Ok, so now someone else wants to be the trust authority which was a major issue with the X.400 nonense. This one wants to charge everyone that has a domain $375 for an application fee and then $500/yr for less than 1/2 million messages a year.
A review should show how the distro fits comparing it to where its suppoed to go.
You should look at how the distro follows the Linux way (or the Unix way). For example, look for the odd little things that someone added because they thought it was a good idea. Maybe it was or maybe it isn't. For example every major distro now aliases "rm" to "rm -i" which isn't the unix way (at least according to Kernighan). The real unix way is alias "del" to "rm -i" and teach people to use del if they want to be asked so they don't learn bad habits.
Another thing is does the keyboard short cuts work? If I have a windows theme, does the keyboard work that way and if I select a mac theme, will it work that way too? Can I mix and match so it looks like Windows and has mac bindings? Is there clear help showing new keyboard options if I pick a better theme?
Remember computers are a tool. They are there to serve a useful role. It doesn't matter how nice they look or work if they don't end up getting the job done. After an upgrade, I should be able to get my work done faster however my tests show that isn't going on.
Reviews should reflect the ability of the distro to work as the tool its suppoed to be.
And then, there are the other people groups listed here? So you can list flood stories. Look at all the Aussie ones. Not a single reference to a global flood since the storyteller survivied. In case you don't understand, many of thouse groups live in a desert (or low water areas) and the stories are told to keep people from settling too close to the creeks which become major rivers when they flood which happens ever few years to decades.
So you have a few hundreded vague flood stories out of the hundreds of thousands of cultural groups and very few of them agree unless you need them to agree and then your just as likely to see the face of jesus in a cloud. If god was behind this, I expect the story lines to be a bit more consistant. After all any god who can put to gether a universe should be able to convice people of something resembiling the same story.
As far as the time for some areas to become farmable again along the Mississippi river, well that took longer than your fairy tale. Some of the damed up areas took more than 1.5 years.
Sports aren't just entertainment (in the US), they are useful for creating good soldiers. It teaches most of the team that they can't be the quarterback but must follow his lead. If I'm in a battle field, I want a bunch of football jocks working for me.
Look at Australia as an example. Its more sue happy than california but its never the big compaines that get taken to court. There are virtully no class action suits even in cases where it would be an easy win. The large compaines can do whatever they like and taking them to court is nearly impossable.
Be kind on the guy, he either has no self control or has fallen for his banks advertising.
I know I prefer to have a banks money at risk over my own but the rise in debit cards means many people prefer to manage that risk themselves. It must be good to be the bank:-)
The real os-9... The 1st operating system designed for a processor that was designed to run that OS. Too bad Motorola didn't take it seriouly and keep up with the good work on the 68000. It would have made it a much better chip.
Ever notice how much os-9 basic from the mid 1980's looks very much like visual basic? OS-9 even had a way you could sign your binaries so they wouldn't load if they were messed with. It was quite cool even though it used weak crc.
But a Ducth auction won't prevent that. Lets say I'm willing to pay $100 a share and I put that bid in but the end result is I pay $50 per share. That means its clear that I'm willing to buy other shares at $100 so anyone who also paid $50 for theirs can sell tehm to me for $100. The result is more people will have a better idea of just how high the stock will go in the short term.
I think that RSA's weakest link is the "Euclidian algorithm" which has a few a few other options. RSA keys aren't 1:1 and while my math isn't good enough to prove it, they are 1:many as this code shows how it works.
no, but history has shown if you can get 2x the transistors you can solve more than 2x the problems at the same time.
If my package limit only allows 16,000 transistors but in 4.5 years you get 128,000 transistors, you can solve far more problems and that can give you far more preformace than Moore's law by its self.
Oh, my mistake, I must have read the poorly translated bible. If the book is so poorly translated, can you please get it fixed before I waste any more time reading the thing?
If you were to take the Egyptean religion (the one used by the people, not the leaders) as of about 100 bc and mix it with Judaism, the results would be very much like pre-Roman Christianity. Thats very clear to me and there are many of examples in the bible where Jesus introduced concepts that were common in the nearby areas that were not common in Judaism. The best example might be dealing with sick people.
