Here is what I love the most. I know plenty of devout christians (close family included). They, now and again, bring that if 100,000 monkeys sat at 100,000 typewriters, eventually they would write the greatest novel in the world. There is also one about rednecks, shotguns, and brail. They talk about those, and talk as if its true. But for some odd reasons, the idea of 1,000,000,000 galaxies containing 1,000,000,000 stars whose gravitational fields might make a few planets each have any chance what so ever of putting together life in the right order. Not to mention, for all we know, life accross teh universe is Silicon based.
There is more proof for evolution (not meaning man came from monkey) than there is for creationism. Most God based theories as baseless for science, since they depend on Faith.
Am I wrong in thinking the root servers only store what servers are authorative for a given domain? You would still need to query the authorative server for a domain on port 53.
Yes, but blowing one another up is not going to get the feds off our back. I guarantee that no amount of purely symbolic random bombing is going result in anything more than further oppression.
First off, I dont aggree with blowing up innocent people, but random bombing can in fact work in your favor. Like you said, with each bombing, the government would implement new laws, probably just ignoring many of our rights. With each new law, somebody will decide it is too much, and protest or who knows, take the side of the people doing the bombing. With each new pissed off person, your army would grow.
I dont think that would definatly happen, but you cant say it definatly wouldnt
Its a valid comment. When I worked for OfficeMax all the ink cartridges were stored behind the customer service counter, customers had to bring up a slip to get what they needed when they checked out. At the time I left, they started changing over to haveing the ink cartridges directly out on the shelf. It turns out the the increase in sales, made up for the increase in theft.
When you make content for FireFox, you are using open standards. In general, people have a choice of using alternate browsers to view your content. With Flash, the viewer is locked into to what Macromedia gives them. I know there are some open source flash players, and viewers, but they are sub par right now.
I actually just added some Flash graphs to my web statistics site, and now I might remove them
Why does it matter if a person installs a trojan? Any good store should reimage the system before its sold if it was a demo, and I doubt your customers are doing their banking from the demos.
IMax wanted to add a theatre to the Putnam Museum in Davenport, IA. The addition required extending the parking lot exit above the top of the hill where a street of houses were. One man held out and asked for twice the value of his property. IMax wouldnt go for it, and the city tried to pull eminent domain. The man sued the city, and it was decided that the theatre was not a public project, so the city could not take the house. I dont recall what IMax ended up paying for the mans house.
If Company A Inc. has spent the last 10 years writing and perfecting a Point of Sales program that runs on the Windows OS, they dont want to spend another 10 years writing one for linux. Porting saves time.
I run a site statistics service, and I am listed on pest petrol and other sites because the service uses a cookie. I dont see why everyone views those as malicious. If a company wants to track your surfing habbits, they can do data mining in their web logs. My service display the most visited URLs on your site, what pages sent visitors there, what search terms were used, and other information, none of the information is directly tied to any one person.
With that said, I don't really see Linux becoming all that big on the desktop. Because most of the office users won't start using it at home, simply because 8/10 users plays with their computers in a very different way of what the more geeky types does.
I know plenty of office workers who only know as much about computers as they need to for work. They only have windows with office because that is what they use at work. If businesses started installing linux, then new employees would most likely use it at home, to help be familiar and compatible with work. There are also those people I know who know only the keystrokes and mouse clicks they need to run 1 application, who call the help desk if a window pops up in the way, and they cant close it.
When is it cheaper to build a MythTV or whatever other open source setup on pc hardware vs. a $70 Tivo box? $70 for a dedicated box which you couldn't come close to building yourself. For the cost of a PC w/tuner and say mythtv, that would equal a tivo and 2 years worth of subscription to equal out in costs. Not the mention the time to manage that pc with viruses, spyware and whatever else.
I am building a MythTV box from misc parts I have scrapped from various systems. So far my cost is $0. I dont have to manage a PC with spyware, virii, and other malware, MythTV runs on linux. I almost chose to use XP MCE so my kid could run some games on it also, but I found working with WINE would be less of a hassle than reinstalling the OS on a monthly basis.
1.) Yes, but not all data needs to be able to be edited in a text editor.
2.) Yes, but binary formats allow for easier parsing, and less CPU load.
3.) The issue isnt size really, its parsing.
4.) see #3
5.) Having resources is no excuse for bloat. All servers and programs used to run on 286's... remember?
