Remember that MS is being punished by monopoly abuse. When a single distro gets 90+% of the OS market, you can start asking that question. And, by then, the answer will be: Yes, that distro shoud get nailed and oblied to bundle extra software any time that is hurts someone.
But wait... You can bundle extra software with any distro you want! I forgot, I am comparing apples with oranges here...
That means that if they happen to have a patent, they can submarine it. They can wait till everybody start using their extensions and then "disover" a patent and get fees (but constant fees) from people.
I clicked that "read more" link to discover by the comments what the summary was about. But after I read yours, I'm losing my expectations that anybody else understanded it.
Did./ start accepting random articles, like some science journals?
The problem is not only administrator privileges. Windows have much more problems that leads to this situation. First, several programs execute code alone, without the user's knowledge. IE is biggest one to claim here, but it is not alone.
Then, you have to deal with the huge amount of dialog boxes that a Windows user face every day. It has come to a situation where users don't read them anymore, and - for your, Windows users, knowledge - it is not normall. If MS take usability any seriously, this woudn't happen.
Then you have all that vodoo stuff... Restart the computer to "fix" this problem; those configurations keys that are completely unrelated from the menu where they are; those bugs with weird side effects (due to spaguet code); and so on. If the user don't know what to expect from the computer, you can't expect that he'll know what is wrong.
And you have those serious security problems that are not not dependent on the user. Those everybody knows about, no further explanations nedded.
All those are Windows problems, you won't find such a number of them on any other plattaform. And all those contribute to malware dissemination.
After I read the article, and the pdf (the easiest one) that is there, I could see what you where talking about. But you've felt on the falacy to present the easy part as the hard one, and tell how to overcome that.
Yes, it is a pretti sound theory. It doesn't get arount the second law of termodinamics, as you said, and the article presents some examples of "similar" machines working. But they don't apply to what the author wants to make. Creatting one a few centimeters hight vortex is completely different from creating one thousands of kilometers hight. At the small one, you don't have to take into account the winds (comming from several directions) and the dissipation of the hot air. And you do need supercomputers to calculate those factors.
But I got one wrong, he described a quite simple device to create the tornado. It probably won't work by now, it may be too short and not flexible enogh to fine control the vortex. But it may be possible to extend the concept once we learn how to control it. That happening, we can make steps 2, 3 and 4 almost togheter.
Yet, 100,000 odds to 1 is quite a huge chance when applied to something like that:)
1 - Well, create the.xxx domain and people will search for porn there.
2 - Make people search for porn at the xxx TLD, and almost all sites will be there.
It will not block all sites, but I can't really understand why you people keep saying that it is useless. If everything else fails, it will make it easier to find porn.
But if this guy really deserves any credit, you are hugely superestimating your probabilities. Creating a tornado is an incredbly hard task, nobody seems to have even invented a way to do that already without spending a significative fraction of all the energy that mankind produce. But if he can understand the tornadoes well (note that everybody else think that we need much faster computers and better math to do that) he may be able to do that. It may be something that someone can create on his/her lifetime. So, a nonzero chance that he can make this step.
Then, he needs to control the tornado. That requires even faster computers and better math than just creating it, and the ability to create it. So he can't work on this second step without going into step 1 before. Almost impossible that someone can overcome those 2 steps. You can guess that there will be at least a generation between them.
Then comes step 3: Producing a machine capable of getting the energy out of the tornado. This research can't start before someone do steps 1 and 2. And it requires huge engineering advances. Well, when we have steps 1 and 2 done, somebody may be able to do that, but we'll almost certainly see a generation or more between that.
And, then comes step 4: Getting positive net energy out of the machine. Well, we need step 3 to be completed before that, but one can expect both to be made by the same generation.
As usual, an entire page letter that could be shortened to a sentence: "We own it and won't give away!". Why do politicians always speak so much?
And this can be shortened to a single setence because it is diplomatic speach. Internal politics are even worse, almost everything they say have exactly no content.
You know, it is kind of frustating (and I know I can't change this).
You forgot to mention that our ethanol has an energy eficiency (out/in) of almost 18. Yes, it is near 5 times what this biodiesel industry can get.
But we are still dependent of petrodiesel. It is a sad fact that we have just started to build biodiesel refineries, and still get most of it from soy beans.
Well, Eolas will not probably go against another browser. That is not news, they alread claimed to go against Microsoft because M$ stoled their idea, M$ listened to the presentation and refused to license the patent. Then, M$ implemented the same idea.
But this is not important. What you seem to be ignoring is that they are setling. The patent didn't went through the full process of being accepted on a court. If Eolas goes agaisnt someone else with this patent, they'll be on the same situation that if he never sued M$.
Not to say that the best outcome would be the patent not surviving, but it wasn't accepted either, what is not bad.
I was wondering why I never saw something like that here at Brazil (and how do you manage to be robbed like that). Well, here it is illegal to anounce a lower price than the selling one (even if you plan to make a rebate).
If a consumer comes to a shop that announced something by R$19.99 with the note "R$119.99 with a R$100 rebate" on small letters, he can pay only the R$19.99 for the item.
