No, he expects consumer level software to come with the same quality of consumer level evrything else. If I buy a cheap toy for my child I have certain expectations that it will function like it is supposed to - a warrantee of merchantibility. Whay cannot software function as it is supposed to
Why is that idealistic and unreasonable?
In my fantasyland the Supreme Court decides that the more onerous restrictions of some EULA's are against public policy and cannot be enforced. Not the GPL - that's not onerous. I'm talking about waivers of damages, warrantee, etc.
"There's even a good argument to be made in favour of deliberately introducing binary incompatibility. If programs compiled on my computer would only ever be able to run on my computer, and any program compiled on anyone else's computer would never be able to run on mine, then there would be no such thing as viruses or buffer overrun vulnerabilities. {Unfortunately, this raises the question of how to ever get any computer up and running}."
This remind me of the proposal from a few years ago to eliminate the threat of nuclear war: loft enough gravel into orbit and ICBM's wouldn't survive. Of course, no more satellites could be launched, and manned space exploration would be forever lost, and we could still make war with cruise missiles and bombers, but hey - sometimes one needs to destroy the village in order to save it.
Rather, it is as if the beer companies were collecting statistics on underage drinking so that they could better market their product.
Or tobacco companies collecting statistics on underage smoking so they could market their product.
Even betetr would be if the maker of Oxycontin was to gather statistics on Heroin users so as to better market their (legal) product to the addicts in question so that the will buy Oxycontin instead of Heroin.
Yes, it is an acronym. The program name was either formatted purposely to get comething the originator(s) thought was cute, or, when the acronym was pointed out (probably immediately on naming) to them, went, "Hehheh, Cool" and ignored it.
If I came up with a mathematics program, and called it "Coordinated Unit Normalized Tester" and then expected colleges and corporations to adopt it, you'd laugh. Why is this different?
Then stop calling it GIMP, or especially "the gimp."
Cutesy "recursive" names are bad enough, but using what most people would call a derisive term is inviting ridicule, and hence being dismissed by corporations.
Call it GMP, for Graphical Manipulation Program Call it IMP, for Image manipulation Program Call it MMP for Multimedia Manipulation Program (who cares if it doesnt actually do what its name says.)
1) Unless the table is an antique with a family connection (grandmother's, etc), ditch it. It is taking up 4% of your living space, and the effect is even greater - it effectively takes up the volume both above and below it.
2) Ditch the laptop stand - doesn't your machine already have an LCD? At least use a KVM.
3) Shelves, and shitloads of them.
4) Ditch as much stuff as you can.
5) DO NOT get storage space; it will only serve as a crutch (ask me how I know...)
6) Do the tasks you mentioned before you move. It will be a lot easier to sort when you have space to do it, as opposed to when it is in boxes stacked 3 deep in an apartment into which you are trying to move.
My uncle, who has been deaf for years, lives in a house that is extraordinarily loud, mainly due to his wife and 3 daughters yeling at him to get his attention. I found out why when he was reading a magazine in another room and the yelling started. He very subtly reached up and turned down his hearing aid, giving hiom another few moments of blissfull peace until they physically hunted them down.
The 3 second claim is bullshit no matter what you are driving. I used to drive a Jetta diesel: 0-60 measures by an hourglass. I could have strapped a JATO on the roof and gotten the ET down, but this thing is the 100 mpg carb all over again.
"The US has become extremely impopular here in the last 10 years (say in the period that Bush is in goverment)."
So the US has been getting more unpopular in the past 10 years. Bush has been the President for the last 5. So your digust with the US started at the beginning of the second Clinton administration.
I can believe that. Of course, I can also believe you are simply math and/or history impaired.
"Google has a legal duty to dislcose, not disclose through 'rose-coloured-reporters' only"
What legal duty is that? Google has no legal requirement to disclose anything except as required by the SEC since they are now a publicly held company - and that discloser isn't made via reporters.
Google doesn't owe reporter or news organizations ANY cooperation, although it makes good business sense to do so. The Fifth Estate may be protected by law to do what they do, but no law compels comapanies or individuals to cooperate.