If one company develops a facial recognition system, using laser scanners to map the 3D surface of a persons face. Later someone comes along and makes use of a digital camera, and color comparisons. With patents, thats allowed (IIRC).
With software patents, someone is just patenting "A method of recognizing facial features using digitizing methods", which covers both implementations.
Just imagine if someone patented "a method of reducing the size of a file on disk, by using an algorithm."
This plugin is part of Visual Studio version 6. However, since the plugin is digitally signed by Microsoft, it may be silently installed through Internet Explorer by any website.
The user doesnt have to have Visual Studio installed, they only have to visit a page using the control. And like it states, the control is digitally signed, so its supposed to be safe, right?
"Always allow content from Microsoft.com" is one of the funniest things Ive ever seen on computers.
The server plugin would simply need to create torrent files for each actual file that you're wanting to serve as a torrent (and upload those instead), whole the browser plugin would need to first download the torrent and then show the bittorrent download progress (leaving the window open past the end of the download without an option to autoclose, just like regular bittorrent clients)
I think a better approach would be to include the Torrent information in the HTTP reponse headers. The browser would then see those headers (hopefully using HEAD), and can choose to download via the torrent, rather than HTTP. This would also allow old browsers to just ignore the header, and go on as if they didnt exist.
So why not put a 5% levy on the copyrighted material when it is purchased/licensed? If I backup my documents or code to a blank cd, there is absolutly no reason for anyone to get a cent for it (aside from the manufacturer of the disc that I already paid).
"No, you are legally allowed to own a car; to drive it you need a driver license."
Actually (in the US at least), you pay sales tax when you buy the car, which allows you to own it. After that you pay taxes for the right to drive it. If you drive without license plates, you get pulled over and fined.
I could be mistaken, but all inter-bank check processing is handled by the federal reserve. That would mean that check information is sent either in paper or electronic form to a central location, to be processes, and I would assume they have some sort of reports to keep track of how many checks, and how much money are handled daily. Wouldn't they be in violation of the patent?
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Yeah, I was thinking maybe the poster copied and pasted from some web page that had links in place.
Here is what I love the most. I know plenty of devout christians (close family included). They, now and again, bring that if 100,000 monkeys sat at 100,000 typewriters, eventually they would write the greatest novel in the world. There is also one about rednecks, shotguns, and brail. They talk about those, and talk as if its true. But for some odd reasons, the idea of 1,000,000,000 galaxies containing 1,000,000,000 stars whose gravitational fields might make a few planets each have any chance what so ever of putting together life in the right order. Not to mention, for all we know, life accross teh universe is Silicon based.
There is more proof for evolution (not meaning man came from monkey) than there is for creationism. Most God based theories as baseless for science, since they depend on Faith.
There is really no reason to point a gun. If it was drawn from its holster, you should have been shot before the words got out of your mouth.
Am I wrong in thinking the root servers only store what servers are authorative for a given domain? You would still need to query the authorative server for a domain on port 53.
First off, I dont aggree with blowing up innocent people, but random bombing can in fact work in your favor. Like you said, with each bombing, the government would implement new laws, probably just ignoring many of our rights. With each new law, somebody will decide it is too much, and protest or who knows, take the side of the people doing the bombing. With each new pissed off person, your army would grow.
I dont think that would definatly happen, but you cant say it definatly wouldnt
Why do people always toss in Cookies as another evil thing? Exactly what do they do wrong?
Its a valid comment. When I worked for OfficeMax all the ink cartridges were stored behind the customer service counter, customers had to bring up a slip to get what they needed when they checked out. At the time I left, they started changing over to haveing the ink cartridges directly out on the shelf. It turns out the the increase in sales, made up for the increase in theft.
When you make content for FireFox, you are using open standards. In general, people have a choice of using alternate browsers to view your content. With Flash, the viewer is locked into to what Macromedia gives them. I know there are some open source flash players, and viewers, but they are sub par right now.
I actually just added some Flash graphs to my web statistics site, and now I might remove them
So are they including both the IE and the Firefox toolbar? If they dont distribute it with the FireFox plugin, whats the big deal?
Why does it matter if a person installs a trojan? Any good store should reimage the system before its sold if it was a demo, and I doubt your customers are doing their banking from the demos.
