I was working In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the place very influenced by Saudi Arabi. When arabian people here news about Israil - they shout how they hate Israil goverment. When they hear that you are jew (or about jew people far away) - they show their respect and say that for centures muslims and jews were living together without any problems. It's Israil goverment that many muslim people hate, not regular Israil people. As for palestinians, who hate jews as people, I noticed that many arabian people don't really like those palestians, perhaps for the very exact reason.
Like you suggest about Visa, I would suggest about SMTP: the only way to send the message must be by confirming the traceable and not-expired certificate. All othe email must be rejected within original SMTP connection. SMTP without certificates must be considered as a root account without password - you can keep it deep behind your firewall, but it must not touch the Internet by any means.
Gentoo and it's Portage is the best tech of 2003 of course, as it's first time tech that teaches sysadmin that fine-grained control is possible (even with some historical sense of that control, when it comes to package releases).
As for the worst, I guess everyone here already thought to suggest that it's everything from Microsoft, because it's spreading holes for spam virus/worms. But I would come with old-old name: CVS. It's the worst tech still survived 2003, despite upcoming Subversion with Arch and existing Aegis with Darcs.
Bitkeeper is not free. Subversion is not really ready. But why people ignore Arch and Aegis then?
Aegis is around for about 10 years - for that time people could already recognize it's great features, design and implementation. Why didn't they do?
I am suspicios that most of people tend to prefer more primitive solutions by the same reasons as they stick to Windows. They can quickly start, but they don't really care about upcoming problems.
When I think about huge popularity of Windows and CVS I begin to disappoint in the humankind.
CVS has appeared as a set of Perl (!) scripts around RCS. It was never designed like a system should be - it's just appeared, or happened. And of course, it's original language (Perl, later it was re-written into C) did not add anything clear to it.
I am not trolling - I was reading it in several places as a historical comment of original CVS developers. Someone with better mmemory (or a longer bookmark list) may drop even URL here.
We can think that opensource project has died when you cannot download the source. Right now you can download nothing (not just a source code) from Mozilla Project. That means this project is dead. Completely.
pserver??? Why pserver, which is unsecure by design? Why not ssh?
I am not even asking why CVS, which was never designed for security at all. Well, in fact CVS was never designed at all - it was a set of patches to RCS. If you need a really well-thought and well-designed and well-implemented VS/CM you should check Aegis or upcoming Subversion.
Matrix and vector calculations with floating point makes GPU as a very excelent place to host Neural Network (NN) computation.
Of course NN can be used for "graphics-related things", such as image recognition, but not only image, for example voice recognition. And not only recognition, for example forecasting on huge sequences with explicit and implicit (hidden) side-factors.
In 3-5 ears since now, people will say something opposite:
Of course you'd be nuts to store dates as binary rather than a text (as everyone else.
What I learnt in Lisp (besides other things) - leave bits and bytes to assembly kernel/driver programming and to compiler programmers. Normal application programmer should work with symbols. Digits are no different then other text.
Of course in 3-5 years the border will be pushed again and compilers usually will do logic optimization (instead of byte-compiling) of code for various VMS (virtual machines). Besides, with 10GHz 8xCPU 64GB-RAM typical home computers who cares about byte-optimization?
would be like only including VI and not Emacs (or Emacs and not VI), and forcing all users to use one.
Forcing users to use only Emacs and not VI is The Good Thing (TM). VI should be dead together with Assembly language both are too primitive for modern tasks (but both still can be used for very specific tasks).
The comparison is not correct since both KDE and GNOME are not primitive (well, GNOME is better and more power and more applications, but this remark about GNOME is my personal opinion).
Contractually, however, you're agreeing to watch the ads, so if you're not doing so, I suspect they'll just come and take the PC back.
The may sa in contract that the user must watch TV ads, but they cannot control if the user really watchs or not. So what they really mean is to run the program that shows TV ads.
So, no problem for Linux, just run the program in Wine in a minimized window.
Well, unless they want you to remember those TV ads and later answer test questions. But again, the contract says: watching, not understanding or memorizing. You cannot require anything intellectual from household people.
I have a better idea: how about to rewrite OOo into XUL/XPCOM/Gecko?
Seriously, The composer in Mozilla is already a good document writer. Calendar, Bookmarks and History are good examples of tables. SVG graphics is on the way too. So, it *is* possible to rewrite OOo in XUL.
Why?
Because OOo will be automatically ported to any platform where Mozilla is ported already.
Because the cost of further developement of OOo will be dropped as XUL applications are much easier to develop and support.
Because it will be easier to customize look-n-feel (chromes) of OOo.
