No I'm saying they're more like reality than westerns or sci-fi. It's like the two guys being run at by a bear. First guy says to second guy, I don't have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you
Yes a lot of tv-based drama's attraction is only attractive to their chosen audience for their accurate reproduction of fact.
This can only go up as that market of shows is on the increase, while "fictional" entertainment is losing ground.
I'm sure there's a Master's thesis waiting for someone to try and see how
1) it's more like reality
2) it's not rehearsed to death
explains the various reality shows' successes on north-american screens.
Very interesting, just one question. I'm strongly nearsighted, and I've noticed my "resolution" can go quite the heck a ways up, by removing my glasses, and bringing the object closer, can you give me the exact math formula you're using? I'm wondering how good "res" I can get "close up"
This doesn't look good for Linux, in my opinion. Maybe we should all start to think about jumping ship?"
It's fud like this, and the SCO fud, that ensures that further fud will again be tried. I'm quite sure those 5% can be explained by the SCO "event" and it's ties to Microsoft. I'm sure Mr. Ballmer is very happy at you right now
This is a discussion about hardware, about how pricier and pricier hardware seems to not accelerate(on the same software) the tasks people DO. Saying you can save a text file faster by using a better program is sidestepping the discussion. Not all "Tasks" can be improved on by software, and you don't have the choice of software for all tasks(yet) in many cases... Yet hardware's "trend" is to create illusory value, by providing higher numbers (that pesky law of faster and faster cycles hasn't been broken yet) but we compute SLOWER and are less productive than five years ago... Yes software is to blame in part, but a vim on a Pentium I 133 or a Motorola 68000 saving a 1 Megabyte file will be just as fast as a Xeon saving the same file, except in the rare, degenerate case, where the file fits entirely in cache...
I'm a Linux/Mac/Windows/Tru64/SGI/Sun/AIX user in the apple section, I even used SCO(not by choice) and your point is?
But the gas companies weren't caught and indicted with illegally preventing other companies from offering alternatives either.
Microsoft's monopoly means that they in ways that are illegal, in the spirit of a free market, CREATED for itself an illegal advantage... and boosted it's value. Think of it as insider trading... That's another way people create illegal advantages for themselves... It's not that the value isn't there... Its that the value's "value" has to be assessed in a free market. Anyone playing with the rules should expect to get burned...
The fact that the format is XML doesn't say anything about the format being "open". That's why Microsoft was proposing XML to standard bodies, and trademarking DTDs and Schemas... What other people in the thread is for Microsoft to give us 100% of the schema, and so far Microsoft has shown zero will to do so witout legislation compelling it to. 100% of the schema would allow Corel and/or IBM to feature-copy 100% of Microsoft's Office features, and they certainly will of course say that legistlation to force them to give away their competitive advantage would be anti-american.
Someone with a different agenda would probably say such a thing would have provided a better, more balanced punishment to Microsoft's monopoly than the minimal slap on the wrist they had. I personally think they should have been made to refund 50% of the purchase price of all Windows licenses, as half of the value was created by "Everyone else is using it" and that advantage was gained through illegal monopoly, and very creative enforcement of copyright laws. But that's neither here nor there.
Odd, how they spend so much money developing "faster" machines, that never speed up the tasks people DO!
*wants faster hard drives, to speed up the saving of documents, something I do quite a bit often*
Just how Intel saying "We're also a little bit 64bit" change the equation? Last I checked, the greatest benefits to 64 bits were twofold
1) possibility to interlayer multiple instructions
2) Faster memory throughput
Now Intel, with hyperthreading, has been saying until Prescott "Hyperthreading gives you the multiple instructions goodness of RISC, without the cost"
With Prescott around: "Now with the multiple intruction goodness of RISC"
Intellectual honesty is dead, marketing is dancing on it's grace
As for 2) Intel won't give you that(and a sizeable cache to do something useful with it) unless you buy a "server" chip, for several hundreds of dollars more. It's called good business practice... (Charge what people are willing to pay...) And guess what, people who buy servers are willing to pay more for high-throughput, because they need it to make money...
Apologies for the oversimplifications, and for anyone who might posted similar ideas earlier...
Intel's been saying they were better than everyone else, until they lose enough money to have to lay off their entire PR department/outsourcer, they'll never really try to prove it...
