>>something to hope for, gained a psychological edge that could mean the difference between life and death under extreme conditions.
And you answer your own question. It isn't god you need but faith in something greater than yourself. That the World can be a better place, and since it is such a large world and your a small man who needs help from something larger than himself. Faith is needed, If not faith in yourself then Faith in a God.
soldiers see the very worst of man, they see their best friends ripped to shreds for being 6 inches to the left. To psychologically survive such an ordeal you need to believe in something else. It doesn't matter what you believe in as long as you believe. I have believed this for a long time, since I saw the petty corrupt politics that walked through the halls of churches with my own eyes.
Not only have the Labels demanded DRM their license agreements basically prevent the sharing of that DRM with others. As steve Jobs said in the same dissing DRM speach. Apple is responible for the DRM if it fails Apple has to upgrade it to fix it. If Apple suddenly licenses it out to a dozen different companies they can no longer insure the DRM will be updated properly across all systems in the timely fashion that the Labels demand.
Just look at all the problems MSFT has had with getting playsforsure to actually play for sure.
Safari has a memory leak. run safari for several days. Then close all but the last tab. Safari is use several hundred megs of ram. now I simply close safari when i am done browsing or when i am about a launch a memory intensive app. The new app kicks out all of safari's crud and it launches instantly.
Firefox is the same speed no matter what, but it too has an occasional memory leak when you open and close lots of tabs.
Google is a wake up to MSFT. Just like the Internet was a Wake up call to Win95. Just Like Netscape was a Wake up call to IE. Firefox starts taking marketshare, MSFT releases IE 7 which was supposed to be for Vista only for XP too.
MSFT is a medicore following company. They will always get a wake up call after a new industry has been established. MSFT then moves in using their money to buy out or kill the competition, bleed the market dry and say the idea was a bad one to begin with as it is lying around dead.
That is a good question. I wonder Why MSFT can't do the simple things right but can complete the complex ones. maintaining Windows codebase, Extremely complex. Building WinFS so that it works across intranets, With Leopard, OS X will introduce that functionality into spotlight.
Though My first thought was that they wanted to cut down on customers getting the invalid key. Out of every million, 200,000 people where being told that their once valid copies were no longer valid. So in order to cut down on False Postives they added another point. So out of a million customers you have 150,000 peopling calling to say WTF fix this, and 50,000 pirates.
Their numbers still add up but the PR dept doesn't have to work so hard.
your right the user folders are important. but what percentage of computers made in the last oh 8 years has at least a CD-R drive?
backing up user data is far easier than backing up a whole system.
When i used windows my personal data was all that was backed up. everything else always got reinstalled from scratch anyways. it was the only way to be sure that no viruses made their way through the reinstall process. I backup monthly, for me that is all i need. my 10 gig mp3 collection, my 2 gig photo collection all backed up to at least two sources. Once a year after doing my taxes I back them all up again just to make sure I don't miss anything.
on a multi-user machine, something that home users should have been using in XP for at least 5 years now, is a good thing. that way when the kid downloads something bad. only the kid loses data. not the entire family.
Why don't you be rational. So that user's directory get's trashed. but trashing that directory also kills off the malware. If it doesn't a simple search for that user's remaining files will. All that remains is a simple backup restore and your good to go. total time to repair maybe an hour.
To clean a Windows box means reinstalling the entire damn thing.
It is also a lot harder to use a *nix based box as a botnet zombie. It isn't impossible, but each machine has to be manually cracked, unlike Windows up to XP which it can be fully automated. I will hold off on final Vista judgments until more information can be gathered.
To Quote Scotty in Star Trek III The more they over think the plumbing the easier it is to stop up the drain.
Simple *nix user level security has proven for over 20 years to be more effective than anything MSFT has produce in the same amount of time.
ACL's make life easier for large installs, but it is the small ones that cause the most problems. That is why large *nix installs use both.
copyright law allows for fair use. That includes taking sections of TV shows and using them in your own work. you can't use it all, and you must credit them, but it is still possible.
Not really Adobe has yet to update photoshop of Intel Mac's. Why would vista be any different? They might be working on it now. That's not to say it won't run it just won't run well.
It seems odd and yet not that no one has Vista read apps yet every one has known about vista for years.
Of course most were probably expecting MSFT to delay vista again and figured they had more time.
your on a hike, you come across a boulder. It's to steep to climb so you look left, and look right and guess which way to go based off of your last route which very rarely goes directly behind the rock.
You move a few steps and look again. rarely do you go backwards.
You don't need to know how big the rock is. you need to be able to choose based on the route you want.
