We need some New Physics to Discover from Scratch a New Material that can be used to bond the nanotubes together in sufficient density because NO SUCH THING exists right now.
And, about your 386 analogy... actually it is a huge step because ohhh a few hundred technologies that allow today's processors to do what they do Did Not Exist when 386's were the best. Even if you could somehow make a 386 run at 3ghz, it would only be able to do maybe 1% of the work that a current 3ghz processor can do.
Us Canadians would fully support US efforts to build a space elevator.... so long as your dumbass president doesnt try to convince the world that we have to build it now because the moon people have WMD's and are planning terror attacks with Al-Qaeda based on some rumour he heard on the street.
If he would just give honest open reasons based on facts, instead of outright lies based on false evidence, your friends would be helpful.
We hang back when we see that Dubya is trying to mislead us, leading us into war under false pretense, why don't you open your eyes and do the same?
Nevermind, I see you are still too busy with all that duct tape Dubya scared you into buying awhile back.
'It's not new physics--nothing new has to be discovered, nothing new has to be invented from scratch,'
... except for a light material strong enough to be used for the elevator.
Carbon nanotubes on their own are more than strong enough.. BUT there is presently no way to bond them together in sufficient density in a material that could be used for the elevator.
Presently light composite polymer carbon nanotube ribbon cable can be made with 1% nanotubes... 50% is needed.
So, we need new physics to discover a polymer matrix from scratch to bond together the nanotubes to make the elevator.
Thanks/. for another misleading story.
So, this is an example of those open standards, and the world not falling apart over it?
shall I quote from the download page? yes, yes I shall...
Quote:
Several notes on compilation:
1. If you use this for anything other than testing, you are insane. 2. The configure script isn't great: it does not check for all compatibility issues and might even fail to run properly without telling you./Quote
I'll assume that Pudge is just another Michael in disguise, endlessly posting over hyped BS articles that are easily refuted.
Actually the US did start on becoming metric, long ago when France was your friend (you do remember that that big statue holding the torch was a gift from them dont you?)
To be less like the evil British, whom the had to fight hard against for their freedom, They started to adopt the french metric system.
BUT got lazy, and stopped converting after making the money metric.
The US was actually one of the first countries to go metric... they just did a really half-assed job at it.
In Canada the police in fact can be compelled to tell you why you are being arrested.
An immigrant friend o mine put that to the test a few years ago...
Pulled over for no reason, the cop asked him to shut off the car and get out of the vehical.
He shut off the car, put the keys on the roof to show he was going nowhere. But would not get out of the car until he was told why he had to do so.
Of course that just angered the cop. Cop called for backup. After much time had passed, the cop's commanding officer arrived and put the damn junior cop in his place, and told the driver to have a nice day.
Why did my friend do this? Because in his home country he had no such rights, and wasn't going to get abused here where the law does protect him.
We'll see how you like this in a few years when there's a 'security agent' pestering you for your ID every morning as you go to your job.
Or better yet when you are forced to wear or have implanted an RFID device to make the job of the security agent faster or more efficient.
Dont think it will get to that?
We are at the thin edge of the wedge. Taking away the anonymity of people who have done nothing to attract the attention of the police, in a country where you are presumed innocent until proven guilty is the first step.
Once you are used to that, then the next steps will happen./sarcasm ON
You just go ahead and be complacent, after all Dubya was 100% correct when he claimed there were WMD's in Iraq, why wouldn't you trust his government absolutely with your very identity?/sarcasm OFF
Damn Canada is going to need a very tall wall, longer than that pile of bricks in China to keep all you out once your rights are gone for good.
Being Canadian, I bet you, like myself know of a couple people who have been forced to leave the US because of Dubyas scary policies.
In my case, my friends are leaving after one of them was fired from being a university professor because she exersized Her Right to the Freedom of Speech.. and protested against Dubya at the university with students.
Yet another example of Michael posting a story, trying to look like he knows something when he really doesnt. His intro would have been more accurate if he had just picked random words arranged into a paragraph.
