-fast as a bat out of hell, when it decides to work
I'd go with the option that works every time. But, anyway, why spend a 50k$ server on some trivial script when you can code on cheaper languages and get decent performance. I'm a bit anti-Java nowadays (don't even think about.Net), since the alternative languages developed enough to be usable.
If you want a multiplataform GUI, the only options are C++ (yep, I said it right) and the native FOSS languages, like Perl, TCL, Python. The only option for multiplataform GUI programing that won't put you into a dependence nightmare when instaling on Windows is C++.
Now, non-GUI (e.g. web) Java is pretty much multiplataform. Also applets run on any of the two most important plataforms out there, that is the most you'll get from any language but JavaScript.
That's a long and tortuous process. Anything can change, any time. Java probably won't escape it, but the winner may be some competitor that isn't even mentioned here.
Anyway, "Developers, developers, developers!" is the right mindset, MS thrived with it, and is losing mindshare on every aspect that forgot to take it into acount. It is funny too.
I'd be more inclined to separate OS into "Administrator by default" and "User level account by default".
Well, that is a nice dimension, tough not very usefull anymore (as you have stated). A few of other candidades would be: "Executes by mime" (Windows) vs. "Executes by permission" (everybody else), "Filetype by name" (Windows) vs. "Filetype by contents" (everybody else), "Automatic execution of received programs" (Outlook) vs. "Manual execution of received programs" (everybody else), "scripts inside everything" (Windows, MS Office, Internet Explorer, Acrobat reader, software that tries to be compatible with MS Office) vs. "scripts inside executable files" (other OSs, other text editors, free PDF viewers) vs. "sandboxed" (Other browsers, other spreadsheets), "security dialogs every time" (Windows) vs. "security dialogs are always dangerous" (everybody else), and my favorite "doesn't tells the user what the hell is happening" (Windows) vs. "tells the user what the hell is happening" (everybody else). Note that the later one is the cause of voodoo computer usage.
"Iraq 1 was NOT a "win", you sent the other team home with a bloody nose, but let them keep all their toys. A win would have meant that Iraq 2 would never have been necessary."
Not to put the US army on a good light, but Iraq 2 wasn't necessary.
That thing is huge, it has enough energy to supply current mankind needs for a few hundred thousand years. How do you propose we deal with the energy? We can't simply let it out.
Now, the good news is that maybe, if we release just a (relatively) small amount of energy, we may increase the tikness of the crust enough to let it resist the pressure indefinitely, that means, untill some other problem arrives:) The bad news is that if we make enough holes there, we may reduce the crust resistence and make it blow. I have no idea on what is more likely, nor I know if anybody knows it.
"I kind of think this is how linux will end up in the hands of 'ordinary users': because if they want to count on the support of their geek friend they might find it much easier to get such help if they're running something that their geek friend is happy to support for free."
"If every copy of windows was written to a military life or death standard, it wauld take 10 years to release anything, and it would cost billions of dollars to do"
Just like Vista?
* Congratulations, I'd go the entire day without posting anything if it wasn't for this sentence.
"Take an example economy 100 people. Now lend all 100 people 100 dollar at 1% interest. Then they have to pay it back at the end. But they still will only have 100 times 100 dollar. So for 99 to pay the 101 dollar back, one of them has to go bankrupt."
Well, if your bank does not spend a penny, and get interest on every loan it makes, it will own the entire world's economy somewhen. Of course, the hard part is creating such a bank that doesn't spend any money.
By the way, no fiat money cited here. That works quite well with gold based money, or any other comodity.
"First, the Europeans and Japanese aren't paying taxes to the US"
"Europeans and Japanese can rid themselves of US hegemony any time they choose by building up their own militaries and taking care of their own defense. The US not only won't object..."
"Is it worth catching corporate criminals at the cost of civil privacy?"
That is a good question to ask. Another one is:
What is the bigest treat to freedom, the government inspecting people for corruption or allowing corruption to go unoticed (even inside the government)?
Well, that already happened to me, and quite a few people I know.
