Well, for Linux, I would say that you have Ext2, and Ext3, and that I guess Ext4, which will be the NewFS. If you aren't at all concerned with the differences, then just use EXT. I don't think a larger percentage of people run anything else. However, I think that having a system that assumes that there will be other file systems makes it a lot more flexible. Have you ever wondered why it's so hard to get good EXT2/3 support windows. It's specifically because it was written from the point of view, that nobody would ever want to use any file system, other than NTFS or FAT. So it's inherently hard to get any other file system working with it. If you work with the idea that some people may want other file systems, it doesn't end up as so much of a problem. I wouldn't want to run my servers using EXT3, but it sure would be nice to be able to mount my Ext file systems when I dual book into windows. I know it can be done, but all the solutions seem like big kludges, that only half work.
But then you end up with the windows situation, where they only support NTFS (or FAT32, but who uses that). I don't think that any 1 file system is optimal for all tasks that one would want to use a computer for. People use computers for many different things. It makes complete sense to have file systems that accommodate the needs of different people.
It makes sense for small companies, but then large ones, who actually do operate all over the world, would have to but 75 different domain names to cover each country they operate in.
Well, they could release it without that code. There isn't really anything inherent in Java to stop that. Just like you could build the Linux Kernel without SMP support, you can build Java without support for the MIDI sound APIs. The problem, is that if you need to use the Midi sound APIs, then you have to use a different version. Same with the fact that if you have a Linux Kernel built without SMP support, you're going to have to build a different one to use SMP. Rather than confuse everybody with a bunch of different versions, which support different things, they probably figured it was better for everybody to go on using the closed source releases until they have all their stuff in order to release a fully open source version. Releasing it as open source is not something that has to be done by tomorrow. It can be a gradual process, and it doesn't really matter that it make take a couple of months.
Yes, but given another million or hundred million years of evolution, any animal could eventually evolve to the point of human level intelligence. It's even argued by some, that some dinosaurs had hominid levels of intelligence. Had they not been wiped out by the meteor (the accepted reason for why dinosaurs disappeared), then they would have developed into a species as intelligent as humans.
The problem with that would probably be more of a lack of data, than anything to do with their algorithms. How would the computer know that Buffy Complete Series contained Buffy Season One? How does the computer know that the hardcover version of a book is the same as a paperback? When working with product data, you think that you could probably do a lot of stuff. The problem is getting the data, in a consistent format, that you can write a program against. In many cases, writing the algorithm is extremely easy. It's getting the data to feed the algorithm that is the hard part.
I think that more meaning than most people realize. Who says that the animals don't know what's going on, and really just don't care to participate in our society. We have a lot of comforts. We don't have to use our muscles to move around (cars). We don't have to hunt for food (grocery store), and we don't have to worry about predators sneaking up behind us (for the most part). However, as a trade-off, we spend 8+ hours at work each day (plus 1+ hours in traffic), when 98% of us would rather be doing something else. There are a few people that enjoy their jobs, but the vast majority of people do not. A lot of people have quite bad health, and don't feel well most of the time. Possibly because of not enough time to enjoy exercise and fresh air, possibly because of too much stress. The people who seem to be the most happy, are the ones who try and keep their lives simple. I almost think sometimes that the Amish have it all figured out. We as humans, with our supreme intellect, should be able to have everything we need, without doing, any work, or without doing as much as we do now. If you spend less time worrying about how you can be better than your neighbour, and just trying to provide what you really need for yourself, you will enjoy life a lot more.
Seems to be the same with classifying animals as intelligent. People come up with a definition of what separates humans from other animals, and then we see that trait demonstrated in animals, and then they just go and raise the bar, or some up with something else. Language skills, tool use, emotion and sympathy for others. All these thing have been shown to exist in animals. What really makes us different from animals? We are only slightly above animals in a lot of areas, and in some ways, greatly behind animals. I don't think there's any trait which people exhibit, that another animal does not. We like to believe we are better than animals, or that there's something to use that you just can recreate with a computer. I think it's only a matter of time.
I actually argued about the corporate plan with retail store clerk when I was looking at the new deals. Way back in the year 2000, I got a corporate plan, when I was on a coop position. In 2006 when I signed up for a new contract and (because my old one didn't provide the features I wanted), I got taken off the corporate plan, because I was no longer employed at the same place. This time around, the guy kept on insisting that I was on a corporate plan, which was the reason that my current rates were so much better than the current plans they were offering. I tried to explain to him that I hadn't been on a corporate plan in years. I don't think he quite got it. It's amazing, if you listen to what they say, you can almost tell that the salespeople think the whole thing is a big rip-off. I think when my contract ends, I'm going with Roger's simply because it's GSM, which means that they can't pull a Bell on me, and charge me $35 just to get my new phone that I just purchased on the network. With GSM, I can just plug my SimCard into my new phone.
