Malicious software can always trick user into giving it administrator access. But if you always login and root, one bad mouse gesture in file explorer can make your system unusable. Just yesterday I saw someone with a master degree trying to store MP3 files in/Library on MacOSX.
Besides, if you have a family PC why would you want everyone messing up each other's files if they can have nice separate home directories?
Air Car will travel 10 times faster than a regular one, will fly on a straight line rather than follow roads and will not do much stop and go driving. Still sure about your figures?
If you really look at most alcoholics or drug addicts, they didn't really have wonderful lives to start with. There problems is something the society could deal with in legal or cultural ways and then they would try drugs, have really bad hangovers but wouldn't get hooked. Notice how seriously sick people get morphine for pain and those that recover have physical withdrawal symptoms but rarely get addicted. I bet 99% of these problems can be summarized as "I didn't have a great lover".
Yes, perhaps there are chemicals that totally fry your brain if you try them once. But at least pot is not one of them, and that's what you hear about most often when "war on drugs" is mentioned.
My users should not have to download 250-1000K of data just to view my front page.
You must mean your new users? After the first visit the buttons will be cached and will not bother people much. And with hand-drawn gifs I bet you can have 1K icons. Nothing to get excited about. I saw chinese websites that load text as one big gif for people without fonts and its usable on a modem.
Put the blame where it belongs - applets, flash and tool-generated HTML that has a table for every element.
This may matter to your friends, but as far as the rest of the world and especially recipients of your charity, it doesn't really matter what's your motivation as long as you are doing good things. Tax breaks were introduced specifically to encourage charity. People cooking the books and claiming unreasonably high cash value for their donation is another matter entirely.
Developers and enterpreneurs need to eat, too, and their kids need braces just like everyone else's kids. Whether you [or I] like it or not, software is a business now.
Ok, maybe it is societies' responsibility to provide you and your children with food and basic medical care if you are unable to do so yourself. But I don't see why anyone else should care if you make 'a buttload of money'. It's your task to find people who are willing to pay money for your services and enter into a voluntary contract. If customers want open standards or open source, find a way to make money off that or someone else surely will.
Well, you could just buy Airport Express for 1/3 the price of Squeezebox and do things the natural way. Otherwise, yes you will have an inconvenient conversion and possibly loss of quality, so you might want to just buy regular CDs.
But why the grudge against Apple devices? They play unprotected MP3s, WAVs and lossless-compressed music. Or do you actually want to try WMA?
Why would you want to pay a monthly service fee to TiVo and still put up with crap like that? Dump them, get a tuner card and get pristine stuff that will not be broken by the next update. Sony and Apple had different ideas about MP3s vs DRMed music and both got a clear message from consumers (iTMS is only accepted because you can burn a CD). For TiVo and MS Media Center the message should consist of 2 words, 7 letters and massive migration to "untrusted" computing platforms.
Oh, I have a very reasonable theory on emergence of glofish and it doesn't involve dimfish randomly breeding with jellyfish. I don't think any case of evolution is so well proven. What do you mean "there is no other reasonable theory"
The fact that intelligent design is possible in no way suggests that it must be responsible for our existence.
Oh the irony. Just because evolution is possible doesn't mean it's responsible for our existence. Or at least existence of every spieces on Earth.
Mind you, I will never believe in any gods that have unhealthy obsession with others' sex lives unless someone shows me evidence of artificial selection in human origins. And I don't think stickers on evolution text books are doing much good to really educate students.
But a good evolution text book should point out the cases that are hard to explain with small random changes (fire-spitting bugs and all) and admit that there is currently no explanation backed with facts on how these spieces came to be. Science is science, don't twist it just to avoid providing an opening to perverts. They will bother us anyway.
Before you start spouting the latest intelligent design "evidence," know that I've already read it. The problem is that all of this evidence is not analyzed to discover the truth, it is gathered with the express purpose of supporting a conclusion that is already assumed to be correct. That's bad science, and doesn't hold water with me.
Please analyze the followingevidence and tell me your conclusions. Intelligent design at work!
Do you mean these suckers kept their jobs? Jobs besides polishing bulkheads that is. I would rather go with IBM - the stuff is unlikely to fail catastrophically and will be so difficult to maintain that I will never be made redundant.
It's more of what they don't get - crashes, worms, thrashing when trying to multitask. BSD code was written to run on a multiuser server with hackers and LISP users and has been tuned and debugged by countless people since. Microsoft's stuff was written for word processing on a non-networked 286 and that kind of interfaces are still used by programmers instead of being hidden in an emulation layer. You will feel the difference allright.
Well, life is fair. I can also add python to PDFs and distribute kpdf-enchanced documents that don't open in Acrobat Reader. Nobody will use them however:-)
No, just a development environment. KDE/Linux is a platform, just the one that tries too hard to look like Windows and is more expensive for commercial developers.
