Depends on your point of view I guess. What is worth preventing the rape and death of a little girl?
Tracking every convicted child molester? Probably worth it.
Arresting every man who smiles at a little girl? Probably not.
But there's a vast gap between the two, and it can be hard to find a line. As with anti-terrorism efforts, it's easy to overreact to the crime, but tough to adequately protect against it, even WITH overreacting:-/
Their Athlon 64 FX-5x line is unlocked, designed for the enthusiast crowd. Their Athlon 64 xx00 series is multiplier-locked, but you can still play with the FSB.
i leave it to your imagination where security comes from
Long-term security comes from goodwill; the more people whose children you save from aids, hunger, and preventable childhood diseases, the more people who will stand up for America when someone tries to incite violence against us or blame us for the problems in their lives.
Everyday Americans' caring and geenrous response to the Tsunami did more to combat terrorism than any war could have:
"...support for Bin Laden and terrorism in the world's most populous Muslim nation has dropped significantly, while favorable views of the United States have increased... The poll shows that the reason for this positive change is the American response to the tsunami..."
You say that like those aren't military applications
Just because the military is involved in getting aid relief to combat zones doesn't make a water purifier a military tool. Nor is a reliable water pump the kind of military applications the original poster's school had him think up.
in Windows you CAN change the default browser...Your argument that an operating system can't use a custom icon for their web browser is just plain stupid.
Care to elaborate on "just plain stupid"? There was an anti-trust lawsuit vs. Microsoft on this very issue of using an OS dominance to force usage of MS products, such as web browsers and email clients. Before the lawsuit, there was no simple way to change the default browser, or to unbundle MS software from windows installations.
Not to mention, MS would penalize any PC vendor who, for example, included the Netscape browser in their configs. As others have pointed out, this led to people designing websites for this artificially dominant browser, perhaps choosing ASP and VBScript (and buying development tools and training from MS) over competitors, because IE already had a monopoly hold on the browser market.
So my argument isn't stupid, it's just describing how I think an honest OS should operate.
your suggestion of decieving them
It's not like I don't tell them I switched the icon! People have actually told me that they'd like to switch to Firefox but keep clicking the E icon by force of habit.
(Also, the word isn't "viola" unless you're talking about the string instrument)
(okay, how do you spell the word that sounds like "wah-lah"? did I miss an accent or something?)
every project final report had to mention possible military applications
That's kind of depressing... why didn't they require that every final report had to mention applications that could improve life in underdeveloped areas or something?
Then students would pursue projects with this in mind, instead of developing with military applications in mind. Highly reliable and easy-to-repair water pumps, improved farming tools constructable from local materials, simple and effective water filtration devices, etc.?
How dare you call FUD on my argument! The nerve...:-P
I think we're both right, but only time will truly tell. I don't believe that innovative pop-up windows constitute a security flaw. Especially when they're done through a user-installed plugin, like Flash.
I do believe that Firefox is a safer program to view web pages through because, unlike IE, it is completely separate from the OS.
IE developers, because they work with Windows OS developers and can access private OS functions, link the IE web browser to important system components in the name of usability and features, and even in the name of browser/OS integration (as if it's a good thing?). Firefox developers cannot and would not do any such thing.
Most regular users have a monopoly-induced addiction of associating the blue E with web surfing, and their mouse just goes there when they think "internet". A fair operating system would have an Internet button that launches the system default browser. A monopoly OS uses their own branded icon as the "internet" icon, and it alawys launches IE.
To help your friends and family kick this awful habit, you can change the Firefox shortcut to display an IE icon:-)
1. First, remove any IE shortcuts from the desktop and the quick launch bar. They can still access it from the Start menu, if they really need to. 2. Right-click the Firefox shortcut, select Properties 3. Press the "Change Icon..." button 4. Type %ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE as the filename, press TAB, IE icons will appear 5. Choose the blue E icon, press Okay, press Okay. 6. Repeat for any other firefox shortcuts on their desktop (quicklaunch, desktop).
