Where I come from traffic violations where tools like as radar guns, photo radar, red light cameras, parking meters are not considered criminal offenses. It is a much worse offense to drive drunk, and as a result it is a criminal offense.
Increasing memory in a machine can have a huge impact, but there is a point where you start to see diminishing returns.
My issue with this test is that you are running a comparison on a 2002 legacy operating system, and a fairly modern one. Driver support in XP may be better, but memory management and the TCP/IP stack may not be.
Secondly hardware differences are abundant here. "Almost the same" does not cut it, the hardware has to be identical otherwise the results are inconclusive. You need to control all variables except the one you are testing for. If you want to test hardware, then keep the OS's the same and only change that hardware component you are testing. If you want to test an OS, keep the hardware the same and only test the OS. That being said the real killer here is even if you were to test both these machines with windows XP loaded, I'll bet you'll get a different results because the OS is not the only variable that can have an impact on download speed.
A better test would have been to test the impact of RAM on the performance of Ubuntu (or XP) on your hardware with respect to download speed. This would be a simple test. But even the network connection is a variable in this test. I doubt very much that even this test can be reproduced reliably with the same results.
One more thing, test your download speed across the LAN, not across the internet. If you were really interested in finding out if Ubuntu performs better than XP, your endpoint has to be in your control. Who knows you may have been downloading from a Windows XP machine all along!
I took CS through my junior and senior years of highschool. My junior years were spent learning logic and procedural programming with C. In my senior years, OO programming with Java was taught. While I agree it is good to learn CS at highschool, I don't believe it should be a manditory topic on par with math. Even Chem/Bio/Physics are electives, and we had to take 2 of the three of those. One more thing, my teachers did not have a CS background but did successfully teach it.
The distinction between current generation consoles and PC's is shrinking. They have all of the same core components, just a different name. Console gaming is more convenient for those of us who don't build our gaming rigs and because it is more convenient it appeals to a wider market segment and therefore development companies focus on the broader customer base.
For those of us who want a high end experience the console will always be behind the cutting edge PC, but the console for all purposes is essentially a gaming PC for the masses.
Software can also be used to complement a service. Take the cell phone for example, you are paying ultimately for a service (phone service), but the software on the phone is manditory for you to use that service. The only distinguishing feature of a cell phone is the different software packages on it. Network technology aside all modern cell phones do basically the same thing (phone pda's excluded). My very old first generation startac digital phone works just fine, is just as small as any other phone on the market and ultimately only makes and recieves calls/txt messages. But you stack that phone against one of the new ericsson phones, and eventhough my phone is everything a phone is supposed to be, the ericsson will be bought because there is more percieved value there.
I learned a long time ago to never give telus another dollar out of my pocket. The only way to force them to change their ways is to stop paying them. This is not the first, nor the last time. I remember an unlimited north america long distance plan on their landlines that they did the exact same thing with about 5 years ago. Only that time they had to honor the existing contracts, and only after a class action lawsuit. This is textbook telus, and never again will they get any money from me.
If the child is not going to school for safety reasons, then definately the school board (not sure what it is called in the US) should be purged because they are not doing their jobs. In Canada all citizens have a right to a quality education, and I am certain if a child fears for their safety then their fundemental right to an education (if same exists in the US) is being infringed on.
Thats a very interesting point. In Canada where I grew up, it is not the teacher's responsibility to track the kids down when they are absent. It is only the schools responsibility to inform the parents/guardians that the child is not at school for safety reasons. Further, as a matter of course, any truancy situation is dealt with from an administrative perspective and usually the vice principal handles the issues directly. As far as I know, the school is not responsible for the child unless that child was on the school's property or on a school sanctioned event at another location.
I think I missed the point of the article, one question keeps coming up in my mind: what stops the kid from being truant here? just because their location is monitored, doesn't mean they have to go to school. If you want to stop the kid from being truant, the parents/guardians have to get involved. Drive the kid to school in the morning, teach them the value of an education, show them the importance of being a success in life, most of all try and give the kid a better start than you had. If you raise them like you give a damn, they will care about an education.
