The marriage of a security company and a storage company is a move that tells both industries that systems management and security should be managed as one, Sidders said, noting that if the Symantec-Veritas merger is successful, it may lead to other similar deals.
I'll take that over paying for Opera or using the free version that is stuffed with adware.
I'd hardly say stuffed. I have an ad-bar of google text ads in neutral colours just below my menu bar.
Opera is free too, free with ads. I don't mind. It does tabbed browsing 'better' than Firefox, it is more stable than Firefox, it has a smaller footprint than Firefox (on WinXP SP2), it has many UI features 'better' than Firefox.
By 'better' I mean:
Enhanced text searching
Voice
Scaling options
Tabs (options in right click like open in new page/window, open in foreground/background)
Better text highlighting options (dictionary, thesaurus, etc)
Ability to right click and search for a phrase
Notes (EXTREMELY USEFUL, would not be surprised if they showed up in the next MS Office colaboration software)
Javascript and Java console
Firefox could most of these with the right extensions. But I am not happy to search high and low for an extension to do this, let alone finding a stable one. Opera offers some fantasic innovation which I don't want to do without. Why not pay someone for their hard work, be that through purchasing their software or implicity through Google text ads?
Re:At least Jim Anchower is still there
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Globalization has NOT been happening for hundreds of years.
Globalisation? Would you define that as the specialism of industries/expertise in certain countries resulting in necessary trade?
So what about industrial/textile production in the US 100 years ago?
What about the importing of labor from Asia in the US 200 years ago?
What about the European colonisation and use of Africa/India 400 years ago?
What about the concentration of plate/cup production in East Asia 1000 years+ ago?
What about the spice road 2000 years ago?
I recommend you read this about golbalisation since 3500BC.
a recent process of international capitalism whereby free trade agreements and development aid are used to make the transfer of resources and wealth from poor countries to rich one easier
Eh? I think you're mixing 2 important concepts here together:
1. Truely Free Trade Where a poor country can sell something to anyone in the world, thus generating income for themselves. They have a competitive advantage (for highly labor intensive products) as they can sell cheaper than western counterparts, generating income for their country. What would you rather they do? Live a subsistence lifestyle as a farmer and die at 35, or generate a better future through economic growth?
2. Non-free Trade As long as there is trade it will be free or non-free. Non free trade includes countries imposing tariffs, corruption of import/export laws. The European and US subsidies to farmers are the greatest example to this: where an income stream (and way to develop) could be given to a 3rd world farmer, Western governments subsidise their farms and tax imports. Lets be clear, this is denial of free trade, the opposite of free trade.
I'd be interested if you could explain you arguments on why free trade is detrimental, opposed to non-free trade which results in denial of wealth to pooper countries at richer countries expense (remember in rich countries its a redistribution of income that subsidises non-free trade, if wealth was not redistributed productivity would increase as cheaper produce benefitted the 3rd world AND 1st world consumers who would have more spare money to spend/invest in other areas).
EXACTLY. Yet look at the assumption of sharers and leechers. Unless on a broad connection it is hard to better someone on one. It does not make you a leecher, yet it is often percieved that those with a shar ration less than 1 are leechers, than circumstantially (they have a narrorwe conncetion), that u are behind the trend (when most shareers have the whole file and u have none), or because of pure luck.
Demanding an individual to have a share ratio greater than 1 is an unscalable requirement.
The concept of leeching as in traditional P2P apps and BitTorrent baffles me.
To download you have to upload. If there is a lot of upload capacity relative to download you download less (i.e. you could get 5kbps dl vs 1kbps ul when averaged out) resulting in a low share ratio - the thats because there is heads of capacity. On the otherhand if you download a little but there is high demand (or you keep your connection open) you'll end up with a share ratio >1.
This is ingrained to BitTorrent, it is impossible to have a majority of leachers: the share ratio for all users must always equal 1. That is the fundamental difference, and that is why BT sites which say "you must maintain a share ratio greater than 1" totally dont understand the fundamental mathematics.
What you probably do not realize is that Acrylic is based on Creaturehouse Expression 3.3 which is generally regarded to be a pretty good, innovative graphics app.
http://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.js p?id=15353
Read that review in which a graphics pro a) takes the time to learn it and b) does a critical analysis of the app.
Yes it's different than photoshop. It is different than Illustrator. It is different than [insert other graphics app here] It is a unique product.
It's obvious you have NO CLUE about this app or how to use it. And no, you can't save only as an XPR file type. Why don't you go back to the drawing board and pay attention. And finally, this isn't competing against your Adobe product, so you might as well take THAT out of the equation.
PS...read the release notes about performance...THEN post a real blog.
Your extreme anti-MS bias destroys what might otherwise have been a useful overview.