As far as other ledgedens. Not all groups in the world do remember a global flood however all groups that live near major rivers do have flood stories. Most of which have been corrupted by well meaning missionaries.
Also the bird release thing is nonsense considering one was a 6 day flood vs a 40 day flood. If you want to check out what happens when ground is underwater for 40 days, look into the Mississippi flood of 93 since some areas were underwater for that length of time.
The acent word that found its way into the bible for 40 didn't mean exactly 40 and neither did the word score. Both were commonly used where today people who use english tend to say "a lot" or "alot"
One of the arguments I hear aginst this is that shepherds used to count there flooks. It turns out that they tended to name each of their animals. Even on farms today, most kids under 12 or so will have names for each of the animals.
There are already high altitude ballons looking out for the undocumented visitors. Just look at the Floridia aviaion sectional and you'll see one grid that has an insanely high max altitude and a red circle thats a restricted range. There are a few others just like it as well. The problem is when the weather gets bad, they have to wind down the ballon and I think its on something like 18,000 ft of cable.
Don't forget that the flood stories that keep getting recirculated also keep in freash in the minds of people so when they build a new house next to a river, they sometimes think "the preacher was talking about a great flood" and they remember stories of other floods. In effect the retelling of one story helps people remember other historical info.
Funny thing that in many cultures that live in places without well defined seasons count in moons and not years. Even more interesting is how many cultures far enough north where the weather will kill you if you don't properly prepair have been using moons as their basis for counting. There is some evidence that a "year" in Egypt was defined by the Nile floods and if they didn't happen, they just ended up with a longer than normal year. I would also doubt the average persons ability to count that high in the time most of the stories were 1st written down. Many groups didn't have good counting systems until very recently. It was common to use concepts like 2 dozen and a three score even two hundred years ago.
How many stories of creation are there in Genesis? The first two chapters don't even agree with each other but one of them does agree with many of the stories floating around that part of the world at that time including the stories told at the time of Gilgamesh. Its also clear as you trace religions that they all tend to borrow idea from each other as different groups start having more contact with people with other religions assuming wars don't break out.
They are going to find a boat way up on the mountain. Its dimentions will match the ratios in the bible exactly if it is still in good shape. If you want to know what they are going to find, go ask a Russian Orthodox priest about the moonks that built a chapel on that mountain that was a replica of Noahs boat.
Just because there is a large boat up on top of the mountain doesn't mean the best explination is that its Noah's ark.
So in this scenario you say that companies are spending money to get others to spam for no inherent return? Yes and no. For example, the guy down the road had a book he wanted to sell. He paid some group in Fla a large sum of money to send out his ad through a double opt-in database. They even gave him a "free sample run" of about 50. Out of that 50 he got 10 people asking for more details about how to order (but no real orders). After sending them the money, they send out the spam. The result was he got about extra 13 hits on his web site. He thought it was all legit and did his best to make sure he wasn't dealing with a spamer (but failed to ask me 1st). the end result is the spamer got paid, the guy lost a enough money to kill his project and some unknown number of people were annoyed.
Telstra used to ignore abuse complaints from overseas. They were added to a few blacklists and told to get a working abuse department. It did work and the amount of spam from Telstra now is less than it was a year ago (even though it has more users and spam is up like 1000% from other sources).
The problem with spam is that for every spamer you get rid of, there are 10 that pop up. The only solution is some of these people doing hard time in jail and having that make the TV news. I figure the best way to do that is get someone selling illegal drugs to make an offer to some kid in Texas and find a local DA thats willing to apply existing drug law.
Go check whos accredited and who isn't. Start with MIT, Stanford and work your way down.
One of the common accreditation boards just happens to be run by a company that keep getting in trouble selling degrees from unaccredited schools so they started their own accreditation group and now collect cash from teh real schools and their fake ones.
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Ok, so now someone else wants to be the trust authority which was a major issue with the X.400 nonense. This one wants to charge everyone that has a domain $375 for an application fee and then $500/yr for less than 1/2 million messages a year.
You buy one $40 firewall for all the lusers.
Remember the needed search keyspace is dictionary words with simple additions and l33t speak.