First of all Firefox doesn't have a spyware problem simply because it's not used by enough people.
FUD! Firefox does not and will not have a spyware problem because it is more carefully designed with security in mind. IE has spyware problems because it leaves problems, both bugs and poor design choices, unpatched for months.
What I advocate is that people install firefox on their system because if IE fails them they have a backup.
You should advocate that the other way around! Firefox primarily, with IE as a backup. Why do you encourage them to experience another IE failure before finally choosing a safer browser?
Because Microsoft's E-mail client and web browser are unsafe and insecure products. People using software with default security profiles that ensure arbitrary code does not run is in everybody's best interest.
Especially when these people are your friends and family, and you do not want to see them get hurt by a virus or identiy scam.
No. One person owns the copyright to the overall body of code. Your contributions are just that... gifts.
Wrong. You might have given them as gifts.
But if you didn't, and you released the code under the GPL, then the other guy must have agreed to your licensing terms in order to use your code. You own the copyright to your own portions of the code unless you transfer it.
If the person who owns the copyright to the rest of the code wants to release a non-GPL'd version, he either needs to get your approval, or he needs to remove your portion.
GWB and the neo-conservatives are abusing the name Christian just like they abuse the name Republican, just like they abused the name Colin Powell. They're even doing it with the name "America".
They superficially associate themselves with something good, then do bad things in its name for their own personal gain, tricking people into trusting that good name one last time. Then the name is ruined, they disassociate themselves, and move on to ruin the next good name.
Colin Powell realized they were using him, so he jumped ship, albeit a little too late to save his name.
Republicans are sloooowly realizing that they've had their organization hijacked. Some Christians are, too.
I only hope America figures it out before GWB's second term is up. I would love a true Republican president, or a true Democratic one. I believe both true parties want to do genuine good for America.
Yep, the whole thing is a shenanigan. 2 miles per hour = 3200 meters per hour, or 6400 meters in two hours. This is the pace that competitive swimmers swim for only two hours when they're in near peak condition. It's impossible to keep this pace for 12 hours.
I agree... I was just pointing out how tough it would be even if you COULD swim at 2 mph for 12 hours a day:-)
It's 3000 miles wide from Gibraltar to Norfolk, Virginia.
If he can swim 2 miles per hour for 12 hours every 24 hours (12 hours per day), it'd take him 125 days.
Long-distance Swimmer Tammy Van Wisse holds the World Record (fastest person) to swim 1515 mile length of the Murray River in Australia. It took from 5 November 2000 - 18 February 2001: 106 days, and she's a professional, and it was a river, not a cold and turbulent ocean.
That said, I considered World of Warcraft, which I play all the time.
I realized there are very few times when I'm playing with more than 4 other people at once. Often, I'm even soloing. I may not see a single other player until I return to town to chat and trade.
The only time I'm doing massively multiplayer stuff (like 50 vs. 50) is large group pvp or large group dungeons. Otherwise I'm trading in a populated city, or questing alone or with a handful of friends; just like Guild Wars.
Massively - The game is going to support scads of people. Heavy instancing will be used, to be sure, but City of Heroes does the same thing. GW is just going to a further extreme. Multiplayer - More than one person can play.
It is massive. It is multiplayer. It is online. It has involves gaming.
However: the Gaming part (fighting monsters, etc) only involves a handful of people at once, so there is no "massively multiplayer" gaming going on.
There is a "massively multiplayer chat and trade area" but the primary part of the game is limited to just a few at once.
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Depends on your point of view I guess.
:-/
What is worth preventing the rape and death of a little girl?
Tracking every convicted child molester? Probably worth it.
Arresting every man who smiles at a little girl? Probably not.
But there's a vast gap between the two, and it can be hard to find a line. As with anti-terrorism efforts, it's easy to overreact to the crime, but tough to adequately protect against it, even WITH overreacting
Their Athlon 64 FX-5x line is unlocked, designed for the enthusiast crowd. Their Athlon 64 xx00 series is multiplier-locked, but you can still play with the FSB.