PDF format is open and there are a number of open source viewers for Linux. I don't think it's that important that Adobe open source their reader or even port it at all. This is just one extra option, no big news for us.
People get "free" Windows and Office with their new computer, but that doesn't stop them from buying software later. And Wine is popular among Linux users, including offshoots for running Office or playing commercial games.
On the other hand, if I downloaded program A for free from Kazaa, what moral or practical considerations will keep me from also downloading program B?
Dude, how are people supposed to install antivirus and adaware if their machine is blocked? Also what's up with "harmuf traffic" and "half our"? Looks more like a phishing attempt than a legitimate page from ISP.
Actually I bet they would prefer that people install Linux and then buy Windows if they need the features or software selection. Then they just need to spend 1% of their cash on R&D to out-compete free software for a while. Whereas once people start to pirate, they are unlikely to pay for any software in the future.
give everyone a copy of that Mitnik book about social engineering
Oh boy. If a stranger can be so successful at phishing, think of what insiders can do. And potential targets - people in call centers answering social engineering calls - are not exactly high-payed employees. A 10 year salary tax free can sound pretty damn good.
What's next - distributing Martha Stewart's book to all your executives?
LexisNexis might make it into gueness book of records as the most sued company. I was asked to use this service in university and was really baffled. They have some ridiculous charges - several dollars per minute - or was it per article retrieved? Anyone who uses this kind of thing when you can just search the web is either an idiot or is paying with other people's money. A lawyer sounds about right.
When you hire someone for a minimum wage job, you are likely if he/she will show up on time, has an Ok attitude and will not commit any crimes at work. Who cares about math knowledge that is only useful rarely?
Besides, many girls ask a guy for help as soon as something requires the slightest effort, so she might not be actually as clueless as she appears. Didn't you ever get "interesting" computer questions from people with a CS degree?
Well, you can hide from a lot of things behind the Sun - or say, Jupiter, if you like to stay cool. Although, as you pointed out, we can just stay indoors to survive this event, there must be some more "interesting" things in space that require a bigger shield.
Take sex for example. Pope John Paul II wrote there is something better in having mystery, rather than viewing all people as a sexual object.
I have no problem with him or you believing that, just don't try to force everyone else to live according to your standards, or refuse life-saving help if they don't. African countries have a huge problem with AIDS and they don't believe in absistence, so give them some condoms already.
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Malicious software can always trick user into giving it administrator access. But if you always login and root, one bad mouse gesture in file explorer can make your system unusable. Just yesterday I saw someone with a master degree trying to store MP3 files in /Library on MacOSX.
Besides, if you have a family PC why would you want everyone messing up each other's files if they can have nice separate home directories?
Air Car will travel 10 times faster than a regular one, will fly on a straight line rather than follow roads and will not do much stop and go driving. Still sure about your figures?
If you really look at most alcoholics or drug addicts, they didn't really have wonderful lives to start with. There problems is something the society could deal with in legal or cultural ways and then they would try drugs, have really bad hangovers but wouldn't get hooked. Notice how seriously sick people get morphine for pain and those that recover have physical withdrawal symptoms but rarely get addicted. I bet 99% of these problems can be summarized as "I didn't have a great lover".
Yes, perhaps there are chemicals that totally fry your brain if you try them once. But at least pot is not one of them, and that's what you hear about most often when "war on drugs" is mentioned.
My users should not have to download 250-1000K of data just to view my front page.
You must mean your new users? After the first visit the buttons will be cached and will not bother people much. And with hand-drawn gifs I bet you can have 1K icons. Nothing to get excited about. I saw chinese websites that load text as one big gif for people without fonts and its usable on a modem.
Put the blame where it belongs - applets, flash and tool-generated HTML that has a table for every element.
This may matter to your friends, but as far as the rest of the world and especially recipients of your charity, it doesn't really matter what's your motivation as long as you are doing good things. Tax breaks were introduced specifically to encourage charity. People cooking the books and claiming unreasonably high cash value for their donation is another matter entirely.
Developers and enterpreneurs need to eat, too, and their kids need braces just like everyone else's kids. Whether you [or I] like it or not, software is a business now.
Ok, maybe it is societies' responsibility to provide you and your children with food and basic medical care if you are unable to do so yourself. But I don't see why anyone else should care if you make 'a buttload of money'. It's your task to find people who are willing to pay money for your services and enter into a voluntary contract. If customers want open standards or open source, find a way to make money off that or someone else surely will.
Well, you could just buy Airport Express for 1/3 the price of Squeezebox and do things the natural way. Otherwise, yes you will have an inconvenient conversion and possibly loss of quality, so you might want to just buy regular CDs.
But why the grudge against Apple devices? They play unprotected MP3s, WAVs and lossless-compressed music. Or do you actually want to try WMA?
