It's not fault of Microsoft, and PowerPoint could be (and sometimes is) used to create good presentations. We have a deeper problem than just a piece of software, PowerPoint is the most obvious simptom.
Altough, before computers become mainstream, people didn't do useless presentations nearly as often as they do now. By that time it was hard work to create one. That doesn't mean that we didn't have the problem of people disgussing as smart by communicating informationless streams*, they just preferred other media.
* I won't accept any responsibility by bots injuried while parsing that setence.
Only loggin IP and time would be enough to make a comment not anonymous. Any court can discover the identity of the commenter with that information as ISPs are also required to log the identity of their clients.
I second the GP in that the article is very light on details. The local press isn't making any noise, so I guess that case is much less obvious than TFA is making it to be.
You must be an experienced attorney, and pass a test. Anybody can take the test (but if you are not an attorney, that will create some troubles), there is no need to indication, and no identification on the test. Very few people pass, so there are always empty positions to fill.
I'd advise caution when declaring somewhere to be the most corrupt anything. Nobody was able to measure corruption in any reliable way up to now. That is a shame, tough, it would be great to see when it increases or decreases.
It is a bit worse than that, what you translaed as "Freedom of speech is guaranteed in our country" is in fact "Freedom of the press is guaranteed", the "press" being composed of people certified for that profession (and probably working for some company, but I've never see the law being interpreted with that focus). Freedom of speech on Brazil is really a joke.
But, that said, I'm curious, did the judge fined Google for not having some way to remove the material, or he granted the fine just for disseminating the text?
Currently it is a problem of the people that want VoIP (and piracy too) to run. Those people didn't sucessfuly solve it yet, so it may spread to the people that want a home server, or to interlink a small company.
I guess by the time it spreads to small companies, it will be solved.
So, the Internet v4 (their service) loses value to nobody less than the geeks, and we search for something else, that is probably Internet v6 from some other provider. We create a small network, tunneled by phone of intra-NAT links, call it something similar to BBS, and start to fill it with content. At the same time, Internet v4 gets more and more lame, with the interesting content (software, piracy) moving first, then B2B high tech sites, then B2C hight tech, and so on. Sudenly, we create the Internet again, but this time it is v6, and with all new ISPs (that the telecoms will have to buy again).
Sounds interesting, altough I doubt the telecoms are interested on this scenario, they may be stupid enough to let it happen.
I'd like to add, give the resolution not only on numbers, but as a pair of them. 1080p, 1080i, 1080l, 1280w, 1280p are all different, and none of them makes any sense.
Well, as far as I remember, my computer is able to zoom those "pictures", "images" and "photos". Web developers can also specify their size on inches, centimeters, multiples of the size of the leters "M" or "x", or even on a fraction of the window size.
I don't know if DPI independence is hard, but some operating systems solve them quite well, except for the moron that makes a flash app with sizes specified on pixels (and it is almost always flash).
I like that idea a lot, but my mind boils when I think about an entire nation agreeing on an orçament. I don't think it is viable, but some mixed system (sometimes doing things this way, other times doing things the current way) can work quite well.
Ok, that old story... ODF does have ISO approval, and governemnts around the world were trying to require open office (lower case "o" here) suites by requiring ISO approval of their document format. Then, MS got into a delay and destroy tatic that consisted on making a lot of confusion about what does or does not have ISO approval, and on the sideline continuing their usual way of gaining governement bids (that is composed of bribes, lock-in and blackmail). Now, their task is done, but everything would start again if they just recognized that they'll never support OOXML, so they must keep the fuzz alive.
That wouldn't be enough. You'd want to get rid of all information stored by the uncontrolled processes, that means, you want to also change the boot disk, BIOS (or watever boots your system) firmware, and firmware of network devices at least (HBAs mainly) at least. And you'd want no local disks. Also, of course, you'd want to physicaly turn off everything that holds your trusted data.
One could make a server that makes those thasks easy, but current servers don't.
Untill you launch aptitude, then you'll be at the 100-200MB interval. On a low memory server, I've never met a big distro that beats Slackware, but if aiming for the less than 10MB memory usage, I'd advise to build your own (and think hard about using BusyBox instead of GNU).
