this kind of condascending attitude by lunix zealots is one of the major reasons why Linux and its incarnations will still take years (if ever) to really reach a point where anyone can use it.
As opposed to MS Windows? I had to upgrade (from Win2K) to XP when the company got me a modern laptop. Man, it stinks.
Win2k was Gibraltar. I could stay connected to work thru the (Cisco v4.6) VPN for 3 weeks with without even noticing. Outlook '97 and 2002 were also solid, if not spectacular. (Especially since the old laptop was ao slow.)
Win XP is a Louisiana barrier island. It hasn't stayed connected to the VPN more than 2 days without it going into la-la land. This is on top of Outlook 2003 intermittently turning memory hog and causing me to have to reboot the machine.
If MS didn't have a defacto monopoly on factory-installed operating systems, no one in his right mind, and very few crazies, would use it.
User friendliness, ease of use, painless installation, smooth UI and user experience are all things that still seem to be curse words for most Linux users and especially the developers.
Where have you been the past 4 years?
Documentation and user support is lacking or non-existent.
As opposed to the ream of printed documentation that comes with Windows, Office, etc, etc?
Not only that, but Israel is 1/3 smaller than Belgium (only the European countries of Slovenia, Liechtenstein and the Vatican are smaller) and only slightly larger in population than each of the 3 scandinavian countries.
Also, there are 332Mn people living in the Muslim Middle East + Egypt. That is 46x larger than the population of Israel.
Educated people mostly disregard hate speech ('they know better') but we've all seen the kind of mass hysteria that can go through the poor/illiterates, whether it's in South-East Asia, the Middle-East, Africa
Companies like GM are happy if their cars have an order of magnitude more production problems than Toyota, as long as they make money. That's why they are currently getting whipped by the marketplace.
But since GM is already losing billions of dollars, your comment does not make much sense.
Can you? You don't think mixed messages like that might undermine what you're trying to teach in the first place? "I want to teach you right from wrong, but since I don't trust you to be able to learn it, I'm going to fit you with this locking tracking anklet."
If they exhibit suficiently bad behavior on an ongoing basis, then I'd...
Oh, wait. If they exhibit suficiently bad behavior on an ongoing basis, I wouldn't let them go to their friends houses, the mall, etc, etc until they started ehibiting sufficiently mature behavior around the house.
Alternatively, you could actually teach your children your values instead of trying to lock up their options.
Or... you could do both.
It's just the same as calling his/her friend's parents to make sure that they will be home when he/she is visiting.
I don't think that I'd log my children's IM, but when they show more of an interest in frequently using Internet, I will track which apps they run, which sites they visit, when they log on/off, etc.
All that was needed to stop the attack was secure cockpit doors. I think popular will for such a simple new anti-hijacking technique could have been rallied.
How did they know that the attack would be a hijacking? What if it was a truck bomb?
How could the airlines have installed security doors on 3000 airplanes in 2 months? You can't just snap your fingers and make security doors appear out of thin air.
And the the threat of terrorists using a hijacked plane as a missle was already well-known
Even if they took the report seriously I doubt they would have been able to prevent the attack. There was a lot of information and misinformation out there, and it would have taken a lot of luck for everything to line up properly in order to prevent it. I don't fault the administration for failing to prevent the attack, but obviously their actions following the attack speak for themselves. Do you honestly believe if Al Gore had won his administration would have done any better? Maybe (hopefully) they wouldn't have done so much dumb shit in the wake of the attack, but I am pretty sure they would fail to prevent it, too.
Exactly.
Besides (possibly) killing (and definitely) martyring UBL, how would that have stopped the 9/11 attack? It probably would have made the hijackers even more determined to perform the attacks. And then administration critics would have blamed Bush for 9/11.
Note this paragraph from TFA:
There was no conclusive, smoking-gun intelligence, but there was such a huge volume of data that an intelligence officer's instinct strongly suggested that something was coming.
Given the attitude of most people pre-9/11, I don't think that there was the popular will to do what would have been needed to stop the attacks.
As a whole, the market is barreling towards an open source model.
What hard, current evidence do you have that the market is barreling towards open source?
I see it meekly traipsing along, while MSFT earned $1400 every second of every day of fiscal year 2006, and is on pace to earn $1500 every second of every day of fiscal year 2007.
So, in going with an analogy that's pretty far-removed from the original story: if I mowed your lawn by mistake (wrong address), would I really have a basis to expect payment? I don't think I would.
I'd find it hard to respect the first guy who comes around and mows my lawn without being asked to and possibily against my wishes, who then proceeds to act like he deserves anything. I'm not sure you realize my fictional lawn is my property.
It's a odd business tactic, that's for sure. Unless it was an honest mistake of "wrong address".
He sent them a bill. That's not so generous. Generous would be finding the issues, letting them know, and not asking for money. (Though people have been arrested and I assume convicted for things like this too.)
Sure it's generous, but it's also a one-way ticket to the poor house. From TFA:
it appeared he was trying to obtain money through virtue of his technical knowledge
Wow! Guess what??? So do I!! And I bet so do most of the people who read/.
I had a guy show up and mow our yard, then knock on the door and asked to be paid. My wife, not really sure what to do, called me (I was at work) and asked if I really did hire this guy to mow our yard. I did not. Should we have paid him?
I would not have to pay him, but if my lawn needed it, and he asked a reasonable fee, I'd have paid him.
20 years ago, Southwestern Bell had tens of thousands of people connecting little boxes with chicklet keyboards to phones lines to chat with each other -- based on the success of a previous French project to link people with similar hardware.
