A truly "secure" program would have no inputs, but that program would be useless.
Not necessarily. What about a program which calculates pi or runs some kind of simulation? The 'input' is in the form of constants compiled into the executable. Technically there is no input, but the program is hardly useless.
Genetic work can be beneficial, but the long term considerations must be considered...
The pit many people fall into is there is always one cause of a problem and one solution to a problem. No other variables are considered. This kind of thinking can be disastrous.
It doesn't even have to be that drastic. All it takes is for Microsoft to heavily advertise that "Windows runs best on AMD". There are lots of ways for MS to get what they want. This is far from conspiracy theory - look at their past behaviour.
Why would Intel *not* want another OS to run on an Intel platform?
You forgot the other side of the equation pretty quickly.
Microsoft, the largest software manufacturer in the world, conviced monopolist, and vendor of the OS which runs on over 90% of the desktop computers in the world, could stipulate to Intel that they do not allow 'other' operating systems to run on their chips. Or, that they require a certain technology in the software for the chip to function, which Microsoft conveniently protects using patents and/or DMCA. Now you see how easy it is. No tin foil required.
Is it so unreasonable to want to load a DVD and watch the damn movie? Seriously, if there was a DVD player out there that advertised on the box "No function lockouts", I'd pay an extra $50 just for that.
Hell yeah! And I'd pay yet another $75 for a 'record' feature.
What ticks me off more than hollywood movies disabling FF and such is when kid's DVDs have controls like that. They force the kid to watch the FBI warning, and often don't let you skip past their intro movie. This is ridiculous as the parent has to stick by the television for a minute just waiting for the delay they've seen 1,000 times before to be over with so they can hit 'Play' and get back to making dinner or whatever.
Too bad this tit for tat couldn't be taken offline so that people trying to read the story-related comments could do so without crap filter overload.
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Here's an idea to raise money:
Say I was unemployed (which could easily happen at any time): I offer to donate $200 to a company in need in exchange for them using their connections to get me a job interview.
Coffee shops are almost always expensive. You can pay $3-5 in the US and Canada easily for a cup of coffee if you go to one of the big chains (like StarBucks, Second Cup, etc.).
A work ethic is pretty hard to teach someone. They either have it or they do not.
A good work ethic is best taught at a young age. I don't believe anyone is born with a good work ethic. That said, I think anyone can change if given something that really drives them.
Why didn't they play the "patent card" with Win32? They could have raked in the dough by charging every application developer a licensing fee. Because it has anti-trust all over it and would hurt Microsoft more than help it.. The same thing applies to.NET.
That may be so that antitrust would come into play, but I really doubt that is the reason Microsoft hasn't charged app developers licensing fees for Win32. The real value of an operating system is the applications that run on it. Microsoft wants everybody to be writing applications for MS Windows, and not for other operating systems. It is in their best interest not to charge licensing fees to allow people to write on their OS.
On the other hand, it is not in their best interest to have a lot of people writing applications for Linux and other operating systems (since that adds value to those operating systems). For this reason, I would not be surprised if Microsoft tried to hinder development on other platforms, however that may be accomplished. The bottom line really is, it's up to them what they want to happen with.NET, not you.
I don't have to make anybody implement the delay. If you don't update your mail server, you don't benefit -- that's all. Spammers will target you all the more as others make their server less attractive to spammers. This also doesn't require you to trust anybody. ie. If your ISP doesn't implement the delay, you don't benefit. It's not a trust issue.
"central" in this sense means in a central location, think client/server computing. Obviously there is no center to the "email system".
There are many instances in which slowing down legitimate users a little is an effective mechanism for deterring abuse.
I actually don't see how additional computation is required in the case of email spamming.
All the mail server has to do is force a delay after every message that is sent. It can be implemented centrally on all mail servers and without users having to upgrade their software. That would slow down spammers the easiest, I think.
I think "variable quality" is a very key point - working for long periods of time with flickering lights is very hard on the eyes. I don't recommend it. Plus, you need a lot of candles to light up an entire place, assuming you want to walk around. Some sort of electric bulb is the way to go.
By this design, the movies are more of a social gathering than a film experience. Numerous comments have mentioned how every Bollywood film is the same plot. This is true, because nobody cares about the movies that much. As long as there is song/dance, it makes good background noise for socialization.
Man, I'd be surprised if this ever worked in the USA. A huge number of people don't even want to make eye contact and are annoyed with social contact with strangers. They'd rather be stuck in their own little world and go about business as if the millions of people whom they don't know don't even exist.
They can probably use pronouns more clearly than them, too.
Heh, I can't believe how badly some actors speak. Most movies I have to have closed captioning on to get everything (helps with the background noises and talking, too). Pisses me off because I can't turn it up since the sound varies wildly during the movie lots of times.
