The 55mph speed limit was supposedly created for fuel economy, all the rest are about safety. FYI: all my cars get better fuel economy between 75-110 mph than below 70. I actually did 35mpg @ 95mph through the mountains over a 300 mile stretch. I've also driven 155mph, ~250kph, on the glorious autobahn in Germany, so no, this isn't unusual or odd or even dangerous if you know what you're doing. It's one way I clocked 10s of thousands of miles in Europe in general. Also, there's nothing quite as interesting as getting passed while you're going 150mph. Those ferraris and porsches really do drive, and we won't mention the suicide rockets (motorcycles.... gives me shivers).
Note: trucks, including pickups and SUVs, almost all uniformly obtain better fuel economy below 70 mph, as do most underpowered small-engined econo-boxes.
Automatic transmissions remove the need to pay attention from various aspects of driving. This is fine once you know how to drive, but doesn't help you "learn" to drive, which is what makes you a better driver. My biggest beef with automatics is they're largely unresponsive and don't do what I want them to.
First of all, you're talking about a shell, not the terminal. Very true, didn't think I needed to make the distinction. It's called "Terminal" in OSX, but is merely a shell.
...Furthermore, contrary to the typical uninformed beliefs of OS X and Linux users, Windows has a relatively functional command interpreter and scripting. I don't personally like the scripting language, so I just install perl and use that instead. Works just fine most of the time. Certainly not as feature-rich as a BSD-derived shell, but functional enough for what is otherwise a consumer-grade system focused on simplifying computing tasks for end users. I'd disagree. It's so brain-dead that it becomes next to useless. The only reason I still use it is because explorer itself is so fubar'd at this point that I sometimes need to use the shell to see a directory's contents within a reasonable time. The ability to run another library within it is irrelevant, as I could just as easily say you could run Cygwin... Hey, look at that, I did.
Heck, I'd like the ability to use a forward slash instead of a backwards slash
You can. In fact, I always do. The only exception is if you use UNC paths. The ability to use forward slashes is so inconsistent that you're better off using backslashes everywhere on a windows system. But the ability to sometimes use them isn't the point. The point is that the backslash was an incompatibility introduced consciously into DOS and propagated throughout MS's OS line and could have at least been settable with the advent of NT.
An OS that cripples network connectivity because an audio file is being played or that becomes entirely unreliable once 14,600 or so files are copied is unreliable
XP doesn't do either of those things, and Vista is widely criticized both inside and outside the Microsoft user base. I believe that segment explicitly addressed Vista, not XP. Nice red herring.
I love how your ilk are so typically ill-informed about the things you hate. Maybe before you insist on criticizing other systems, you should actually use them first. I have to help support OS X machines for our print ad guys, Windows machines for everyone else, and I use BSD machines to build web apps and manage the servers that are my responsibility. They all seem to work just fine for the things they've been built to do, but maybe competently running an IT department with a blind eye to arbitrary things like who's company logo is on the box is just something M$-loving astroturfers do, huh? I love your assumptions. My weakest OS is Irix, followed by HPUX, BSD, Linux, and Solaris, even though I own boxes that are currently running 3 of those at home and have worked with them for the past 13 or so years. And yet they're my weakest OSes. So perhaps I'm not astroturfing MS, but actually may have a background peppered with MS failures and even been the victim of a strong-arm tactic or two of theirs? Naah, that couldn't possibly be the case since some small network admin claims competence over sharing some printers and a web app or two.
Perhaps one day I'll detail some of MS's shortcomings in my journal. Then I can just point to that whenever some troll comes along.
why yes, I'd love to have transparent ssh connectivity to a variety of servers out there from the cmd prompt under windows. I've yet to see anything remotely approaching it (putty and its ilk do not count, it's a GUI program masquerading as a text screen.)
Heck, I'd like the ability to use a forward slash instead of a backwards slash (that's the universal escape character, not a path separator, and something MS should have given an option to change more than a decade ago when CPM, DRDOS, PCDOS, and OS/2 all fell by the wayside). And no, Cygwin certainly doesn't count, a yugo is a yugo....
