I understand the capsules are made of biocompatible material, and they are also coated with proteins that both acts as localized immunosuppressors for a while and forces the tissue around it to grow, which effectively "anchors" the device in place.
And why do you think that is ? also, why do you think Linux (and most Unices) are more secure on a network than Windows ?
I agree that the Linux kernel is better designed (although to be honest I know next to nothing about the newer Windows kernels, and some supposedly knowledgeable people told me they were actually pretty good). But the biggest reason why Linux is more stable and more secure is because you, the computer-savvy user, took time to configure everything right and install servers right.
Now, if you want to make a Linux-based system that your grandma can use, you'll have to mask the concept of users vs. root with some suid installation utils, you'll have to allow everybody and their dogs to install any piece of software and insmod any driver from any vendor, you might have to slap in the equivalent of a registry to alleviate the current mess of etc files in a typical Linux fs,...etc...
If you do all that, if you make Linux user-friendly like Windows is (supposedly, I can't even begin to comprehend its organization), then I guarantee you the resulting system will be less stable and less secure than a standard Linux distro.
The real reason why Windows is shitty is because it's designed to be used by computer idiots. I believe that if computer users were required to learn basic computer sanity, and Windows didn't have the convenience/security/stability tradeoffs it has today to make up for computer idiocy, Windows would kick any OS' butt any day. And "basic computer sanity" doesn't mean the user has to learn how to install daemons, it means "don't run executables from Joe_Sixpack@hotmail.com", just like "don't stick candy bars in the toaster" in real life : if people had that basic good sense, there would be no auto execution in Outlook, because people would find that crazy.
"the term adopted by the french academy for "email" is "couriel"
Is that right ? I thought "mél" had been formally adopted years ago (when I left France). Did they change their minds or did they scrap it for couriel ? (or have they gone gaga for good;-)
Okay, so I admit, it's a really good idea : since Mb and Gb aren't powers of ten, let's invent new units to alleviate the confusion. But it'll never work, because people aren't used to it. One might argue that people just have to get used to it, or that people will naturally use the better system, but that doesn't actually matter : metric is a better system than imperial or standard, yet people in the UK or the US still haven't adopted metric. Actually that's not true, the UK is adopting metric because the authorities are forcing it down people throats, wish reinforces my point that is that people don't change if they don't have to.
The same goes with many things in spoken language : for example, the official translation for "email" in France is "mél", but nobody ever says or write that apart from people in the administration (i.e. look for "mél" in a letter and you know it's from the government).
Finally, there is a small argument in favor of keeping Kb, Mb and Gb around : these units are not 1000, 1M or 1G, therefore they are confusing, therefore they constitute in themselves another way for CS teachers to weed out students who have no talent for CS : I used to teach C, and within a week of being told a what a Kb was, I could tell which of my 1st year students were going to struggle and/or not going to make it if they didn't handle the 1000/1024 distinction like they were breathing.
"[The Internet] can cope with most European languages, but its core technologies, from the domain name system to HTML itself, don't translate naturally into as foreign a dialect as Mandarin."
The Internet is perfectly capable of doing Mandarin. For example, check this out, I'm going to write "slashdot" in Mandarin without using unicode :
-+- This is /|\ "slash"
,|/ This is
/ \ "dot"
See ? it's called ASCII. It does a faily good approximation of Mandarin I say...
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) has decided to defend its well-know trademarked operating system name "Windows" by launching a lawsuit against the glass window pane industry : "All these people selling windows[tm] to homeowners around the globe, it's an intolerable abuse of Microsoft[r] trademarks." declared yesterday Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
Similarly, Microsoft Corp. has decided to sue the cattle industry for allowing their cows to graze in meadows[tm], and the sun for casting shadows[tm].
"Microsoft contends the company, which plans to formally release its product next year, purposely is trying to confuse Lindows with Windows."
Microsoft is in grave danger of trademark dilution here. I mean, if they were a monopoly and the vast majority of OS users ran Windows, I wouldn't say, but as a fragile company with such a small name recognition, it's important that potential new customers don't get confused by a sneaky new startup who just wants to make a free buck out of a competitors honestly earned and well deserved success...
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And you thought it was bad enough when Matthew Broderick messed up the WOPR, now the damn mainframe is going completely gaga ...
A beer keg storage room ? a Pizza Hut outlet downstairs ?
I understand the capsules are made of biocompatible material, and they are also coated with proteins that both acts as localized immunosuppressors for a while and forces the tissue around it to grow, which effectively "anchors" the device in place.
Prof. Kevin Warwick in the UK had an electronic tag implanted in his arm as an experiment not so long ago.
And why do you think that is ? also, why do you think Linux (and most Unices) are more secure on a network than Windows ?
I agree that the Linux kernel is better designed (although to be honest I know next to nothing about the newer Windows kernels, and some supposedly knowledgeable people told me they were actually pretty good). But the biggest reason why Linux is more stable and more secure is because you, the computer-savvy user, took time to configure everything right and install servers right.
Now, if you want to make a Linux-based system that your grandma can use, you'll have to mask the concept of users vs. root with some suid installation utils, you'll have to allow everybody and their dogs to install any piece of software and insmod any driver from any vendor, you might have to slap in the equivalent of a registry to alleviate the current mess of etc files in a typical Linux fs, ...etc...
If you do all that, if you make Linux user-friendly like Windows is (supposedly, I can't even begin to comprehend its organization), then I guarantee you the resulting system will be less stable and less secure than a standard Linux distro.
The real reason why Windows is shitty is because it's designed to be used by computer idiots. I believe that if computer users were required to learn basic computer sanity, and Windows didn't have the convenience/security/stability tradeoffs it has today to make up for computer idiocy, Windows would kick any OS' butt any day. And "basic computer sanity" doesn't mean the user has to learn how to install daemons, it means "don't run executables from Joe_Sixpack@hotmail.com", just like "don't stick candy bars in the toaster" in real life : if people had that basic good sense, there would be no auto execution in Outlook, because people would find that crazy.
What did they choose for PCMCIA ? pécéèmecéia ? ;-)
Is that right ? I thought "mél" had been formally adopted years ago (when I left France). Did they change their minds or did they scrap it for couriel ? (or have they gone gaga for good ;-)
The same goes with many things in spoken language : for example, the official translation for "email" in France is "mél", but nobody ever says or write that apart from people in the administration (i.e. look for "mél" in a letter and you know it's from the government).
Finally, there is a small argument in favor of keeping Kb, Mb and Gb around : these units are not 1000, 1M or 1G, therefore they are confusing, therefore they constitute in themselves another way for CS teachers to weed out students who have no talent for CS : I used to teach C, and within a week of being told a what a Kb was, I could tell which of my 1st year students were going to struggle and/or not going to make it if they didn't handle the 1000/1024 distinction like they were breathing.
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The Internet is perfectly capable of doing Mandarin. For example, check this out, I'm going to write "slashdot" in Mandarin without using unicode :
-+- This is
/|\ "slash"
/ \ "dot"
See ? it's called ASCII. It does a faily good approximation of Mandarin I say ...
Since when CNN is a news site ? I see similarities between Chinese people who read the People's Daily and westerners who watch CNN.
Similarly, Microsoft Corp. has decided to sue the cattle industry for allowing their cows to graze in meadows[tm], and the sun for casting shadows[tm].
Microsoft is in grave danger of trademark dilution here. I mean, if they were a monopoly and the vast majority of OS users ran Windows, I wouldn't say, but as a fragile company with such a small name recognition, it's important that potential new customers don't get confused by a sneaky new startup who just wants to make a free buck out of a competitors honestly earned and well deserved success ...