the worst part is 90% of the people who read this site will believe it.
No, the worst part is that they're right and we have a strong possibility of losing the freedom to use our own property in the ways we wish to. This research is a direct response to this TPM (formerly Palladium) initiative, and is intended to force TPM into future hardware;
Our first delivery on the vision is a hardware based security feature in Longhorn called Secure Startup. Secure Startup utilizes a Trusted Platform Module (TPM 1.2) to improve PC security http://www.microsoft.com/resources/ngscb/default.m spx
There is a lot of potential value in something like TPM, but since some of the earliest applications (although abandoned in Vista) included remote attestation of installed software, the most likely purpose would be to force computer users into a rental model for software use.
There's plenty of statistical data about failure rates of paper voting systems. In Australia, errors in manual vote counting ran at about 100 errors per 80,000 votes counted.
An open source electronic voting system was developed and tested at state elections, and independant audits showed it was accurate. http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,61045,00.htm l Being open source, it is available to the US, if you could get around the NIH syndrome.
I drove all the damn way to Savannah (80+ miles), crammed into an overstuffed theater and FINALLY watched the movie.
You're lucky. I was on a hour flight with I Robot as the inflight movie. I tried watching for about ten minutes, realised it was a strinking, festering pile of steaming horse poo, but couldn't turn it off.
The flight attendants kept stopping me when I tried to gouge my eyes and ears out. Not that it mattered much, with the tacky "terrorist safe" plastic cutlery, all I was managing was friction burns.
What's worse was that on my next interstate flight, they played Mr & Mrs Smith. Man, there are not enough sick bags on a 737 for that shit.
However, I can no longer burn multisession CDs, which really pisses me off.
I'm not sure why XP is causing you trouble with multisession, but there's a free burner here that'll do what you want - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/features.php.
The UI is clean and polished, it operates quickly on a decent machine, and it's reliable.
I'd normally let this go, but I've just finished doing project documentation for a MS only company, and I have to ask you, ARE YOU ON CRACK?
MS Office clean, polished and reliable? It's a fucking dog's bollocks of an interface! Excel has that wierd implimentation of MDI that's inconsistent with everthing else out there. It's cut/copy/paste is borked and wierd as well. Word has crap all over the place. There's bugger-all consistency of purpose. Tools like the org chart designer are almost satanic in their ability to do exactly what you don't want them to do, while Powerpoint manages to hide virtually every funcionality that might allow you to make an interactive presentation.
And reliable? We were trying to paste client-supplied Word tables into Excel to get some total figures. It crashed every time. We ended up sneaking portable OOo in on a thumb drive and pasting them into Calc. Word would choke on some of the documents too - they were table heavy, and word would get stuck in some repagination cycle. It'd be unusable except in "Normal" mode, but then you couldn't see what your output would look like. An Access database would randomly change date formats (US or Aus) depending on which computer it was run on. It wouldn't be so bad if it was consistent, but half the dates would be in US, while the rest were Aus.
I'm not saying OOo is that much better, but christ, the only thing MS Office has going for it is that every man and his dog already has a copy and knows how to work around the freakish bits.
Which is why packet rates should be kept higher than voice rates.
I'd prefer to see voice rates kept lower than packet rates...
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But streaming video wasn't ever really high on anyone's list of MUST HAVE functionality.
No, but the problem for the telcos is how to soak up that bandwidth and keep charging for it. If you provide a big enough pipe at a price affordable for video, you're also providing enough of a pipe for the VOIP that's going to undercut your high-margin call charges.
A) "Because koffice was there before openoffice was opensourced by sun"
Actually, it's because we like choices. The more suites and apps the better, as long as they have a common format so we're not locked in to the first one we try.
I want something lean and fast. Seems that's becoming more and more rare these days.
No, software doesn't wear out. When new software with bells and whistles is released, it adds to the amount of choices available to you, but nobody's forcing you to install the new apps.
In the office software arena, there are plenty of lightweight apps and suites if you're prepared to look. Abiword, Sphygmic spreadsheet, Siag office, the Softmaker suite or even Ragtime, for some definitions of lightweight...
At some point my bike is going to make a connection with one of them as they step into the real world road without looking.
Look, just stop stressing about it and you'll find you'll lose that flinch reaction. Everybody gets a little tense about their first, but once you've bagged a few it'll just start to come naturally, and then you'll be bowling them over like ninepins.
the OSS crowd will consider it "teh evi1" without giving a second glance or trying to implement it.
First Glance:
OpenXML is patent-encumbered and Microsoft's covenant not to sue specifically and deliberately excludes revisions to and future versions of the standard from protection against being sued by Microsoft. This means that if any OSS developer attempts to fix any bug or security problem in it, Microsoft could sue for patent infringement.
Wake me up when it's worth having that second glance.
In the real world the benefit of the status quo is huge
And in the real world, a faceful of high velocity bus is still terminal, no matter what benefits you've managed to stuff in your pockets while it was on its way.
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No, the worst part is that they're right and we have a strong possibility of losing the freedom to use our own property in the ways we wish to. This research is a direct response to this TPM (formerly Palladium) initiative, and is intended to force TPM into future hardware;
There is a lot of potential value in something like TPM, but since some of the earliest applications (although abandoned in Vista) included remote attestation of installed software, the most likely purpose would be to force computer users into a rental model for software use.There's plenty of statistical data about failure rates of paper voting systems. In Australia, errors in manual vote counting ran at about 100 errors per 80,000 votes counted.
