I seem to remember having all the other services that screwed me over having ads too. Google is not doing anything new that makes me suspect that they won't do the same to their users. So Google targets their ads a little better, but that still doesn't convince me of anything.
Which is all nice and fine to say you can run linux software, but for the majority of users it's not easy unless you can go to the store, buy a program, stick the disk in, click next a couple times and have it run. That's about what most people can handle. Even if they are able to install any linux package available at the click of a button, it will still be too hard, because most users would be unaware of what application to use. They would probably look for a web browser, find lynx, and install that, being totally mystified when it comes up as a text based program, or end up installing emacs as a text editor. There are better text editors, and web browsers to choose from, but most users would be unable to make a good decision, and end up installing 3 or 4 different apps that didn't fit their needs. I do it all the time. You search on sourceforge for something you want, and end up installing 5 different programs before you find one that actually works, and does what it says it does. Are there any linux sites that just index the best of the best. I'm tired of installing Kxy, only to find out that it's only a half implemented piece of garbage software.
Time spent swearing when Gmail decides to start charging your for their service: Tons. It has happened to me a couple times. They start offering tons of features that make their service great, like really big inboxes, forwarding, pop3 access, and a ton of other features, and then once they have enough users in their grasp, they start charging for features that were previously free. Oh, and they own your email address too (if you use @gmail, and don't just forward mail from your own domain/email address, which they will probably start charging for eventually), so if you want to switch services, because something better comes along, or they decide to be evil, you also have to switch email addresses. I've been burned 1 too many times in my life by free email services to trust another corporation to provide me for everything for free forever.
So gmail invented symlinks now? Having email (files) exist in 2 folders at once is no big deal. What I don't get is why email programs have to use all these special file structures for storing emails, when they could really just use the file system they have and make a much easier job for maintaining the storage code. It would be dumb easy to back up, and it could be indexed pretty easily if you wanted faster searching. Then again, with today's file systems and computers, scanning through 20,000 emails probably wouldn't take that long.
The thing is, when you find a hole, the only safe assumption is to assume that the black hats already know about it. This means that you should get your fix out as soon as possible, to as many people as possible. You could pass on the changes to the major distros first, but that doesn't mean that they will make it available to their users right away. It make take a couple weeks before they complete testing and integration and who knows, they may never release it to their users. By releasing the fix directly to the public, those users who find it critical to update will update, and the distros can still get it out just as fast as they usually would, possibly faster because users are pushing for it.
It really depends on how you define mature. Take people for example. Just because you reach a certain age, it doesn't mean that you are mature. I've met some pretty immature 30 year olds in my day (and i'm only 26). On the same note, I've also met a lot of teenagers who are more mature than most of the people 10 years older than them. If the software in question has made significant improvements in its security and reliability, then it can be called mature. Microsoft has made very little attempt to fix the security issues within internet explorer, by refusing to removie Active X(pliot), and by continually refusing to adhere to web standards such as css, and refusing to implement new features such as the alpha channel in PNGs. They have only started to make real changes (although in my opinion still half-assed), in IE7 because Firefox started taking away a noticeable number of users, and offering a better overall experience. Take an actual mature product on the other side, like Apache, who got their names because they had to patch so many bugs in the beginning, and actually did it. The maturity of the product doesn't have anything to do with how old the product is, but only how willing the developers are to fix the application when bugs are found, and implement new features when they are needed by the public. Granted age is necessary to find all the problems with the application, but you don't do anything about the problems, you fail to become mature.
Yeah, when you have the source code, it wouldn't be hard to compare 1 release to the next to find the holes that are there. Possibly even with some comments like, "Here's the big gaping hole we fixed". That's why it's important to update as fast as possible. Which is all good and fine in a personal environment, but when you're talking enterprise, there's a lot of work that goes into making sure that the new version will work exactly as expected. There's a reason that not everyone is running Apache2 yet, it's more work to upgrade than it is to keep the status quo. I wouldn't put an enterprise app on rails just yet. It's still too young. There's much more mature platforms out there that are just as good if not better. I'd wait at least 2 more years before starting development on rails.