A little off-topic, but still related. I'm with bell for my mobile phone. I recently checked into available plans, as I needed a new phone (old one died), and wanted to see if it was a good idea to switch to a new plan when I signed up for the new contract to get a cheaper phone. What I found out, is that rates are actually going up. It's now $9 for the System Access Fee, Evening and weekends have been converted to nights and weekends, and they start at 9 PM, and there's a whole host of other things that have gone up in price. If there was any real competition in the Telecom industry prices would be going down. What I ended up doing was buying a new phone outright, so that I could get out of contract. Apparently I still have 8 months left on my contract, but they have no problem nullifying that to start a new one. I figure I should really get off contract, and then I can really shop around to see what the best deal is.
First, it's nice that it's easy to opt out, and also, it's a nice way to warn you that you are approaching your limit. With any other method, you could argue that you had no way of knowing that you were approaching the limit. With this method, it's pretty hard to argue that you weren't aware. Although I guess if you only use your internet for FTP traffic, or for connecting to your work VPN, and browse from there, then there's no way you would have known. However, for 99% of people using their service, it's probably the best way to warn them. Most people don't give their ISP their real email address, and don't use the one provided to them by their ISP. A phone call from rogers is usually them trying to sell you something, so I don't answer calls from them, and when I do pick up by accident, I hang up as soon as I hear rogers (or if it takes them more than a second or two to respond to "hello").
Has anybody actually found this to be a problem with Rogers? I have Rogers, and have never had a problem downloading torrents on their network. I almost always max out my connection downloading torrents. Unless there aren't enough seeders.
Isn't that the funniest thing about this guy? His comedy routine is quite vulgar, and not anything for children to see, yet he did some time playing Mr. Conductor on the Thomas the Tank Engine show. It's really weird when you think about it. Also reminds me of Bob Saget. His actual stand up comedy routine stuff is quite a far stretch from his Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos stuff.
That's my point. There should be a good way to run Java in a shared hosting environment. A VPS would be the next best alternative, however, it's usually a lot more expensive than a shared hosting environment. The site you linked to, is definitely not for novices. As they start you with SSH, and let you do the rest of the work. Some basic preconfigured options such as a Java web server would be a nice starting point for many people.
It's a minor problem in that it's simple to solve. It only takes several months, because it requries rewriting, from scratch, a sizeable portion of the code. That requires a lot of time for not only writing the code, but testing and quality control, to ensure it works as it is supposed to.
It's amazing. Millions of people around the world, using their product, and they still can't make good money off it. Granted, they give it away for free, but there still should be a lot of money to make in support contracts.
The fact that they can just rewrite it means that it isn't deeply woven into the language. What they are doing, is writing a new library against the same API, so that they can open source it. They could probably release a version of the JDK without those parts of the API, and a lot of would not notice, because very few apps make use of those APIs. Especially in the server realm, where Java is most popular. Methinks you don't know what you're talking about, because this isn't a major problem. They are easily getting around the other company's pigheadedness, of refusing to release the source, by just rewriting that part of the code. It's really quite simple.
I would think it was a big win if you could get a version of Java easily available on a shared webhosting environment. Most hosting services don't even offer it. And those that do, do weird kludges to get things working, such as rebooting the server every night, so that your.war files are reloaded. Maybe things have changed in the last couple of years, since I last went looking. I really wish I didn't have to use PHP, with it's half-baked object oriented API, and something that could actually compile, at least to byte code. The best thing that could happen to Java, would be to make it easier for those who want to do it as a hobby or side project, to actually use it as such.
They aren't really that predictable. Under laboratory conditions, you can get a situation where you can predict the key. When stupid things happen, such as in Ubuntu removing the part of the code that asks you to move your mouse around to create entropy, it gets way easier to guess things, but it's still hard if you don't know anything about the state of the system when the key was generated. Things like that can be made more robust anyway. Taking in information from the heat sensors, fan sensors, webcam, and any other device it can get information on while generating the key can greatly increase the randomness of the key.
The point is, is that it doesn't have to be any more complicated than using Enigmail. There's nothing inherently difficult about using PGP/GPG. The problem is that the #1 mail client in the world doesn't deal well with it. Most people like webmail, because it means they can have their email with them anywhere. I would argue that PortableThunderbird on a USB stick would accomplish exactly the same thing. While making it quite easy to accomodate the use of encryption keys. It would also have the added advantage of being able to read your email while not connected to the internet.
