In this case you store the data in the other clients. If you want to use the software you have to agree to store a gig or so of encrypted data. Your laptop connects to the grid periodically and uploads your data and downloads someone else's. Cooperative cloud computing at its finest, and the developers don't have to ask for help from anybody.
This is why the C compiler is required to be able to compile itself to a new target platform. If you're especially paranoid, you store a reference platform with the OS, compiler and compiler source as well as your escrow source. Then no matter how alien computers become, your code and hence your data can survive.
This problem was solved in the 1960's.
It's also why if it doesn't include a compiler and source that can compile both itself and the OS it's not an operating system - it's an operating environment.
It should be required. That's the People's data they're locking up in proprietary formats. It's the People's data they're accessing using the world's only malware ecosystem. We are entitled to expect more.
It costs more to get your property back than the property is worth. This story from 12 years ago is still happening.Category 270 in this pdf is 2005 budget of $96K. This year the budget is $409K and they haven't seized that much money yet so they're going to have to find it somewhere. I wouldn't recommend doing any DWB while passing through that county - their needs grow ever more sophisticated with time, and next year's budget is even bigger. "These monies are to be used exclusively for equipment, personnel, and training as designated by the Sheriff." Gotta love the name of the budget item though: "Law Enforcement Equipment Equitable Distribution Special Revenue Fund". Because the sheriff taking people's stuff and money to spend however he pleases is "Equitable".
Are we winning the war on drugs yet? Or is the war winning us?
Because the people who knew how retired. Hell, this is Microsoft. All the people who knew how to do stuff left a decade ago. It's not like stock options in Microsoft are the huge benefit they once were. MSFT is in decline as it slowly loses its growth premium. It has nowhere to grow to.
The problem with US healthcare is that it's a duopoly owned by people with an interest in preventing care. To get approved as a doctor you have to pass your board exams, and the board is motivated to rate-limit the acceptance of new doctors to continue to drive up the standard of living for the current doctors who pay their dues. To open a practice you have to get certified by some insurance companies to provide care to their members so you can get paid most of the time, and the insurance companies are motivated to prevent care to the uninsured.
This is not a recipe for inexpensive care for common folk.
In fact I think we've progressed to the next level as some insurers don't actually pay the doctors. They just permit their insured to use the doctors, and negotiate a discount with the doctors such that the patients are expected to pay all of the money the doctor gets, and the insurance company's portion is the amount that the doctor raised prices to have a margin they could discount for the customers of the insurance company. The patient then pays the doctor as part of their "copay" or "deductible" several times the actual cost of care to meet the additional overhead required to get paid from the insurance companies at all. So the net benefit of paying a thousand dollars a month to an insurance company for family coverage is that you can actually get access to a doctor. Which you would naturally have had without cost if there were no medical insurance companies. The benefit of being a doctor in this relationship is that you get paid by the patients who can pay, which you naturally would have done if there were no medical insurance companies. In order to maintain this insane relationship the doctor must refuse care to the uncovered. So in effect with medical insurance companies we have an additional layer of business which adds cost, provides nothing, and prevents care. I have to ask: WHY? Seriously, WTF are you people thinking?
If you want to drive down the cost of medical care then pay a few grand each on retraining the current surplus of displaced workers to provide it, and make it legally possible for them to do so by making the certification of medical personnel the government task it should always have been. Is this hard? Is there some obscure math involved that I'm not seeing? Because from here it's frimping obvious.
But then we have tort reform and malpractice lawyers. For tort reform there is no better policy than "for the provision of medical care, a waiver of claims is presumed". For the lawyers I would recommend the shade of a good tree and a few meters of rope to rest upon. Oak and hemp is traditional but in a pinch any old elm or fir and nylon or even jute, leather or cotton will do. Please: hang yourselves.
There is no place that humans shouldn't be. Not in the seas of Saturn. Not in the core of stars. Not below the event horizon of the black hole the Milky Way revolves around.
Given enough good science humans will go to all these places. Some of them will even come back.
We will master space or die out. We must not just explore it - we must make it our home. Anything less is to choose species suicide. As long as the survival of our species is limited to one planet, one star system, we are doomed to go the way of the dinosaurs. When we have escaped that perilous limit the Universe is ours. If we fail in this the Universe will clean the slate again and try once more to bring up a life form that can win.
I seriously doubt the overall NASA head sits in on the interviews for particular engineers.
The only problem I foresee is that he might have some trouble adapting to the level of follow-through in his new command, being from a background where delivering on your commitments is a somewhat higher priority.
