The way for Microsoft to compete with Linux is for Microsoft to stop being
adversarial toward its customers.
For example, Windows XP has a crippled file system that cannot copy some of
its own files. The purpose of the crippling is apparently to prevent copying.
So, customers have to use third-party tools that often don't work well to make
full backups of the boot partition. Because some people are pirates, Microsoft
has chosen to treat every customer as a criminal. This causes customer a lot
of lost time. When the backup tools don't work well, it causes customers
grief.
The last time I mentioned this particular adversarial behavior toward
customers, someone posted a comment saying it was not true, the Windows XP
file system CAN copy all of its own files. However, Microsoft employees have
often said that it is true. Sometimes Microsoft employees even suggest one of
the third-party tools.
Microsoft recently declared that operating systems have a very limited
lifetime, and that Windows 98 is dead. Windows 98 is the most commonly used
operating system in the world! Now all of those hundreds of millions of people
must suffer. Apparently Microsoft wants to force people to upgrade to Windows
XP. However, many of those customers have computers that are not powerful
enough to support Windows XP. Anything for money is the philosophy at
Microsoft, I guess. If Bill Gates wanted to be truly philanthropic, he would
make a good operating system and support it well.
These are not isolated circumstances. There are many ways that Microsoft is
adversarial toward its customers. Bill Gates is the Chief of Grief.
But hey, Open Source is not always positive toward its customers. I reported a
but in Mozilla on a Sunday at 8 AM, and got a message at about 10 AM saying
they doubted that the problem was a fault in Mozilla. I asked for a new
feature in another program, but the developer said it would have to wait until
the next major version. So, open source developers are not angels; some of
them are however, about the best people you will find on earth.
This statement shocks me. It is amazing how easily users accept Microsoft's abusiveness. There are many configuration changes that are made but not entered into the even log. One example is when a critical bug fix from Microsoft sets network security to a less secure state than before the fix.
When a CD-ROM drive stops working because it has become disconnected due to oxide on the connector contacts, the user needs to know, immediately.
Please don't post to stories that you don't think are interesting. If you do, you will just post uninteresting comments. A new release of a beta of linux version is very important. That's how the news reaches those who would beta test. I'm very interested in knowing what to expect, even if I don't test the beta.
Judging from their comments, most people who post to Slashdot have very little understanding of the activities of the U.S. government. There have been many, many abuses concerning the collection of information. To prevent some of these abuses, the U.S. Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in 1978, and has since modified the law seven times. "The purpose of FISA was to create a wall between criminal investigations and intelligence gathering that would decrease the numerous abuses by the government's intelligence and law enforcement agencies during the 1950s, 60s and 70s."
The U.S. government has killed about 3,000,000 people since the beginning of the Vietnam war. The U.S. government has bombed 24 countries in the 58 years since the Second World War. The list below includes only countries bombed, not countries in which the U.S. government was responsible for other violence. The list includes only violence since the Second World War, not the extensive violence before the war. Most U.S. citizens are surprised and skeptical when they see the list, so a few links have been provided to supporting information. For more information, try the Google search engine or see the links below.
I put some links and explanation together about wh
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It is a fact that the U.S. government has agencies such as the FBI, CIA, and NSA. It is a fact that these operate everywhere in the world they want to operate. It is a fact that these agencies are almost completely secret, and are even authorized to lie in the media to hide their activities. It is a fact that these agencies have money that is kept secret from the American people. No U.S. citizen can know how much taxpayer money is spent, or the specific ways the money is spent.
For decades there have been credible stories about U.S. government secret agencies developing relationships with the agencies of other governments. These stories say that the relationships are used to infiltrate and control the agencies of the other governments. They also say that the secret agencies of other governments are used to do things that would be illegal and risky for the U.S. government's agencies to do. One of these things is collecting information about U.S. citizens.
Have you ever noticed that the U.S. government almost invariably supports dictators? The U.S. government supported Diem in Vietnam and Saddam Hussein in Iraq, to name two of a long list. U.S. weapons makers were delivering weapons to Iraq until a month before the first war of the U.S. government against Iraq.
