I just did a search for dvd burners and there were actually a handful of informative articles in the top 10. I obviously can't link to it, but a similar search a month ago gave me pages and pages of no-name online retailers, which don't tell me a damn thing about DVD burners.
For what it's worth, in Red Hat Linux lately you can download and install programs by clicking a link to the.rpm (install file). The web browser asks if you want to open/save, and if you click open a little window pops up with a progress bar and installs it. In fact, I prefer this to the windows way because:
A) I don't have to answer a bunch of stupid questions
B) It doesn't make me close my open applications
C) It doesn't require me to reboot
D) It doesn't install a half dozen spyware/adware programs along with the application
Which isn't to say that things are perfect. It is a pain in the ass to work with digital photos. But still, the issues are being resolved one by one, like dominos.
Re:And what exactly is the official, from Diebold
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CNN Reports on Diebold
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· Score: 3, Funny
From the article:
Computer manufacturers and many election officials say the critics are mistaken. They insist that security is solid and machines records are examinable. They also say the sought-after improvements [paper receipts] will create other problems, such as malfunctioning machines and violating the integrity of a voters' privacy.
Maybe they are suggesting that the paper might jam and someone would have to come in and fix it, thus seeing your vote.
It's interesting that while Microsoft is praising their new products at the expense of their old ones, Red Hat is still pimping their old Enterprise Linux, version 2.1, even after they've rolled out a shiny new offering. From the RHEL 2.1 page, which is linked directly off of the RHEL 3 page:
While version 3 provides many compelling new features, some customers will wish to continue to use version 2.1.
And then they go on to detail three reasons why you would want to stick with the old version!
A company offering an honest assessment of their new product offerings? What's going on? Is it April already?
Developers more than anyone need network access - documentation for libraries, IM communication with third parties that are providing those libraries, just using the internet as it was intended - as an information storage medium to look things up when you get stuck.
This is why the parent post suggested two machines on each desk: one for email, IM, web documentation and all that, and one without internet access, but with access to internal source code and other IP. Each not accessible from the other.
Yeah, because it's so simple to debug netcode with a binary, right?
What does it matter whether you are connecting to a machine across a few routers in your building (maybe one is simulating internet latency) instead of a few routers across the country? Why can't you test internet code on a LAN? It's just TCP/IP... works the same on a little network as a big one for the most part.
And the bits of the internet you can't simulate locally (not sure what that would be).. you can test later on with a binary. If you come across problems you can just try to duplicate them on your LAN.
Erik
PersoSpam, or Too Bad The Dot Com Frenzy Is Over
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Building Better Spam
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Here's an idea:
Employ a fleet of people, working from their home like Google Answers or Expert Exchange experts, to browse usenet, blogs, web journals, forums, etc, and write individualized emails from personal accounts selling products. These people would have a product database of products from companies who are willing to pay for the promotion.
In other words:
Jack blogs about this segway recall and comments that he isn't going to return his.
Jill, a PersoSpam promoter reads this while browsing the web.
Jill's PersoSpam Firebird extension automatically matches the text of Jack's blog with SegwayPaniers.com, a business in the product database that sells paniers for Segway HTs.
Jill decipher's the Jack's obfuscated email address (jackDOESNTLIKESPAMrepressedanger.com) and writes an innocent sounding email to him about how she was just reading his weblog, and she just got these cool paniers, and Jack should totally check them out.
Jill BCC's outgoing@persospam.com
PersoSpam deposits $0.50 in Jill's account, bills SegwayPaniers.com for $0.60 and keeps the extra.
A lot of people seem to have this reaction, but I just don't understand it. I thought the Reloaded story was much more creative than The Matrix's. I thought The Matrix got by mostly on good pacing and action scenes. I found the story/philosophy side fairly... well, simple.
The Matrix tells us that we're all living inside a virtual reality controlled by machines. And there are some humans in the real world. It's an idea high school stoners come up with all by themselves standing around outside the mall. Morpheus, the Oracle, Neo, Trinity, the folks in Zion--they are all humans. They're good, the machines are bad and all they want to do is free everyone.