These are pretty much the standards Intel put out to define netbooks for the Atom. They haven't had complete luck getting people to comply either. It's kind of like defining which rules you have to break to make a product that stands out. Vista 7 rules will be the same way. They can't really restrict screen size on a software product for antitrust reasons.
Product differentiation. If you want the premium netbook with the big screen and the low power chip, your choices are full-fat Vista that limps like a three legged dog, or Linux that flies. Good Jorb, Mr. Ballmer!
That it's quick and easy to install Windows. I would refute it, but I'll defer to all the comments on that fine article instead. Once you started throwing out caveats like NAT router and latest service pack media your argments were done for anyway. Why don't you recommend the average user slipstream the drivers and service packs into the custom scripted install DVD they make for themselves. My grandma always does that when she's not running the beta she DL'd from her MSDN account.
When you're having a perfectly good whaargarble and demand a citation, only to find the article that disproves your argment take the top of slashdot's main page? I hate it when that happens to me too.
The overwhelming mainstream demand of Linux is that it become as much a clone of Windows as possible. I believe that this will greatly damage Linux's technical integrity long term, which is why I've moved to FreeBSD, which I am hoping will remain relatively immune from the insistent screaming of Windows refugees for a monetarily free XP clone. I had one Ubuntu user inform me on IRC, only a few hours ago, that Linux's primary reason for existence was to apparently provide users like her with only a marginally more stable Windows clone; it is interesting just how arrogant and forceful Windows refugees are becoming with this demand.
If you were a veteran of the great AOL Influx, you would understand. Linux is in no danger, but the recent adopters are due some abuse. They are so due because it will take some ridicule before they alter their thinking enough to be full participants in our community. But we will norm them in time.
It would be a major improvement if installing Linux was as easy as installing XP.
And then you're done, right. Once the OS is installed you can get right to browsing the net and working on your documents, your photos, your website...
Wait... no you can't. You don't even dare plug in the network cable until you've installed a gigabyte of patches, turned off auto-run and a dozen other services in the registry, installed a network security suite, and spend a half turning off undesired services and otherwise adding security that should be the default.
And after that, it's time to go SHOPPING! You're going to need an office suite, an Acrobat reader, a flash player, a replacement for the abomination of a web browser that came with the OS. Also a back up app and some sort of regimen. Figure an extra thousand bucks of so if you're willing to go it alone, or two if you need a consultant. Add a few more days of tweaking settings.
NOW you're ready to plug in that network cable and spend an hour or two registering and activating all the various applications and installing the updates for them, turning off their absurd unhelpful and insecure default settings.
OK, now you're ready to do some work. NO! WAIT! This would be a good time to clone the system to an offline backup, and test the restore to make sure you can recover in the inevitable malware event. And if the restore fails, start over and try again.
Is it any wonder people will nurse their ancient hardware until it just won't run? Are you surprised they want a Mac or Linux, which have almost none of these problems?
Don't do this from the US, or the new RIAA owned Justice Department will come break down your door. Which is of course why they can't include it in the standard Ubuntu. If you want an Ubuntu with this preinstalled and you're not in the US, start with Linux Mint. Linux mint has that stuff, but they also do localization in a lot of languages so they lag on features a few months behind the main Ubuntu distro. That said, the instructions below install DVD playing on Ubunty Jaunty.
Use Firefox, or some other browser that supports apt-url.
For the below, you will need to give the password for software installation. Clicking the links doesn't go to a howto - it actually installs the software from the standard repositories.
If you have Windows, and you click this link to Blender, then nothing bad will happen. But if you have Ubuntu, or some other Linux that supports apt-url, it will look up Blender in your repository, download it from your configured software sources and install it.
Was that easy enough? Instead of a text file or an instaler dialog or a howto, I can put the installer right here in a slashdot comment for you, if you had an actual unmet Linux need.
Some of us would like to play with newer technologies like virtual machines. With Linux you can do that for free. In fact, it's embarassingly easy to set up a dozen VMs on Jaunty.
A kid in school could do that with Windows, but first there's the software to buy, and the mandatory licensing attorney consult isn't free. That's a lot of lawns to mow just to discover the joys of bridge networks and VM Appliances.
It is the sweet release of acceptance that this is what it is and isn't getting better that proves you've transcended from power user to Total Windows Awareness. At that glorious moment the confusion becomes clarity, the pain becomes motive, and you get a mac.
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Legal. Leave that one off and the other four are easy. I'm sure there are far more highly scaled secure apps running in the top five botnets.
But I answered this above. I don't even know why they had to ask such an obvious question. Even legal it's a no brainer.
In this case you store the data in the other clients. If you want to use the software you have to agree to store a gig or so of encrypted data. Your laptop connects to the grid periodically and uploads your data and downloads someone else's. Cooperative cloud computing at its finest, and the developers don't have to ask for help from anybody.