Looks like in one of the pictures the google people actually drove up the "private road" to the house and took a picture. The plaintifs could claim that the google staff took an extra effort to single out their home. It wasn't just a driveby in this case. If that "private road" is infact on their land, then google staff trespassed on private land. If it is not, then unfortunately the plaintifs will not win. I am unsure how I feel about having someone photograph my property and display it for the world to see. If that picture and publication results in the theft of property can the homeowner sue? The photograph facilitates thieves to use google to check homes (at least the outside of homes) for "interesting" items.
I've had the ahem "pleasure" of using both of these OS' and Microsoft's latest offering is less than stellar. I've been fairly happy with the XP/Office2k3 combo for users, and now am in a position where I must do some new purchases of vista/office2k7 and quite frankly as far as I am concerned, vista/office2k7 hands down cannot compete with the last-gen xp/2k3. It doesn't suprise me that microsoft is trying to get the IT pros to sell this to management. But as an IT professional who's used Microsoft based products for the better part of 15 years, I've never had a better business case to go with a non-microsoft product than I do now. So yes, they are promoting vista based on XP's shortcomings, but I think really they are trying to say just about anything to recoup their costs. I think Vista will go the way of Windows ME, as what I like to call "the Microsoft OS that everyone forgot about".
Where do you get these stats? I think 45.3% of all stats are made up on the spot. How many people are going to freely admit that they collect child porn? that would be like going to the police station and admitting that you robbed a store... Your stat may have more meaning if it include a statment like "out of all the known child porn collectors, 40% of them have or will commit a sex crime against children." All it takes is 2 people out of 5 sampled to get a 40% stat.
I think that children have no place in porn, people should not support the explotation of children by viewing child porn. The problem is not with the collector, but with the people that make it available to the collector.
First regardless of a constitutional challenge, or any "court" victory, the law right now says, if you own a copy right and someone violates that copyright you are entitled to sue.
Forget the moral arguements, as they are meaningless. Bottom line, you are a criminal.
Has anyone thought why a company like IBM would want to copy code from a company like SCO? I don't see IBM's motovation here. And further, I believe MS is only licensing the rights to that stuff because IBM is on the other side of the arguement. MS has no interest with SCO, but they sure do not like IBM much... This goes back to the early 80's and MS/IBM partnership on dos, and later with OS/2.
Besides SCO is like a recently decapitated chicken, it's head is cut off, and it is running around in circles, just waiting to completely die.
If you are using this system without authorization, you will understand that you will be monitored and that information will be disclosed to the authorities so they can track you down and arrest you.
unauthorized: Exposure of information / access to systems to / by individuals not authorized to receive it / access the system
You must not define a word using that word.
unauthorized and not authorized are the same thing. Not permitted, not legally allowed, without permission to; those all would be good choices and much better than not authorized. So wherever you got this definition from, it is meaningless.
sure the 1:62.5 number doesn't work out with the actual shuttle mission numbers... or does it?
What about the testing process of these space shuttles? surely the entire space shuttle fleet has had at least one test flight per shuttle? that would mean that his numbers are right.
Not that I know what happens at NASA, but all vehicles (aircraft-autos-RV's) go though manned tests. It is only reasonable to assume that the shuttles did too. Before you spew off the fact that the numbers are wrong, look again, perhaps the people reporting are right, and perhaps they just may have more information about the topic than you do.
the astronauts today have far less risk than those in the 50's and 60's. Things are so much safer. If I am to believe that today, because of two fatal accidents in the space program's history, progress in this area will be delayed for a year (at best) or years, then I would say to you.... Didn't these astronauts die for nothing? We have to continue with the space program, and every year we delay, means another year behind in development. Look how long it took to get a man on the moon since the program started. Where have we gone from there? We should be colonizing Mars or whatever, but insted we are worried about half a dozen fallen astronauts. I say honour their memnory, learn from our mistakes and move on sooner rather than later.
I thank you for your commments, they are well thought out and I can see your reasoning there.
