What.. you just download stuff you never want for the fun of it?
All the time. Just because I'm not going to use a certain distro doesn't mean that I won't contribute spare bandwidth to seeding it for a while.
Also, do you really believe that anyone who has a 50 gig mp3 collection has actually listened to all of it? That would take YEARS.
Now, in the case of the movie "Daredevil", or "The Hulk", or the last "Matrix", downloaders were a real threat because they got the word out fast that the movie was a total piece of shit. Downloaders served to counteract all the false advertising (hype, puffery, lies) from the movie industry. These movies were NOT entertainment, they were painful to watch!
In the case of those 3 movies, the industry was like the person who, when the kid comes around trick-or-treating, says "trick", and then complains when they get toilet-papered. Put out crap that doesn't warrant the cost of a ticket, people won't pay for it.
im not kidding i am gonna go steal some kids candy, and know it is wrong.
That's what parents do every hallowe'en -
"gotta check the stuff to make sure its all safe..."
"no, you can't have it all tonight" (then parent proceeds to eat most of the mini chocolate bars and leaves the crap stuff for the kids)
"no, you can't have those - they're bad for you" (then parent eats them)
"aren't you going to be a good little girl/boy and share?" (laying on the guilt trip)
Come on, tell me I'm wrong. What this guy did was not stealing. What parents do nowadays is literally stealing candy from a kid. Admit it - you've swiped a few of those mini chocolate bars from your kids stash! So, what does that make you - a copyight infringer or a thief?
one step forward in allowing Linux (MacOS users soon) toto run any Windows program perfectly.
WTF? Even WIndows can't run Windows programs perfectly. One of the big problems of mimicing Windows is getting all the bugs to work "right" (what a concept).
I think I'll dress my computer up celebrate Hallowe'en - I'll put a Windows Install CD on top of it (as opposed to when I want to punish it, I put the install cd in the CD tray and threaten to close the tray)
There are also other reasons [harvard.edu] why chiropractors are not effective. Same thing with massage therapists
Depends on what you're getting massaged, I guess. But if you've had a 20" laptop sitting in your lap all day, my guess is you're gonna need a "massage" to "work the kinks" out of Mr. One-Eyed-Snake.
I hope these monsters are properly shielded - you could end up siring mutants with one of these (hey - look at the bright side - your kids won't need a costume come Hallowe'en)
Guess everyone's going to have to cut back on the Hallowe'en Trick-or-Treats to get fit that 20" laptop under their 50" belly flab fold. I can see it now: "Buy this laptop and get a free year's membership in Waist Watchers"
I think it's safe to say that nobody would confuse the Onion as having presidential support or endorsement.
The truth is ALWAYS leaking out - and now we know - The Onion was secretly supporting the president. All the anti-Bush remarks were designed as part of a psych-ops campaign to increase sympathy and support for the White House among core republicans, while making the anti-Bush crowd look juvenile. Its only now, when the campaign is no longer working, that they've decided to pull the plug.
The only joke here is that our tax dollars are being spent on this.
No, I'm sure SOMEBODY can find other jokes [tt]o make.
Your example is wrong. If a filename had spaces, your script would surely fail. With Monad using objects, it would encapsulate the filename into a single string object and therefor be opened up correctly in excel.
So do this (handles filenames with embedded spaces just fine now)
Again, a 1-liner, and you can even discard the fields you don't want by not "print"ing them.
And as a bonus, you already have the file in comma-separated format before opening the spreadsheet, so you're good to go for importing, exporting, etc.; if you were using the spreadsheet just to save the data in csv, you can even skip that step.
So, ancient *NIX shell foo beats not-yet-ready-for-prime-time MSH shell foo, especially when you consider that the *NIX one will run with a LOT fewer resources.
Just do : ls -l | sort | head -10 | tr -s " " "\t" > dir.txt; gnumeric dir.txt & After all, if you're going to be manipulating it in a spreadsheet, you probably want to save it in a file somewhere anyway, right?
Kick in the *NIX fanboi defense reflex: Offer a half-baked parallel and insist that any deficiencies are things you didn't need or shouldn't be doing in the first place.