IMax wanted to add a theatre to the Putnam Museum in Davenport, IA. The addition required extending the parking lot exit above the top of the hill where a street of houses were. One man held out and asked for twice the value of his property. IMax wouldnt go for it, and the city tried to pull eminent domain. The man sued the city, and it was decided that the theatre was not a public project, so the city could not take the house. I dont recall what IMax ended up paying for the mans house.
If Company A Inc. has spent the last 10 years writing and perfecting a Point of Sales program that runs on the Windows OS, they dont want to spend another 10 years writing one for linux. Porting saves time.
I run a site statistics service, and I am listed on pest petrol and other sites because the service uses a cookie. I dont see why everyone views those as malicious. If a company wants to track your surfing habbits, they can do data mining in their web logs. My service display the most visited URLs on your site, what pages sent visitors there, what search terms were used, and other information, none of the information is directly tied to any one person.
With that said, I don't really see Linux becoming all that big on the desktop. Because most of the office users won't start using it at home, simply because 8/10 users plays with their computers in a very different way of what the more geeky types does.
I know plenty of office workers who only know as much about computers as they need to for work. They only have windows with office because that is what they use at work. If businesses started installing linux, then new employees would most likely use it at home, to help be familiar and compatible with work. There are also those people I know who know only the keystrokes and mouse clicks they need to run 1 application, who call the help desk if a window pops up in the way, and they cant close it.
When is it cheaper to build a MythTV or whatever other open source setup on pc hardware vs. a $70 Tivo box? $70 for a dedicated box which you couldn't come close to building yourself. For the cost of a PC w/tuner and say mythtv, that would equal a tivo and 2 years worth of subscription to equal out in costs. Not the mention the time to manage that pc with viruses, spyware and whatever else.
I am building a MythTV box from misc parts I have scrapped from various systems. So far my cost is $0. I dont have to manage a PC with spyware, virii, and other malware, MythTV runs on linux. I almost chose to use XP MCE so my kid could run some games on it also, but I found working with WINE would be less of a hassle than reinstalling the OS on a monthly basis.
1.) Yes, but not all data needs to be able to be edited in a text editor. 2.) Yes, but binary formats allow for easier parsing, and less CPU load. 3.) The issue isnt size really, its parsing. 4.) see #3 5.) Having resources is no excuse for bloat. All servers and programs used to run on 286's... remember?
If one company develops a facial recognition system, using laser scanners to map the 3D surface of a persons face. Later someone comes along and makes use of a digital camera, and color comparisons. With patents, thats allowed (IIRC).
With software patents, someone is just patenting "A method of recognizing facial features using digitizing methods", which covers both implementations.
Just imagine if someone patented "a method of reducing the size of a file on disk, by using an algorithm."
This plugin is part of Visual Studio version 6. However, since the plugin is digitally signed by Microsoft, it may be silently installed through Internet Explorer by any website. The user doesnt have to have Visual Studio installed, they only have to visit a page using the control. And like it states, the control is digitally signed, so its supposed to be safe, right? "Always allow content from Microsoft.com" is one of the funniest things Ive ever seen on computers.
You tell them you dont want to be recorded by hanging up. Then again, that does suck if your calling for support or something.
The server plugin would simply need to create torrent files for each actual file that you're wanting to serve as a torrent (and upload those instead), whole the browser plugin would need to first download the torrent and then show the bittorrent download progress (leaving the window open past the end of the download without an option to autoclose, just like regular bittorrent clients)
I think a better approach would be to include the Torrent information in the HTTP reponse headers. The browser would then see those headers (hopefully using HEAD), and can choose to download via the torrent, rather than HTTP. This would also allow old browsers to just ignore the header, and go on as if they didnt exist.
So why not put a 5% levy on the copyrighted material when it is purchased/licensed? If I backup my documents or code to a blank cd, there is absolutly no reason for anyone to get a cent for it (aside from the manufacturer of the disc that I already paid).
"No, you are legally allowed to own a car; to drive it you need a driver license." Actually (in the US at least), you pay sales tax when you buy the car, which allows you to own it. After that you pay taxes for the right to drive it. If you drive without license plates, you get pulled over and fined.
I could be mistaken, but all inter-bank check processing is handled by the federal reserve. That would mean that check information is sent either in paper or electronic form to a central location, to be processes, and I would assume they have some sort of reports to keep track of how many checks, and how much money are handled daily. Wouldn't they be in violation of the patent?
It only runs on windows. A majority of windows users probably use Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop.