Let's say you're a general on a battlefield. Two of the army's top weapons engineers come to you with their artillery designs.
The first one says, "General, we've designed a new gun! It's better than the ones before it, and best of all, it only misfires-- thus killing the gunner-- one out of every 100 shots!"
The second engineer says, "General, our new gun is even better! It only misfires-- thus killing the gunner-- one out of every 1000 shots!"
The first engineer retorts, "But your gun misfires too!"
Honestly, now, which gun do you pick? We can differentiate based on severity, no? Or are they the same because they're both, technically, flawed?
You have to pick a web browser. Wouldn't it be better to pick one with fewer defects?
I agree. I listen mostly to classical music and electronic music. The former is prohibitively expensive to attend live (although the Boston Symphony Orchestra recently slashed their prices by 50%!) on a regular basis, and the latter is, shall we say, not performed often. So I buy this music. I also like to listen while I'm programming. Try doing that in a club.
Many electronic artists are on indie labels-- indeed, many of the labels are hard-to-find foreign imports, too. I have no moral problems paying for these. But many of the classical recordings, especially of the greats like Glenn Gould, are on major labels. Glenn Gould, in particular, is on evil, vile Sony. I know I could get this via P2P, but it doesn't seem like the right solution to me. I don't give a fuck about appearing "gauche". My solution thus far is to buy used CDs as much as possible.
I used to buy the recycled brown toilet paper and tell my housemates that it was recycled *from* toilet paper, thus pretty much ensuring that they wouldn't use it at all (girls, I can assure you, use vastly more T.P. than men). They were pretty much horrified of the stuff. Now T.P. actually made from poo... I love it!
Actually, technically speaking, heat is the transfer of energy from one body to another through a heat transfer mechanism (conduction, convection, raditation, etc). So the word "heat" itself is also a relative term, since it does not make any sense outside of the transfer of it. Energy is the absolute term you are talking about. Temperature is also a relative term. The common temperature scales, Kelvin, Celsius, Fahrenheit, are calibrated with respect to an ideal reference system; they are meaningless outside of this reference system.
You're talking about the area of the ice. These folks are talking about the depth. You can't know one by knowing the other, although you can guess. This isn't freshman year physics-- real scientists need real data.
BTW, if you're looking for a new Type M, made in the Kentucky, go here. There was a story on NPR recently about Unicomp and their versions of the Type M-- they're the only ones making them anymore.
What neither of you seem to understand is that the physical infrastructure is irrelevant, and always has been, by design. Internet2 is a part of the Internet. The Internet runs on fibre, serial, cable, wireless, whatever, just fine. TFA talks about (actually, only sort of scrapes the surface of) architectural changes to the Internet. IPv6 (which is only tangentially related to the security issue), DNSSEC, BGPSEC, encryption by default, and so on-- these are the things that need to happen to make the Internet a safer place. But even those aren't "a new Internet". They're the same old Internet with some improvements.
The people working on core Internet protocols have known that these things have problems for a long time. This article doesn't contribute anything to the conversation. Microsoft themselves could contribute a lot to the problem of an "insecure Internet" if they just fixed their f'ing OS.
As someone who has the misfortune of having been subscribed to the MS Volume Licensing crap by the higher ups, I can say with absolute certainty that Microsoft makes a lot of software. A lot more than what comes on your PC. I get binders full of CDs in the mail on a regular basis. I have thousands of CDs. It's kind of annoying, but the idea is that you want something, you contact your rep and you already have the software. Their salespeople are usually pretty knowledgable.
Anyway, just pulling a random CD out, I have stuff with titles like "Microsoft BizTalk Financial Services Enterprise Edition 1.0, Service Release 1". I don't have the faintest idea what a lot of this stuff does, and I work in IT. Microsoft can probably use some improvement in the marketing area. Maybe a store will help.
I'm hoping Microsoft put in a big Borg cube next door to the big Apple cube here in Boston. They could have employees walking around offering free assimilations.
We have that in the US, too, but the result has been that if you don't go with the main carrier, support for your line is virtually nonexistent, and for this, you pay a premium. Speakeasy is the perfect example-- they are a great company; very receptive support, have all of the speed and features I want (symmetric DSL, fixed IPs, etc). But if something goes wrong with the line, you wait *weeks* for Verizon or Covad (or whoever) to get around to fixing it. All Speakeasy can do is wring their hands. And it ain't cheap.
I think in the US, the government should own the line, as a piece of infrastructure, and lease it out to the telcos. Considering what we paid in the 90's for the telecom industry, what we got was shit.
Phew. For a second, I thought that us first-worlders might be in trouble. Fortunately, people in the third-world can't even count to three, so three apps ought to be plenty!