You 'reviewed' only the pixel editing half of this program -- to the point that one wonders if you are even aware of its vector-editing features. You completely miss the unique strength provided by integrated vector and pixel editing which is the basis for its claim to fame.
You compare it soley to Photoshop yet it compares much more directly to Macromedia's Fireworks, a pixel & vector editor. Incidentally, Fireworks is seldom seen as a Photoshop competitor nor visa versa.
This is what is wrong with the blogging world. There is no way to keep people like you from making complete fools of themselves. Your review is total garbage. You have not gained the right to review anything other than the smell of your own farts. Stop being such a troll...you retard.
I would be ashamed at having such valid points in my own blog.
Re:Rails, great for those fed up with J2EE.
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I know what Ruby is, what Javascript is, what AJAX is, and what RoR is. I have used all of them from a user perspective, and all from a 'tinkering' perspective.
Tinkering is not developing. So yes I have an idea; I did not state I had anything otherwise, and the statement, Not knowing what Rails is, is logically false; surprising from one who considers themselves opinionated on Python issues when Python should lend itself to (easily) logically provable thinking.
Thank you for your contribution.
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I've not tried RoR from a development perspective (I have no need/desire to write web apps), but from a user perspective it rocks! Well done Javascript can be a nice user experience, but sites that need regular reloading rarely use it, the main exception I can think of being Gmail.
RoR, IMHO, is a major step forward to web deployed applications becomming mainstream.
Yeah, WinMX doesn't work. Only fools would use spyware free P2P apps that have barely been updated in 2 years.
Of course the reason for the WinMX software not to get updated for 2 years is coz it doesn't work, right? And the queues, they're there only to allow RIAA stooges to log your IP manually, and the users who say "you don't share enough", they're MPAA hooks using entrapment tactics. And the range of rare content is because only eclectic people use it.
I have lived in the UK, which provided my with experience of those little things like dd/mm/yy to driving on the other side of the road, and I coped. I lived in China (where, if in a traffic accident, it is cheaper to make sure you're dead than pay maintainence for injuries) for a year and picked up a fair bit of the language as well as enjoying another culture and a vastly different diet, that was envigorating fun.
I think I'd love India. I have no ties, am extremely easy going, and very open to change. No, I'm not the average, but 120k is not a large amount of people.
As for income, my present status, per month, is:
$1k for rent
$300 for loan repayments
$300 for entertainment
$300 for home food/drinks
$200 for misc
residual as savings, but I do try to target it
PPP is flawed as a concept in application to an individual as their PPP index will be unique. The loan repayments and monthly savings of £200/month are the key target when fixed in USD. Then the salary is in focus. Still, I think 120k people is not a large number, at all.
I am also not a regular 4 year IT tech, but I guess everyone says that;p
Personally speaking, and I don't claim to account for 120k people, I would love it.
I have certain USD denominated costs, and certain local currency costs. USD costs are payments on student loans, savings (assuming I'm USD-block based in the longer term). My local currency costs are accomodation, food, entertainment; if I 'go native' these are fecking low.
I would be pretty happy to 'go native'. Accomodation, in a safe area, should be less, I love Indian food (the real kind, not a diet of lager and tikka masala, and have a reasonably strong digestive system), my in-depth knowledge of Bollywood is lacking but I'm always open to new ideas.
Of course I am not all people. In particular I am not a project manager with 20 years experience, which, I would imagine, would be the ideal target. I do have 4 years at a top financial company with project management, finance, and IT, experience, however. Yet I find myself effectively working a subsistence lifestyle: earn just enought to pay the rent in what is a very modest appartment, manage some entertainment and loan repayments, but have a disappointing level of savings after that. I'm well up for the move. While personally speaking, I think a good proportion of the graduate populations US/Canadian/UK/Australian populations with a similar level of work experience would be well up for it too - 120k is not a large number.
My laptop is 1400x1050 at 15 inches, and that was only $30 more than the basic 1024x768, bought in October 2004. I'm no monitor pro, but this resolution is acceptable.
There is a difference between a growth rate and an amount grown. You said growth rate but only quoted numbers.
If A grows faster than B, it will eventually over take it (given this faster growth is sustained), while B can still grow by a greater absolute amount than A.
Slashdot Mirror
Richard Whitley is DEAD!
RIP, oh great pun one.
WTF?
Either your head is oversized for your body, or you live in a house with overly short doors.
Personally, I find it distrubing. And no, its not the angle of the camera.
Panty Source Fetish
Kwality!
Ironic that Kilroy is mocked for his skin colour.
From TFA:
The marriage of a security company and a storage company is a move that tells both industries that systems management and security should be managed as one, Sidders said, noting that if the Symantec-Veritas merger is successful, it may lead to other similar deals.
Veritas?
Will Robert Kilroy Silk be on the board?
I'll take that over paying for Opera or using the free version that is stuffed with adware.