Here comes Silverlight 3. Feel like sisyphus yet?
Vendors lie.
This is why the C compiler is required to be able to compile itself to a new target platform. If you're especially paranoid, you store a reference platform with the OS, compiler and compiler source as well as your escrow source. Then no matter how alien computers become, your code and hence your data can survive.
This problem was solved in the 1960's.
It's also why if it doesn't include a compiler and source that can compile both itself and the OS it's not an operating system - it's an operating environment.
It should be required. That's the People's data they're locking up in proprietary formats. It's the People's data they're accessing using the world's only malware ecosystem. We are entitled to expect more.
It costs more to get your property back than the property is worth. This story from 12 years ago is still happening. Category 270 in this pdf is 2005 budget of $96K. This year the budget is $409K and they haven't seized that much money yet so they're going to have to find it somewhere. I wouldn't recommend doing any DWB while passing through that county - their needs grow ever more sophisticated with time, and next year's budget is even bigger. "These monies are to be used exclusively for equipment, personnel, and training as designated by the Sheriff." Gotta love the name of the budget item though: "Law Enforcement Equipment Equitable Distribution Special Revenue Fund". Because the sheriff taking people's stuff and money to spend however he pleases is "Equitable".
Are we winning the war on drugs yet? Or is the war winning us?
Because the people who knew how retired. Hell, this is Microsoft. All the people who knew how to do stuff left a decade ago. It's not like stock options in Microsoft are the huge benefit they once were. MSFT is in decline as it slowly loses its growth premium. It has nowhere to grow to.
The problem with US healthcare is that it's a duopoly owned by people with an interest in preventing care. To get approved as a doctor you have to pass your board exams, and the board is motivated to rate-limit the acceptance of new doctors to continue to drive up the standard of living for the current doctors who pay their dues. To open a practice you have to get certified by some insurance companies to provide care to their members so you can get paid most of the time, and the insurance companies are motivated to prevent care to the uninsured.
This is not a recipe for inexpensive care for common folk.
In fact I think we've progressed to the next level as some insurers don't actually pay the doctors. They just permit their insured to use the doctors, and negotiate a discount with the doctors such that the patients are expected to pay all of the money the doctor gets, and the insurance company's portion is the amount that the doctor raised prices to have a margin they could discount for the customers of the insurance company. The patient then pays the doctor as part of their "copay" or "deductible" several times the actual cost of care to meet the additional overhead required to get paid from the insurance companies at all. So the net benefit of paying a thousand dollars a month to an insurance company for family coverage is that you can actually get access to a doctor. Which you would naturally have had without cost if there were no medical insurance companies. The benefit of being a doctor in this relationship is that you get paid by the patients who can pay, which you naturally would have done if there were no medical insurance companies. In order to maintain this insane relationship the doctor must refuse care to the uncovered. So in effect with medical insurance companies we have an additional layer of business which adds cost, provides nothing, and prevents care. I have to ask: WHY? Seriously, WTF are you people thinking?
If you want to drive down the cost of medical care then pay a few grand each on retraining the current surplus of displaced workers to provide it, and make it legally possible for them to do so by making the certification of medical personnel the government task it should always have been. Is this hard? Is there some obscure math involved that I'm not seeing? Because from here it's frimping obvious.
But then we have tort reform and malpractice lawyers. For tort reform there is no better policy than "for the provision of medical care, a waiver of claims is presumed". For the lawyers I would recommend the shade of a good tree and a few meters of rope to rest upon. Oak and hemp is traditional but in a pinch any old elm or fir and nylon or even jute, leather or cotton will do. Please: hang yourselves.
There is no place that humans shouldn't be. Not in the seas of Saturn. Not in the core of stars. Not below the event horizon of the black hole the Milky Way revolves around.
Given enough good science humans will go to all these places. Some of them will even come back.
We will master space or die out. We must not just explore it - we must make it our home. Anything less is to choose species suicide. As long as the survival of our species is limited to one planet, one star system, we are doomed to go the way of the dinosaurs. When we have escaped that perilous limit the Universe is ours. If we fail in this the Universe will clean the slate again and try once more to bring up a life form that can win.
I seriously doubt the overall NASA head sits in on the interviews for particular engineers.
The only problem I foresee is that he might have some trouble adapting to the level of follow-through in his new command, being from a background where delivering on your commitments is a somewhat higher priority.
These are pretty much the standards Intel put out to define netbooks for the Atom. They haven't had complete luck getting people to comply either. It's kind of like defining which rules you have to break to make a product that stands out. Vista 7 rules will be the same way. They can't really restrict screen size on a software product for antitrust reasons.