No it is not your fault, so go after those who are using up YOUR bandwidth and sue them and make them pay. It is their irresponsibility and stupidity that are causing these problems.
But most Isps don't keep that kind of traffic logs, and if your end of the link is overloaded, your won't be able to either... And you might be charged extra for any retransmits...
Wonders how much extra I'd have to pay to get trustworth, detailed connection logs, by provenance/ip/port for any given connexion size/usage... At least traffic logs detailed enough that traffic abusers might be easily noticed on the bill, and the attackers could be charged, according to the gravity of the offense. Maybe that's why my bandwidth provider won't identify the other end of the link, they don't want me to be able to protest that it's not my fault...
How much of that 150000$/person is security? I bet quite a lot...
I did a brief stint at a pharmaceutical company, and you better believe "legal narcotics" (morphin for example) have draconian, costly, security measures to protect them. Also the armored truck to deliver the maryjane can't be cheap...
Since the Bank is responsible to Canadians for how it uses our information, why didn't it just scrub the disks in house, even something like format c: then send the box to the outsourcers? If this keeps happening, you bet Canadian Bank Law will mandate they do their own scrubbing...
A mathematical proof requires enumeration of all possible conditions. A security exploit, particularly in an operating system, falls when an unplanned for event occurs(yes even a buffer overflow can fall into that category, although they are so well known, it's negligence that the developer didn't consider them as "planned for")
In this case, the very number of features of an OS can make a proof exponentially more difficult. (Which is why the more secure an OS, the less features it has).
Consider QNX 4.0's feature list, or openbsd's "DEFAULT" configuration feature list, vs say a linux gnome+kde desktop development machine with apache 1.3, php, postgres and a vmware host running another os. Can the proof be made in the second case? Perhaps, but it would probably take a bigger thesis than the first one. And would probably be annulled by the first "major update" to any of the software if that changes the input characteristics greatly(an update to apache 2.0 comes to mind.)
Hmm come to think of it, what does the IEEE standard say about multi-booting... The grub boot loader in linux is a part of linux, and can boot other oses(as an example) would it be considered part of the security of the os it boots?
I know this is a worse-case scenario, as every OS I know of includes its own boot loader. But would say, use of PowerQuest PQBOOT(an alternative boot manager running under windows) void the rating, or require seperate qualification, just by itself?
Anyone thought that it might be easier for google to control how blogs affect page ranking now that they own one?
Say even to the point that they lower scores on other blogs, but keep blogger.com scores high, and say "Blog on the best, better pageranks than the rest" ?
hmm and becoming a citizen might be harder in India than in the USA because they are highly overpopulated and the USA isn't...
It might explain why he can't get a work Visa OR become a citizen. Depleted scarce resource: citizenship in the fastest-growing population in the world. The fact that they need to import money to feed all those people is probably explained somewhere in macroeconomics.
Since the USA's richess comes from a lot of things, but mostly not from natural resources, they tend to export money(IANAMEBIWMAOIAJ: I am not a macroeconomist, but I would moonlight as one in a jiffy).
Knowing the difference in price for bandwidth between Canada and the USA(as an example), I can see it would be the last one. Although admin costs can be very high on unmaintained hardware with less skilled staff.
Err can we get clarify this If everyone is subscribed by default, it's out-out. Opt-in means you don't have it until you ask. The word you mean is opt, not opt-in, not opt-out. You opt to get the service in opt-int. And you opt out of the service, in opt-out. Spam right now is "opt-out" you get it until you sue the spammer. Software development mailing lists are opt-in, you have to confirm you want it, before they give it to you.
And another thing, knowing the profit margins of local isps, don't expect firewalling to be free, that's kinda good, if they make it an "option" say 1-2$/month/ip protected. That would make some larger providers happy too, they want you to pay more the more machines you have. (Nat of course, covers that, but that is a firewall function, isn't it?
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No I'm saying they're more like reality than westerns or sci-fi.
It's like the two guys being run at by a bear. First guy says to second guy, I don't have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you
Yes a lot of tv-based drama's attraction is only attractive to their chosen audience for their accurate reproduction of fact. This can only go up as that market of shows is on the increase, while "fictional" entertainment is losing ground. I'm sure there's a Master's thesis waiting for someone to try and see how 1) it's more like reality 2) it's not rehearsed to death explains the various reality shows' successes on north-american screens.