Many of the methods of the U.S. government support the profits of U.S. weapons makers. It is illegal for the U.S. government to give taxpayer money directly to private businesses. It is not illegal for the U.S. government to give money to foreign countries to buy high-profit weapons from U.S. weapons companies.
The U.S. government support for dictators appears to exist because dictatorships can give money to the people in the U.S. government's hidden agencies.
When there are secret agencies in a government, there is a huge conflict of interest. If things go well in the world, the employees of secret agencies lose their jobs. If one of the employees finds a way to create trouble, all the employees get job security.
I am completely against violence. I think violence is a symptom of mental illness. I think killing people and destroying their property is the least socially sophisticated way of solving problems.
However, I think that Usama bin Laden's complaints about the U.S. government were justified. Bin Laden said that the U.S. government was supporting the dictatorship of the al Saud in Saudi Arabia. This is true.
Bin Laden said that the U.S. government was giving money and other kinds of support for killing Arabs and Muslims. This is true. The U.S. government contributes perhaps $5 billion per year, every year, so that the government of Israel can buy weapons made by U.S. weapons manufacturers that are used to kill Arabs and Muslims. The U.S. government supported the creation of a new country, Israel, on land already occupied by Arabs and Muslims. That support continues.
Note that there are fewer Jews in Israel than in the United States, and only 14 million Jews in the entire world. Note also that it is incorrect to say that someone is anti-Semitic when they are anti-Jewish, because both Jews and Arabs are Semitic. Note that saying that Jews should find a non-violent way of living in the world is pro-Jewish.
The U.S. television program "60 Minutes" has twice run a segment about the desire of fundamentalist Christian extremists in the U.S. to see all Jews killed or converted to Christianity. Nothing could insure that a lot of Jews will be killed more than encouraging the violent elements in Israel by donating weapons. Without the support of these "Christian" extremists, George W. Bush could not have been elected.
Arabs and Muslims don't like being killed. They are people like us, who have families. They see the U.S. government fighting violence with more violence. They see the U.S. government acting in secrecy. They saw the Bush administration appoint a general to be the head of the U.S. State Department. A general is a person who has devoted
A very sad situation. Someone high up in the company told me that Michael was writing the ads himself. The ads killed any chance of selling Corel Draw, which at one time was a hot product.
"Microsoft has officially moved Linux up to the Number 2 Risk to the company..."
This is not correct. The number 1 and 2 risks to Microsoft are the terrible ways the company treats its customers and the poor quality of its product, for example, billions of dollars in damage because of viruses exploiting the poor security of Windows.
Anyone who needs more evidence should see: Unpatched IE security holes. There have been at least 15 unpatched but well known security vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer for the last 2 years. Apparently Microsoft just doesn't care. Or, possibly the U.S. government's secret agencies are using the vulnerabilities to spy on users. The fact is, the quality is poor.
BootIt advertises that it can be configured to boot from everything. Haven't tried it yet. See the 11th bulleted item: "booting any partition on any hard drive"
The problem is that the "Comments are owned by the poster" statement is misleading. The owners of Slashdot say that they can use the comments any time and any way they want, without payment or notice. That means, if a Slashdot comment author becomes a CEO of an important company, the owners of Slashdot can publish a book of his comments without payment.
That's why all of my comments are entirely owned by me. I grant no license to Slashdot. except to display my comments in the context in which they were entered. My opinion is that, if the terms of use were considered in court, the terms would be found to be invalid. Especially since, "Comments are owned by the Poster" is misleading authors about the terms.
Sooner or later this will be challenged in court. If VA decides to add more provisions to their license, and they say, "We can come into your house at any time and eat your ice cream", would that be okay with everyone, just because they don't actually seem to do it? There is a limit, and that limit has never been made clear.
Slashdot, like Google, for example, is a public utility. It must be governed by different rules than private organizations.
