You are absolutely right!
But the folks at "techtarget.com" are not interested in working solutions, like VMS. Go to their main web page and check the long list of topics. There is no real information behind each link. And when you click on the "Media Kits" link, then you get the address of their sales person. People like those behind "techtarget.com" only want to address as many people as possible, advertise and do more marketing BS with flash files and cookies. This is the reason why they only mention Microsoft and Linux. It is just a pity that so many people buy this junk. I mean the Microsoft and Linux software as well as the low quality publications.
"Silencer" reminds me of the trouble I had with an ASUS V8460 Ultra Deluxe. Pretty expensive graphics adapter when I bought it. It produced lots of interfering noise on the screen. So did the replacement from ASUS. This was not driver related, since the trouble already showed up during the startup phase of the BIOS. No way to fix it. I don't know how many different motherboards and power supplies I tried. Not the cheapos, you know. I even checked things like the voltages of the power supplies. Anyway, at that time ASUS was running a BBS system where people complained about their trouble with this hardware. Eventually ASUS played "silencer" and closed the whole BBS. There are still enough reports from other people with similar trouble on the web. I am wondering if ASUS is going to silence those sites, too.
They count their customers' feet. And the good old 'stone' is the unit to weigh the goods at Wall-Mart. 95% of the world uses the metric system. We are just a 'little bit' behind.
598-600-602-oops-603-605-...
Make sure the "security stickers" are washable. Seriously, most DOE sites require various forms of such stickers, too. At the same time they ditched secure systems like VMS. These days you see lots of Dell and Gateway PC's with Windows or Linux - and of course with security stickers.
Each of your eyes itself is a scintillator. See also http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/applications/pho totubes.html
High energy particles coming from the cosmic ray can produce light in your eyes. Normally you do not notice it because of its low intensity and because you are busy watching something else. Relax.
All my laser printers are Postscript printers, not PDF printers. I am not talking about the so called "printer drivers" on PC's. I have the firmware of the printers in mind. How about yours? 99% Postscript? So why do the EFF experts distribute PDF files instead of Postscript files? Is the conversion from something to PDF to Postscript helpful? Or do the experts think that we all need PDF files just because the fine software called Microsoft Windows still cannot send a Postscript file directly to a Postscript printer, after a decade+? Strange things happen in the IT world.
Exactly! There have been two branches of Unix and they constantly merged to what we know as "Unix". One of them is the AT&T branch, of course. The other one is BSD, developed at the University of California at Berkeley. All we saw later, like Linux, were derivatives of the same. Remarkably, AT&T as well as UCB ended the development of Unix a long time ago.
Microsoft always liked to use generic terms and trademarks of others. Windows, Office, Exchange, Outlook, Patent Office (OK, I made up the last one, but they own it anyway). Remember Xbox? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/02/05/software_c ompany_beats_m/ It worked for them in the past, it will be the same this time.
Don't you have similar trouble with the new ID card? The UK government has already proposed to sell the collected information to companies. See http://www.theinquirer.net/ (UK) for more information.
If you think what the TSA is doing is unacceptable, see what is happening elsewhere. The US government requires airline companies worldwide to grant US agencies access to passenger database of the airlines, if an airline enters US air space (even if the airline has no destination in the US, that makes no difference, contrary to international treaties). The information exchanged is fairly extensive and does not end at what you eat (no kidding). Even if a person just flies within Europe, for example, all available personal data of the traveler have to be provided to US agencies. This allows the US agencies to produce detailed profiles of everybody. This may be useful to trace suspects. But knowing for whom certain persons work makes it possible to trace the activities of companies, too. An increased number of trips from company A to the HQ of B may indicate that A is bidding for a contract with B. Now, all these measures are imposed in the name of the fight against terrorism. You may think this is all right since the US government has to protect US citizens. Right you are. But did you know that we are dealing with bilateral agreements? The EU has the same access to US data, according to the treaty. Suddently you are in the spotlight! Do you want other governments to watch your life? Now how do think about this matter? Is it acceptable that there is zero discussion about this matter in the US media? The TSA experiments are just games.
No, this verification only happens within the framework of your own axioms! This is quite different from a scientific study where you have natural phenomena, therories and experiments. You may use data mining as tool for a scientific study, but this tool data mining itself is still no science nor is it based on science. Data mining is a mathematical concept, and I do use data mining for my scientific research.