The particles are not teleporting.
They are not communicating.
After entanglement, if you separate the particles and observe one of them, you then know the state of the other particle.
The fact that you know the state of one automatically determines for you the state of the other particle.
What makes it nifty is that until you make the observation, you can not know which particle is in which state.... schoedinger's cat.... sylvester is both alive and dead until you look inside the box, but once you've looked, the outcome has been determined.
Ok, first my usual disclaimer that this IS NOT a troll, there is an important point in this message, lets see if you 'get it'...
Before you all go shutting yourself in a dark closet safe from the evils you see everywhere....
Switch your browser to 'prompt' before allowing active scripting to run. Leave other things such as Java etc turned on, I just want to show you something about JavaScript without clouding the issue with the other technologies.... just so you can see how many websites out there do use Javascript.
Nearly every website you go to has a little JavaScript in it! Do you really think they are all idiots, or can use see that there are good uses for it?
Have you taken the time to learn a little about what you can do with JavaScript to make your websites more user friendly (oh the horror! how dare anything be user friendly!)
Do you really believe that people ONLY use javascript to screw with you? That all the great things you can do quickly and easily with JavaScript are worthless because there are a few jerks out there that abuse it?
I bet there's a lot of you out there that are totally against javascript that are also totally opposed to gun control... yet can't see the irony of your thinking. A few jerks abuse guns, but I'm sure many of you would scream if someone wanted you to lose the 'right' to use them.
Even our precious Slashdot uses Javascript!.. although its just to put an ad banner at the top of the page.
There are good uses for JavaScript, that can add to the usefulness of a website, that are not just glitz.
Why not get angry at those that spend their time looking for unanticipated exploits, that would abuse the systems for once instead of shutting yourselves out, making yourselves victims of the javascript terrorists you see behind every corner?
wasting your time! hehehe your precious time! Come on you waste more time every day by not using the tools available to you! Why should you care? - you may not ever need to see the kind of data I present, but you can apply my model to many topics.
And no, you won't see my websites, they will not be slashdotted, and they don't need to pass Your Almighty judgement.
First a rant.. then the story. skip the rant if you are in a hurry.
RANT:
Why are you so scared of everything?
Ever see Bowling for Columbine?... whether or not you agree with the movie doesn't matter, but I swear you are exhibiting the same huge bizarre sense of fear at every corner that was portrayed as the 'typical american' in that movie.
No offense intended (either by calling you american or by calling you scared), but really! You don't need to be a wannabe victim of every little pretend scare the media feeds you! I bet you have a closet full of duck tape thanks to Dubya.
Do you only surf to websites where you personally know the webmaster? And if not, then it sounds like you sit there shaking every time you need to click a link! ooohhh will this one blow up my computer!!! ohhhh!!!
I'd suggest a small first step towards your awakening would be to piece together a crappy computer out of spare parts if you happen to have some lying around... use that to see what you are missing since it won't matter if You screw up and get yourself damaged by the great evil that you think is behind every corner out there.
Ok, now if you really are that paranoid / scared / chicken / yellow and potentially narrowminded, unable to see opportunity, and held back by your fear of using new and more powerful tools...then I don't need you viewing my websites because you won't see the potential. The power of the data presented will be lost on you... why would I care? I'm not building tools just to entertain you.
RANT DONE
STORY:
The tools I use are not to add useless glitter to my websites, but to add ease of use and increase performance.
Consider a website that focuses on a gold exploration company, a property that has 140 years of history spanning a great gold rush in the 1860's to times of more recent underground gold mining, to the present where modern exploration is finding new gold deposits that were never found by the oldtimers.
Imagine hundreds of drillholes with assays and cross section maps, thousands of soil samples assayed for 32 different elements, a dozen different geophysics survey grids of different types, several gigabytes of 0.5m resolution orthophotos (airphotos) in the core area, surrounded by 15m landsat coverage. elevation contours, creeks, underground mine levels, roads, mineral claim boundaries, parks, geology, quartz vein outcrops, exploration trenches... presently 85 layers of spatial data that can be viewed in whatever combination the user wants.