It is you who is being impolite. I was merely using the description given by an earlier poster. The overall issue stands: Don't let universities and professors intimidate you. You are the customer and deserve to be served.
"Mathematics is primarily concerned with asking, "I accept these axioms to be true. What must be true as a consequence?", a skill crucial in pretty much every field. I've had to deal with altogether too many people who think something is true without being able to justify their beliefs. What's worse are the sheep who blindly accept what is said on faith alone. Do you want to deal with these people as team members on a project? Do you want to deal with these people as project managers?"
I agree, exactly. However, you are speaking of mathematics as a way of learning to be logical. There are other ways.
Is Grimaldi someone who can help you with this? Maybe not. He seems to be someone who is not in mathematics so that he can learn to be more logical, but is in mathematics because it allows him to earn a living while having very poor social skills. Do you want him as your leader?
One problem that affects universities is conflict of interest. The customer,
the student, has very little power. So, people who staff universities often do
what they want to do, even when it is not good for the customer.
How many programming jobs require a solid understanding of mathematics? Not
many, it seems to me. Instead, programming requires a solid understanding of
how to be logical in solving a problem you have never seen before.
I seem to detect a lack of caring in the approach of the university. You can't
be the only person who has had a problem with that particular text. Look at
this post: #6440340.
Professor Grimaldi sounds like someone whose inner conflict is a lot more
important to him than anything else. He sounds like the kind of professor who
doesn't care if he is communicating.
I've attended 5 colleges and universities, and taught at one. Don't
underestimate their propensity to be crazy. Don't underestimate their
willingness to try to sell you on the idea that their craziness is sensible.
Seriously consider the personality of your professors. If you wouldn't
voluntarily socialize with a professor, that says a lot. That says you want
your life to go in a different direction than his has gone. And that says that
you need to be very careful in accepting him as a leader.
The second most important talent in programming is being able to teach
yourself. There simply are not courses for most of the things you need to
learn, and anyway you need to begin to learn new technologies in a week. You can't wait
for a course. Someone who tries to force you into the mold of one book is not
someone who is concerned about your ability to think for yourself.
What you say is very plausible. However, someone told me that, many years ago, when Congress made collecting some data illegal, the CIA moved the data collection to computers in Belgium. A government with a department that is allowed to break the law is an unlawful government.
Denying funding does not mean there is no money for a project. It simply means that the project will use hidden funding. The U.S. government has established that it does not need to tell its citizens how the citizen's money is spent.
Firebird crashes when there are maybe 40 instances, each with 3 to 5 tabs, and some tabs are closed. The crash closes all tabs and all instances. (Mozilla has the same defect. I did the testing on a P4 that had no hard drive and was running an unchanged version of Knoppix.)
It's not perfect, but Firebird is the best browser I've ever seen.
Your comment was confusing to me until I realized that you are talking about giving NYT an actual email address. Why would you do that? Isn't that why we have hotmail.com? Give an address that does not exist or a throw-away address.
Last week I was registering at a web site and I put in xx@xx.com for the address. The system responded, "This address has already been registered." So then I put in xxx@xxx.com. The system responded, "This address has already been registered." So I entered xxxx@xxxx.com. Same response. Finally I awoke fully and entered some Ds, xxxxdd@xxxx.com, and the system accepted my "registration".
Is it really that simple? Windows has numerous system windows that are hidden, that, according to the developer of the shatter attack, could also be used to implement the attack. My understanding is that Linux and BSD have nothing like that. In Windows, system windows are used for other purposes than GUI display.
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The way for Microsoft to compete with Linux is for Microsoft to stop being adversarial toward its customers.
For example, Windows XP has a crippled file system that cannot copy some of its own files. The purpose of the crippling is apparently to prevent copying. So, customers have to use third-party tools that often don't work well to make full backups of the boot partition. Because some people are pirates, Microsoft has chosen to treat every customer as a criminal. This causes customer a lot of lost time. When the backup tools don't work well, it causes customers grief.