At one a minute, it takes a year to guess a 1/2 million passwords.
A review should show how the distro fits comparing it to where its suppoed to go.
You should look at how the distro follows the Linux way (or the Unix way). For example, look for the odd little things that someone added because they thought it was a good idea. Maybe it was or maybe it isn't. For example every major distro now aliases "rm" to "rm -i" which isn't the unix way (at least according to Kernighan). The real unix way is alias "del" to "rm -i" and teach people to use del if they want to be asked so they don't learn bad habits.
Another thing is does the keyboard short cuts work? If I have a windows theme, does the keyboard work that way and if I select a mac theme, will it work that way too? Can I mix and match so it looks like Windows and has mac bindings? Is there clear help showing new keyboard options if I pick a better theme?
Remember computers are a tool. They are there to serve a useful role. It doesn't matter how nice they look or work if they don't end up getting the job done. After an upgrade, I should be able to get my work done faster however my tests show that isn't going on.
Reviews should reflect the ability of the distro to work as the tool its suppoed to be.
And then, there are the other people groups listed here?
So you can list flood stories. Look at all the Aussie ones. Not a single reference to a global flood since the storyteller survivied. In case you don't understand, many of thouse groups live in a desert (or low water areas) and the stories are told to keep people from settling too close to the creeks which become major rivers when they flood which happens ever few years to decades.
So you have a few hundreded vague flood stories out of the hundreds of thousands of cultural groups and very few of them agree unless you need them to agree and then your just as likely to see the face of jesus in a cloud. If god was behind this, I expect the story lines to be a bit more consistant. After all any god who can put to gether a universe should be able to convice people of something resembiling the same story.
As far as the time for some areas to become farmable again along the Mississippi river, well that took longer than your fairy tale. Some of the damed up areas took more than 1.5 years.
Sports aren't just entertainment (in the US), they are useful for creating good soldiers. It teaches most of the team that they can't be the quarterback but must follow his lead. If I'm in a battle field, I want a bunch of football jocks working for me.
Maybe we can start having decent kids if families can afford to have one parent stay at home.
Look at Australia as an example. Its more sue happy than california but its never the big compaines that get taken to court. There are virtully no class action suits even in cases where it would be an easy win. The large compaines can do whatever they like and taking them to court is nearly impossable.
MX-70? Forget it that old junk. Now if its a more modern MX-80 than I know I can still get parts for that.
Be kind on the guy, he either has no self control or has fallen for his banks advertising.
:-)
I know I prefer to have a banks money at risk over my own but the rise in debit cards means many people prefer to manage that risk themselves. It must be good to be the bank
The real os-9... The 1st operating system designed for a processor that was designed to run that OS. Too bad Motorola didn't take it seriouly and keep up with the good work on the 68000. It would have made it a much better chip.
Ever notice how much os-9 basic from the mid 1980's looks very much like visual basic? OS-9 even had a way you could sign your binaries so they wouldn't load if they were messed with. It was quite cool even though it used weak crc.
Anyone from the Tulsa 0S9/os9k club around?
But a Ducth auction won't prevent that. Lets say I'm willing to pay $100 a share and I put that bid in but the end result is I pay $50 per share. That means its clear that I'm willing to buy other shares at $100 so anyone who also paid $50 for theirs can sell tehm to me for $100. The result is more people will have a better idea of just how high the stock will go in the short term.
I think that RSA's weakest link is the "Euclidian algorithm" which has a few a few other options.
RSA keys aren't 1:1 and while my math isn't good enough to prove it, they are 1:many as this code shows how it works.
no, but history has shown if you can get 2x the transistors you can solve more than 2x the problems at the same time.
If my package limit only allows 16,000 transistors but in 4.5 years you get 128,000 transistors, you can solve far more problems and that can give you far more preformace than Moore's law by its self.
Oh, my mistake, I must have read the poorly translated bible. If the book is so poorly translated, can you please get it fixed before I waste any more time reading the thing?
