Let us hope someone gets working screens so I can get a smaller place to live with fewer books, sometime! (If those fails, I think there are more projects working.)
If you don't get it after this I'll assume you're a troll.
Do you think traps to catch monkeys work if the monkeys understand how the traps works when they see it?
What if the monkeys have seen monkeys get caught in that kind of trap many times before?
Now, consider lockin from monopolists in an application area where everyone has learned that it's a lot of pain.
If the monke.. buyers realized how the lockin would work, it wouldn't work. They must be trapped with something that doesn't look like a lockin.
And M-soft refuse to support open standards -- while claiming to open their products -- and people believe it?!
It just screams bait and switch, or something.
If you really say you can't smell it, then I think you're a troll. I have a bridge to sell cheap, if you need a good home? I can get you a good price on the Eiffel tower, otherwise?
Please look at that, then explain: just how is MS going to stop me rescuing documents from this format?
I note that you didn't argue against when I wrote that the signs are there that they have something bad coming. And that Microsoft have motivation.
I will speculate on your question if you answer, this time:
Again, why do Microsoft refuse support alternative XML standards if they are going to be open anyway?!
Oh, hell. I'll guess. It could be a combination of some of these. (together with some "call home" tech so they are really followed?)
A law?
More patents?
Remove XML support before releasing?
Cripple the XML? (Or even cancel it before release?)
A 2nd, 3rd,.. Nth version of the XML data spec that isn't quite backwards compatible?
Some real innovation in the important area -- lockin -- that is neither a legal thing or just bundling to cut the oxygen supply of a competitor?
I keep getting being told about some scary bullshit scenarios in which MS owns all my data, and I can't possibly get it ever again from their evil clutches. Well, that's the whole question: exactly how _are_ they going to do that, then?
You know perfectly well that Microsoft has a history of lockin -- embrace, extend and extinguish, etc.
This is natural for monopolists; it is in their interest to not be compatible.
I don't believe you when you claim to not understand why people are nervous when there are known (and maybe more unknown) Microsoft patents around their XML data descriptions and they refused to support alternative XML standards.
It is too much like a big wooden horse that coughs from it's legs and stommach..
Alternative, the author is an idiot savant that never overwrite memory in C, but still isn't smart enough to realize why it happens to other programmers (and realize that it slows development down, not makes it impossible, which his argument about writing OS kernels in C seems to assume).
it's hard for some people to even consider the fact that HBO IS IN THE RIGHT!
There has been attacks on them before and the file sharing nets was just made harder.
(I don't know that much about the subject. I almost started a hobby -- writing a proxy that would be maximally hard to filter for China, Iran etc. The idea was (a) do simple steganography so it looks like some other protocol and (b) get proxies up easily at different web servers.)
I think that HBO would have to really flood the nets with clients sending bad data to make it work, using client behaviour that is varying wildly. (They can't just send a few kB of data, since that is too easy to filter.)
The only affordable way I can see for HBO to do this, is to talk to the people with zombie nets. Now, that kind of vigilantism would be dangerous...
It would be better if HBO released the TV shows with ads -- in a format that really forced people to watch the ads.
Consider, there is 50% chans a given part of a chromosome of the father is not in a given child (Xover, etc). That means one in four, that it is not in two children and 1/8 that it isn't in three children.
Seeing as all of them are missing the same 50% of his data (Y cromosome)
There aren't that many genes on the Y chromosome so it is much less than 12.5% of the rest of the genome.
Sigh, can't stop myself from correction facts in a joke. I have to get this besserwisser tendency under control.:-(
Please, someone, post exact number of genes (according to alternative splicing, silencing, etc) lost so I can feel I'm not worse than the spelling nazis.:-(
Personally, I prefer Max Brook's predictions about the coming zombie holocaust [...] It amuses me to think of how all the Rapturists and Singularty-ists are going to react when the world turns into a Hell of reanimated horror, while I'll be safe with my stockpile of canned foods and machetes.