We get a glimpse of some interesting questions with Agent Smith. He's a computer program, interacting with the people. But he's fully under the control of the machines like all the other agents. Brings to light some interesting questions, but it's hardly mind-blowing.
Now Revolutions introduces some genuine complexity and interest. Now Zion is partly under the control of the machines. The Oracle is a program, Smith is more of a rogue than under the control of the machines. There are independent programs like those ghosty guys and the oracle who are computer programs but aren't really on the side of the machines. The machines aren't really that concerned if people get out. This is a much more interesting story.
I wasn't really sure after seeing the Matrix where they would go with it. If they had just made another movie of Neo in The Matrix kicking ass, it would definately have sucked. But they didn't--they introduced a whole new depth in all of the characters and drew much grayer more interesting battle lines.
I think in Revolutions they'll continue along this path, where we'll have to question what we assumed about Neo, Morpheus and Trinity, central characters who didn't change much in Reloaded. But that's left to be seen.
At least twice a week, my office has a meeting where we discuss the latest Windows virus or exploit, organize a task force, and then do a system-wide deployment of the fix to some 2000+ clients.
Red Hat can't stop you from finding and assembling the exact same set of RPMs as constitute AS. Otherwise they violate the GPL. The RPMs will still be available and downloadable...
It's my understanding that under the GPL, Red Hat doesn't have to provide you a damn thing. In fact, it doesn't have to provide RPMs to anyone. All it has to do is provide source code to anyone to whom it distributes RHAS to. And it's perfectly legal for them to require you to submit proof of purchase to get that source code.
Assuming your statistics aren't just made up, I think that most of the 72% who don't "believe" evolution is valid don't understand evolution. I'm not sure that I "believe" quantum mechanics is "valid".
The foundation of religion is belief. The foundation of science is disbelief. It seems more than reasonable more people would believe a religious story than a scientific theory.
Windows ME was a less stable (if you can believe it) version of Windows 98 with some truly crappy apps (Movie Maker) added in order to stay competetive with the iApps.
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I just did a search for dvd burners and there were actually a handful of informative articles in the top 10. I obviously can't link to it, but a similar search a month ago gave me pages and pages of no-name online retailers, which don't tell me a damn thing about DVD burners.
I firmly believe that the only way Linux will make it's way to the masses that would normally use Windows or Mac is for the desktop to be unified.
It's fortunate for us then that the world revolves around the firmness of your beliefs.
For what it's worth, in Red Hat Linux lately you can download and install programs by clicking a link to the .rpm (install file). The web browser asks if you want to open/save, and if you click open a little window pops up with a progress bar and installs it. In fact, I prefer this to the windows way because:
A) I don't have to answer a bunch of stupid questions
B) It doesn't make me close my open applications
C) It doesn't require me to reboot
D) It doesn't install a half dozen spyware/adware programs along with the application
Which isn't to say that things are perfect. It is a pain in the ass to work with digital photos. But still, the issues are being resolved one by one, like dominos.
A company offering an honest assessment of their new product offerings? What's going on? Is it April already?
Developers more than anyone need network access - documentation for libraries, IM communication with third parties that are providing those libraries, just using the internet as it was intended - as an information storage medium to look things up when you get stuck.
This is why the parent post suggested two machines on each desk: one for email, IM, web documentation and all that, and one without internet access, but with access to internal source code and other IP. Each not accessible from the other.
Erik
Yeah, because it's so simple to debug netcode with a binary, right?
What does it matter whether you are connecting to a machine across a few routers in your building (maybe one is simulating internet latency) instead of a few routers across the country? Why can't you test internet code on a LAN? It's just TCP/IP... works the same on a little network as a big one for the most part.
And the bits of the internet you can't simulate locally (not sure what that would be).. you can test later on with a binary. If you come across problems you can just try to duplicate them on your LAN.
