As someone else here mentioned, allowing the installation of Firefox would disrupt the usual patching routines, since the admins want to minimize the number of things to be watched over (i.e. if I let you install Firefox, then besides Microsoft's updates, I have to watch for Mozilla.org's updates too.) I can imagine the admins are already in deep shit with the Microsoftian legion of security flaws, but (un)luckily Microsoft has provided a rather automatic means of unattended update for IT administrators to save the day. Thus, adding Firefox into the equation just doesn't help. Especially when considering that there's no well known mass updating mechanism for Firefox and open source softwares in general. Sure you can write a program to look for the updates, changelogs, and related bugtraqs for you, but you can't expect an MCSE to write a proper program can you?;^)
With this in mind, I wonder if open source softwares, despite superior quality to M$'s offerings, are friendly to IT departments? This question is significant since if we can't make our softwares friendly to companies then the average users aren't likely to use them as well. If the answer is negative, how can we tackle this problem?
Both Mandarin phrases are acceptable in China. If you really go into the specifics, "Tai Kon Ren"(I doubt if that's the correct pinyin...) means space man in Chinese and the other word (which I forgot the spelling) means someone driving a spaceship. If you say either phrase to a Chinese they know you mean an astronaut - those are just synonyms.
While this telescope may have even better resolution power than Hubble, there's another major problem with all ground-based telescopes
They cannot detect EM waves that's not either visible light or in the radio wave to the far infrared range
This is because Earth's atmosphere, contrary to what most people would believe, is not transparent to EM waves of all wavelengths. For example, common sense tells us that it blocks almost all extreme UV light. So if you want to observe an object that emits only extreme UV light with a ground-based telescope, you're not gonna see it.
Another example would be gamma ray bursters. Remember these objects weren't detected until the US sent survillence satellites into space? This is because there's no way you can detect gamma rays that originated from space inside the atmosphere. Granted it's now possible to observe the after-glow of GRBs with ground-based telescopes, GRBs must still be detected from space telescopes beforehand.
> Quicktime opens up faster, plays movies > smoother, and PLAYS VIDEO IN THE BROWSER! > Windows Media Player simply doesn't do > this, it's a standalone application that > is too big and clunky.
it's like I'm alone, but on Windows it is quite definitely WMP that opens up faster, plays more movie formats, and plays video in the browser without a separate setup (since... well... WMP was installed with Windows setup). And WMP is surely not a standalone app it is integrated into Windows deeply. While Quicktime is a very nice app, that's not a reason to fool yourself.
Despite the fact that Windows is more prone to things like viruses and malwares (which'd not be the case if it's not the dominant OS), its API is a pain in the ass to use compared to POSIX. Their Platform SDK documentation in MSDN isn't very useful either. Yes MSDN is big, but that's just because it includes a lot of useless information that you don't want. The Win32 APIs themselves look ugly compared to POSIX's. Say, for example, I want to do an mmap.
In Linux, it is:
void * mmap(void *start, size_t length, int prot , int flags, int fd, off_t offset);
Simple, elegant.
In Windows, the function calls stink just from the look of it./* first */ HANDLE CreateFileMapping(
HANDLE hFile,
LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpAttributes,
DWORD flProtect,
DWORD dwMaximumSizeHigh,
DWORD dwMaximumSizeLow,
LPCTSTR lpName );/* then */ LPVOID MapViewOfFile(
HANDLE hFileMappingObject,
DWORD dwDesiredAccess,
DWORD dwFileOffsetHigh,
DWORD dwFileOffsetLow,
SIZE_T dwNumberOfBytesToMap );
You see... I just want a pointer where I can access it as a file. In Windows I need to write more code, memorize more parameters and (just one in this example) data types just to do simple file mapping. In POSIX it's a breeze.
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No, that is different
When we burn fossil fuels we are releasing the carbon from millions of years ago. These carbon should be non-existent in the present day ecosystem, which is very different from what it was when the dinosaurs were there. So from the present carbon cycle's stand point, burning fossil fuels isn't exactly a closed system.