You're just jealous because we were able to do it decades ago, with almost no ram or cpu, and you'll still need a quarter-gig (gotta have.NET around or it won't work). You know something? MSH is a fucked up abortion that should crawl back into Balmer's ass because its certainly not going to bury the *NIXes.
They are piping objects, we would need to do a lot of parsing to achief the same effect.
Just do:
ls -l | sort | head -10 | tr -s " " "\t" > dir.txt; gnumeric dir.txt &
After all, if you're going to be manipulating it in a spreadsheet, you probably want to save it in a file somewhere anyway, right?
These gents BOTH are a single stewardship of what goes into various builds & what does not of this OS family from MS (the entire Windows genre) as well as Linux... depending on what level of the OS you are looking @!
Our local consumer protection act anticipates this situation (partial returns) requiring that, in the case of a sale that includes individual components, the price of each component must be itemized. The computer vendors are flouting the law, because when you try to return the software (even though the EULA says you have the option of declining), they WON'T take it back.
If you offer the person a chance to refuse, you've made them an offer. Then, when they click decline, they've accepted your offer to refuse - but they have nowhere itemized the price of that component (the software). Try to return it - you'll get $5.00. Of course, then they claim thousands for damages if someone pirates it. Doesn't work.
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by, say, returning the product
when't the last time you tried to return the pre-installed software on a new machine for a refund? Oh, you can't.
Contracts do NOT have to be open to negotiation.
Contracts that are presented on a take-it-or-leave-it basis (contracts of adhesion) have severe limitations compared to other contracts.
Cars: one ignition, one steering wheel, brakes, clutch. Webserver: basic configuration, chroots, security, modules, CGI, permissions, access control (who, when, from where, to where), updates, other addons, DNS,.....
No, cars are a LOT more complicated than a general-purpose computer. The average person could not ever learn to assemble a car (which can contain up to a couple dozen computers, all with specialized code), but high-school kids make money by assembling computers at the local store after school.
Computers are not devices, which do one thing and do it well. Computers are complex systems which can do a lot of things.
You are confusing computers with the software that runs on them. Computers ARE single-purpose devices - they have only one function - execute a series of instructions and generate outputs, with flow altered based on various input. That is IT.
Cars, on the other hand, have to start and run at anywhere between -50 and +150 F, have to ensure the survival of their occupants in real crashes (not "computer crashes"), have to generate their own power, have to keep their users comfortable, etc. And they have to do this for at least 10 years with no updates, no rebuilding everything from scratch, etc. Just replacing a spark plugs, tires, brakes, filters and oil - stuff anyone can do.
Software is complicated. It is hard to create good software. Secure software is even harder.
Most software is not held to the same standards as cars are. For example, Microsoft could never make a car - the quality would be too low. The thing would crash regularly, would require special proprietary roads, have to be patched every week, and rebuilt every 3 months. Even then, your mileage would continue to deteriorate.
Contrast that to todays cars (particularly the japanese) - they run for years with only an oil change or two. They don't crash by themselves. If YOU crash it, it will protect you (seat belts, air bags) even sacrificing itself (crumple zones). When something goes wrong with the engine, it will even tell you WHAT went wrong (diagnostic codes). And, on top of that, it has resale value.
But how much work the software does is not what makes it remarkable. What makes it remarkable is how well the software works. This software never crashes. It never needs to be re-booted. This software is bug-free. It is perfect, as perfect as human beings have achieved. Consider these stats : the last three versions of the program -- each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000 errors.
The problem is that people accept shit from commercial programs. The EXPECT it to have bugs. If your toilet overflowed as often as the average Windows box crashes, you'd shoot the plumber. If your fridge failed as often, you'd go back to a box with a chunk of ice, just to save money by not having your food rot on you unexpectedly. If your TV or radio b0rked as often as that, you'd return it and demand a refund. If your wife or kid went all stupid as often, you'd take them to a doctor. If your dick stopped working as often, YOU would see a doctor. If the company you worked for forgot to pay you as often, you'd quit. If your... well, you get the point. This is the ONLY area where people accept such shit.