I think this is where the envelope analogy breaks down. Envelopes aren't secure in any way shape or form. Sending a letter is an envelope is like sending an email with the important data in an attached zip file. You can't see the contents of either the zipped email, or the letter in the envelope in proper processing methods. However, either is extremely easy to circumvent. Anybody who delivers the mail could easily open the letter, and read it, and pretend it got lost. Or just put it in a new envelope. If you were interested in the mail enough, it wouldn't be hard to create a fake envelope, so you could reseal the original letter, and deliver it. How many letters fail to reach their destination. Would you know if it was truly lost, or was it intercepted and opened by the government. There isn't really a way of knowing. I don't really know if there is a postal mail equivalent of sending an encrypted email. Unless you encrypt the letter itself. Which still presents you with the same set of problems as the encrypted email problem. Except that you have the added problem of actually decrypting the letter when you receive it. Something that can be automated with email.
Don't blame the government because they tap phones without a court order either. Normal phone calls are made in the clear. You just have to get on the actual wire carrying the call between the two recipients. Yet nobody thinks it's ok for the government to snoop on their phone calls. I don't see why the same shouldn't be true for email. Sure you should take responsibility and just encrypt your email. But that doesn't give the government the right to snoop in on your email.
As far as email encryption goes. PGP is pretty much the defacto standard. I'm sure there are some other methods, but PGP seems to be the way it's done in most cases. I wouldn't be hard for the mail client, outlook or otherwise to completely automate the system. Key exchange would be a little difficult, but not so much. You could either meet someone in person to exchange public keys, or get their public key from somebody else who already has it, who you already trust and share keys with.
Last time i watched the world cup (soccer, football, whatever you want to call it), they had little ads on top of the action. I liked a lot better than cutting to commercial. I can't stand watching hockey on TV, because they constantly stop for advertisements. Even going to the arena is kind of a let down, as they cut to commercial and they have to do something else at the arena to fill the empty time. It really cuts out the continuity of the game. Ads on top, I don't mind, so long as they are kept small. Ads cut in between are much more distracting.
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By that logic, I would argue that most people aren't intelligent. I know many people who fail, not just one, but many of those characteristics.
Well, for Linux, I would say that you have Ext2, and Ext3, and that I guess Ext4, which will be the NewFS. If you aren't at all concerned with the differences, then just use EXT. I don't think a larger percentage of people run anything else. However, I think that having a system that assumes that there will be other file systems makes it a lot more flexible. Have you ever wondered why it's so hard to get good EXT2/3 support windows. It's specifically because it was written from the point of view, that nobody would ever want to use any file system, other than NTFS or FAT. So it's inherently hard to get any other file system working with it. If you work with the idea that some people may want other file systems, it doesn't end up as so much of a problem. I wouldn't want to run my servers using EXT3, but it sure would be nice to be able to mount my Ext file systems when I dual book into windows. I know it can be done, but all the solutions seem like big kludges, that only half work.
But then you end up with the windows situation, where they only support NTFS (or FAT32, but who uses that). I don't think that any 1 file system is optimal for all tasks that one would want to use a computer for. People use computers for many different things. It makes complete sense to have file systems that accommodate the needs of different people.
It makes sense for small companies, but then large ones, who actually do operate all over the world, would have to but 75 different domain names to cover each country they operate in.
Well, they could release it without that code. There isn't really anything inherent in Java to stop that. Just like you could build the Linux Kernel without SMP support, you can build Java without support for the MIDI sound APIs. The problem, is that if you need to use the Midi sound APIs, then you have to use a different version. Same with the fact that if you have a Linux Kernel built without SMP support, you're going to have to build a different one to use SMP. Rather than confuse everybody with a bunch of different versions, which support different things, they probably figured it was better for everybody to go on using the closed source releases until they have all their stuff in order to release a fully open source version. Releasing it as open source is not something that has to be done by tomorrow. It can be a gradual process, and it doesn't really matter that it make take a couple of months.
Yes, but given another million or hundred million years of evolution, any animal could eventually evolve to the point of human level intelligence. It's even argued by some, that some dinosaurs had hominid levels of intelligence. Had they not been wiped out by the meteor (the accepted reason for why dinosaurs disappeared), then they would have developed into a species as intelligent as humans.