Why not start with a real operating system that already comes with both features? VMS (also known as OpenVMS) version 8.2 was released a few months ago and runs on VAX, Alpha and Itanium. You should be able to find a fairly cheap VMS machine at sites like eBay. For hobbyists and educational purposes the VMS license is available at no charge. Have a look at
http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/http://www.openvmsedu.com/news:comp.os.vms
It seems they did not teach German in your school either. Check your citation. The physicist's name is Erwin Schrödinger, or Schroedinger, if you have no Umlaut at hand.;-)
Did anybody notice that there are many journals on the market which report every year about the Cebit in "Hanover". I doubt any of their fine journalists ever attended the Cebit. See also http://www.cebit.de/ and http://www.hannover.de/ And since the original posting is about an MSN article, why not have a quick look at this fine page: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7159401/ Enjoy!
There is no science in "computer science". The name is completely wrong. The whole information technology (IT) development is based on ideas, axioms, algorithms. Like math, for example. Math is no science either. For something to be a science we have to have a natural environment to be tested with theories and experiments. Biology, chemistry, physics, these are sciences. IT may be based on results from scientists, but that does not make IT a science. A biologist is a scientist, a physician is not. A physicist is a scientist, an engineer is not.
Information technology (IT) is a perfect term. Computer Science is like calling astrology a science. Sadly the appreciation for science in the US is so low that even the name has no meaning in the media anymore. Time to change that. Send your kids to schools with physics, biology, chemistry, and geology classes, instead of a blurb called "science" class. In most countries people do not use the term "computer science" for information technology. They also appreciate science a bit more. See for example section "Other greats" at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4631421.stm
For people who live in their own house, far far away in a distant galaxy, I bet this is fun. But how about all those people who use those subwoofers in a quiet neighborhood, or those folks who drive with their cars and big subwoofers through the apartment blocks and terrorize everybody with their noise? At traffic lights these mindless people turn up their subwoofers and make everybody feel sick. It hurts, it is an assault.
Why should developers check for MSIE specificly? Wasn't the basic idea of the web to have one standard?
Did you know that MSIE is a clone of NCSA Mosaic?
Did you know that MSDOS is a clone of CP/M?
Did you know that Bill is a clone of - come on, not the sheep!
Maybe the last DEC employee left a decade ago. Just have a look at the dismantling of the VMS group. First a decade of innovations and since then the constant loss of skilled people, products and the guts to produce something different, something better. A lot of that development has to do with Compaq. HP itself was renowned for high-tech solutions, not cheap mass-products. All that is left is a company which in the eyes of the public manufactures PC's and printers.
Looking at the local offer by Cox, I would argue that the program cannot get any worse. Perhaps with better access for people like you and me we will see less influence by the so called news networks, religious propaganda machines (why shall I pay for this junk?) and instead get an educated program from local universities, concerned citizens and political parties other than the two half parties who are running the show, and possibly from people who would otherwise never dare to go public. The perspective of affordable high-speed Internet access is also good news for small businesses and those who could not afford it before. Sounds like a win-win situation to me. Two thumbs up for the voters in Lafayette!
What is so wrong about fingerprinting? It has been done to criminals, then potential terrorists/tourists and now to visitors of Disney. Your bank may also ask you for your fingerprints. So why complain, everybody is doing it. It always has been a normal procedure. This is just how Westworld works. And why not make the next step to Futureworld? Criminals' DNA is already taken and stored. Nothing wrong with that. Who knows what all those invading aliens may hide. What's next?
Your IT staff loves security holes. It gives them an important task, they get paid and with every patch they install they know the software keeps them busy and employed for a long time. The PC users in your organization or company are also happy, because someone takes care of their PC's. While the PC is down you can even chat an hour with your colleague. And the executives are proud that they have everything under control. Everybody feels good.
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You are absolutely right! But the folks at "techtarget.com" are not interested in working solutions, like VMS. Go to their main web page and check the long list of topics. There is no real information behind each link. And when you click on the "Media Kits" link, then you get the address of their sales person. People like those behind "techtarget.com" only want to address as many people as possible, advertise and do more marketing BS with flash files and cookies. This is the reason why they only mention Microsoft and Linux. It is just a pity that so many people buy this junk. I mean the Microsoft and Linux software as well as the low quality publications.