I'd hardly say stuffed. I have an ad-bar of google text ads in neutral colours just below my menu bar.
Opera is free too, free with ads. I don't mind. It does tabbed browsing 'better' than Firefox, it is more stable than Firefox, it has a smaller footprint than Firefox (on WinXP SP2), it has many UI features 'better' than Firefox.
By 'better' I mean:
Enhanced text searching
Voice
Scaling options
Tabs (options in right click like open in new page/window, open in foreground/background)
Better text highlighting options (dictionary, thesaurus, etc)
Ability to right click and search for a phrase
Notes (EXTREMELY USEFUL, would not be surprised if they showed up in the next MS Office colaboration software)
Javascript and Java console
Firefox could most of these with the right extensions. But I am not happy to search high and low for an extension to do this, let alone finding a stable one. Opera offers some fantasic innovation which I don't want to do without. Why not pay someone for their hard work, be that through purchasing their software or implicity through Google text ads?
Globalization has NOT been happening for hundreds of years.
Globalisation? Would you define that as the specialism of industries/expertise in certain countries resulting in necessary trade?
So what about industrial/textile production in the US 100 years ago?
What about the importing of labor from Asia in the US 200 years ago?
What about the European colonisation and use of Africa/India 400 years ago?
What about the concentration of plate/cup production in East Asia 1000 years+ ago?
What about the spice road 2000 years ago?
I recommend you read this about golbalisation since 3500BC.
a recent process of international capitalism whereby free trade agreements and development aid are used to make the transfer of resources and wealth from poor countries to rich one easier
Eh? I think you're mixing 2 important concepts here together:
1. Truely Free Trade Where a poor country can sell something to anyone in the world, thus generating income for themselves. They have a competitive advantage (for highly labor intensive products) as they can sell cheaper than western counterparts, generating income for their country. What would you rather they do? Live a subsistence lifestyle as a farmer and die at 35, or generate a better future through economic growth?
2. Non-free Trade As long as there is trade it will be free or non-free. Non free trade includes countries imposing tariffs, corruption of import/export laws. The European and US subsidies to farmers are the greatest example to this: where an income stream (and way to develop) could be given to a 3rd world farmer, Western governments subsidise their farms and tax imports. Lets be clear, this is denial of free trade, the opposite of free trade.
I'd be interested if you could explain you arguments on why free trade is detrimental, opposed to non-free trade which results in denial of wealth to pooper countries at richer countries expense (remember in rich countries its a redistribution of income that subsidises non-free trade, if wealth was not redistributed productivity would increase as cheaper produce benefitted the 3rd world AND 1st world consumers who would have more spare money to spend/invest in other areas).
Your posts are often laced with excellent irony, sarcasm and insightfulness. Do you have a newsletter to which I could subscribe?
EXACTLY. Yet look at the assumption of sharers and leechers. Unless on a broad connection it is hard to better someone on one. It does not make you a leecher, yet it is often percieved that those with a shar ration less than 1 are leechers, than circumstantially (they have a narrorwe conncetion), that u are behind the trend (when most shareers have the whole file and u have none), or because of pure luck.
Demanding an individual to have a share ratio greater than 1 is an unscalable requirement.
The concept of leeching as in traditional P2P apps and BitTorrent baffles me.
To download you have to upload. If there is a lot of upload capacity relative to download you download less (i.e. you could get 5kbps dl vs 1kbps ul when averaged out) resulting in a low share ratio - the thats because there is heads of capacity. On the otherhand if you download a little but there is high demand (or you keep your connection open) you'll end up with a share ratio >1.
This is ingrained to BitTorrent, it is impossible to have a majority of leachers: the share ratio for all users must always equal 1. That is the fundamental difference, and that is why BT sites which say "you must maintain a share ratio greater than 1" totally dont understand the fundamental mathematics.
Yes. Some class snippets in his own blog:
s p?id=15353
Read that review in which a graphics pro a) takes the time to learn it and b) does a critical analysis of the app.
Yes it's different than photoshop. It is different than Illustrator. It is different than [insert other graphics app here] It is a unique product.
What you probably do not realize is that Acrylic is based on Creaturehouse Expression 3.3 which is generally regarded to be a pretty good, innovative graphics app. http://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.j
It's obvious you have NO CLUE about this app or how to use it. And no, you can't save only as an XPR file type. Why don't you go back to the drawing board and pay attention. And finally, this isn't competing against your Adobe product, so you might as well take THAT out of the equation. PS...read the release notes about performance...THEN post a real blog.
Your extreme anti-MS bias destroys what might otherwise have been a useful overview. You 'reviewed' only the pixel editing half of this program -- to the point that one wonders if you are even aware of its vector-editing features. You completely miss the unique strength provided by integrated vector and pixel editing which is the basis for its claim to fame. You compare it soley to Photoshop yet it compares much more directly to Macromedia's Fireworks, a pixel & vector editor. Incidentally, Fireworks is seldom seen as a Photoshop competitor nor visa versa.
