When he compares the 5 releases of OS X, he the goes on to say: By that measure, Microsoft has improved Windows by a far greater degree. In the same time frame, it has shipped Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (and 2005 UR2), Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, Windows XP Home and Professional N Editions, Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2, absolutely a big Windows upgrade), Windows XP Embedded, Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, and Windows XP Starter Edition in various languages.
The problem with this list is that it includes versions to markets that Apple does not target. So while it is Microsoft being busy, it hasn't improved the product that OS X competes with. When we actually slim the list down we get: - XP Home - XP Pro - XP Pro x64 - XP MCE (2004, 2005) - XP N versions - XP Starter Ed
Now frankly I'd cut that list down further. I do not consider versions where you remove features to be proper releases. Which leaves us with. - XP Pro/Home - XP Pro x64 - XP MCE (2004, 2005)
He kinda wants to include SP2. However the major inoovations in SP2 were added security, which I'd call more of a bugfix.
So it is a reasonable question, what has Microsoft been doing for the past 5 years?
Interestingly he moves on to talk about what is good in Leopard. It seems he couldn't go there with attacking Apple first.
That is not entirely true. There are passages in the Koran that speak of the need to respect the people of the book (Christians). However there are also passages that exhort muslims to attack infidels.
They are also treated as 2nd class citizens and as such subjected to higher taxes. They can also be prohibited from maintaining their property or building new buildings. I've have to dig up some references for this.
There are some distinctly unpleasant aspects of Islam for those who are not muslim.
OK the guy may be an idiot. He may have been unpleasant to the police officers. His son might be a criminal.
But...
The fact remains the police broke the law.
I can't recall the exact quote (and some after some googling for it I couldn't find it), but it goes something like: "the problem with with defending free speech is you end up defending the most unpleasant people"
Police should not be considered above the law. When the police break the law to enforce it, they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent.
In full context:
9"Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 12So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
In other words, the call is for Christians to follow the example of God, who treats people well.
I can say the they have done quite a good job. It is pretty slick. Some DHTML (mostly disabling questions based on earlier answers).
I imagine it will seriously cut down the amount of time taken to process the census. I have a friend who works on this stuff so I might ask him.
One complaint they have is that lots of people are filling out the census before the actual census night. This is allowed, you are answering questions about what will be happening on a night in the future.
It isn't like this hasn't happened before. This is exactly the same issue that occurred when vista slipped the first time. This would just be a case of "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool my twice, shame on me".
Exactly. I don't understand why Microsoft charges for MSDN subscriptions. Well I do (it costst them money to produce it), but $4K (AUD) for a universal license would seem a bit steep. This is for something that people use *to increase Microsoft's market share*.
Note the inclusion of Oracle and Cisco in this list.
Oracle has one of the worst records on fixing vulnerabilities, running up to a year. I'm too lazy to google up the specific vulnerabilities.
Cisco's record is worse. I coudn't find the article I was looking for, but there was a recent case (in the last year IIRC) where an security researcher in a South American country notified cisco of an issue. After a period of time, he decided to go public (hazy on the details) and cisco did everything they could to shut him down. He had followed best practices guidelines on reporting security issues. Found it. Choice quote: "Then they accused me of working with terrorists, and even still tried to patent my work!"
Too late. The majority of US opinion is already against every country in the world, "Freedom" fries anyone? The only exceptions to this are a few countries like England and Australia, which most Americans think of a funny sidekicks to Uncle Sam, as long as they know their place and don't start getting uppity. Or countries like Sweden, Norway, etc. who most Americans never think of at all, and would never remember if asked to name all the countries in the world.
And in England and Australia the majority of the population has a negative view of US foreign policy. In both cases it is the governement that supports US foreign policy and the population does not consider it enough of an issue to vote them out. In the last election in Australia, interest rates was a bigger issue than foreign policy.
Its easier than that. Bribe one of the guys checks passports at an airport. He just needs to carry a scanner on his body to pick up and store any RFIID data.
BTW this would not have to be in the US. I'm sure you could could find someone willing to do this in a country that a lot of USians like to visit for holidays.
He has cloned the RFIID chip, which would be relatively easy to do.
However... There are other countries, however, that are considering taking human inspectors out of the loop. Australia, for one, has talked about using automated passport inspection for selected groups of travelers, Moss says.
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They'll mobilize? Mobilize? As in "get the heck out of here"? Or are they calling the [GI]Joes?
I hope that don't mobilize. As anyone who knows their WWI history will tell you: mobilization means war.
I didn't say that. We are talking about Iraq here, not Israel.
US troops are generating agro by being in Iraq.
Not directly, no. But they are providing a focus point for aggression.
And generating more agression while they are there.
I'm only a few paragraphs into the article but...
When he compares the 5 releases of OS X, he the goes on to say:
By that measure, Microsoft has improved Windows by a far greater degree. In the same time frame, it has shipped Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (and 2005 UR2), Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, Windows XP Home and Professional N Editions, Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2, absolutely a big Windows upgrade), Windows XP Embedded, Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, and Windows XP Starter Edition in various languages.