The problem with that would probably be more of a lack of data, than anything to do with their algorithms. How would the computer know that Buffy Complete Series contained Buffy Season One? How does the computer know that the hardcover version of a book is the same as a paperback? When working with product data, you think that you could probably do a lot of stuff. The problem is getting the data, in a consistent format, that you can write a program against. In many cases, writing the algorithm is extremely easy. It's getting the data to feed the algorithm that is the hard part.
So long and thanks for all the fish.
I think that more meaning than most people realize. Who says that the animals don't know what's going on, and really just don't care to participate in our society. We have a lot of comforts. We don't have to use our muscles to move around (cars). We don't have to hunt for food (grocery store), and we don't have to worry about predators sneaking up behind us (for the most part). However, as a trade-off, we spend 8+ hours at work each day (plus 1+ hours in traffic), when 98% of us would rather be doing something else. There are a few people that enjoy their jobs, but the vast majority of people do not. A lot of people have quite bad health, and don't feel well most of the time. Possibly because of not enough time to enjoy exercise and fresh air, possibly because of too much stress. The people who seem to be the most happy, are the ones who try and keep their lives simple. I almost think sometimes that the Amish have it all figured out. We as humans, with our supreme intellect, should be able to have everything we need, without doing, any work, or without doing as much as we do now. If you spend less time worrying about how you can be better than your neighbour, and just trying to provide what you really need for yourself, you will enjoy life a lot more.
Seems to be the same with classifying animals as intelligent. People come up with a definition of what separates humans from other animals, and then we see that trait demonstrated in animals, and then they just go and raise the bar, or some up with something else. Language skills, tool use, emotion and sympathy for others. All these thing have been shown to exist in animals. What really makes us different from animals? We are only slightly above animals in a lot of areas, and in some ways, greatly behind animals. I don't think there's any trait which people exhibit, that another animal does not. We like to believe we are better than animals, or that there's something to use that you just can recreate with a computer. I think it's only a matter of time.
I actually argued about the corporate plan with retail store clerk when I was looking at the new deals. Way back in the year 2000, I got a corporate plan, when I was on a coop position. In 2006 when I signed up for a new contract and (because my old one didn't provide the features I wanted), I got taken off the corporate plan, because I was no longer employed at the same place. This time around, the guy kept on insisting that I was on a corporate plan, which was the reason that my current rates were so much better than the current plans they were offering. I tried to explain to him that I hadn't been on a corporate plan in years. I don't think he quite got it. It's amazing, if you listen to what they say, you can almost tell that the salespeople think the whole thing is a big rip-off. I think when my contract ends, I'm going with Roger's simply because it's GSM, which means that they can't pull a Bell on me, and charge me $35 just to get my new phone that I just purchased on the network. With GSM, I can just plug my SimCard into my new phone.
A little off-topic, but still related. I'm with bell for my mobile phone. I recently checked into available plans, as I needed a new phone (old one died), and wanted to see if it was a good idea to switch to a new plan when I signed up for the new contract to get a cheaper phone. What I found out, is that rates are actually going up. It's now $9 for the System Access Fee, Evening and weekends have been converted to nights and weekends, and they start at 9 PM, and there's a whole host of other things that have gone up in price. If there was any real competition in the Telecom industry prices would be going down. What I ended up doing was buying a new phone outright, so that I could get out of contract. Apparently I still have 8 months left on my contract, but they have no problem nullifying that to start a new one. I figure I should really get off contract, and then I can really shop around to see what the best deal is.
First, it's nice that it's easy to opt out, and also, it's a nice way to warn you that you are approaching your limit. With any other method, you could argue that you had no way of knowing that you were approaching the limit. With this method, it's pretty hard to argue that you weren't aware. Although I guess if you only use your internet for FTP traffic, or for connecting to your work VPN, and browse from there, then there's no way you would have known. However, for 99% of people using their service, it's probably the best way to warn them. Most people don't give their ISP their real email address, and don't use the one provided to them by their ISP. A phone call from rogers is usually them trying to sell you something, so I don't answer calls from them, and when I do pick up by accident, I hang up as soon as I hear rogers (or if it takes them more than a second or two to respond to "hello").
Has anybody actually found this to be a problem with Rogers? I have Rogers, and have never had a problem downloading torrents on their network. I almost always max out my connection downloading torrents. Unless there aren't enough seeders.
Isn't that the funniest thing about this guy? His comedy routine is quite vulgar, and not anything for children to see, yet he did some time playing Mr. Conductor on the Thomas the Tank Engine show. It's really weird when you think about it. Also reminds me of Bob Saget. His actual stand up comedy routine stuff is quite a far stretch from his Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos stuff.