This is what is wrong with the blogging world. There is no way to keep people like you from making complete fools of themselves. Your review is total garbage. You have not gained the right to review anything other than the smell of your own farts. Stop being such a troll...you retard.
I would be ashamed at having such valid points in my own blog.
I know what Ruby is, what Javascript is, what AJAX is, and what RoR is. I have used all of them from a user perspective, and all from a 'tinkering' perspective.
Tinkering is not developing. So yes I have an idea; I did not state I had anything otherwise, and the statement, Not knowing what Rails is, is logically false; surprising from one who considers themselves opinionated on Python issues when Python should lend itself to (easily) logically provable thinking.
Thank you for your contribution.
I've not tried RoR from a development perspective (I have no need/desire to write web apps), but from a user perspective it rocks! Well done Javascript can be a nice user experience, but sites that need regular reloading rarely use it, the main exception I can think of being Gmail.
RoR, IMHO, is a major step forward to web deployed applications becomming mainstream.
[Pi has] 40,000 digits?
Yes it does. Here's all 40,000 of them (in base 10):
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
0
errr... sorry, doesn't that error message make it blindingly obvious?
Perhaps I have spent too long developing my debugging skills with the many hours spent fixing retarded errors on VBA.
Why bother with PHP when you can Ruby on Rails?
Yeah, WinMX doesn't work. Only fools would use spyware free P2P apps that have barely been updated in 2 years.
Of course the reason for the WinMX software not to get updated for 2 years is coz it doesn't work, right? And the queues, they're there only to allow RIAA stooges to log your IP manually, and the users who say "you don't share enough", they're MPAA hooks using entrapment tactics. And the range of rare content is because only eclectic people use it.
May WinMX continue to suck.
Many questions. Could you?
;p
Yes, I think I could.
I have lived in the UK, which provided my with experience of those little things like dd/mm/yy to driving on the other side of the road, and I coped. I lived in China (where, if in a traffic accident, it is cheaper to make sure you're dead than pay maintainence for injuries) for a year and picked up a fair bit of the language as well as enjoying another culture and a vastly different diet, that was envigorating fun.
I think I'd love India. I have no ties, am extremely easy going, and very open to change. No, I'm not the average, but 120k is not a large amount of people.
As for income, my present status, per month, is:
$1k for rent
$300 for loan repayments
$300 for entertainment
$300 for home food/drinks
$200 for misc
residual as savings, but I do try to target it
PPP is flawed as a concept in application to an individual as their PPP index will be unique. The loan repayments and monthly savings of £200/month are the key target when fixed in USD. Then the salary is in focus. Still, I think 120k people is not a large number, at all.
I am also not a regular 4 year IT tech, but I guess everyone says that
Personally speaking, and I don't claim to account for 120k people, I would love it.
I have certain USD denominated costs, and certain local currency costs. USD costs are payments on student loans, savings (assuming I'm USD-block based in the longer term). My local currency costs are accomodation, food, entertainment; if I 'go native' these are fecking low.
I would be pretty happy to 'go native'. Accomodation, in a safe area, should be less, I love Indian food (the real kind, not a diet of lager and tikka masala, and have a reasonably strong digestive system), my in-depth knowledge of Bollywood is lacking but I'm always open to new ideas.
Of course I am not all people. In particular I am not a project manager with 20 years experience, which, I would imagine, would be the ideal target. I do have 4 years at a top financial company with project management, finance, and IT, experience, however. Yet I find myself effectively working a subsistence lifestyle: earn just enought to pay the rent in what is a very modest appartment, manage some entertainment and loan repayments, but have a disappointing level of savings after that. I'm well up for the move. While personally speaking, I think a good proportion of the graduate populations US/Canadian/UK/Australian populations with a similar level of work experience would be well up for it too - 120k is not a large number.
Where do I sign up?
My laptop is 1400x1050 at 15 inches, and that was only $30 more than the basic 1024x768, bought in October 2004. I'm no monitor pro, but this resolution is acceptable.
Below this ratio, I agree, is inadequate.
Yeah, I cant think this is a reason to switch when I've had it on my Bloomberg terminal for 4 years, and it wasn't new then...
Classic. Don't think it worked on versions greater than 3, did it?
There is a difference between a growth rate and an amount grown. You said growth rate but only quoted numbers.
If A grows faster than B, it will eventually over take it (given this faster growth is sustained), while B can still grow by a greater absolute amount than A.
Also, do you have a source for those numbers?
100% sure it was an ant. I remember thinking "that's an ant, but its grey, so what does it taste like?"
Perhaps it had dust on it, or perhaps it was an old ant; I was in Greece at the time, so maybe it got sunburnt?