People are capable of thinking but they have bought into the Apple and Microsoft hype that computers don't require thought so they refuse to think.
And in response to this precise problem, Apple has for many months now been running public service announcements with the catchy slogan of "Think Different".
People have to be told that "You just don't run stuff from an untrusted source."
And by "trusted", you have to specify not just "I know this person and he doesn't want to hurt me maliciously" but also "I trust whatever he's running on his system not to hurt me". The recent Outlook worms et al have demonstrated that any idiot running an insecure system can spread all sorts of nasties to his friends and colleagues, who normally trust him.
Well, both are wrong. HTML is really about mapping one quantity of information to another relevant quantity somewhere else. The fact that it can sometimes also be used to specify the layout of that information is a side-effect and has been largely poorly bolted on (as demonstrated by the numerous ways different browsers have of rendering the same page, within appropriate leeway).
The conveniently discovered system, which soon becomes known as Orbitsville, is utterly unlike anything previously thought possible: a massive Dyson sphere completely enclosing a sun in a shell only centimetres thick. The internal surface area - greater than that of 625 million Earths -- is a vast land of grass-covered hills and valleys which seems perfect for colonisation.
If the enclosure is complete, then how do you get in?
If they should move anywhere in Canada, it should be to Quebec; assuming they escaped any legal penalty (which is a big assumption of its own), they'd give Quebec the economic cash cow they need to secede for real. And afterwards, they could hope to have all the political influence in the world.
Also, it's not going to slow down the OS having an IE object that's not used sitting around. Anymore than KDE is slowed down by the ability to display web pages.
The difference is that parts of IE are always running in the background whether it's being used or not; they're loaded at startup and whir away and consume resources until something inevitably crashes. If it were merely trying to be a shell, then it would be designed differently. As it is, it's not designed to be a shell or perhaps even a well functioning web browser. What it's designed to be is a monopoly extender/preserver (remember how ubiquitous browsers were supposed to make the underlying operating system irrelevant until MS killed that plan?), inseparable from the rest of the operating system, with the potential for client-side features that exclusively tie in with whatever proprietary server stuff MS throws at consumers next.
And your reference to KDE is inappropriate. Unlike IE, KDE can be completely removed from any linux system, and what's left is perfectly functional. IE is like a car radio that's had the ignition system wired through it; there's no reason why it should be required for the system to work, except that that's the way MS has specifically designed it. It's just so brutally dishonest.
With the immensely increasing popularity of the internet, one could successfully argue that one distinct feature of their os is the inherent ability to allow you browse the internet. You can't really say that this is *not* a part of an OS.
Wrong. Browsing the internet is (nearly) a required function of any properly maintained system, but that is not the same as the operating system itself. The operating system consists of anything that's required to have other applications running, like APIs, drivers, a kernel, etc. The browser isn't necessary to accomplish anything other than the act of running a browser. It might make sense to bundle a browser with the rest of the operating system, but it remains bundling, which monopolists are restricted from doing.
More likely, the belt consists of stuff that was never able to condense into a planet because of tidal forces pulling on it. But that's just my opinion.
You're thinking of Anne McCaffrey's Pern series. Yes it let the dragons breath fire, but it wasn't necessary for flight, much less teleportation and other neat things they did -- witness the dragonettes (forerunners of the dragons) who could fly just fine without the stone.
If you were the Chinese government, would you want to use software (i.e. Windows) that can be embargo'd by the U.S.?
And how, pray tell, do you plan to embargo something that can be infinitely regenerated if only one copy of a distro gets through the blockade? It's not as though the PRC has ever been one to respect copyrights.
There are infinitely many reasons why the PRC shouldn't go with Windows, so you'll have no trouble picking another one.
The first amendment ought to protect such speech, but as it's been interpreted, it doesn't. The binding precedent is still Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942), where it was ruled constitutional to ban so-called "fighting words", specifically applied in that case to cover calling policemen "fascists" and "agents of fascism". It's a horrible ruling, but it's there, and it's dragged out from time to time to justify speech codes and all sorts of other abominations.
I'm getting an image in my head of a wall being erected in Redmond in the style of the Berlin Wall, separating the Office/Apps company (profitable West Germany) from the OS company (economically depressed East Germany). Of course the OS company would have to post snipers and watch towers to keep their employees from trying to jump the wall to the other side -- sure they'll be able to stay afloat for a little while, but there's little opportunity for growth with OSes like Linux penning them in.