And just in case you're thinking "Vista provides 'x'" that entire sentence or any like it is a non-starter as soon as "Vista" is included. An OS that cripples network connectivity because an audio file is being played or that becomes entirely unreliable once 14,600 or so files are copied is unreliable (in case you're wondering, every build I do today copies over 5K files, and a setup/SVN installation is about 3 times that. So that limitation immediately renders that "OS" entirely useless. In fact, it reminds me of the last MS clusterfuck foray into the server world - The Windows NT 4.0 page counter mismatch (fixed in 4.0 SP1, guaranteed corruption of memory/files/OS once you paged past 20 bits, kernel counter was 20 bit counter, memory counter was 32 bit.... oops) Oh, and should I also mention that SP1 won't include a fix for this "minor" issue?
Can we say "MS Who?" (You will be in less than 10 years.)
we could just go - there's 1 reason OSX is better than MS crap: the "Terminal" a real, honest to goodness command shell with actual functionality that allows it to talk to every server class OS out there.
First thing - using a mirror film to concentrate the light onto each single PVC allows for very lightweight high efficiency solar power conversion, about 40%. Since the light in space is more intense that that which reaches earth filtered by miles of atmosphere, and the 100+:1 ratio, that 150 acres will be well under 1 actual acre of PVCs. That's still a lot of PVCs, but far less than you were thinking.
The Shuttle cannot get anywhere near geosynchronous orbit. They'd be far far better off using a new Delta IV rocket.
But then, you're assuming that they're going to be sending up PVCs.... Why not just the mirror framework and send a nice 5-10MW down as... sunlight? Not only could it be a nice power source, but also a really nice weapon, just turn up your enemies to "sunny side up".
I can think of less than a handful of games that don't have DRM. Galactic Civilizations II for one from Stardock Systems. Yes, I bought it partially to support their no DRM/copy protection pledge (there's absolutely no copy protection of any type on it) and also because I just like the game.
I'd say the entire packet is the envelope. Opening it just for header info can be just as revealing as reading the contents. It's one of the reasons why early on everyone equated email with postcards, and encrypted email with envelopes. Encryption doesn't guarantee privacy as all of it can be broken, but it at least makes it non-trivial if someone wants to casually read it. That would be very similar to reading mail in envelopes.
Based on government regulations and supposed required bidding processes, it should have been impossible for the NSA to make conditional a set of contracts based on another set of contracts or requests. If that truly was done, there should be heads rolling at the NSA procurement division.
In short, gov contracts are either competitively bid, or they are single sourced. In the former case, if you're the low bidder and will deliver the products, then you "win". They can't give it to someone else without negating one or the other of those two acceptance criteria. In the latter, the fact that it was single-sourced requires documentation as to why the open bid process could not be done. That documentation alone would negate giving the contract to someone else.
Do remember the government is not in the business of scratching backs. (good grief, I almost said that with a straight face...)
Because if private (government sponsored monopoly) companies start doing monitoring and policing as an extension of the government, you're about half a step from a police state.
Actually, I believe it only your duty to report illegal activities.
Your example victims are all cases of illegal activities, morality plays no part there.
I believe you actually meant it's your "legal and moral duty to report illegal activities". I'm sure your "immoral" aspect was meant to qualify truly "must report" illegal activities from such travesties of justice such as going 66 in a 65 speed zone or crossing in the middle of a deserted street, which are also both illegal in many areas.
Actually, their "job" as an ISP is to provide you service. Nothing more, nothing less. Even regarding kiddie porn, as despicable as that is, it is not their job to censor or even monitor that activity.
I know it's a novel concept in our brave new world, but a service provider should just provide service, and leave the monitoring/policing to separate entities whose responsibilities cover those aspects. Otherwise, we all might as well get chipped with GPS locators and audio/video recorders and route everything to your nearest friendly community overlord.
At least you had a warranty period. With CDs, your warranty period lasts until you crack that plastic shrink wrap.
I guess if you happen to have a music store handy that happens to stock what you want. What if the only place that has it is your local Best Buy (ok - at the price you want to pay that day;) Amazon etc are alternatives, but like the aforementioned Gilmore CD, non-existent.
Ebay didn't yet exist when I was hunting for the aforementioned CD.
I guess I view downloading as not much different from recording it off the radio, back when radio actually played music.
Saying that a music downloader is not a customer is not correct, either.... If you downloaded the song and are enjoying it for free, you are indeed a customer... If you were forced to get your song legally to be able to enjoy it, you would indeed be paying.... I know people that sample music via downloading. That makes them potential customers. In many cases, the music they download is sampled and chunked, because it sucks. Hence no sale.