I had no idea they intended to port Vista 7 to ARM.
Product differentiation. If you want the premium netbook with the big screen and the low power chip, your choices are full-fat Vista that limps like a three legged dog, or Linux that flies. Good Jorb, Mr. Ballmer!
That it's quick and easy to install Windows. I would refute it, but I'll defer to all the comments on that fine article instead. Once you started throwing out caveats like NAT router and latest service pack media your argments were done for anyway. Why don't you recommend the average user slipstream the drivers and service packs into the custom scripted install DVD they make for themselves. My grandma always does that when she's not running the beta she DL'd from her MSDN account.
When you're having a perfectly good whaargarble and demand a citation, only to find the article that disproves your argment take the top of slashdot's main page? I hate it when that happens to me too.
The overwhelming mainstream demand of Linux is that it become as much a clone of Windows as possible. I believe that this will greatly damage Linux's technical integrity long term, which is why I've moved to FreeBSD, which I am hoping will remain relatively immune from the insistent screaming of Windows refugees for a monetarily free XP clone. I had one Ubuntu user inform me on IRC, only a few hours ago, that Linux's primary reason for existence was to apparently provide users like her with only a marginally more stable Windows clone; it is interesting just how arrogant and forceful Windows refugees are becoming with this demand.
If you were a veteran of the great AOL Influx, you would understand. Linux is in no danger, but the recent adopters are due some abuse. They are so due because it will take some ridicule before they alter their thinking enough to be full participants in our community. But we will norm them in time.
Owned in 60 seconds.
The average lifespan of an unpatched XP box directly connected to broadband is less than a minute.
It would be a major improvement if installing Linux was as easy as installing XP.
And then you're done, right. Once the OS is installed you can get right to browsing the net and working on your documents, your photos, your website...
Wait... no you can't. You don't even dare plug in the network cable until you've installed a gigabyte of patches, turned off auto-run and a dozen other services in the registry, installed a network security suite, and spend a half turning off undesired services and otherwise adding security that should be the default.
And after that, it's time to go SHOPPING! You're going to need an office suite, an Acrobat reader, a flash player, a replacement for the abomination of a web browser that came with the OS. Also a back up app and some sort of regimen. Figure an extra thousand bucks of so if you're willing to go it alone, or two if you need a consultant. Add a few more days of tweaking settings.
NOW you're ready to plug in that network cable and spend an hour or two registering and activating all the various applications and installing the updates for them, turning off their absurd unhelpful and insecure default settings.
OK, now you're ready to do some work. NO! WAIT! This would be a good time to clone the system to an offline backup, and test the restore to make sure you can recover in the inevitable malware event. And if the restore fails, start over and try again.
Is it any wonder people will nurse their ancient hardware until it just won't run? Are you surprised they want a Mac or Linux, which have almost none of these problems?
Don't do this from the US, or the new RIAA owned Justice Department will come break down your door. Which is of course why they can't include it in the standard Ubuntu. If you want an Ubuntu with this preinstalled and you're not in the US, start with Linux Mint. Linux mint has that stuff, but they also do localization in a lot of languages so they lag on features a few months behind the main Ubuntu distro. That said, the instructions below install DVD playing on Ubunty Jaunty.
Use Firefox, or some other browser that supports apt-url.
For the below, you will need to give the password for software installation. Clicking the links doesn't go to a howto - it actually installs the software from the standard repositories.
Click here to install the Restricted formats.
Click here to install VNC (my preferred DVD-watching application).
Open a terminal and paste this:
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
You will be asked for the sudo password. This enables the computer to read the format for encrypted DVDs.
That's it you're done. Stick your movie in, start vnc and tell it to play the DVD.
If you have Windows, and you click this link to Blender, then nothing bad will happen. But if you have Ubuntu, or some other Linux that supports apt-url, it will look up Blender in your repository, download it from your configured software sources and install it.
Was that easy enough? Instead of a text file or an instaler dialog or a howto, I can put the installer right here in a slashdot comment for you, if you had an actual unmet Linux need.
Some of us would like to play with newer technologies like virtual machines. With Linux you can do that for free. In fact, it's embarassingly easy to set up a dozen VMs on Jaunty.
A kid in school could do that with Windows, but first there's the software to buy, and the mandatory licensing attorney consult isn't free. That's a lot of lawns to mow just to discover the joys of bridge networks and VM Appliances.
That's when Microsoft invented the subdirectory. Good times.
It is the sweet release of acceptance that this is what it is and isn't getting better that proves you've transcended from power user to Total Windows Awareness. At that glorious moment the confusion becomes clarity, the pain becomes motive, and you get a mac.