It was supposed to be a joke. See, the user is really just an installer because he spends all his time compiling and installing and never actually gets to use it. Lighten up.
At least the US got rid of Tom Dashcle after his wife ( a major lobbyist for Boeing ) tried to sucker Uncle Sam into a $37B lease of a fleet of 100 767's for 10 years when the outright purchase would have cost $25B and the service life was expected to be 20 years according to the CBO.
The bigger picture is that the Euro's seem to have a complete disdain for open markets, and I worry that they won't change until their taxes are outrageous and unemployment tops 10%.
Even Linux gets to 99% penetration, it will not suffer as badly as Windows for normal users. Linux is easier to fix if it does become infected. Fixing Windows is painful. Suppose my applications or/usr/bin/ gets modified by an attacker. I can simply boot from CD, reinstall anything I suspect was hacked. The users home partition can be set to noexec so that you have to be root to install software. Speaking of CD's you can run a whole system off of a bootable CD. It's pretty hard to get virii on those. Applications can be run in chroot jails. You can use the new SELinux extensions. There are more options to protect yourself with Linux, and if new attacks are developed then new defenses can be built.
I don't think that users are stupid, they are trying to use VERY complicated products that they haven't had any real training on, and 99.9% of the time there is no printed manual to help them. (On line help isn't much good when your computer flashes the blue screen.) SPAM is not the fault of stupid users. If e-mail recipients had a reliable way to identify the sender much of it would go away. ( I know you can get authenticated/encrypted e-mail, but it's never the default.)
Is that true? That seems like a poor motivation, kinda the same reason you do dishes or laundry.
If I did this film the motivation would be Zaphod. I always thought he was the most enjoyable character and the theft of the Heart of Gold would be awesome on the silver screen.
I'm glad this gets a negative reaction but I still remember how glad everyone was when Russ Fiengold and John McCain passed a law that said free-speech doesn't apply to politics. Political free speech is going to need more protection, either from new judges or another amendment.
You haven't seen the Muslim concentration camps? I guess its worked! By keeping a camp in Cuba, and others in Iraq, and using the 2 second long attention span of the average ignorant american to their advantage, they've succeeded in keeping them hidden from you.
Right, none of us dumb Americans don't know nothing about no Guantanamo. When did the term concentration camp get extended to prisons for foreign militants dedicated to violence against our civilians?
Do you really think you are being protected by allowing your rights to be stripped away? Can't you see that the protection you think you are getting is far worse than the alternative... that being your freedom gone forever by the hands of your own government?
I think I am being protected by the US military. I also firmly believe that President Bush will appoint judges that will read the f***ing US Constituion instead of sticking a goddam finger in the air to make decisions. That will restore more freedom than all the things John Forbes Kerry ever promised to do (but wouldn't have if he got in control).
Your government created most of their own enemies in recent times. If they would just treat the world with the same respect they think they deserve for themselves, you wouldnt have any need for fear inducing war-mongering imbicile presidents!
The problem of treating the World with respect is that it's impossible. If you want to treat a Muslim country with respect you have to agree that savage beating of women is OK. So, you're not treating women with respect. If you want to treat Taiwan with respect you're going to piss off China. If Bush is an imbicile, why does he keep beating the Democrats even with all the fraudulent votes they get from illegals and deceased? Pretty good considering 90% of the press are Democrats and the schools are feeding kids left wing propaganda on a daily basis.
Dont you remember how your government gave the chemical weapon technology to Hussein to use on Iraq, that he instead used on his own people? And how only a year later your government gave weapons to Iran to use on Iraq?
No, and repeating something doesn't make it true.
Dont you remember how Bin Laden was trained by the CIA and given $3billion n funding to help fight against the soviets in Afghanistan, and how for decades the Bush family has kept close financial ties to the Bin Laden's?
So we should have let the Soviets roll over Afghanistan?
Don't you recall Noriega? A Trained CIA officer that decided to go his own way?
How about the dreaded Pinochet? Dreaded murderous dictator, installed by your government in Chile?
Doesn't it make you even a little quesy how Bush can be so hard against terrorism, and yet he worships the well known terrorist leader of Libya, who has many billions to spend on blowing up whatever he wants... which of course was one of the reasons given for taking out Hussein.
Or how Bush is best friends with Pakistan... that would be the nuclear capable military dictatorship of pakistan.
Or how Dubya can't even say nuclear properly?