Of course, after it happened to me I learned to use a recycle bin on bash (google for libtrash if you want). After that I started making backups for good, and stopped messing with trash:) Anyway, it does happen, and a more friendly version of bash could assure you are making backups somewhere at instalation.
As a side note, does anybody know where is the switch to make KDE stop asking confirmation for removing files? That is what I make backups for, I don't want to say "I am sure" everytime I want to delete someting.
Well, you forgot that velocity = const / wing area. Now you could optimize, but don't bother, the result will just tell you to get a pair of infinitely sized wings flying at 0km/h.
That is a great app! I didn't know it, but I liked to have ps on a GUI. Now, is there a way to become superuser? (I'm probably using a very old version of it, the one that comes with Debian Lenny, so I understand that there may already be an quite evident way on newer versions.)
Also, it is quite well hiden. It should come with some.desktop shortcut (I don't know if it is done by the distros or by you).
Microsoft created Paladium a long time ago, that is why you started hearing about it. The public backslash was indeed stronger thant Vista's, falling over Intel, IBM and motherboard producers (besides, of course Microsoft, but backslash has no impact on Microsoft). That was way we don't have Paladium today.
Now, this article is about legislative action. Do you really think that hardware manufactorers will refrain from pushing DRM if the law mandates them and their competitors should implement it? Do you really thing that they will disobey the law to not persue something that they already agreeded is benefical to them?
By the way, nobody will break the hardware. People will break the fisrt few iterations, and will always have the capacity (in the mathematical sense, that it is possible) to do that. But they won't. It is quite hard to break a competently done flash based TCPA system, you'll need a lab with some quite non-usual (and expensive) equipment. A governemnt can easily close all of the labs within a country.
"If we rule out all the models, then it's back to the drawing board. We'd have a falsified theory..."
That is true only if the number of models is finite. That may not be the case if people keep adding dark mater (and dark energy, and whatever else they invent) to their estimative every time they observe something different.
I'm not saying that dark matter is bad science (not the GP here), just that it may be, and I've never heard about any serious atempt to decide the question. After decades, it's time to start quiestioning it (yes, you probably do question the existence of dark mater, but it is time to question if dark mater can be falsified too).
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I'd go with the option that works every time. But, anyway, why spend a 50k$ server on some trivial script when you can code on cheaper languages and get decent performance. I'm a bit anti-Java nowadays (don't even think about .Net), since the alternative languages developed enough to be usable.
If you want a multiplataform GUI, the only options are C++ (yep, I said it right) and the native FOSS languages, like Perl, TCL, Python. The only option for multiplataform GUI programing that won't put you into a dependence nightmare when instaling on Windows is C++.
Now, non-GUI (e.g. web) Java is pretty much multiplataform. Also applets run on any of the two most important plataforms out there, that is the most you'll get from any language but JavaScript.
That's a long and tortuous process. Anything can change, any time. Java probably won't escape it, but the winner may be some competitor that isn't even mentioned here.
Anyway, "Developers, developers, developers!" is the right mindset, MS thrived with it, and is losing mindshare on every aspect that forgot to take it into acount. It is funny too.
No, 1:4 is enough for a good argument. They need 1:1000 or lower to end the argument.
Well, that is a nice dimension, tough not very usefull anymore (as you have stated). A few of other candidades would be: "Executes by mime" (Windows) vs. "Executes by permission" (everybody else), "Filetype by name" (Windows) vs. "Filetype by contents" (everybody else), "Automatic execution of received programs" (Outlook) vs. "Manual execution of received programs" (everybody else), "scripts inside everything" (Windows, MS Office, Internet Explorer, Acrobat reader, software that tries to be compatible with MS Office) vs. "scripts inside executable files" (other OSs, other text editors, free PDF viewers) vs. "sandboxed" (Other browsers, other spreadsheets), "security dialogs every time" (Windows) vs. "security dialogs are always dangerous" (everybody else), and my favorite "doesn't tells the user what the hell is happening" (Windows) vs. "tells the user what the hell is happening" (everybody else). Note that the later one is the cause of voodoo computer usage.
