Linux development is a nonstop ongoing process of evolving and improving technology, expanding capabilities and stability for the benefit of mankind.
Microsoft development is what the reporter says when they announce the latest windows worm that jumps through your software firewall uses your bandwidth to help host ebay or some such. Please note that the only time you EVER got rapid Microsoft response to this development was when the worm in question was using vulnerable windows systems to ATTACK MICROSOFT. They didn't care about you, they were covering their own asses.
Give me a break, we crushed the entire country of Iraq in one night. Granted the people there hate us for stepping and overthrowing their beloved leader, and for invading their formerly sovereign nation and now making it a US subject... err setting up a US controled... err estabilishing democracy, and occasionally chuck bombs at our troops on the street, but that doesn't really count as a continuation of the war.
Yes that would give it relevance. It could be considered evidence (continuing the analogy) that it was in fact technologically possible to light the fire. However it would STILL NOT be evidence that I started the fire.
The burden of proof after all is on the naysayers who claim the document is false. From what I've heard (and please refer to former post for disclaimer on that point), there isn't any evidence the document is false at all. There is potential motive, however motive is not evidence.
Motive is great, it works well in a courtroom and strong enough motive can cause lack of evidence to be overlooked. If you tried to claim I killed my wife and could show I stood to get millions that sounds like a great case, until the minor point that my wife isn't missing and there is no indication whatsoever that she has been killed comes to light.
The document (as with any accused party) would stand as legitimate until proven (with EVIDENCE) to be false. And in todays world the aproximate time of origin of a piece of paper can be usually be readily determined. The inability to debunk it stands as a strong statement those who are trying are wasting their time persuing the matter further.
I was mispoken, if AVERAGED the IQ SHOULD be 100 (although I'd be suprised if that holds up I haven't checked it). However the MAJORITY of individuals have an IQ of 80 or below.
Leap seconds have nothing to do with orbit, and everything to do with corrections due to the speed of the earth's rotation. Read the NIST article, the reporter who wrote the one posted on slashdot is clueless.
"I would have to agree with the DMA. In no other part of marketing is such a strict standard as confirmed opt-in required. It would be silly to require such for email."
In some yes, in others no, however there SHOULD BE.
"For instance, if you sign up to receive a magazine"
Yes they should have to take reasonable measures to confirm IT WAS ME who signed up for the magazine and that signup should be more than a checkbox and if in print should be in BIG BOLD PRINT in a contrasting color to the rest of the message, if on a web page it should be turned OFF by default, it I want it, I'll turn it on.
I fail to see the difference, the average human sadly is cattle. Though not bred to physical conformity, they are brainwashed to a conformist system of ethics, morals, ideals, thoughts, and dreams.
I believe that this is a large part of why the average iq is in double digits when the potential of every human mind is far greater. We are taught NOT to think outside the box, except where the double digit holder in charge wants us to, and by that point we are so used to thinking inside it it's found to be difficult.
No actually "evidence" THIS broad lends no weight whatsoever. I saw this wholeheartedly as someone who has never even heard of the particular manuscript in question.
Here is what I know, partly assuming what you've said is accurate. Nobody knows when the manuscript was produced, the only evidence that indicates it's existance at a particular point may be suspect (although this is the case with much of the dates we've fixed for events in history and even the basis for several things we believe happened to the degree we call and teach them as facts). Yet this discovery claims at the time the manuscript was produced it was possible to produce fake meaningless gibberish that appears to have meaning.
Am I the only one who finds a problem with that in itself? How can you claim something was possible at the creation date when you don't know the creation date?
Next, giving that magically the date looked into did happen to coincide with the creation date that nobody knows. How exactly does a process being theoretically possible at a date get considered as evidence that is what was done in a particular instance?
Example, my house catches fire. Firefighters are unable to determine the source. The insurance company denies my claim on the grounds that the technology existed to rub two sticks together to generate heat and produce fire.
I wouldn't even call that circumstantial evidence. That isn't EVIDENCE at all. Hell if there were two sticks in the lawn right under the tree, then it would become the most ridiculous circumstantial evidence that should obviously be tossed aside. But it would be the sticks that are the evidence there, not the fact that it's possible to create fire by rubbing two sticks together and the technology existed at the time. However there isn't even that much here.
When those books are first piled on the desk, the very first thing that happens is 3/4 of them are tossed in trash without ever getting past the cover page.
Why? Because there will be another 50 tomorrow and maybe 3 can be read by then. Out of the first 50 you've narrowed down to about 12, most of those will be tossed out without more than a chapter read. Maybe due to a slow start, or the formatting, or perhaps some other annoyance. When this stage is completed you'll be down to about 2-3. Those will be read and may or may not be liked and published.