Why would you want to pay a monthly service fee to TiVo and still put up with crap like that? Dump them, get a tuner card and get pristine stuff that will not be broken by the next update. Sony and Apple had different ideas about MP3s vs DRMed music and both got a clear message from consumers (iTMS is only accepted because you can burn a CD). For TiVo and MS Media Center the message should consist of 2 words, 7 letters and massive migration to "untrusted" computing platforms.
Oh, I have a very reasonable theory on emergence of glofish and it doesn't involve dimfish randomly breeding with jellyfish. I don't think any case of evolution is so well proven. What do you mean "there is no other reasonable theory"
The fact that intelligent design is possible in no way suggests that it must be responsible for our existence.
Oh the irony. Just because evolution is possible doesn't mean it's responsible for our existence. Or at least existence of every spieces on Earth.
Mind you, I will never believe in any gods that have unhealthy obsession with others' sex lives unless someone shows me evidence of artificial selection in human origins. And I don't think stickers on evolution text books are doing much good to really educate students.
But a good evolution text book should point out the cases that are hard to explain with small random changes (fire-spitting bugs and all) and admit that there is currently no explanation backed with facts on how these spieces came to be. Science is science, don't twist it just to avoid providing an opening to perverts. They will bother us anyway.
Before you start spouting the latest intelligent design "evidence," know that I've already read it. The problem is that all of this evidence is not analyzed to discover the truth, it is gathered with the express purpose of supporting a conclusion that is already assumed to be correct. That's bad science, and doesn't hold water with me.
Please analyze the following evidence and tell me your conclusions. Intelligent design at work!
Do you mean these suckers kept their jobs? Jobs besides polishing bulkheads that is. I would rather go with IBM - the stuff is unlikely to fail catastrophically and will be so difficult to maintain that I will never be made redundant.
It's more of what they don't get - crashes, worms, thrashing when trying to multitask. BSD code was written to run on a multiuser server with hackers and LISP users and has been tuned and debugged by countless people since. Microsoft's stuff was written for word processing on a non-networked 286 and that kind of interfaces are still used by programmers instead of being hidden in an emulation layer. You will feel the difference allright.
Well, life is fair. I can also add python to PDFs and distribute kpdf-enchanced documents that don't open in Acrobat Reader. Nobody will use them however :-)
No, just a development environment. KDE/Linux is a platform, just the one that tries too hard to look like Windows and is more expensive for commercial developers.
PDF format is open and there are a number of open source viewers for Linux. I don't think it's that important that Adobe open source their reader or even port it at all. This is just one extra option, no big news for us.
People get "free" Windows and Office with their new computer, but that doesn't stop them from buying software later. And Wine is popular among Linux users, including offshoots for running Office or playing commercial games.
On the other hand, if I downloaded program A for free from Kazaa, what moral or practical considerations will keep me from also downloading program B?
Dude, how are people supposed to install antivirus and adaware if their machine is blocked? Also what's up with "harmuf traffic" and "half our"? Looks more like a phishing attempt than a legitimate page from ISP.
Actually I bet they would prefer that people install Linux and then buy Windows if they need the features or software selection. Then they just need to spend 1% of their cash on R&D to out-compete free software for a while. Whereas once people start to pirate, they are unlikely to pay for any software in the future.
give everyone a copy of that Mitnik book about social engineering
Oh boy. If a stranger can be so successful at phishing, think of what insiders can do. And potential targets - people in call centers answering social engineering calls - are not exactly high-payed employees. A 10 year salary tax free can sound pretty damn good.
What's next - distributing Martha Stewart's book to all your executives?
LexisNexis might make it into gueness book of records as the most sued company. I was asked to use this service in university and was really baffled. They have some ridiculous charges - several dollars per minute - or was it per article retrieved? Anyone who uses this kind of thing when you can just search the web is either an idiot or is paying with other people's money. A lawyer sounds about right.
When you hire someone for a minimum wage job, you are likely if he/she will show up on time, has an Ok attitude and will not commit any crimes at work. Who cares about math knowledge that is only useful rarely?
Besides, many girls ask a guy for help as soon as something requires the slightest effort, so she might not be actually as clueless as she appears. Didn't you ever get "interesting" computer questions from people with a CS degree?
Well, you can hide from a lot of things behind the Sun - or say, Jupiter, if you like to stay cool. Although, as you pointed out, we can just stay indoors to survive this event, there must be some more "interesting" things in space that require a bigger shield.
If you doubt this, talk to your self about your frustrations over spam, then talk to a rape victim over their frustrations regarding rape.
I talked to a murder victim today,
But she didn't have much to say.
While zombie boxes' voices inside my head
Wanted spammers tortured, hung and dead.
Take sex for example. Pope John Paul II wrote there is something better in having mystery, rather than viewing all people as a sexual object.
I have no problem with him or you believing that, just don't try to force everyone else to live according to your standards, or refuse life-saving help if they don't. African countries have a huge problem with AIDS and they don't believe in absistence, so give them some condoms already.