However, when we burn the carbon from ag product alcohol, we can be just releasing the carbon from, say, a few months ago. The carbon in the alcohol came from living plants, which in turn got their carbon from the air. This way we aren't releasing any more carbon than what's taken in from the atmosphere. And since the plants used will be grown again in the next crop cycle, they won't be used up either. So we can quite safely see this as a closed system.
There's no need for ISPs to look for a particular port - that's just a waste of time. Once they've noticed exccessive upstream traffic from you they know there's a problem.
If there's any use of port knocking for the warez kids, it'd be that they dun want their pub ftp be scanned by some stupid lamers, who'd spend half an hour trying to brute force your ftp by hand.
2. The ATI Radeon X800s will require two power rails also. So stop dreaming about a "power efficient" part and buy a new PSU:(
ATI needs extra power too
That said, I'm no fanboy of nVidia or ATI though. The new GF 6800U is still occupying one extra PCI slot and blowing a whole lot of hot air inside the case. Imagine someone put another 100W+ Prescott next to it. I just feel uncomfortable for a GFX card to dissipate so much of heat right next to the CPU. But well... ATI is gonna do that too (except for the two-slot thing)
If there's any reason I'd look forward towards the X800s, I hope they won't require two slots - that is just inelegant. But based on the two molex connectors on the X800s, and the power consumption of their older parts, I won't hold any hope that ATI would "save power".
Although I like Linux, I'm not as enthusiastic as you. Linux has evolved quickly, but the people haven't changed. You see...
> - Distros like Xandros "just work"
But it is not well known yet.
> - Linux is secure from worms, trojans, viruses
True, but sadly the average Windows users seems unaware of the fact at all. Even sadder is that some of them can treat a system filled with spywares, viri, crashing and stop working as normal now.
It is as if they've been force fed 10 years of shit, and now they cannot distinguish between meatsteak and poop. I dunno whether I should laugh or feel sorry when those complete newbies tell me poop is tasty.
> - Linux runs on modest hardware
Again, people just don't know that. They're willing to spend $3000 on a top line rig just to run spywares and 3DMark.
> - Linux is less complex and thus more stable
On a programmer's perspective, yes. Linux's structure is more understandable and its API is standardized and simplier (i.e. POSIX). Just try to do a file mapping on Win32 API and then Linux and you'll know...
But for the user, sorry, no. No matter how simple you've made it, they've been accustomed to the Windows environment for years. Unlearning the old usage pattern alone would be hard enough.
> - Linux has a "cool" factor missing from Windows
There're plenty of kiddies who think they're "cool" just because they know a few DOS commands.
> - The IT world's view of Microsoft as "evil" is percolating down to the general public
There's plenty of people (IT or not) who think Microsoft invented computer, and Bill Gates is a god-send. Just ask a few persons around you.
1. Move to New Hempshire 2. Post an overused joke to $slashdot 3. Sue all $slashdotters, I don't like your $browser caching my comments 4. Profit!!!!!!11
* Replace $slashdot, $slashdotters, $browsers with whatever online communities and softwares suitable.
Seriously, this law is nonsense. Anyone with some clues about the Internet knows his comments are often stored in the receivers' computers, whether purposefully or not. If this law is carried out on Slashdot we can all expect reading a lengthy EULA before we can read and post any comments here.
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As someone else here mentioned, allowing the installation of Firefox would disrupt the usual patching routines, since the admins want to minimize the number of things to be watched over (i.e. if I let you install Firefox, then besides Microsoft's updates, I have to watch for Mozilla.org's updates too.) I can imagine the admins are already in deep shit with the Microsoftian legion of security flaws, but (un)luckily Microsoft has provided a rather automatic means of unattended update for IT administrators to save the day. Thus, adding Firefox into the equation just doesn't help. Especially when considering that there's no well known mass updating mechanism for Firefox and open source softwares in general. Sure you can write a program to look for the updates, changelogs, and related bugtraqs for you, but you can't expect an MCSE to write a proper program can you? ;^)
With this in mind, I wonder if open source softwares, despite superior quality to M$'s offerings, are friendly to IT departments? This question is significant since if we can't make our softwares friendly to companies then the average users aren't likely to use them as well. If the answer is negative, how can we tackle this problem?
