I have read some books about time and still, even if i really put my head into it i still cant come to terms with the notion that time changes (with) speed. To me time must be constant and absolute, not relative. The reasoning i have behind this is that time is just the order and speed in wich events in the universe happens. Its not a force or energy, its really nothing at all. Time has no meaning and no value in itself. Its just a way we humans describe series of events and in wich order and speed they occur.
This makes time travel pretty impossible. You cant change the events of things that has already happened since time isnt anything in itself. You cant alter time or change time. You can change what happens right now, like how fast something travel or in wich order an event occurs. When Einstein says time is relative he is making the assumption that time is linked to events and speeds. It has a corralation but only a one way corralation. Time just is and you can change how things happens and how fast they go in time but you can in no way change time in itself.
I wish i was better at explaining exactly how i think.
Do you know this or do you just think you know this? It might as well just be that that perticular way of thinking by a coincidence fitted into the theory. The mass is just the energy of movement. What says that the mass is infinite at light speed? If it takes x amount of energy to acceletate an object 1 km/s it should take just the same amount of energy to accelerate from lightspeed to lightspeed + 1 km/s.
That would be pretty hard i suspect. If it is possible it would be one heck of a virus for wreaking havoc. Its in some ways nice that most viruses are made for botnets. If people would really want to hurt windows computers this type of virus would be able to do some serious damage i suspect. Imagine a series of them...
Im also glad i admin linux. If something like this breaks out i will still be sitting with my coffee watching top while the other admins runs around like crazy monkeys.
My fealing in the subject is that the speed of light is just a mental barrier. Just like the speed of sound. I have a really hard time accepting that the speed of light would impossible to exceed. I should really take some time off to put my reasoning behind this into calculations and theories. In my world the speed of light is the highest speed of light, not the highest speed of everything else.
Before you jump all over me, dont forget that the world once was flat and the sun evolved around the earth. We still have a long way to go.
In my work i admin both Linux and Windows and from my point of view as an admin Windows is the one that fluxes and changes the most. Things i learned in Linux in 94 is still very much relevant today but i cant say i have much use for my Dos Skillz.
Frankly i dont remember having any troubles uninstalling Norton Utilities on dos. If you had used the drive compress feature you had to revert the disk back to its old uncompressed state before you uninstalled that feature but other than that it wasnt any problems uninstalling it.
"I've also talked with people on the technical side of the XBOX 360."
That comment sparked a big question in my head right away. Do this guy have much contacts in Microsoft and if so, why? I would assume its not that smart talking to the opposite side about your own products capabilities and release dates and other sensetive information. My tinfoil is getting worn out but somehow i get the fealing something is wrong with this picture. I have a hard time imaging an engineer who have put enormous amounts of time into a project would deem a competitors product as much better, especially one thats a whole year older. I really wonder just where he got his better position and job offer.
The whole point of jokes like that is they get funnier the more worn out and lame they get. They arent supposed to be funny in themselves. I suppose its a cultural thing. I cant stand slapstick and US humour with pie throwing and at the same time i cant understand why someone dont think the dead parrot with Monty Python is hilarious.
"Doesn't the field become richer when the wider spectrum of legal thought is explored and encouraged?"
Its not certain that DRM will make any more money for the companies. Many people take it for granted even if its not tested in the real world. A backside of too much DRM might as well be a boon for real artists again, the kind that takes the stage for fun and not just for profit. The media companies is desperate to make more money and they have mistakenly put quality aside for the sake of limiting users rights. Who will buy your product when its a PITA to use and not contain any real value?
Imagine Microsoft succeding in making Windows Vista totally impossible to use pirated software on. It would make people use cheaper software since today not many i know really owns licenses for even half the software they have installed. When they use that cheaper software (because they cant d/l photoshop from p2p) they will want to use the same at their companies. Do the software industry really push users towards other cheaper software like OSS and freeware etc? Thats something they need to think through real hard before they push DRM with full force.
China has one party and the US has two, effectivly one since they both are so incredibly alike. They share the same values and the differences for an outsider is purely superficial. The US has an effective self censoring media while its mandatory in China.
The only thing China needs is to split the communist party in two and call themselves a democracy. Pay the media to censor instead of forcing them and you have United States 2.0
When the government manufacturers its own news you know something is really wrong with the truth. The path to a fascist state is shorter in the US than most people thinks. Mostly because i suspect not that many really understand what fascism is.