To get reanimated corpses you need to get energy for their moving about.
Normal biochemical processes is out (corpses; no functioning way to take up food and transport it to the muscles). I can only see two ways to really implement The * of the Living Dead:
Nanotech to animate the corpses using energy from.. something.
Some miracle that breaks thermodynamics to create a perpeetum mobile.
Sorry, but to get your fun zombie party you also need either nanotech or some kind of divine intervention. So stop complaining and join the Singularity or Rapture parade!
I should add this(since "Preview" is too close to "Submit"):
I've been to Europe enough to see that the attitudes of the citizens about driving is pretty abysmal.
Personally, I'd be less scared of bungy jumping than to drive in Paris -- and I don't like heights.:-)
when *I* was young I used to be liberal and think like you.:-)
I don't know if this has a political viewpoint. It is a practical question of what works in different sets of circumstances (/traditions). As you noted yourself. (-: So I am probably the same age as you.:-)
Finland's system does treat everybody like a complete idiot at some point, and it costs a lot of money. It's different than a drinking age. In fact, there is a driving age. If you're old enough to drive, however, there's no reason to be assumed to be a complete idiot.
To not be allowed access to cars or alcohol is not to be treated like an idiot? Let me guess, you think forcing someone to have a pass to go around in a school is ok, because it is just for young people?:-)
This in a country with notes on coffee mugs that the content might be hot??:-)
I am sorry, but I can't see a difference between the two cases -- except your local traditions. (I should say that I had a different viewpoint when I was younger.)
Given the significantly larger size of America, and our sparser population
Finland (and Sweden) has lower population density (check cia world factbook). The number of driven km/capita is probably higher in the US, but I doubt it is a factor of three.
To do social engineering, examine number of deaths, consider age and remaining work life, number of relatives and their suffering, costs, etc. The people planning public roads do those kinds of calculations, because you know that more expensive roads will mean fewer accidents. They literally set a price on a traffic causality.
is the highway safety record in Finland so much better than the US's that it justifies treating every adult like a mentally retarded infant
They don't. They treat new drivers like that, because they are "error prone". It is just age fascism like not letting people buy beer before X years of age. (-: Age fascism against young people is good, it's bad against us old..:-)
Other groups that are error prone are alcohol/drug users and really old people. They are kept in check everywhere.
Cars kill a lot of people.
The Finns have a similar (probably a little better) system than us in Sweden. Here we get a little less than 500 dead/year on a population of 9 millions. USA has about 30 times the population, which gives an expected 15,000 dead/year to be as good/bad.
Some googling gave
44,800 for 2003. Wikipedia gave
42,643 for 2003. About three times 15,000 -- but your petrol haven't 200% tax added...
IMHO, the main numerical problem is not the number of dead but the "30 times population" bit.
In many cases, USA can't use the same solutions as smaller countries, because the implementing problem scales more than linearly with the population. Then, the jury is still out if many of EU solutions work here.:-(
My O'Reilly _Programming perl_ book has survived unspeakable abuse for 10 years
Uh, ten years? (Looks inside cover at book next to monitor.)
Go get the five year old third edition! If you have the 2nd, it is a big win.
(1st Edition was better than the 2nd but too damn old to even consider.)
While its content, layout and clarity of editorial is unparalleled in my three decades of paging through paper documentation, inviting thousands of hours of use.
I really can't believe you're talking about the 2nd ed. Most people I've talk with assumes it was published under a too short deadline, or something. (It is a consolation that not even O'Reilly wins 'em all.)
Sorry, but that is sad. You really haven't anything better to do with your time?!
Go find a sport that is fun (I recommend tennis, thai/kick boxing, jogging, weights and badminton) or try to meet girls or write code or play games or read books or sleep. Make the world or yourself better/weirder.
Also, it helps your self image to not act like an asshole just to irritate random people. Everyone but psychopaths do want to be the hero of their story -- and note an overgrown teenager.