Now imagine, you can click on the drillholes on the map to bring up lists of gold assays and geologic cross sections, you can click on the soil samples to bring up soil assays of 32 different elements. In the future you will be able to click on data points that link to government records and reports of past work (data which is made public in canada after 1 year of privacy, compared to the USA where such data is lost forever if an exploration company abandons the ground, wasting millions of dollars worth of data!)
I'm talking about a spatial database system with an actual map where you can see how all the data relates, surf around the property, zoom in close or out far, and interact with the features on the map.
Do I really need to explain why this is so powerful for mining companies and their investors?
yes, i suppose i do.
-- There is the obvious power of relating all the data visually, to be able to see trends that are easily overlooked fumbling with overlaying pape
Flash can be used as a great interface to hold a mapserver application, where only the map and a few other things need to be resent when surfing to a new map location etc. A typical mapserver website requires the entire page to reload for each map refresh, or at least a frame that contains the map. Flash can greatly speed up such a webpage. It will also nicely hold the various map controls and map layer controls, although flash certainly isnt necessary for that.
I make extensive use of javascript in formatting results of querying the features on the maps. And as a side, a little ASP here and there can make the website much more powerful.
The non-flash mapserver websites often use java to make the map surfing tools more useful than the much more basic tools that must be used on a straight HTML page. On my non-flash pages, I must duplicate much of my work in java and non-java versions you can switch between... to get around 'disablers' or others without the JVM that may just think the webpage is broken.
Soon I will be working with a similar flash interface to control on-the-fly generation of 3d perspective views of map areas, generated from features and geotifs overlain on a DEM/grid surface made by Surfer... flash isnt necessary for this, and doesnt necessarily add any real benefits, I have a prototype of this working simply as an HTML form... but the flash interface will look much more modern, and fit in better with the mapserver flash interfaces.
Some clients need the website to not just have powerful tools, but also to look like it was made today, not 5 years ago. There are dozens of examples of really crappy looking mapserver sites out there that flash separates me from.
Yay! another slashdot article that posts a question from one very narrow point of view, thinking it applies to the whole world!
No one is forcing timothy to have a caps lock key. He can remap it if he really wants and leave us alone.
But instead apparently he'd rather get rid of it, and have the rest of us hold down the shift key with oh i dont know, a rock, tape, whatever whenever we need to write text in caps.
News alert! new linux distro! kernal xxxx.xxxx! get it now! it elimiates the caps key for timothy so it must be the ultimate windows replacement distro!
warning, this is not a troll, this is a real response to the coward above who was too scared to use his account name....
ya ya ya blah blah blah
i must be clueless because i dont agree with you. ya thats about the only thing you've said.
I do run Linux on a few computers, I use one for personal use next to my windows machine, I use another for various business GIS and Internet systems.
Here's a taste of that wonderful alternative that you think MS is so scared of...... systems where i've spent weeks trying to get brutally poorly documented open source software to run (PostGIS with full GEOS support for use with my already working MapServer applications)...where the linux fanboys on those wonderful support forums give one word answers that help no one (postGIS, GEOS, GDAL, Proj4, GRASS)...where developers make changes or 'updates' without telling anyone that you now need version xxx of whatever subcomponent to make the full program run, leaving you guessing and trying every variation you can find. The PostGIS devs told me to just use the simple RPM, ignoring that the spatial analysis components only work if PostGIS is compiled locally with its source code remaining present....or they tell you to use the CVS source even though they've broken the code for major updates not bothering to change one damn sentance on the website in warning, rendering your application useless after updating. So much time wasted!(thanks geos.refractions.net.. you can spend 3 months upgrading to JTS1.4 but cant change one sentance on your webpage or deactivate CVS in the meantime)...or making conflicting changes in applications where only a specific outdated version with very specific outdated subcomponents will actually work as advertised (ever try to get nvis working properly through GRASS?... no, didnt think so)
Now of course, since im not just some slacker who reads slashdot, but someone who does in fact work for a living, how bout the total lack of compatibility of most linux applications! Do you really think i should just go out of business by telling all my clients to deal with whatever linux files i send them, instead of sending them the industry standard autocad, mapinfo, surfer, and office files they need? I suppose you think i should spend all my spare time figuring out how to do the work in linux while making a custom app to translate it all into what EVERYONE else uses? sure I have so much time to do that!