This is getting silly and fast. Every week some lame article stating that Google is evil gets posted on Slashdot. When you compare Google to any other company they still come out of those comparisons untouched so far. Its a wild goose chase for any possible sign of Google not keeping the standard of Gandhi, Mother Theresa or some saint. Google is a coorporation and should be compared to other corporations, say Microsoft. In comparison with Microsoft Google is a beacon of light. Perhaps thats whats bugging so many, compare them and you have nothing to complain about. Should Google just lie down, take it like a good prisoners bitch up the shute and let Microsoft take the whole Chineese market?
Google must compete on a level playing field with Microsoft and until Microsoft draws out of China or refuse to censor Google cant do it either. That would be to give the biggest market in the world away to their fiercest, biggest baddest competitor.
Until Microsoft, Yahoo and other american companies agrees to bail out of China this is just a lame attempt to paint a pretty decent company as evil.
Im not any part of that so called "we" and i have no problem with their current ruling. Can you even imagine what would happen to the region if China was to dissolve? If you think the middle east is a mess now thats NOTHING compared to the demise of China. Id rather sit back and let democracy come in slowly than watch the US wreck havoc in yet another area throwing the whole region into full blown civil war. Both saddam and bin laden was put in place by the US, ring any bells?
What bothers me how fast people forget just how he has gotten theese money. For all we know computing as we know it would be years ahead if it wasnt for Microsoft and Bill Gates. The way Microsoft has taken over the market is disturbing. By killing the competition, not by selling better products. If it hadnt been Bill it would have been [insert name of choice here] that would be throwing money at third world countries to avoid taxes.
A killer does not become better in any way by saving equal amounts of lives as he has killed. Most of the problems in the third world is because of us in the developed world. We have made extreme amounts of money by exploiting them. The tiny fractions of it we "give" back is a mere drop in the ocean and nothing to bang our chests about.
Bill Gates sucks whatever he does because of what he has done to set back computing years just for profit. Nothing can change that unless he gets a time machine.
Sweden currently has only one party with wich i can fully identify with, this very one. Im fully convinced that IP as an industry is just a feverish attempt at keeping the current snowball-market afloat. That is, it doesnt work without constant market growth and as we have made the most out of real values we now turn to fictional ones like ideas, thoughts and culture. This is a must to keep the market expanding when no new movements have arised to take the place of the industrialism era. In my view its the economical system that needs to adapt to real values and not the other way around, make the real world look like the stock market.
I had the pleasure to talk to support this other week. I needed the lpd name of a Xerox Document Centre 440. I know for a fact that almost all printers who are net enabled do have a lpr que name, its just not printed on todays sorry excuses for manuals. This copier/printer do have a lpr que name.
I spoke to four different people on tech support who at first thought i was talking about something in MS Windows. I tried in vain to explain what i needed to know, why, that their machine did really have an lpr que and no, it was not a Windows application. I further explained that i needed the name to be able to connect the printer to an Novell Open Enterprise. The fast answer was ofcourse "-we dont support open enterprise". Well i didnt want support on OES, all i wanted was the name of the friggin lpr que. Fourth call i called it a day and swore to never ever have anything to do with a Xerox machine of any kind ever again. Looked around a bit and found the lpr que name of every net enabled printer in history on Novells own site. How is it possible that a tech support dont know that lpr even exist? This wasnt just a consumer support, it was the support for big customers.
Support like that are cheap but really worthless for the consumer.
I hate mail applications, really. Most people tend to want access to their mail from anywhere. Webmail is the best solution ever for that purpouse. Webmail is also cheap, easy to administer and demands very little hands on work on the clients. Calendaring and meetings is not something everyone uses or even needs if they attend meetings. Its like hand computers, its fun for a while but gets stuck in the cradle after a couple of months for most people. I would really like to see a split between collaboration apps and mail apps. When you send someone a letter you dont send them your planner do you? While its nice to have functions to send appointments through mail i dont think you should mix mail with everything else. Mail is the transport, not the application.
Many of those patches hasnt been tested for more than a couple of hours and still they wont break anything. I do agree that Microsofts poor modularity is a big culprit. Still, they created the mess, they clean it. No one can say they havent been handsomly paid to do so,
Bugs arent some kind of attention whores who only crawls out in the spotlight. The number of bugs in a product has nothing to do with the number of users. If the damn software doesn't work as intended its broken, period. I can take your argument for small obscure bugs only seen when using Microsofts software on a full moon when penguins fly over it. Big bugs that almost every user stumbles upon arent excusable because its impossible that Microsoft missed those when testing inhouse. They just plain didnt give a fsck.