Popularity-contest help Debian and Ubuntu teams trim their instalation CDs to fi most people needs. If it were just for public relations, I wouldn't care, the way it is now, I do participate.
The last time I saw it, passwd is world readable. Are you talking about network based attacks? If so, whether root has a password or not is irrelevant.
Also, I bet your computer have one of those users: guest, www-data, apache, smb, netconfig, system. There are others to put on the list, but I'm too lazy to look for them now.
Well, it's eletricity. There is no better quality energy than it. There are oscilations on the generation capacity, some are quite previsible, others are more random. Most manufacturing processes could adjust to it, at a cost. Refining, in particular, would have few problems. Also, there is enough power on renewables for increasing our consuption a thousand times.
Bio fuels can't scale enough to replace diesel, at least without some serious genetic engineering (and if we could do such serious genetic engineering, we would also be able to build cheap photovoltaics). What does not mean that we should stop using diesel now, but we must stop some time.
The post is a recorrent troll that is not based on any specific scenario, but that the world is gonna end, and there is nothing we can do to stop it. When it's well articulated (or, at least doen't explicitly say "the world is gona end"), like that post was, it is dangerous because some people do fail for it. Sometimes it is even intented to stop preparations, calling all of them futile.
Yep, it'll take longer, what is another mean of saying that there will be some crisis during adaptation (people being shortsighted). It will also be more expensive, what means that we'll need a lot more of eficiency to get in the same wealth level we are now. Anyway, it is possible.
Lots of microcontrolers nowadays can handle a GUI, you don't even need a $200 netbook. Anyway, I was not talking about the monetary cost of a GUI, I was talking about the bad thing that is coding on a GUI. It is not worth staring at a GUI all day long just for diferent sized parenthesis.
Besides, that problem was solved shortly after Lisp was created, by identation. And that solution doesn't require a GUI.
It's nice that they already have a working compiler. Now I can play with it! Let's see if complex numbers and automatic garbage collection are good to have:)
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It's not fault of Microsoft, and PowerPoint could be (and sometimes is) used to create good presentations. We have a deeper problem than just a piece of software, PowerPoint is the most obvious simptom.
Altough, before computers become mainstream, people didn't do useless presentations nearly as often as they do now. By that time it was hard work to create one. That doesn't mean that we didn't have the problem of people disgussing as smart by communicating informationless streams*, they just preferred other media.
* I won't accept any responsibility by bots injuried while parsing that setence.
The National AeroSpace Agency? I think it is an initialism.
Only loggin IP and time would be enough to make a comment not anonymous. Any court can discover the identity of the commenter with that information as ISPs are also required to log the identity of their clients.
I second the GP in that the article is very light on details. The local press isn't making any noise, so I guess that case is much less obvious than TFA is making it to be.
You must be an experienced attorney, and pass a test. Anybody can take the test (but if you are not an attorney, that will create some troubles), there is no need to indication, and no identification on the test. Very few people pass, so there are always empty positions to fill.
I'd advise caution when declaring somewhere to be the most corrupt anything. Nobody was able to measure corruption in any reliable way up to now. That is a shame, tough, it would be great to see when it increases or decreases.
It is a bit worse than that, what you translaed as "Freedom of speech is guaranteed in our country" is in fact "Freedom of the press is guaranteed", the "press" being composed of people certified for that profession (and probably working for some company, but I've never see the law being interpreted with that focus). Freedom of speech on Brazil is really a joke.
But, that said, I'm curious, did the judge fined Google for not having some way to remove the material, or he granted the fine just for disseminating the text?
I guess somebody just lied to you, I own that entire /8 network since when it was worth just penies.
Currently it is a problem of the people that want VoIP (and piracy too) to run. Those people didn't sucessfuly solve it yet, so it may spread to the people that want a home server, or to interlink a small company.
I guess by the time it spreads to small companies, it will be solved.
So, the Internet v4 (their service) loses value to nobody less than the geeks, and we search for something else, that is probably Internet v6 from some other provider. We create a small network, tunneled by phone of intra-NAT links, call it something similar to BBS, and start to fill it with content. At the same time, Internet v4 gets more and more lame, with the interesting content (software, piracy) moving first, then B2B high tech sites, then B2C hight tech, and so on. Sudenly, we create the Internet again, but this time it is v6, and with all new ISPs (that the telecoms will have to buy again).