Wake up! you are still a very small dark secluded part of the world! Linux is not yet a viable replacement for most businesses needs.
Meanwhile, for the mostpart I get my work done fast and efficiently on a windows computer like most people around the world. More often than not, the software I use installs easily and does what I expect, even the GIS and CAD software.
Microsoft has no reason to be scared of these so called alternatives.
yet another weak response from an Anonymous Coward, too scared to put a name on what he says.
GROW THE FUCK UP YOU USELESS TWIT
you're a bloody thief if you support pirating and deserve the worst you get! people can do usefull work with MS products! You are a damn leech! learn to pay for products instead of stealing them.
Do you steal the food you eat, or just 'borrow' it from the grocery store? Do you steal the fuel you use in your car or did it come from the Open Source gas station down the street? Do you squat on the land you occupy or do you actually pay your rent/mortgage? How is it any different if you have chosen to run MS products on your computer?
oh, you are a linux user you say! Mr. Open source who wants to take MS down one byte at a time?...
Then I guess you are just another poor sap spending his life writing code for others to use for free, expecting not a penny for your efforts as you freely distribute it for everyone's benefit, offering 24/7 support, updates, patches, etc all for the good of mankind. You're right, I should stop using MS altogether just so i can make you work harder for free for me. Now get too it slave! get your work done for me cuz that was your mom i was with and she's spent.
your browser wont work worth crap on the mapserver websites I make. They require the features you would disable, which i am using to your benefit, not to feed you ads, not to hack you, not to send you viruses.... the features you disablearen't always the unneeded gps receiver, sometimes they are the damn spark plug wires.
But I guess you'll never know what you are missing, while you sit there enjoying the site of your tires spinning while getting nowhere.
I have read many posts on this thread saying we can end the problem just by disabling this or that in the browser.
Ya know what? we could increase fuel efficiency in cars greatly if we just disable the engine!
Get the point?
- There are lots of ligitamate and good uses for flash, javascript, java, css, and so on.
Would the ones that promote disabling features really want to go back to the crappy featureless, tool-less, mostly text internet that we had only 7 or 8 years ago?
You are missing the point of SP2 which might just keep ligitimate XP users more protected from the attacks. They paid money and will be getting updates.
Let the pirates attack each other, you and your miracle Linux machine will be safe and sound, as will my Linux machine... which i use only as a curiosity since its 100x harder to use, and has almost no compatability with the windows based files I and my industry deal with 100% of the time.
Linux users are expected to take the time to learn how to use their unfriendly OS properly with all its bizarre, unobvious command systems... yet you won't put even the slightest expectation on a windows user, that they should take 2 minutes to plug in a simple firewall that will block nearly all the problems you speak of.
If the average windows user takes 10% of the effort needed to learn Linux, and puts it into learning Windows properly, they won't see any viruses. The difference is you can use windows easily for so many things with little effort, where you have to beat your head on your keyboard for weeks to get most Open Source 'solutions' to work half assed on a linux box.
Slashdot Mirror
Let me say it again since you missed it.
... actually it is a huge step because ohhh a few hundred technologies that allow today's processors to do what they do Did Not Exist when 386's were the best. Even if you could somehow make a 386 run at 3ghz, it would only be able to do maybe 1% of the work that a current 3ghz processor can do.
We need some New Physics to Discover from Scratch a New Material that can be used to bond the nanotubes together in sufficient density because NO SUCH THING exists right now.
