I prefer the term "Global Climate Change" to "Global Warming" - if everywhere was just getting a bit warmer we could cope, no bother at all (as long as it didn't happen too fast) - we would just change what crops we grew where, etc.
It's the fact that the climate is changing (and has always been changing, to and from ice ages and so on) that is the issue. Whether or not our activities are causing the change, we need to plan on how to survive the changes.
Yep I agree. I work in a library and hunting for missing books is the worst part of the job (we have a cleaning staff for the toilets:-) ). If every book was RFID tagged, the (already compterised) library catalog wouldn't just say "on the shelves" it could say (for sure) which shelf. And if a book was missing, we'd know before we spent an hour hunting through every shelf.
So I see RFID a bit like a car. Lots of folk die in car accidents, but for society as a whole the benefits seem to out weigh the problems. (although I doubt RFID will directly kill quite so many.)
I think his point is that I could rewrite his message, recompute the MD5, and upload the new message with new MD5 (assuming I could access the server appropraitely, but that's a side issue - Cowboy Neal could rewrite all the messages tagging them with valid MD5 values and how could you tell if Md5 is all you've got). How could you tell if it was the original message or not? The point is that to be secure you need some proper encryption stuff, not just a fancy checksum anyone can compute.
Matters of proven, or at least provable fact belong in the secular classroom.
That's maybe going a little far. There is hopefully room for debate even in a classroom, and surely room for drama, art, philosophy, and more in the classroom.
There is always some risk in machine readable data. In 20 or 30 years time you might have trouble getting hardware which reads your data and runs an OS which runs your software. Ok, you might be clued up enough to always copy backups to newer technology, but joe public is one day going to bring a CD out of his dad's attic and find he cannot even look at the photos on it.
The John Dvorak article linked to appears to be dated 03.18.03, and he is making the prediction for 2003/2004 isn't he? So even if it happens he was wrong by a year or two.
I've been using Netbeans for the best part of a year. The first few pre 4.0 versions had occasional problems which could generally be fixed by clearing the cache.
Version 4.0 however is very stable for me, and I use it one a daily basis.
But I'll probably give it a week or two before I move to 4.1 just to be sure.
IIRC The Mozila code base came about originally because Netscape made their browser code open source. For several years Netscape supported Mozilla.org (providing staff and resources).
We should be glad that Netscape continue to use the Mozilla code base - it helps to provide another credible alternative to IE for instance.
does help a bit- the camera is rotating and because it builds up the image over time it sees (the relatively near by) object twice.
I guess when imaging the surface they have to rotate the orbiter/camera to account fo the fact the orbiter is moving relative to the planet surface faster than they can take the picture.
You lasted longer than me. Here's my sample conversation from today:
Human: what is time?
ALICE: Time is Money -- Einstein.
Human: I don't want to know what Einstein might have thought- what do you think time is?
ALICE: What would you rather be doing?
Human: Getting a straight answer.
ALICE: Am I a straight answer? Maybe
And here, gentle reader, I gave up. If she's a straight answer, I'm the (new) Pope.
As to your last point I confess I don't know- wonder what ratio of commercial projects fail compared to the ratio for OSS? I'm sure most commercial products don't last more than a few years unless they have some merit. Or are called Windows;-)
The idea that OSS is always better than commercial software just isn't true. There _are_ OSS projects that are better than any commercial equivalent but it is not always true.
Many OSS projects start with great ideas but fail to progress past version 0.2 because there is insufficient interest, either because there are other similar projects going or there are sufficient cheap-enough commercial projects or because the OSS projects fails to attract sufficient talent or the problem being solved is not important enough to anyone.
As you say where someone starts out to solve a problem which is important to them the project will often succeed. But it ain't always so.
I'm not knocking OSS: I use Mozilla, OpenOffice, and lots more on a day to day basis. But I'm not so blind that I can't see that there are a whole raft of projects which are left incomplete.
I'm not surprised at the reluctance.
Given that many of the SP2 changes relate to networks and firewalls, the bigger the corporate network the bigger the chance the upgrade will take some time to get working for everyone in a company.
If you are used to fixing problems remotely and the upgrade prevents the problem PC connecting to the network... you see the issue:-)
You say "Don't use DIV on webpages, it makes them unreadable in MSIE."
I say "Use DIV on webpages, it makes them unreadable in MSIE. And it will maybe encourage more folk to make the switch to another browser"
(Sorry about being offtopic)
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I prefer the term "Global Climate Change" to "Global Warming" - if everywhere was just getting a bit warmer we could cope, no bother at all (as long as it didn't happen too fast) - we would just change what crops we grew where, etc.