An open source electronic voting system was developed and tested at state elections, and independant audits showed it was accurate. http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,61045,00.htm l Being open source, it is available to the US, if you could get around the NIH syndrome.
You're lucky. I was on a hour flight with I Robot as the inflight movie. I tried watching for about ten minutes, realised it was a strinking, festering pile of steaming horse poo, but couldn't turn it off.
The flight attendants kept stopping me when I tried to gouge my eyes and ears out. Not that it mattered much, with the tacky "terrorist safe" plastic cutlery, all I was managing was friction burns.
What's worse was that on my next interstate flight, they played Mr & Mrs Smith. Man, there are not enough sick bags on a 737 for that shit.
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Nah, I'll wait for the dupe.
I'm not sure why XP is causing you trouble with multisession, but there's a free burner here that'll do what you want - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/features.php.
Nobody in the FOSS world is forcing you to install the new apps.
Yeah, I just got carried away. Should have said "Dog's breakfast", but I reckon the context might be a bit of a hint...
I'd normally let this go, but I've just finished doing project documentation for a MS only company, and I have to ask you, ARE YOU ON CRACK?
MS Office clean, polished and reliable? It's a fucking dog's bollocks of an interface! Excel has that wierd implimentation of MDI that's inconsistent with everthing else out there. It's cut/copy/paste is borked and wierd as well. Word has crap all over the place. There's bugger-all consistency of purpose. Tools like the org chart designer are almost satanic in their ability to do exactly what you don't want them to do, while Powerpoint manages to hide virtually every funcionality that might allow you to make an interactive presentation.
And reliable? We were trying to paste client-supplied Word tables into Excel to get some total figures. It crashed every time. We ended up sneaking portable OOo in on a thumb drive and pasting them into Calc. Word would choke on some of the documents too - they were table heavy, and word would get stuck in some repagination cycle. It'd be unusable except in "Normal" mode, but then you couldn't see what your output would look like. An Access database would randomly change date formats (US or Aus) depending on which computer it was run on. It wouldn't be so bad if it was consistent, but half the dates would be in US, while the rest were Aus.
I'm not saying OOo is that much better, but christ, the only thing MS Office has going for it is that every man and his dog already has a copy and knows how to work around the freakish bits.
Which is why packet rates should be kept higher than voice rates.
I'd prefer to see voice rates kept lower than packet rates...
But streaming video wasn't ever really high on anyone's list of MUST HAVE functionality.
No, but the problem for the telcos is how to soak up that bandwidth and keep charging for it. If you provide a big enough pipe at a price affordable for video, you're also providing enough of a pipe for the VOIP that's going to undercut your high-margin call charges.
A) "Because koffice was there before openoffice was opensourced by sun"
Actually, it's because we like choices. The more suites and apps the better, as long as they have a common format so we're not locked in to the first one we try.
Why should good Free software help M$ and Apple sell operating systems?
Because it's open source and enough of us want it to. The whole point of open source is that it's less restrictive than commercial software.
I want something lean and fast. Seems that's becoming more and more rare these days.
No, software doesn't wear out. When new software with bells and whistles is released, it adds to the amount of choices available to you, but nobody's forcing you to install the new apps.
In the office software arena, there are plenty of lightweight apps and suites if you're prepared to look. Abiword, Sphygmic spreadsheet, Siag office, the Softmaker suite or even Ragtime, for some definitions of lightweight...
Actually, Goatse and Tubgirl are green.
So are the people who clicked the links to them.
would you still wan't to use mysql knowing it would force any code you based on it to be released only under the GPL period?
Yes, because I'm abstracting my database code so I'm not dependant on any one vendor.
Why would you code any other way?
At some point my bike is going to make a connection with one of them as they step into the real world road without looking.
Look, just stop stressing about it and you'll find you'll lose that flinch reaction. Everybody gets a little tense about their first, but once you've bagged a few it'll just start to come naturally, and then you'll be bowling them over like ninepins.
because of the properties of ICE vs Liquid Water the melting of the Artic ice sheet actually lowers water world wide.
It's moments like these I wish Archimedes was alive and reading Slashdot.
RIM owns the portable market.
No, I think the portable market just pwn3d RIM.
the OSS crowd will consider it "teh evi1" without giving a second glance or trying to implement it.
First Glance:
OpenXML is patent-encumbered and Microsoft's covenant not to sue specifically and deliberately excludes revisions to and future versions of the standard from protection against being sued by Microsoft. This means that if any OSS developer attempts to fix any bug or security problem in it, Microsoft could sue for patent infringement.
Wake me up when it's worth having that second glance.
But no matter how you cut it civil liberties won't shoot you in the face.
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http://www.uiowa.edu/~policult/assets/VietNam/Ken
Don't worry, there are plenty of people here who speak Klingon.
No need. There's prior art on that one already. http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/factsheets/doeymp0010.sht ml
And in the real world, a faceful of high velocity bus is still terminal, no matter what benefits you've managed to stuff in your pockets while it was on its way.
Microsoft are planning to release their own Hypervisor next year, and you're right, their version will be built into the Windows Server product.e s+shape/2100-1016_3-5735876.html
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+hypervisor+plan+tak