The last time I mentioned this particular adversarial behavior toward customers, someone posted a comment saying it was not true, the Windows XP file system CAN copy all of its own files. However, Microsoft employees have often said that it is true. Sometimes Microsoft employees even suggest one of the third-party tools.
Microsoft recently declared that operating systems have a very limited lifetime, and that Windows 98 is dead. Windows 98 is the most commonly used operating system in the world! Now all of those hundreds of millions of people must suffer. Apparently Microsoft wants to force people to upgrade to Windows XP. However, many of those customers have computers that are not powerful enough to support Windows XP. Anything for money is the philosophy at Microsoft, I guess. If Bill Gates wanted to be truly philanthropic, he would make a good operating system and support it well.
These are not isolated circumstances. There are many ways that Microsoft is adversarial toward its customers. Bill Gates is the Chief of Grief.
But hey, Open Source is not always positive toward its customers. I reported a but in Mozilla on a Sunday at 8 AM, and got a message at about 10 AM saying they doubted that the problem was a fault in Mozilla. I asked for a new feature in another program, but the developer said it would have to wait until the next major version. So, open source developers are not angels; some of them are however, about the best people you will find on earth.
This statement shocks me. It is amazing how easily users accept Microsoft's abusiveness. There are many configuration changes that are made but not entered into the even log. One example is when a critical bug fix from Microsoft sets network security to a less secure state than before the fix.
When a CD-ROM drive stops working because it has become disconnected due to oxide on the connector contacts, the user needs to know, immediately.
That's one of the things I dislike most about Microsoft Windows. It will re-configure itself with no message to the user whatsoever.
Please don't post to stories that you don't think are interesting. If you do, you will just post uninteresting comments. A new release of a beta of linux version is very important. That's how the news reaches those who would beta test. I'm very interested in knowing what to expect, even if I don't test the beta.
Information that supports my earlier comment:
Judging from their comments, most people who post to Slashdot have very little understanding of the activities of the U.S. government. There have been many, many abuses concerning the collection of information. To prevent some of these abuses, the U.S. Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in 1978, and has since modified the law seven times. "The purpose of FISA was to create a wall between criminal investigations and intelligence gathering that would decrease the numerous abuses by the government's intelligence and law enforcement agencies during the 1950s, 60s and 70s."
The U.S. government has killed about 3,000,000 people since the beginning of the Vietnam war. The U.S. government has bombed 24 countries in the 58 years since the Second World War. The list below includes only countries bombed, not countries in which the U.S. government was responsible for other violence. The list includes only violence since the Second World War, not the extensive violence before the war. Most U.S. citizens are surprised and skeptical when they see the list, so a few links have been provided to supporting information. For more information, try the Google search engine or see the links below.
There are many sources for this information. For example, see this PBS web page: PBS: A Chronology of U.S. Military Interventions (PBS is the Public Broadcasting System in the U.S.) Also see From Wounded Knee to Afghanistan: A Century of U.S. Military Interventions [zmag.org] and The government of the United States is a consistent opponent of international law. [prairie-fire.org]
I put some links and explanation together about wh
It is a fact that the U.S. government has agencies such as the FBI, CIA, and NSA. It is a fact that these operate everywhere in the world they want to operate. It is a fact that these agencies are almost completely secret, and are even authorized to lie in the media to hide their activities. It is a fact that these agencies have money that is kept secret from the American people. No U.S. citizen can know how much taxpayer money is spent, or the specific ways the money is spent.
For decades there have been credible stories about U.S. government secret agencies developing relationships with the agencies of other governments. These stories say that the relationships are used to infiltrate and control the agencies of the other governments. They also say that the secret agencies of other governments are used to do things that would be illegal and risky for the U.S. government's agencies to do. One of these things is collecting information about U.S. citizens.
Have you ever noticed that the U.S. government almost invariably supports dictators? The U.S. government supported Diem in Vietnam and Saddam Hussein in Iraq, to name two of a long list. U.S. weapons makers were delivering weapons to Iraq until a month before the first war of the U.S. government against Iraq.
