"Pistols are difficult, because apart from sport there's no practical reason to have one"
Untrue. While I don't consider myself a good enough shot with a pistol to do this, my friend will use his pistol when we are hunting for deer, if a deer comes in close enough range. Like last year for example. Handguns are made for killing at close range. As most wild game is smart enough to avoid humans when reasonably able to, that leaves only other humans as the majority target for handguns. Since most humans are too stupid to avoid potentially lethal animals (humans being the most successful of these). Hence, we "swim with sharks", play with cobras and other lethally poisonous animals, wander in heavily bear populated woods with nothing but a camera and a stick, visit canibals, et cetera.
The arguments on this article are all off-base.
No institution public or private has the
authority to deny you any constitutionally
guaranteed right that you can enforce on your
own time in your own place. While the school
can deny the students from blogging on school
computers or from accessing external blogs
while at school, they cannot dictate your actions
at your home or in a public library, or in
a courthouse, et cetera.
What the school is doing is a violation of the
students civil rights, unless the parents signed a
contract specifically allowing the school to do
such things.
While the school can certainly suspend or
expel any child defying the rule, it would
make a good civil suit case. However, if the
school were smart it would then not allow the
student back in the next year. However, this
might also be cause for a suit.
While the argument that the Constitution only applies
to public institutions is incredulous. If this were true,
then Walmart security would be perfectly within their
rights to kill shoplifters, or to deny you the right to buy
a gun, in any store, because you are hispanic, or to forego
jury trial if you commit a crime in a Walmart, et cetera et
reductio ad absurdium.
Sadly, the credits for discovery of transparent aluminum goes to Mother Nature.
It's common name is white Sapphire. Been around for bilions and billions of years. Recently it was rediscovered in the 1950s or so as a synthetic. Also, more recently it has been rediscovered multiple times by/. readers. About once a year for the past several years. I remember I was there.
It would be pretty hard to use transparent aluminum as a sandwich wrap though, it's quite brittle and extremely dense and hard. Hence it would actually work for Scotty's space aquariums. It's just too darned expensive to make. But it'd sure be great to be the only guy on the block to own a sapphire aquarium!
The 1918 virus occured before flu vaccines had come about. As such, we currently have no vaccine against that particular strain.
Just a little reminder, flu viruses mutate rapidly, like every 6 months. The flu vaccine given this fall is last season's flu virus. Which is different from
the flu virus that will circulate this winter. Some people say that taking the flu "vaccine" is a good thing. I'm not one of them. Giving someone a weakened live version of a flu that I will not ever catch again doesn't make logical sense to me. Yeah, I've heard the arguments. Don't believe them.
Does the 1918 virus scare the shit out of me? Yes, just as much as the idea of 5HN1 infecting humans. But if studying the 1918 flu help combat 5HN1, I'm all for it.
I'm not overly concerned by the 1918 virus being recreated. It's very likely, that should it be recreated, creating a vaccine for it would be easy. Also, this virus is nothing compared to the nasty stuff that has been cooked up in laboratories worldwide. I'm not too worried about 5HN1, yet. When 5HN1 does mutate far enough to "jump" in a big way, don't expect those stupid "flu shots" to help you. More than likely the shot will make you just sick enough to become one of the first victims. Unless of course they can actually make a vaccine for it before it jumps, which of course is unlikely in any event. Since the vaccines can only be made after it mutates and hence is already in the wild and making the vaccines usually take about 3 months, by which time it will be just about to mutate again.
Realistically speaking (not a/. trend), unless you have a really long commute, you'd never get your vehicle up to 350 MPH. Unless of course you were a maniac, which of course would make you a real menace to life in the air and on the ground. You'd be one of those "bold pilots" we hear about. Much like the "QUID" motorcyclists you see occasionally on the road.
Assuming a 20 mile commute and an acceleration of say 0-60 in 4 seconds.
Time to reach 350 mph approx. 24 seconds. Assuming linear acceleration, covering a distance of about 1.5 miles (24 sec X 180 mph ave). Giving, you ability to travel at 350mph for 17 miles (or about 3 minutes). At which time you'd need to begin decelerating hard, in order to not overshoot the office.