"Silencer" reminds me of the trouble I had with an ASUS V8460 Ultra Deluxe. Pretty expensive graphics adapter when I bought it. It produced lots of interfering noise on the screen. So did the replacement from ASUS. This was not driver related, since the trouble already showed up during the startup phase of the BIOS. No way to fix it. I don't know how many different motherboards and power supplies I tried. Not the cheapos, you know. I even checked things like the voltages of the power supplies. Anyway, at that time ASUS was running a BBS system where people complained about their trouble with this hardware. Eventually ASUS played "silencer" and closed the whole BBS. There are still enough reports from other people with similar trouble on the web. I am wondering if ASUS is going to silence those sites, too.
They count their customers' feet. And the good old 'stone' is the unit to weigh the goods at Wall-Mart. 95% of the world uses the metric system. We are just a 'little bit' behind. 598-600-602-oops-603-605-...
Make sure the "security stickers" are washable. Seriously, most DOE sites require various forms of such stickers, too. At the same time they ditched secure systems like VMS. These days you see lots of Dell and Gateway PC's with Windows or Linux - and of course with security stickers.
Each of your eyes itself is a scintillator. See also http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/applications/pho totubes.html
High energy particles coming from the cosmic ray can produce light in your eyes. Normally you do not notice it because of its low intensity and because you are busy watching something else. Relax.
All my laser printers are Postscript printers, not PDF printers. I am not talking about the so called "printer drivers" on PC's. I have the firmware of the printers in mind. How about yours? 99% Postscript? So why do the EFF experts distribute PDF files instead of Postscript files? Is the conversion from something to PDF to Postscript helpful? Or do the experts think that we all need PDF files just because the fine software called Microsoft Windows still cannot send a Postscript file directly to a Postscript printer, after a decade+? Strange things happen in the IT world.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/ (UK) reported about this disk half a year ago! http://www.electronicsweekly.com/articles/article. asp?liArticleID=38427
Exactly! There have been two branches of Unix and they constantly merged to what we know as "Unix". One of them is the AT&T branch, of course. The other one is BSD, developed at the University of California at Berkeley. All we saw later, like Linux, were derivatives of the same. Remarkably, AT&T as well as UCB ended the development of Unix a long time ago.
I am not sure why you compare FreeBSD with the Nazi era, but here are a few hints for the illiterate:
`Über alles' or `ueber alles', but not `uber alles'.
`Nürnberg' or `Nuernberg', but not `Nuremburg'.
`Dummkopf', not `ProudClod'
Windows is also a generic term. Remember Lindows? The problem is not that Microsoft just use generic terms, then claim they own them.
Microsoft always liked to use generic terms and trademarks of others. Windows, Office, Exchange, Outlook, Patent Office (OK, I made up the last one, but they own it anyway). Remember Xbox? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/02/05/software_c ompany_beats_m/ It worked for them in the past, it will be the same this time.
Don't you have similar trouble with the new ID card? The UK government has already proposed to sell the collected information to companies. See http://www.theinquirer.net/ (UK) for more information.
If you think what the TSA is doing is unacceptable, see what is happening elsewhere. The US government requires airline companies worldwide to grant US agencies access to passenger database of the airlines, if an airline enters US air space (even if the airline has no destination in the US, that makes no difference, contrary to international treaties). The information exchanged is fairly extensive and does not end at what you eat (no kidding). Even if a person just flies within Europe, for example, all available personal data of the traveler have to be provided to US agencies. This allows the US agencies to produce detailed profiles of everybody. This may be useful to trace suspects. But knowing for whom certain persons work makes it possible to trace the activities of companies, too. An increased number of trips from company A to the HQ of B may indicate that A is bidding for a contract with B. Now, all these measures are imposed in the name of the fight against terrorism. You may think this is all right since the US government has to protect US citizens. Right you are. But did you know that we are dealing with bilateral agreements? The EU has the same access to US data, according to the treaty. Suddently you are in the spotlight! Do you want other governments to watch your life? Now how do think about this matter? Is it acceptable that there is zero discussion about this matter in the US media? The TSA experiments are just games.
No, this verification only happens within the framework of your own axioms! This is quite different from a scientific study where you have natural phenomena, therories and experiments. You may use data mining as tool for a scientific study, but this tool data mining itself is still no science nor is it based on science. Data mining is a mathematical concept, and I do use data mining for my scientific research.
