"The overall psyche of the nation is tooled in such a way that we have to work 60, 70, and 80 hour workweeks on average, no matter the consequences."
Over here, it more like:
The overall psyche of the nation is tooled in such a way that we can't even work 5, 10, and 15 hour workweeks on average, no matter the consequences.:(
Hey, mod this up to +5 he deserves it. And it's proven that he's right. Right where i live (Argentina) this has already happened and has been happening since 1960.
They govs just do and reason EXACTLY as this guy describes but to the point where nobody in the private sector can:
Earn a profit (if they earn it, they just TAX IT AWAY)
Get a loan, because they just ate all the nations credits (even taxing private sector interest expenses at 15% and even regulate mutual funds so that they can invest in whatever, as long as 60% is on national debt.)
No more credit??No way to finance deficit? No problem!! They'll print money and fuck everyone's salaries with the inflation tax.
Need more money still...then break everyone's contracts in the private sector so that wherever it sais "dolar" will now have to say "pesos".
All this happens because they CAN'T CUT IT'S SPENDING. They are already doing a GREAT EFFORT. They haven't fired even 1 guy from the goverment yet 25% of the population CAN'T FIND A JOB (not even a temporary one).......
USA guys, you do well not allowing the goverment to eat your countries life. I envy you!
Mhh, so what would you built with 25 grandgrands? Will it work? Will you need to push the OS in other ways? Would you need any custom stuff to be accounted for? Will you need to provide warranties that it will work perfectly? Or you are just guessing you could build the array for just the cost of the hardware + some scatered support depending on each vendor, and hope that everything will run smooth and that they won't have any other requirement than that?
All these questions need to be adressed before you can complain. And this of course doesn't mean i don't agree with you, they can always save a lot but they just like paying more, for some reason. I've seen companies spend 1 million for some task, and another company spend 10k for the same task. Yet the 10k solution was no worst.
My answer just for the record (as nobody will be reading this old post):
"So if MS/IBM pisses you off, as long as you can produce the same results using some other technology then nothing is stopping you from switching."
That's exactly the point. You will not have such other choices because they do control the desktop. So to produce the same results you'll have to use THEIR "toolbox"...
It agree in general, le the user decide. But sometimes the site is to coplex and you need to Pakc to many things on the screen. You can't let everything scroll in certain cases, and i prefer a fixed size and to use flash or bitmaps...
Mhh. I know it's all about tastes, and i do like the "Asume all block selections are a copy to clipboard operation" X style copy. But not while in GUI apps, where I can select blocks to not only copy to buffer but also to paste-replace, move arround, overwrite (with keyboard), apply a function (say the bold action in KWord), etc.
Despite the speed of today's CPU's, having to use CPU cycles to do WiFi networking is not a great idea, especially when you also have to take into account for CPU cycles being used for everything else in the system.
What a genious...of course the CPU does mostly everthing, and unless you know what overhead or load this drivers would add, how can you complain? I'm pretty sure you where happy when the bloated 56k modem went out and you just found you couldn't flash your rom nor had a fine winmodem...
You CAN'T do that without compromising GPL. If you want just that, you could use a license like the Xfree license. But Lindows can't because they use Linux.
If you allow this to pass, then ANY GPL code could turn into an XFree license where's companies are NOT required to release binary + source code versions. The only way arround this would be (in my opinion, and i happens that IANAL) to pay this beta testers for testing the product ($1 would be ok) and treat them like hired personel. The very second you give it away to a non-team, non-hired "personel", you HAVE to release the code.
You sayd it, start from scratch, not rewrite from scratch. You can always reuse a lot of code and redo the wrong parts / enhance the lacking parts. There's no need to "relearn" everything if you have thought things cleverly from the start. Some people just like hardcoding everything again and again for a lack of initial vision. And they are the ones likely to end the things sooner: but don't ask for ANYTHING not specified in the "whatever" requirements.
Most people don't carve out their own, so eventually, you don't need anything more than Windows. The problem with Windows is you DONT HAVE anything more than Windows. With Linux, can have Windows and MORE. That's how i see it.