Many of the methods of the U.S. government support the profits of U.S. weapons makers. It is illegal for the U.S. government to give taxpayer money directly to private businesses. It is not illegal for the U.S. government to give money to foreign countries to buy high-profit weapons from U.S. weapons companies.
The U.S. government support for dictators appears to exist because dictatorships can give money to the people in the U.S. government's hidden agencies.
When there are secret agencies in a government, there is a huge conflict of interest. If things go well in the world, the employees of secret agencies lose their jobs. If one of the employees finds a way to create trouble, all the employees get job security.
I am completely against violence. I think violence is a symptom of mental illness. I think killing people and destroying their property is the least socially sophisticated way of solving problems.
However, I think that Usama bin Laden's complaints about the U.S. government were justified. Bin Laden said that the U.S. government was supporting the dictatorship of the al Saud in Saudi Arabia. This is true.
Bin Laden said that the U.S. government was giving money and other kinds of support for killing Arabs and Muslims. This is true. The U.S. government contributes perhaps $5 billion per year, every year, so that the government of Israel can buy weapons made by U.S. weapons manufacturers that are used to kill Arabs and Muslims. The U.S. government supported the creation of a new country, Israel, on land already occupied by Arabs and Muslims. That support continues.
Note that there are fewer Jews in Israel than in the United States, and only 14 million Jews in the entire world. Note also that it is incorrect to say that someone is anti-Semitic when they are anti-Jewish, because both Jews and Arabs are Semitic. Note that saying that Jews should find a non-violent way of living in the world is pro-Jewish.
The U.S. television program "60 Minutes" has twice run a segment about the desire of fundamentalist Christian extremists in the U.S. to see all Jews killed or converted to Christianity. Nothing could insure that a lot of Jews will be killed more than encouraging the violent elements in Israel by donating weapons. Without the support of these "Christian" extremists, George W. Bush could not have been elected.
Arabs and Muslims don't like being killed. They are people like us, who have families. They see the U.S. government fighting violence with more violence. They see the U.S. government acting in secrecy. They saw the Bush administration appoint a general to be the head of the U.S. State Department. A general is a person who has devoted
Yes, but it costs thousands of dollars!!!
A very sad situation. Someone high up in the company told me that Michael was writing the ads himself. The ads killed any chance of selling Corel Draw, which at one time was a hot product.
"Microsoft has officially moved Linux up to the Number 2 Risk to the company..."
This is not correct. The number 1 and 2 risks to Microsoft are the terrible ways the company treats its customers and the poor quality of its product, for example, billions of dollars in damage because of viruses exploiting the poor security of Windows.
Anyone who needs more evidence should see: Unpatched IE security holes. There have been at least 15 unpatched but well known security vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer for the last 2 years. Apparently Microsoft just doesn't care. Or, possibly the U.S. government's secret agencies are using the vulnerabilities to spy on users. The fact is, the quality is poor.
BootIt advertises that it can be configured to boot from everything. Haven't tried it yet. See the 11th bulleted item: "booting any partition on any hard drive"
The problem is that the "Comments are owned by the poster" statement is misleading. The owners of Slashdot say that they can use the comments any time and any way they want, without payment or notice. That means, if a Slashdot comment author becomes a CEO of an important company, the owners of Slashdot can publish a book of his comments without payment.
That's why all of my comments are entirely owned by me. I grant no license to Slashdot. except to display my comments in the context in which they were entered. My opinion is that, if the terms of use were considered in court, the terms would be found to be invalid. Especially since, "Comments are owned by the Poster" is misleading authors about the terms.
Sooner or later this will be challenged in court. If VA decides to add more provisions to their license, and they say, "We can come into your house at any time and eat your ice cream", would that be okay with everyone, just because they don't actually seem to do it? There is a limit, and that limit has never been made clear.
Slashdot, like Google, for example, is a public utility. It must be governed by different rules than private organizations.
VA believes they own your comments, too. However, mine belong to me and I don't grant a license to VA to do anything but display them on Slashdot.