Possible, but not practical. At 350 you'd have to fly by instrument only, you'd not be able to react fast enough. 200 or 250 is probably a more realistic speed for the daily commute. Of course I'm ignoring all kinds of things like wind shear, friction, etc. that would make the time to reach 350 longer. I imagine, without doing any calculations that realistically time at 350mph on a 20 mile stretch would be closer to 10-12 miles or about two minutes. Still a four minute commute is appealing.
btw, for those who aren't bikers, QUID = Quick Until I Die.
I wouldn't get terribly upset here.
While it was certainly not the most intelligent way
of capturing some pictures of giant squid in the wild.
Since the meat is too tough in the large squid species to be
edible by most standards, hence the lost squid tentacle is
just a loss to both the squid and the gourmet.
However, have some cheer, squid are known to be able to regrow
tentacles. Since this squid seems capable of divesting itself of a tentacle
to escape it shows promise that it can regrow it.
However, I would hardly now classify this squid as "healthy". It was "healthy",
now it may face some challenges until, and if, it regrows a
6 meter length of tentacle. How long does it take to regrow
an appendage of roughly 19 feet? How large are newborn giant
squid? Until we know these answers, it probably doesn't take
much analysis to conclude that intentionally hurting a giant squid
for research purposes isn't very intelligent or responsible.
I give these guys the Homer Simpson Research Award.
Quick, someone yank their diplomas (and reproductive organs), before they spawn! Oh, God tell us we aren't too late!
This very bad article goes to the trouble of breaking down the number of vulnerabilities for FireFox, but somehow fails to to the same for IE. Hmm... I wonder why?
Total vulns in IE for 2005 = 18 ; 5 still unpatched, plus 14 still unpatched from previous years. Hmmm.
total vulns in FF for 2005 = 47 ; 3 unpatched, none from last year
Not to mention the fact that the severity level of vulns is far greater and more damaging in IE than FF. Of course that damage is subjective, any vuln could possibly be a financial disaster should certain data be captured. So not only is this writer biased, but he can't count either.
Also some vulns in FF only affect MS or Linux, while others affect both (i.e. js holes). I saw no mention of Mac OS in any notice. So the numbers are lower for FF for either MS or Linux.
Still I like the raw numbers (FF) 6% unpatched vs. (IE) 28% unpatched. Or 3 vs. 19.
In all fairness the number for MS is really 32 since there are still open items from previous years, leaving us with 47 vs. 32. Not so different now is it? Well, except for that whole 3 vs. 19 thing. I may be a zealot, but at least I try to be an honest zealot.
I must say I'm surprised to see the reactions to this article.
Real world reaction to good deed news usually is: "Let no good deed go unpunished".
/. usual reaction to good deed news:
"Let no good deed go without being beaten to a bloody, beaten to death annihilation".
I think this is very good news, and quite possibly the first sign of a snowball rolling down a hill. Not that a certain nameless corporation will ever contribute any of it's patents to the patent pool.
It's not just that MS doesn't want to support
"save as OO" as an option.
MS can't implement it.
Just look at what happens to a word doc saved as a prior version
word doc. If they can't implement a "save as" for the same damn format how the hell are they going to do it for any other format?
I'm sorry did I miss that class? TFA didn't specify a voltage for the lightning or power output, but, if you are calling it lightning then one might well assume you are speacking in the 100s of thousands of volts and possbile some considerable current to project a bolt 10-15 feet, not to mention the goal of 30 feet. Yes, I once knew a man who took 100,000 volts with considerable current and "lived", if you could call his life afterwards living. While they may have tested this on the US Olympic team and not killed anyone, I am skeptical as to how "non-lethal" such a weapon really is. Charged plasma can be unpredictible. Scotty break out those phasers and make sure they are on stun.
