Your analogy doesn't really apply, it would however if you're the only hotel group in 5 towns, and then you set up a hotel in a 6th town with free rooms in order to kill off the competition
Mishandling is also using it to get your self a dominant position in another market. At the moment those markets are the games console market, the SMB Server market, and the Online Music/Media player market. Microsoft is abusing it's monopoly in 2 out of 3. And at last it's being knocked down for one of them.
Even if Amazon doesn't "spam" per se, and instead only sends to people who've already "opted in" to targeted ads, those ads will become more effective because the seller will know more about the customer's personal life.
And is this exactly a bad thing. What is it about spam that irritates us the most? It's the fact that, as the bbc once said, spem proves once and for all that Big Brother is either blind or stupid.
If the publicity I got in my mail box was _remotly_ linked to what I am likely to need or want, then I'd probably spend much less time building up an armada of filters to ward it off, and I don't think I'm alone here.
The point is that people are afraid of change./. analogy: look at OSs, we may have an OS of the week (or use a different distro for each day of the week) but most people are just scared to change.
It's even worse when the problems are social. What people are looking for is more someone to say, "Yes, you can do it. Yes it will make a difference. No, you are not better off in your hole/basement" rather than an instruction manual on how to 'get a life'.
The problem isn't that everythings hidden, it's that it isn't in the same place. For using a mandrake machine as a stand alone desktop, the command line is (almost) never needed.
I say almost, because I'm sure someone will find something they haven't thought of yet.
the popup box would not help me since I instinctively click through it.
Except that Linux e-mail clients never set the execute bit (at least none that I've heard of). This stops the system running that.jpg that just happens to have as it's first line #!/bin/bash
If OEM's shipped Linux you can bet they'd set it up to run as root anyway, just to avoid the hassle of tech support when people can't figure out why the password box comes up when they want to install Bonzi Buddy.
No they wouldn't, they'd just put the root password on a certificate in the box, like that the little manual can explain that 'to install applications, you need the password on the certificate'. Problem solved, users don't even need to know that root exists.
Add to that even if they did have a separate root account, they'd have to set some sort of default password and most people would never bother to change it.
Exactly how is this a problem, since a desktop machine doesn't come with ssh running by default?
And we can all have it our way, since the biggest plus about Linux is, you've guessed it: choice.
I've set complete newbs up with Mandrake 9.2 (by newbs I mean not used to a computer at all), their perfectly happy. I've set up non profit orgs with a similar setup (Mdk 9.2 + X terminals), they couldn't be happier, everythings just clicky friendly, and that's how they want it.
OTOH, at home I don't want my distro to get in my way, which is why I use Slack (and will probably go the gentoo root when I get broadband), because it suits me.
As long as the kernel and base systems are open, their's no problem with people makeing a Linux distro a Mac/Windows user could use (not to say I've got anything ageinst Mac/Windows that is), since we all get the choice to run what we want.
I am thinking, and I can't see your reasons, could you please elaborate?
If you're going to state that X11 is slow, then I suggest that you rmember that on a local box, we're talking about unix sockets, which are mmaped in the kernel, hence 0 performance loss.
If your going to start asking about alpha blending etc then your confusing X11 and XFree, since their is no problem with haveing a blendable X server.
It'd be even better if some of this security came enabled by default, you know like a user account already created? Or mabey it could even ask the user to create an account during the first bootup? Explaining that running as admin is dangerous? Oh well, I suppose I can dream, there isn't an OS out there that does that yet is there?
P.S: If, whilst their at it, they could make it so that you don't need the RPC to run the thing, it'd be swell too... But I suppose that I'm asking for too much there.
Even if it isn't it'd never work. You just can't detect encrypted content. My JPEG file could contain an mp3 once the headers are stripped off, and who'd know the difference, short of parsing the whole file, looking at the result, and realizing that it's a mess.
This technique is already used to fool some web browsers (ie IE) into downloading a file as binary instead of getting it as text...
Lock up the current net, and another one will spring up underneath. It'd probably be kind of like freenet, except that it'd be implemented at a much lower level (cap the necessary technologies over your PPP or eth interface, and talk to that). Sure bandwidth would suffer, but the information would remain free, and uncontrollable.
They require registration. That's more than wikipedia does, and they're doing just fine, any abuse is just rolled back five minutes later by the next visitor
Does it strike anyone as a bit of a negative attribute that you have to have a massive knowledgebase to use your operating system?
The answer is that you don't, the wiki is more aimed at people who just want to find something out about Linux (ie 'How do they read e-mail without Outlook?'), are looking for a good distribution to try, or are curious and want to learn more about it (hence the technical parts)
However, I've always had to rely on poorly-written HOWTOs and other documents to spend three hours just getting a sound card or USB mouse to work under X.
