There is no separate auto-updater for Safari, either. The standard for OS integrated browsers is to do it this way, because it has so much of an impact on the rest of the system.
I also think that if the user is bright enough to get to the point where they are looking at the list of updates, they should be smart enough to comprehend that "IE security Patch" applies to internet explorer. But yes, most people aren't smart enough to get to that point, but as others have said they shouldn't get that far for their own good, if they can't get there. Which is really the perfect balance of being easy and secure for people who are don't know much, and flexible for people who do.
Ah, but it is. Religion asks (well, generally tells) people to act in this world on the basis of speculation about that other, hypothetical world.
No, it says this world is the hypothetical world. Which is pretty much what you said int he next part.
Further still, most religions involve some sort of imaginary friends who they claim tell us things about this hypothetical world. Not only do they insist that the things their imaginary friend tells them are true beyond question, but they insist that there imaginary friend is real (sometimes even insisting that he is in some sense more real than we are) and must be treated with enormous respect or he'll smite us.
No, the changeability of beliefs is not universal to Religions. Most are relatively static in their belief set. Furthermore, they don't universally teach that there will be consequences in this world for not following its tenets. Smiting, again, is not a universal tenant of all religions.
If you are being critical of Religions that are every changing on the whim of a small group of individuals that advocate violence, great you'll find many people that agree with you. Many of whom belong to Religions that can not be described as such. But you can't universally attribute a belief in God with a propensity to commit atrocities. It just doesn't hold water.
Choose a better analogy. There are a pile of buttons on a table. Some of them are red. Some of them are blue. all of the blue ones are round. All of the red ones are round. Can we say that being red causes a button to be round? Or that being red is related to their roundness?
That is a much different scenario than if all of the red buttons are round, but the blue ones are octagons.
The face that there are blue round ones in addition to red blue ones cast doubt on any hypothesis that would link the redness and the roundness attributes together.
If it helps your brain think about it, consider the implications of a universe with different values for the fundamental constants. Its not a true universe, as in, we don't think it exists, but physics and chemistry would be completely different. Pointing out that we don't know the universe exists, doesn't have to stop us from logically determining how physics and chemistry would work in such a system. Religion is no different.
I thought your whole point was that the belief in an "imaginary friend" caused the violence. I think there is enough evidence of cases where belief in an "imaginary friend" was not even involved, to call that conclusion into question.
To take your sports analogy ( which makes no sense to me as an US citizen, where sports violence is limited to drunken fans running on the field, or a few cars turned over after a championship), There are also authority figures in various religions that can denounce violence sort of like the star players or coaches. In either situation, the problem comes in the rational ( yes that is correct, there is rationality, logic, and thinking in most major religions) voices are ignored.
I believe Stalin (as well as Pol Pot, and those responsible for Rwanda's genocide) adequately demonstrated that atrocities need no basis in religion. You can just as easily come up with a flawed ideology that is not based on a belief in the supernatural and use that for genocide.
Yeah, I'm seriously considering creating a mashup website that just interfaces with slashdot, and then cleans up the interface. Idle will not exist at all. Attempting to manipulate the url to goto idle, will result in the user's death, or possibly a just redirect them to digg, which ever is not considered a felony in more places.
nah it needs to be a fortified wine: Mad dog 20/20, Thunderbolt,night train or Ripple. My favorite name would be Thunderbolt , but you can't top the drink ability of mad dog. And I like the cultural tie-ins of Ripple (Sanford and son).
I've never had problems with those types of docs. In fact, there have been quite a few password locked docs that just didn't ask for a password and opened just fine.
In fact I've only had problems with documents with built in forms. Those don't quite work right, but otherwise no problems.
But McCains mistakes were not contained in secret reports, or conversations with advisors, they were big broad mistakes that everyone, including the legally blind, could read. Not everything the winner does contributed to the win, and not everything the loser did contributed to the loss, to assume otherwise is folly.
Notice how there are now, two comments on this day old post. Your grandmother could have posted this on a blog and gotten more responses. Idle sucks. Make it leave.
Or better yet, make it into something awesome. Like a mad scientist section. "new dooms day devices guaranteed not to actually work but sound plausible enough for heroes to freak out about. " Stupid things for Nerds to obsess over. host some code obfuscation contests. Or the worst waste of a computational cluster. Something that would be both Nertacularlly nerdy and ultimately pointless.