While your reasoning seems logical it is dead wrong on a number of accounts. I'll discuss one of them. The licensing of the trademark is only if you want to create your own trademark. You are free to continue to make Linux based software and advertise "runs on Linux(r)" without infringing trademark. But you can't trademark "Linux Sluts" without paying the licensing fees based on sales. That is of course assuming LI accepts your proposal to license that particular mark. I don't see how this will affect adoption, only ensure that the mark isn't trashed by unscrupulous characters, and to fund a much needed tradmark defense pot. Rather than pull it all from the pockets of Linus and Maddog. Be grateful someone is protecting all our interests and do something useful like donate funds to LI so they can lower the fees to non-profits. Were the community to really stand together and helpl out by donating even $5, then LI could probably "award" a number of "free as in beer" licenses. Oh wait they've already done that for pre-existing ones. All grandfathered in.
I still prefer my method of converting all my big secrets to Klingon and then encrypt them in Sindarin, and run them through 3DES and finally Blowfish. And in case that isn't enough I convert the final result to Black speech. Oddly enough the hash is always the same: "One OS to Rule them All and in the Darkness bind them".
Read Maddog's comments here.
or on Groklaw.
This is being done by/for Linux International, Linus and the entire Linux community, and all this bashing of Jeremy is unjust. Take off your tinfoil hats long enough to find out the truth before inserting your foot in your mouth and running down paranoia lane!
If Apple Computer did not exist, I could trademark Apple Computer
This is incorrect. Apple Computer was sued by Apple records for using the name Apple. Apple Computer had to get permission from Apple Records to use the name Apple. Since The Beatles trademarked the word Apple. They had to enter an agreement that they would not get into the music business, and they are still in litigation with Apple Records, or more correctly the holding company for Apple Records. In fact a new lawsuit was launched by Apple Corps, Ltd. when iTunes came out.
There now I've shown how old I am, by knowing about Apple Records.;')
As has been pointed out by others word doesn't open anywhere near that slow. The author's either lying or a moron who's machine is borked up beyond belief.
Well, the start-up time of MS Office really depends on whether you have it preloaded or not. By default when MS Office installs, it puts itself in the startup procedure for windows and actually starts up with the system. Should you disable this feature MS Office starts up much slower, much closer to the times of TFA. However, I suspect his numbers on a number of points. Once you've loaded MS office once, most of the code will remain loaded even should you close it down. restarts will be quite fast. I also have run both OO and Word on indentical machines and have the preloading of Office disabled (to increase the boot speed of my computer). I have found no discernible speed difference between a clean start of either one. Based on my own experience, the article writer has not cred with me.
As for being able to keep windows up == intelligent, is complete stupidity. If it was so easy to keep windows up and running, there wouldn't be a need for support for Windows. Contrary to popular belief, the greatest threat to Windows isn't viruses and worms but Windows and Windows applications.
I have a test box for testing browsing on IE. I have it turned off at the moment, because it crashed sometime back for some unknown reason (possibly, by my one year old banging on the keyboard). I've had every version of Windows from version 1.01 to W2K and can give you instructions on how to grab the message queue and insert your own message queue before the Windows message queue (a useful technique if you wanted to write a virus that throws out messages from the queue and create havoc or just for laughs on a co-worker's machine). While there are things that can be done to reduce the number of crashes, it can't be prevented. That said I've also crashed my Linux machine a number of times, mostly due to faulty drivers and hardware.
However, my machine of choice is Linux and my word processor OO. Even though I think it needs a healthy boost of common sense programming.
So while your conclusion on the article is correct your logic is flawed/lacking knowledge/ or just poisoning the well.
Duh!
At least in the US this is not an issue for state and Federal Gov't.
The Supreme court has already ruled you can't sue
the state or Federal Gov'ts. Unless in the case of
negligence on the part of an employee. Even then you can't always sue. Look for more on this as a case against a postal worker for leaving packages in a careless way is coming before them to determine whether the couple can sue. The state and Feds are immune from this and even if they weren't the pockets for paying lawyers are bottomless, and any one stupid enough to sue the Fed over patents might find the patent sudeenly re-examined and voided. Local gov'ts might have more to worry about, but no more so than they would buying commercial. Actually less. Also, suing the customer is not likely to succeed ever. Any gov't/commercial user of OSS is likely going to purchase support at least, and possibly hire someone to install it. You have to go after the author first.