In short, although yes, the selection of books on the shelf is trimmed down to those a small number of poeple liked enough to make them available to the masses, it's hardly a process which only has "a few that slip through". MOST of the good AND the bad slip through. What you get is a reduced selection of good and bad, getting published is hardly an indication of whether or not your book is good. It's really an indication of whether the RIGHT person likes it (in the sense that they believe it will yield profit).
Being published and having written a good book are niether mutually exclusive nor mutually inclusive and really enjoy little corelation to one another.
Aside from that important distinction, your advice is good. I would add just one thing, if your wise you shouldn't count on writing as your primary means of income. Pick a spouse who is not a writer and has a day job or have a day job yourself.
While your individual story is great, and I'm glad you haven't had a problem. We work on literally hundreds of these printers. With VERY few exceptions, the problem comes back again and again.
The free HP repair kit is a one time thing if you have the documentation to satisfy their requirements, it's available to first hand owners only for one thing. The printers typical need that same kit literally a dozen times over their lifetime.
umm just plug in hardware and it works? Are you on crack, damn near nothing "just works" on windows.
I mean honestly, I work nonstop of different windows configurations all day. Install two network cards, oops ip stack is corrupted, by the way neither just worked I had to install drivers and that is the best you can expect with new hardware on windows. netsh didn't work as usual DAMN, have to get out a utility I wrote myself that goes through and REALLY resets ip on NT based systems.
Then install two nics on linux, boot computer up, nics detected, system prompts if I want to configure those nics. I do, it just works. Nics are now ready to be configured and work perfectly.
You know, I've NEVER had an ip stack corrupt on a linux system? It happens literally daily with all versions of windows.
There was a time when I didn't work with so many systems that I thought this was a rare event, once in a great while you had a problem with IP that couldn't be resolved by reinstalling the nic and such. But not anymore, now I know that 1 in 5 nic installs on windows corrupt the ip stack! woohoo.
Well for one thing this site is news for nerds. Nerds are educated and therefore run englightened technically superior operating systems such as linux and BSD and all form of *nix.
Windows is out of place here and therefore upgrading windows to pretty much anything would be quite on topic with the theme of the site. Since although you may disagree on other points, surely you wouldn't claim that windows is on par with any of those systems in a technical aspect (security, stability, performance, hackability (as opposed to crackability)).
People who disagree with the theme and don't find it interesting should fly fly away and leave us geeks and nerds in peace.
I've seen this several times in comments so far, the idea that publishers are magical and if they don't accept a book it must suck.
Do you realize that Stephen King couldn't get published for YEARS? You'll find the same with Piers Anthony and a number of chronic bestseller authors.
There is nothing uncanny or special about publishers. They merely have a market lockin much like the music industry, the publishers after all, are NOT the readers.
P.S. Controversial books usually sell well simply because their controversial.
The 5l's or 6l's have a known issue with the pickup rollers wearing out CONSTANTLY. This is an issue on home printers which should last damn near forever on one toner and maintaince kit.
There are cheapy little pads you can buy that are supposed to "fix" this issue but they can cause more problems then they fix. The replacement rollers which are supposed to resolve the issue from HP doesn't work and still need replaced on very frequent basis.
A good laserjet 3 is probably a better choice, granted it's the size of a small tank and has a weight to match but they are rock solid. Or you could go the same route I did, I recently replaced my laserjet 3d with a laserjet 4100 and couldn't be happier with the results.
tossing linux in the middle of a windows shop may not always be the best idea. But a windows shop in general typically isn't the best idea either. For 90% of the functions out there ALL linux + basically anything but windows is a superior solution. In terms of cost, maintainence, stability, security, and performance. Gee, that's umm EVERY significant factor in determining what solution is the best for the job.
When tossing linux into a windows shop however you add one, compatibility, and that makes things a little tougher. A linux box in a windows shop will never be entirely happy, anymore than a windows box in a linux shop will be (although this is less true since linux is designed to interoperate with other systems, including windows).
Now the linux development has been impressive. When you consider that pretty much all microsoft technology has been reverse engineered and FORCED to communicate despite being designed not to, and faster than microsoft could implement something to replace it with code in hand that is scarey impressive. Not only reverse engineered but reimplemented and reimplemented better (in terms of scaling, performance and security). However for all that, your right, a windows workstation and a windows server will be happier than either with linux in the other role (assuming you want to use every capability, which few do).
The sound level is hardly an issue in determining if it's a quality system, the specs and manufactuers of the hardware is all that counts there.
