I thought one particularly interesting part in the Tanenbaum article was that it seemed pretty clear that Brown hadn't done any reading about Unix before hand. For something like this you surely spend a few weeks reading up at home and making notes before you fly to Holland and interview someone. Smells very fishy to me.
I was sort of assuming they were suggesting that it was something other than the nanobacteria that was growing.
I have to confess I didn't read the more detailed scientific articles - my 2 years of High School biology (I concentrated on doing badly at physics) doesn't put me in a good position to evaluate the specifics of the false positives arguments
I don't think this is proven yet. Some comments from other scientist in the BBC piece suggest that the methods they used can be prone to false positives. This is probably a good one to RTFM!
I still think that managing the storage space externally might be attractive to smaller companies but bigger ones might like the data-mining side of their own email for 'knowledge management' etc.
Not sure about the legality of that though. There could be privacy issues.
still, lucky employees. We only get 12MB here. Wonder if google is planning to sell a 1TB version to companies. The searching and archiving (for legal reasons etc) might be more attractive. Maybe it's the Fedora Core for web mail?
I'm not so sure it's a 'luddite' attitude. I think people who can barely get enough to eat are pissed off at the government support for IT where most of the employees lead very good lives compared to the rest of the population.
I'm not saying that they're right (I think IT will be an important factor in makeing everyone in india better off) but you can see where the rural poor are coming from.
I thought the whole idea is that IBM are selling services for a product where the vast majority of the developers are NOT employed by IBM. Surely they wouldn't be stupid enough to piss about 95% of 'their' developers?
I've read a quite a few things that suggested cold-war surveilance by the british secret service was what drove him to suicide (they were worried that his homosexuality would make him a 'security risk'). IIRC that also led them to remove most of his access to top level work which increased his depression.
I think you can make a strong case for saying that this is a good way to easy non/. folk onto Linux. My mum is doing the European Computer Driving License (ECDL) for her work. When I asked her if I should restore an old PC for her by puting Linux on it she wanted to know if it would support the sort of stuff they have in the ECDL. Like Excel.
This might have swung it.
If you are you can run most things as Administrator WITHOUT having log out. Just hold down shift and right-click on the EXE. The pop-up menu will have a "Run-As" option. Just put in your administrator details and away you go.
It's not perfect but it's a damn sight easier than having to log out.
I don't know of any statistic but I'd assume that putting the cones down initially must be particularly hazardous. If someone drives the same route a lot they will just expect the flow of traffic to go a certain way and their brain will process any differences more slowly and they'll have to think about something that's normally automatic for them. Pretty good chance they won't see the guy in the orange vest til it's too late
I have it on my Win2K laptop at home but trying to persuade my work to allow it is proving difficult. I particularly like that fact that in windows you can use gvim - the GUI version (you get them both in the download) which will give you drop down menus that tell you (at least in my version) what the keyboard commands are. I think it also puts a nice link to vimtutor in the start menu entry (by far and away the easiest way to get started with vim)
I for one welcome our new cat...
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This is what's been pushing me into learning vi (a process that isn't bad at all. just try the tutor - i think it's "vimtutor"). You KNOW that when you have to use an editor in an emergency vi will be there, JOE (or whatever else you prefer) probably won't. You DO NOT want to be learning vi as you try to repair a production server.
Your phone number in lights over a major city. Even if some hot irish girls try to call you they won't be able to get through with all the pervs and crazies tying up the line.
On a less public spirited note, please give it a try and post some of the calls you get on here for our amusement.
... that this will enable a fundamental change in the shape of the whole wing as opposed to just the trailing edge. I don't think they're trying to claim that just 'changing the shape at all' is their breakthrough.
"However it might work just fine within a "friendly" office environment"
You mean for delivering candy, right? My office is pretty friendly but somehow I just don't think they'll go for the idea of a robot delivering beer to our desks. Sadly.
"The chance of an alien microbe getting a toehold on Earth is pretty much zero"
The key issue here is that it is NOT ACTUALLY ZERO. Even though the probability is that an alien microbe will be at a disadvantage on earth, there is still the possibilty that it will have a big disadvantage. More than worth the extra trouble in my book
I think Microsoft got a court ruling that the way the users 'signed' the form on the lindows (now, Linspire?) web page wasn't legally binding (even though MS used it themselves)
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... on how fast your arm is moving. (or wasnt' that the kind of movie you had in mind?)
I thought one particularly interesting part in the Tanenbaum article was that it seemed pretty clear that Brown hadn't done any reading about Unix before hand. For something like this you surely spend a few weeks reading up at home and making notes before you fly to Holland and interview someone. Smells very fishy to me.