Name me another industry wherein you can buy a product that has been advertised to you as being one thing and winds up being much less than what it was advertised as, yet you cannot return it. (Even in movie theaters you can walk out during a movie and reclaim your cash)
As for your last statement, what about music that you cannot buy? Try obtaining a copy of David Gilmore's About Face as an example of a not so obscure artist with a release that had a Top 40 song in the US on it. (FYI: I have a legit CD, found it in Germany of all places)
Actually, DRM is only required for HDCP enabled systems by the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD patent owners. There's nothing inherent in either system that requires DRM. The only thing you'll lose is the ability to play DRM'd content if the system doesn't support the appropriate DRM.
I'm fine with that as I'd like nothing more than to be able to store my entire collection of photos on a single backup disk more than I care about playing movies back in either format.
First, if you're hacking your iPhone, why on earth are you patching it from Apple?
Second, if you're hacking your iPhone, you probably should be smart enough to patch it yourself, or at least use a patch coming from the same community that created your hack.
I mainly see the "bricking complaint" as nothing more than some of PT Barnum's quotes being acted out in RL.
Have you tried Outlook 2007 yet? Yep, still don't like it, for all the reasons I disliked Outlook 2003, 2000, and 97.
#1 reason is the huge disservice that MS did to the world of email in completely borking up the established quoted response format. #2 it doesn't handle email correctly, and sometimes misreads or trashes attachments #3 the PST is a pile of proprietary crap. (If you've never tried to recover one, you won't understand why) #4 it doesn't handle headers well, and certainly doesn't display them in a useful format. #5 did I mention that it screws up quoting in replies?
Now, all that said, GMail is a nice web interface, far nicer than OWA. It also is nicer than a large segment of the email clients out there.
However, it's not really what I'm looking for either, aside from the privacy concerns about all your mail going through Google, AKA the insidious DB overlords. What is a little surprising is that considering that email is the number 1 used application on the internet, and people work with it day in and day out, that Email clients have pretty much stopped development about 15 years ago. Then again, with them being essentially free these days, who is going to spend any time developing a new system that would have to be backwards compatible with the current system?
So when will this lawyer be disbarred for obviously, knowlingly, and willingly breaking the law, not to mention bringing disrepect and irreparable harm to the image of the courts and integrity of lawyers?
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The 55mph speed limit was supposedly created for fuel economy, all the rest are about safety. FYI: all my cars get better fuel economy between 75-110 mph than below 70. I actually did 35mpg @ 95mph through the mountains over a 300 mile stretch. I've also driven 155mph, ~250kph, on the glorious autobahn in Germany, so no, this isn't unusual or odd or even dangerous if you know what you're doing. It's one way I clocked 10s of thousands of miles in Europe in general. Also, there's nothing quite as interesting as getting passed while you're going 150mph. Those ferraris and porsches really do drive, and we won't mention the suicide rockets (motorcycles.... gives me shivers).
Note: trucks, including pickups and SUVs, almost all uniformly obtain better fuel economy below 70 mph, as do most underpowered small-engined econo-boxes.
Automatic transmissions remove the need to pay attention from various aspects of driving. This is fine once you know how to drive, but doesn't help you "learn" to drive, which is what makes you a better driver. My biggest beef with automatics is they're largely unresponsive and don't do what I want them to.
That's why you use a "junk" email address for posting... I get virtually no spam in my email addresses, even ones that date back to 98...
...Furthermore, contrary to the typical uninformed beliefs of OS X and Linux users, Windows has a relatively functional command interpreter and scripting. I don't personally like the scripting language, so I just install perl and use that instead. Works just fine most of the time. Certainly not as feature-rich as a BSD-derived shell, but functional enough for what is otherwise a consumer-grade system focused on simplifying computing tasks for end users. I'd disagree. It's so brain-dead that it becomes next to useless. The only reason I still use it is because explorer itself is so fubar'd at this point that I sometimes need to use the shell to see a directory's contents within a reasonable time. The ability to run another library within it is irrelevant, as I could just as easily say you could run Cygwin... Hey, look at that, I did.You can. In fact, I always do. The only exception is if you use UNC paths. The ability to use forward slashes is so inconsistent that you're better off using backslashes everywhere on a windows system. But the ability to sometimes use them isn't the point. The point is that the backslash was an incompatibility introduced consciously into DOS and propagated throughout MS's OS line and could have at least been settable with the advent of NT.