Was anyone else like me and said "hey this is great!" and rush off to support MandrakeSoft, only to find their purchasing options confusing... and mostly expensive? I want something like Red Hat's advanced workstation product. Which one do I buy? Do I have to drop $200 USD? This free Linux thing is getting quite costly, strangely as that sounds. I probably won't ever want to spend more than $50-60 on a Linux distro, so what can I get with that? And what is the product name?
Wow, I can't believe I have to download a plugin to listen to wave files through my browser (Firebird). That's pretty bad! It's not like it's a complicated process to play one.
One suspects someone used the js for "close window" instead of "save results and go to next page"
It sounds more like they've hit a bug common to multiple browsers including IE. Perhaps they developed the page on an internal copy of IE which isn't succeptible.
JavaScript is not supposed to let you close a Window if the page didn't open it in the first page. If you opened the window yourself, JavaScript cannot close it. If JavaScript opened the page, only then can it close the window. As for closing all windows, I believe the same logic follows.
each string is controlled by computer to light to the tune of a Radio Station playing christmas music
Does it come with a tip of the day, too?
<tip>Christ was born on Christmas day. That's why we have Christmas; not because Wal-Mart wants to sell you something.</tip>
Merry Christmas to all. If you don't celebrate Christmas, then "happy holidays" to you. But let's not water down the real reason for Christmas with our Ho Ho Ho's and lack of mention of Christ our Saviour.
Don't forget that the war was started on the premise that there were weapons of mass destruction in Saddam's possession. He doesn't have any.
Let's also not forget that American people who drive SUV's were labeled supporters of terrorism because they use more gas.
And don't forget that people who do drugs are also supporting terrorism.
Yeah right. Lots of lies and lots of the media slanting what is really going on in Iraq.
That said, I'm still glad Saddam is out of power, but let's not forget the wool the American media and president pulled over their people's eyes to get what they want.
And let's not hold it against countries who've stood up for what *they* think is right, even amidst global pressure. The US broke the rules, and they should not _expect_ anybody to back them because of that.
Perhaps proprietary isn't the correct word, but SuSe does not provide ISO images for download - you have to buy those. Considering they are building their business on the free labour of hundreds or thousands of others, this is a little hard for me to accept. I've heard it is a great distro, but this issue has kept me away.
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A truly "secure" program would have no inputs, but that program would be useless.
Not necessarily. What about a program which calculates pi or runs some kind of simulation? The 'input' is in the form of constants compiled into the executable. Technically there is no input, but the program is hardly useless.
Genetic work can be beneficial, but the long term considerations must be considered...
The pit many people fall into is there is always one cause of a problem and one solution to a problem. No other variables are considered. This kind of thinking can be disastrous.
i do't think the feds would let Ms get away with that
Look what they've already gotten away with. Review their history and you will see very clearly.
It doesn't even have to be that drastic. All it takes is for Microsoft to heavily advertise that "Windows runs best on AMD". There are lots of ways for MS to get what they want. This is far from conspiracy theory - look at their past behaviour.
Why would Intel *not* want another OS to run on an Intel platform?
You forgot the other side of the equation pretty quickly.
Microsoft, the largest software manufacturer in the world, conviced monopolist, and vendor of the OS which runs on over 90% of the desktop computers in the world, could stipulate to Intel that they do not allow 'other' operating systems to run on their chips. Or, that they require a certain technology in the software for the chip to function, which Microsoft conveniently protects using patents and/or DMCA.
Now you see how easy it is. No tin foil required.
I'm not sure if Mandrake has solved this problem, but their web page says something about using a 'USB key' to save settings.
Is it so unreasonable to want to load a DVD and watch the damn movie? Seriously, if there was a DVD player out there that advertised on the box "No function lockouts", I'd pay an extra $50 just for that.
Hell yeah! And I'd pay yet another $75 for a 'record' feature.
What ticks me off more than hollywood movies disabling FF and such is when kid's DVDs have controls like that. They force the kid to watch the FBI warning, and often don't let you skip past their intro movie. This is ridiculous as the parent has to stick by the television for a minute just waiting for the delay they've seen 1,000 times before to be over with so they can hit 'Play' and get back to making dinner or whatever.
Too bad this tit for tat couldn't be taken offline so that people trying to read the story-related comments could do so without crap filter overload.
Here's an idea to raise money:
Say I was unemployed (which could easily happen at any time): I offer to donate $200 to a company in need in exchange for them using their connections to get me a job interview.
Lots of kinks in this probably, but it's an idea.
I can't seem to find an English and/or North American link to the Philips DVDR70. Is it available in the US or Canada?
Corporations want to take before they give.
Think about it, though. Corporations *have* to take before they are *able* to give. Give it time.
...I had to pay fscking 3.5Euros...
Coffee shops are almost always expensive. You can pay $3-5 in the US and Canada easily for a cup of coffee if you go to one of the big chains (like StarBucks, Second Cup, etc.).
A work ethic is pretty hard to teach someone. They either have it or they do not.