My suggestion was based on usb key NOT being based on flash(I thought it was battery backed nvram) Anyone have more details on this?
thanks! I can't keep up to reply to my posts either so we're even
Wouldn't a usb key do what you want(they're about the size of compact flash, if not larger, and don't have the limited write problem, to my knowledge)
Very interesting, just one question.
I'm strongly nearsighted, and I've noticed my "resolution" can go quite the heck a ways up, by removing my glasses, and bringing the object closer, can you give me the exact math formula you're using? I'm wondering how good "res" I can get "close up"
This doesn't look good for Linux, in my opinion. Maybe we should all start to think about jumping ship?"
It's fud like this, and the SCO fud, that ensures that further fud will again be tried.
I'm quite sure those 5% can be explained by the SCO "event" and it's ties to Microsoft.
I'm sure Mr. Ballmer is very happy at you right now
If she was Tru64 Love, you gotta remember, her maiden name was Digital Love.
Magic Fingers anyone?
This is a discussion about hardware, about how pricier and pricier hardware seems to not accelerate(on the same software) the tasks people DO. Saying you can save a text file faster by using a better program is sidestepping the discussion. Not all "Tasks" can be improved on by software, and you don't have the choice of software for all tasks(yet) in many cases... Yet hardware's "trend" is to create illusory value, by providing higher numbers (that pesky law of faster and faster cycles hasn't been broken yet) but we compute SLOWER and are less productive than five years ago... Yes software is to blame in part, but a vim on a Pentium I 133 or a Motorola 68000 saving a 1 Megabyte file will be just as fast as a Xeon saving the same file, except in the rare, degenerate case, where the file fits entirely in cache... I'm a Linux/Mac/Windows/Tru64/SGI/Sun/AIX user in the apple section, I even used SCO(not by choice) and your point is?
But the gas companies weren't caught and indicted with illegally preventing other companies from offering alternatives either. Microsoft's monopoly means that they in ways that are illegal, in the spirit of a free market, CREATED for itself an illegal advantage... and boosted it's value. Think of it as insider trading... That's another way people create illegal advantages for themselves... It's not that the value isn't there... Its that the value's "value" has to be assessed in a free market. Anyone playing with the rules should expect to get burned...
The fact that the format is XML doesn't say anything about the format being "open". That's why Microsoft was proposing XML to standard bodies, and trademarking DTDs and Schemas...
What other people in the thread is for Microsoft to give us 100% of the schema, and so far Microsoft has shown zero will to do so witout legislation compelling it to. 100% of the schema would allow Corel and/or IBM to feature-copy 100% of Microsoft's Office features, and they certainly will of course say that legistlation to force them to give away their competitive advantage would be anti-american.
Someone with a different agenda would probably say such a thing would have provided a better, more balanced punishment to Microsoft's monopoly than the minimal slap on the wrist they had.
I personally think they should have been made to refund 50% of the purchase price of all Windows licenses, as half of the value was created by "Everyone else is using it" and that advantage was gained through illegal monopoly, and very creative enforcement of copyright laws. But that's neither here nor there.
Odd, how they spend so much money developing "faster" machines, that never speed up the tasks people DO! *wants faster hard drives, to speed up the saving of documents, something I do quite a bit often*
Just how Intel saying "We're also a little bit 64bit" change the equation? Last I checked, the greatest benefits to 64 bits were twofold 1) possibility to interlayer multiple instructions 2) Faster memory throughput Now Intel, with hyperthreading, has been saying until Prescott "Hyperthreading gives you the multiple instructions goodness of RISC, without the cost" With Prescott around: "Now with the multiple intruction goodness of RISC" Intellectual honesty is dead, marketing is dancing on it's grace As for 2) Intel won't give you that(and a sizeable cache to do something useful with it) unless you buy a "server" chip, for several hundreds of dollars more. It's called good business practice... (Charge what people are willing to pay...) And guess what, people who buy servers are willing to pay more for high-throughput, because they need it to make money... Apologies for the oversimplifications, and for anyone who might posted similar ideas earlier... Intel's been saying they were better than everyone else, until they lose enough money to have to lay off their entire PR department/outsourcer, they'll never really try to prove it...