This just made me think-- doesn't Google Chrome use a separate process for each tab? If that's what MS is planning on doing-- counting processes-- this pretty much makes Google Chrome non-functional doesn't it?
Does anybody honestly believe that Intel can't negotiate any licensing terms they want? My opinion is that this "we licensed this and can't disclose it" is a bunch of bullshit they hide behind, i.e., that they don't really want to disclose technical information in the first place. I think that Intel still firmly believes that secrecy is a competitive advantage.
Is there a bot that trawls Slashhdot just to notify you low-UID people that now would be a perfect time for a low-UID-related comment? 'Cuz I don't see much of you otherwise.
And, case in point, an end-user may not be signing away their own rights here. If a user at my company installs this software, there's no way they can sign away _my_ rights as the systems administrator to monitor traffic. Their machine is not their property, and management of network resources is not their responsibility.
I downloaded and installed VMWare Server on Ubuntu 8.10. No problems there. I appear to be able to start it and use the web interface. My problem is-- how the heck do you use the thing? I can create a VM and start it, but then I see nothing. Doesn't seem to matter if I tell it to boot from a real CD or an ISO. I get nothing.
It's entirely possible that I'm missing something obvious... Any idea what could be going wrong?
We started with The Muppet Show thinking that we'd eventually move on to The Dark Crystal, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock and so on. Wrong. There are an insane number of characters on The Muppet Show. Now, it's more of "how obscure can you get?" (e.g., the entire membership of Electric Mayhem) In general, we try to match the persona to the role of the machine. misspiggy = gigantic SAN volume, scooter = email, bobo = anti-spam, and so on.
I highly suggest reading The Art of UNIX Programming to see why the CLI is still [highly] relevant, even for desktop users. Granted, I am probably in the minority, but my job would be significantly harder if I weren't able to just string long chains of arbitrary commands together. I'd probably spend a lot more time programming and a lot less time working. xargs is a fucking godsend, let me tell you.
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Let's say you're a general on a battlefield. Two of the army's top weapons engineers come to you with their artillery designs.
The first one says, "General, we've designed a new gun! It's better than the ones before it, and best of all, it only misfires-- thus killing the gunner-- one out of every 100 shots!"
The second engineer says, "General, our new gun is even better! It only misfires-- thus killing the gunner-- one out of every 1000 shots!"
The first engineer retorts, "But your gun misfires too!"
Honestly, now, which gun do you pick? We can differentiate based on severity, no? Or are they the same because they're both, technically, flawed?
You have to pick a web browser. Wouldn't it be better to pick one with fewer defects?
I agree. I listen mostly to classical music and electronic music. The former is prohibitively expensive to attend live (although the Boston Symphony Orchestra recently slashed their prices by 50%!) on a regular basis, and the latter is, shall we say, not performed often. So I buy this music. I also like to listen while I'm programming. Try doing that in a club.
Many electronic artists are on indie labels-- indeed, many of the labels are hard-to-find foreign imports, too. I have no moral problems paying for these. But many of the classical recordings, especially of the greats like Glenn Gould, are on major labels. Glenn Gould, in particular, is on evil, vile Sony. I know I could get this via P2P, but it doesn't seem like the right solution to me. I don't give a fuck about appearing "gauche". My solution thus far is to buy used CDs as much as possible.
I used to buy the recycled brown toilet paper and tell my housemates that it was recycled *from* toilet paper, thus pretty much ensuring that they wouldn't use it at all (girls, I can assure you, use vastly more T.P. than men). They were pretty much horrified of the stuff. Now T.P. actually made from poo... I love it!
Actually, technically speaking, heat is the transfer of energy from one body to another through a heat transfer mechanism (conduction, convection, raditation, etc). So the word "heat" itself is also a relative term, since it does not make any sense outside of the transfer of it. Energy is the absolute term you are talking about. Temperature is also a relative term. The common temperature scales, Kelvin, Celsius, Fahrenheit, are calibrated with respect to an ideal reference system; they are meaningless outside of this reference system.
You're talking about the area of the ice. These folks are talking about the depth. You can't know one by knowing the other, although you can guess. This isn't freshman year physics-- real scientists need real data.
Heh... I guess that explains our Help Desk.
I guess that would make me an extremophilephile. Thanks, science!
BTW, if you're looking for a new Type M, made in the Kentucky, go here. There was a story on NPR recently about Unicomp and their versions of the Type M-- they're the only ones making them anymore.