Brasilian consumer protection law was based on some european countries, so expect the same from there.
The "good enogh" state is when I can take a month travel and keep my home computer on. Windows users still don't have the confidence to keep their computers on while they go out.
Quantum criptography does not survive to man-in-the-middle attacks. And this is by construction.
There are some classical criptography algorithms that can not be broken by a big enogh quantum computer. If we are luck, they will still be usefull when we have those computers, but don't bet on quantum criptography.
Nobody never said that you should belive that the uneverse, or life or anything else has a complete explanation. What we want you to do is to try to explain it, what is a completelly different beast. And we also have some nice explanation to encorage you, and they work! But are not complete. If you go into any science, you'll find several people that are awsomed by the fact that we can explain something, what is not a trivial thing.
Science don't belive blindly on cause and effect. Stuff ceassed being so simple at the XX century if you don't know. Science tries to fit what we see on models, almost all those models are somehow aleatory now.
This is not so important for your argument, but, if you define t = 0 as the start of time, as you seem to do, we can't explain things since t = 0. We have no idea about what happened at t = 0. We don't even know for sure if there is any sense on talking about t = 0. As far as I know, we can explain what happened since somewhen near t = 1e-50s, and can see what happened since somewhen near t = 1e5s (near 1 day). So, everything between 1e-50s and 1e5s is all guesswork, and you shouldn't take it as a fact.
It seems that somebody has to take a look at metaphysics...
If they can't even understand what the expert is saying, how do you want them to use they "excelent" writting skills? Yes, some random guy with average writting talent and deep knowledge of the subject is better situated to report a fact that some journalis with "excelent" writting skills that can't recognize the fact, understand it or even know what this expert is talking about.
But I see what the GP means, not everybody understands that you should exchange the public keys, and how to check if the message was signed. We could tell them, but it will take a long time to convince anyone to use that.
Differently from Windows, a Linux desktop works as well during an hour as during an entire mounth. So, they won't have this problem.
I'd assume the oposite, people at home have a bad time configuring their desktops to fit the usage, and don't have nice games to play. Those problems go away when you have to use the computer to work and there is a support team.
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Remember that MS is being punished by monopoly abuse. When a single distro gets 90+% of the OS market, you can start asking that question. And, by then, the answer will be: Yes, that distro shoud get nailed and oblied to bundle extra software any time that is hurts someone.
But wait... You can bundle extra software with any distro you want! I forgot, I am comparing apples with oranges here...
There isn't a royality-free part on the patents, just reasonable and non-discrimatory.
That means that if they happen to have a patent, they can submarine it. They can wait till everybody start using their extensions and then "disover" a patent and get fees (but constant fees) from people.
I clicked that "read more" link to discover by the comments what the summary was about. But after I read yours, I'm losing my expectations that anybody else understanded it.
Did ./ start accepting random articles, like some science journals?
The problem is not only administrator privileges. Windows have much more problems that leads to this situation. First, several programs execute code alone, without the user's knowledge. IE is biggest one to claim here, but it is not alone.
Then, you have to deal with the huge amount of dialog boxes that a Windows user face every day. It has come to a situation where users don't read them anymore, and - for your, Windows users, knowledge - it is not normall. If MS take usability any seriously, this woudn't happen.
Then you have all that vodoo stuff... Restart the computer to "fix" this problem; those configurations keys that are completely unrelated from the menu where they are; those bugs with weird side effects (due to spaguet code); and so on. If the user don't know what to expect from the computer, you can't expect that he'll know what is wrong.
And you have those serious security problems that are not not dependent on the user. Those everybody knows about, no further explanations nedded.
All those are Windows problems, you won't find such a number of them on any other plattaform. And all those contribute to malware dissemination.
After I read the article, and the pdf (the easiest one) that is there, I could see what you where talking about. But you've felt on the falacy to present the easy part as the hard one, and tell how to overcome that.
Yes, it is a pretti sound theory. It doesn't get arount the second law of termodinamics, as you said, and the article presents some examples of "similar" machines working. But they don't apply to what the author wants to make. Creatting one a few centimeters hight vortex is completely different from creating one thousands of kilometers hight. At the small one, you don't have to take into account the winds (comming from several directions) and the dissipation of the hot air. And you do need supercomputers to calculate those factors.
But I got one wrong, he described a quite simple device to create the tornado. It probably won't work by now, it may be too short and not flexible enogh to fine control the vortex. But it may be possible to extend the concept once we learn how to control it. That happening, we can make steps 2, 3 and 4 almost togheter.
Yet, 100,000 odds to 1 is quite a huge chance when applied to something like that :)
A service based economy can not maintain itself. You need to produce a bit of everything (or something that you can trade) if you want to keep going.
1 - Well, create the .xxx domain and people will search for porn there.
2 - Make people search for porn at the xxx TLD, and almost all sites will be there.
It will not block all sites, but I can't really understand why you people keep saying that it is useless. If everything else fails, it will make it easier to find porn.
Ok, I didn't RTFA.