So, now I need a dongle for Windows, a dongle for PhotoShop, a dongle for MS Office, a dongle for SQL Server, a Dongle for VS.Net. And all of a sudden I have no more USB ports. It might work ok if you only have 1 app that requires a dongle, but other than that, it ain't going to work. And don't think you can get all the software producers to settle on a single universal dongle. Besides, it would probably be cracked anyway, because it would unlock such a large number of programs.
Maybe IBM can push some dollars their way for them to go after GPL violators.
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Sorry, I was unaware that men couldn't grow long hair. I seem to have distinct recollection of seeing men with long hair, and actually having long hair myself once or twice.
Where can you find the 1000 mbps router/switch for a good price. It's easy to get gigabit ethernet on the computers, but the routers are a pain to fine. And I'm not about to directly link computers to eachother and install multiple network cards.
But if you're worried about your neighbours seeing what's on your monitor because of stray radio waves, then you had better read about Van Eck Phreaking. A regular monitor isn't any easier to read than a wireless monitor would be.
And just for the sake of argument, what does searching for something prove. Sure in the case of child pr0n, they would probably be able to search the guy's house/computer for evidence, but other than that, can you really get arrested for something solely on the fact that you searched for it? Maybe the guy who was searching for how to kill is wife was just joking, seeing what would come up. There's a lot of crazy stuff on the internet. I know i've searched for things just to see what comes up. Just about everything is available on the internet, sometimes it's just fun to see what's out there.
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Well, it isn't completely obvious, as in most of the Metroid games i've seen, you don't really get to see much of her face. There's a way in Metroid prime to see a reflection of her face on the visor, something to do with bright lights and water or something, can't remember exactly how it happens, but i've seen it a few times. The metroid series is great, and most people don't care or notice that it's a girl as a star because they don't make that the entire point of the story. When you look at games like tomb raider, they make it completely obvious, and the entire point of the game, that the hero is a girl. When that's all they focus on, the game tends to be lacking in other areas. however, when it's just taken as matter-of-fact that the hero is a girl, and they don't dwell on it, nobody notices, and you get a great game.
What's the difference between the female chest and the male chest? Ok, I know there's a difference, but where I live, it's perfectly legal for women to walk around in public with no shirt, because of equal rights. They couldn't very well say that nobody could walk around without a shirt, as men would find that completely stupid, and nobody would be going to the beach or the pool. On the other hand, they couldn't very well say men were allowed to, and women were not, so they just made it legal for women to walk around topless. Granted, it's a rare occasion when you actually see people do it, but it is legal.
They've been doing it with Usenet for years. I've never heard of an ISP getting sued for content on Usenet, and there is some extremely questionable content on Usenet, beyond your usual pirated material. I think it's funny how the RIAA/MPAA are focusing their attention on all the newer technologies, when it seems to me like old technologies like Usenet and IRC are where the best sources are. Then again, my ISP recently got rid of Usenet, claiming that it wasn't popular enough, and they were cutting it out to bring other services. Maybe the RIAA/MPAA think people will just eventually abandon the old technologies.
We decided to sit down and do some simple Ajax on our site at work, and once we sat down and thought about it for a couple days, we came up with a lightweight solution that required very little JavaScript, and didn't require that every developer know javascript in order to do something new. When you think about it, there's not really that much you can do. Change the value of some form fields. Add some HTML into the document or remove some. There really isn't all that many things you can do. Or at least not a lot of things you need to do. People don't understand just how little code you need to write a simple Ajax framework. I find that most developers over engineer everything, when most of the time, a simple solution will solve all your problems.