Does 50,000,000 include the separate downloads of 1.0.1, 1.0.2, and 1.0.3?
consequently, archive.org does not seem to work with these standardly coded hyperlinks :-)
the correct way to do an embedded link is to use the ascii code for the colon (%3A) and the forward slash (%2F)
% 2F%2Fw ww.slashdot.org%2F
% 2F%2Fwww.slashdot.org%2F
http://web.archive.org/web/20000301205131/http%3A
And you can use the <URL:http://example.com/> method to get rid of one of the extra spaces (in the www):
http://web.archive.org/web/20000301205131/http%3A
i leave it to your imagination where security comes from
Long-term security comes from goodwill; the more people whose children you save from aids, hunger, and preventable childhood diseases, the more people who will stand up for America when someone tries to incite violence against us or blame us for the problems in their lives.
Everyday Americans' caring and geenrous response to the Tsunami did more to combat terrorism than any war could have:
"...support for Bin Laden and terrorism in the world's most populous Muslim nation has dropped significantly, while favorable views of the United States have increased... The poll shows that the reason for this positive change is the American response to the tsunami..."
You say that like those aren't military applications
Just because the military is involved in getting aid relief to combat zones doesn't make a water purifier a military tool. Nor is a reliable water pump the kind of military applications the original poster's school had him think up.
in Windows you CAN change the default browser...Your argument that an operating system can't use a custom icon for their web browser is just plain stupid.
Care to elaborate on "just plain stupid"? There was an anti-trust lawsuit vs. Microsoft on this very issue of using an OS dominance to force usage of MS products, such as web browsers and email clients. Before the lawsuit, there was no simple way to change the default browser, or to unbundle MS software from windows installations.
Not to mention, MS would penalize any PC vendor who, for example, included the Netscape browser in their configs. As others have pointed out, this led to people designing websites for this artificially dominant browser, perhaps choosing ASP and VBScript (and buying development tools and training from MS) over competitors, because IE already had a monopoly hold on the browser market.
So my argument isn't stupid, it's just describing how I think an honest OS should operate.
your suggestion of decieving them
It's not like I don't tell them I switched the icon! People have actually told me that they'd like to switch to Firefox but keep clicking the E icon by force of habit.
(Also, the word isn't "viola" unless you're talking about the string instrument)
(okay, how do you spell the word that sounds like "wah-lah"? did I miss an accent or something?)
every project final report had to mention possible military applications
That's kind of depressing... why didn't they require that every final report had to mention applications that could improve life in underdeveloped areas or something?
Then students would pursue projects with this in mind, instead of developing with military applications in mind. Highly reliable and easy-to-repair water pumps, improved farming tools constructable from local materials, simple and effective water filtration devices, etc.?
How dare you call FUD on my argument! The nerve... :-P
I think we're both right, but only time will truly tell. I don't believe that innovative pop-up windows constitute a security flaw. Especially when they're done through a user-installed plugin, like Flash.
I do believe that Firefox is a safer program to view web pages through because, unlike IE, it is completely separate from the OS.
IE developers, because they work with Windows OS developers and can access private OS functions, link the IE web browser to important system components in the name of usability and features, and even in the name of browser/OS integration (as if it's a good thing?). Firefox developers cannot and would not do any such thing.
I always install Firefox and suggest they use it
:-)
Most regular users have a monopoly-induced addiction of associating the blue E with web surfing, and their mouse just goes there when they think "internet". A fair operating system would have an Internet button that launches the system default browser. A monopoly OS uses their own branded icon as the "internet" icon, and it alawys launches IE.
To help your friends and family kick this awful habit, you can change the Firefox shortcut to display an IE icon
1. First, remove any IE shortcuts from the desktop and the quick launch bar. They can still access it from the Start menu, if they really need to.
2. Right-click the Firefox shortcut, select Properties
3. Press the "Change Icon..." button
4. Type %ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE as the filename, press TAB, IE icons will appear
5. Choose the blue E icon, press Okay, press Okay.
6. Repeat for any other firefox shortcuts on their desktop (quicklaunch, desktop).
Viola!