But if this guy really deserves any credit, you are hugely superestimating your probabilities. Creating a tornado is an incredbly hard task, nobody seems to have even invented a way to do that already without spending a significative fraction of all the energy that mankind produce. But if he can understand the tornadoes well (note that everybody else think that we need much faster computers and better math to do that) he may be able to do that. It may be something that someone can create on his/her lifetime. So, a nonzero chance that he can make this step.
Then, he needs to control the tornado. That requires even faster computers and better math than just creating it, and the ability to create it. So he can't work on this second step without going into step 1 before. Almost impossible that someone can overcome those 2 steps. You can guess that there will be at least a generation between them.
Then comes step 3: Producing a machine capable of getting the energy out of the tornado. This research can't start before someone do steps 1 and 2. And it requires huge engineering advances. Well, when we have steps 1 and 2 done, somebody may be able to do that, but we'll almost certainly see a generation or more between that.
And, then comes step 4: Getting positive net energy out of the machine. Well, we need step 3 to be completed before that, but one can expect both to be made by the same generation.
As usual, an entire page letter that could be shortened to a sentence: "We own it and won't give away!". Why do politicians always speak so much?
And this can be shortened to a single setence because it is diplomatic speach. Internal politics are even worse, almost everything they say have exactly no content.
You know, it is kind of frustating (and I know I can't change this).
EOR (End of Rant) :(
You forgot to mention that our ethanol has an energy eficiency (out/in) of almost 18. Yes, it is near 5 times what this biodiesel industry can get.
But we are still dependent of petrodiesel. It is a sad fact that we have just started to build biodiesel refineries, and still get most of it from soy beans.
Well, Eolas will not probably go against another browser. That is not news, they alread claimed to go against Microsoft because M$ stoled their idea, M$ listened to the presentation and refused to license the patent. Then, M$ implemented the same idea.
But this is not important. What you seem to be ignoring is that they are setling. The patent didn't went through the full process of being accepted on a court. If Eolas goes agaisnt someone else with this patent, they'll be on the same situation that if he never sued M$.
Not to say that the best outcome would be the patent not surviving, but it wasn't accepted either, what is not bad.
I was wondering why I never saw something like that here at Brazil (and how do you manage to be robbed like that). Well, here it is illegal to anounce a lower price than the selling one (even if you plan to make a rebate).
If a consumer comes to a shop that announced something by R$19.99 with the note "R$119.99 with a R$100 rebate" on small letters, he can pay only the R$19.99 for the item.
Brasilian consumer protection law was based on some european countries, so expect the same from there.
The "good enogh" state is when I can take a month travel and keep my home computer on. Windows users still don't have the confidence to keep their computers on while they go out.
And guess what, most spam comes from computers that the owners simply didn't do that!
Yes, I know, this completely blows up your litigation party, but, guess what, you can't go out there and convict people with no evidence...
Quantum criptography does not survive to man-in-the-middle attacks. And this is by construction.
There are some classical criptography algorithms that can not be broken by a big enogh quantum computer. If we are luck, they will still be usefull when we have those computers, but don't bet on quantum criptography.
Because people have already made 7.
Not true! Windows has this excelent mail reader that seems to just lack a calendar...
Just to clarify things a bit...
Nobody never said that you should belive that the uneverse, or life or anything else has a complete explanation. What we want you to do is to try to explain it, what is a completelly different beast. And we also have some nice explanation to encorage you, and they work! But are not complete. If you go into any science, you'll find several people that are awsomed by the fact that we can explain something, what is not a trivial thing.
Science don't belive blindly on cause and effect. Stuff ceassed being so simple at the XX century if you don't know. Science tries to fit what we see on models, almost all those models are somehow aleatory now.
This is not so important for your argument, but, if you define t = 0 as the start of time, as you seem to do, we can't explain things since t = 0. We have no idea about what happened at t = 0. We don't even know for sure if there is any sense on talking about t = 0. As far as I know, we can explain what happened since somewhen near t = 1e-50s, and can see what happened since somewhen near t = 1e5s (near 1 day). So, everything between 1e-50s and 1e5s is all guesswork, and you shouldn't take it as a fact.
It seems that somebody has to take a look at metaphysics...
It needs a reconnect option. Until it have one, I'll stay with Gaim (and criptography would be nice too).
If they can't even understand what the expert is saying, how do you want them to use they "excelent" writting skills? Yes, some random guy with average writting talent and deep knowledge of the subject is better situated to report a fact that some journalis with "excelent" writting skills that can't recognize the fact, understand it or even know what this expert is talking about.
Gaim has a bottuon: "Generate gpg keys"...
But I see what the GP means, not everybody understands that you should exchange the public keys, and how to check if the message was signed. We could tell them, but it will take a long time to convince anyone to use that.
Dont fear the lack of the dancing paper clip!
Differently from Windows, a Linux desktop works as well during an hour as during an entire mounth. So, they won't have this problem.
I'd assume the oposite, people at home have a bad time configuring their desktops to fit the usage, and don't have nice games to play. Those problems go away when you have to use the computer to work and there is a support team.
Funny. Why don't they use something like file?