Besides, an athlon with a 10,000 RPM fan on it is hardly noisy enough to be an issue. Simply fades into the background for me, just like any other fan in the room. It certainly makes less noise than a standup fan and I don't hear people complaining about those.
Let me rephrase. It's ALWAYS a good thing, for consumers.
By keeping their market locked apple may or may not be making the right decision for themselves. You can argue it all day long, it's actually a hyped up dice roll that could go three ways. 1. no big difference for apple but lower prices for consumers. 2. Incredibly increased sales to customers who are willing to adopt a standard and open platform, and reduced prices. 3. 3rd parties are able to develop hardware cheaper than Apple and apple goes bankrupt (this can only happen if someone develops a more efficient model for developing the hardware of course, and would be a result of bad management on apple's part, not opening the platform).
No matter which happens it's good for the consumer. Even with number 3 mac hardware gets cheaper and becomes available to a larger audience. The things which made the mac unique were hardly unique I'm sure we can all agree on that. Hell the Amiga was a far superior machine to anything apple put out there. Nowdays mac hardware is mostly a glorified PC with a weak 64bit RISC processor (weak compared with other 64bit risc processors but favorable to the X86).
The only thing other than processor special about a mac nowdays is the OS. If apple realized this and changed to software mode, and let the hardware open up, realizing they make about 100% (they have to marking them up at least that to reach the prices they sell for) on a hardware sale and 800%+ on a software sale then they would be in a much better position.
Nope the truth is they simply don't want to take the risk. But don't kid yourself in any manner, they do so ENTIRELY at the expense of their customers.
Let's put it this way, MILLIONS have already enlarged their penises and every one of them is now making their penis functional (since it stopped working along with the enlargment) again thanks to viagra.
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Linux development is a nonstop ongoing process of evolving and improving technology, expanding capabilities and stability for the benefit of mankind.
Microsoft development is what the reporter says when they announce the latest windows worm that jumps through your software firewall uses your bandwidth to help host ebay or some such. Please note that the only time you EVER got rapid Microsoft response to this development was when the worm in question was using vulnerable windows systems to ATTACK MICROSOFT. They didn't care about you, they were covering their own asses.
Give me a break, we crushed the entire country of Iraq in one night. Granted the people there hate us for stepping and overthrowing their beloved leader, and for invading their formerly sovereign nation and now making it a US subject... err setting up a US controled... err estabilishing democracy, and occasionally chuck bombs at our troops on the street, but that doesn't really count as a continuation of the war.
"Sure you can revert the theme and menus back to win2k."
That's funny, I'd say at least 4/5 of all the XP machines I work with have been reverted to the classic style.
Yes that would give it relevance. It could be considered evidence (continuing the analogy) that it was in fact technologically possible to light the fire. However it would STILL NOT be evidence that I started the fire.
The burden of proof after all is on the naysayers who claim the document is false. From what I've heard (and please refer to former post for disclaimer on that point), there isn't any evidence the document is false at all. There is potential motive, however motive is not evidence.
Motive is great, it works well in a courtroom and strong enough motive can cause lack of evidence to be overlooked. If you tried to claim I killed my wife and could show I stood to get millions that sounds like a great case, until the minor point that my wife isn't missing and there is no indication whatsoever that she has been killed comes to light.
The document (as with any accused party) would stand as legitimate until proven (with EVIDENCE) to be false. And in todays world the aproximate time of origin of a piece of paper can be usually be readily determined. The inability to debunk it stands as a strong statement those who are trying are wasting their time persuing the matter further.
I was mispoken, if AVERAGED the IQ SHOULD be 100 (although I'd be suprised if that holds up I haven't checked it). However the MAJORITY of individuals have an IQ of 80 or below.
Leap seconds have nothing to do with orbit, and everything to do with corrections due to the speed of the earth's rotation. Read the NIST article, the reporter who wrote the one posted on slashdot is clueless.
"I would have to agree with the DMA. In no other part of marketing is such a strict standard as confirmed opt-in required. It would be silly to require such for email."
In some yes, in others no, however there SHOULD BE.
"For instance, if you sign up to receive a magazine"
Yes they should have to take reasonable measures to confirm IT WAS ME who signed up for the magazine and that signup should be more than a checkbox and if in print should be in BIG BOLD PRINT in a contrasting color to the rest of the message, if on a web page it should be turned OFF by default, it I want it, I'll turn it on.
"What about flyers?"
Yup
"Personal contacts"
Ten x YUP
The microsoft shared source initiative IS NOT open source.