First of all Firefox doesn't have a spyware problem simply because it's not used by enough people.
FUD! Firefox does not and will not have a spyware problem because it is more carefully designed with security in mind. IE has spyware problems because it leaves problems, both bugs and poor design choices, unpatched for months.
What I advocate is that people install firefox on their system because if IE fails them they have a backup.
You should advocate that the other way around! Firefox primarily, with IE as a backup. Why do you encourage them to experience another IE failure before finally choosing a safer browser?
Because Microsoft's E-mail client and web browser are unsafe and insecure products. People using software with default security profiles that ensure arbitrary code does not run is in everybody's best interest.
Especially when these people are your friends and family, and you do not want to see them get hurt by a virus or identiy scam.
Perhaps that logic would hold more weight if the universe of music contained only 25 songs.
If you'd listen to the pop radio stations these days, you'd find they really do only play about 25 different songs.
No. One person owns the copyright to the overall body of code. Your contributions are just that... gifts.
Wrong. You might have given them as gifts.
But if you didn't, and you released the code under the GPL, then the other guy must have agreed to your licensing terms in order to use your code. You own the copyright to your own portions of the code unless you transfer it.
If the person who owns the copyright to the rest of the code wants to release a non-GPL'd version, he either needs to get your approval, or he needs to remove your portion.
GWB and the neo-conservatives are abusing the name Christian just like they abuse the name Republican, just like they abused the name Colin Powell. They're even doing it with the name "America".
They superficially associate themselves with something good, then do bad things in its name for their own personal gain, tricking people into trusting that good name one last time. Then the name is ruined, they disassociate themselves, and move on to ruin the next good name.
Colin Powell realized they were using him, so he jumped ship, albeit a little too late to save his name.
Republicans are sloooowly realizing that they've had their organization hijacked. Some Christians are, too.
I only hope America figures it out before GWB's second term is up. I would love a true Republican president, or a true Democratic one. I believe both true parties want to do genuine good for America.
Yep, the whole thing is a shenanigan. 2 miles per hour = 3200 meters per hour, or 6400 meters in two hours. This is the pace that competitive swimmers swim for only two hours when they're in near peak condition. It's impossible to keep this pace for 12 hours.
:-)
I agree... I was just pointing out how tough it would be even if you COULD swim at 2 mph for 12 hours a day
It's 3000 miles wide from Gibraltar to Norfolk, Virginia.
If he can swim 2 miles per hour for 12 hours every 24 hours (12 hours per day), it'd take him 125 days.
Long-distance Swimmer Tammy Van Wisse holds the World Record (fastest person) to swim 1515 mile length of the Murray River in Australia. It took from 5 November 2000 - 18 February 2001: 106 days, and she's a professional, and it was a river, not a cold and turbulent ocean.
So THIS is what happens when the government orders things but doesn't say how to fund them! It's all so clear now!
Thank goodness they don't do this with important things, such as education.
micropayment based fantasy games...
Hey, it worked for "Magic: The Gathering"
When are we going to get a Zelda-based MMORPG?
Most people care more about the verb.
That said, I considered World of Warcraft, which I play all the time.
I realized there are very few times when I'm playing with more than 4 other people at once. Often, I'm even soloing. I may not see a single other player until I return to town to chat and trade.
The only time I'm doing massively multiplayer stuff (like 50 vs. 50) is large group pvp or large group dungeons. Otherwise I'm trading in a populated city, or questing alone or with a handful of friends; just like Guild Wars.
Massively - The game is going to support scads of people. Heavy instancing will be used, to be sure, but City of Heroes does the same thing. GW is just going to a further extreme.
Multiplayer - More than one person can play.
It is massive. It is multiplayer. It is online. It has involves gaming.
However: the Gaming part (fighting monsters, etc) only involves a handful of people at once, so there is no "massively multiplayer" gaming going on.
There is a "massively multiplayer chat and trade area" but the primary part of the game is limited to just a few at once.
The Quik-E-Mart is really - D'OH!