I am actually surprised no one has done this before. The Nasa people can figure out specifics, but a number of comm satellites in mars orbit, plus an number in ours to act as relays to mission headquarters.
Your talking about maybe a dozen total communication relays, and then every probe sent to mars would only need to be able to reach orbit saving lot's of power for other tools and test equipment.
Charge the ESA, russia, or anyone else a bit of cash for relay use, and help pay for it.
Just hope they don't lose their wi-fi connection and you have to go their to reboot the machine.
being able to access your data and apps anywhere is just as useful when your laptop gets stolen.
In the en it is a mixed bag. Somethings will require local data. Other times i really miss having everything on the network. Finding a balance between the two will be the best bet.
Besides a corporation or government who gives their employees data to take home is just asking for trouble. How much of ten's of thousands of customer personal data has been lost your way?
I just am tired of waiting for corporations to stand up and upgrade their networks to even present standards. the USA doesn't even have 3G yet Japan and europe are working on going beyond that.
No one is saying that Cisco didn't have the iPhone name but trademarks without current products don't last long. In decmember Cisco suddenly announces a generic VOIP phone named iPhone. It had been years since Cisco had used that trademark. Apple had to have been in negotiations with Cisco when that product was released.
So Cisco finally compromised that they both can use the name. Apple might have thrown them a bone. but the iPhone trademark isn't Cisco's alone.
actually my idea is similar. a ~20gb flash drive that normally mounts as read only to contain the OS, and the last ram state. The OS wouldn't need to boot but simply start working again from that point.
Applications, etc stored on the Hard drive, with user settings and folders stored on a removable flash drive. You can do most of that now with any *nix's. If OS X 10.5(leopard) really includes home on ipod then the rest of the system is done as well. The hard part would be to create a portable security system that let's you transplant users.
While the speed of light may be constant it doesn't mean there aren't other ways around the problem.
Let's figure out how first.
Besides why would an alien race need the whole galaxy? A small section would do. Even so they could have died out millions of years ago. Or we could be the first advanced race and as we reach out amoung the stars we shall find other less advanced races.
actually i can see a use for this tracking technology. Think a military complex. Not only does one have an ID card, but in order to access a secured area they have to have the RFID chip.
With additional sensors placed through out a complex, tracking one person would be easier. Though not fool proof. a dedicated attacker would still get by it would be harder.
I don't see the point of having these things in the general population though. or even for Foreigners. heck even tracking inventory by them isn't that great.(how many times have you set off one a stores alarms?
My cell phone will if it attempts to call out to a tower at the moment when i am to close.
I did say if you have a mind to fix the problem yourself. Linux isn't for everyone. I personally don't think it will be for everyone. But it is perfect for IT depts and large scale deployments. Where the end user just needs something that works.
Answer this question. Would you trust your life to windows operating properly? Fact is Computers aren't mature enough the OS's are to bloated. With the advances in Hardware MicroKernels could make a real comeback and still have decent performance. Systems that don't die completely when just one poorly written app is used.
Of course saying that is like saying one day Java will be fast. One can dream but that isn't going to make it true.
And what happens when the drivers don't work quite right but instead hang the entire kernel on you while your doing some menial task.
Who's fault is it? Who do you go to get help? I have had the NVidia driver die on me but it killed off the system. when you have a closed blob you can't figure out which part is broken. is it the kernel, or is it a driver?
That is what is wrong with them. Even on windows. how do you know which part really breaks? is it the crappy third party drivers, or is it MSFT's interface? Both sides blame each other if you ask them. All you can do is throw out the card or wait for an update. At least with linux if you have the mind to you can do the work yourself.
what do you think open grid is? it is just a gui wrapper around Xgrid.
And Xgrid only works on macs. sine it is just a daemon for the client there isn't any reason why it couldn't be ported to any other *nix, but that is up to apple to do. A simple google search would show you that someone has already duplicated xgrid's functionality with the help of apple. Tying at least Linux boxes into the client network. It looks like it hasn't taken off, but then again neither has xgrid. maybe this project will help both.
As long as your not in restricted airspce you can fly in what ever circle you want. the sky is like the water, while there are "lanes" they are loosely defiend and fill a fraction of the total area in which one can fly.
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>>something to hope for, gained a psychological edge that could mean the difference between life and death under extreme conditions.
And you answer your own question. It isn't god you need but faith in something greater than yourself. That the World can be a better place, and since it is such a large world and your a small man who needs help from something larger than himself. Faith is needed, If not faith in yourself then Faith in a God.
soldiers see the very worst of man, they see their best friends ripped to shreds for being 6 inches to the left. To psychologically survive such an ordeal you need to believe in something else. It doesn't matter what you believe in as long as you believe. I have believed this for a long time, since I saw the petty corrupt politics that walked through the halls of churches with my own eyes.
really try this one. I once sneezed while attempting to voice dial and it dialed my grandmother.