Perhaps you missed the fact that spam today comes from compromised machines. 419 scams often originate from webservers with unpatched web applications. And the load of spam is enough to d
Cars: one ignition, one steering wheel, brakes, clutch. Webserver: basic configuration, chroots, security, modules, CGI, permissions, access control (who, when, from where, to where), updates, other addons, DNS,.....
No, cars are a LOT more complicated than a general-purpose computer. The average person could not ever learn to assemble a car (which can contain up to a couple dozen computers, all with specialized code), but high-school kids make money by assembling computers at the local store after school.
Computers are not devices, which do one thing and do it well. Computers are complex systems which can do a lot of things.
You are confusing computers with the software that runs on them. Computers ARE single-purpose devices - they have only one function - execute a series of instructions and generate outputs, with flow altered based on various input. That is IT.
Cars, on the other hand, have to start and run at anywhere between -50 and +150 F, have to ensure the survival of their occupants in real crashes (not "computer crashes"), have to generate their own power, have to keep their users comfortable, etc. And they have to do this for at least 10 years with no updates, no rebuilding everything from scratch, etc. Just replacing a spark plugs, tires, brakes, filters and oil - stuff anyone can do.
Software is complicated. It is hard to create good software. Secure software is even harder.
Most software is not held to the same standards as cars are. For example, Microsoft could never make a car - the quality would be too low. The thing would crash regularly, would require special proprietary roads, have to be patched every week, and rebuilt every 3 months. Even then, your mileage would continue to deteriorate.
Contrast that to todays cars (particularly the japanese) - they run for years with only an oil change or two. They don't crash by themselves. If YOU crash it, it will protect you (seat belts, air bags) even sacrificing itself (crumple zones). When something goes wrong with the engine, it will even tell you WHAT went wrong (diagnostic codes). And, on top of that, it has resale value.
<p>Its also possible to write bug-free software. NASA does it. <url:http://www.fastcompany.com/online/06/writestu ff.html> <ecode> But how much work the software does is not what makes it remarkable. What makes it remarkable is how well the software works. This software never crashes. It never needs to be re-booted. This software is bug-free. It is perfect, as perfect as human beings have achieved. Consider these stats : the last three versions of the program -- each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000 errors.
The problem is that people accept shit from commercial programs. The EXPECT it to have bugs. If your toilet overflowed as often as the average Windows box crashes, you'd shoot the plumber. If your fridge failed as often, you'd go back to a box with a chunk of ice, just to save money by not having your food rot on you unexpectedly. If your TV or radio b0rked as often as that, you'd return it and demand a refund. If your wife or kid went all stupid as often, you'd take them to a doctor. If your dick stopped working as often, YOU would see a doctor. If the company you worked for forgot to pay you as often, you'd quit. If your... well, you get the point. This is the ONLY area where people accept such shit.
Perhaps you missed the fact that spam today comes from compromised machines. 419 scams often originate from webservers with unpatched web applications. And the load of spam is enough to drive people off the Internet, as well as increase network cost
Ah, but that's the beauty of it - anyone can set up their own web server, under their control, for free (both in beer and in incremental extra cost over a base system connected to the internet). So we have a "software as product" which can be serviced by the entity of their choice, under their complete control.
There's nothing stopping someone from offering to set up home servers with http/ftp and web-based mail with spam filtering as a 1-stop service call, or even to set up and sell a cheapie box as a home connectivity appliance providing all these services, along with a maintenance contract (either so much a year or so much a call, or some combo), for those with privacy concerns.
Diebold's headquarters are located in Ohio, the state which decided the 2004 presidential election...
..... 30% of all U.S. votes were cast on touch screen voting machines. Most of them, including all of Florida's, lack paper records that could be used to verify the electronic results in a recount. Over 20 percent of the machines tested by observers around the country failed to record votes properly. ..... Federal regulators have virtually no oversight over testing of the touchscreen technology. The three companies that certify the nation's voting technologies operate in secrecy, and refuse to discuss flaws in the voting machines.