And (1) High site ranking on Google isn't easy to get, (2) it is an old, old story from '91 -- which has been well documented. If you really haven't even heard about it, it do show your lack of age or something.
(As a hint... generally bad news about the controllers of the largest ad budgets in the world doesn't get spread that widely.)
Google
is too complex for you? Check the first few links.
I am sorry, but you are insulting and asks for references when told to Google. You claim to not be a kid.
I guess I have myself to blame if I argue with children/trolls/idiots. This was the last I had to write. This is a very well known story, as I wrote from the beginning. If you haven't neither heard of it nor manage to Google, I don't care if you manage to read and understand the references.
You provided NO examples of this and you can't, because there are none.
You know that because you're Bill Gates? Who else can write that and be serious? As I wrote, Microsoft has been condemned in a court of law for worse. They don't have moral problems with criminal behaviour. For an example, I wrote: "DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run". (There are things like email api and other email clients, etc.)
been forced to put hacks into their OS to make sure certain highly used software works with new versions of Windows
You really think that it is a relevant counter argument that Msoft have done that in other cases?!:-)
And, AFAIK, all commercial O/S makers has to put fixes into their O/S to make certain programs to run (old MacOS and Office was a ridiculous example, if you read.. never mind.) Obviously not a relevant counter argument.
Never mind, this is over. It was nice to see attempts at arguments from you, even if they were flawed.
you are insulting without even mentioning my examples -- or why they are wrong.
we are talking about a criminal monopolist -- Microsoft have been judged guilty of similar behaviour in a court of law; the company do things like that if they think they would harm a competitor. (Then they settled in a series of trials and paid hundreds of millions.)
My considered opinion from your series of insults without arguments is that you're a kid, a fuckwith or a troll. Or a combination.
I don't have a reason to talk to members of any of those groups. Bye, asshole.
Ah, an insult. What an intelligent counter argument.
It completely explains thewell known supporting facts ("DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run" and Microsoft behaviour like their keeping standards closed).
In conclusion, you make the average Anon Coward look intelligent.
I always thought the disgusting and over complex mess of different pieces where planned that way.
It makes it hard to write something compatible (or outright clone) the product.
Also, when you want some competitior's product to run badly (which Microsoft is famous for) it is easy to find something that the competitior's product do -- but few other programs do. Then you introduce a small "bug" in the next version of Windows...
Sure, development needs extra engineers and takes longer, but if you are a monopolist -- you have to afford doing things like that.
Really cool point that the reaction speeds are slowed so normally fast reactions might be usable.
Reactions slows with temperature either because diffundation speed slows (the speed of molecules) or that the energy of the collisions between molecules aren't enought to make them react.
The molecular speed should be a problem. I believe cell size of modern life is limited by diffundation of oxygen and other molecules. Any life would have to use lots of transportation engines in their cells (or keep them very, very small).
Life generally needs to do reactions in long chains (especially things that are energetic like acetylene!) Some enzymes could be good catalysators and help the reaction rates, I guess. But are they really made from proteins on Titan? What is used instead of water? Methane?
Assume that the "proteins" are working in clusters. Then we have cell membranes, DNA and...
Any physical chemist care to comment? Is there some trick to keep big C-based molecules moving about at ca 94 K average temperature?? (According to Wikipedia)
Now, even if possible functional cell parts can be conceived, considering the slower reaction rates -- how muc longer would life take to evolve? (Fewer reactions/second means that random reactions are tried slower.)
(No pun intended with my "Subject".)
Is there a slashdot site for physical chemists I can go read their comments about this story?:-)
Slashdot Mirror
They still haven't gotten that far. :-(
Check this and that.
Let us hope someone gets working screens so I can get a smaller place to live with fewer books, sometime! (If those fails, I think there are more projects working.)
Do you think traps to catch monkeys work if the monkeys understand how the traps works when they see it?