You want to know how good it it, whistle, blow, or just turn it on near a stereo speaker. Then see who it dials.
Not only have the Labels demanded DRM their license agreements basically prevent the sharing of that DRM with others. As steve Jobs said in the same dissing DRM speach. Apple is responible for the DRM if it fails Apple has to upgrade it to fix it. If Apple suddenly licenses it out to a dozen different companies they can no longer insure the DRM will be updated properly across all systems in the timely fashion that the Labels demand.
Just look at all the problems MSFT has had with getting playsforsure to actually play for sure.
Safari has a memory leak. run safari for several days. Then close all but the last tab. Safari is use several hundred megs of ram. now I simply close safari when i am done browsing or when i am about a launch a memory intensive app. The new app kicks out all of safari's crud and it launches instantly.
Firefox is the same speed no matter what, but it too has an occasional memory leak when you open and close lots of tabs.
Google is a wake up to MSFT. Just like the Internet was a Wake up call to Win95. Just Like Netscape was a Wake up call to IE. Firefox starts taking marketshare, MSFT releases IE 7 which was supposed to be for Vista only for XP too.
MSFT is a medicore following company. They will always get a wake up call after a new industry has been established. MSFT then moves in using their money to buy out or kill the competition, bleed the market dry and say the idea was a bad one to begin with as it is lying around dead.
That is a good question. I wonder Why MSFT can't do the simple things right but can complete the complex ones. maintaining Windows codebase, Extremely complex. Building WinFS so that it works across intranets, With Leopard, OS X will introduce that functionality into spotlight.
Though My first thought was that they wanted to cut down on customers getting the invalid key. Out of every million, 200,000 people where being told that their once valid copies were no longer valid. So in order to cut down on False Postives they added another point. So out of a million customers you have 150,000 peopling calling to say WTF fix this, and 50,000 pirates.
Their numbers still add up but the PR dept doesn't have to work so hard.
your right the user folders are important. but what percentage of computers made in the last oh 8 years has at least a CD-R drive?
backing up user data is far easier than backing up a whole system.
When i used windows my personal data was all that was backed up. everything else always got reinstalled from scratch anyways. it was the only way to be sure that no viruses made their way through the reinstall process. I backup monthly, for me that is all i need. my 10 gig mp3 collection, my 2 gig photo collection all backed up to at least two sources. Once a year after doing my taxes I back them all up again just to make sure I don't miss anything.
on a multi-user machine, something that home users should have been using in XP for at least 5 years now, is a good thing. that way when the kid downloads something bad. only the kid loses data. not the entire family.
Of course you knew all that right?
Only up to version 5. versions 5-7 of iTunes are still immune. The problem lies in the fair play license keys are a lot harder to decrypt and use now.
Why don't you be rational. So that user's directory get's trashed. but trashing that directory also kills off the malware. If it doesn't a simple search for that user's remaining files will. All that remains is a simple backup restore and your good to go. total time to repair maybe an hour.
To clean a Windows box means reinstalling the entire damn thing.
It is also a lot harder to use a *nix based box as a botnet zombie. It isn't impossible, but each machine has to be manually cracked, unlike Windows up to XP which it can be fully automated. I will hold off on final Vista judgments until more information can be gathered.
To Quote Scotty in Star Trek III The more they over think the plumbing the easier it is to stop up the drain.
Simple *nix user level security has proven for over 20 years to be more effective than anything MSFT has produce in the same amount of time.
ACL's make life easier for large installs, but it is the small ones that cause the most problems. That is why large *nix installs use both.
copyright law allows for fair use. That includes taking sections of TV shows and using them in your own work. you can't use it all, and you must credit them, but it is still possible.
Heck most major TV news shows do just that.
Not really Adobe has yet to update photoshop of Intel Mac's. Why would vista be any different? They might be working on it now. That's not to say it won't run it just won't run well.
It seems odd and yet not that no one has Vista read apps yet every one has known about vista for years.
Of course most were probably expecting MSFT to delay vista again and figured they had more time.
your on a hike, you come across a boulder. It's to steep to climb so you look left, and look right and guess which way to go based off of your last route which very rarely goes directly behind the rock.
You move a few steps and look again. rarely do you go backwards.
You don't need to know how big the rock is. you need to be able to choose based on the route you want.
