Everyone loves to bang on the ISS problems but seem to forget that a number of major technology and/or cash commitments that were supposed to be provided by other coutries were never delivered. This means that the US had to cover other coutries expenses.
In other cases where technology was actually provided, extra US funds had to be paid to verify it because of minor communication issues. In fact, to date, I think Canada is one of the few coutries that actually completed what they committed to doing.
I'm simply bringing this up because ISS is probably not the best example to site when to comes to US funds and space research.
He did lay it out rather well but unless I completely missed something, they do not give up their constitutional rights. Furthermore, I read that they, the tribunal, is allowed to "handle it", however, I did not see where he would be deprived of due process of even being classified as an illegal non-combatant.
This means, Constitutional protection exists until it's been proven that he falls under their jurisdiction.
One of the passages even site that it must be "constitutionally established". This means, in no way, shape, or form, should he denied his chance for constitutionally protected due process to establish his status.
Bluntly stated, assertion that these people no longer receive any constituational protection is grossly incorrect.
Detained as needed does not mean denial of due process or violation of their civil rights. In fact, they are supposed to receive due process under miltary law/tribunal rather than federal courts. Either way, they are supposed to receive some form of due process to ensure they actually qualify as an "enemy combatant".
Dang it! If I had only seen your post before I commented elsewhere I would of modded you up!!!
Someone, please mod this post up. jmweeks is absolutely correct here. The president is violating one or more American's civil rights.
More people need to understand that how serious this is. If you don't speak out now...who will be around to speak out when they come for you!!!
Bluntly put, this is NOT a question of his guilt or innocense. Rather, this is plain and simple, the President of the USA, is spitting on its constitution.
The biggest problem is, most people have no idea how to actually benchmark MP systems. They'll do something lame and meaningless like, run a word benchmark and show that it didn't make any difference.
Mean while, back in the real world, more and more people are starting to really multitask and that's not just he domain of power users. More and more people are learning that they can do multiple things at the same time. More and more people are wanting to do something while they burn CD's, while they merge their mailing labels, and while they play a game.
Simply stated, MP systems are really starting to make sense for the masses. Most common OS's now support them. IMO, Intel clearly picked the worse possible time to walk about from dual CPU systems. Now, AMD just need to figure out a way to market this concept. Without marketing, this won't do this much good.
2) No Root users? Bzzz...every user is a root user. This means if/when exploits do happen, the ability for them to ALWAYS be fatal is ALWAYS there.
3) The #1 biggest reason why remote exploits will be rare. This, and only this, is the primary reason.
4) Moot issue since pascal strings minimize that vast majority of these issues to begin with.
6) Pretty much every real OS has this concept. Mac is hardly alone.
7) True, being a minority does help. Other OS's play header tricks too. On the other hand, this also means much fewer selections in available applications which mean odds are automatically reduced in the number of possible exploits. Basically, zero applications means zero odds of being exploited. I think you can follow the logic from there.
8) Security through obscurity can sometimes help but rarely is the solution. In fact, history proves that this often creates more problems than it fixes because fewer eyes ever see enough code to fix it before it becomes a problem.
Gtk# doesn't currently work on Windows as the Microsoft runtime is incompatible with Gtk+ libraries that aren't linked with MSVC's lib.exe tool. Tor Lillqvist's Gtk+ for Windows won't work. While there's no active effort within the Mono project to recompile the DLLs, you're welcome to try yourself. build-dll is an example of how this has been achieved in the past.
This is something I try to point out from time to time. Until there becomes a defacto GUI widget toolkit for all.NET platforms, saying.NET and MONO allows for cross platform development is ultimately an invalid assertion.
Unlike Java which provides its own GUI toolkit, most MONO applications are going to use their own native widget set. That means on Windows, MFC and on Unix/Linux, Motif, GTK+, Qt, FLTK, etc. Since few of these toolkits have.NET bindings, let alone are cross platform, it means writing all of the GUI over again for each perspective platform.
Tell me again why I'd waste my time?
If I want cross platform, I can already use Python + wxWindows (wxPython) or even Java to truely be platform indepenent. So please, tell me why I'd waste me time with Mono, let alone C# in general.
Well, I support such a concept, but the free licensing should only extend to citizens that paid for it. In other words, if you're not paying taxes, you shouldn't benefit from it.
The problem with security through obscurity is that once the information is revealed, it's nearly impossible to stop.
This is true, however, in the context that I explained, schedules are normally not the same for every trip...thus adding to it's security in the event of a leak. There's also the concept of "need to know". Surely you've heard of such a thing. If the concept works for world affairs and national security, i'm fairly sure it can work pretty well for plain-jane trucks.
Great, so by relying on everyone involved keeping this a secret, all it takes is for the secret to leak once and these shipments are put in danger.
In a single instance...at least in the context that I used. So, more accurately, "a shipment" would be put in danger.
Keeping the information secret does help. It weeds out many potential criminals. It reduces expenses defending against attacks that can't possibly succeed, but might cost money to stop. But if you're relying on it as your sole defense, you're foolish.
