TV can be very beneficial, there are some great programs, and I'm not talking about soap operas or reality shows, I'm talking about educational programs, right in your home. I personally think it's great. But I agree with you, your average TV watcher is basically a zombie-consumer.
Both anonymous coward and dreamer.redeemer missed my point, maybe I didn't explain it properly. I want to continue watching live TV, without changing the channel and skip the commercial.
.. have to go ahead and disagree with you on this one.
- Did Redhat / IBM / Oracle / etc.. write the Linux kernel? No.
- Did Redhat / IBM / Oracle / etc.. write the source code for 'cp, rm, mv, iostat, vmstat, bash, ksh, csh, etc..' ? No.
- Did Redhat / IBM / Oracle / etc.. write gcc? No.
This article should have said, "Who writes Linux applications and packages them along with the Linux OS".
.. the real problem is that can you trust the network where that remote administrator is located. Do they have a clean network? Trojans? Sniffers? Etc..
You should really audit their network before giving them permission on yours.
How could you possibly put a price ($4 million) before doing a systems analysis? Do you know what hardware is required? Communication links? Location? Security? Data Security? Software? What about employees? Security clearances? Background checks? I could go on many pages on the subject and easily rack up an $18 million bill.
If I had a project and someone came up to me and offered an 80% price cut right off the bat, I would brush them aside.
And to think you got a Score of 5!
1) Will not work? I don't think you, me or anyone else have a say in this, if they decide to implement it, it will work. People need email, they will spend a penny on each; I know I would. Unless you're using your Yahoo email for business, at that point, you have other things to worry about besides costs, the average persons, sends 10 emails per day.
2) You obviously don't work at an ISP to really understand blacklists, spam and what effect they have on your ISP's ability to send email to other ISPs.
... LMMS, it's a great music production software, sequencer, supports MIDI, and had many bells and whistles. My son produced much of his music using that software.
"the data corruption problem occurs only if a user sets up a BIOS password on the 34-nanometer SSD, then disables or changes the password and reboots the computer". A password protected SSD?
Can someone please explain? I must be new to computers...
Side note: I don't think people hate cops, I think they love to hate them unfortunately, but I truly think they realize that without cops, we would be living in anarchy.
Actually it is difficult to find a police officer who know what DNS is. We're not talking about computer literacy here, of course most cops are computer literate. We are talking something that is not mainstream, where most of the population doesn't know what a domain or DNS is.
I'm sorry, but how did you calculate that 0.3 = 3 out of ten?
0.3 is out of a hundred, that would be 0.03 out of ten.
The article says 70% caught and marked as spam, out of those 70%, 0.3% were false positives.
... very common amongst programmers, especially excellent programmers. I can see both points of view, one (Linus) who wants to get this done as quickly as possible, machine-like, because he believes that the fix is quick and simple, the other (Alan) wants to dissect the problem, diagnose, understands it, and fix it.
It's unfortunate that Alan made that decision, but I think Linus's last email was pushing him towards making it, he was clearly mad; that being said I have one thing to say, from a programmer's perspective: You cannot force a system programmer to think a certain way, do things the way you want them to do, not Alan Cox anyways. Linus's behavior is reminiscent of corporations who employ programmers to write functions (or sub-routines as some call them), all day long, "just do it, don't argue if it is right or wrong".
.. for one, popups are annoying, certificate security warnings included, and two, too much chatter, buttons to push, agree not agree, I just want to get to my link.
The concept is good, the warning is important but the implementation is bad.
Solution? Here's one, when surfing a site with a 'bad' certificate:
1) 'Lock' the OS
2) Run various tests on the website (phishing, etc..)
3) OS to change the browser skin with one that shows WARNING - SURFING SUSPICIOUS SITE, display this in large characters all around the browser window.
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... Install Vista on it.
TV can be very beneficial, there are some great programs, and I'm not talking about soap operas or reality shows, I'm talking about educational programs, right in your home. I personally think it's great. But I agree with you, your average TV watcher is basically a zombie-consumer.
Both anonymous coward and dreamer.redeemer missed my point, maybe I didn't explain it properly. I want to continue watching live TV, without changing the channel and skip the commercial.