Not that big a problem. You could always transmit to the control center, if the drones are unavailable. You'll get the same results.
Anyway, those things will be always subjected to DoS, being remote controled. The "terrorists" aren't probably very concerned.
Welcome to the internet, solving communication problems with OSS (and quite few security flaws) since the 60's
Not to put the US army on a good light, but Iraq 2 wasn't necessary.
Random access block ciphers are quite common place, readly availlable at free or closed solutions from $0 to any amount you are wiling to pay.
The size of a portable low range UAV or a Predator?
That thing is huge, it has enough energy to supply current mankind needs for a few hundred thousand years. How do you propose we deal with the energy? We can't simply let it out.
Now, the good news is that maybe, if we release just a (relatively) small amount of energy, we may increase the tikness of the crust enough to let it resist the pressure indefinitely, that means, untill some other problem arrives :) The bad news is that if we make enough holes there, we may reduce the crust resistence and make it blow. I have no idea on what is more likely, nor I know if anybody knows it.
Well, that was how Windows got there. Why not?
Oh, yes. Most people don't wat to solve anything at all.
Just like Vista?
* Congratulations, I'd go the entire day without posting anything if it wasn't for this sentence.
Well, if your bank does not spend a penny, and get interest on every loan it makes, it will own the entire world's economy somewhen. Of course, the hard part is creating such a bank that doesn't spend any money.
By the way, no fiat money cited here. That works quite well with gold based money, or any other comodity.
Yeah, that makes me think who is denying it.
That is a good question to ask. Another one is:
What is the bigest treat to freedom, the government inspecting people for corruption or allowing corruption to go unoticed (even inside the government)?
As of today, I have no answer to both of them.
It wont. There are way more effective ways if using the same amount of energy on a weapon.
Well, that already happened to me, and quite a few people I know.
Of course, after it happened to me I learned to use a recycle bin on bash (google for libtrash if you want). After that I started making backups for good, and stopped messing with trash :) Anyway, it does happen, and a more friendly version of bash could assure you are making backups somewhere at instalation.
As a side note, does anybody know where is the switch to make KDE stop asking confirmation for removing files? That is what I make backups for, I don't want to say "I am sure" everytime I want to delete someting.
That is one of those situations when you should give some money to a lawer.
Well, you forgot that velocity = const / wing area. Now you could optimize, but don't bother, the result will just tell you to get a pair of infinitely sized wings flying at 0km/h.
That is a great app! I didn't know it, but I liked to have ps on a GUI. Now, is there a way to become superuser? (I'm probably using a very old version of it, the one that comes with Debian Lenny, so I understand that there may already be an quite evident way on newer versions.)
Also, it is quite well hiden. It should come with some .desktop shortcut (I don't know if it is done by the distros or by you).
Well, you forgot vbscript ;)
Microsoft created Paladium a long time ago, that is why you started hearing about it. The public backslash was indeed stronger thant Vista's, falling over Intel, IBM and motherboard producers (besides, of course Microsoft, but backslash has no impact on Microsoft). That was way we don't have Paladium today.
Now, this article is about legislative action. Do you really think that hardware manufactorers will refrain from pushing DRM if the law mandates them and their competitors should implement it? Do you really thing that they will disobey the law to not persue something that they already agreeded is benefical to them?
By the way, nobody will break the hardware. People will break the fisrt few iterations, and will always have the capacity (in the mathematical sense, that it is possible) to do that. But they won't. It is quite hard to break a competently done flash based TCPA system, you'll need a lab with some quite non-usual (and expensive) equipment. A governemnt can easily close all of the labs within a country.
That is true only if the number of models is finite. That may not be the case if people keep adding dark mater (and dark energy, and whatever else they invent) to their estimative every time they observe something different.
I'm not saying that dark matter is bad science (not the GP here), just that it may be, and I've never heard about any serious atempt to decide the question. After decades, it's time to start quiestioning it (yes, you probably do question the existence of dark mater, but it is time to question if dark mater can be falsified too).