Because OOo will be better integrated with the browser and mail application.
In Times, in the beginning of the artice they said:
"He's not been very cooperative," said the official, who read the transcript of the initial interrogation report taken during the first questioning session... He didn't answer any of the initial questions directly, the official said, and at times seemed less than fully coherent.
But later I read:
When asked "How are you?" said the official, Saddam responded, "I am sad because my people are in bondage." When offered a glass of water by his interrogators, Saddam replied, "If I drink water I will have to go to the bathroom and how can I use the bathroom when my people are in bondage?"
These seem to me to be normal and direct enough answers. But read further:
Saddam was also asked whether Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. "No, of course not," he replied, according to the official, "the U.S. dreamed them up itself to have a reason to go to war with us." The interrogator continued along this line, said the official, asking: "if you had no weapons of mass destruction then why not let the U.N. inspectors into your facilities?" Saddam's reply: "We didn't want them to go into the presidential areas and intrude on our privacy."
This answers are not just direct. IMHO they show him fully cooperating with investigators by saying the truth.
Well, the problem is that US investigators accept only answers they are prepared to hear. They don't want to hear any truth. As many in US goverment.
Too late, I've already got several "happy" messages that I was supposed to forward to 10 more people in order to make me happy. The message said that it was blessed by Jesus. It was saying that God will punish me if I would destroy the letter.
I didn't forward of course. Since then I am persistently thinking and asking myself that was I right when I've deleted those messages or not. And that annoying stinky thinking doesn't make me happy. Perhaps I should have forwarded them... Or not?
I didn't see in the whole Bible any anti-spam advises. Even more, the whole history of cristian missioneering reminds me a big spam compain to distribute the Bible around the world.
Why did they arrest him? What did he do wrong? Was he a hacker or spammer? Or he was sharing *IAA files?
Sun is no different than SCO and Microsoft
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Right now Solaris 9 is the absolute lowest "TCO" unix/linux for enterprise to servers and down to workstations. Redhat workstation costs hundreds more and has less true application support (certified vendor support) then Solaris9 X86.
You are trolling, aren't you? Or you completely do not know what are you talking about. Or you just work for Sun. There is no other explanation why would you post here such a bullshit.
The only company that still insist that Solaris has lower than Linux TCO is Sun. Another company that is saying the same about Unix vs Linux is SCO. All others, including IBM, HP, and even SGI, agree that Linux has lower TCO, despite the fact they sell own Unix distros.
By the way, it becomes suspicious, all three companies are saying the same about Linux: Sun, SCO and Microsoft. Something is common for them behind the scene.
Why would I need Solaris at all?
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Can someone suggest a case where it would make more sense to use x86 Solaris rather than Sparc solaris?
Can someone suggest a case where it would make more sense to use x86 Solaris rather than x86 Linux?
Having the same OS on newer and more optimal hardware (read x86) as on old overpriced one (Sparc)? Give me a break.
The compnay where a friend of mine works they installed Linux on all low-end Sparc stations the used to host small servers. And they exchanged mid/high-end Sparcs with Power4/PPC thanking IBM for a very good exchange program. Of course Power4/PPC run Linux/PPC. They have Linux everywhere across all server (and even some desktop) computers and very happy with drammatically reduced TCO because of that. Also, after living like that one year they analyzed their failure statistics and found that their reliability is ncreased a lot. No need to mention that the time foe bus and security holes has beem droped a lot (before they lived for years with promises from Sun to fix a known annoying bug).
Speed Too Fast:77 + Speed Too Fast for Conditions: 72 = 149
Your inability to read my comment (I've said "Speed to fast (including "for conditions"), fatal: 149 ") + your tending to speculate wrong bring me to a conclusion: you are trolling here.
FACT: Driving properly of one's vehicle is the leading cause of fatal accidents in Ontario. Which should cause one to question the design of Ontario roads (as a country driver, they are designed extremely poorly -- every tiny country town has a "dead man's corner").
I don't get, how speeading on poorly designed road can help to save lifes?
FACT #2: Speeding is the 4th most likely cause of a fatal accident in Ontario. It is sandwiched in between "Lost Control" and "Unknown" causes.
149 is on a second place.
Then how come you don't know what "speed too fast" means? Scary!
What's really scary for me is to see traffic reports daily showing the fast speed as a reason of death or injury. People like you on the road is also what's scary for me.
As a toronto resident, I assume you have read the Toronto Star Wheels edition where the police explain they will bust anyone *NOT* breaking the 401 speed limit in the left lane? It was about 3 weeks ago, I'm sure it's archived somewhere.
That's a pure troll. Police can *NEVER* encourage people to break the law.