Both Mandarin phrases are acceptable in China. If you really go into the specifics, "Tai Kon Ren"(I doubt if that's the correct pinyin...) means space man in Chinese and the other word (which I forgot the spelling) means someone driving a spaceship. If you say either phrase to a Chinese they know you mean an astronaut - those are just synonyms.
The word "taikonauts" is invented by western media. If you check the Chinese media websites, they use "astronauts" for the English term.
Example: Xinhua news international (this is their government news agency so you can't get much more "official" than this)
What the official Chinese media call their astronauts
He needs a whole nuclear plant connected to his head ;-)
Your method is already being used in astronomy, and it's a kind of interfereometry. Adaptive optics, however, is another wholly different trick.
btw, the image we get inside the atmosphere is not wobbling, it is blurred. So it's quite different to your case.
Why Adaptive Optics?
While this telescope may have even better resolution power than Hubble, there's another major problem with all ground-based telescopes
They cannot detect EM waves that's not either visible light or in the radio wave to the far infrared range
This is because Earth's atmosphere, contrary to what most people would believe, is not transparent to EM waves of all wavelengths. For example, common sense tells us that it blocks almost all extreme UV light. So if you want to observe an object that emits only extreme UV light with a ground-based telescope, you're not gonna see it.
Another example would be gamma ray bursters. Remember these objects weren't detected until the US sent survillence satellites into space? This is because there's no way you can detect gamma rays that originated from space inside the atmosphere. Granted it's now possible to observe the after-glow of GRBs with ground-based telescopes, GRBs must still be detected from space telescopes beforehand.
If he said "Goddamnit" then "I'm having such a beautiful day!" will appear on the news
> and in the end good always overcomes evil :)
This is because the winners wrote the history
What are you smoking I wonder? Can I have some?
> Quicktime opens up faster, plays movies
> smoother, and PLAYS VIDEO IN THE BROWSER!
> Windows Media Player simply doesn't do
> this, it's a standalone application that
> is too big and clunky.
it's like I'm alone, but on Windows it is quite definitely WMP that opens up faster, plays more movie formats, and plays video in the browser without a separate setup (since... well... WMP was installed with Windows setup). And WMP is surely not a standalone app it is integrated into Windows deeply. While Quicktime is a very nice app, that's not a reason to fool yourself.
Not exactly
/* first */ /* then */
Despite the fact that Windows is more prone to things like viruses and malwares (which'd not be the case if it's not the dominant OS), its API is a pain in the ass to use compared to POSIX. Their Platform SDK documentation in MSDN isn't very useful either. Yes MSDN is big, but that's just because it includes a lot of useless information that you don't want. The Win32 APIs themselves look ugly compared to POSIX's. Say, for example, I want to do an mmap.
In Linux, it is:
void * mmap(void *start, size_t length, int prot , int flags, int fd, off_t offset);
Simple, elegant.
In Windows, the function calls stink just from the look of it.
HANDLE CreateFileMapping(
HANDLE hFile,
LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpAttributes,
DWORD flProtect,
DWORD dwMaximumSizeHigh,
DWORD dwMaximumSizeLow,
LPCTSTR lpName
);
LPVOID MapViewOfFile(
HANDLE hFileMappingObject,
DWORD dwDesiredAccess,
DWORD dwFileOffsetHigh,
DWORD dwFileOffsetLow,
SIZE_T dwNumberOfBytesToMap
);
You see... I just want a pointer where I can access it as a file. In Windows I need to write more code, memorize more parameters and (just one in this example) data types just to do simple file mapping. In POSIX it's a breeze.
No, he booked the switching costs as profit!
No, that is different
When we burn fossil fuels we are releasing the carbon from millions of years ago. These carbon should be non-existent in the present day ecosystem, which is very different from what it was when the dinosaurs were there. So from the present carbon cycle's stand point, burning fossil fuels isn't exactly a closed system.