I just would like to make one more point. In a round about way spam is making services cheaper (if you do business with that company) since the more customers that will follow up on the spam obviously has an effect on that originating companies bottom line, thus if they make money on products as a result of spam, they increase demand for an item, and over time inventory will increase, thus their products end up being cheaper. So I guess in a round about way spam makes things cheaper for the consumer.
I don't mean to disagree with your points, and infact I am not, but there are benefits to spam, even if it is not as apparent as other advertising. The opting out of spam is a good point. You can stop buying the paper, you can cut off cable. But then sometimes you can't either.
What about all the planes that are taking off from the airport in the middle of a city? Are people required to turn off their cells in the airport terminals? Are telcos not allowed to place towers near airports?
I bet those 30+ incidents reported blamed cells because they needed a scapegoat for their lack of good equipment checks.
I once heard a cell phone was blamed for starting a gas station on fire. Perhaps that would be true, except the last I checked circut boards arn't a good source of spark. Next thing you will see is women being baned from wearing makeup and good looking clothing because it is a distraction for the pilots. Give me a break
just like you pay for cable tv. Which is all advertising, and you have no control over what is in the commercials. Or the newspaper. You pay for all the adds in it. Why not in email too?
Because I pay for newspapers should I control what the newspaper writes or prints in adds?
now if your bandwidth is being sucked up and you are paying based on traffic, don't give your email address out, and use multiple ones. One for trusted mail and the other for those stupid online registration forms everyone has to fill out, when they only want to grab one file, or visit once.
The point is, you pay for a service/item, you get everything with that. I pay for a newspaper $1, I am paying for the adds, fliers, and articles. When you pay $20/month for net access, you pay for email, etc. And it is your fault that the spammer got your email in the first place. I have had a hotmail account for over 7 years. Since before microsoft bought them out. It has yet to see junk mail and I get about 10 personal/business messages a day.
And so you know, you do control what is transmitted. It is the recieving you are having issues controling.
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Where I come from traffic violations where tools like as radar guns, photo radar, red light cameras, parking meters are not considered criminal offenses. It is a much worse offense to drive drunk, and as a result it is a criminal offense.
Increasing memory in a machine can have a huge impact, but there is a point where you start to see diminishing returns.
My issue with this test is that you are running a comparison on a 2002 legacy operating system, and a fairly modern one. Driver support in XP may be better, but memory management and the TCP/IP stack may not be.
Secondly hardware differences are abundant here. "Almost the same" does not cut it, the hardware has to be identical otherwise the results are inconclusive. You need to control all variables except the one you are testing for. If you want to test hardware, then keep the OS's the same and only change that hardware component you are testing. If you want to test an OS, keep the hardware the same and only test the OS. That being said the real killer here is even if you were to test both these machines with windows XP loaded, I'll bet you'll get a different results because the OS is not the only variable that can have an impact on download speed.
A better test would have been to test the impact of RAM on the performance of Ubuntu (or XP) on your hardware with respect to download speed. This would be a simple test. But even the network connection is a variable in this test. I doubt very much that even this test can be reproduced reliably with the same results.
One more thing, test your download speed across the LAN, not across the internet. If you were really interested in finding out if Ubuntu performs better than XP, your endpoint has to be in your control. Who knows you may have been downloading from a Windows XP machine all along!
I took CS through my junior and senior years of highschool. My junior years were spent learning logic and procedural programming with C. In my senior years, OO programming with Java was taught. While I agree it is good to learn CS at highschool, I don't believe it should be a manditory topic on par with math. Even Chem/Bio/Physics are electives, and we had to take 2 of the three of those.
One more thing, my teachers did not have a CS background but did successfully teach it.
The distinction between current generation consoles and PC's is shrinking. They have all of the same core components, just a different name. Console gaming is more convenient for those of us who don't build our gaming rigs and because it is more convenient it appeals to a wider market segment and therefore development companies focus on the broader customer base.
For those of us who want a high end experience the console will always be behind the cutting edge PC, but the console for all purposes is essentially a gaming PC for the masses.
Text messages are unreliable. You may think you've disabled the machine, but you'll never know if you actually did.