Something not installing right the first time is the prime reason why people ditch Linux. They want to send emails, not configure ppp-script, or learn shell scripting, or learn how devfs works. And that's even my case when i am in a hurry. I can then learn more when i have the time and if i want.
"The wild cut and paste in UNIX is enough to frustrate most novice users."
Well, i one frustrated with it. It pays when you are always doing term2something or term2term coping. When you are not, it's frustrating. I want to copy some text, then select some other text to replace it with what i copied. NOPE. You have to select, point the mouse to where you want to copy, paste (without moving the mouse a bit which IMHO is ugly), and then remove what you wanted to be replaced in the first place.
I'm glad i can use MS copy/paste in some gnome apps.
I think the NEWS what that report coming from MSNBC, and not really about Redmond Linux or Lycoris. If this hasn't been posted on MSNBC, we probably would't be talkin about Lycoris:)
You certainly don't know how the world works. Underestimating the power of Microsoft and IBM to set a standard is dangerous, and overestimating the people's inteligence regarding licesing is another.
After all, i don't see many people arguing because Office locks them into Office, they blame other files for not reading Office. Same with a non IE browser, etc. Same with the idiotic EULAs which even the biggest corporations accept, refusing to have ANY right if program flaws compromise their operations yet are scary to use ANY free, open-source, tested and even audited piece of code out there.
I don't mean to be negative, but you have to grant me that "inteligence and comon sense will prevail" doesn't work in real life.
Who cares? Everyone will happily dump IIS7 asap, as they do NOT want to lose customers. Moreover, Apache could retaliate back and have (following your example) 75% of the web not working in IE. None of this is going to happen of course. Apache will always play nice, and Microsoft will play dirty, but the smart embrace and extend way.
Do whatever you want, but if it doesn't look good in the mayority of browsers, you'll be at fault when your users complain and your boss hears about it.
If you are your own boss, well, it just gets worst... Like the original poster i actually check to see if everything looks smooth (actually, i'm not done untill it looks 100% the same way on both) in Exporer 4 + 5 + 5.5 & 6, Mozilla and Netscape 4.
Off topic: a tip for those using symple css for defining fonts. Define font-size with px and not pt. Pts are handled differently by Exporer and Mozilla, Px are not.
Maybe it can predict what WILL happen, and not WHEN it will happen. Of course, to be even remotely close to what will happen, the results must be completely "wierd" or even ridiculous.
Maybe there is some kind of nuclear war, maybe not, yet, the long term predicions should match no matter how long it takes us to reach them.
I don't think you can both predict what will happen and WHEN will happen. You just can't unless you simulate atom for atom, dna for dna. Which is like duplicating the world (of course you could eventually do that, but by then we'll no longer be humans).
If we can't accuratly predict what happened in the past, how can we have any belief that the models tell us anything meaningful about the future?
Well, of course. What if a nuke slipped caused by a hardware failure or someone gone insane? The model would have been 100000x wrong, even if it was perfect. I think the main reason you can predict a line is because our world puts too much power in few individuals (say: Bush, Sadam, the guy with the finger in the button, etc). So eventually, you'd need to emulate a perfect sadam, a perfect bush and know if Bush or gore would win an election. That would depend on legal muscle and unkown variables (to the general public at least)...
So eventually, it could predict what would happen but assuming the world is run in a way consensus prevails, and not just 10 guys moving the world and AFFECTING all the population, but the inverse.
It would be usefull though to predict short/medium term results given constant update of what this guys are doing. Societies don't change much over the years.
Not to mention executing them with lethal injections would probably be more efficient. The problem is that the level of "arrests" thepends itself on the average "honesty" in a society, and can only GRADUALLY change.
I know, because i live in a corrupt, supid country like argentina where there are tons of honest and great people, but the mayority....welll......
They don't need that. They can just monitor with a sniffer, and that's how are doing it already. IMHO, it's kind of naif. Yes, they will get johnny pirate, and joe "LeTz NuKe BueNos AirEs", but they won't get the real terrorists / hackers down. Just the pigeons, not the hawks...AS ALWAYS...