I think the problem is, is that apart from creating a whitelist of sites (which is a pretty crappy way of using the Internet), there's no way to really keep kids off of sites you don't want them to see. You can't blacklist all the bad stuff, and once something is encrypted, the firewall would be very bad at filtering anything out. It may be a lack of knowledge, but it's also the lack of a solution. I don't know why they need internet except on certain computers anyway. When I was in high school, we had 1 or 2 computers in the library that had Internet, and it wasn't that out of the way, so you didn't dare try to do anything unauthorized. Mind you, we still did a lot of unauthorized things, like run gorillas, nibbles, or Cross Country Canada when we weren't supposed to, but nothing that they really cared about too much. The computer rooms were empty most of the time anyway. Most students used computers once in a while to type up a big essay, but that was pretty uncommon even in high school. Most research was done with books in the library. I don't believe that the Internet has changed the world so much in the last 10 years that kids need the internet for doing their school work. Are the even any reputable essay sources you can use on the Internet without paying?
How many 3.5 inch floppy disks did you lose? I think that super tiny media ala secure digital can be lost quite easily, and at the cost of the media, I really wouldn't want to lose it. However, something the size of the old 3.5's or maybe the size of a minidisc would be perfect. Hard case included would be nice. I'm tired of my media getting scratched because someone thought it was nicer if I could see the shiny surface, or because they think they can convince me it's smaller if they don't have to include the case in the measurements, even though taking it out of the case and leaving it there on the desk, almost always leads to data loss.
Yes, this would work just fine for me. And to all the people who need all the stereo controls integrated, I say, get a life. None of the songs on my iPod suck so much that I need to skip tracks while driving. If you're that picky, just set up a playlist ahead of time with songs you know that you won't mind listening to. Unless you're going on a really long trip, in which case you can stop a couple times to select the next playlist, I don't think that integrating the controls is that big of a deal. Especially considering these things probably aren't standard, and probably require a $1000 upgrade package, just to listen to the music on your iPod. What happens with MS comes out with it's iPod killer?
Light Tools? What are you talking about. My current copy of Visual Studio is eating up 290 Megs for RAM. I will go with you on your opinion though. VS.Net is a great tool, and probably one of the best editors I've ever seen. The bad part is that it's hidden behind the drag and drop interface that it presents. MS tools get you to focus on the GUI, and don't make you get underneath to understand what's going on. This leads to a lot of programmers who can get their way around VS easily enough, and even write some good programs, but as soon as they need to do something that visual studio didn't expect, they have a really hard time.
When looking at last generation, comparing the XBox, PS2, and GC, I have to say I like the GC the best. It's a lot lighter and smaller than the others, and is great if you want to bring it to a friends house. The XBox is huge and clunky, and the 360 isn't any better. I've also known a lot of people who had problems with the XBox and PS2 DVD drives. Not sure if this is due to the tray loading design, but the GC was much more dependable. However, Nintendo loses marks for releasing the original GC in purple only. I'm sure they've learned from their mistakes, and are releaseing the Wii in an assortment of colours.
Just because tuition is covered, that doesn't ensure that only the brightest students get into the best schools. I could still see a lot of schools accepting students because of their parental influences. Maybe because their parents gave a large donation to the school. Maybe because they feel it's good publicity to have the child of some famous person attending their school. The US has standardized tests, and will accept you based on the results of those tests. The money issue is another thing, but they won't not accept you because they thing you are unable to pay for it. They'll accept you as a student, it's up to you to figure out the financials.
If that's the wording of the law, and how it would actually be interpretted, then the law is meaningless. As soon as someone is able to break the DRM, it becomes ineffective, and ergo, does not fall under this law. Breaking the DRM proves the ineffectiveness. I fail to see how this law could be broken taking it's meaning as you have described.
I just downloaded and installed opera, because you just said the memory footprint was soooo much better. I've never had memory problems with Firefox but I gave it a go. Currently, with firefox I have 7 tabs open, and have been using it for an hour and a half. Current memory usage is 49 megs. I also have a couple big extensions installed such as Web Developer. This gives me a lot of stuff you can't get with Opera. Opera has the same 7 tabs open, but with no history, because it's only been open for 5 minutes. There's also no extensions. Current memory usage is 44 megs. While this is less than firefox, it isn't a significant difference, and certainly isn't enough to have be lose all my precious extensions. Perhaps firefox had memory issues at one time, but lately, I haven't noticed any problems.