I love reading rants like this because they so often come down to blanket criticism of past US foreign policy and then berating Bush for not doing the exact same thing. He said the past strategy of coddling friendly dictators and promoting 'stability' had failed and it's time to change the plan to promote real stability through democracy. Would you rather have a bunch of North Korea's and Cuba's sprouting up all over?
Overthrowing Bush would have meant installing Kerry, and he's proven himself to be much more interested in spying on the public than Bush/Ashcroft. (Nobody remembers the clipper chip that Kerry was so fond of that Ashcroft opposed?) I don't see Muslim concentration camps being built. I see people who are trying very hard to protect the American public even though the Constituion (rightly) limits their actions.
I'm sure Hans would like to know the bugs you are experiencing. I'd be pretty curious, too, since I've never had any problems with Reiserfs v3. I've never used v4 (except some testing). Maybe you have one of the hardware problems described on their website? http://www.namesys.com/
The best damn insert-sort in the world might crawl next to the slowest heap-sort. Organizing your data in ways that are more efficient to access and manipulate gives much bigger gains than optimizing by hand.
Hashes DO tell you about the payload. If the hash is of an e-mail message, there might be less sensible short english messages than hash values and the size of the hash set statistically precludes other sensible messages (if it didn't, a better hash function would have been used.)
Morality aside, is that illegal under anti-trust laws? I can't sell you a car and refuse honor the warranty if you don't buy my brand of oil and filter. If someone buys MicroSoft Office and they want to run it under Wine, I would expect that they are legally entitled to product updates, especially bugfixes, even if the EULA says not because law would trump it.
salvorHardin: Of course they did. I don't recall anybody going up to Stalin, looking him in the eye and saying "You're WRONG and you're a GROTESEQUELY UGLY FREAK". Well, nobody that lived, anyway.
Yeah, too bad that was before personal nucleic force-fields. May the Galactic Spirit be with you.
So, people who would benefit from a 24/96 ogg are extremely small in number.
I might be one of them though. I love the huge compression, I don't notice the ogg/vorbis artifacts, but I DO notice the clipping on some CD's. I bet clipping is almost nil on 24 bits. (It SHOULD be very rare on a regular audio CD, but it's not. Well, my scientific research involved ripping Faint by Linkin Park and looking at the waveform in Audacity. Lots of flats at the top and bottom that add noise and kill punch.)
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Didn't someone publish an algorithm for factoring that ran on O(n^(1/4))?
"Don't listen to my f***ing phone calls you goddam inbred motherf***er! If you do, I'll shove a cactus up your ass!"
It was supposed to be a joke. See, the user is really just an installer because he spends all his time compiling and installing and never actually gets to use it. Lighten up.
Does Gentoo have users? I though they only had installers.
The bigger picture is that the Euro's seem to have a complete disdain for open markets, and I worry that they won't change until their taxes are outrageous and unemployment tops 10%.
I don't think that users are stupid, they are trying to use VERY complicated products that they haven't had any real training on, and 99.9% of the time there is no printed manual to help them. (On line help isn't much good when your computer flashes the blue screen.) SPAM is not the fault of stupid users. If e-mail recipients had a reliable way to identify the sender much of it would go away. ( I know you can get authenticated /encrypted e-mail, but it's never the default.)
If I did this film the motivation would be Zaphod. I always thought he was the most enjoyable character and the theft of the Heart of Gold would be awesome on the silver screen.
Check out http://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=102048
I've been using DRI with kernel 2.6.11.something and VIA KM400. I get ~800 fps on glxgears and Xv works.
If the $500 was for a used sheep (or Courney Love), yep.
Doctors and hospitals need this techology right now so they can weigh patients like Calista Flockhart.
Wow. These poor guys will be branded as Berkeley alumni for life.
I'm glad this gets a negative reaction but I still remember how glad everyone was when Russ Fiengold and John McCain passed a law that said free-speech doesn't apply to politics. Political free speech is going to need more protection, either from new judges or another amendment.
Right, none of us dumb Americans don't know nothing about no Guantanamo. When did the term concentration camp get extended to prisons for foreign militants dedicated to violence against our civilians?
Do you really think you are being protected by allowing your rights to be stripped away? Can't you see that the protection you think you are getting is far worse than the alternative ... that being your freedom gone forever by the hands of your own government?