Erik
Employ a fleet of people, working from their home like Google Answers or Expert Exchange experts, to browse usenet, blogs, web journals, forums, etc, and write individualized emails from personal accounts selling products. These people would have a product database of products from companies who are willing to pay for the promotion.
In other words:
- Jack blogs about this segway recall and comments that he isn't going to return his.
- Jill, a PersoSpam promoter reads this while browsing the web.
- Jill's PersoSpam Firebird extension automatically matches the text of Jack's blog with SegwayPaniers.com, a business in the product database that sells paniers for Segway HTs.
- Jill decipher's the Jack's obfuscated email address (jackDOESNTLIKESPAMrepressedanger.com) and writes an innocent sounding email to him about how she was just reading his weblog, and she just got these cool paniers, and Jack should totally check them out.
- Jill BCC's outgoing@persospam.com
- PersoSpam deposits $0.50 in Jill's account, bills SegwayPaniers.com for $0.60 and keeps the extra.
- ???
- Profit!
Might work, eh?Erik
A lot of people seem to have this reaction, but I just don't understand it. I thought the Reloaded story was much more creative than The Matrix's. I thought The Matrix got by mostly on good pacing and action scenes. I found the story/philosophy side fairly... well, simple.
The Matrix tells us that we're all living inside a virtual reality controlled by machines. And there are some humans in the real world. It's an idea high school stoners come up with all by themselves standing around outside the mall. Morpheus, the Oracle, Neo, Trinity, the folks in Zion--they are all humans. They're good, the machines are bad and all they want to do is free everyone.
We get a glimpse of some interesting questions with Agent Smith. He's a computer program, interacting with the people. But he's fully under the control of the machines like all the other agents. Brings to light some interesting questions, but it's hardly mind-blowing.
Now Revolutions introduces some genuine complexity and interest. Now Zion is partly under the control of the machines. The Oracle is a program, Smith is more of a rogue than under the control of the machines. There are independent programs like those ghosty guys and the oracle who are computer programs but aren't really on the side of the machines. The machines aren't really that concerned if people get out. This is a much more interesting story.
I wasn't really sure after seeing the Matrix where they would go with it. If they had just made another movie of Neo in The Matrix kicking ass, it would definately have sucked. But they didn't--they introduced a whole new depth in all of the characters and drew much grayer more interesting battle lines.
I think in Revolutions they'll continue along this path, where we'll have to question what we assumed about Neo, Morpheus and Trinity, central characters who didn't change much in Reloaded. But that's left to be seen.
Erik
At least twice a week, my office has a meeting where we discuss the latest Windows virus or exploit, organize a task force, and then do a system-wide deployment of the fix to some 2000+ clients.
Wow, you have the funnest job ever.
Erik
For what it's worth, 5th sentence on the Prevayler web site is:That said, I think the Prevayler developers would agree with you. They are suggesting Prevayler as a good solution in situations where you:
- have enough RAM to hold all your business objects and
- only need to access your data from Java.
Of course it will suck if your project doesn't fall in those categories. Everyone can see that.Erik
Red Hat can't stop you from finding and assembling the exact same set of RPMs as constitute AS. Otherwise they violate the GPL. The RPMs will still be available and downloadable...
It's my understanding that under the GPL, Red Hat doesn't have to provide you a damn thing. In fact, it doesn't have to provide RPMs to anyone. All it has to do is provide source code to anyone to whom it distributes RHAS to. And it's perfectly legal for them to require you to submit proof of purchase to get that source code.
Erik
Rest in peace, old pal.
Assuming your statistics aren't just made up, I think that most of the 72% who don't "believe" evolution is valid don't understand evolution. I'm not sure that I "believe" quantum mechanics is "valid".
The foundation of religion is belief. The foundation of science is disbelief. It seems more than reasonable more people would believe a religious story than a scientific theory.
Erik
"Now you tell me!"
Windows ME was a less stable (if you can believe it) version of Windows 98 with some truly crappy apps (Movie Maker) added in order to stay competetive with the iApps.
Erik