Refer to opensource.org
oh give me a break, everybody knows it's always you damn canadians behind it.
"Try RFIDing cattle.."
I fail to see the difference, the average human sadly is cattle. Though not bred to physical conformity, they are brainwashed to a conformist system of ethics, morals, ideals, thoughts, and dreams.
I believe that this is a large part of why the average iq is in double digits when the potential of every human mind is far greater. We are taught NOT to think outside the box, except where the double digit holder in charge wants us to, and by that point we are so used to thinking inside it it's found to be difficult.
"He has classic symptoms of numerous mental disorders"
;)
Without intention of implying Nostradamus was or was not one of them. The same can be said of pretty much EVERY truely great mind in human history.
Those who believe being "normal" which is equivelent to "average" is a GOOD thing aren't likely to ever join their ranks
No actually "evidence" THIS broad lends no weight whatsoever. I saw this wholeheartedly as someone who has never even heard of the particular manuscript in question.
Here is what I know, partly assuming what you've said is accurate. Nobody knows when the manuscript was produced, the only evidence that indicates it's existance at a particular point may be suspect (although this is the case with much of the dates we've fixed for events in history and even the basis for several things we believe happened to the degree we call and teach them as facts). Yet this discovery claims at the time the manuscript was produced it was possible to produce fake meaningless gibberish that appears to have meaning.
Am I the only one who finds a problem with that in itself? How can you claim something was possible at the creation date when you don't know the creation date?
Next, giving that magically the date looked into did happen to coincide with the creation date that nobody knows. How exactly does a process being theoretically possible at a date get considered as evidence that is what was done in a particular instance?
Example, my house catches fire. Firefighters are unable to determine the source. The insurance company denies my claim on the grounds that the technology existed to rub two sticks together to generate heat and produce fire.
I wouldn't even call that circumstantial evidence. That isn't EVIDENCE at all. Hell if there were two sticks in the lawn right under the tree, then it would become the most ridiculous circumstantial evidence that should obviously be tossed aside. But it would be the sticks that are the evidence there, not the fact that it's possible to create fire by rubbing two sticks together and the technology existed at the time. However there isn't even that much here.
When those books are first piled on the desk, the very first thing that happens is 3/4 of them are tossed in trash without ever getting past the cover page.
Why? Because there will be another 50 tomorrow and maybe 3 can be read by then. Out of the first 50 you've narrowed down to about 12, most of those will be tossed out without more than a chapter read. Maybe due to a slow start, or the formatting, or perhaps some other annoyance. When this stage is completed you'll be down to about 2-3. Those will be read and may or may not be liked and published.
In short, although yes, the selection of books on the shelf is trimmed down to those a small number of poeple liked enough to make them available to the masses, it's hardly a process which only has "a few that slip through". MOST of the good AND the bad slip through. What you get is a reduced selection of good and bad, getting published is hardly an indication of whether or not your book is good. It's really an indication of whether the RIGHT person likes it (in the sense that they believe it will yield profit).
Being published and having written a good book are niether mutually exclusive nor mutually inclusive and really enjoy little corelation to one another.
Aside from that important distinction, your advice is good. I would add just one thing, if your wise you shouldn't count on writing as your primary means of income. Pick a spouse who is not a writer and has a day job or have a day job yourself.
I'll beat ya, far fewer characters.
/usr/bin/mozilla
#!/usr/bin/perl
`/usr/bin/mozilla`;
or
#!/bin/bash
See, Python obviously sucks.
While your individual story is great, and I'm glad you haven't had a problem. We work on literally hundreds of these printers. With VERY few exceptions, the problem comes back again and again.
The free HP repair kit is a one time thing if you have the documentation to satisfy their requirements, it's available to first hand owners only for one thing. The printers typical need that same kit literally a dozen times over their lifetime.
umm just plug in hardware and it works? Are you on crack, damn near nothing "just works" on windows.
I mean honestly, I work nonstop of different windows configurations all day. Install two network cards, oops ip stack is corrupted, by the way neither just worked I had to install drivers and that is the best you can expect with new hardware on windows. netsh didn't work as usual DAMN, have to get out a utility I wrote myself that goes through and REALLY resets ip on NT based systems.
Then install two nics on linux, boot computer up, nics detected, system prompts if I want to configure those nics. I do, it just works. Nics are now ready to be configured and work perfectly.
You know, I've NEVER had an ip stack corrupt on a linux system? It happens literally daily with all versions of windows.
There was a time when I didn't work with so many systems that I thought this was a rare event, once in a great while you had a problem with IP that couldn't be resolved by reinstalling the nic and such. But not anymore, now I know that 1 in 5 nic installs on windows corrupt the ip stack! woohoo.