I think I am being protected by the US military. I also firmly believe that President Bush will appoint judges that will read the f***ing US Constituion instead of sticking a goddam finger in the air to make decisions. That will restore more freedom than all the things John Forbes Kerry ever promised to do (but wouldn't have if he got in control).
Your government created most of their own enemies in recent times. If they would just treat the world with the same respect they think they deserve for themselves, you wouldnt have any need for fear inducing war-mongering imbicile presidents!
The problem of treating the World with respect is that it's impossible. If you want to treat a Muslim country with respect you have to agree that savage beating of women is OK. So, you're not treating women with respect. If you want to treat Taiwan with respect you're going to piss off China. If Bush is an imbicile, why does he keep beating the Democrats even with all the fraudulent votes they get from illegals and deceased? Pretty good considering 90% of the press are Democrats and the schools are feeding kids left wing propaganda on a daily basis.
Dont you remember how your government gave the chemical weapon technology to Hussein to use on Iraq, that he instead used on his own people? And how only a year later your government gave weapons to Iran to use on Iraq?
No, and repeating something doesn't make it true.
Dont you remember how Bin Laden was trained by the CIA and given $3billion n funding to help fight against the soviets in Afghanistan, and how for decades the Bush family has kept close financial ties to the Bin Laden's?
So we should have let the Soviets roll over Afghanistan?
Don't you recall Noriega? A Trained CIA officer that decided to go his own way? How about the dreaded Pinochet? Dreaded murderous dictator, installed by your government in Chile? Doesn't it make you even a little quesy how Bush can be so hard against terrorism, and yet he worships the well known terrorist leader of Libya, who has many billions to spend on blowing up whatever he wants ... which of course was one of the reasons given for taking out Hussein.
Or how Bush is best friends with Pakistan ... that would be the nuclear capable military dictatorship of pakistan.
Or how Dubya can't even say nuclear properly?
I love reading rants like this because they so often come down to blanket criticism of past US foreign policy and then berating Bush for not doing the exact same thing. He said the past strategy of coddling friendly dictators and promoting 'stability' had failed and it's time to change the plan to promote real stability through democracy. Would you rather have a bunch of North Korea's and Cuba's sprouting up all over?
You obviously live in a Red State/Red County.
You obviously don't have anything relevant to discuss.
Overthrowing Bush would have meant installing Kerry, and he's proven himself to be much more interested in spying on the public than Bush/Ashcroft. (Nobody remembers the clipper chip that Kerry was so fond of that Ashcroft opposed?) I don't see Muslim concentration camps being built. I see people who are trying very hard to protect the American public even though the Constituion (rightly) limits their actions.
I'm sure Hans would like to know the bugs you are experiencing. I'd be pretty curious, too, since I've never had any problems with Reiserfs v3. I've never used v4 (except some testing). Maybe you have one of the hardware problems described on their website? http://www.namesys.com/
It will be faster, allow plugins, and is available right now.
They also require a copy of the original data so they can tell if the damage was caused by MicroSoft.
The best damn insert-sort in the world might crawl next to the slowest heap-sort. Organizing your data in ways that are more efficient to access and manipulate gives much bigger gains than optimizing by hand.
Unfortunately the opinion piece was written in French, so no one will ever know for certain.
Hashes DO tell you about the payload. If the hash is of an e-mail message, there might be less sensible short english messages than hash values and the size of the hash set statistically precludes other sensible messages (if it didn't, a better hash function would have been used.)
At least linux has some HOWTO's. Windows doesn't come with a printed manual.
Morality aside, is that illegal under anti-trust laws? I can't sell you a car and refuse honor the warranty if you don't buy my brand of oil and filter. If someone buys MicroSoft Office and they want to run it under Wine, I would expect that they are legally entitled to product updates, especially bugfixes, even if the EULA says not because law would trump it.
salvorHardin: Of course they did. I don't recall anybody going up to Stalin, looking him in the eye and saying "You're WRONG and you're a GROTESEQUELY UGLY FREAK". Well, nobody that lived, anyway.
Yeah, too bad that was before personal nucleic force-fields. May the Galactic Spirit be with you.
I might be one of them though. I love the huge compression, I don't notice the ogg/vorbis artifacts, but I DO notice the clipping on some CD's. I bet clipping is almost nil on 24 bits. (It SHOULD be very rare on a regular audio CD, but it's not. Well, my scientific research involved ripping Faint by Linkin Park and looking at the waveform in Audacity. Lots of flats at the top and bottom that add noise and kill punch.)