No it is not your fault, so go after those who are using up YOUR bandwidth and sue them and make them pay. It is their irresponsibility and stupidity that are causing these problems.
But most Isps don't keep that kind of traffic logs, and if your end of the link is overloaded, your won't be able to either... And you might be charged extra for any retransmits... Wonders how much extra I'd have to pay to get trustworth, detailed connection logs, by provenance/ip/port for any given connexion size/usage... At least traffic logs detailed enough that traffic abusers might be easily noticed on the bill, and the attackers could be charged, according to the gravity of the offense. Maybe that's why my bandwidth provider won't identify the other end of the link, they don't want me to be able to protest that it's not my fault...
How much of that 150000$/person is security? I bet quite a lot...
I did a brief stint at a pharmaceutical company, and you better believe "legal narcotics" (morphin for example) have draconian, costly, security measures to protect them. Also the armored truck to deliver the maryjane can't be cheap...
Since the Bank is responsible to Canadians for how it uses our information, why didn't it just scrub the disks in house, even something like format c:
then send the box to the outsourcers?
If this keeps happening, you bet Canadian Bank Law will mandate they do their own scrubbing...
sympa http://www.sympa.org might do what you want, through its cross-db and ldap capabilities, you might want to take a look.
hmm I think the lower the taxes in a place, the harder it will be to get in, anywhere. Subventions to a particular industry notwithstanding
A mathematical proof requires enumeration of all possible conditions. A security exploit, particularly in an operating system, falls when an unplanned for event occurs(yes even a buffer overflow can fall into that category, although they are so well known, it's negligence that the developer didn't consider them as "planned for")
In this case, the very number of features of an OS can make a proof exponentially more difficult. (Which is why the more secure an OS, the less features it has).
Consider QNX 4.0's feature list, or openbsd's "DEFAULT" configuration feature list, vs say a linux gnome+kde desktop development machine with apache 1.3, php, postgres and a vmware host running another os. Can the proof be made in the second case? Perhaps, but it would probably take a bigger thesis than the first one. And would probably be annulled by the first "major update" to any of the software if that changes the input characteristics greatly(an update to apache 2.0 comes to mind.)
Hmm come to think of it, what does the IEEE standard say about multi-booting... The grub boot loader in linux is a part of linux, and can boot other oses(as an example) would it be considered part of the security of the os it boots?
I know this is a worse-case scenario, as every OS I know of includes its own boot loader. But would say, use of PowerQuest PQBOOT(an alternative boot manager running under windows) void the rating, or require seperate qualification, just by itself?
mailscanner one of the nice open source free scanning engines has a feature like that, called silent delete, for spoofing viruses I believe.
Anyone thought that it might be easier for google to control how blogs affect page ranking now that they own one?
Say even to the point that they lower scores on other blogs, but keep blogger.com scores high, and say "Blog on the best, better pageranks than the rest" ?
hmm and becoming a citizen might be harder in India than in the USA because they are highly overpopulated and the USA isn't...
It might explain why he can't get a work Visa OR become a citizen. Depleted scarce resource: citizenship in the fastest-growing population in the world. The fact that they need to import money to feed all those people is probably explained somewhere in macroeconomics.
Since the USA's richess comes from a lot of things, but mostly not from natural resources, they tend to export money(IANAMEBIWMAOIAJ: I am not a macroeconomist, but I would moonlight as one in a jiffy).
Knowing the difference in price for bandwidth between Canada and the USA(as an example), I can see it would be the last one. Although admin costs can be very high on unmaintained hardware with less skilled staff.
Err can we get clarify this
If everyone is subscribed by default, it's out-out.
Opt-in means you don't have it until you ask.
The word you mean is opt, not opt-in, not opt-out. You opt to get the service in opt-int. And you opt out of the service, in opt-out.
Spam right now is "opt-out" you get it until you sue the spammer. Software development mailing lists are opt-in, you have to confirm you want it, before they give it to you.
And another thing, knowing the profit margins of local isps, don't expect firewalling to be free, that's kinda good, if they make it an "option" say 1-2$/month/ip protected. That would make some larger providers happy too, they want you to pay more the more machines you have. (Nat of course, covers that, but that is a firewall function, isn't it?
what about snort logging to sql? or did they forget the required libraries?