Personally, I am driving at 100 at freeways. And both me and my attorney will be happy if any police cop will try to bust me for not breaking the law.
The roads in TO are so blocked up with traffic its next to impossible to speed, except when nobody's using the roads (in which case it would take mucho work to kill someone).
401 (when it's not jammed), 400, Gardiner (when it's not jammed), QEW, and of course 407 - people like you are driving in average 120 (Ontario speed limit is 100), while getting 140+ just to bypass (and they do it each time when it's possible). Of course the road is often blocked for 20-30 minutes each time after a car accident (which most like is caused be speeding), but most of the time the traffic is moving and most of the traffic is breaking the law.
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I was working In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the place very influenced by Saudi Arabi. When arabian people here news about Israil - they shout how they hate Israil goverment. When they hear that you are jew (or about jew people far away) - they show their respect and say that for centures muslims and jews were living together without any problems. It's Israil goverment that many muslim people hate, not regular Israil people. As for palestinians, who hate jews as people, I noticed that many arabian people don't really like those palestians, perhaps for the very exact reason.
Like you suggest about Visa, I would suggest about SMTP: the only way to send the message must be by confirming the traceable and not-expired certificate. All othe email must be rejected within original SMTP connection. SMTP without certificates must be considered as a root account without password - you can keep it deep behind your firewall, but it must not touch the Internet by any means.
As for the worst, I guess everyone here already thought to suggest that it's everything from Microsoft, because it's spreading holes for spam virus/worms. But I would come with old-old name: CVS. It's the worst tech still survived 2003, despite upcoming Subversion with Arch and existing Aegis with Darcs.
Aegis is around for about 10 years - for that time people could already recognize it's great features, design and implementation. Why didn't they do?
I am suspicios that most of people tend to prefer more primitive solutions by the same reasons as they stick to Windows. They can quickly start, but they don't really care about upcoming problems.
When I think about huge popularity of Windows and CVS I begin to disappoint in the humankind.
I am not trolling - I was reading it in several places as a historical comment of original CVS developers. Someone with better mmemory (or a longer bookmark list) may drop even URL here.
We can think that opensource project has died when you cannot download the source. Right now you can download nothing (not just a source code) from Mozilla Project. That means this project is dead. Completely.
I am not even asking why CVS, which was never designed for security at all. Well, in fact CVS was never designed at all - it was a set of patches to RCS. If you need a really well-thought and well-designed and well-implemented VS/CM you should check Aegis or upcoming Subversion.
Of course NN can be used for "graphics-related things", such as image recognition, but not only image, for example voice recognition. And not only recognition, for example forecasting on huge sequences with explicit and implicit (hidden) side-factors.
Stock market trader on GPU, anyone?
Bill Gates' mentality when he said about 640K is more than enough.
Until when?
In 3-5 ears since now, people will say something opposite:
Of course you'd be nuts to store dates as binary rather than a text (as everyone else.
What I learnt in Lisp (besides other things) - leave bits and bytes to assembly kernel/driver programming and to compiler programmers. Normal application programmer should work with symbols. Digits are no different then other text.
Of course in 3-5 years the border will be pushed again and compilers usually will do logic optimization (instead of byte-compiling) of code for various VMS (virtual machines). Besides, with 10GHz 8xCPU 64GB-RAM typical home computers who cares about byte-optimization?
If you are a normal person, then you cannot read a thing if it's written on Perl. Unless your brains are already too damaged.
when have you last time checked Cygwin? They host PostgreSQL binaries for years. Works fine, flawlessly and fast.
Forcing users to use only Emacs and not VI is The Good Thing (TM). VI should be dead together with Assembly language both are too primitive for modern tasks (but both still can be used for very specific tasks).
The comparison is not correct since both KDE and GNOME are not primitive (well, GNOME is better and more power and more applications, but this remark about GNOME is my personal opinion).
The may sa in contract that the user must watch TV ads, but they cannot control if the user really watchs or not. So what they really mean is to run the program that shows TV ads.
So, no problem for Linux, just run the program in Wine in a minimized window.
Well, unless they want you to remember those TV ads and later answer test questions. But again, the contract says: watching, not understanding or memorizing. You cannot require anything intellectual from household people.
I have a better idea: how about to rewrite OOo into XUL/XPCOM/Gecko?
Seriously, The composer in Mozilla is already a good document writer. Calendar, Bookmarks and History are good examples of tables. SVG graphics is on the way too. So, it *is* possible to rewrite OOo in XUL.
Why?
"He's not been very cooperative," said the official, who read the transcript of the initial interrogation report taken during the first questioning session... He didn't answer any of the initial questions directly, the official said, and at times seemed less than fully coherent.