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I seem to remember having all the other services that screwed me over having ads too. Google is not doing anything new that makes me suspect that they won't do the same to their users. So Google targets their ads a little better, but that still doesn't convince me of anything.
Which is all nice and fine to say you can run linux software, but for the majority of users it's not easy unless you can go to the store, buy a program, stick the disk in, click next a couple times and have it run. That's about what most people can handle. Even if they are able to install any linux package available at the click of a button, it will still be too hard, because most users would be unaware of what application to use. They would probably look for a web browser, find lynx, and install that, being totally mystified when it comes up as a text based program, or end up installing emacs as a text editor. There are better text editors, and web browsers to choose from, but most users would be unable to make a good decision, and end up installing 3 or 4 different apps that didn't fit their needs. I do it all the time. You search on sourceforge for something you want, and end up installing 5 different programs before you find one that actually works, and does what it says it does. Are there any linux sites that just index the best of the best. I'm tired of installing Kxy, only to find out that it's only a half implemented piece of garbage software.
Time spent swearing when Gmail decides to start charging your for their service: Tons. It has happened to me a couple times. They start offering tons of features that make their service great, like really big inboxes, forwarding, pop3 access, and a ton of other features, and then once they have enough users in their grasp, they start charging for features that were previously free. Oh, and they own your email address too (if you use @gmail, and don't just forward mail from your own domain/email address, which they will probably start charging for eventually), so if you want to switch services, because something better comes along, or they decide to be evil, you also have to switch email addresses. I've been burned 1 too many times in my life by free email services to trust another corporation to provide me for everything for free forever.
So gmail invented symlinks now? Having email (files) exist in 2 folders at once is no big deal. What I don't get is why email programs have to use all these special file structures for storing emails, when they could really just use the file system they have and make a much easier job for maintaining the storage code. It would be dumb easy to back up, and it could be indexed pretty easily if you wanted faster searching. Then again, with today's file systems and computers, scanning through 20,000 emails probably wouldn't take that long.
The thing is, when you find a hole, the only safe assumption is to assume that the black hats already know about it. This means that you should get your fix out as soon as possible, to as many people as possible. You could pass on the changes to the major distros first, but that doesn't mean that they will make it available to their users right away. It make take a couple weeks before they complete testing and integration and who knows, they may never release it to their users. By releasing the fix directly to the public, those users who find it critical to update will update, and the distros can still get it out just as fast as they usually would, possibly faster because users are pushing for it.
It really depends on how you define mature. Take people for example. Just because you reach a certain age, it doesn't mean that you are mature. I've met some pretty immature 30 year olds in my day (and i'm only 26). On the same note, I've also met a lot of teenagers who are more mature than most of the people 10 years older than them. If the software in question has made significant improvements in its security and reliability, then it can be called mature. Microsoft has made very little attempt to fix the security issues within internet explorer, by refusing to removie Active X(pliot), and by continually refusing to adhere to web standards such as css, and refusing to implement new features such as the alpha channel in PNGs. They have only started to make real changes (although in my opinion still half-assed), in IE7 because Firefox started taking away a noticeable number of users, and offering a better overall experience. Take an actual mature product on the other side, like Apache, who got their names because they had to patch so many bugs in the beginning, and actually did it. The maturity of the product doesn't have anything to do with how old the product is, but only how willing the developers are to fix the application when bugs are found, and implement new features when they are needed by the public. Granted age is necessary to find all the problems with the application, but you don't do anything about the problems, you fail to become mature.
Yeah, when you have the source code, it wouldn't be hard to compare 1 release to the next to find the holes that are there. Possibly even with some comments like, "Here's the big gaping hole we fixed". That's why it's important to update as fast as possible. Which is all good and fine in a personal environment, but when you're talking enterprise, there's a lot of work that goes into making sure that the new version will work exactly as expected. There's a reason that not everyone is running Apache2 yet, it's more work to upgrade than it is to keep the status quo. I wouldn't put an enterprise app on rails just yet. It's still too young. There's much more mature platforms out there that are just as good if not better. I'd wait at least 2 more years before starting development on rails.
