baptist>
Don't generalize. It's bad.
The difference, of course, is that these weapons are specifically designed to cause as little harm as possible. That's part of their design: not to kill people, but to deter them or render them ineffective. Everything is lethal to someone - you could kill someone with osteogenesis imperfecta by macing them and watching as the resulting coughing fit broke all their ribs. That's far, far different from, say, a military rifle that's explicitly meant to kill.
I think it's fair to call them "non-lethal", since that's what they're designed to be. The unexpected will always happen, but that doesn't invalidate their purpose.
I inserted the words you left out. Would Slammer or Code Red have spread more slowly if they nuked C: after 4 days? No. By that point, the infection had pretty much reached saturation and was on the decline.
No kidding. What's wrong with a mail rule that says "if message is PGP-signed by the security team, put in folder 'READ_NOW!' and play 'ALERT_SIREN.WAV'". Seems a lot less prone to accidents or abuse.
Nope. I just intern for them.
I've read thousands of books, and I seem to retain much more than most people.
Again, if you're the kind who willingly read thousands of books, then there's a 99.99% probability that you are very intelligent. The contrapositive: if you weren't smart, you probably wouldn't have read that many - right?
What seems like creativity to other people is just the result of recombinations of existing components, whereas the few truly creative people I know are sometimes pulling something out of nothing--their creations come from nowhere that I can understand.
Similarly, those people probably don't think anything of their own talents; they're just recombining existing components, but this time in ways you don't understand. An old saying is that "there's nothing new under the sun", and that's largely correct. I can't think of a single purely original idea - that is, one that wasn't built on previous work - in recent history. Bach didn't invent the scales he used, but used them in new ways. Newton built upon previous mathematical discoveries. Einstein had interest insights into material that already existed. That doesn't mean that they weren't amazingly creative, but even they made incremental updates to human knowledge.
You seem to be selling yourself short, and that's a damn shame. Intelligence is not something to hide or belittle, but something to take pride in as you apply it to the problems that interest you. Learn to enjoy the talent that you were born with and shaped through years of independent study, and never, never let someone make you feel inferior simply because you can process ideas faster and more accurately than they can.
Key phrase: too soon. Imagine a worm that replicated for a day or so before cleaning house. It would spread almost as quickly as non-limited worms, but would inflict far, far more damage.
The kid that wiped out 75% of America's computers would pretty much be (in)famous forever. You don't think that's an attraction? I'm amazed it hasn't happened already.
Without going into details, let me say that you've just got to trust me on this one, OK? :-)
It's natural for people to change and there's no way to predict that you'll change in the same direction as your spouse.
I absolutely agree with that. On the other hand, most of the older people I've spoken to say that your 20s are the most volatile time in your life. That's the age where you step out from under your parents, begin a career, and generally try to find your place in the world. You'll (hopefully) keep changing throughout your life, but the people I know agree that it'll never be as drastic as when you're first starting out. In short, there's a pretty good chance that you and she will still be basically similar when you turn 40.
It's nice to hear the occasional success story.
There are a lot more of them than you'd think. The key is that when it works well, we don't tend to make a big deal about it. The grousers are far and away the most vocal. Above that, there's a certain amount of good-natured grousing that's basically expected from married people. When talking to friends, I'll refer to my wife as "the ol' ball-and-chain", and she'll punch me in the arm and ask me how the couch sounds for the weekend. What the casual (unmarried) observer may not realize is that a lot of couples joke with each other like that, particularly if they're very comfortable with each other. You might see two people who don't like each other. We, on the other hand, see some teasing humor that we mutually enjoy.
Marriage is probably not for me, but I sometimes forget that, in a society that pushes marriage so hard.
Whatever you do, don't succumb to that pressure. Unless you can't bear the thought of not growing old and senile with that woman, she's not Ms. Right. I have friends who're at the same place in life as you and I'd much rather they not marry and stay happy than marry for dumb reasons and be miserable.
First, my wife can't stand Slashdot, so this is just between us guys, OK?
In general, I love being married. My wife is my best friend. We have the same sense of humor. We have the same goals and ambitions. We notice the same obscure details of everything around us. Sure, there are times when we want to wring each others' neck - which any two people, married or otherwise, don't? - but they're the exception to the rule.
I think a big difference is that we married in our late 20s / early 30s. By that point in life, we'd gotten the young-and-stupid life out of our system and had pretty much figured out what we want out of life and who we wanted to share it with. Quite frankly, neither of us were the kind of people the other one would've been interested in when we were younger. I know that some high school sweethearts are married until they die of old age, but I think that slightly older couples are more likely to work out for the long haul.
No, I honestly wouldn't change things if I could. No relationship is bliss 100% of the time, but that's OK. Even during the hard times, my best friend is there beside me. I hope that you and your friends may one day be so lucky.
I should mention here that my budget for such adventures is roughly $0 (my Wifely Tolerance Account is close to overdrawn), and I doubt that I'd ever have the time to do much with it, but I'd like to have such a system up and running if I could do it on the cheap.
I work with mainframes myself
Have another Twinkie, Big Iron. Don't let that Beowulf hit you in the butt on the way out.
Was that an OK start, or are there other sore points I should concentrate on?
They give IQ tests in your American History class? Weird.
The ones I've seen have pattern recognition, sequential inference, short-term memory, logic, and "benchmark" sections. I have never - literally, not once ever - seen one that asked for factual information from outside the test.
My cousin-in-law got a 4.0 in her mechanical engineering undergrad, then went on to pursue her doctorate in aerospace engineering while interning at NASA. She's also pretty, funny, nice, and gets her pick of men.
Yeah, intelligence is a social death sentence for a woman, I tell ya.
Funny? Insightful! I wish your message would catch on universally - and for boys, too.
I just sent my little girl to kindergarten for the first time last week. I sat her down and had a heart-to-heart talk about what school would be like. I told her about how fun it's going to be to get better at reading, and learning math, and seeing the world of science, and I could see her eyes light up at the idea of the wonders in front of her.
I also told her that some people would tell her that girls can't learn or do as much as boys. I told her that those people are stupid and scared, and most importantly, wrong. She's lucky in that she has an automatic counterproof: my wife's a doctor, and graduated from Army Airborne school while in ROTC. My daughters and son know what women can do because their mommy showed them.
I also want the other little girls (and boys) to know that while there are differences between all of us, each individual can rise to the level they want. People who would tell them otherwise are murderers, as far as I'm concerned.
And yet you're foolish enough to refuse to admit that maybe, just maybe, you really do have greater mental abilities than most others. Why is that? Are you from a culture that disparages intelligence? Are you in a field of study that values creativity over logic (as though the two can be separated)?
I'm genuinely curious. Most intelligent people are not quite so proud of the fact that they don't want to be one.
BTW, I'm sure that placing in the top 10% of the LSAT still puts you in the top 99% of the general population. It's not the sort of test that just anyone is likely to have taken. Sorry, but it probably confirms that you're smarter than you'd like.
Ibuprofen is marketed as an analgesic (largely because it reduces the swelling that causes some pain), but it's not addictive. Analgesics that are CNS depressants are often (always?) addictive, but that's not the only pain relieving mechanism.