Well for one thing this site is news for nerds. Nerds are educated and therefore run englightened technically superior operating systems such as linux and BSD and all form of *nix.
Windows is out of place here and therefore upgrading windows to pretty much anything would be quite on topic with the theme of the site. Since although you may disagree on other points, surely you wouldn't claim that windows is on par with any of those systems in a technical aspect (security, stability, performance, hackability (as opposed to crackability)).
People who disagree with the theme and don't find it interesting should fly fly away and leave us geeks and nerds in peace.
I've seen this several times in comments so far, the idea that publishers are magical and if they don't accept a book it must suck.
Do you realize that Stephen King couldn't get published for YEARS? You'll find the same with Piers Anthony and a number of chronic bestseller authors.
There is nothing uncanny or special about publishers. They merely have a market lockin much like the music industry, the publishers after all, are NOT the readers.
P.S. Controversial books usually sell well simply because their controversial.
yeah they were too good, on some of the old hp printers the postscript was actually significantly faster than the native pcl of the printer!
The 5l's or 6l's have a known issue with the pickup rollers wearing out CONSTANTLY. This is an issue on home printers which should last damn near forever on one toner and maintaince kit.
There are cheapy little pads you can buy that are supposed to "fix" this issue but they can cause more problems then they fix. The replacement rollers which are supposed to resolve the issue from HP doesn't work and still need replaced on very frequent basis.
A good laserjet 3 is probably a better choice, granted it's the size of a small tank and has a weight to match but they are rock solid. Or you could go the same route I did, I recently replaced my laserjet 3d with a laserjet 4100 and couldn't be happier with the results.
tossing linux in the middle of a windows shop may not always be the best idea. But a windows shop in general typically isn't the best idea either. For 90% of the functions out there ALL linux + basically anything but windows is a superior solution. In terms of cost, maintainence, stability, security, and performance. Gee, that's umm EVERY significant factor in determining what solution is the best for the job.
When tossing linux into a windows shop however you add one, compatibility, and that makes things a little tougher. A linux box in a windows shop will never be entirely happy, anymore than a windows box in a linux shop will be (although this is less true since linux is designed to interoperate with other systems, including windows).
Now the linux development has been impressive. When you consider that pretty much all microsoft technology has been reverse engineered and FORCED to communicate despite being designed not to, and faster than microsoft could implement something to replace it with code in hand that is scarey impressive. Not only reverse engineered but reimplemented and reimplemented better (in terms of scaling, performance and security). However for all that, your right, a windows workstation and a windows server will be happier than either with linux in the other role (assuming you want to use every capability, which few do).
The sound level is hardly an issue in determining if it's a quality system, the specs and manufactuers of the hardware is all that counts there.
Besides, an athlon with a 10,000 RPM fan on it is hardly noisy enough to be an issue. Simply fades into the background for me, just like any other fan in the room. It certainly makes less noise than a standup fan and I don't hear people complaining about those.
Let me rephrase. It's ALWAYS a good thing, for consumers.
By keeping their market locked apple may or may not be making the right decision for themselves. You can argue it all day long, it's actually a hyped up dice roll that could go three ways. 1. no big difference for apple but lower prices for consumers. 2. Incredibly increased sales to customers who are willing to adopt a standard and open platform, and reduced prices. 3. 3rd parties are able to develop hardware cheaper than Apple and apple goes bankrupt (this can only happen if someone develops a more efficient model for developing the hardware of course, and would be a result of bad management on apple's part, not opening the platform).
No matter which happens it's good for the consumer. Even with number 3 mac hardware gets cheaper and becomes available to a larger audience. The things which made the mac unique were hardly unique I'm sure we can all agree on that. Hell the Amiga was a far superior machine to anything apple put out there. Nowdays mac hardware is mostly a glorified PC with a weak 64bit RISC processor (weak compared with other 64bit risc processors but favorable to the X86).
The only thing other than processor special about a mac nowdays is the OS. If apple realized this and changed to software mode, and let the hardware open up, realizing they make about 100% (they have to marking them up at least that to reach the prices they sell for) on a hardware sale and 800%+ on a software sale then they would be in a much better position.
Nope the truth is they simply don't want to take the risk. But don't kid yourself in any manner, they do so ENTIRELY at the expense of their customers.
"But really, try OS X"
As I said in my post, they could have improved them since then.
Let's put it this way, MILLIONS have already enlarged their penises and every one of them is now making their penis functional (since it stopped working along with the enlargment) again thanks to viagra.