And, about your 386 analogy
Us Canadians would fully support US efforts to build a space elevator .... so long as your dumbass president doesnt try to convince the world that we have to build it now because the moon people have WMD's and are planning terror attacks with Al-Qaeda based on some rumour he heard on the street.
If he would just give honest open reasons based on facts, instead of outright lies based on false evidence, your friends would be helpful.
We hang back when we see that Dubya is trying to mislead us, leading us into war under false pretense, why don't you open your eyes and do the same?
Nevermind, I see you are still too busy with all that duct tape Dubya scared you into buying awhile back.
So, this is an example of those open standards, and the world not falling apart over it?
...
/Quote
shall I quote from the download page? yes, yes I shall
Quote:
Several notes on compilation:
1. If you use this for anything other than testing, you are insane.
2. The configure script isn't great: it does not check for all compatibility issues and might even fail to run properly without telling you.
I'll assume that Pudge is just another Michael in disguise, endlessly posting over hyped BS articles that are easily refuted.
Actually the US did start on becoming metric, long ago when France was your friend (you do remember that that big statue holding the torch was a gift from them dont you?)
... they just did a really half-assed job at it.
To be less like the evil British, whom the had to fight hard against for their freedom, They started to adopt the french metric system.
BUT got lazy, and stopped converting after making the money metric.
The US was actually one of the first countries to go metric
hehehe
.... or too visionary for your liking!
over-rated?
damn you moderators! Dubya is screwing you at every turn and you keep your eyes closed.
In Canada the police in fact can be compelled to tell you why you are being arrested.
...
An immigrant friend o mine put that to the test a few years ago
Pulled over for no reason, the cop asked him to shut off the car and get out of the vehical.
He shut off the car, put the keys on the roof to show he was going nowhere. But would not get out of the car until he was told why he had to do so.
Of course that just angered the cop. Cop called for backup. After much time had passed, the cop's commanding officer arrived and put the damn junior cop in his place, and told the driver to have a nice day.
Why did my friend do this? Because in his home country he had no such rights, and wasn't going to get abused here where the law does protect him.
Security Agent demands you to identify yourself?
The 4th amendment may have just fallen, but the 5th amendment is still alive and strong.
Just tell him you shall not answer on the grounds that it might incriminate you.
duh!
We'll see how you like this in a few years when there's a 'security agent' pestering you for your ID every morning as you go to your job. Or better yet when you are forced to wear or have implanted an RFID device to make the job of the security agent faster or more efficient. Dont think it will get to that? We are at the thin edge of the wedge. Taking away the anonymity of people who have done nothing to attract the attention of the police, in a country where you are presumed innocent until proven guilty is the first step. Once you are used to that, then the next steps will happen. /sarcasm ON
You just go ahead and be complacent, after all Dubya was 100% correct when he claimed there were WMD's in Iraq, why wouldn't you trust his government absolutely with your very identity? /sarcasm OFF
Damn Canada is going to need a very tall wall, longer than that pile of bricks in China to keep all you out once your rights are gone for good.
Being Canadian, I bet you, like myself know of a couple people who have been forced to leave the US because of Dubyas scary policies. In my case, my friends are leaving after one of them was fired from being a university professor because she exersized Her Right to the Freedom of Speech .. and protested against Dubya at the university with students.
Truth hurts dont it? Open your eyes! you are blind if you dont see it!
Thanks Michael, your attempt to mark me as flamebait for setting your ignorance straight has been noted. ... and the masses continue to laugh at you.
Yet another example of Michael posting a story, trying to look like he knows something when he really doesnt. His intro would have been more accurate if he had just picked random words arranged into a paragraph.
... sylvester is both alive and dead until you look inside the box, but once you've looked, the outcome has been determined.
The particles are not teleporting.
They are not communicating.
After entanglement, if you separate the particles and observe one of them, you then know the state of the other particle.
The fact that you know the state of one automatically determines for you the state of the other particle.