But later I read:
When asked "How are you?" said the official, Saddam responded, "I am sad because my people are in bondage." When offered a glass of water by his interrogators, Saddam replied, "If I drink water I will have to go to the bathroom and how can I use the bathroom when my people are in bondage?"
These seem to me to be normal and direct enough answers. But read further:
Saddam was also asked whether Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. "No, of course not," he replied, according to the official, "the U.S. dreamed them up itself to have a reason to go to war with us." The interrogator continued along this line, said the official, asking: "if you had no weapons of mass destruction then why not let the U.N. inspectors into your facilities?" Saddam's reply: "We didn't want them to go into the presidential areas and intrude on our privacy."
This answers are not just direct. IMHO they show him fully cooperating with investigators by saying the truth.
Well, the problem is that US investigators accept only answers they are prepared to hear. They don't want to hear any truth. As many in US goverment.
I didn't forward of course. Since then I am persistently thinking and asking myself that was I right when I've deleted those messages or not. And that annoying stinky thinking doesn't make me happy. Perhaps I should have forwarded them... Or not?
I didn't see in the whole Bible any anti-spam advises.
Even more, the whole history of cristian missioneering reminds me a big spam compain to distribute the Bible around the world.
I didn't see in the whole Bible any anti-spam advises. Even more, the whole history of cristian missioneering reminds me a big spam compain to distribute the Bible around the world.
You are trolling, aren't you? Or you completely do not know what are you talking about. Or you just work for Sun. There is no other explanation why would you post here such a bullshit.
The only company that still insist that Solaris has lower than Linux TCO is Sun. Another company that is saying the same about Unix vs Linux is SCO. All others, including IBM, HP, and even SGI, agree that Linux has lower TCO, despite the fact they sell own Unix distros.
By the way, it becomes suspicious, all three companies are saying the same about Linux: Sun, SCO and Microsoft. Something is common for them behind the scene.
Can someone suggest a case where it would make more sense to use x86 Solaris rather than x86 Linux?
Having the same OS on newer and more optimal hardware (read x86) as on old overpriced one (Sparc)? Give me a break.
The compnay where a friend of mine works they installed Linux on all low-end Sparc stations the used to host small servers. And they exchanged mid/high-end Sparcs with Power4/PPC thanking IBM for a very good exchange program. Of course Power4/PPC run Linux/PPC. They have Linux everywhere across all server (and even some desktop) computers and very happy with drammatically reduced TCO because of that. Also, after living like that one year they analyzed their failure statistics and found that their reliability is ncreased a lot. No need to mention that the time foe bus and security holes has beem droped a lot (before they lived for years with promises from Sun to fix a known annoying bug).
So, one more time, why would I need Solaris/x86?
Speed Too Fast:77 + Speed Too Fast for Conditions: 72 = 149
Your inability to read my comment (I've said "Speed to fast (including "for conditions"), fatal: 149 ") + your tending to speculate wrong bring me to a conclusion: you are trolling here.
FACT: Driving properly of one's vehicle is the leading cause of fatal accidents in Ontario. Which should cause one to question the design of Ontario roads (as a country driver, they are designed extremely poorly -- every tiny country town has a "dead man's corner").
I don't get, how speeading on poorly designed road can help to save lifes?
FACT #2: Speeding is the 4th most likely cause of a fatal accident in Ontario. It is sandwiched in between "Lost Control" and "Unknown" causes.
149 is on a second place.
Then how come you don't know what "speed too fast" means? Scary!
What's really scary for me is to see traffic reports daily showing the fast speed as a reason of death or injury. People like you on the road is also what's scary for me.
As a toronto resident, I assume you have read the Toronto Star Wheels edition where the police explain they will bust anyone *NOT* breaking the 401 speed limit in the left lane? It was about 3 weeks ago, I'm sure it's archived somewhere.
That's a pure troll. Police can *NEVER* encourage people to break the law.
Personally, I am driving at 100 at freeways. And both me and my attorney will be happy if any police cop will try to bust me for not breaking the law.
The roads in TO are so blocked up with traffic its next to impossible to speed, except when nobody's using the roads (in which case it would take mucho work to kill someone).
401 (when it's not jammed), 400, Gardiner (when it's not jammed), QEW, and of course 407 - people like you are driving in average 120 (Ontario speed limit is 100), while getting 140+ just to bypass (and they do it each time when it's possible). Of course the road is often blocked for 20-30 minutes each time after a car accident (which most like is caused be speeding), but most of the time the traffic is moving and most of the traffic is breaking the law.
You're being quite confusing.
You're being quite trolling.