In the meantime, you won't be able to say "I love you" in a private chat without Agent Smith knowing about it...
Before you feel all high and mighty I think I should point out that something likely 75% of all redhat boxes are rooted in the first 24 hours.
Mhh, it could also mean that Redhat boxes are up and running in one day, so it'd be more likely that 99% of them have at least been rooted once by the sysadmin.:)
On the other hand, IE boxes get rooted by virus, troyans, scRipT kidz and mostly everyone that can search astalavista.box.sk or the kiddie sites.
Mh, a nuke. I'm this can be separetaed into a growing sphere of caos. The sphere growing bigger and bigger but could be cut into sections (like an growing Hard Disk). The problem would be you'll need fast computer (premiun_pcs@Seti?:) and intercomunications between "space" blocks. Also, a fast cluster to "sew" the borders.
This is obviouly a non-tech answer coming from a non-scientist, yet a motivated opinion:) (worst case scenario for an opinion or advice!)
lowy, thanks for the answers. Looks really promising. The needing of a structure or authentication or validation is ok, but must be an integral part of any such implementation and carefully integrated so that it will hold that any possible decription is ok (else, the structure could provide a means to narrow the posssible messages).
What if you don't know what you'll receive? A binary file? A sound recording? And if it's text, they may as well bombard you with false messages, and if 1 makes sense, you lost the index.
For total certainty one can include a checksum prior to encryption.
Can't the other party do that as well? Unless it's a secret checksum algorithm...what if they the checksum gets compromised and you don't know? You may end up accepting false "messages".
sending this index (in the clear) along with every encrypted message
Is the index coming from the right source? The problem is still there i guess...
I can see the unbreakability of one time pads, but i can feel there are other disadvantages. What we have know can sign stuff and authenticate. One time pads cannot (by themselves)...
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"The overall psyche of the nation is tooled in such a way that we have to work 60, 70, and 80 hour workweeks on average, no matter the consequences."
:(
Over here, it more like:
The overall psyche of the nation is tooled in such a way that we can't even work 5, 10, and 15 hour workweeks on average, no matter the consequences.
They govs just do and reason EXACTLY as this guy describes but to the point where nobody in the private sector can:
Earn a profit (if they earn it, they just TAX IT AWAY)
Get a loan, because they just ate all the nations credits (even taxing private sector interest expenses at 15% and even regulate mutual funds so that they can invest in whatever, as long as 60% is on national debt.)
No more credit??No way to finance deficit? No problem!! They'll print money and fuck everyone's salaries with the inflation tax.
Need more money still...then break everyone's contracts in the private sector so that wherever it sais "dolar" will now have to say "pesos".
All this happens because they CAN'T CUT IT'S SPENDING. They are already doing a GREAT EFFORT. They haven't fired even 1 guy from the goverment yet 25% of the population CAN'T FIND A JOB (not even a temporary one).......
USA guys, you do well not allowing the goverment to eat your countries life. I envy you!
Mhh, so what would you built with 25 grandgrands? Will it work? Will you need to push the OS in other ways? Would you need any custom stuff to be accounted for? Will you need to provide warranties that it will work perfectly? Or you are just guessing you could build the array for just the cost of the hardware + some scatered support depending on each vendor, and hope that everything will run smooth and that they won't have any other requirement than that?
All these questions need to be adressed before you can complain. And this of course doesn't mean i don't agree with you, they can always save a lot but they just like paying more, for some reason. I've seen companies spend 1 million for some task, and another company spend 10k for the same task. Yet the 10k solution was no worst.
My answer just for the record (as nobody will be reading this old post):
"So if MS/IBM pisses you off, as long as you can produce the same results using some other technology then nothing is stopping you from switching."
That's exactly the point. You will not have such other choices because they do control the desktop. So to produce the same results you'll have to use THEIR "toolbox"...
It agree in general, le the user decide. But sometimes the site is to coplex and you need to Pakc to many things on the screen. You can't let everything scroll in certain cases, and i prefer a fixed size and to use flash or bitmaps...