So, now I need a dongle for Windows, a dongle for PhotoShop, a dongle for MS Office, a dongle for SQL Server, a Dongle for VS.Net. And all of a sudden I have no more USB ports. It might work ok if you only have 1 app that requires a dongle, but other than that, it ain't going to work. And don't think you can get all the software producers to settle on a single universal dongle. Besides, it would probably be cracked anyway, because it would unlock such a large number of programs.
Maybe IBM can push some dollars their way for them to go after GPL violators.
Sorry, I was unaware that men couldn't grow long hair. I seem to have distinct recollection of seeing men with long hair, and actually having long hair myself once or twice.
Where can you find the 1000 mbps router/switch for a good price. It's easy to get gigabit ethernet on the computers, but the routers are a pain to fine. And I'm not about to directly link computers to eachother and install multiple network cards.
But if you're worried about your neighbours seeing what's on your monitor because of stray radio waves, then you had better read about Van Eck Phreaking. A regular monitor isn't any easier to read than a wireless monitor would be.
And just for the sake of argument, what does searching for something prove. Sure in the case of child pr0n, they would probably be able to search the guy's house/computer for evidence, but other than that, can you really get arrested for something solely on the fact that you searched for it? Maybe the guy who was searching for how to kill is wife was just joking, seeing what would come up. There's a lot of crazy stuff on the internet. I know i've searched for things just to see what comes up. Just about everything is available on the internet, sometimes it's just fun to see what's out there.
Well, it isn't completely obvious, as in most of the Metroid games i've seen, you don't really get to see much of her face. There's a way in Metroid prime to see a reflection of her face on the visor, something to do with bright lights and water or something, can't remember exactly how it happens, but i've seen it a few times. The metroid series is great, and most people don't care or notice that it's a girl as a star because they don't make that the entire point of the story. When you look at games like tomb raider, they make it completely obvious, and the entire point of the game, that the hero is a girl. When that's all they focus on, the game tends to be lacking in other areas. however, when it's just taken as matter-of-fact that the hero is a girl, and they don't dwell on it, nobody notices, and you get a great game.
What's the difference between the female chest and the male chest? Ok, I know there's a difference, but where I live, it's perfectly legal for women to walk around in public with no shirt, because of equal rights. They couldn't very well say that nobody could walk around without a shirt, as men would find that completely stupid, and nobody would be going to the beach or the pool. On the other hand, they couldn't very well say men were allowed to, and women were not, so they just made it legal for women to walk around topless. Granted, it's a rare occasion when you actually see people do it, but it is legal.
They've been doing it with Usenet for years. I've never heard of an ISP getting sued for content on Usenet, and there is some extremely questionable content on Usenet, beyond your usual pirated material. I think it's funny how the RIAA/MPAA are focusing their attention on all the newer technologies, when it seems to me like old technologies like Usenet and IRC are where the best sources are. Then again, my ISP recently got rid of Usenet, claiming that it wasn't popular enough, and they were cutting it out to bring other services. Maybe the RIAA/MPAA think people will just eventually abandon the old technologies.
We decided to sit down and do some simple Ajax on our site at work, and once we sat down and thought about it for a couple days, we came up with a lightweight solution that required very little JavaScript, and didn't require that every developer know javascript in order to do something new. When you think about it, there's not really that much you can do. Change the value of some form fields. Add some HTML into the document or remove some. There really isn't all that many things you can do. Or at least not a lot of things you need to do. People don't understand just how little code you need to write a simple Ajax framework. I find that most developers over engineer everything, when most of the time, a simple solution will solve all your problems.