The same kind that awarded me first place for my emoticon pumpkin. They seriously had never seen an emoticon before. I was... speechless. And I had to in good conscious kick my own ass, for using an emoticon.
depends on your definition of crash. Having a slower HD will cause disk IO to stack under heavy load. What is the real difference between a server that has crashed, and one that doesn't respond? Fragmented disks will have the possibility of a similar effect. The linked article measures the difference between a disk that is 7.5% fragmented and after its been defragged. 7.5% isn't much. It really depends upon which files have been fragmented. If they are rarely accessed data files, then obviously there isn't going to be much of a performance difference. If they are frequently accessed, then the difference would be huge. I've seen desktops that topped out at 30% fragmentation. The performance after dragging is night and day. Its much more important for me to have consistent performance ( due to automatic reallocation of files when they would be fragmented) than a gradual slowdown that requires downtime for defragmentation.
Note, haven't run windows in production servers for the past ten years. But I don't think NTFS has changed that much since then.
And despite those warnings, I never did manage to explode a monitor or cause it to cease functioning ( short of dropping it off a three story building). I did manage to set Lp0 on fire though ( with the help of some accelerants).
Thats nothing. My parents could get it installed on a fully patched system *with symantec* installed on it with basic User privleges.
They are that good. I don't know how, I'm not there when it happened, but I know what their system was before I left, and after they said they were having problems emailing. And this is why I don't trust Symantec. F Secure seems to be the only parent proof anti virus I've found. Your millage may vary depending on the gullibility of your users.
If it takes more brain power to use divs, than tables, than css is a step backwards. What you meant to say is that the web developer who uses tables for layout hasn't taken the time to learn an easier, more flexible method.
No, Serge was far too unambitious to study steve balmer for years learning his mannerisms and the software industry in general and then kill the original Steve and take his place.
If that were true, then the Feds wouldn't hassle growers and users of marijuana in states where it was legalised, nor search cargo comming into the country for drugs.
He lived across the hall in college. At least I think it might very well be him. He had an old "surge" tshirt form the beverage and taped an "e" over the u. He would rant about crazy things, but not to this degree. He'd also go to a lot of raves and dance like a monkey.
I think he may have finally lost his mind, or this is a really funny joke to him. He did have a bizarre sense of humor.
Ok. What Linux? Linux is the kernel, not a complete operating system. Compare it to a specific Distribution of the Gnu/Linux OS geared towards the enterprise (Redhat, SUSE, ect..) and you will discover how wrong you are. In fact, this article is one such distribution and the management tools for it. As other posters have said, you are probably correct about the perceptions of many managers, but that doesn't mean its true. Its like you are comparing the nutritional value of canvadish ( the only variety available in most grocery stores) bananas to generic apple seeds.
Here's the thing though: Every version of windows has promised better virtual memory management, faster application load times, and better performance. To a casual observer, they seem to be doing the exact opposite.
They could improve customer satisfaction by having more options available. Even if the other algorithms wouldn't be best for most usage scenarios, simply having options would satisfy many people. Most people wouldn't' change from the default, but those that complained about the default could see how bad it would be if it were not as good. Maybe some people complaining about it would realize that its for the best, maybe others would actually find one that was optimal for their usage.
I did read about it. Read the faq on the website, the article slashdot linked to and a few others, with out seeing any privacy info. The only place I can find information about its privacy blocking features is in the stupid video on telnic's website. Do you have any more information on how privacy is supposed to work, or a link to such information?
Furthermore, it removes some of its use case to have privacy configuration on a universally accessible directory. It sort of depends if its locked to devices or by a paraphrase. If its a pass phrase my friends have to have that( along with the paraphrases of all of their other.tel buddies) with them at all times and can't leak it ever. If its by device it removes some of the utility of having it accessible by a variety of devices. I have to reauthorize his cellphone every time he gets a new one ( with some people that's a frequent occurrence). Faced with those challenges most people won't end up opting to use the security, which will set this up as stalkers, spammers, and information thieves wildest dream come true.
Exactly. There is no privacy options. Its one central phone book where people can put all of their contact info. But there is no filter. Might be good for companies, but not individuals who value their privacy and identity.
