My experience with Mac users have been: they have all been artists. They may be more "expressive" with their art, but try getting them to save a file in a format legible by the rest of the world. All I ever get are stuffit, quark express, appleworks, etc. from them, and they just can't seem to think YOU should be able to deal with it.
Take 2 groups of 100 each, and let's say they have an equal amount of "intelligence" or "expressiveness" or whatever. Now add 10,000 more people to the group which has an easier learning curve, and what do you get? A different average for that group.
So this study essentially says nothing to the effect of comparing the "best" users of both worlds.
Maybe. But is it really better than Lycoris, or even Fedora or SuSE? Is it that much easier to use? I guess I'll never touch ever since the whole "sign an NDA to test our software" fiasco with this distro (formerly Lindows).
I don't think this would hold up in any court anywhere. I think that the company can assume that when you buy a DVD you view it at least one time(s). It isn't spyware unless this information is sent somewhere.
I've ALWAYS wondered whether or not I'm getting a full gallon, or how accurate those pumps are at gas stations. It doesn't really make me feel good to realize my paranoia was right. I mean it's SO easy, and can be done in such a way that's very hard to detect. If I cut 1 ounce on every gallon of gas I pump who is to say I did it and it isn't just the pump which is a bit inaccurate? Not that it matters, but there ought to be a way that our CARS can tell how much gas has been put into them.
I hope everyone takes that comment seriously too. I honestly thing Linux is much better for the workplace than it is for home. Linux entertainment isn't quite as good as Windows. Linux productivity triumphs. I know you can download Cygwin--I used to use Cygwin. But let me tell you I HATE the way the stupid dos window behaves. You can't really make it any size you want, it doesn't seem to support all the nice things that a good xterm does. Running X-Windows under Cygwin is kind of interesting but eats up a lot of resources.
This is long overdue. They've been keeping their systems backward compatible at the expense of things like security for long enough. This is just the first step. Maybe one day they'll actually consider Windows not crashing more important than Applications not crashing.
Not all chips are created equal. Just because your friend happened to get lucky and had a stable overclocked chip at such a high speed doesn't mean it can happen frequently.
When are people going to realize that blogs are the equivalent of public urination on the web. People post stream of consciousness bullshit dressed up as "information" or even "facts" and because it's on a blog, well then, it must be true.
Personally, I think you are being WAY too kind to the blog phenomenon.
I don't know how hotmail decides what is spam or not, but I've been under the impression that if enough people say "this is spam" it starts to become spam for you as well. In other words, there IS some sharing of spam filters/rules isn't there?
The problem is DNS isn't THAT distributed. Each query has one authority. Also, what kind of TTL do you put on a Knoppix CD?
I think the single point of failure is the biggest problem with using DNS as a way of distributing large amounts of information. It really DOESN'T make sense to do this with DNS when you can design something "like DNS" only more distributed.
That's true... but I also think a notification BEFORE it got to the critical point of no return would have been an order too. Maybe simple notice would suffice. They don't HAVE to do it, but it would have been the nice thing to do.
A langauge in and of itself does not determine the speed. It's how that language is implemented/compiled. There's no reason why Java SHOULD be slower as long as it is compiled to the machine's architecture, and not to byte code.... but then that destroys the purpose of Java.
... what do you call computer circuits which are constructed from quantum dots? I thought that's what "quantum computing" was but I guess I'm wrong. Is that just really really tiny regular computing?
Wouldn't it be nice, if a spammer gets caught, it gets put on their permanent record... and then companies could simply choose not to allow them email access ever again.
After making a fortune off of annoying other people, he thinks that saying he's sorry is going to make us like him again. Maybe if he gives all his money to charity I'll feel better.
Maybe it's just a little incentive to keep their existing users. Most people already would rather not change their email address if they don't have to.
I'm guessing the reason for this is so that you won't copy the music. The idea is that if they can control the software you use to get the music, they can make it harder for you to rip it. I say harder because... even though you may not get WMP9 to cooperate during the ripping process... you can still export that signal from your soundcard to another machine if you wanted to.
Do you happen to have a reference for the "over 95 of the top 100 servers" bit? I'm feeling skeptical about that, but I don't want to make a judgement until I find out...
Maybe you're right... I guess radio just isn't the same as it used to be. I wish DJ's had more power to choose the songs for the people who actually wanted to listen...
(1) This also means that independant artists can advertise for their music the same way, and (2) Radio stations can still be selective about what they're going to play.
Well if a book is banned, I think the bookstore IS responsible for it. As for phone calls and letters--these are private communications. They are not available to the public. But if a phone company had a particular voice mailbox that everyone could listen to, yes I think they'd probably be responsible for taking anything illegal off of that too.
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My experience with Mac users have been: they have all been artists. They may be more "expressive" with their art, but try getting them to save a file in a format legible by the rest of the world. All I ever get are stuffit, quark express, appleworks, etc. from them, and they just can't seem to think YOU should be able to deal with it.