Lastly, no one has yet gone after any OSS for patent infringement, unlike the closed source world.
Just more FUD and Trolling.
Nothing to see here, move along.
I was an M$ developer for years. Many M$ developers, especially those with full M$DN subs have been doing this for years. So M$ comes out with a new license and some FUD to make "outsiders" think that M$ products can be just as usable as OSS products at the same stage of development? This whole article was/. flamebait/troll and guess who bit?
Nothing to see here, these are not the 'Droids you're looking for, move along.
You won't find a (reasonable) Christian minister who cheers at the sight of gruesome civilian deaths, but it's not hard to find an imam outside of the US who does cheer when a child blows up a pizzarea.
I say prove it! Show me a (reasonable) Imam who would/has cheered any terrorist act, and I'll show you a Christian minister advocating terrorist acts.
I have yet to see one (reasonable) Imam cheer murder in any form, and I read International news.
Wacko fundamentalism is wrong, but don't let Urban Legend prejudice your mind into believing that Christianity has any moral highground over any other faith.
Trivia: Largest fundametalist murderer of all time: Adolph Hitler , death total 3.2 to 3.8 million over 1933-1945.
Open Question for EDS:
How many of the top 500 supercomputers in the world run Windows?
How many of the top 5 supercomputers in the world run Linux?
Who can't scale? http://www.forbes.com/home/enterprisetech/2005/03/ 15/cz_dl_0315linux.html
paraphrase: Approximately 60% of the top 500 Supercomputers run Linux.
"Meuer reckons Linux powers 301 of the 500 top machines, compared to 189 on Unix, two on FreeBSD, a Unix variant, and one on... Windows"
As far as secure: Please give the dead horse a break.
Nero Express, the OEM version (which is probably the same as the Linux free version) is a piece of crap!
I've been working on burning some CDs at work using Nero's OEM version. I've begged them to let me use Linux to burn them. Each CD has 8-14,000 files. This just buries the CD burning software and loads the system to 100% usage. I've literally spent HOURS babysitting this process just to burn one CD, then I have to reboot the machine to burn another one.
I've suggested zipping them into a single file, but no go.
I wouldn't take Nero Software to burn CDs under Linux if they paid me!
I routinely burn backups to my Linux CDRW containing 10s of thousands of files and I don't spend hours doing it.
What programming langauges did MS-DOS have?
Oh you mean MS-BASIC? BASIC a programming language? Puuuuhhhhhhhleeeeeeeeeeeeese!
You're forgetting your history.
When IBM went with Microsoft, they didn't even have an OS, they bought DOS, if you were paying attention to the article, it tells you so. CP/M certainly had more going on, IBM standardized on DOS because Bill answered the phone when nobody else did. End of story.
None of which is relevant to the fact CP/M was far superior to DOS.
However, since this ignorance is not likely to change soon we can consider natures answer. Nature has created a reference point for us, it exists in all complex lifeforms. It is at this point that multiple simple lifeforms can be considered a complex lifeform. It is called birth. Of course if something is raised entirely artifically (which we can't do now with humans) we can roughly call it at a full development term (9months for humans).
Actually, it's probably more acurate to say at any point in the development when all biological functions are developed and the fetus can survive on it's own. Which is generally around seven months, as survival rates drastically drop after that.
I am not a doctor just a first-time father who did the paranoia thing and researched some of the things that can go wrong with pregnancy.;')
I'm happy to say that my daughter is healthy and well-developed, maybe a little too developed (i.e. probably a future geek).
You're not going to cut anything with a wimpy little 5mW laser. What you want here is to make a nice home built 50W Nitrogen laser. Of course it'll be a pulse laser so you'll need to add some circuitry to cycle the pulses. Of course this is a *very* dangerous laser. It'll cut off all kinds of body parts, or mod parts, not to mention possibly elctrocuting yourself should you fail to shield/build it properly. The best part is this can be built out of scrap parts you might have laying around and use air as your source. Tuning is the real trick here or you get nothing but a big electrical noop device. Then, of course, you'll have Sun to deal with!