I think the problem is, is that apart from creating a whitelist of sites (which is a pretty crappy way of using the Internet), there's no way to really keep kids off of sites you don't want them to see. You can't blacklist all the bad stuff, and once something is encrypted, the firewall would be very bad at filtering anything out. It may be a lack of knowledge, but it's also the lack of a solution. I don't know why they need internet except on certain computers anyway. When I was in high school, we had 1 or 2 computers in the library that had Internet, and it wasn't that out of the way, so you didn't dare try to do anything unauthorized. Mind you, we still did a lot of unauthorized things, like run gorillas, nibbles, or Cross Country Canada when we weren't supposed to, but nothing that they really cared about too much. The computer rooms were empty most of the time anyway. Most students used computers once in a while to type up a big essay, but that was pretty uncommon even in high school. Most research was done with books in the library. I don't believe that the Internet has changed the world so much in the last 10 years that kids need the internet for doing their school work. Are the even any reputable essay sources you can use on the Internet without paying?
How many 3.5 inch floppy disks did you lose? I think that super tiny media ala secure digital can be lost quite easily, and at the cost of the media, I really wouldn't want to lose it. However, something the size of the old 3.5's or maybe the size of a minidisc would be perfect. Hard case included would be nice. I'm tired of my media getting scratched because someone thought it was nicer if I could see the shiny surface, or because they think they can convince me it's smaller if they don't have to include the case in the measurements, even though taking it out of the case and leaving it there on the desk, almost always leads to data loss.
Yes, this would work just fine for me. And to all the people who need all the stereo controls integrated, I say, get a life. None of the songs on my iPod suck so much that I need to skip tracks while driving. If you're that picky, just set up a playlist ahead of time with songs you know that you won't mind listening to. Unless you're going on a really long trip, in which case you can stop a couple times to select the next playlist, I don't think that integrating the controls is that big of a deal. Especially considering these things probably aren't standard, and probably require a $1000 upgrade package, just to listen to the music on your iPod. What happens with MS comes out with it's iPod killer?
Light Tools? What are you talking about. My current copy of Visual Studio is eating up 290 Megs for RAM. I will go with you on your opinion though. VS.Net is a great tool, and probably one of the best editors I've ever seen. The bad part is that it's hidden behind the drag and drop interface that it presents. MS tools get you to focus on the GUI, and don't make you get underneath to understand what's going on. This leads to a lot of programmers who can get their way around VS easily enough, and even write some good programs, but as soon as they need to do something that visual studio didn't expect, they have a really hard time.
When looking at last generation, comparing the XBox, PS2, and GC, I have to say I like the GC the best. It's a lot lighter and smaller than the others, and is great if you want to bring it to a friends house. The XBox is huge and clunky, and the 360 isn't any better. I've also known a lot of people who had problems with the XBox and PS2 DVD drives. Not sure if this is due to the tray loading design, but the GC was much more dependable. However, Nintendo loses marks for releasing the original GC in purple only. I'm sure they've learned from their mistakes, and are releaseing the Wii in an assortment of colours.
Just because tuition is covered, that doesn't ensure that only the brightest students get into the best schools. I could still see a lot of schools accepting students because of their parental influences. Maybe because their parents gave a large donation to the school. Maybe because they feel it's good publicity to have the child of some famous person attending their school. The US has standardized tests, and will accept you based on the results of those tests. The money issue is another thing, but they won't not accept you because they thing you are unable to pay for it. They'll accept you as a student, it's up to you to figure out the financials.
If that's the wording of the law, and how it would actually be interpretted, then the law is meaningless. As soon as someone is able to break the DRM, it becomes ineffective, and ergo, does not fall under this law. Breaking the DRM proves the ineffectiveness. I fail to see how this law could be broken taking it's meaning as you have described.
I just downloaded and installed opera, because you just said the memory footprint was soooo much better. I've never had memory problems with Firefox but I gave it a go. Currently, with firefox I have 7 tabs open, and have been using it for an hour and a half. Current memory usage is 49 megs. I also have a couple big extensions installed such as Web Developer. This gives me a lot of stuff you can't get with Opera. Opera has the same 7 tabs open, but with no history, because it's only been open for 5 minutes. There's also no extensions. Current memory usage is 44 megs. While this is less than firefox, it isn't a significant difference, and certainly isn't enough to have be lose all my precious extensions. Perhaps firefox had memory issues at one time, but lately, I haven't noticed any problems.