I got 3 sentences into one of the articles and it said that BluRay will have proprietary versions of all these stated techniques. Given Sony's track record with proprietary stuff (Beta, MD, Memory sticks, etc.), I'm not going to lose much sleep.
You have pointed out the main problem with current ABM schemes, and why the limits on space based weaponry contribute to it.
Let's take your analogy farther - destroying a bullet on the way to your chest. But in the bullet analogy, we DON'T wait until the bullet is fired - You shoot the bad guy as he is drawing his gun, or while he has it pointed at you. Drawbacks? Lots, including blowing away innocent people (Ref NYPD problems). But, from a personal survival standpoint, it's a hell of a lot safer than waiting for the person to shoot and then trying to shoot the bullet outof the air.
So if it's safer to shoot at a person while he is drawing, how does that translate to ICBM's? Simple. In boost phase, the missile is slow moving, all of the warheads and/or decoys are in one place, and the missile is physically located over the launcer's own territory. It is much easier to disable a boosting missile - Just drop stuff on it from above. Maybe a cannister of ball bearings with an IR guidance system and a dispersal charge.
Why haven't we done this? First, the policy of not militarizing space. Second, and I think more important, is the old military axiom about controlling the high ground. A nation that got such a system into orbit would control space, period. Nothing would be able to leave the Earth without permission from the controlling entity.
So the US, with technology on hand, could end the threat of ICBM's and effectively take ownership of space. Why hasn't it happened so far? I don't really know, but I can say that I doubt China or some yet to be named future power will let whatever has stopped the US from stopping them.
Actually, reports are that they are better for RSI's. The force level isn't taht much higher than a cheap keyboard, but you get positive feedback, both audible, and tactile, when the contact is made. This helps a lot.
Look at it this was. The Model M ergonomics were copied from the IBM Selectric typewriters. Skilled typists could go insanely fast on them (my Mom once complained that, after years away from typing professionally, that her speed was down to "only" 90 wpm). Yet complaints of RSI only really flaired up (sorry 'bout that) with the widespread distribution of crappy membrane style keyboards.
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I remember hearing one of those "audio diaries" on NPR by someone who worked at Kozmo. She had just graduated college with some arts degree, and her job was bicycle delivery in. She was paid over $30k/year and made, on average, 2 deliveries a day, and spent the rest of the time sitting in the warehouse chatting with the other messengers.
When the company collapsed, she despaired of ever finding a job as good as that one, and decided to go to grad school - also in whatever major she had in undergrad (and couldn't find a job with).
Never in my life have I so wished to have the power to disobey the laws of physics, just in order to be able to reach through the radio and slap that stupid bitch silly. She should have been doing backflips, rejoicing that the whole scheme lasted so long, instead of moaning about how unfair life was.
(Didnt' help that I was stuck in Beltway traffic in summer with no A/C when listening.)
I used to work for a guy who used a variant of that technique to get rid of groundhogs. He kept sticks of sodium stored safely in a bucket of kerosene. When the critters got too pesky, he would fish out a couple of sticks and stuff them down the groundhog hole. He's then grab the hose and fill the hole from about 20' away.
BOOOM!
No more groundhog, and a lovely crater about which to tell stories.
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No, he expects consumer level software to come with the same quality of consumer level evrything else. If I buy a cheap toy for my child I have certain expectations that it will function like it is supposed to - a warrantee of merchantibility. Whay cannot software function as it is supposed to
Why is that idealistic and unreasonable?
In my fantasyland the Supreme Court decides that the more onerous restrictions of some EULA's are against public policy and cannot be enforced. Not the GPL - that's not onerous. I'm talking about waivers of damages, warrantee, etc.
"poll you have to do ..."
Yoda? Is that you?
"There's even a good argument to be made in favour of deliberately introducing binary incompatibility. If programs compiled on my computer would only ever be able to run on my computer, and any program compiled on anyone else's computer would never be able to run on mine, then there would be no such thing as viruses or buffer overrun vulnerabilities. {Unfortunately, this raises the question of how to ever get any computer up and running}."