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Untrue. While I don't consider myself a good enough shot with a pistol to do this, my friend will use his pistol when we are hunting for deer, if a deer comes in close enough range. Like last year for example. Handguns are made for killing at close range. As most wild game is smart enough to avoid humans when reasonably able to, that leaves only other humans as the majority target for handguns. Since most humans are too stupid to avoid potentially lethal animals (humans being the most successful of these). Hence, we "swim with sharks", play with cobras and other lethally poisonous animals, wander in heavily bear populated woods with nothing but a camera and a stick, visit canibals, et cetera.
The arguments on this article are all off-base. No institution public or private has the authority to deny you any constitutionally guaranteed right that you can enforce on your own time in your own place. While the school can deny the students from blogging on school computers or from accessing external blogs while at school, they cannot dictate your actions at your home or in a public library, or in a courthouse, et cetera.
What the school is doing is a violation of the students civil rights, unless the parents signed a contract specifically allowing the school to do such things.
While the school can certainly suspend or expel any child defying the rule, it would make a good civil suit case. However, if the school were smart it would then not allow the student back in the next year. However, this might also be cause for a suit.
While the argument that the Constitution only applies to public institutions is incredulous. If this were true, then Walmart security would be perfectly within their rights to kill shoplifters, or to deny you the right to buy a gun, in any store, because you are hispanic, or to forego jury trial if you commit a crime in a Walmart, et cetera et reductio ad absurdium.
Sadly, the credits for discovery of transparent aluminum goes to Mother Nature. It's common name is white Sapphire. Been around for bilions and billions of years. Recently it was rediscovered in the 1950s or so as a synthetic. Also, more recently it has been rediscovered multiple times by /. readers. About once a year for the past several years. I remember I was there.
It would be pretty hard to use transparent aluminum as a sandwich wrap though, it's quite brittle and extremely dense and hard. Hence it would actually work for Scotty's space aquariums. It's just too darned expensive to make. But it'd sure be great to be the only guy on the block to own a sapphire aquarium!
Just a little reminder, flu viruses mutate rapidly, like every 6 months. The flu vaccine given this fall is last season's flu virus. Which is different from the flu virus that will circulate this winter. Some people say that taking the flu "vaccine" is a good thing. I'm not one of them. Giving someone a weakened live version of a flu that I will not ever catch again doesn't make logical sense to me. Yeah, I've heard the arguments. Don't believe them.
I'm not overly concerned by the 1918 virus being recreated. It's very likely, that should it be recreated, creating a vaccine for it would be easy. Also, this virus is nothing compared to the nasty stuff that has been cooked up in laboratories worldwide. I'm not too worried about 5HN1, yet. When 5HN1 does mutate far enough to "jump" in a big way, don't expect those stupid "flu shots" to help you. More than likely the shot will make you just sick enough to become one of the first victims. Unless of course they can actually make a vaccine for it before it jumps, which of course is unlikely in any event. Since the vaccines can only be made after it mutates and hence is already in the wild and making the vaccines usually take about 3 months, by which time it will be just about to mutate again.
Realistically speaking (not a /. trend), unless you have a really long commute, you'd never get your vehicle up to 350 MPH. Unless of course you were a maniac, which of course would make you a real menace to life in the air and on the ground. You'd be one of those "bold pilots" we hear about. Much like the "QUID" motorcyclists you see occasionally on the road.