.. is that I can turn the page. Can't do that with video ads on 'live' TV.
.. have to go ahead and disagree with you on this one. - Did Redhat / IBM / Oracle / etc.. write the Linux kernel? No. - Did Redhat / IBM / Oracle / etc.. write the source code for 'cp, rm, mv, iostat, vmstat, bash, ksh, csh, etc..' ? No. - Did Redhat / IBM / Oracle / etc.. write gcc? No. This article should have said, "Who writes Linux applications and packages them along with the Linux OS".
Hahahahaha, good one!
No shit Sherlock? Really? It was a cynical remark.
.. the real problem is that can you trust the network where that remote administrator is located. Do they have a clean network? Trojans? Sniffers? Etc.. You should really audit their network before giving them permission on yours.
How could you possibly put a price ($4 million) before doing a systems analysis? Do you know what hardware is required? Communication links? Location? Security? Data Security? Software? What about employees? Security clearances? Background checks? I could go on many pages on the subject and easily rack up an $18 million bill. If I had a project and someone came up to me and offered an 80% price cut right off the bat, I would brush them aside. And to think you got a Score of 5!
.. see what's being blacked out!
1) Will not work? I don't think you, me or anyone else have a say in this, if they decide to implement it, it will work. People need email, they will spend a penny on each; I know I would. Unless you're using your Yahoo email for business, at that point, you have other things to worry about besides costs, the average persons, sends 10 emails per day. 2) You obviously don't work at an ISP to really understand blacklists, spam and what effect they have on your ISP's ability to send email to other ISPs.
.. tell if I get a hard-on watching Jessica Biel?
I don't think the goal here is to provide 'clean' energy, the goal is to make a fuel efficient vehicle and reduce cost or fuel.
... LMMS, it's a great music production software, sequencer, supports MIDI, and had many bells and whistles. My son produced much of his music using that software.
Whether or not they are a monopoly, is irrelevant. The fate is inevitable, Windows will slowly be replaced by Linux and some sort of Google product.
Somehow the words Word and Frontpage always refer to Microsoft.
PDFs are mostly used to present digital documents that would be edited. I think both have very different uses.
"the data corruption problem occurs only if a user sets up a BIOS password on the 34-nanometer SSD, then disables or changes the password and reboots the computer". A password protected SSD? Can someone please explain? I must be new to computers...
Side note: I don't think people hate cops, I think they love to hate them unfortunately, but I truly think they realize that without cops, we would be living in anarchy.
Actually it is difficult to find a police officer who know what DNS is. We're not talking about computer literacy here, of course most cops are computer literate. We are talking something that is not mainstream, where most of the population doesn't know what a domain or DNS is.
... this isn't a Reiser-style case...
I'm sorry, but how did you calculate that 0.3 = 3 out of ten? 0.3 is out of a hundred, that would be 0.03 out of ten. The article says 70% caught and marked as spam, out of those 70%, 0.3% were false positives.
... very common amongst programmers, especially excellent programmers. I can see both points of view, one (Linus) who wants to get this done as quickly as possible, machine-like, because he believes that the fix is quick and simple, the other (Alan) wants to dissect the problem, diagnose, understands it, and fix it. It's unfortunate that Alan made that decision, but I think Linus's last email was pushing him towards making it, he was clearly mad; that being said I have one thing to say, from a programmer's perspective: You cannot force a system programmer to think a certain way, do things the way you want them to do, not Alan Cox anyways. Linus's behavior is reminiscent of corporations who employ programmers to write functions (or sub-routines as some call them), all day long, "just do it, don't argue if it is right or wrong".
.. for one, popups are annoying, certificate security warnings included, and two, too much chatter, buttons to push, agree not agree, I just want to get to my link. The concept is good, the warning is important but the implementation is bad. Solution? Here's one, when surfing a site with a 'bad' certificate: 1) 'Lock' the OS 2) Run various tests on the website (phishing, etc..) 3) OS to change the browser skin with one that shows WARNING - SURFING SUSPICIOUS SITE, display this in large characters all around the browser window.
... is making women smile and appear more beautiful, this is being "recorded" in their DNA, and therefor their children are becoming more beautiful.