If you've ever worked on software that uses a touch screen, you KNOW how easy it is to screw it up in the field (piece of gum in an inconspicuous corner of the screen, and all votes are shifted over one, for example. Even if someone notices the gum, they won't touch it "Eww! Gross!") and won't connect it with the miscast ballot.
Thanks for the feedback. Its nice to know some places "get it" and have put in controls.
Unfortunately, there's also the other side of the boat, where doctors working with people who don't have sufficient medical coverage need to get their hands on as many free samples as they can, so they can pass them on to their patients, who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford treatment.
Doctors aren't the problem - unlike one of the previous posters, I don't believe someone decides to be a doctor (or a lot of career choices, for that matter) for the money, but because they want to be doctor, with all that implies (interest in helping people, interest in biology, interest in medicine, etc).
Ditto for pharmacists.
The current situation is a "work-in-progress"; all shifting the advertising to the end user does is create a class of people who now think "gee, maybe I have that disease/syndrome/problem. Better get to the doctor and get some of those meds"... or worse, "hey, there's a pill for it, now I don't have to change my lifestyle/lose weight/quit smoking/get more exercise/change my diet/learn to relax/stop boozing it up every day/quit snorting cocaine/whatever." .
I don't have a solution, but in this particular case (the gov't making its own version of Tamiflu) I'm on the governments' side. The drug companies should be, also. After all,
they can't sell drugs to dead people
if there is a pandemic and the infrastructure collapses, they lose everything
patents and copyrights are the creation of humans, not some natural law. Every law has exceptions. This is one of them. That its perceived as a "moral dilemma" rather than the obvious and right thing to do shows just how screwed up we are in our value system.
Or perhaps they've done the "cold calculus", and determined that, the longer they delay, the more likely that there will be a wider outbreak, resulting in more sales (and more deaths). If this is the case (and it very well may be, we've seen other companies do the cost/death analysis - Hello Ford Motor Co/Exploding Pintos/Crown Victorias), then the punishment should fit the crime - they should be liquidated and their assets seized, as a demonstration to both other companies and shareholders that certain activites are unacceptable.
I wonder how GWB's stance on emissions would be affected if a storm were to dismantle his ranch in Crawford?
War On Storms, IMO.
Nah, don't forget, there's a bunch of RWVs (RICH WHITE VOTERS) living there - you'd have federal disaster aid, the marines forwardly pre-deployed, etc. And room service in the "shelters", which would be double suites in hotels.
the Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1st to November 30th
Just wondering - since November 30th is an arbitrary cut-off date, what are they going to do if there's another hurricane, but in December? Will the ne'er-say-dies who deny the greenhouse effect finally admit that the climate is changing? Or will they insist on "NO, it's after the hurricane season - its not a hurricane, it's just a big-ass freak storm."
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Also, do you really believe that anyone who has a 50 gig mp3 collection has actually listened to all of it? That would take YEARS.
Now, in the case of the movie "Daredevil", or "The Hulk", or the last "Matrix", downloaders were a real threat because they got the word out fast that the movie was a total piece of shit. Downloaders served to counteract all the false advertising (hype, puffery, lies) from the movie industry. These movies were NOT entertainment, they were painful to watch!
In the case of those 3 movies, the industry was like the person who, when the kid comes around trick-or-treating, says "trick", and then complains when they get toilet-papered. Put out crap that doesn't warrant the cost of a ticket, people won't pay for it.
Come on, tell me I'm wrong. What this guy did was not stealing. What parents do nowadays is literally stealing candy from a kid. Admit it - you've swiped a few of those mini chocolate bars from your kids stash! So, what does that make you - a copyight infringer or a thief?
I think I'll dress my computer up celebrate Hallowe'en - I'll put a Windows Install CD on top of it (as opposed to when I want to punish it, I put the install cd in the CD tray and threaten to close the tray)
Then I'll tell it "quit yer Wine-ing"
Don't forget the REALLY scary one: "Jenna in 2016"
The Hallowe'en Monsters of 2005:
That's what you get for Trick-or-treating in the Newark - those "pop rock candies" are crack rocks.