Assuming a 20 mile commute and an acceleration of say 0-60 in 4 seconds. Time to reach 350 mph approx. 24 seconds. Assuming linear acceleration, covering a distance of about 1.5 miles (24 sec X 180 mph ave). Giving, you ability to travel at 350mph for 17 miles (or about 3 minutes). At which time you'd need to begin decelerating hard, in order to not overshoot the office. Possible, but not practical. At 350 you'd have to fly by instrument only, you'd not be able to react fast enough. 200 or 250 is probably a more realistic speed for the daily commute. Of course I'm ignoring all kinds of things like wind shear, friction, etc. that would make the time to reach 350 longer. I imagine, without doing any calculations that realistically time at 350mph on a 20 mile stretch would be closer to 10-12 miles or about two minutes. Still a four minute commute is appealing.
btw, for those who aren't bikers, QUID = Quick Until I Die.
I for one welcome our flying car overlords!
I wouldn't get terribly upset here.
While it was certainly not the most intelligent way of capturing some pictures of giant squid in the wild. Since the meat is too tough in the large squid species to be edible by most standards, hence the lost squid tentacle is just a loss to both the squid and the gourmet.
However, have some cheer, squid are known to be able to regrow tentacles. Since this squid seems capable of divesting itself of a tentacle to escape it shows promise that it can regrow it.
However, I would hardly now classify this squid as "healthy". It was "healthy", now it may face some challenges until, and if, it regrows a 6 meter length of tentacle. How long does it take to regrow an appendage of roughly 19 feet? How large are newborn giant squid? Until we know these answers, it probably doesn't take much analysis to conclude that intentionally hurting a giant squid for research purposes isn't very intelligent or responsible.
I give these guys the Homer Simpson Research Award.
Quick, someone yank their diplomas (and reproductive organs), before they spawn! Oh, God tell us we aren't too late!
This very bad article goes to the trouble of breaking down the number of vulnerabilities for FireFox, but somehow fails to to the same for IE. ... I wonder why?
Hmm
Total vulns in IE for 2005 = 18 ; 5 still unpatched, plus 14 still unpatched from previous years. Hmmm.
total vulns in FF for 2005 = 47 ; 3 unpatched, none from last year
Not to mention the fact that the severity level of vulns is far greater and more damaging in IE than FF. Of course that damage is subjective, any vuln could possibly be a financial disaster should certain data be captured. So not only is this writer biased, but he can't count either. Also some vulns in FF only affect MS or Linux, while others affect both (i.e. js holes). I saw no mention of Mac OS in any notice. So the numbers are lower for FF for either MS or Linux.
Still I like the raw numbers (FF) 6% unpatched vs. (IE) 28% unpatched. Or 3 vs. 19.
In all fairness the number for MS is really 32 since there are still open items from previous years, leaving us with 47 vs. 32. Not so different now is it? Well, except for that whole 3 vs. 19 thing. I may be a zealot, but at least I try to be an honest zealot.
Must be an off day for /.ers.
/. usual reaction to good deed news :
I must say I'm surprised to see the reactions to this article.
Real world reaction to good deed news usually is:
"Let no good deed go unpunished".
"Let no good deed go without being beaten to a bloody, beaten to death annihilation".
I think this is very good news, and quite possibly the first sign of a snowball rolling down a hill. Not that a certain nameless corporation will ever contribute any of it's patents to the patent pool.
It's not just that MS doesn't want to support "save as OO" as an option.
MS can't implement it.
Just look at what happens to a word doc saved as a prior version word doc. If they can't implement a "save as" for the same damn format how the hell are they going to do it for any other format?
I'm sorry did I miss that class? TFA didn't specify a voltage for the lightning or power output, but, if you are calling it lightning then one might well assume you are speacking in the 100s of thousands of volts and possbile some considerable current to project a bolt 10-15 feet, not to mention the goal of 30 feet. Yes, I once knew a man who took 100,000 volts with considerable current and "lived", if you could call his life afterwards living. While they may have tested this on the US Olympic team and not killed anyone, I am skeptical as to how "non-lethal" such a weapon really is. Charged plasma can be unpredictible. Scotty break out those phasers and make sure they are on stun.