What if the monkeys have seen monkeys get caught in that kind of trap many times before?
Now, consider lockin from monopolists in an application area where everyone has learned that it's a lot of pain.
If the monke.. buyers realized how the lockin would work, it wouldn't work. They must be trapped with something that doesn't look like a lockin.
And M-soft refuse to support open standards -- while claiming to open their products -- and people believe it?!
It just screams bait and switch, or something.
If you really say you can't smell it, then I think you're a troll. I have a bridge to sell cheap, if you need a good home? I can get you a good price on the Eiffel tower, otherwise?
I will speculate on your question if you answer, this time:
Again, why do Microsoft refuse support alternative XML standards if they are going to be open anyway?!
Oh, hell. I'll guess. It could be a combination of some of these. (together with some "call home" tech so they are really followed?)
A law?
More patents?
Remove XML support before releasing?
Cripple the XML? (Or even cancel it before release?)
A 2nd, 3rd, .. Nth version of the XML data spec that isn't quite backwards compatible?
Some real innovation in the important area -- lockin -- that is neither a legal thing or just bundling to cut the oxygen supply of a competitor?
This is natural for monopolists; it is in their interest to not be compatible.
I don't believe you when you claim to not understand why people are nervous when there are known (and maybe more unknown) Microsoft patents around their XML data descriptions and they refused to support alternative XML standards.
It is too much like a big wooden horse that coughs from it's legs and stommach..
Alternative, the author is an idiot savant that never overwrite memory in C, but still isn't smart enough to realize why it happens to other programmers (and realize that it slows development down, not makes it impossible, which his argument about writing OS kernels in C seems to assume).
(I don't know that much about the subject. I almost started a hobby -- writing a proxy that would be maximally hard to filter for China, Iran etc. The idea was (a) do simple steganography so it looks like some other protocol and (b) get proxies up easily at different web servers.)
I think that HBO would have to really flood the nets with clients sending bad data to make it work, using client behaviour that is varying wildly. (They can't just send a few kB of data, since that is too easy to filter.)
The only affordable way I can see for HBO to do this, is to talk to the people with zombie nets. Now, that kind of vigilantism would be dangerous...
It would be better if HBO released the TV shows with ads -- in a format that really forced people to watch the ads.
Sigh, can't stop myself from correction facts in a joke. I have to get this besserwisser tendency under control. :-(
Please, someone, post exact number of genes (according to alternative splicing, silencing, etc) lost so I can feel I'm not worse than the spelling nazis. :-(
Normal biochemical processes is out (corpses; no functioning way to take up food and transport it to the muscles). I can only see two ways to really implement The * of the Living Dead:
Sorry, but to get your fun zombie party you also need either nanotech or some kind of divine intervention. So stop complaining and join the Singularity or Rapture parade!
This in a country with notes on coffee mugs that the content might be hot?? :-)
I am sorry, but I can't see a difference between the two cases -- except your local traditions. (I should say that I had a different viewpoint when I was younger.)
Finland (and Sweden) has lower population density (check cia world factbook). The number of driven km/capita is probably higher in the US, but I doubt it is a factor of three.To do social engineering, examine number of deaths, consider age and remaining work life, number of relatives and their suffering, costs, etc. The people planning public roads do those kinds of calculations, because you know that more expensive roads will mean fewer accidents. They literally set a price on a traffic causality.
Other groups that are error prone are alcohol/drug users and really old people. They are kept in check everywhere.
The Finns have a similar (probably a little better) system than us in Sweden. Here we get a little less than 500 dead/year on a population of 9 millions. USA has about 30 times the population, which gives an expected 15,000 dead/year to be as good/bad.Some googling gave 44,800 for 2003. Wikipedia gave 42,643 for 2003. About three times 15,000 -- but your petrol haven't 200% tax added...
IMHO, the main numerical problem is not the number of dead but the "30 times population" bit.