This remind me of the proposal from a few years ago to eliminate the threat of nuclear war: loft enough gravel into orbit and ICBM's wouldn't survive. Of course, no more satellites could be launched, and manned space exploration would be forever lost, and we could still make war with cruise missiles and bombers, but hey - sometimes one needs to destroy the village in order to save it.
Rather, it is as if the beer companies were collecting statistics on underage drinking so that they could better market their product.
Or tobacco companies collecting statistics on underage smoking so they could market their product.
Even betetr would be if the maker of Oxycontin was to gather statistics on Heroin users so as to better market their (legal) product to the addicts in question so that the will buy Oxycontin instead of Heroin.
Yes, it is an acronym. The program name was either formatted purposely to get comething the originator(s) thought was cute, or, when the acronym was pointed out (probably immediately on naming) to them, went, "Hehheh, Cool" and ignored it.
If I came up with a mathematics program, and called it "Coordinated Unit Normalized Tester" and then expected colleges and corporations to adopt it, you'd laugh. Why is this different?
Then stop calling it GIMP, or especially "the gimp."
Cutesy "recursive" names are bad enough, but using what most people would call a derisive term is inviting ridicule, and hence being dismissed by corporations.
Call it GMP, for Graphical Manipulation Program
Call it IMP, for Image manipulation Program
Call it MMP for Multimedia Manipulation Program (who cares if it doesnt actually do what its name says.)
But for God's sake, get rid of "the GIMP".
I offer the following:
1) Unless the table is an antique with a family connection (grandmother's, etc), ditch it. It is taking up 4% of your living space, and the effect is even greater - it effectively takes up the volume both above and below it.
2) Ditch the laptop stand - doesn't your machine already have an LCD? At least use a KVM.
3) Shelves, and shitloads of them.
4) Ditch as much stuff as you can.
5) DO NOT get storage space; it will only serve as a crutch (ask me how I know...)
6) Do the tasks you mentioned before you move. It will be a lot easier to sort when you have space to do it, as opposed to when it is in boxes stacked 3 deep in an apartment into which you are trying to move.
"Hey is the GP Richard Gere!??!"
(G)erry Penacoli?
Does it have a "Cancel nagging family" feature?
My uncle, who has been deaf for years, lives in a house that is extraordinarily loud, mainly due to his wife and 3 daughters yeling at him to get his attention. I found out why when he was reading a magazine in another room and the yelling started. He very subtly reached up and turned down his hearing aid, giving hiom another few moments of blissfull peace until they physically hunted them down.
My respect for him went up about 1000%.
The 3 second claim is bullshit no matter what you are driving. I used to drive a Jetta diesel: 0-60 measures by an hourglass. I could have strapped a JATO on the roof and gotten the ET down, but this thing is the 100 mpg carb all over again.
I read that the real fun to be had is to hook up a lawn tractor battery and get the drive spinning, THEN use it for target practice.
I believe the proper spelling is "Calipornia".
I don't know that a show pronounced "scuzzy Miami" would do so well - accurate though the title may sound.
I believe GP hulls are monomolecular, and the only thing that bothers them is a buttload of antimatter. Can't remember the story reference, though.
There is a fundamental misunderstanding here:
Men tell women *exactly* what's going on in their minds, generally along the theme of food.sex.beer.sex.food.sex.sleep.sex....
Women simply refuse to believe it.
In direct answer to the question, Yes, that's all there is. Why is that not sufficient?
Next:
MSRSSIPPI: Don't know what it means, but I can spell it because it is catchy.
"the release of Google Desktop 2.0 is beginning to take shape as a browser in itself as the need for a Firefox or IE is almost eliminated"
Funny, I didn't see a "browser" plugin. Of course, I'm sure there are folks that use Firefox and IE for everything BUT browsing...maybe not.
"The US has become extremely impopular here in the last 10 years (say in the period that Bush is in goverment)."