It's just convergent evolution. Think of it like a squid's eye -- it got the same functionality that mammals have, but it used a different codebase and so was able to avoid some major design problems (like not having to run the nerves through a hole in the back of the eye, thereby producing a blind spot). You just have to overlook the fact that cephalopods developed before mammals did, but then most of MS's work has been after-the-fact and yet still wrong.
You can just switch to a PPC computer of some sort, run linuxppc, and run iCab under mac on linux. Of course, most of the machines that fit that description are macintoshes....
Evolution will: crash, lose your mail, leave stray processes running, consume 100% CPU, race, lock, send HTML mail to random mailing lists, and embarass you in front of your friends and co-workers. Use at your own risk.
Congratulations! It sounds like it's already providing 90% of the functionality of MS Outlook. Any progress on the few remaining features like remapping file associations and reformatting one's hard drive?
available here. It also allows finer grained control, like only permitting cookies to be accepted from certain sites, besides being a superior browser.
You're confusing speed with MHz again. There's no reason for Motorola to crank the MHz much above 500 MHz at the moment, since at that level (combined with Altivec and the rest) it's already competing nicely with the 1000 MHz offerings of AMD and Intel. If they did, then they'd just be leaving themselves less room to expand in the future. IBM demonstrated some 1000 MHz PPC chips almost two years ago, so it's not an engineering matter that's keeping them back.
And if you want to discuss thermal breakdowns, then why bring up AMD? Their processors are a semi-order of magnitude hotter than Motorola's.
It doesn't actually do many of the horrible things associated with the ILOVEYOU crap, but it will let someone else commandeer your hotmail account.
A quick summary: javascript in a rogue cookie on a hostile site tells Hotmail to send its own cookies to someone else. Once that person has those cookies, he has all the authentication he needs to use/abuse the original person's Hotmail account.
Slashdot Mirror
open mouth
remove foot
insert sense of humor
chew and swallow
After all, how much of popular music is sung about illegal activities like drug use and fornication? Sounds like a form of linking to me....
People are capable of thinking but they have bought into the Apple and Microsoft hype that computers don't require thought so they refuse to think.
And in response to this precise problem, Apple has for many months now been running public service announcements with the catchy slogan of "Think Different".
People have to be told that "You just don't run stuff from an untrusted source."
And by "trusted", you have to specify not just "I know this person and he doesn't want to hurt me maliciously" but also "I trust whatever he's running on his system not to hurt me". The recent Outlook worms et al have demonstrated that any idiot running an insecure system can spread all sorts of nasties to his friends and colleagues, who normally trust him.
Well, both are wrong. HTML is really about mapping one quantity of information to another relevant quantity somewhere else. The fact that it can sometimes also be used to specify the layout of that information is a side-effect and has been largely poorly bolted on (as demonstrated by the numerous ways different browsers have of rendering the same page, within appropriate leeway).
The conveniently discovered system, which soon becomes known as Orbitsville, is utterly unlike anything previously thought possible: a massive Dyson sphere completely enclosing a sun in a shell only centimetres thick. The internal surface area - greater than that of 625 million Earths -- is a vast land of grass-covered hills and valleys which seems perfect for colonisation.
If the enclosure is complete, then how do you get in?
If they should move anywhere in Canada, it should be to Quebec; assuming they escaped any legal penalty (which is a big assumption of its own), they'd give Quebec the economic cash cow they need to secede for real. And afterwards, they could hope to have all the political influence in the world.
Also, it's not going to slow down the OS having an IE object that's not used sitting around. Anymore than KDE is slowed down by the ability to display web pages.
The difference is that parts of IE are always running in the background whether it's being used or not; they're loaded at startup and whir away and consume resources until something inevitably crashes. If it were merely trying to be a shell, then it would be designed differently. As it is, it's not designed to be a shell or perhaps even a well functioning web browser. What it's designed to be is a monopoly extender/preserver (remember how ubiquitous browsers were supposed to make the underlying operating system irrelevant until MS killed that plan?), inseparable from the rest of the operating system, with the potential for client-side features that exclusively tie in with whatever proprietary server stuff MS throws at consumers next.
And your reference to KDE is inappropriate. Unlike IE, KDE can be completely removed from any linux system, and what's left is perfectly functional. IE is like a car radio that's had the ignition system wired through it; there's no reason why it should be required for the system to work, except that that's the way MS has specifically designed it. It's just so brutally dishonest.