Mhh. I know it's all about tastes, and i do like the "Asume all block selections are a copy to clipboard operation" X style copy. But not while in GUI apps, where I can select blocks to not only copy to buffer but also to paste-replace, move arround, overwrite (with keyboard), apply a function (say the bold action in KWord), etc.
The answer is not "cheaper", but "bundled"...
Despite the speed of today's CPU's, having to use CPU cycles to do WiFi networking is not a great idea, especially when you also have to take into account for CPU cycles being used for everything else in the system.
:(
What a genious...of course the CPU does mostly everthing, and unless you know what overhead or load this drivers would add, how can you complain? I'm pretty sure you where happy when the bloated 56k modem went out and you just found you couldn't flash your rom nor had a fine winmodem...
Mhh...i'm so negative today
You CAN'T do that without compromising GPL. If you want just that, you could use a license like the Xfree license. But Lindows can't because they use Linux.
If you allow this to pass, then ANY GPL code could turn into an XFree license where's companies are NOT required to release binary + source code versions. The only way arround this would be (in my opinion, and i happens that IANAL) to pay this beta testers for testing the product ($1 would be ok) and treat them like hired personel. The very second you give it away to a non-team, non-hired "personel", you HAVE to release the code.
What do you GPL experts think?
You sayd it, start from scratch, not rewrite from scratch. You can always reuse a lot of code and redo the wrong parts / enhance the lacking parts. There's no need to "relearn" everything if you have thought things cleverly from the start. Some people just like hardcoding everything again and again for a lack of initial vision. And they are the ones likely to end the things sooner: but don't ask for ANYTHING not specified in the "whatever" requirements.
Most people don't carve out their own, so eventually, you don't need anything more than Windows. The problem with Windows is you DONT HAVE anything more than Windows. With Linux, can have Windows and MORE. That's how i see it.
Something not installing right the first time is the prime reason why people ditch Linux. They want to send emails, not configure ppp-script, or learn shell scripting, or learn how devfs works. And that's even my case when i am in a hurry. I can then learn more when i have the time and if i want.
"The wild cut and paste in UNIX is enough to frustrate most novice users."
Well, i one frustrated with it. It pays when you are always doing term2something or term2term coping. When you are not, it's frustrating. I want to copy some text, then select some other text to replace it with what i copied. NOPE. You have to select, point the mouse to where you want to copy, paste (without moving the mouse a bit which IMHO is ugly), and then remove what you wanted to be replaced in the first place.
I'm glad i can use MS copy/paste in some gnome apps.
I think the NEWS what that report coming from MSNBC, and not really about Redmond Linux or Lycoris. If this hasn't been posted on MSNBC, we probably would't be talkin about Lycoris :)
Oh, you mean the 1 button mouse for example?
You certainly don't know how the world works. Underestimating the power of Microsoft and IBM to set a standard is dangerous, and overestimating the people's inteligence regarding licesing is another.
After all, i don't see many people arguing because Office locks them into Office, they blame other files for not reading Office. Same with a non IE browser, etc. Same with the idiotic EULAs which even the biggest corporations accept, refusing to have ANY right if program flaws compromise their operations yet are scary to use ANY free, open-source, tested and even audited piece of code out there.
I don't mean to be negative, but you have to grant me that "inteligence and comon sense will prevail" doesn't work in real life.
Who cares? Everyone will happily dump IIS7 asap, as they do NOT want to lose customers. Moreover, Apache could retaliate back and have (following your example) 75% of the web not working in IE. None of this is going to happen of course. Apache will always play nice, and Microsoft will play dirty, but the smart embrace and extend way.
Do whatever you want, but if it doesn't look good in the mayority of browsers, you'll be at fault when your users complain and your boss hears about it.
If you are your own boss, well, it just gets worst... Like the original poster i actually check to see if everything looks smooth (actually, i'm not done untill it looks 100% the same way on both) in Exporer 4 + 5 + 5.5 & 6, Mozilla and Netscape 4.