In many cases, USA can't use the same solutions as smaller countries, because the implementing problem scales more than linearly with the population. Then, the jury is still out if many of EU solutions work here. :-(
Go get the five year old third edition! If you have the 2nd, it is a big win.
(1st Edition was better than the 2nd but too damn old to even consider.)
I really can't believe you're talking about the 2nd ed. Most people I've talk with assumes it was published under a too short deadline, or something. (It is a consolation that not even O'Reilly wins 'em all.)This was an incredible creative (and sick) idea. Microsoft should hire them.
Soon they will probably copy medieval propaganda about the jews and say that file sharers eat christian babies. :-)
Sorry, but that is sad. You really haven't anything better to do with your time?!
Go find a sport that is fun (I recommend tennis, thai/kick boxing, jogging, weights and badminton) or try to meet girls or write code or play games or read books or sleep. Make the world or yourself better/weirder.
Also, it helps your self image to not act like an asshole just to irritate random people. Everyone but psychopaths do want to be the hero of their story -- and note an overgrown teenager.
And (1) High site ranking on Google isn't easy to get, (2) it is an old, old story from '91 -- which has been well documented. If you really haven't even heard about it, it do show your lack of age or something.
(As a hint... generally bad news about the controllers of the largest ad budgets in the world doesn't get spread that widely.)
I am sorry, but you are insulting and asks for references when told to Google. You claim to not be a kid.
I guess I have myself to blame if I argue with children/trolls/idiots. This was the last I had to write. This is a very well known story, as I wrote from the beginning. If you haven't neither heard of it nor manage to Google, I don't care if you manage to read and understand the references.
Now, good bye. Talk to me in a few years when you've left high school.
And, AFAIK, all commercial O/S makers has to put fixes into their O/S to make certain programs to run (old MacOS and Office was a ridiculous example, if you read .. never mind.) Obviously not a relevant counter argument.
Never mind, this is over. It was nice to see attempts at arguments from you, even if they were flawed.
Msoft has said that Linux and Open Source is like communism, so you must be wrong!
My considered opinion from your series of insults without arguments is that you're a kid, a fuckwith or a troll. Or a combination.
I don't have a reason to talk to members of any of those groups. Bye, asshole.
An expression like "retarded shit" without motivating why it is a relevant characterization makes you look like a stupid teenager.
You probably want to hide that better.
It completely explains thewell known supporting facts ("DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run" and Microsoft behaviour like their keeping standards closed).
In conclusion, you make the average Anon Coward look intelligent.
It makes it hard to write something compatible (or outright clone) the product.
Also, when you want some competitior's product to run badly (which Microsoft is famous for) it is easy to find something that the competitior's product do -- but few other programs do. Then you introduce a small "bug" in the next version of Windows...
Sure, development needs extra engineers and takes longer, but if you are a monopolist -- you have to afford doing things like that.
Reactions slows with temperature either because diffundation speed slows (the speed of molecules) or that the energy of the collisions between molecules aren't enought to make them react.
The molecular speed should be a problem. I believe cell size of modern life is limited by diffundation of oxygen and other molecules. Any life would have to use lots of transportation engines in their cells (or keep them very, very small).
Life generally needs to do reactions in long chains (especially things that are energetic like acetylene!) Some enzymes could be good catalysators and help the reaction rates, I guess. But are they really made from proteins on Titan? What is used instead of water? Methane?
Assume that the "proteins" are working in clusters. Then we have cell membranes, DNA and...
Any physical chemist care to comment? Is there some trick to keep big C-based molecules moving about at ca 94 K average temperature?? (According to Wikipedia)
Now, even if possible functional cell parts can be conceived, considering the slower reaction rates -- how muc longer would life take to evolve? (Fewer reactions/second means that random reactions are tried slower.)
(No pun intended with my "Subject".)
Is there a slashdot site for physical chemists I can go read their comments about this story? :-)
Then you could build the solar system program for 95 billions.
Five billions only gets you papers from NASA and their standard contractors. :-(