I hope these monsters are properly shielded - you could end up siring mutants with one of these (hey - look at the bright side - your kids won't need a costume come Hallowe'en)
Or it could just be that with Hallowe'en coming, slashdot trolls you. Since we're not giving them treats, they're giving us tricks.
- Web development: code in one window, browser in another
- Binaries: code in one window, current build running in another
- Trolling slashdot: Article in one window, posts in another
...?
Then again, if they're showing pictures of their families, they're gonna need a wide-screen after the pig-out from this year's Hallowe'en sugarfest.Guess everyone's going to have to cut back on the Hallowe'en Trick-or-Treats to get fit that 20" laptop under their 50" belly flab fold. I can see it now: "Buy this laptop and get a free year's membership in Waist Watchers"
Or, if you want something more flexible, make a pseudodevice to encapsulate the functionality you're looking for:
"Linux Device Drivers", Rubini, Alessadro and Corbet, Jonathan(O'Reilly).
It does a good job of explaining how to make a device driver by implementing a fake device.
And as a bonus, you already have the file in comma-separated format before opening the spreadsheet, so you're good to go for importing, exporting, etc.; if you were using the spreadsheet just to save the data in csv, you can even skip that step.
So, ancient *NIX shell foo beats not-yet-ready-for-prime-time MSH shell foo, especially when you consider that the *NIX one will run with a LOT fewer resources.
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:Vl1SWPf3VREJ:
Scroll down to page 46.
If you offer the person a chance to refuse, you've made them an offer. Then, when they click decline, they've accepted your offer to refuse - but they have nowhere itemized the price of that component (the software). Try to return it - you'll get $5.00. Of course, then they claim thousands for damages if someone pirates it. Doesn't work.
No, cars are a LOT more complicated than a general-purpose computer. The average person could not ever learn to assemble a car (which can contain up to a couple dozen computers, all with specialized code), but high-school kids make money by assembling computers at the local store after school.
You are confusing computers with the software that runs on them. Computers ARE single-purpose devices - they have only one function - execute a series of instructions and generate outputs, with flow altered based on various input. That is IT.
Cars, on the other hand, have to start and run at anywhere between -50 and +150 F, have to ensure the survival of their occupants in real crashes (not "computer crashes"), have to generate their own power, have to keep their users comfortable, etc. And they have to do this for at least 10 years with no updates, no rebuilding everything from scratch, etc. Just replacing a spark plugs, tires, brakes, filters and oil - stuff anyone can do.
Most software is not held to the same standards as cars are. For example, Microsoft could never make a car - the quality would be too low. The thing would crash regularly, would require special proprietary roads, have to be patched every week, and rebuilt every 3 months. Even then, your mileage would continue to deteriorate.
Contrast that to todays cars (particularly the japanese) - they run for years with only an oil change or two. They don't crash by themselves. If YOU crash it, it will protect you (seat belts, air bags) even sacrificing itself (crumple zones). When something goes wrong with the engine, it will even tell you WHAT went wrong (diagnostic codes). And, on top of that, it has resale value.
Its also possible to write bug-free software. NASA does it.
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/06/writestuff.ht ml
The problem is that people accept shit from commercial programs. The EXPECT it to have bugs. If your toilet overflowed as often as the average Windows box crashes, you'd shoot the plumber. If your fridge failed as often, you'd go back to a box with a chunk of ice, just to save money by not having your food rot on you unexpectedly. If your TV or radio b0rked as often as that, you'd return it and demand a refund. If your wife or kid went all stupid as often, you'd take them to a doctor. If your dick stopped working as often, YOU would see a doctor. If the company you worked for forgot to pay you as often, you'd quit. If your ... well, you get the point. This is the ONLY area where people accept such shit.
No, cars are a LOT more complicated than a general-purpose computer. The average person could not ever learn to assemble a car (which can contain up to a couple dozen computers, all with specialized code), but high-school kids make money by assembling computers at the local store after school.