The problem with this list is that it includes versions to markets that Apple does not target. So while it is Microsoft being busy, it hasn't improved the product that OS X competes with. When we actually slim the list down we get:
- XP Home
- XP Pro
- XP Pro x64
- XP MCE (2004, 2005)
- XP N versions
- XP Starter Ed
Now frankly I'd cut that list down further. I do not consider versions where you remove features to be proper releases. Which leaves us with.
- XP Pro/Home
- XP Pro x64
- XP MCE (2004, 2005)
He kinda wants to include SP2. However the major inoovations in SP2 were added security, which I'd call more of a bugfix.
So it is a reasonable question, what has Microsoft been doing for the past 5 years?
Interestingly he moves on to talk about what is good in Leopard. It seems he couldn't go there with attacking Apple first.
That is not entirely true. There are passages in the Koran that speak of the need to respect the people of the book (Christians). However there are also passages that exhort muslims to attack infidels.
They are also treated as 2nd class citizens and as such subjected to higher taxes. They can also be prohibited from maintaining their property or building new buildings. I've have to dig up some references for this.
There are some distinctly unpleasant aspects of Islam for those who are not muslim.
Indeed
Only on slashdot would this get moderated informative.
Oh I thought they meant Alf.
I'm hoping its future involves a grave.
Sorry, I missed that you said they were from England.
BTW, I hope my comment about the paragraphs didn't sound snarky, I didn't mean it that way.
OK the guy may be an idiot. He may have been unpleasant to the police officers. His son might be a criminal.
But...
The fact remains the police broke the law.
I can't recall the exact quote (and some after some googling for it I couldn't find it), but it goes something like:
"the problem with with defending free speech is you end up defending the most unpleasant people"
Police should not be considered above the law. When the police break the law to enforce it, they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent.
Hmmm. Stream of consciousness. Paragraphs are good, please use them.
I largely agree with your points, not with your formatting.
Anyway, one correction: The article about kids being arrested for stripping branches of trees was about kids in England *not* the US.
Matthew 7:12
In full context:
9"Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 12So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
In other words, the call is for Christians to follow the example of God, who treats people well.
Sorry, windows test only.
Oh, and it works fine in Firefox. I didn't bother to try any other browsers.
I can say the they have done quite a good job. It is pretty slick. Some DHTML (mostly disabling questions based on earlier answers).
I imagine it will seriously cut down the amount of time taken to process the census. I have a friend who works on this stuff so I might ask him.
One complaint they have is that lots of people are filling out the census before the actual census night. This is allowed, you are answering questions about what will be happening on a night in the future.
It isn't like this hasn't happened before. This is exactly the same issue that occurred when vista slipped the first time. This would just be a case of "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool my twice, shame on me".
Exactly. I don't understand why Microsoft charges for MSDN subscriptions. Well I do (it costst them money to produce it), but $4K (AUD) for a universal license would seem a bit steep. This is for something that people use *to increase Microsoft's market share*.
Note the inclusion of Oracle and Cisco in this list.
Oracle has one of the worst records on fixing vulnerabilities, running up to a year. I'm too lazy to google up the specific vulnerabilities.
Cisco's record is worse. I coudn't find the article I was looking for, but there was a recent case (in the last year IIRC) where an security researcher in a South American country notified cisco of an issue. After a period of time, he decided to go public (hazy on the details) and cisco did everything they could to shut him down. He had followed best practices guidelines on reporting security issues. Found it. Choice quote:
"Then they accused me of working with terrorists, and even still tried to patent my work!"
Too late. The majority of US opinion is already against every country in the world, "Freedom" fries anyone? The only exceptions to this are a few countries like England and Australia, which most Americans think of a funny sidekicks to Uncle Sam, as long as they know their place and don't start getting uppity. Or countries like Sweden, Norway, etc. who most Americans never think of at all, and would never remember if asked to name all the countries in the world.
And in England and Australia the majority of the population has a negative view of US foreign policy. In both cases it is the governement that supports US foreign policy and the population does not consider it enough of an issue to vote them out. In the last election in Australia, interest rates was a bigger issue than foreign policy.
Or eyes for that matter.
Its easier than that. Bribe one of the guys checks passports at an airport. He just needs to carry a scanner on his body to pick up and store any RFIID data.
BTW this would not have to be in the US. I'm sure you could could find someone willing to do this in a country that a lot of USians like to visit for holidays.
He has cloned the RFIID chip, which would be relatively easy to do.
:(.
However...
There are other countries, however, that are considering taking human inspectors out of the loop. Australia, for one, has talked about using automated passport inspection for selected groups of travelers, Moss says.
Crazy... And I live in Australia
For the same reason that they say IMHO when there is nothing humble about their opinion or their means of expressing it.
Don't forget SI units. How many chains was it to the hogshead again?