With the immensely increasing popularity of the internet, one could successfully argue that one distinct feature of their os is the inherent ability to allow you browse the internet. You can't really say that this is *not* a part of an OS.
Wrong. Browsing the internet is (nearly) a required function of any properly maintained system, but that is not the same as the operating system itself. The operating system consists of anything that's required to have other applications running, like APIs, drivers, a kernel, etc. The browser isn't necessary to accomplish anything other than the act of running a browser. It might make sense to bundle a browser with the rest of the operating system, but it remains bundling, which monopolists are restricted from doing.
The first in Anne McCaffrey's series was published in 1968. As you note, Flight of the Dragons is from 1982. Sounds like a ripoff.
More likely, the belt consists of stuff that was never able to condense into a planet because of tidal forces pulling on it. But that's just my opinion.
You're thinking of Anne McCaffrey's Pern series. Yes it let the dragons breath fire, but it wasn't necessary for flight, much less teleportation and other neat things they did -- witness the dragonettes (forerunners of the dragons) who could fly just fine without the stone.
If you were the Chinese government, would you want to use software (i.e. Windows) that can be embargo'd by the U.S.?
And how, pray tell, do you plan to embargo something that can be infinitely regenerated if only one copy of a distro gets through the blockade? It's not as though the PRC has ever been one to respect copyrights.
There are infinitely many reasons why the PRC shouldn't go with Windows, so you'll have no trouble picking another one.
The first amendment ought to protect such speech, but as it's been interpreted, it doesn't. The binding precedent is still Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942), where it was ruled constitutional to ban so-called "fighting words", specifically applied in that case to cover calling policemen "fascists" and "agents of fascism". It's a horrible ruling, but it's there, and it's dragged out from time to time to justify speech codes and all sorts of other abominations.
I'm getting an image in my head of a wall being erected in Redmond in the style of the Berlin Wall, separating the Office/Apps company (profitable West Germany) from the OS company (economically depressed East Germany). Of course the OS company would have to post snipers and watch towers to keep their employees from trying to jump the wall to the other side -- sure they'll be able to stay afloat for a little while, but there's little opportunity for growth with OSes like Linux penning them in.
It's just convergent evolution. Think of it like a squid's eye -- it got the same functionality that mammals have, but it used a different codebase and so was able to avoid some major design problems (like not having to run the nerves through a hole in the back of the eye, thereby producing a blind spot). You just have to overlook the fact that cephalopods developed before mammals did, but then most of MS's work has been after-the-fact and yet still wrong.
You can just switch to a PPC computer of some sort, run linuxppc, and run iCab under mac on linux. Of course, most of the machines that fit that description are macintoshes....
Evolution will: crash, lose your mail, leave stray processes running, consume 100% CPU, race, lock, send HTML mail to random mailing lists, and embarass you in front of your friends and co-workers. Use at your own risk.
Congratulations! It sounds like it's already providing 90% of the functionality of MS Outlook. Any progress on the few remaining features like remapping file associations and reformatting one's hard drive?
available here. It also allows finer grained control, like only permitting cookies to be accepted from certain sites, besides being a superior browser.
They were never intended to "help people locate sites". They were intended to be a convenient name for a physical machine somewhere out there.
You're right of course (and I realized my mistake moments after submitting). s/in cookie/on website/i.
You're confusing speed with MHz again. There's no reason for Motorola to crank the MHz much above 500 MHz at the moment, since at that level (combined with Altivec and the rest) it's already competing nicely with the 1000 MHz offerings of AMD and Intel. If they did, then they'd just be leaving themselves less room to expand in the future. IBM demonstrated some 1000 MHz PPC chips almost two years ago, so it's not an engineering matter that's keeping them back.
And if you want to discuss thermal breakdowns, then why bring up AMD? Their processors are a semi-order of magnitude hotter than Motorola's.
It doesn't actually do many of the horrible things associated with the ILOVEYOU crap, but it will let someone else commandeer your hotmail account.
A quick summary: javascript in a rogue cookie on a hostile site tells Hotmail to send its own cookies to someone else. Once that person has those cookies, he has all the authentication he needs to use/abuse the original person's Hotmail account.
Proxomitron is in fact exclusively for windows. Open mouth, remove foot. There you go.
It'd be funnier if you capitalized it "POP" as in post office protocol. Maybe you just forgot.