You are confusing computers with the software that runs on them. Computers ARE single-purpose devices - they have only one function - execute a series of instructions and generate outputs, with flow altered based on various input. That is IT.
Cars, on the other hand, have to start and run at anywhere between -50 and +150 F, have to ensure the survival of their occupants in real crashes (not "computer crashes"), have to generate their own power, have to keep their users comfortable, etc. And they have to do this for at least 10 years with no updates, no rebuilding everything from scratch, etc. Just replacing a spark plugs, tires, brakes, filters and oil - stuff anyone can do.
Most software is not held to the same standards as cars are. For example, Microsoft could never make a car - the quality would be too low. The thing would crash regularly, would require special proprietary roads, have to be patched every week, and rebuilt every 3 months. Even then, your mileage would continue to deteriorate.
Contrast that to todays cars (particularly the japanese) - they run for years with only an oil change or two. They don't crash by themselves. If YOU crash it, it will protect you (seat belts, air bags) even sacrificing itself (crumple zones). When something goes wrong with the engine, it will even tell you WHAT went wrong (diagnostic codes). And, on top of that, it has resale value.
The problem is that people accept shit from commercial programs. The EXPECT it to have bugs. If your toilet overflowed as often as the average Windows box crashes, you'd shoot the plumber. If your fridge failed as often, you'd go back to a box with a chunk of ice, just to save money by not having your food rot on you unexpectedly. If your TV or radio b0rked as often as that, you'd return it and demand a refund. If your wife or kid went all stupid as often, you'd take them to a doctor. If your dick stopped working as often, YOU would see a doctor. If the company you worked for forgot to pay you as often, you'd quit. If your ... well, you get the point. This is the ONLY area where people accept such shit.
Perhaps you missed the fact that spam today comes from compromised machines. 419 scams often originate from webservers with unpatched web applications. And the load of spam is enough to drive people off the Internet, as well as increase network cost
There's nothing stopping someone from offering to set up home servers with http/ftp and web-based mail with spam filtering as a 1-stop service call, or even to set up and sell a cheapie box as a home connectivity appliance providing all these services, along with a maintenance contract (either so much a year or so much a call, or some combo), for those with privacy concerns.
Of course, googling for diebold headquarters gets you this as #3 http://www.wanttoknow.info/votingproblems
If you've ever worked on software that uses a touch screen, you KNOW how easy it is to screw it up in the field (piece of gum in an inconspicuous corner of the screen, and all votes are shifted over one, for example. Even if someone notices the gum, they won't touch it "Eww! Gross!") and won't connect it with the miscast ballot.Ditto for "recalibrating" the pointer.
Unfortunately, there's also the other side of the boat, where doctors working with people who don't have sufficient medical coverage need to get their hands on as many free samples as they can, so they can pass them on to their patients, who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford treatment.
Doctors aren't the problem - unlike one of the previous posters, I don't believe someone decides to be a doctor (or a lot of career choices, for that matter) for the money, but because they want to be doctor, with all that implies (interest in helping people, interest in biology, interest in medicine, etc).
Ditto for pharmacists.
The current situation is a "work-in-progress"; all shifting the advertising to the end user does is create a class of people who now think "gee, maybe I have that disease/syndrome/problem. Better get to the doctor and get some of those meds" ... or worse, "hey, there's a pill for it, now I don't have to change my lifestyle/lose weight/quit smoking/get more exercise/change my diet/learn to relax/stop boozing it up every day/quit snorting cocaine/whatever." .
I don't have a solution, but in this particular case (the gov't making its own version of Tamiflu) I'm on the governments' side. The drug companies should be, also. After all,
Or perhaps they've done the "cold calculus", and determined that, the longer they delay, the more likely that there will be a wider outbreak, resulting in more sales (and more deaths). If this is the case (and it very well may be, we've seen other companies do the cost/death analysis - Hello Ford Motor Co/Exploding Pintos/Crown Victorias), then the punishment should fit the crime - they should be liquidated and their assets seized, as a demonstration to both other companies and shareholders that certain activites are unacceptable.