Why not start with a real operating system that already comes with both features? VMS (also known as OpenVMS) version 8.2 was released a few months ago and runs on VAX, Alpha and Itanium. You should be able to find a fairly cheap VMS machine at sites like eBay. For hobbyists and educational purposes the VMS license is available at no charge. Have a look at http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/ http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/ http://www.openvmsedu.com/ news:comp.os.vms
What a loss! James Doohan was one of the most outstanding characters of the entire Star Trek saga. Maybe he is just in a parallel universe or stuck in a diagnostic cylcle of a transporter. A brief summary of James "Scotty" Doohan's life can be found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4701167.s tm
and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1493093.s tm
Beam me up, Scotty, you always have done it so well!
It seems they did not teach German in your school either. Check your citation. The physicist's name is Erwin Schrödinger, or Schroedinger, if you have no Umlaut at hand. ;-)
Did anybody notice that there are many journals on the market which report every year about the Cebit in "Hanover". I doubt any of their fine journalists ever attended the Cebit. See also http://www.cebit.de/ and http://www.hannover.de/
And since the original posting is about an MSN article, why not have a quick look at this fine page: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7159401/
Enjoy!
There is no science in "computer science". The name is completely wrong. The whole information technology (IT) development is based on ideas, axioms, algorithms. Like math, for example. Math is no science either. For something to be a science we have to have a natural environment to be tested with theories and experiments. Biology, chemistry, physics, these are sciences. IT may be based on results from scientists, but that does not make IT a science. A biologist is a scientist, a physician is not. A physicist is a scientist, an engineer is not.
Information technology (IT) is a perfect term. Computer Science is like calling astrology a science. Sadly the appreciation for science in the US is so low that even the name has no meaning in the media anymore. Time to change that. Send your kids to schools with physics, biology, chemistry, and geology classes, instead of a blurb called "science" class. In most countries people do not use the term "computer science" for information technology. They also appreciate science a bit more. See for example section "Other greats" at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4631421.stm
For people who live in their own house, far far away in a distant galaxy, I bet this is fun. But how about all those people who use those subwoofers in a quiet neighborhood, or those folks who drive with their cars and big subwoofers through the apartment blocks and terrorize everybody with their noise? At traffic lights these mindless people turn up their subwoofers and make everybody feel sick. It hurts, it is an assault.
Why should developers check for MSIE specificly? Wasn't the basic idea of the web to have one standard? Did you know that MSIE is a clone of NCSA Mosaic? Did you know that MSDOS is a clone of CP/M? Did you know that Bill is a clone of - come on, not the sheep!
Maybe the last DEC employee left a decade ago. Just have a look at the dismantling of the VMS group. First a decade of innovations and since then the constant loss of skilled people, products and the guts to produce something different, something better. A lot of that development has to do with Compaq. HP itself was renowned for high-tech solutions, not cheap mass-products. All that is left is a company which in the eyes of the public manufactures PC's and printers.
Looking at the local offer by Cox, I would argue that the program cannot get any worse. Perhaps with better access for people like you and me we will see less influence by the so called news networks, religious propaganda machines (why shall I pay for this junk?) and instead get an educated program from local universities, concerned citizens and political parties other than the two half parties who are running the show, and possibly from people who would otherwise never dare to go public. The perspective of affordable high-speed Internet access is also good news for small businesses and those who could not afford it before. Sounds like a win-win situation to me. Two thumbs up for the voters in Lafayette!
What is so wrong about fingerprinting? It has been done to criminals, then potential terrorists/tourists and now to visitors of Disney. Your bank may also ask you for your fingerprints. So why complain, everybody is doing it. It always has been a normal procedure. This is just how Westworld works. And why not make the next step to Futureworld? Criminals' DNA is already taken and stored. Nothing wrong with that. Who knows what all those invading aliens may hide. What's next?
Your IT staff loves security holes. It gives them an important task, they get paid and with every patch they install they know the software keeps them busy and employed for a long time. The PC users in your organization or company are also happy, because someone takes care of their PC's. While the PC is down you can even chat an hour with your colleague. And the executives are proud that they have everything under control. Everybody feels good.
Imagine DRM-locked paper!