Foolish is making assuptions about things that were not asserted. No one said this was the sole source of protection. As such, these tactics are not the sole defense. Nonetheless, these serve to greatly reduce the cost of transport, ease the general public, and greatly enhance security. Like it or not, this type of security IS the first line of defense. Like it or not, it tends to work rather well.
To the best of my knowledge, no one has asserted anything that supports your "foolish" comment.
Security by obscurity is bad when dealing when computers because computers by their very nature makes it much easier to root out patterns and obscure points of interest.
Security by obscurity in the physical world is a de facto standard and is paramount to many security issues. For example, like it or not, our goverment uses plain-jane trucks to move radioactive elements, high explosives, deadly biological materials, and large volumes of currency throughout our nation.
By not having the routes, the trucking schedules and payload information, a high degree of security is available. This is exactly security through obscurity. Would you want this information to be available? I know I sure wouldn't.
Imagine the cost (because of the physical security requirements) and the greatly increased odds of something bad happening in the event that this information were generally known to the public. I can easily imagine bad things for any number of reasons if this were public information. Since it's not, everything from protects (increasing the odds of accidents) to terrorist attacks are avoided, and this is just the short list.
In short, in the real world, security through obscurity is not only important, it's paramount to our national security...don't believe me, ask NTSA, NSA, CIA and the FBI as well as just about any other law enforcement agency. It's only with computers that this should be avoided; as a rule of thumb...
1) People prefer not to have to think and learn anything. This is the primary reason why people are not active in education or goverment.
2) People prefer not to have to think and learn anything. See #1. It's pretty well accepted that you'll be even dumber for having listened...nonetheless, zero effort was used to achieve this effect.
3) Vit C is not a herbal remedy and has over 30 yeras of research which supports it's effects. In fact, the only valid question still left that effects it's use is the required dosage level. Having said that, most studies indicate that it's somewhat higher than what the FDA pushes. MD Anderson even has done cancer research which used Vit C (amongst many others) which yielded a 5% - 15% higher recovery rate than traditional cancer treatments. This was in the fevor of when the FDA had plans to make viters illegal save only for prescription. It's echinecea that has little to no historical support for treatment. Please don't get confused.
4) Because they have a different view on life...and like most people, feel their view should be supported as well. This often has little to do with being right or wrong.
5) Given you're context, actually both are illegal. Having said that, both can be legal given a valid context and a prescription in hand.
Anything that takes longer than 30 seconds to understand is far beyond the Oprah-fried brains of the masses.
What makes us think the masses would care about facts?
This is, about the only thing we seem to agree on , however, I can't stress enough how valid it is. See my answers to points #1 and #2 to support your claim.
Are you crazy?! Just imagine, it's the perfect size to scamble up some eggs on. Heat your coffee. Just start that compile and soon, it's a regular feast for everyone...
It's like if you buy a warranty for your tv for 3 years, and it includes free parts for that tv at a set cost. And then the company comes back some time later and says, we aren't going to give you those same parts unless you pay for the upgraded warranty.
That's actually not the same thing at all. A better and more accurate example would be...for every part that we make, we'll provide and warranty. The third party extras for the attached VCR (third party software), you'll be required to pay for the third party parts...but will still put it together for you (free labor and delivery). Sounds like you got a MUCH better deal than what you thought were were...after all, you're getting something for nothing...Mandrake Soft is making it available in the first place...which is a service....at their expense....
Principal must always be tempered with logic...other wise it only makes things worse.
Sometimes it makes more sense to be understanding and forgiving.
By being unreasonable, you're basically saying...I don't care about anyone else but my self...that view is a horrible shade of glass to put on your nose.
I know because I purchased WP for Linux and it's a horrible bastard product which they failed to have function properly out of the box...let alone failed to support with patches that it needed. As far as I'm conerened, they owe me money back!
Star Office on the other hand...is much faster than WP ever was on Linux and, hey, what a concept...it actually works!
It's not true for the software that I've written, because I tend to refactor and clean things up regularly. Half the time when I go into a function to fix a little bug, I figure out a cleaner way to rewrite the whole function, so over time it gets better and better.
In other words, his code decays MUCH faster than anyone elses. Glad he doesn't work for me. At "half the time", that means he's costing any project 50% more in his time/dollar worth. Ouch!
Don't even talk to me about spending money replacing something that works.
No, he doesn't replace an application at one time, it does it over a period of time, one function at a time. LOL!
Well, most people with encyclopedias only look up 0.01% of the topics in the encyclopedia. But would you rather have the Encyclopedia Britannica or would you rather have a lightweight brochure containing the top 100 topics?
What? I thought they were asking about optimization and maintaining code that no one used?!?! Perhaps he answered a different question for Reader's Digest and was confused.
The good news is that a lot of stuff I write about UI is starting to have an impact on the Gnome and KDE people. There's a lot more appreciation for the value of good UI than there used to be in the Linux community. Once every open-sourcer has seen their marriage break up by installing Linux on their non-technical spouse's computer, they'll finally understand that, no, most people don't prefer command lines.