It's the fact that the climate is changing (and has always been changing, to and from ice ages and so on) that is the issue. Whether or not our activities are causing the change, we need to plan on how to survive the changes.
See for example
http://www.literature.org/authors/carroll-lewis/t
Off topic, but by now no one cares.
Yep I agree. I work in a library and hunting for missing books is the worst part of the job (we have a cleaning staff for the toilets :-) ). If every book was RFID tagged, the (already compterised) library catalog wouldn't just say "on the shelves" it could say (for sure) which shelf. And if a book was missing, we'd know before we spent an hour hunting through every shelf.
So I see RFID a bit like a car. Lots of folk die in car accidents, but for society as a whole the benefits seem to out weigh the problems. (although I doubt RFID will directly kill quite so many.)
Yet here you are posting to /.
;-)
Ahh, the witty responses and insightful humor; if only we had some
I think his point is that I could rewrite his message, recompute the MD5, and upload the new message with new MD5 (assuming I could access the server appropraitely, but that's a side issue - Cowboy Neal could rewrite all the messages tagging them with valid MD5 values and how could you tell if Md5 is all you've got). How could you tell if it was the original message or not? The point is that to be secure you need some proper encryption stuff, not just a fancy checksum anyone can compute.
There is always some risk in machine readable data.
In 20 or 30 years time you might have trouble getting hardware which reads your data and runs an OS which runs your software.
Ok, you might be clued up enough to always copy backups to newer technology, but joe public is one day going to bring a CD out of his dad's attic and find he cannot even look at the photos on it.
I think the prices quoted are Euros.
Currently 1 Euro = 1.23 USD, so I think the article is about right.
Err, not very often. Is this how most slashdotters keep track of thoughts, or are the folk in the article unusual?
The John Dvorak article linked to appears to be dated 03.18.03, and he is making the prediction for 2003/2004 isn't he? So even if it happens he was wrong by a year or two.
I've been using Netbeans for the best part of a year. The first few pre 4.0 versions had occasional problems which could generally be fixed by clearing the cache.
Version 4.0 however is very stable for me, and I use it one a daily basis.
But I'll probably give it a week or two before I move to 4.1 just to be sure.
IIRC The Mozila code base came about originally because Netscape made their browser code open source. For several years Netscape supported Mozilla.org (providing staff and resources).
We should be glad that Netscape continue to use the Mozilla code base - it helps to provide another credible alternative to IE for instance.
The picture they posted here_ fig1.jpg
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/figures/PIA07941
does help a bit- the camera is rotating and because it builds up the image over time it sees (the relatively near by) object twice.
I guess when imaging the surface they have to rotate the orbiter/camera to account fo the fact the orbiter is moving relative to the planet surface faster than they can take the picture.
You lasted longer than me. Here's my sample conversation from today:
Human: what is time?
ALICE: Time is Money -- Einstein.
Human: I don't want to know what Einstein might have thought- what do you think time is?
ALICE: What would you rather be doing?
Human: Getting a straight answer.
ALICE: Am I a straight answer? Maybe
And here, gentle reader, I gave up. If she's a straight answer, I'm the (new) Pope.
As to your last point I confess I don't know- wonder what ratio of commercial projects fail compared to the ratio for OSS? I'm sure most commercial products don't last more than a few years unless they have some merit. Or are called Windows ;-)
The idea that OSS is always better than commercial software just isn't true. There _are_ OSS projects that are better than any commercial equivalent but it is not always true.
Many OSS projects start with great ideas but fail to progress past version 0.2 because there is insufficient interest, either because there are other similar projects going or there are sufficient cheap-enough commercial projects or because the OSS projects fails to attract sufficient talent or the problem being solved is not important enough to anyone.
As you say where someone starts out to solve a problem which is important to them the project will often succeed. But it ain't always so.
I'm not knocking OSS: I use Mozilla, OpenOffice, and lots more on a day to day basis. But I'm not so blind that I can't see that there are a whole raft of projects which are left incomplete.
I'm not surprised at the reluctance. :-)
Given that many of the SP2 changes relate to networks and firewalls, the bigger the corporate network the bigger the chance the upgrade will take some time to get working for everyone in a company.
If you are used to fixing problems remotely and the upgrade prevents the problem PC connecting to the network... you see the issue
You say "Don't use DIV on webpages, it makes them unreadable in MSIE."
I say "Use DIV on webpages, it makes them unreadable in MSIE. And it will maybe encourage more folk to make the switch to another browser"
(Sorry about being offtopic)