XP doesn't do either of those things, and Vista is widely criticized both inside and outside the Microsoft user base. I believe that segment explicitly addressed Vista, not XP. Nice red herring. I love how your ilk are so typically ill-informed about the things you hate. Maybe before you insist on criticizing other systems, you should actually use them first. I have to help support OS X machines for our print ad guys, Windows machines for everyone else, and I use BSD machines to build web apps and manage the servers that are my responsibility. They all seem to work just fine for the things they've been built to do, but maybe competently running an IT department with a blind eye to arbitrary things like who's company logo is on the box is just something M$-loving astroturfers do, huh? I love your assumptions. My weakest OS is Irix, followed by HPUX, BSD, Linux, and Solaris, even though I own boxes that are currently running 3 of those at home and have worked with them for the past 13 or so years. And yet they're my weakest OSes. So perhaps I'm not astroturfing MS, but actually may have a background peppered with MS failures and even been the victim of a strong-arm tactic or two of theirs? Naah, that couldn't possibly be the case since some small network admin claims competence over sharing some printers and a web app or two.
Perhaps one day I'll detail some of MS's shortcomings in my journal. Then I can just point to that whenever some troll comes along.
why yes, I'd love to have transparent ssh connectivity to a variety of servers out there from the cmd prompt under windows. I've yet to see anything remotely approaching it (putty and its ilk do not count, it's a GUI program masquerading as a text screen.)
Heck, I'd like the ability to use a forward slash instead of a backwards slash (that's the universal escape character, not a path separator, and something MS should have given an option to change more than a decade ago when CPM, DRDOS, PCDOS, and OS/2 all fell by the wayside). And no, Cygwin certainly doesn't count, a yugo is a yugo....
And just in case you're thinking "Vista provides 'x'" that entire sentence or any like it is a non-starter as soon as "Vista" is included. An OS that cripples network connectivity because an audio file is being played or that becomes entirely unreliable once 14,600 or so files are copied is unreliable (in case you're wondering, every build I do today copies over 5K files, and a setup/SVN installation is about 3 times that. So that limitation immediately renders that "OS" entirely useless. In fact, it reminds me of the last MS clusterfuck foray into the server world - The Windows NT 4.0 page counter mismatch (fixed in 4.0 SP1, guaranteed corruption of memory/files/OS once you paged past 20 bits, kernel counter was 20 bit counter, memory counter was 32 bit.... oops) Oh, and should I also mention that SP1 won't include a fix for this "minor" issue?
Can we say "MS Who?" (You will be in less than 10 years.)
we could just go - there's 1 reason OSX is better than MS crap: the "Terminal" a real, honest to goodness command shell with actual functionality that allows it to talk to every server class OS out there.
It's also the same numbering scheme as OS/2: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, then the move to 32 bit: 2.0, 2.1, 2.11, 2.3 (Warp 3), 2.4 (Warp 4).
Great sarcastic troll! Kudos!
I would definitely mod you funny if I had points.
First thing - using a mirror film to concentrate the light onto each single PVC allows for very lightweight high efficiency solar power conversion, about 40%. Since the light in space is more intense that that which reaches earth filtered by miles of atmosphere, and the 100+:1 ratio, that 150 acres will be well under 1 actual acre of PVCs. That's still a lot of PVCs, but far less than you were thinking.
The Shuttle cannot get anywhere near geosynchronous orbit. They'd be far far better off using a new Delta IV rocket.
But then, you're assuming that they're going to be sending up PVCs.... Why not just the mirror framework and send a nice 5-10MW down as... sunlight? Not only could it be a nice power source, but also a really nice weapon, just turn up your enemies to "sunny side up".
I'd say the entire packet is the envelope. Opening it just for header info can be just as revealing as reading the contents. It's one of the reasons why early on everyone equated email with postcards, and encrypted email with envelopes. Encryption doesn't guarantee privacy as all of it can be broken, but it at least makes it non-trivial if someone wants to casually read it. That would be very similar to reading mail in envelopes.
Based on government regulations and supposed required bidding processes, it should have been impossible for the NSA to make conditional a set of contracts based on another set of contracts or requests. If that truly was done, there should be heads rolling at the NSA procurement division.
In short, gov contracts are either competitively bid, or they are single sourced. In the former case, if you're the low bidder and will deliver the products, then you "win". They can't give it to someone else without negating one or the other of those two acceptance criteria. In the latter, the fact that it was single-sourced requires documentation as to why the open bid process could not be done. That documentation alone would negate giving the contract to someone else.