What makes it nifty is that until you make the observation, you can not know which particle is in which state.... schoedinger's cat.
IT ISNT
The current only flows when the circuit is closed by the impact of weapon.
The current only flows for an instant until the capacitor is drained.
Otherwise there IS NO elecromagnetic field or 'polarization' present to affect the electronics.
Ok, first my usual disclaimer that this IS NOT a troll, there is an important point in this message, lets see if you 'get it' ...
....
... just so you can see how many websites out there do use Javascript.
... yet can't see the irony of your thinking. A few jerks abuse guns, but I'm sure many of you would scream if someone wanted you to lose the 'right' to use them.
.. although its just to put an ad banner at the top of the page.
Before you all go shutting yourself in a dark closet safe from the evils you see everywhere
Switch your browser to 'prompt' before allowing active scripting to run. Leave other things such as Java etc turned on, I just want to show you something about JavaScript without clouding the issue with the other technologies.
Nearly every website you go to has a little JavaScript in it! Do you really think they are all idiots, or can use see that there are good uses for it?
Have you taken the time to learn a little about what you can do with JavaScript to make your websites more user friendly (oh the horror! how dare anything be user friendly!)
Do you really believe that people ONLY use javascript to screw with you? That all the great things you can do quickly and easily with JavaScript are worthless because there are a few jerks out there that abuse it?
I bet there's a lot of you out there that are totally against javascript that are also totally opposed to gun control
Even our precious Slashdot uses Javascript!
There are good uses for JavaScript, that can add to the usefulness of a website, that are not just glitz.
Why not get angry at those that spend their time looking for unanticipated exploits, that would abuse the systems for once instead of shutting yourselves out, making yourselves victims of the javascript terrorists you see behind every corner?
wasting your time! hehehe your precious time! Come on you waste more time every day by not using the tools available to you! Why should you care? - you may not ever need to see the kind of data I present, but you can apply my model to many topics.
.. then the story. skip the rant if you are in a hurry.
... whether or not you agree with the movie doesn't matter, but I swear you are exhibiting the same huge bizarre sense of fear at every corner that was portrayed as the 'typical american' in that movie.
... use that to see what you are missing since it won't matter if You screw up and get yourself damaged by the great evil that you think is behind every corner out there.
...then I don't need you viewing my websites because you won't see the potential. The power of the data presented will be lost on you... why would I care? I'm not building tools just to entertain you.
... presently 85 layers of spatial data that can be viewed in whatever combination the user wants.
And no, you won't see my websites, they will not be slashdotted, and they don't need to pass Your Almighty judgement.
First a rant
RANT:
Why are you so scared of everything?
Ever see Bowling for Columbine?
No offense intended (either by calling you american or by calling you scared), but really! You don't need to be a wannabe victim of every little pretend scare the media feeds you! I bet you have a closet full of duck tape thanks to Dubya.
Do you only surf to websites where you personally know the webmaster? And if not, then it sounds like you sit there shaking every time you need to click a link! ooohhh will this one blow up my computer!!! ohhhh!!!
I'd suggest a small first step towards your awakening would be to piece together a crappy computer out of spare parts if you happen to have some lying around
Ok, now if you really are that paranoid / scared / chicken / yellow and potentially narrowminded, unable to see opportunity, and held back by your fear of using new and more powerful tools
RANT DONE
STORY:
The tools I use are not to add useless glitter to my websites, but to add ease of use and increase performance.
Consider a website that focuses on a gold exploration company, a property that has 140 years of history spanning a great gold rush in the 1860's to times of more recent underground gold mining, to the present where modern exploration is finding new gold deposits that were never found by the oldtimers.