Take 2 groups of 100 each, and let's say they have an equal amount of "intelligence" or "expressiveness" or whatever. Now add 10,000 more people to the group which has an easier learning curve, and what do you get? A different average for that group.
So this study essentially says nothing to the effect of comparing the "best" users of both worlds.
Maybe. But is it really better than Lycoris, or even Fedora or SuSE? Is it that much easier to use? I guess I'll never touch ever since the whole "sign an NDA to test our software" fiasco with this distro (formerly Lindows).
including phenomena such as power-outages, satellite malfunctions
Why would these have to happen if the switch is going to be so gradual over hundereds of years? Wouldn't we just gradually compensate?
That's tracking the user's habits, thus spyware.
I don't think this would hold up in any court anywhere. I think that the company can assume that when you buy a DVD you view it at least one time(s). It isn't spyware unless this information is sent somewhere.
I've ALWAYS wondered whether or not I'm getting a full gallon, or how accurate those pumps are at gas stations. It doesn't really make me feel good to realize my paranoia was right. I mean it's SO easy, and can be done in such a way that's very hard to detect. If I cut 1 ounce on every gallon of gas I pump who is to say I did it and it isn't just the pump which is a bit inaccurate? Not that it matters, but there ought to be a way that our CARS can tell how much gas has been put into them.
I hope everyone takes that comment seriously too. I honestly thing Linux is much better for the workplace than it is for home. Linux entertainment isn't quite as good as Windows. Linux productivity triumphs. I know you can download Cygwin--I used to use Cygwin. But let me tell you I HATE the way the stupid dos window behaves. You can't really make it any size you want, it doesn't seem to support all the nice things that a good xterm does. Running X-Windows under Cygwin is kind of interesting but eats up a lot of resources.
This is long overdue. They've been keeping their systems backward compatible at the expense of things like security for long enough. This is just the first step. Maybe one day they'll actually consider Windows not crashing more important than Applications not crashing.
Not all chips are created equal. Just because your friend happened to get lucky and had a stable overclocked chip at such a high speed doesn't mean it can happen frequently.
When are people going to realize that blogs are the equivalent of public urination on the web. People post stream of consciousness bullshit dressed up as "information" or even "facts" and because it's on a blog, well then, it must be true.
Personally, I think you are being WAY too kind to the blog phenomenon.
I don't know how hotmail decides what is spam or not, but I've been under the impression that if enough people say "this is spam" it starts to become spam for you as well. In other words, there IS some sharing of spam filters/rules isn't there?
The problem is DNS isn't THAT distributed. Each query has one authority. Also, what kind of TTL do you put on a Knoppix CD?
I think the single point of failure is the biggest problem with using DNS as a way of distributing large amounts of information. It really DOESN'T make sense to do this with DNS when you can design something "like DNS" only more distributed.
That's true... but I also think a notification BEFORE it got to the critical point of no return would have been an order too. Maybe simple notice would suffice. They don't HAVE to do it, but it would have been the nice thing to do.
But having SIX different patents on downloading software? How does that make sense?
I just went to the SCO website to see what they were advertising, and I noticed something...
Any web designers want to comment on the "turning the picture into grayscale" rollovers?
A langauge in and of itself does not determine the speed. It's how that language is implemented/compiled. There's no reason why Java SHOULD be slower as long as it is compiled to the machine's architecture, and not to byte code. ... but then that destroys the purpose of Java.
... what do you call computer circuits which are constructed from quantum dots? I thought that's what "quantum computing" was but I guess I'm wrong. Is that just really really tiny regular computing?
Wouldn't it be nice, if a spammer gets caught, it gets put on their permanent record... and then companies could simply choose not to allow them email access ever again.
After making a fortune off of annoying other people, he thinks that saying he's sorry is going to make us like him again. Maybe if he gives all his money to charity I'll feel better.
Maybe it's just a little incentive to keep their existing users. Most people already would rather not change their email address if they don't have to.
I'm guessing the reason for this is so that you won't copy the music. The idea is that if they can control the software you use to get the music, they can make it harder for you to rip it. I say harder because... even though you may not get WMP9 to cooperate during the ripping process... you can still export that signal from your soundcard to another machine if you wanted to.
Do you happen to have a reference for the "over 95 of the top 100 servers" bit? I'm feeling skeptical about that, but I don't want to make a judgement until I find out...
Maybe you're right... I guess radio just isn't the same as it used to be. I wish DJ's had more power to choose the songs for the people who actually wanted to listen...
(1) This also means that independant artists can advertise for their music the same way, and
(2) Radio stations can still be selective about what they're going to play.
Well if a book is banned, I think the bookstore IS responsible for it. As for phone calls and letters--these are private communications. They are not available to the public. But if a phone company had a particular voice mailbox that everyone could listen to, yes I think they'd probably be responsible for taking anything illegal off of that too.