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There is no separate auto-updater for Safari, either. The standard for OS integrated browsers is to do it this way, because it has so much of an impact on the rest of the system.
I also think that if the user is bright enough to get to the point where they are looking at the list of updates, they should be smart enough to comprehend that "IE security Patch" applies to internet explorer. But yes, most people aren't smart enough to get to that point, but as others have said they shouldn't get that far for their own good, if they can't get there. Which is really the perfect balance of being easy and secure for people who are don't know much, and flexible for people who do.
No, it says this world is the hypothetical world. Which is pretty much what you said int he next part.
No, the changeability of beliefs is not universal to Religions. Most are relatively static in their belief set. Furthermore, they don't universally teach that there will be consequences in this world for not following its tenets. Smiting, again, is not a universal tenant of all religions.
If you are being critical of Religions that are every changing on the whim of a small group of individuals that advocate violence, great you'll find many people that agree with you. Many of whom belong to Religions that can not be described as such. But you can't universally attribute a belief in God with a propensity to commit atrocities. It just doesn't hold water.
Choose a better analogy. There are a pile of buttons on a table. Some of them are red. Some of them are blue. all of the blue ones are round. All of the red ones are round. Can we say that being red causes a button to be round? Or that being red is related to their roundness?
That is a much different scenario than if all of the red buttons are round, but the blue ones are octagons.
The face that there are blue round ones in addition to red blue ones cast doubt on any hypothesis that would link the redness and the roundness attributes together.
If it helps your brain think about it, consider the implications of a universe with different values for the fundamental constants. Its not a true universe, as in, we don't think it exists, but physics and chemistry would be completely different. Pointing out that we don't know the universe exists, doesn't have to stop us from logically determining how physics and chemistry would work in such a system. Religion is no different.
I thought your whole point was that the belief in an "imaginary friend" caused the violence. I think there is enough evidence of cases where belief in an "imaginary friend" was not even involved, to call that conclusion into question.
To take your sports analogy ( which makes no sense to me as an US citizen, where sports violence is limited to drunken fans running on the field, or a few cars turned over after a championship), There are also authority figures in various religions that can denounce violence sort of like the star players or coaches. In either situation, the problem comes in the rational ( yes that is correct, there is rationality, logic, and thinking in most major religions) voices are ignored.
And if the rumors of Microsoft eventually buying a majority stake in them, that's exactly what they'll have.
It would be hotmail all over again, but even stupider.
I believe Stalin (as well as Pol Pot, and those responsible for Rwanda's genocide) adequately demonstrated that atrocities need no basis in religion. You can just as easily come up with a flawed ideology that is not based on a belief in the supernatural and use that for genocide.
Yeah, I'm seriously considering creating a mashup website that just interfaces with slashdot, and then cleans up the interface. Idle will not exist at all. Attempting to manipulate the url to goto idle, will result in the user's death, or possibly a just redirect them to digg, which ever is not considered a felony in more places.
Obviously, you've read the bottle before drinking one.
nah it needs to be a fortified wine: Mad dog 20/20, Thunderbolt,night train or Ripple. My favorite name would be Thunderbolt , but you can't top the drink ability of mad dog. And I like the cultural tie-ins of Ripple (Sanford and son).
I've never had problems with those types of docs. In fact, there have been quite a few password locked docs that just didn't ask for a password and opened just fine.
In fact I've only had problems with documents with built in forms. Those don't quite work right, but otherwise no problems.
But McCains mistakes were not contained in secret reports, or conversations with advisors, they were big broad mistakes that everyone, including the legally blind, could read. Not everything the winner does contributed to the win, and not everything the loser did contributed to the loss, to assume otherwise is folly.
Notice how there are now, two comments on this day old post. Your grandmother could have posted this on a blog and gotten more responses. Idle sucks. Make it leave. Or better yet, make it into something awesome. Like a mad scientist section. "new dooms day devices guaranteed not to actually work but sound plausible enough for heroes to freak out about. " Stupid things for Nerds to obsess over. host some code obfuscation contests. Or the worst waste of a computational cluster. Something that would be both Nertacularlly nerdy and ultimately pointless.