A good work ethic is best taught at a young age. I don't believe anyone is born with a good work ethic. That said, I think anyone can change if given something that really drives them.
Why didn't they play the "patent card" with Win32? They could have raked in the dough by charging every application developer a licensing fee. .NET.
.NET, not you.
Because it has anti-trust all over it and would hurt Microsoft more than help it.. The same thing applies to
That may be so that antitrust would come into play, but I really doubt that is the reason Microsoft hasn't charged app developers licensing fees for Win32.
The real value of an operating system is the applications that run on it. Microsoft wants everybody to be writing applications for MS Windows, and not for other operating systems. It is in their best interest not to charge licensing fees to allow people to write on their OS.
On the other hand, it is not in their best interest to have a lot of people writing applications for Linux and other operating systems (since that adds value to those operating systems). For this reason, I would not be surprised if Microsoft tried to hinder development on other platforms, however that may be accomplished. The bottom line really is, it's up to them what they want to happen with
I don't have to make anybody implement the delay. If you don't update your mail server, you don't benefit -- that's all. Spammers will target you all the more as others make their server less attractive to spammers. This also doesn't require you to trust anybody. ie. If your ISP doesn't implement the delay, you don't benefit. It's not a trust issue.
"central" in this sense means in a central location, think client/server computing. Obviously there is no center to the "email system".
There are many instances in which slowing down legitimate users a little is an effective mechanism for deterring abuse.
I actually don't see how additional computation is required in the case of email spamming.
All the mail server has to do is force a delay after every message that is sent. It can be implemented centrally on all mail servers and without users having to upgrade their software. That would slow down spammers the easiest, I think.
I think "variable quality" is a very key point - working for long periods of time with flickering lights is very hard on the eyes. I don't recommend it.
Plus, you need a lot of candles to light up an entire place, assuming you want to walk around. Some sort of electric bulb is the way to go.
By this design, the movies are more of a social gathering than a film experience. Numerous comments have mentioned how every Bollywood film is the same plot. This is true, because nobody cares about the movies that much. As long as there is song/dance, it makes good background noise for socialization.
Man, I'd be surprised if this ever worked in the USA. A huge number of people don't even want to make eye contact and are annoyed with social contact with strangers. They'd rather be stuck in their own little world and go about business as if the millions of people whom they don't know don't even exist.
They can probably use pronouns more clearly than them, too.
Heh, I can't believe how badly some actors speak. Most movies I have to have closed captioning on to get everything (helps with the background noises and talking, too). Pisses me off because I can't turn it up since the sound varies wildly during the movie lots of times.
Was anyone else like me and said "hey this is great!" and rush off to support MandrakeSoft, only to find their purchasing options confusing... and mostly expensive?
I want something like Red Hat's advanced workstation product. Which one do I buy? Do I have to drop $200 USD? This free Linux thing is getting quite costly, strangely as that sounds. I probably won't ever want to spend more than $50-60 on a Linux distro, so what can I get with that? And what is the product name?
Wow, I can't believe I have to download a plugin to listen to wave files through my browser (Firebird). That's pretty bad! It's not like it's a complicated process to play one.
One suspects someone used the js for "close window" instead of "save results and go to next page"
It sounds more like they've hit a bug common to multiple browsers including IE. Perhaps they developed the page on an internal copy of IE which isn't succeptible.
JavaScript is not supposed to let you close a Window if the page didn't open it in the first page. If you opened the window yourself, JavaScript cannot close it. If JavaScript opened the page, only then can it close the window. As for closing all windows, I believe the same logic follows.
each string is controlled by computer to light to the tune of a Radio Station playing christmas music
Does it come with a tip of the day, too?
<tip>Christ was born on Christmas day. That's why we have Christmas; not because Wal-Mart wants to sell you something.</tip>
Merry Christmas to all. If you don't celebrate Christmas, then "happy holidays" to you. But let's not water down the real reason for Christmas with our Ho Ho Ho's and lack of mention of Christ our Saviour.
Don't forget that the war was started on the premise that there were weapons of mass destruction in Saddam's possession. He doesn't have any.
Let's also not forget that American people who drive SUV's were labeled supporters of terrorism because they use more gas.
And don't forget that people who do drugs are also supporting terrorism.
Yeah right. Lots of lies and lots of the media slanting what is really going on in Iraq.
That said, I'm still glad Saddam is out of power, but let's not forget the wool the American media and president pulled over their people's eyes to get what they want.
And let's not hold it against countries who've stood up for what *they* think is right, even amidst global pressure. The US broke the rules, and they should not _expect_ anybody to back them because of that.
Perhaps proprietary isn't the correct word, but SuSe does not provide ISO images for download - you have to buy those. Considering they are building their business on the free labour of hundreds or thousands of others, this is a little hard for me to accept. I've heard it is a great distro, but this issue has kept me away.