Software can also be used to complement a service. Take the cell phone for example, you are paying ultimately for a service (phone service), but the software on the phone is manditory for you to use that service. The only distinguishing feature of a cell phone is the different software packages on it. Network technology aside all modern cell phones do basically the same thing (phone pda's excluded). My very old first generation startac digital phone works just fine, is just as small as any other phone on the market and ultimately only makes and recieves calls/txt messages. But you stack that phone against one of the new ericsson phones, and eventhough my phone is everything a phone is supposed to be, the ericsson will be bought because there is more percieved value there.
I learned a long time ago to never give telus another dollar out of my pocket. The only way to force them to change their ways is to stop paying them. This is not the first, nor the last time. I remember an unlimited north america long distance plan on their landlines that they did the exact same thing with about 5 years ago. Only that time they had to honor the existing contracts, and only after a class action lawsuit. This is textbook telus, and never again will they get any money from me.
If the child is not going to school for safety reasons, then definately the school board (not sure what it is called in the US) should be purged because they are not doing their jobs. In Canada all citizens have a right to a quality education, and I am certain if a child fears for their safety then their fundemental right to an education (if same exists in the US) is being infringed on.
Thats a very interesting point. In Canada where I grew up, it is not the teacher's responsibility to track the kids down when they are absent. It is only the schools responsibility to inform the parents/guardians that the child is not at school for safety reasons. Further, as a matter of course, any truancy situation is dealt with from an administrative perspective and usually the vice principal handles the issues directly. As far as I know, the school is not responsible for the child unless that child was on the school's property or on a school sanctioned event at another location.
I think I missed the point of the article, one question keeps coming up in my mind: what stops the kid from being truant here? just because their location is monitored, doesn't mean they have to go to school. If you want to stop the kid from being truant, the parents/guardians have to get involved. Drive the kid to school in the morning, teach them the value of an education, show them the importance of being a success in life, most of all try and give the kid a better start than you had. If you raise them like you give a damn, they will care about an education.
Looks like in one of the pictures the google people actually drove up the "private road" to the house and took a picture. The plaintifs could claim that the google staff took an extra effort to single out their home. It wasn't just a driveby in this case. If that "private road" is infact on their land, then google staff trespassed on private land. If it is not, then unfortunately the plaintifs will not win. I am unsure how I feel about having someone photograph my property and display it for the world to see. If that picture and publication results in the theft of property can the homeowner sue? The photograph facilitates thieves to use google to check homes (at least the outside of homes) for "interesting" items.
Once again, XP VS Vista.
I've had the ahem "pleasure" of using both of these OS' and Microsoft's latest offering is less than stellar. I've been fairly happy with the XP/Office2k3 combo for users, and now am in a position where I must do some new purchases of vista/office2k7 and quite frankly as far as I am concerned, vista/office2k7 hands down cannot compete with the last-gen xp/2k3. It doesn't suprise me that microsoft is trying to get the IT pros to sell this to management. But as an IT professional who's used Microsoft based products for the better part of 15 years, I've never had a better business case to go with a non-microsoft product than I do now. So yes, they are promoting vista based on XP's shortcomings, but I think really they are trying to say just about anything to recoup their costs. I think Vista will go the way of Windows ME, as what I like to call "the Microsoft OS that everyone forgot about".
Where do you get these stats? I think 45.3% of all stats are made up on the spot. How many people are going to freely admit that they collect child porn? that would be like going to the police station and admitting that you robbed a store... Your stat may have more meaning if it include a statment like "out of all the known child porn collectors, 40% of them have or will commit a sex crime against children." All it takes is 2 people out of 5 sampled to get a 40% stat.
I think that children have no place in porn, people should not support the explotation of children by viewing child porn. The problem is not with the collector, but with the people that make it available to the collector.
You mean they released winbloze 2003? well now the countdown starts for the first service pack... Probably will be in a couple months..
-I'll stick with win 3.1 thank you. My 386 40mhz box does just fine with Netscape and Eudora.
First regardless of a constitutional challenge, or any "court" victory, the law right now says, if you own a copy right and someone violates that copyright you are entitled to sue.
Forget the moral arguements, as they are meaningless. Bottom line, you are a criminal.