Do remember the government is not in the business of scratching backs. (good grief, I almost said that with a straight face...)
Because if private (government sponsored monopoly) companies start doing monitoring and policing as an extension of the government, you're about half a step from a police state.
Actually, I believe it only your duty to report illegal activities.
Your example victims are all cases of illegal activities, morality plays no part there.
I believe you actually meant it's your "legal and moral duty to report illegal activities". I'm sure your "immoral" aspect was meant to qualify truly "must report" illegal activities from such travesties of justice such as going 66 in a 65 speed zone or crossing in the middle of a deserted street, which are also both illegal in many areas.
Actually, their "job" as an ISP is to provide you service. Nothing more, nothing less. Even regarding kiddie porn, as despicable as that is, it is not their job to censor or even monitor that activity.
I know it's a novel concept in our brave new world, but a service provider should just provide service, and leave the monitoring/policing to separate entities whose responsibilities cover those aspects. Otherwise, we all might as well get chipped with GPS locators and audio/video recorders and route everything to your nearest friendly community overlord.
They could always pull a Sun and jump to Mozilla 5 (I guess 4 would work fine too)
I'm sure if he's watching porn movies, astrology magazines would be the more commonly associated reading material....
At least you had a warranty period. With CDs, your warranty period lasts until you crack that plastic shrink wrap.
I guess if you happen to have a music store handy that happens to stock what you want. What if the only place that has it is your local Best Buy (ok - at the price you want to pay that day;) Amazon etc are alternatives, but like the aforementioned Gilmore CD, non-existent.
Ebay didn't yet exist when I was hunting for the aforementioned CD.
I guess I view downloading as not much different from recording it off the radio, back when radio actually played music.
Name me another industry wherein you can buy a product that has been advertised to you as being one thing and winds up being much less than what it was advertised as, yet you cannot return it. (Even in movie theaters you can walk out during a movie and reclaim your cash)
As for your last statement, what about music that you cannot buy? Try obtaining a copy of David Gilmore's About Face as an example of a not so obscure artist with a release that had a Top 40 song in the US on it. (FYI: I have a legit CD, found it in Germany of all places)
Actually, DRM is only required for HDCP enabled systems by the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD patent owners. There's nothing inherent in either system that requires DRM. The only thing you'll lose is the ability to play DRM'd content if the system doesn't support the appropriate DRM.
I'm fine with that as I'd like nothing more than to be able to store my entire collection of photos on a single backup disk more than I care about playing movies back in either format.
First, if you're hacking your iPhone, why on earth are you patching it from Apple?
Second, if you're hacking your iPhone, you probably should be smart enough to patch it yourself, or at least use a patch coming from the same community that created your hack.
I mainly see the "bricking complaint" as nothing more than some of PT Barnum's quotes being acted out in RL.
I wonder if IBM would be so kind as to donate (D)SOM to Linux et al. Don't know what it would take, but it certainly worked, as opposed to (D)COM.
#1 reason is the huge disservice that MS did to the world of email in completely borking up the established quoted response format.
#2 it doesn't handle email correctly, and sometimes misreads or trashes attachments
#3 the PST is a pile of proprietary crap. (If you've never tried to recover one, you won't understand why)
#4 it doesn't handle headers well, and certainly doesn't display them in a useful format.
#5 did I mention that it screws up quoting in replies?
Now, all that said, GMail is a nice web interface, far nicer than OWA. It also is nicer than a large segment of the email clients out there.
However, it's not really what I'm looking for either, aside from the privacy concerns about all your mail going through Google, AKA the insidious DB overlords. What is a little surprising is that considering that email is the number 1 used application on the internet, and people work with it day in and day out, that Email clients have pretty much stopped development about 15 years ago. Then again, with them being essentially free these days, who is going to spend any time developing a new system that would have to be backwards compatible with the current system?
You could, but the underlying protocol itself is inherently sessionless.
It's why UDP can load a network to 99% of theoretical throughput while TCP gets a maximum of roughly 60% under optimum conditions.
So when will this lawyer be disbarred for obviously, knowlingly, and willingly breaking the law, not to mention bringing disrepect and irreparable harm to the image of the courts and integrity of lawyers?
Well, you know, there's always the chance they'll get disbarred. Not that throwing away 6-8 years of paid schooling should bother anyone.