Sounds like your distro isn't that recent (or that you're useing Slack or Debian, in which case the Howtos are to be expected). Modern Distros generally take care of your mouse and sound card in a few seconds while you watch the progress bar
Not to diss you, but Linux just isn't that hard anymore.
Where have you been these last 2 years? To refute your posts, I will use examples from Mandrake 9.2 (some say there is a lot better, but it's always worked for my computer illiterate friends).
KDE? weird? I, and none of the above mentioned friends, have any trouble or any quirks. A lot of my friends actually appreciate stuff like the audio cd device that allows you to rip like you'd copy, and if there were a few bugs in 3.1.4, try out 3.2, the formula spell checker is bliss, no slashdotter should be without!!!
Application install/uninstall. hummmm, what's so hard about going to configuration, uninstall-software, and typing in what your program does to find it and remove it? got an rpm? just double click, enter root password and your done. One point I will admit defeat on though is package maintainers refusal to put icons in the menus though, which is a general UI sin in this day and age.
As for the Linux community elitisme, I'll accept that alt.os.linux.slackware is no place to ask how to mount, but OTOH alt.os.linux.mandrake is fine for newbe's, and really helpfull in general. Otherwise there's the mandrake forums.
Neural computing will remain the domain of highly specialized research into AI and neural computing forever. We may develop neural analogs using nanotech or some other gee-whiz tech, but they will not be true neurons.
I disagree, I think neural computing will have practical applications, but more in the lines of neural interfaces than actual computers. Imagine a prosthetic(sp?) arm that works just like the old one did...
I don't know if it exists in English, but in France, 'Le Lombard' brought out a 'commic' called 'Des Lendemains sans Nuage' (Cloudless Tommorow's) in which this topic, amoung others is nicely disected. In the end, you get a competition, where no one can remember the runners names, just the labs that they work for, and the loss of a life is just considered par for the course in testing.
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Your analogy doesn't really apply, it would however if you're the only hotel group in 5 towns, and then you set up a hotel in a 6th town with free rooms in order to kill off the competition
Mishandling is also using it to get your self a dominant position in another market. At the moment those markets are the games console market, the SMB Server market, and the Online Music/Media player market. Microsoft is abusing it's monopoly in 2 out of 3. And at last it's being knocked down for one of them.
Even if Amazon doesn't "spam" per se, and instead only sends to people who've already "opted in" to targeted ads, those ads will become more effective because the seller will know more about the customer's personal life.
And is this exactly a bad thing. What is it about spam that irritates us the most? It's the fact that, as the bbc once said, spem proves once and for all that Big Brother is either blind or stupid.
If the publicity I got in my mail box was _remotly_ linked to what I am likely to need or want, then I'd probably spend much less time building up an armada of filters to ward it off, and I don't think I'm alone here.
Another method, would be to rate relationships on how many messages (and sizes of said messages) people exchange.
You naturally talk more with people who are closer to you.
Oh, and naturally, the conversations have to be 2 way for this to work, otherwise it'd be spammed to death
The point is that people are afraid of change. /. analogy: look at OSs, we may have an OS of the week (or use a different distro for each day of the week) but most people are just scared to change.
It's even worse when the problems are social. What people are looking for is more someone to say, "Yes, you can do it. Yes it will make a difference. No, you are not better off in your hole/basement" rather than an instruction manual on how to 'get a life'.
US: 14 dead, Russia 3? I think I know who I'd prefer to fly with.
The problem isn't that everythings hidden, it's that it isn't in the same place. For using a mandrake machine as a stand alone desktop, the command line is (almost) never needed.
I say almost, because I'm sure someone will find something they haven't thought of yet.
You can't patch a stupid user, but you can set the attachment -x so that the .scr.jpg doesn't get run.
Also, may I remind you that a standard desktop Linux install has 0 open ports, so good luck with your buffer overflow.
the popup box would not help me since I instinctively click through it.
Except that Linux e-mail clients never set the execute bit (at least none that I've heard of). This stops the system running thatIf OEM's shipped Linux you can bet they'd set it up to run as root anyway, just to avoid the hassle of tech support when people can't figure out why the password box comes up when they want to install Bonzi Buddy.
No they wouldn't, they'd just put the root password on a certificate in the box, like that the little manual can explain that 'to install applications, you need the password on the certificate'. Problem solved, users don't even need to know that root exists.
Add to that even if they did have a separate root account, they'd have to set some sort of default password and most people would never bother to change it.
Exactly how is this a problem, since a desktop machine doesn't come with ssh running by default?
And we can all have it our way, since the biggest plus about Linux is, you've guessed it: choice.
I've set complete newbs up with Mandrake 9.2 (by newbs I mean not used to a computer at all), their perfectly happy. I've set up non profit orgs with a similar setup (Mdk 9.2 + X terminals), they couldn't be happier, everythings just clicky friendly, and that's how they want it.