Non-technical management are often amazingly destructive toward their companies. They often invent skillful ways of getting bad publicity.
It is you who is being impolite. I was merely using the description given by an earlier poster. The overall issue stands: Don't let universities and professors intimidate you. You are the customer and deserve to be served.
My significant woman tried to register big_trash as an email login name, but it was already taken. She had to use Big_big_trash, instead.
"Mathematics is primarily concerned with asking, "I accept these axioms to be true. What must be true as a consequence?", a skill crucial in pretty much every field. I've had to deal with altogether too many people who think something is true without being able to justify their beliefs. What's worse are the sheep who blindly accept what is said on faith alone. Do you want to deal with these people as team members on a project? Do you want to deal with these people as project managers?"
I agree, exactly. However, you are speaking of mathematics as a way of learning to be logical. There are other ways.
Is Grimaldi someone who can help you with this? Maybe not. He seems to be someone who is not in mathematics so that he can learn to be more logical, but is in mathematics because it allows him to earn a living while having very poor social skills. Do you want him as your leader?
One problem that affects universities is conflict of interest. The customer, the student, has very little power. So, people who staff universities often do what they want to do, even when it is not good for the customer.
How many programming jobs require a solid understanding of mathematics? Not many, it seems to me. Instead, programming requires a solid understanding of how to be logical in solving a problem you have never seen before.
I seem to detect a lack of caring in the approach of the university. You can't be the only person who has had a problem with that particular text. Look at this post: #6440340. Professor Grimaldi sounds like someone whose inner conflict is a lot more important to him than anything else. He sounds like the kind of professor who doesn't care if he is communicating.
I've attended 5 colleges and universities, and taught at one. Don't underestimate their propensity to be crazy. Don't underestimate their willingness to try to sell you on the idea that their craziness is sensible.
Seriously consider the personality of your professors. If you wouldn't voluntarily socialize with a professor, that says a lot. That says you want your life to go in a different direction than his has gone. And that says that you need to be very careful in accepting him as a leader.
The second most important talent in programming is being able to teach yourself. There simply are not courses for most of the things you need to learn, and anyway you need to begin to learn new technologies in a week. You can't wait for a course. Someone who tries to force you into the mold of one book is not someone who is concerned about your ability to think for yourself.
True Idiocy in America
What you say is very plausible. However, someone told me that, many years ago, when Congress made collecting some data illegal, the CIA moved the data collection to computers in Belgium. A government with a department that is allowed to break the law is an unlawful government.
Denying funding does not mean there is no money for a project. It simply means that the project will use hidden funding. The U.S. government has established that it does not need to tell its citizens how the citizen's money is spent.
The subjects of the browsing are organized, with one subject for each instance.
Unfortunately, I often have numerous subjects being researched on my screen when someone calls me and brings up several others.
Regarding your old Sentra, I suggest covering the elephants with carpet padding to make them more aerodynamic.
Firebird crashes when there are maybe 40 instances, each with 3 to 5 tabs, and some tabs are closed. The crash closes all tabs and all instances. (Mozilla has the same defect. I did the testing on a P4 that had no hard drive and was running an unchanged version of Knoppix.)
It's not perfect, but Firebird is the best browser I've ever seen.
Your comment was confusing to me until I realized that you are talking about giving NYT an actual email address. Why would you do that? Isn't that why we have hotmail.com? Give an address that does not exist or a throw-away address.
Last week I was registering at a web site and I put in xx@xx.com for the address. The system responded, "This address has already been registered." So then I put in xxx@xxx.com. The system responded, "This address has already been registered." So I entered xxxx@xxxx.com. Same response. Finally I awoke fully and entered some Ds, xxxxdd@xxxx.com, and the system accepted my "registration".
Is it really that simple? Windows has numerous system windows that are hidden, that, according to the developer of the shatter attack, could also be used to implement the attack. My understanding is that Linux and BSD have nothing like that. In Windows, system windows are used for other purposes than GUI display.