The real problem with fixing holes in Windows is that its so integrated. Integration by well defined protocols and standard API can be a blessing while just throwing things in a bucket at random and glue it with binary code aint. Windows is the latter where the smallest step in the wrong place send the whole bucket to hell.
I for one am not at all "used to seeing those patches break things in unanticipated ways, often making things worse".
In fact i have every darn server running on autoupdate and i have had them like that for a couple of years. RHEL, SUSE, Debian, Gentoo and even Fedora have been nothing but stunning in the way they update without ever breaking anything. The only thing i have to do is keep an eye out for serious exploits, else i just restart the services once a week and the whole server on a weekend when noone is at work.
The only thing i have ever seen break on any linux was when useradd didnt want to add users with dots (.) in their name (no phun intendet alraight?). Normally you dont add users with special characters but my predecessor did it because he didnt understand ncpfs and containers. The quick fix was to just downgrade gracefully to the former version while i figured out how ncpfs was setup and fixed. Downgrading something in Windows is a very hard thing to do since many patches lies ontop of another.
On windows i have seen whole computers totally break down after a simple upgrade, even to the state where they wont even boot anymoore and a complete reeinstall is the only remedy.
Altavista was once king but was fast thrown out in favor for the better Google. You dont sit very firm on the internet. Internet users are very fluid and its not easy to lock someone in to a single search engine. If google begins to suck people will just migrate en masse to say MSN search or some other search engine. Until Google has done something stupid it feels very hollow when people try to paint a perfectly sane company as evil. When that fails they say "-just you wait they'll become evil eventually!".
Google has a quicksilver grip on the market. Any big redmonduesq manouver will make it all vanish in a heartbeat. Thats the biggest reason i have a hard time imagening they suddenly turning evil. Google hasnt got a desktop monopoly to live on or some vendor lockin in effect. All they have is great people, good inventive minds and people who like their services. Without that they are nothing.
This is just some Microsoft proxy bullshit spewed out from a frustrated redmond who fails to compete on the merits of their services.
I dont care about spurious theoretical cache transfer rates. What i care about is the sustained transfer rate and the ability to do more than one thing at a time. Come to think of it i think i really hate HDs. When o when will we have solid state long time memory in our computers without moving parts?
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Im selling my stove and getting one of theese ASAP!
Seriously, how much power will they consume?
I have read some books about time and still, even if i really put my head into it i still cant come to terms with the notion that time changes (with) speed. To me time must be constant and absolute, not relative. The reasoning i have behind this is that time is just the order and speed in wich events in the universe happens. Its not a force or energy, its really nothing at all. Time has no meaning and no value in itself. Its just a way we humans describe series of events and in wich order and speed they occur.
This makes time travel pretty impossible. You cant change the events of things that has already happened since time isnt anything in itself. You cant alter time or change time. You can change what happens right now, like how fast something travel or in wich order an event occurs. When Einstein says time is relative he is making the assumption that time is linked to events and speeds. It has a corralation but only a one way corralation. Time just is and you can change how things happens and how fast they go in time but you can in no way change time in itself.
I wish i was better at explaining exactly how i think.
Do you know this or do you just think you know this? It might as well just be that that perticular way of thinking by a coincidence fitted into the theory. The mass is just the energy of movement. What says that the mass is infinite at light speed? If it takes x amount of energy to acceletate an object 1 km/s it should take just the same amount of energy to accelerate from lightspeed to lightspeed + 1 km/s.
That would be pretty hard i suspect. If it is possible it would be one heck of a virus for wreaking havoc. Its in some ways nice that most viruses are made for botnets. If people would really want to hurt windows computers this type of virus would be able to do some serious damage i suspect. Imagine a series of them...
Im also glad i admin linux. If something like this breaks out i will still be sitting with my coffee watching top while the other admins runs around like crazy monkeys.
My fealing in the subject is that the speed of light is just a mental barrier. Just like the speed of sound. I have a really hard time accepting that the speed of light would impossible to exceed. I should really take some time off to put my reasoning behind this into calculations and theories. In my world the speed of light is the highest speed of light, not the highest speed of everything else.
Before you jump all over me, dont forget that the world once was flat and the sun evolved around the earth. We still have a long way to go.
In my work i admin both Linux and Windows and from my point of view as an admin Windows is the one that fluxes and changes the most. Things i learned in Linux in 94 is still very much relevant today but i cant say i have much use for my Dos Skillz.
Frankly i dont remember having any troubles uninstalling Norton Utilities on dos. If you had used the drive compress feature you had to revert the disk back to its old uncompressed state before you uninstalled that feature but other than that it wasnt any problems uninstalling it.