However, when we burn the carbon from ag product alcohol, we can be just releasing the carbon from, say, a few months ago. The carbon in the alcohol came from living plants, which in turn got their carbon from the air. This way we aren't releasing any more carbon than what's taken in from the atmosphere. And since the plants used will be grown again in the next crop cycle, they won't be used up either. So we can quite safely see this as a closed system.
The backups are modded -1 Redundant so the Slashdot editors can't see them.
And FarCry too, best looking FPS I've seen, albeit the multiplayer sucks ass.
I see him typing...
"I have no professional training. I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all."
The great Soviet Russia!!
How can any experienced Slashdotter miss this phrase in their jokes.
I'd prefer the Itanium salary
> when they came for me I didnt say anything, I just decided to spend my money elsewhere.
You had to, coz you spent it on a lawyer.
There's no need for ISPs to look for a particular port - that's just a waste of time. Once they've noticed exccessive upstream traffic from you they know there's a problem.
If there's any use of port knocking for the warez kids, it'd be that they dun want their pub ftp be scanned by some stupid lamers, who'd spend half an hour trying to brute force your ftp by hand.
Bad news for you, the ATI X800 will require 2 molex connectors too.
ATI needs extra power too
1. The power consumptions of the last generation nvidia and ati cards are indeed very similar. Please don't say ATI's cards consume less power
:(
Comparison 1
Comparison 2
2. The ATI Radeon X800s will require two power rails also. So stop dreaming about a "power efficient" part and buy a new PSU
ATI needs extra power too
That said, I'm no fanboy of nVidia or ATI though. The new GF 6800U is still occupying one extra PCI slot and blowing a whole lot of hot air inside the case. Imagine someone put another 100W+ Prescott next to it. I just feel uncomfortable for a GFX card to dissipate so much of heat right next to the CPU. But well... ATI is gonna do that too (except for the two-slot thing)
If there's any reason I'd look forward towards the X800s, I hope they won't require two slots - that is just inelegant. But based on the two molex connectors on the X800s, and the power consumption of their older parts, I won't hold any hope that ATI would "save power".
Although I like Linux, I'm not as enthusiastic as you. Linux has evolved quickly, but the people haven't changed. You see...
> - Distros like Xandros "just work"
But it is not well known yet.
> - Linux is secure from worms, trojans, viruses
True, but sadly the average Windows users seems unaware of the fact at all. Even sadder is that some of them can treat a system filled with spywares, viri, crashing and stop working as normal now.
It is as if they've been force fed 10 years of shit, and now they cannot distinguish between meatsteak and poop. I dunno whether I should laugh or feel sorry when those complete newbies tell me poop is tasty.
> - Linux runs on modest hardware
Again, people just don't know that. They're willing to spend $3000 on a top line rig just to run spywares and 3DMark.
> - Linux is less complex and thus more stable
On a programmer's perspective, yes. Linux's structure is more understandable and its API is standardized and simplier (i.e. POSIX). Just try to do a file mapping on Win32 API and then Linux and you'll know...
But for the user, sorry, no. No matter how simple you've made it, they've been accustomed to the Windows environment for years. Unlearning the old usage pattern alone would be hard enough.
> - Linux has a "cool" factor missing from Windows
There're plenty of kiddies who think they're "cool" just because they know a few DOS commands.
> - The IT world's view of Microsoft as "evil" is percolating down to the general public
There's plenty of people (IT or not) who think Microsoft invented computer, and Bill Gates is a god-send. Just ask a few persons around you.
Toronto Star posts it every year
Slashdot posts it every month
Slashdot wins!
1. Move to New Hempshire
2. Post an overused joke to $slashdot
3. Sue all $slashdotters, I don't like your $browser caching my comments
4. Profit!!!!!!11
* Replace $slashdot, $slashdotters, $browsers with whatever online communities and softwares suitable.
Seriously, this law is nonsense. Anyone with some clues about the Internet knows his comments are often stored in the receivers' computers, whether purposefully or not. If this law is carried out on Slashdot we can all expect reading a lengthy EULA before we can read and post any comments here.
and that is the ultimate pun ;)