So the US has been getting more unpopular in the past 10 years. Bush has been the President for the last 5. So your digust with the US started at the beginning of the second Clinton administration.
I can believe that. Of course, I can also believe you are simply math and/or history impaired.
"Google has a legal duty to dislcose, not disclose through 'rose-coloured-reporters' only"
What legal duty is that? Google has no legal requirement to disclose anything except as required by the SEC since they are now a publicly held company - and that discloser isn't made via reporters.
Google doesn't owe reporter or news organizations ANY cooperation, although it makes good business sense to do so. The Fifth Estate may be protected by law to do what they do, but no law compels comapanies or individuals to cooperate.
From TFP: "folks at ZDNet UK are now not sure whether they will get the same treatment"
They can be sure of getting the same treatment now. Glad they cleared THAT up.
I got 3 sentences into one of the articles and it said that BluRay will have proprietary versions of all these stated techniques. Given Sony's track record with proprietary stuff (Beta, MD, Memory sticks, etc.), I'm not going to lose much sleep.
You have pointed out the main problem with current ABM schemes, and why the limits on space based weaponry contribute to it.
Let's take your analogy farther - destroying a bullet on the way to your chest. But in the bullet analogy, we DON'T wait until the bullet is fired - You shoot the bad guy as he is drawing his gun, or while he has it pointed at you. Drawbacks? Lots, including blowing away innocent people (Ref NYPD problems). But, from a personal survival standpoint, it's a hell of a lot safer than waiting for the person to shoot and then trying to shoot the bullet outof the air.
So if it's safer to shoot at a person while he is drawing, how does that translate to ICBM's? Simple. In boost phase, the missile is slow moving, all of the warheads and/or decoys are in one place, and the missile is physically located over the launcer's own territory. It is much easier to disable a boosting missile - Just drop stuff on it from above. Maybe a cannister of ball bearings with an IR guidance system and a dispersal charge.
Why haven't we done this? First, the policy of not militarizing space. Second, and I think more important, is the old military axiom about controlling the high ground. A nation that got such a system into orbit would control space, period. Nothing would be able to leave the Earth without permission from the controlling entity.
So the US, with technology on hand, could end the threat of ICBM's and effectively take ownership of space. Why hasn't it happened so far? I don't really know, but I can say that I doubt China or some yet to be named future power will let whatever has stopped the US from stopping them.
Actually, reports are that they are better for RSI's. The force level isn't taht much higher than a cheap keyboard, but you get positive feedback, both audible, and tactile, when the contact is made. This helps a lot.
Look at it this was. The Model M ergonomics were copied from the IBM Selectric typewriters. Skilled typists could go insanely fast on them (my Mom once complained that, after years away from typing professionally, that her speed was down to "only" 90 wpm). Yet complaints of RSI only really flaired up (sorry 'bout that) with the widespread distribution of crappy membrane style keyboards.
I remember hearing one of those "audio diaries" on NPR by someone who worked at Kozmo. She had just graduated college with some arts degree, and her job was bicycle delivery in. She was paid over $30k/year and made, on average, 2 deliveries a day, and spent the rest of the time sitting in the warehouse chatting with the other messengers.
When the company collapsed, she despaired of ever finding a job as good as that one, and decided to go to grad school - also in whatever major she had in undergrad (and couldn't find a job with).
Never in my life have I so wished to have the power to disobey the laws of physics, just in order to be able to reach through the radio and slap that stupid bitch silly. She should have been doing backflips, rejoicing that the whole scheme lasted so long, instead of moaning about how unfair life was.
(Didnt' help that I was stuck in Beltway traffic in summer with no A/C when listening.)
I used to work for a guy who used a variant of that technique to get rid of groundhogs. He kept sticks of sodium stored safely in a bucket of kerosene. When the critters got too pesky, he would fish out a couple of sticks and stuff them down the groundhog hole. He's then grab the hose and fill the hole from about 20' away.
BOOOM!
No more groundhog, and a lovely crater about which to tell stories.