Compared to "millions of phone customers", "tens of thousands" of Minitel users isn't that impressive. And if it was all that popular (compared to French Minitel, which was popular), it would have been all over the tech press, and the other RBOCs would have emulated SWB.
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Praise Darwin that I'm not the only person who thinks that SETI is a totally, inanely bolloxed waste of electricty, CPU & radio antennae.
As opposed to MS Windows? I had to upgrade (from Win2K) to XP when the company got me a modern laptop. Man, it stinks.
Win2k was Gibraltar. I could stay connected to work thru the (Cisco v4.6) VPN for 3 weeks with without even noticing. Outlook '97 and 2002 were also solid, if not spectacular. (Especially since the old laptop was ao slow.)
Win XP is a Louisiana barrier island. It hasn't stayed connected to the VPN more than 2 days without it going into la-la land. This is on top of Outlook 2003 intermittently turning memory hog and causing me to have to reboot the machine.
If MS didn't have a defacto monopoly on factory-installed operating systems, no one in his right mind, and very few crazies, would use it.
User friendliness, ease of use, painless installation, smooth UI and user experience are all things that still seem to be curse words for most Linux users and especially the developers.
Where have you been the past 4 years?
Documentation and user support is lacking or non-existent.
As opposed to the ream of printed documentation that comes with Windows, Office, etc, etc?
Israel is one country. Europe is a few countries.
Not only that, but Israel is 1/3 smaller than Belgium (only the European countries of Slovenia, Liechtenstein and the Vatican are smaller) and only slightly larger in population than each of the 3 scandinavian countries.
Also, there are 332Mn people living in the Muslim Middle East + Egypt. That is 46x larger than the population of Israel.
Educated people mostly disregard hate speech ('they know better') but we've all seen the kind of mass hysteria that can go through the poor/illiterates, whether it's in South-East Asia, the Middle-East, Africa
Like the poor, ignorant 9/11 hijackers?
a football stadium or in Kentuky.
Huh?
But since GM is already losing billions of dollars, your comment does not make much sense.
If they exhibit suficiently bad behavior on an ongoing basis, then I'd...
Oh, wait. If they exhibit suficiently bad behavior on an ongoing basis, I wouldn't let them go to their friends houses, the mall, etc, etc until they started ehibiting sufficiently mature behavior around the house.
Never mind.
Or... you could do both.
It's just the same as calling his/her friend's parents to make sure that they will be home when he/she is visiting.
I don't think that I'd log my children's IM, but when they show more of an interest in frequently using Internet, I will track which apps they run, which sites they visit, when they log on/off, etc.
Remember that guy they found about 15 year ago in the (Italian, near Austria?) Alps who'd been frozen 5000ish years?
I'm 99.44% sure that his DNA was recovered and analyzed.
To do what? Would the attack be against
Would the type of attack be
Would it be in
The intelligence was fuzzy and vague beyond usability.
How did they know that the attack would be a hijacking? What if it was a truck bomb?
How could the airlines have installed security doors on 3000 airplanes in 2 months? You can't just snap your fingers and make security doors appear out of thin air.
And the the threat of terrorists using a hijacked plane as a missle was already well-known
But that's not all they were known for.
Readers Digest.
Exactly.
Besides (possibly) killing (and definitely) martyring UBL, how would that have stopped the 9/11 attack? It probably would have made the hijackers even more determined to perform the attacks. And then administration critics would have blamed Bush for 9/11.
Note this paragraph from TFA:
Given the attitude of most people pre-9/11, I don't think that there was the popular will to do what would have been needed to stop the attacks.
What hard, current evidence do you have that the market is barreling towards open source?
I see it meekly traipsing along, while MSFT earned $1400 every second of every day of fiscal year 2006, and is on pace to earn $1500 every second of every day of fiscal year 2007.
Unless you graduated University before Fullerenes were discovered.
Jackass.
Hmmm. Caring about obeying the law and not wanting to be sued into oblivion?
What a concept!!!
Dump them into the ocean. It's pretty big.
Besides, out of sight, out of mind.
Legally? Definitely not.
Morally? It depends on factors like whether
I'd find it hard to respect the first guy who comes around and mows my lawn without being asked to and possibily against my wishes, who then proceeds to act like he deserves anything. I'm not sure you realize my fictional lawn is my property.
It's a odd business tactic, that's for sure. Unless it was an honest mistake of "wrong address".
It's implied.
Otherwise, you'd have cast a wider net.
Sure it's generous, but it's also a one-way ticket to the poor house. From TFA:Wow! Guess what??? So do I!! And I bet so do most of the people who read
I had a guy show up and mow our yard, then knock on the door and asked to be paid. My wife, not really sure what to do, called me (I was at work) and asked if I really did hire this guy to mow our yard. I did not. Should we have paid him?
I would not have to pay him, but if my lawn needed it, and he asked a reasonable fee, I'd have paid him.
And all liberals are paragons of right thinking, intelligence and logic? Pardon me while I go throw up and then ROFLMAO.
And emphasises the point even more firmly.
Not that France counts for very much either, except as the screeching leader of the Anybody But America crowd.
Compared to "millions of phone customers", "tens of thousands" of Minitel users isn't that impressive. And if it was all that popular (compared to French Minitel, which was popular), it would have been all over the tech press, and the other RBOCs would have emulated SWB.
One word: collaborationists.
Another word: Vichy.
More French soldiers died battling the Nazis than US soldiers.
I'd want independent validation of that. But then, maybe so many died because they sucked.