"This should be a cautionary tale about deploying beta products in production environments."
Then how are we supposed to use Microsoft products? I thougt all Microsofts products was more or less beta.
"I've also talked with people on the technical side of the XBOX 360."
That comment sparked a big question in my head right away. Do this guy have much contacts in Microsoft and if so, why? I would assume its not that smart talking to the opposite side about your own products capabilities and release dates and other sensetive information. My tinfoil is getting worn out but somehow i get the fealing something is wrong with this picture. I have a hard time imaging an engineer who have put enormous amounts of time into a project would deem a competitors product as much better, especially one thats a whole year older. I really wonder just where he got his better position and job offer.
The whole point of jokes like that is they get funnier the more worn out and lame they get. They arent supposed to be funny in themselves. I suppose its a cultural thing. I cant stand slapstick and US humour with pie throwing and at the same time i cant understand why someone dont think the dead parrot with Monty Python is hilarious.
"Doesn't the field become richer when the wider spectrum of legal thought is explored and encouraged?"
Its not certain that DRM will make any more money for the companies. Many people take it for granted even if its not tested in the real world. A backside of too much DRM might as well be a boon for real artists again, the kind that takes the stage for fun and not just for profit. The media companies is desperate to make more money and they have mistakenly put quality aside for the sake of limiting users rights. Who will buy your product when its a PITA to use and not contain any real value?
Imagine Microsoft succeding in making Windows Vista totally impossible to use pirated software on. It would make people use cheaper software since today not many i know really owns licenses for even half the software they have installed. When they use that cheaper software (because they cant d/l photoshop from p2p) they will want to use the same at their companies. Do the software industry really push users towards other cheaper software like OSS and freeware etc? Thats something they need to think through real hard before they push DRM with full force.
China has one party and the US has two, effectivly one since they both are so incredibly alike. They share the same values and the differences for an outsider is purely superficial. The US has an effective self censoring media while its mandatory in China.
The only thing China needs is to split the communist party in two and call themselves a democracy. Pay the media to censor instead of forcing them and you have United States 2.0
When the government manufacturers its own news you know something is really wrong with the truth. The path to a fascist state is shorter in the US than most people thinks. Mostly because i suspect not that many really understand what fascism is.
This is getting silly and fast. Every week some lame article stating that Google is evil gets posted on Slashdot. When you compare Google to any other company they still come out of those comparisons untouched so far. Its a wild goose chase for any possible sign of Google not keeping the standard of Gandhi, Mother Theresa or some saint. Google is a coorporation and should be compared to other corporations, say Microsoft. In comparison with Microsoft Google is a beacon of light. Perhaps thats whats bugging so many, compare them and you have nothing to complain about. Should Google just lie down, take it like a good prisoners bitch up the shute and let Microsoft take the whole Chineese market?
Google must compete on a level playing field with Microsoft and until Microsoft draws out of China or refuse to censor Google cant do it either. That would be to give the biggest market in the world away to their fiercest, biggest baddest competitor.
Until Microsoft, Yahoo and other american companies agrees to bail out of China this is just a lame attempt to paint a pretty decent company as evil.
What do you talk about, "we"?
Im not any part of that so called "we" and i have no problem with their current ruling. Can you even imagine what would happen to the region if China was to dissolve? If you think the middle east is a mess now thats NOTHING compared to the demise of China. Id rather sit back and let democracy come in slowly than watch the US wreck havoc in yet another area throwing the whole region into full blown civil war. Both saddam and bin laden was put in place by the US, ring any bells?
What bothers me how fast people forget just how he has gotten theese money. For all we know computing as we know it would be years ahead if it wasnt for Microsoft and Bill Gates. The way Microsoft has taken over the market is disturbing. By killing the competition, not by selling better products. If it hadnt been Bill it would have been [insert name of choice here] that would be throwing money at third world countries to avoid taxes.
A killer does not become better in any way by saving equal amounts of lives as he has killed. Most of the problems in the third world is because of us in the developed world. We have made extreme amounts of money by exploiting them. The tiny fractions of it we "give" back is a mere drop in the ocean and nothing to bang our chests about.
Bill Gates sucks whatever he does because of what he has done to set back computing years just for profit. Nothing can change that unless he gets a time machine.
Sweden currently has only one party with wich i can fully identify with, this very one. Im fully convinced that IP as an industry is just a feverish attempt at keeping the current snowball-market afloat. That is, it doesnt work without constant market growth and as we have made the most out of real values we now turn to fictional ones like ideas, thoughts and culture. This is a must to keep the market expanding when no new movements have arised to take the place of the industrialism era. In my view its the economical system that needs to adapt to real values and not the other way around, make the real world look like the stock market.