That's my point. There should be a good way to run Java in a shared hosting environment. A VPS would be the next best alternative, however, it's usually a lot more expensive than a shared hosting environment. The site you linked to, is definitely not for novices. As they start you with SSH, and let you do the rest of the work. Some basic preconfigured options such as a Java web server would be a nice starting point for many people.
It's a minor problem in that it's simple to solve. It only takes several months, because it requries rewriting, from scratch, a sizeable portion of the code. That requires a lot of time for not only writing the code, but testing and quality control, to ensure it works as it is supposed to.
It's amazing. Millions of people around the world, using their product, and they still can't make good money off it. Granted, they give it away for free, but there still should be a lot of money to make in support contracts.
The fact that they can just rewrite it means that it isn't deeply woven into the language. What they are doing, is writing a new library against the same API, so that they can open source it. They could probably release a version of the JDK without those parts of the API, and a lot of would not notice, because very few apps make use of those APIs. Especially in the server realm, where Java is most popular. Methinks you don't know what you're talking about, because this isn't a major problem. They are easily getting around the other company's pigheadedness, of refusing to release the source, by just rewriting that part of the code. It's really quite simple.
I would think it was a big win if you could get a version of Java easily available on a shared webhosting environment. Most hosting services don't even offer it. And those that do, do weird kludges to get things working, such as rebooting the server every night, so that your .war files are reloaded. Maybe things have changed in the last couple of years, since I last went looking. I really wish I didn't have to use PHP, with it's half-baked object oriented API, and something that could actually compile, at least to byte code. The best thing that could happen to Java, would be to make it easier for those who want to do it as a hobby or side project, to actually use it as such.
They aren't really that predictable. Under laboratory conditions, you can get a situation where you can predict the key. When stupid things happen, such as in Ubuntu removing the part of the code that asks you to move your mouse around to create entropy, it gets way easier to guess things, but it's still hard if you don't know anything about the state of the system when the key was generated. Things like that can be made more robust anyway. Taking in information from the heat sensors, fan sensors, webcam, and any other device it can get information on while generating the key can greatly increase the randomness of the key.
The point is, is that it doesn't have to be any more complicated than using Enigmail. There's nothing inherently difficult about using PGP/GPG. The problem is that the #1 mail client in the world doesn't deal well with it. Most people like webmail, because it means they can have their email with them anywhere. I would argue that PortableThunderbird on a USB stick would accomplish exactly the same thing. While making it quite easy to accomodate the use of encryption keys. It would also have the added advantage of being able to read your email while not connected to the internet.
I think this is where the envelope analogy breaks down. Envelopes aren't secure in any way shape or form. Sending a letter is an envelope is like sending an email with the important data in an attached zip file. You can't see the contents of either the zipped email, or the letter in the envelope in proper processing methods. However, either is extremely easy to circumvent. Anybody who delivers the mail could easily open the letter, and read it, and pretend it got lost. Or just put it in a new envelope. If you were interested in the mail enough, it wouldn't be hard to create a fake envelope, so you could reseal the original letter, and deliver it. How many letters fail to reach their destination. Would you know if it was truly lost, or was it intercepted and opened by the government. There isn't really a way of knowing. I don't really know if there is a postal mail equivalent of sending an encrypted email. Unless you encrypt the letter itself. Which still presents you with the same set of problems as the encrypted email problem. Except that you have the added problem of actually decrypting the letter when you receive it. Something that can be automated with email.
Don't blame the government because they tap phones without a court order either. Normal phone calls are made in the clear. You just have to get on the actual wire carrying the call between the two recipients. Yet nobody thinks it's ok for the government to snoop on their phone calls. I don't see why the same shouldn't be true for email. Sure you should take responsibility and just encrypt your email. But that doesn't give the government the right to snoop in on your email.
As far as email encryption goes. PGP is pretty much the defacto standard. I'm sure there are some other methods, but PGP seems to be the way it's done in most cases. I wouldn't be hard for the mail client, outlook or otherwise to completely automate the system. Key exchange would be a little difficult, but not so much. You could either meet someone in person to exchange public keys, or get their public key from somebody else who already has it, who you already trust and share keys with.
Last time i watched the world cup (soccer, football, whatever you want to call it), they had little ads on top of the action. I liked a lot better than cutting to commercial. I can't stand watching hockey on TV, because they constantly stop for advertisements. Even going to the arena is kind of a let down, as they cut to commercial and they have to do something else at the arena to fill the empty time. It really cuts out the continuity of the game. Ads on top, I don't mind, so long as they are kept small. Ads cut in between are much more distracting.