Imagine hundreds of drillholes with assays and cross section maps, thousands of soil samples assayed for 32 different elements, a dozen different geophysics survey grids of different types, several gigabytes of 0.5m resolution orthophotos (airphotos) in the core area, surrounded by 15m landsat coverage. elevation contours, creeks, underground mine levels, roads, mineral claim boundaries, parks, geology, quartz vein outcrops, exploration trenches
Now imagine, you can click on the drillholes on the map to bring up lists of gold assays and geologic cross sections, you can click on the soil samples to bring up soil assays of 32 different elements. In the future you will be able to click on data points that link to government records and reports of past work (data which is made public in canada after 1 year of privacy, compared to the USA where such data is lost forever if an exploration company abandons the ground, wasting millions of dollars worth of data!)
I'm talking about a spatial database system with an actual map where you can see how all the data relates, surf around the property, zoom in close or out far, and interact with the features on the map.
Do I really need to explain why this is so powerful for mining companies and their investors?
yes, i suppose i do.
-- There is the obvious power of relating all the data visually, to be able to see trends that are easily overlooked fumbling with overlaying pape
Flash can be used as a great interface to hold a mapserver application, where only the map and a few other things need to be resent when surfing to a new map location etc. A typical mapserver website requires the entire page to reload for each map refresh, or at least a frame that contains the map. Flash can greatly speed up such a webpage. It will also nicely hold the various map controls and map layer controls, although flash certainly isnt necessary for that.
... to get around 'disablers' or others without the JVM that may just think the webpage is broken.
... flash isnt necessary for this, and doesnt necessarily add any real benefits, I have a prototype of this working simply as an HTML form ... but the flash interface will look much more modern, and fit in better with the mapserver flash interfaces.
I make extensive use of javascript in formatting results of querying the features on the maps. And as a side, a little ASP here and there can make the website much more powerful.
The non-flash mapserver websites often use java to make the map surfing tools more useful than the much more basic tools that must be used on a straight HTML page. On my non-flash pages, I must duplicate much of my work in java and non-java versions you can switch between
Soon I will be working with a similar flash interface to control on-the-fly generation of 3d perspective views of map areas, generated from features and geotifs overlain on a DEM/grid surface made by Surfer
Some clients need the website to not just have powerful tools, but also to look like it was made today, not 5 years ago. There are dozens of examples of really crappy looking mapserver sites out there that flash separates me from.
Yay! another slashdot article that posts a question from one very narrow point of view, thinking it applies to the whole world!
No one is forcing timothy to have a caps lock key. He can remap it if he really wants and leave us alone.
But instead apparently he'd rather get rid of it, and have the rest of us hold down the shift key with oh i dont know, a rock, tape, whatever whenever we need to write text in caps.
News alert! new linux distro! kernal xxxx.xxxx! get it now! it elimiates the caps key for timothy so it must be the ultimate windows replacement distro!
warning, this is not a troll, this is a real response to the coward above who was too scared to use his account name....
... ... systems where i've spent weeks trying to get brutally poorly documented open source software to run (PostGIS with full GEOS support for use with my already working MapServer applications) ...where the linux fanboys on those wonderful support forums give one word answers that help no one (postGIS, GEOS, GDAL, Proj4, GRASS) ...where developers make changes or 'updates' without telling anyone that you now need version xxx of whatever subcomponent to make the full program run, leaving you guessing and trying every variation you can find. The PostGIS devs told me to just use the simple RPM, ignoring that the spatial analysis components only work if PostGIS is compiled locally with its source code remaining present. ...or they tell you to use the CVS source even though they've broken the code for major updates not bothering to change one damn sentance on the website in warning, rendering your application useless after updating. So much time wasted!(thanks geos.refractions.net .. you can spend 3 months upgrading to JTS1.4 but cant change one sentance on your webpage or deactivate CVS in the meantime) ...or making conflicting changes in applications where only a specific outdated version with very specific outdated subcomponents will actually work as advertised (ever try to get nvis working properly through GRASS? ... no, didnt think so)
ya ya ya blah blah blah
i must be clueless because i dont agree with you. ya thats about the only thing you've said.
I do run Linux on a few computers, I use one for personal use next to my windows machine, I use another for various business GIS and Internet systems.