What neither of you seem to understand is that the physical infrastructure is irrelevant, and always has been, by design. Internet2 is a part of the Internet. The Internet runs on fibre, serial, cable, wireless, whatever, just fine. TFA talks about (actually, only sort of scrapes the surface of) architectural changes to the Internet. IPv6 (which is only tangentially related to the security issue), DNSSEC, BGPSEC, encryption by default, and so on-- these are the things that need to happen to make the Internet a safer place. But even those aren't "a new Internet". They're the same old Internet with some improvements.
The people working on core Internet protocols have known that these things have problems for a long time. This article doesn't contribute anything to the conversation. Microsoft themselves could contribute a lot to the problem of an "insecure Internet" if they just fixed their f'ing OS.
As someone who has the misfortune of having been subscribed to the MS Volume Licensing crap by the higher ups, I can say with absolute certainty that Microsoft makes a lot of software. A lot more than what comes on your PC. I get binders full of CDs in the mail on a regular basis. I have thousands of CDs. It's kind of annoying, but the idea is that you want something, you contact your rep and you already have the software. Their salespeople are usually pretty knowledgable.
Anyway, just pulling a random CD out, I have stuff with titles like "Microsoft BizTalk Financial Services Enterprise Edition 1.0, Service Release 1". I don't have the faintest idea what a lot of this stuff does, and I work in IT. Microsoft can probably use some improvement in the marketing area. Maybe a store will help.
I'm hoping Microsoft put in a big Borg cube next door to the big Apple cube here in Boston. They could have employees walking around offering free assimilations.
We have that in the US, too, but the result has been that if you don't go with the main carrier, support for your line is virtually nonexistent, and for this, you pay a premium. Speakeasy is the perfect example-- they are a great company; very receptive support, have all of the speed and features I want (symmetric DSL, fixed IPs, etc). But if something goes wrong with the line, you wait *weeks* for Verizon or Covad (or whoever) to get around to fixing it. All Speakeasy can do is wring their hands. And it ain't cheap.
I think in the US, the government should own the line, as a piece of infrastructure, and lease it out to the telcos. Considering what we paid in the 90's for the telecom industry, what we got was shit.
Phew. For a second, I thought that us first-worlders might be in trouble. Fortunately, people in the third-world can't even count to three, so three apps ought to be plenty!
This just made me think-- doesn't Google Chrome use a separate process for each tab? If that's what MS is planning on doing-- counting processes-- this pretty much makes Google Chrome non-functional doesn't it?
isn't limiting the number of win32 apps your OS will run a pretty fucktarded move?
It would be if they hadn't put in all that work building a monopoly. Compete on features? Puh-lease.
Does anybody honestly believe that Intel can't negotiate any licensing terms they want? My opinion is that this "we licensed this and can't disclose it" is a bunch of bullshit they hide behind, i.e., that they don't really want to disclose technical information in the first place. I think that Intel still firmly believes that secrecy is a competitive advantage.
For example...? I'm not just going to take your word for it.
Remember that Intel has been willing to open its drivers and specifications.
Really? Maybe my information is out of date, but that's not how I remember it. Are they doing something different now?
Is there a bot that trawls Slashhdot just to notify you low-UID people that now would be a perfect time for a low-UID-related comment? 'Cuz I don't see much of you otherwise.
And, case in point, an end-user may not be signing away their own rights here. If a user at my company installs this software, there's no way they can sign away _my_ rights as the systems administrator to monitor traffic. Their machine is not their property, and management of network resources is not their responsibility.
It's just a word, man. Get over it. See NBC, NPR, National Grid, and NCSA for examples that don't meet your criteria.
I downloaded and installed VMWare Server on Ubuntu 8.10. No problems there. I appear to be able to start it and use the web interface. My problem is-- how the heck do you use the thing? I can create a VM and start it, but then I see nothing. Doesn't seem to matter if I tell it to boot from a real CD or an ISO. I get nothing.
It's entirely possible that I'm missing something obvious... Any idea what could be going wrong?
We started with The Muppet Show thinking that we'd eventually move on to The Dark Crystal, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock and so on. Wrong. There are an insane number of characters on The Muppet Show. Now, it's more of "how obscure can you get?" (e.g., the entire membership of Electric Mayhem) In general, we try to match the persona to the role of the machine. misspiggy = gigantic SAN volume, scooter = email, bobo = anti-spam, and so on.
Ah, Florida, the SPAM state. Kinda makes sense when you think about it. You guys need the bandwidth to stay in business ;^)
I highly suggest reading The Art of UNIX Programming to see why the CLI is still [highly] relevant, even for desktop users. Granted, I am probably in the minority, but my job would be significantly harder if I weren't able to just string long chains of arbitrary commands together. I'd probably spend a lot more time programming and a lot less time working. xargs is a fucking godsend, let me tell you.