OTOH, at home I don't want my distro to get in my way, which is why I use Slack (and will probably go the gentoo root when I get broadband), because it suits me.
As long as the kernel and base systems are open, their's no problem with people makeing a Linux distro a Mac/Windows user could use (not to say I've got anything ageinst Mac/Windows that is), since we all get the choice to run what we want.
I am thinking, and I can't see your reasons, could you please elaborate?
If you're going to state that X11 is slow, then I suggest that you rmember that on a local box, we're talking about unix sockets, which are mmaped in the kernel, hence 0 performance loss.
If your going to start asking about alpha blending etc then your confusing X11 and XFree, since their is no problem with haveing a blendable X server.
Please elaborate
It'd be even better if some of this security came enabled by default, you know like a user account already created? Or mabey it could even ask the user to create an account during the first bootup? Explaining that running as admin is dangerous? Oh well, I suppose I can dream, there isn't an OS out there that does that yet is there?
P.S: If, whilst their at it, they could make it so that you don't need the RPC to run the thing, it'd be swell too... But I suppose that I'm asking for too much there.
Even if it isn't it'd never work. You just can't detect encrypted content. My JPEG file could contain an mp3 once the headers are stripped off, and who'd know the difference, short of parsing the whole file, looking at the result, and realizing that it's a mess.
This technique is already used to fool some web browsers (ie IE) into downloading a file as binary instead of getting it as text...
Lock up the current net, and another one will spring up underneath. It'd probably be kind of like freenet, except that it'd be implemented at a much lower level (cap the necessary technologies over your PPP or eth interface, and talk to that). Sure bandwidth would suffer, but the information would remain free, and uncontrollable.
just for the record, my KDE 3.2 (Ohh the memory hog) + applications + servers = 112M, You're defiantly including disk cache in your estimate
Add a section in the wiki, anyone can do it. And you'd get loads of answers.
Have fun :-)
They require registration. That's more than wikipedia does, and they're doing just fine, any abuse is just rolled back five minutes later by the next visitor
Does it strike anyone as a bit of a negative attribute that you have to have a massive knowledgebase to use your operating system?
The answer is that you don't, the wiki is more aimed at people who just want to find something out about Linux (ie 'How do they read e-mail without Outlook?'), are looking for a good distribution to try, or are curious and want to learn more about it (hence the technical parts)
However, I've always had to rely on poorly-written HOWTOs and other documents to spend three hours just getting a sound card or USB mouse to work under X.
Sounds like your distro isn't that recent (or that you're useing Slack or Debian, in which case the Howtos are to be expected). Modern Distros generally take care of your mouse and sound card in a few seconds while you watch the progress bar
Not to diss you, but Linux just isn't that hard anymore.
Where have you been these last 2 years?
To refute your posts, I will use examples from Mandrake 9.2 (some say there is a lot better, but it's always worked for my computer illiterate friends).
KDE? weird? I, and none of the above mentioned friends, have any trouble or any quirks. A lot of my friends actually appreciate stuff like the audio cd device that allows you to rip like you'd copy, and if there were a few bugs in 3.1.4, try out 3.2, the formula spell checker is bliss, no slashdotter should be without!!!
Application install/uninstall. hummmm, what's so hard about going to configuration, uninstall-software, and typing in what your program does to find it and remove it? got an rpm? just double click, enter root password and your done. One point I will admit defeat on though is package maintainers refusal to put icons in the menus though, which is a general UI sin in this day and age.
As for the Linux community elitisme, I'll accept that alt.os.linux.slackware is no place to ask how to mount, but OTOH alt.os.linux.mandrake is fine for newbe's, and really helpfull in general. Otherwise there's the mandrake forums.
Just to get the facts streight
David
Neural computing will remain the domain of highly specialized research into AI and neural computing forever. We may develop neural analogs using nanotech or some other gee-whiz tech, but they will not be true neurons.
I disagree, I think neural computing will have practical applications, but more in the lines of neural interfaces than actual computers. Imagine a prosthetic(sp?) arm that works just like the old one did...
This axon can be quite long, millimeters, even inches, in length.
Acutally, it can be over a meter in length (spinal cord to calf is one axone). Try that with a transistor
Wasn't it Linus who said that following that logic, marrage should be illigal, since it interferes with prostitutes makeing a profit?
I don't know if it exists in English, but in France, 'Le Lombard' brought out a 'commic' called 'Des Lendemains sans Nuage' (Cloudless Tommorow's) in which this topic, amoung others is nicely disected. In the end, you get a competition, where no one can remember the runners names, just the labs that they work for, and the loss of a life is just considered par for the course in testing.
This has nothing to do with copyright, it's more about stolen property. It's like using a stolen VCR.
Don't touch this if you plann on codeing for a living.