If you were to take the Egyptean religion (the one used by the people, not the leaders) as of about 100 bc and mix it with Judaism, the results would be very much like pre-Roman Christianity. Thats very clear to me and there are many of examples in the bible where Jesus introduced concepts that were common in the nearby areas that were not common in Judaism. The best example might be dealing with sick people.
As far as other ledgedens. Not all groups in the world do remember a global flood however all groups that live near major rivers do have flood stories. Most of which have been corrupted by well meaning missionaries.
Also the bird release thing is nonsense considering one was a 6 day flood vs a 40 day flood. If you want to check out what happens when ground is underwater for 40 days, look into the Mississippi flood of 93 since some areas were underwater for that length of time.
The acent word that found its way into the bible for 40 didn't mean exactly 40 and neither did the word score. Both were commonly used where today people who use english tend to say "a lot" or "alot"
One of the arguments I hear aginst this is that shepherds used to count there flooks. It turns out that they tended to name each of their animals. Even on farms today, most kids under 12 or so will have names for each of the animals.
There are already high altitude ballons looking out for the undocumented visitors. Just look at the Floridia aviaion sectional and you'll see one grid that has an insanely high max altitude and a red circle thats a restricted range. There are a few others just like it as well. The problem is when the weather gets bad, they have to wind down the ballon and I think its on something like 18,000 ft of cable.
Don't forget that the flood stories that keep getting recirculated also keep in freash in the minds of people so when they build a new house next to a river, they sometimes think "the preacher was talking about a great flood" and they remember stories of other floods. In effect the retelling of one story helps people remember other historical info.
Funny thing that in many cultures that live in places without well defined seasons count in moons and not years. Even more interesting is how many cultures far enough north where the weather will kill you if you don't properly prepair have been using moons as their basis for counting. There is some evidence that a "year" in Egypt was defined by the Nile floods and if they didn't happen, they just ended up with a longer than normal year. I would also doubt the average persons ability to count that high in the time most of the stories were 1st written down. Many groups didn't have good counting systems until very recently. It was common to use concepts like 2 dozen and a three score even two hundred years ago.
How many stories of creation are there in Genesis? The first two chapters don't even agree with each other but one of them does agree with many of the stories floating around that part of the world at that time including the stories told at the time of Gilgamesh. Its also clear as you trace religions that they all tend to borrow idea from each other as different groups start having more contact with people with other religions assuming wars don't break out.
They are going to find a boat way up on the mountain. Its dimentions will match the ratios in the bible exactly if it is still in good shape. If you want to know what they are going to find, go ask a Russian Orthodox priest about the moonks that built a chapel on that mountain that was a replica of Noahs boat.
Just because there is a large boat up on top of the mountain doesn't mean the best explination is that its Noah's ark.
So in this scenario you say that companies are spending money to get others to spam for no inherent return?
Yes and no. For example, the guy down the road had a book he wanted to sell. He paid some group in Fla a large sum of money to send out his ad through a double opt-in database. They even gave him a "free sample run" of about 50. Out of that 50 he got 10 people asking for more details about how to order (but no real orders). After sending them the money, they send out the spam. The result was he got about extra 13 hits on his web site. He thought it was all legit and did his best to make sure he wasn't dealing with a spamer (but failed to ask me 1st). the end result is the spamer got paid, the guy lost a enough money to kill his project and some unknown number of people were annoyed.
Telstra used to ignore abuse complaints from overseas. They were added to a few blacklists and told to get a working abuse department. It did work and the amount of spam from Telstra now is less than it was a year ago (even though it has more users and spam is up like 1000% from other sources).
The problem with spam is that for every spamer you get rid of, there are 10 that pop up. The only solution is some of these people doing hard time in jail and having that make the TV news. I figure the best way to do that is get someone selling illegal drugs to make an offer to some kid in Texas and find a local DA thats willing to apply existing drug law.
Go check whos accredited and who isn't. Start with MIT, Stanford and work your way down.
One of the common accreditation boards just happens to be run by a company that keep getting in trouble selling degrees from unaccredited schools so they started their own accreditation group and now collect cash from teh real schools and their fake ones.
(x) Sending email should be free
I disagree. E-mail "stamps" would be a good idea.
Go get your self a nice X.400 email provider. They exist and don't have the spam problem.