While your reasoning seems logical it is dead wrong on a number of accounts. I'll discuss one of them. The licensing of the trademark is only if you want to create your own trademark. You are free to continue to make Linux based software and advertise "runs on Linux(r)" without infringing trademark. But you can't trademark "Linux Sluts" without paying the licensing fees based on sales. That is of course assuming LI accepts your proposal to license that particular mark. I don't see how this will affect adoption, only ensure that the mark isn't trashed by unscrupulous characters, and to fund a much needed tradmark defense pot. Rather than pull it all from the pockets of Linus and Maddog. Be grateful someone is protecting all our interests and do something useful like donate funds to LI so they can lower the fees to non-profits. Were the community to really stand together and helpl out by donating even $5, then LI could probably "award" a number of "free as in beer" licenses. Oh wait they've already done that for pre-existing ones. All grandfathered in.
I still prefer my method of converting all my big secrets to Klingon and then encrypt them in Sindarin, and run them through 3DES and finally Blowfish. And in case that isn't enough I convert the final result to Black speech. Oddly enough the hash is always the same: "One OS to Rule them All and in the Darkness bind them".
Kind of creepy.
Read Maddog's comments here. or on Groklaw.
This is being done by/for Linux International, Linus and the entire Linux community, and all this bashing of Jeremy is unjust. Take off your tinfoil hats long enough to find out the truth before inserting your foot in your mouth and running down paranoia lane!
This is incorrect. Apple Computer was sued by Apple records for using the name Apple. Apple Computer had to get permission from Apple Records to use the name Apple. Since The Beatles trademarked the word Apple. They had to enter an agreement that they would not get into the music business, and they are still in litigation with Apple Records, or more correctly the holding company for Apple Records. In fact a new lawsuit was launched by Apple Corps, Ltd. when iTunes came out.
There now I've shown how old I am, by knowing about Apple Records.Well, the start-up time of MS Office really depends on whether you have it preloaded or not. By default when MS Office installs, it puts itself in the startup procedure for windows and actually starts up with the system. Should you disable this feature MS Office starts up much slower, much closer to the times of TFA. However, I suspect his numbers on a number of points. Once you've loaded MS office once, most of the code will remain loaded even should you close it down. restarts will be quite fast. I also have run both OO and Word on indentical machines and have the preloading of Office disabled (to increase the boot speed of my computer). I have found no discernible speed difference between a clean start of either one. Based on my own experience, the article writer has not cred with me.
As for being able to keep windows up == intelligent, is complete stupidity. If it was so easy to keep windows up and running, there wouldn't be a need for support for Windows. Contrary to popular belief, the greatest threat to Windows isn't viruses and worms but Windows and Windows applications.
I have a test box for testing browsing on IE. I have it turned off at the moment, because it crashed sometime back for some unknown reason (possibly, by my one year old banging on the keyboard). I've had every version of Windows from version 1.01 to W2K and can give you instructions on how to grab the message queue and insert your own message queue before the Windows message queue (a useful technique if you wanted to write a virus that throws out messages from the queue and create havoc or just for laughs on a co-worker's machine). While there are things that can be done to reduce the number of crashes, it can't be prevented. That said I've also crashed my Linux machine a number of times, mostly due to faulty drivers and hardware.
However, my machine of choice is Linux and my word processor OO. Even though I think it needs a healthy boost of common sense programming.
So while your conclusion on the article is correct your logic is flawed/lacking knowledge/ or just poisoning the well.
Duh!
At least in the US this is not an issue for state and Federal Gov't.
The Supreme court has already ruled you can't sue the state or Federal Gov'ts. Unless in the case of negligence on the part of an employee. Even then you can't always sue. Look for more on this as a case against a postal worker for leaving packages in a careless way is coming before them to determine whether the couple can sue. The state and Feds are immune from this and even if they weren't the pockets for paying lawyers are bottomless, and any one stupid enough to sue the Fed over patents might find the patent sudeenly re-examined and voided. Local gov'ts might have more to worry about, but no more so than they would buying commercial. Actually less. Also, suing the customer is not likely to succeed ever. Any gov't/commercial user of OSS is likely going to purchase support at least, and possibly hire someone to install it. You have to go after the author first.