Here's a taste of that wonderful alternative that you think MS is so scared of
Now of course, since im not just some slacker who reads slashdot, but someone who does in fact work for a living, how bout the total lack of compatibility of most linux applications! Do you really think i should just go out of business by telling all my clients to deal with whatever linux files i send them, instead of sending them the industry standard autocad, mapinfo, surfer, and office files they need? I suppose you think i should spend all my spare time figuring out how to do the work in linux while making a custom app to translate it all into what EVERYONE else uses? sure I have so much time to do that!
Wake up! you are still a very small dark secluded part of the world! Linux is not yet a viable replacement for most businesses needs.
Meanwhile, for the mostpart I get my work done fast and efficiently on a windows computer like most people around the world. More often than not, the software I use installs easily and does what I expect, even the GIS and CAD software.
Microsoft has no reason to be scared of these so called alternatives.
yet another weak response from an Anonymous Coward, too scared to put a name on what he says.
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GROW THE FUCK UP YOU USELESS TWIT
you're a bloody thief if you support pirating and deserve the worst you get!
people can do usefull work with MS products!
You are a damn leech! learn to pay for products instead of stealing them.
Do you steal the food you eat, or just 'borrow' it from the grocery store? Do you steal the fuel you use in your car or did it come from the Open Source gas station down the street? Do you squat on the land you occupy or do you actually pay your rent/mortgage? How is it any different if you have chosen to run MS products on your computer?
oh, you are a linux user you say! Mr. Open source who wants to take MS down one byte at a time?
Then I guess you are just another poor sap spending his life writing code for others to use for free, expecting not a penny for your efforts as you freely distribute it for everyone's benefit, offering 24/7 support, updates, patches, etc all for the good of mankind. You're right, I should stop using MS altogether just so i can make you work harder for free for me. Now get too it slave! get your work done for me cuz that was your mom i was with and she's spent.
hey coward
... the features you disablearen't always the unneeded gps receiver, sometimes they are the damn spark plug wires.
your browser wont work worth crap on the mapserver websites I make. They require the features you would disable, which i am using to your benefit, not to feed you ads, not to hack you, not to send you viruses.
But I guess you'll never know what you are missing, while you sit there enjoying the site of your tires spinning while getting nowhere.
LordK3nn3th you are freaking me out!
seriously!
because my true name is
Kenneth Lord
I have read many posts on this thread saying we can end the problem just by disabling this or that in the browser.
Ya know what? we could increase fuel efficiency in cars greatly if we just disable the engine!
Get the point?
- There are lots of ligitamate and good uses for flash, javascript, java, css, and so on.
Would the ones that promote disabling features really want to go back to the crappy featureless, tool-less, mostly text internet that we had only 7 or 8 years ago?
As usual, speak the truth, be called a troll
point out the obvious, be called a troll.
make a good point relevant to most of the readers, be called a troll.
screw the piraters. if SP2 makes XP more secure, and leaves the piraters in the dark sending viruses to each other, then they got what they deserved.
You can't deny the point on user friendliness.
To mark my comment as troll is simply to try to hide the truth.
You are missing the point of SP2 which might just keep ligitimate XP users more protected from the attacks. They paid money and will be getting updates.
... which i use only as a curiosity since its 100x harder to use, and has almost no compatability with the windows based files I and my industry deal with 100% of the time.
... yet you won't put even the slightest expectation on a windows user, that they should take 2 minutes to plug in a simple firewall that will block nearly all the problems you speak of.
Let the pirates attack each other, you and your miracle Linux machine will be safe and sound, as will my Linux machine
Linux users are expected to take the time to learn how to use their unfriendly OS properly with all its bizarre, unobvious command systems
If the average windows user takes 10% of the effort needed to learn Linux, and puts it into learning Windows properly, they won't see any viruses. The difference is you can use windows easily for so many things with little effort, where you have to beat your head on your keyboard for weeks to get most Open Source 'solutions' to work half assed on a linux box.