Has anyone thought why a company like IBM would want to copy code from a company like SCO? I don't see IBM's motovation here. And further, I believe MS is only licensing the rights to that stuff because IBM is on the other side of the arguement. MS has no interest with SCO, but they sure do not like IBM much... This goes back to the early 80's and MS/IBM partnership on dos, and later with OS/2.
Besides SCO is like a recently decapitated chicken, it's head is cut off, and it is running around in circles, just waiting to completely die.
If you are using this system without authorization, you will understand that you will be monitored and that information will be disclosed to the authorities so they can track you down and arrest you.
For all authorized users: Welcome!
unauthorized: Exposure of information / access to systems to / by individuals not authorized to receive it / access the system
You must not define a word using that word.
unauthorized and not authorized are the same thing. Not permitted, not legally allowed, without permission to; those all would be good choices and much better than not authorized. So wherever you got this definition from, it is meaningless.
sure the 1:62.5 number doesn't work out with the actual shuttle mission numbers... or does it?
What about the testing process of these space shuttles? surely the entire space shuttle fleet has had at least one test flight per shuttle? that would mean that his numbers are right.
Not that I know what happens at NASA, but all vehicles (aircraft-autos-RV's) go though manned tests. It is only reasonable to assume that the shuttles did too. Before you spew off the fact that the numbers are wrong, look again, perhaps the people reporting are right, and perhaps they just may have more information about the topic than you do.
the astronauts today have far less risk than those in the 50's and 60's. Things are so much safer. If I am to believe that today, because of two fatal accidents in the space program's history, progress in this area will be delayed for a year (at best) or years, then I would say to you.... Didn't these astronauts die for nothing? We have to continue with the space program, and every year we delay, means another year behind in development. Look how long it took to get a man on the moon since the program started. Where have we gone from there? We should be colonizing Mars or whatever, but insted we are worried about half a dozen fallen astronauts. I say honour their memnory, learn from our mistakes and move on sooner rather than later.
Last I checked in my physics class, energy cannot be transmitted.
I thank you for your commments, they are well thought out and I can see your reasoning there.
I just would like to make one more point. In a round about way spam is making services cheaper (if you do business with that company) since the more customers that will follow up on the spam obviously has an effect on that originating companies bottom line, thus if they make money on products as a result of spam, they increase demand for an item, and over time inventory will increase, thus their products end up being cheaper. So I guess in a round about way spam makes things cheaper for the consumer.
I don't mean to disagree with your points, and infact I am not, but there are benefits to spam, even if it is not as apparent as other advertising. The opting out of spam is a good point. You can stop buying the paper, you can cut off cable. But then sometimes you can't either.
IE just crashes cause it has nothing better to do. Bottom line, if you want reliability use lynx, if you want unreliable bloat use IE.
What about all the planes that are taking off from the airport in the middle of a city? Are people required to turn off their cells in the airport terminals? Are telcos not allowed to place towers near airports?
I bet those 30+ incidents reported blamed cells because they needed a scapegoat for their lack of good equipment checks.
I once heard a cell phone was blamed for starting a gas station on fire. Perhaps that would be true, except the last I checked circut boards arn't a good source of spark. Next thing you will see is women being baned from wearing makeup and good looking clothing because it is a distraction for the pilots. Give me a break
just like you pay for cable tv. Which is all advertising, and you have no control over what is in the commercials. Or the newspaper. You pay for all the adds in it. Why not in email too?
Because I pay for newspapers should I control what the newspaper writes or prints in adds?
now if your bandwidth is being sucked up and you are paying based on traffic, don't give your email address out, and use multiple ones. One for trusted mail and the other for those stupid online registration forms everyone has to fill out, when they only want to grab one file, or visit once.
The point is, you pay for a service/item, you get everything with that. I pay for a newspaper $1, I am paying for the adds, fliers, and articles. When you pay $20/month for net access, you pay for email, etc. And it is your fault that the spammer got your email in the first place. I have had a hotmail account for over 7 years. Since before microsoft bought them out. It has yet to see junk mail and I get about 10 personal/business messages a day.
And so you know, you do control what is transmitted. It is the recieving you are having issues controling.