Lastly, no one has yet gone after any OSS for patent infringement, unlike the closed source world.
Just more FUD and Trolling.
Nothing to see here, move along.
What a waste of 15 minutes.
I was an M$ developer for years. Many M$ developers, especially those with full M$DN subs have been doing this for years. So M$ comes out with a new license and some FUD to make "outsiders" think that M$ products can be just as usable as OSS products at the same stage of development? This whole article was /. flamebait/troll and guess who bit?
Nothing to see here, these are not the 'Droids you're looking for, move along.
I have yet to see one (reasonable) Imam cheer murder in any form, and I read International news.
Wacko fundamentalism is wrong, but don't let Urban Legend prejudice your mind into believing that Christianity has any moral highground over any other faith.
Trivia: Largest fundametalist murderer of all time: Adolph Hitler , death total 3.2 to 3.8 million over 1933-1945.
blind mice.
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Open Question for EDS:
How many of the top 500 supercomputers in the world run Windows?
How many of the top 5 supercomputers in the world run Linux?
Who can't scale?
http://www.forbes.com/home/enterprisetech/2005/03
paraphrase: Approximately 60% of the top 500 Supercomputers run Linux.
"Meuer reckons Linux powers 301 of the 500 top machines, compared to 189 on Unix, two on FreeBSD, a Unix variant, and one on
As far as secure: Please give the dead horse a break.
Nero may be fine, I don't use it.
...
However
Nero Express, the OEM version (which is probably
the same as the Linux free version) is a piece of crap!
I've been working on burning some CDs at work using Nero's OEM version. I've begged them to let me use Linux to burn them. Each CD has 8-14,000 files. This just buries the CD burning software and loads the system to 100% usage. I've literally spent HOURS babysitting this process just to burn one CD, then I have to reboot the machine to burn another one.
I've suggested zipping them into a single file, but no go.
I wouldn't take Nero Software to burn CDs under Linux if they paid me!
I routinely burn backups to my Linux CDRW containing 10s of thousands of files and I don't spend hours doing it.
Dear Troll:
What programming langauges did MS-DOS have?
Oh you mean MS-BASIC? BASIC a programming language?
Puuuuhhhhhhhleeeeeeeeeeeeese!
You're forgetting your history.
When IBM went with Microsoft, they didn't even have an OS, they bought DOS, if you were paying attention to the article, it tells you so. CP/M certainly had more going on, IBM standardized on DOS because Bill answered the phone when nobody else did. End of story.
None of which is relevant to the fact CP/M was far superior to DOS.
Actually, I meant to say survival rates drastically decrease earlier than 7 months.
However, since this ignorance is not likely to change soon we can consider natures answer. Nature has created a reference point for us, it exists in all complex lifeforms. It is at this point that multiple simple lifeforms can be considered a complex lifeform. It is called birth. Of course if something is raised entirely artifically (which we can't do now with humans) we can roughly call it at a full development term (9months for humans).
;')
Actually, it's probably more acurate to say at any point in the development when all biological functions are developed and the fetus can survive on it's own. Which is generally around seven months, as survival rates drastically drop after that.
I am not a doctor just a first-time father who did the paranoia thing and researched some of the things that can go wrong with pregnancy.
I'm happy to say that my daughter is healthy and well-developed, maybe a little too developed (i.e. probably a future geek).
This is Bills' twisted take on bribery.
"If you do this morally worng thing for
me, I'll keep 800 people in your pathetic
little country working...
until the next time you #$%! europeeans
piss me off."
You're not going to cut anything with a wimpy little 5mW laser. What you want here is to make a nice home built 50W Nitrogen laser. Of course it'll be a pulse laser so you'll need to add some circuitry to cycle the pulses. Of course this is a *very* dangerous laser. It'll cut off all kinds of body parts, or mod parts, not to mention possibly elctrocuting yourself should you fail to shield/build it properly. The best part is this can be built out of scrap parts you might have laying around and use air as your source. Tuning is the real trick here or you get nothing but a big electrical noop device. Then, of course, you'll have Sun to deal with!