That's not to far off. I recently read A Short History of Nearly Everything. The thing that it really impressed on me was how little we really know.
I was sort of assuming they were suggesting that it was something other than the nanobacteria that was growing. I have to confess I didn't read the more detailed scientific articles - my 2 years of High School biology (I concentrated on doing badly at physics) doesn't put me in a good position to evaluate the specifics of the false positives arguments
I don't think this is proven yet. Some comments from other scientist in the BBC piece suggest that the methods they used can be prone to false positives. This is probably a good one to RTFM!
I still think that managing the storage space externally might be attractive to smaller companies but bigger ones might like the data-mining side of their own email for 'knowledge management' etc. Not sure about the legality of that though. There could be privacy issues.
still, lucky employees. We only get 12MB here. Wonder if google is planning to sell a 1TB version to companies. The searching and archiving (for legal reasons etc) might be more attractive. Maybe it's the Fedora Core for web mail?
This was supposed to be a reply to the parent. It's just too early in the morning for me
I'm not so sure it's a 'luddite' attitude. I think people who can barely get enough to eat are pissed off at the government support for IT where most of the employees lead very good lives compared to the rest of the population. I'm not saying that they're right (I think IT will be an important factor in makeing everyone in india better off) but you can see where the rural poor are coming from.
I thought the whole idea is that IBM are selling services for a product where the vast majority of the developers are NOT employed by IBM. Surely they wouldn't be stupid enough to piss about 95% of 'their' developers?
I've read a quite a few things that suggested cold-war surveilance by the british secret service was what drove him to suicide (they were worried that his homosexuality would make him a 'security risk'). IIRC that also led them to remove most of his access to top level work which increased his depression.
I think you can make a strong case for saying that this is a good way to easy non /. folk onto Linux. My mum is doing the European Computer Driving License (ECDL) for her work. When I asked her if I should restore an old PC for her by puting Linux on it she wanted to know if it would support the sort of stuff they have in the ECDL. Like Excel.
This might have swung it.
If you are you can run most things as Administrator WITHOUT having log out. Just hold down shift and right-click on the EXE. The pop-up menu will have a "Run-As" option. Just put in your administrator details and away you go. It's not perfect but it's a damn sight easier than having to log out.
I don't know of any statistic but I'd assume that putting the cones down initially must be particularly hazardous. If someone drives the same route a lot they will just expect the flow of traffic to go a certain way and their brain will process any differences more slowly and they'll have to think about something that's normally automatic for them. Pretty good chance they won't see the guy in the orange vest til it's too late
I have it on my Win2K laptop at home but trying to persuade my work to allow it is proving difficult. I particularly like that fact that in windows you can use gvim - the GUI version (you get them both in the download) which will give you drop down menus that tell you (at least in my version) what the keyboard commands are. I think it also puts a nice link to vimtutor in the start menu entry (by far and away the easiest way to get started with vim)
I for one welcome our new cat... Sorry, I had to do it. I just had to
This is what's been pushing me into learning vi (a process that isn't bad at all. just try the tutor - i think it's "vimtutor"). You KNOW that when you have to use an editor in an emergency vi will be there, JOE (or whatever else you prefer) probably won't. You DO NOT want to be learning vi as you try to repair a production server.
True, but you gotta love the subtle understatement of doing it at noon on a sunny day.
Your phone number in lights over a major city. Even if some hot irish girls try to call you they won't be able to get through with all the pervs and crazies tying up the line.
On a less public spirited note, please give it a try and post some of the calls you get on here for our amusement.
... that this will enable a fundamental change in the shape of the whole wing as opposed to just the trailing edge. I don't think they're trying to claim that just 'changing the shape at all' is their breakthrough.
If he had that much un-popped corn and gifted teenagers in his house he must have been doing something very nasty indeed. Serves him right!
"However it might work just fine within a "friendly" office environment"
You mean for delivering candy, right? My office is pretty friendly but somehow I just don't think they'll go for the idea of a robot delivering beer to our desks. Sadly.
The key issue here is that it is NOT ACTUALLY ZERO. Even though the probability is that an alien microbe will be at a disadvantage on earth, there is still the possibilty that it will have a big disadvantage. More than worth the extra trouble in my book
and you sounded so happy too.
I think Microsoft got a court ruling that the way the users 'signed' the form on the lindows (now, Linspire?) web page wasn't legally binding (even though MS used it themselves) (sorry about the sig formatting - scratches head)