The same kind that awarded me first place for my emoticon pumpkin. They seriously had never seen an emoticon before. I was ... speechless. And I had to in good conscious kick my own ass, for using an emoticon.
depends on your definition of crash. Having a slower HD will cause disk IO to stack under heavy load. What is the real difference between a server that has crashed, and one that doesn't respond? Fragmented disks will have the possibility of a similar effect. The linked article measures the difference between a disk that is 7.5% fragmented and after its been defragged. 7.5% isn't much. It really depends upon which files have been fragmented. If they are rarely accessed data files, then obviously there isn't going to be much of a performance difference. If they are frequently accessed, then the difference would be huge. I've seen desktops that topped out at 30% fragmentation. The performance after dragging is night and day. Its much more important for me to have consistent performance ( due to automatic reallocation of files when they would be fragmented) than a gradual slowdown that requires downtime for defragmentation.
Note, haven't run windows in production servers for the past ten years. But I don't think NTFS has changed that much since then.
And despite those warnings, I never did manage to explode a monitor or cause it to cease functioning ( short of dropping it off a three story building). I did manage to set Lp0 on fire though ( with the help of some accelerants).
Thats nothing. My parents could get it installed on a fully patched system *with symantec* installed on it with basic User privleges.
They are that good. I don't know how, I'm not there when it happened, but I know what their system was before I left, and after they said they were having problems emailing. And this is why I don't trust Symantec. F Secure seems to be the only parent proof anti virus I've found. Your millage may vary depending on the gullibility of your users.
If it takes more brain power to use divs, than tables, than css is a step backwards. What you meant to say is that the web developer who uses tables for layout hasn't taken the time to learn an easier, more flexible method.
No, Serge was far too unambitious to study steve balmer for years learning his mannerisms and the software industry in general and then kill the original Steve and take his place.
If that were true, then the Feds wouldn't hassle growers and users of marijuana in states where it was legalised, nor search cargo comming into the country for drugs.
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Holy Crap, I know serge!
He lived across the hall in college. At least I think it might very well be him. He had an old "surge" tshirt form the beverage and taped an "e" over the u. He would rant about crazy things, but not to this degree. He'd also go to a lot of raves and dance like a monkey.
I think he may have finally lost his mind, or this is a really funny joke to him. He did have a bizarre sense of humor.
Ok. What Linux? Linux is the kernel, not a complete operating system. Compare it to a specific Distribution of the Gnu/Linux OS geared towards the enterprise (Redhat, SUSE, ect..) and you will discover how wrong you are. In fact, this article is one such distribution and the management tools for it. As other posters have said, you are probably correct about the perceptions of many managers, but that doesn't mean its true. Its like you are comparing the nutritional value of canvadish ( the only variety available in most grocery stores) bananas to generic apple seeds.
Here's the thing though: Every version of windows has promised better virtual memory management, faster application load times, and better performance. To a casual observer, they seem to be doing the exact opposite.
They could improve customer satisfaction by having more options available. Even if the other algorithms wouldn't be best for most usage scenarios, simply having options would satisfy many people. Most people wouldn't' change from the default, but those that complained about the default could see how bad it would be if it were not as good. Maybe some people complaining about it would realize that its for the best, maybe others would actually find one that was optimal for their usage.
I did read about it. Read the faq on the website, the article slashdot linked to and a few others, with out seeing any privacy info. The only place I can find information about its privacy blocking features is in the stupid video on telnic's website. Do you have any more information on how privacy is supposed to work, or a link to such information?
.tel buddies) with them at all times and can't leak it ever. If its by device it removes some of the utility of having it accessible by a variety of devices. I have to reauthorize his cellphone every time he gets a new one ( with some people that's a frequent occurrence). Faced with those challenges most people won't end up opting to use the security, which will set this up as stalkers, spammers, and information thieves wildest dream come true.
Furthermore, it removes some of its use case to have privacy configuration on a universally accessible directory. It sort of depends if its locked to devices or by a paraphrase. If its a pass phrase my friends have to have that( along with the paraphrases of all of their other
Exactly. There is no privacy options. Its one central phone book where people can put all of their contact info. But there is no filter. Might be good for companies, but not individuals who value their privacy and identity.
I never realized that they ever did. I haven't really needed a mouse driver from the manufacturer since DOS.