Off topic: a tip for those using symple css for defining fonts. Define font-size with px and not pt. Pts are handled differently by Exporer and Mozilla, Px are not.
Maybe it can predict what WILL happen, and not WHEN it will happen. Of course, to be even remotely close to what will happen, the results must be completely "wierd" or even ridiculous.
Maybe there is some kind of nuclear war, maybe not, yet, the long term predicions should match no matter how long it takes us to reach them.
I don't think you can both predict what will happen and WHEN will happen. You just can't unless you simulate atom for atom, dna for dna. Which is like duplicating the world (of course you could eventually do that, but by then we'll no longer be humans).
If we can't accuratly predict what happened in the past, how can we have any belief that the models tell us anything meaningful about the future?
Well, of course. What if a nuke slipped caused by a hardware failure or someone gone insane? The model would have been 100000x wrong, even if it was perfect. I think the main reason you can predict a line is because our world puts too much power in few individuals (say: Bush, Sadam, the guy with the finger in the button, etc). So eventually, you'd need to emulate a perfect sadam, a perfect bush and know if Bush or gore would win an election. That would depend on legal muscle and unkown variables (to the general public at least)...
So eventually, it could predict what would happen but assuming the world is run in a way consensus prevails, and not just 10 guys moving the world and AFFECTING all the population, but the inverse.
It would be usefull though to predict short/medium term results given constant update of what this guys are doing. Societies don't change much over the years.
Not to mention executing them with lethal injections would probably be more efficient. The problem is that the level of "arrests" thepends itself on the average "honesty" in a society, and can only GRADUALLY change.
I know, because i live in a corrupt, supid country like argentina where there are tons of honest and great people, but the mayority....welll......
They don't need that. They can just monitor with a sniffer, and that's how are doing it already. IMHO, it's kind of naif. Yes, they will get johnny pirate, and joe "LeTz NuKe BueNos AirEs", but they won't get the real terrorists / hackers down. Just the pigeons, not the hawks...AS ALWAYS...
In the meantime, you won't be able to say "I love you" in a private chat without Agent Smith knowing about it...
NOCK NOCK!
Before you feel all high and mighty I think I should point out that something likely 75% of all redhat boxes are rooted in the first 24 hours.
:)
Mhh, it could also mean that Redhat boxes are up and running in one day, so it'd be more likely that 99% of them have at least been rooted once by the sysadmin.
On the other hand, IE boxes get rooted by virus, troyans, scRipT kidz and mostly everyone that can search astalavista.box.sk or the kiddie sites.
Mh, a nuke. I'm this can be separetaed into a growing sphere of caos. The sphere growing bigger and bigger but could be cut into sections (like an growing Hard Disk). The problem would be you'll need fast computer (premiun_pcs@Seti? :) and intercomunications between "space" blocks. Also, a fast cluster to "sew" the borders.
:) (worst case scenario for an opinion or advice!)
This is obviouly a non-tech answer coming from a non-scientist, yet a motivated opinion
Plus, MS has always been frendly with BSD (.NET on BSD, BSD TCP/IP stack in WinNT, etc.).
I'd rephrase that as: "Plus, BSD has always been frendly to MS (.NET on BSD, BSD TCP/IP stack in WinNT, etc.).
lowy, thanks for the answers. Looks really promising. The needing of a structure or authentication or validation is ok, but must be an integral part of any such implementation and carefully integrated so that it will hold that any possible decription is ok (else, the structure could provide a means to narrow the posssible messages).
Any other message would "decrypt" to random bits
What if you don't know what you'll receive? A binary file? A sound recording? And if it's text, they may as well bombard you with false messages, and if 1 makes sense, you lost the index.
For total certainty one can include a checksum prior to encryption.
Can't the other party do that as well? Unless it's a secret checksum algorithm...what if they the checksum gets compromised and you don't know? You may end up accepting false "messages".
sending this index (in the clear) along with every encrypted message
Is the index coming from the right source? The problem is still there i guess...
I can see the unbreakability of one time pads, but i can feel there are other disadvantages. What we have know can sign stuff and authenticate. One time pads cannot (by themselves)...