I am actually surprised no one has done this before. The Nasa people can figure out specifics, but a number of comm satellites in mars orbit, plus an number in ours to act as relays to mission headquarters.
Your talking about maybe a dozen total communication relays, and then every probe sent to mars would only need to be able to reach orbit saving lot's of power for other tools and test equipment.
Charge the ESA, russia, or anyone else a bit of cash for relay use, and help pay for it.
Just hope they don't lose their wi-fi connection and you have to go their to reboot the machine.
being able to access your data and apps anywhere is just as useful when your laptop gets stolen.
In the en it is a mixed bag. Somethings will require local data. Other times i really miss having everything on the network. Finding a balance between the two will be the best bet.
Besides a corporation or government who gives their employees data to take home is just asking for trouble. How much of ten's of thousands of customer personal data has been lost your way?
I just am tired of waiting for corporations to stand up and upgrade their networks to even present standards. the USA doesn't even have 3G yet Japan and europe are working on going beyond that.
No one is saying that Cisco didn't have the iPhone name but trademarks without current products don't last long. In decmember Cisco suddenly announces a generic VOIP phone named iPhone. It had been years since Cisco had used that trademark. Apple had to have been in negotiations with Cisco when that product was released.
So Cisco finally compromised that they both can use the name. Apple might have thrown them a bone. but the iPhone trademark isn't Cisco's alone.
actually my idea is similar. a ~20gb flash drive that normally mounts as read only to contain the OS, and the last ram state. The OS wouldn't need to boot but simply start working again from that point.
Applications, etc stored on the Hard drive, with user settings and folders stored on a removable flash drive. You can do most of that now with any *nix's. If OS X 10.5(leopard) really includes home on ipod then the rest of the system is done as well. The hard part would be to create a portable security system that let's you transplant users.
While the speed of light may be constant it doesn't mean there aren't other ways around the problem.
Let's figure out how first.
Besides why would an alien race need the whole galaxy? A small section would do. Even so they could have died out millions of years ago. Or we could be the first advanced race and as we reach out amoung the stars we shall find other less advanced races.
What is this IRC?
Pictures can be faked.
actually i can see a use for this tracking technology. Think a military complex. Not only does one have an ID card, but in order to access a secured area they have to have the RFID chip.
With additional sensors placed through out a complex, tracking one person would be easier. Though not fool proof. a dedicated attacker would still get by it would be harder.
I don't see the point of having these things in the general population though. or even for Foreigners. heck even tracking inventory by them isn't that great.(how many times have you set off one a stores alarms?
My cell phone will if it attempts to call out to a tower at the moment when i am to close.
I did say if you have a mind to fix the problem yourself. Linux isn't for everyone. I personally don't think it will be for everyone. But it is perfect for IT depts and large scale deployments. Where the end user just needs something that works.
Answer this question. Would you trust your life to windows operating properly? Fact is Computers aren't mature enough the OS's are to bloated. With the advances in Hardware MicroKernels could make a real comeback and still have decent performance. Systems that don't die completely when just one poorly written app is used.
Of course saying that is like saying one day Java will be fast. One can dream but that isn't going to make it true.
And what happens when the drivers don't work quite right but instead hang the entire kernel on you while your doing some menial task.
Who's fault is it? Who do you go to get help? I have had the NVidia driver die on me but it killed off the system. when you have a closed blob you can't figure out which part is broken. is it the kernel, or is it a driver?
That is what is wrong with them. Even on windows. how do you know which part really breaks? is it the crappy third party drivers, or is it MSFT's interface? Both sides blame each other if you ask them. All you can do is throw out the card or wait for an update. At least with linux if you have the mind to you can do the work yourself.
What flame? if I had mod points I would mod you up from both my mac's.
Apple is just as controlling as MSFT. Because of that Apple will never replace MSFT as the lead OS.
My only hope is that No ONE company does. I don't want monopoly OS's I want lots of variability. That is called competition.
what do you think open grid is? it is just a gui wrapper around Xgrid.
And Xgrid only works on macs. sine it is just a daemon for the client there isn't any reason why it couldn't be ported to any other *nix, but that is up to apple to do. A simple google search would show you that someone has already duplicated xgrid's functionality with the help of apple. Tying at least Linux boxes into the client network. It looks like it hasn't taken off, but then again neither has xgrid. maybe this project will help both.
don't worry I am sure the mods will mod you down for self referencing yourself.
Oh wait this is slashdot that never happens here.
As long as your not in restricted airspce you can fly in what ever circle you want. the sky is like the water, while there are "lanes" they are loosely defiend and fill a fraction of the total area in which one can fly.