Sounds interesting, altough I doubt the telecoms are interested on this scenario, they may be stupid enough to let it happen.
I'd like to add, give the resolution not only on numbers, but as a pair of them. 1080p, 1080i, 1080l, 1280w, 1280p are all different, and none of them makes any sense.
Did you care to read those standards? They say how you command the browser to scale images.
Well, as far as I remember, my computer is able to zoom those "pictures", "images" and "photos". Web developers can also specify their size on inches, centimeters, multiples of the size of the leters "M" or "x", or even on a fraction of the window size.
I don't know if DPI independence is hard, but some operating systems solve them quite well, except for the moron that makes a flash app with sizes specified on pixels (and it is almost always flash).
I like that idea a lot, but my mind boils when I think about an entire nation agreeing on an orçament. I don't think it is viable, but some mixed system (sometimes doing things this way, other times doing things the current way) can work quite well.
Ok, that old story... ODF does have ISO approval, and governemnts around the world were trying to require open office (lower case "o" here) suites by requiring ISO approval of their document format. Then, MS got into a delay and destroy tatic that consisted on making a lot of confusion about what does or does not have ISO approval, and on the sideline continuing their usual way of gaining governement bids (that is composed of bribes, lock-in and blackmail). Now, their task is done, but everything would start again if they just recognized that they'll never support OOXML, so they must keep the fuzz alive.
Ok, then. They'll support it on the next version, just what they promissed by 2007.
That wouldn't be enough. You'd want to get rid of all information stored by the uncontrolled processes, that means, you want to also change the boot disk, BIOS (or watever boots your system) firmware, and firmware of network devices at least (HBAs mainly) at least. And you'd want no local disks. Also, of course, you'd want to physicaly turn off everything that holds your trusted data.
One could make a server that makes those thasks easy, but current servers don't.
Untill you launch aptitude, then you'll be at the 100-200MB interval. On a low memory server, I've never met a big distro that beats Slackware, but if aiming for the less than 10MB memory usage, I'd advise to build your own (and think hard about using BusyBox instead of GNU).
But he's running JavaMail and IIS on Ubuntu... That will surely make a difference.
Popularity-contest help Debian and Ubuntu teams trim their instalation CDs to fi most people needs. If it were just for public relations, I wouldn't care, the way it is now, I do participate.
So that is recent, last time I installed it defaulted to no on both installers (I tried both, it was a weard hardware). That was in 2008.
The last time I saw it, passwd is world readable. Are you talking about network based attacks? If so, whether root has a password or not is irrelevant.
Also, I bet your computer have one of those users: guest, www-data, apache, smb, netconfig, system. There are others to put on the list, but I'm too lazy to look for them now.
Well, it's eletricity. There is no better quality energy than it. There are oscilations on the generation capacity, some are quite previsible, others are more random. Most manufacturing processes could adjust to it, at a cost. Refining, in particular, would have few problems. Also, there is enough power on renewables for increasing our consuption a thousand times.
That said, I agree, nuclear is way better.
Bio fuels can't scale enough to replace diesel, at least without some serious genetic engineering (and if we could do such serious genetic engineering, we would also be able to build cheap photovoltaics). What does not mean that we should stop using diesel now, but we must stop some time.
The post is a recorrent troll that is not based on any specific scenario, but that the world is gonna end, and there is nothing we can do to stop it. When it's well articulated (or, at least doen't explicitly say "the world is gona end"), like that post was, it is dangerous because some people do fail for it. Sometimes it is even intented to stop preparations, calling all of them futile.
Yep, it'll take longer, what is another mean of saying that there will be some crisis during adaptation (people being shortsighted). It will also be more expensive, what means that we'll need a lot more of eficiency to get in the same wealth level we are now. Anyway, it is possible.
Lots of microcontrolers nowadays can handle a GUI, you don't even need a $200 netbook. Anyway, I was not talking about the monetary cost of a GUI, I was talking about the bad thing that is coding on a GUI. It is not worth staring at a GUI all day long just for diferent sized parenthesis.
Besides, that problem was solved shortly after Lisp was created, by identation. And that solution doesn't require a GUI.
It's nice that they already have a working compiler. Now I can play with it! Let's see if complex numbers and automatic garbage collection are good to have :)