I had the pleasure to talk to support this other week. I needed the lpd name of a Xerox Document Centre 440. I know for a fact that almost all printers who are net enabled do have a lpr que name, its just not printed on todays sorry excuses for manuals. This copier/printer do have a lpr que name.
I spoke to four different people on tech support who at first thought i was talking about something in MS Windows. I tried in vain to explain what i needed to know, why, that their machine did really have an lpr que and no, it was not a Windows application. I further explained that i needed the name to be able to connect the printer to an Novell Open Enterprise. The fast answer was ofcourse "-we dont support open enterprise". Well i didnt want support on OES, all i wanted was the name of the friggin lpr que. Fourth call i called it a day and swore to never ever have anything to do with a Xerox machine of any kind ever again. Looked around a bit and found the lpr que name of every net enabled printer in history on Novells own site. How is it possible that a tech support dont know that lpr even exist? This wasnt just a consumer support, it was the support for big customers.
Support like that are cheap but really worthless for the consumer.
I hate mail applications, really. Most people tend to want access to their mail from anywhere. Webmail is the best solution ever for that purpouse. Webmail is also cheap, easy to administer and demands very little hands on work on the clients. Calendaring and meetings is not something everyone uses or even needs if they attend meetings. Its like hand computers, its fun for a while but gets stuck in the cradle after a couple of months for most people. I would really like to see a split between collaboration apps and mail apps. When you send someone a letter you dont send them your planner do you? While its nice to have functions to send appointments through mail i dont think you should mix mail with everything else. Mail is the transport, not the application.
Many of those patches hasnt been tested for more than a couple of hours and still they wont break anything. I do agree that Microsofts poor modularity is a big culprit. Still, they created the mess, they clean it. No one can say they havent been handsomly paid to do so,
Bugs arent some kind of attention whores who only crawls out in the spotlight. The number of bugs in a product has nothing to do with the number of users. If the damn software doesn't work as intended its broken, period. I can take your argument for small obscure bugs only seen when using Microsofts software on a full moon when penguins fly over it. Big bugs that almost every user stumbles upon arent excusable because its impossible that Microsoft missed those when testing inhouse. They just plain didnt give a fsck.
The real problem with fixing holes in Windows is that its so integrated. Integration by well defined protocols and standard API can be a blessing while just throwing things in a bucket at random and glue it with binary code aint. Windows is the latter where the smallest step in the wrong place send the whole bucket to hell.
I for one am not at all "used to seeing those patches break things in unanticipated ways, often making things worse".
In fact i have every darn server running on autoupdate and i have had them like that for a couple of years. RHEL, SUSE, Debian, Gentoo and even Fedora have been nothing but stunning in the way they update without ever breaking anything. The only thing i have to do is keep an eye out for serious exploits, else i just restart the services once a week and the whole server on a weekend when noone is at work.
The only thing i have ever seen break on any linux was when useradd didnt want to add users with dots (.) in their name (no phun intendet alraight?). Normally you dont add users with special characters but my predecessor did it because he didnt understand ncpfs and containers. The quick fix was to just downgrade gracefully to the former version while i figured out how ncpfs was setup and fixed. Downgrading something in Windows is a very hard thing to do since many patches lies ontop of another.
On windows i have seen whole computers totally break down after a simple upgrade, even to the state where they wont even boot anymoore and a complete reeinstall is the only remedy.
He used MSN Search!
Altavista was once king but was fast thrown out in favor for the better Google. You dont sit very firm on the internet. Internet users are very fluid and its not easy to lock someone in to a single search engine. If google begins to suck people will just migrate en masse to say MSN search or some other search engine. Until Google has done something stupid it feels very hollow when people try to paint a perfectly sane company as evil. When that fails they say "-just you wait they'll become evil eventually!".
Google has a quicksilver grip on the market. Any big redmonduesq manouver will make it all vanish in a heartbeat. Thats the biggest reason i have a hard time imagening they suddenly turning evil. Google hasnt got a desktop monopoly to live on or some vendor lockin in effect. All they have is great people, good inventive minds and people who like their services. Without that they are nothing.
This is just some Microsoft proxy bullshit spewed out from a frustrated redmond who fails to compete on the merits of their services.
I dont care about spurious theoretical cache transfer rates. What i care about is the sustained transfer rate and the ability to do more than one thing at a time. Come to think of it i think i really hate HDs. When o when will we have solid state long time memory in our computers without moving parts?