Hmmm....and I thought this was a process of evolution simply because neither KDE or GNOME can snap their fingers and have everything under the sky that makes everyone happy. Gosh, it's taken MS how many years and they still don't have it right. Suddenly this is all about you Joe? Ya, I'm sure the face of UI is changed because you're the only one that can understand how computers are used. Oh ya...I forgot...you're the only one with parents that use computers...
Well, I write code every day, and have done so for most of the last 20 years. I think this is pretty self evident if you read what I write on my site, but slashdotters are not exactly famous for reading the things they are commenting on!
Seems I read what you said and I must say, aside from your high opinion of your self, you don't seem to understand much else.
I recently saw on a show...man, I wish I could remember which one it was, on either discovery or history channel where someone said in a passing statement about how the government has been researching this for a number of years already and that he would not be surprised if they already had a working prototype as of this late date.
. . . a bank based on the "duck test." It accepts deposits, it pays interest, it earns money on cash on deposit, it clears transactions, . . . About the only thing it doesn't do is hold itself accountable to the standards that should be expected of a bank.
Which PayPal really doesn't do...
They are what is known as a clearing house. Basically they do in proxy for other institutions. This is what I said last time this came up. Seems, while the Fed's didn't state it as such per se, they seem to feel the same way.
Now then, are they a "wire" service...sounds like...and as such, some states are going to make them become licensed money transfer services...which is more or less what they are doing.
Except that there has been several double-blind tests using people's own ultra high end audio equipment that listen to classical (said to be the best for true audiophiles to hear "issues" -- I'll take their word for it) which had difficulty hearing the difference. Well, that's not exactly true, I should say, they had trouble picking out the orginal recording even though they could hear differences. Funny thing is, "best" is often not truely measurable...thus you don't have a tool which can readily do it. "Best" is often a gauge of which met or exceeded expectation based on previous listening experience. With that known and understood, it's very possible that some people may not actually enjoy the original audio source. This fact is often forgotten. Another point in fact is, if this were not true, the number of equalizers sold to audiophiles, and the masses in general, would be greatly reduced!!!
Most find 256-bit quality MP3 encodings to meet or beat their expectations...especially given the audio equipment most use. This includes many audiophiles too.
Now then, remove the $100,000 worth of high-end audio equipement and suddenly pretty much everyone is happy beyond compare.
I don't know about you, but my self, like most of the masses don't have ultra high-end audio equipment so when someone says we need better, really has no meaning, let alone value to 95% of the earth's population.
They are sheep if they go where they are led. Unless they make an actual effort to become educated, they are sheep.
Like it or not, spinning it "PC" doesn't make it any less true.
Fact is, most people are quite happy to take the spoon full they get from TV and newspapers, reguardless of the source; which is sometimes hidden or obscured.
Reality is exactly as I put it. They had bugs in their linked list implementations for a VERY long time. When I contacted the developers about this, they told me they knew about it and that it had already been fixed in the current development tree. I asked about a patch for the current "stable" (which had lots of other causes for it to crash too). I was told to fix it my self or wait until they got around to it. Furthermore, they said they probably wouldn't get around to it because the next major release was out "ANY TIME NOW". Wow, two years later, here it is. The bug that they knew was there for over 4 months since I reported it, was finally fixed a total of 8 months after it was known to exist.
Take your queries and come back to planet earth were reality and experince matters.
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Everyone loves to bang on the ISS problems but seem to forget that a number of major technology and/or cash commitments that were supposed to be provided by other coutries were never delivered. This means that the US had to cover other coutries expenses.
In other cases where technology was actually provided, extra US funds had to be paid to verify it because of minor communication issues. In fact, to date, I think Canada is one of the few coutries that actually completed what they committed to doing.
I'm simply bringing this up because ISS is probably not the best example to site when to comes to US funds and space research.
He did lay it out rather well but unless I completely missed something, they do not give up their constitutional rights. Furthermore, I read that they, the tribunal, is allowed to "handle it", however, I did not see where he would be deprived of due process of even being classified as an illegal non-combatant.
This means, Constitutional protection exists until it's been proven that he falls under their jurisdiction.
One of the passages even site that it must be "constitutionally established". This means, in no way, shape, or form, should he denied his chance for constitutionally protected due process to establish his status.
Bluntly stated, assertion that these people no longer receive any constituational protection is grossly incorrect.
Detained as needed does not mean denial of due process or violation of their civil rights. In fact, they are supposed to receive due process under miltary law/tribunal rather than federal courts. Either way, they are supposed to receive some form of due process to ensure they actually qualify as an "enemy combatant".
Dang it! If I had only seen your post before I commented elsewhere I would of modded you up!!!
Someone, please mod this post up. jmweeks is absolutely correct here. The president is violating one or more American's civil rights.
More people need to understand that how serious this is. If you don't speak out now...who will be around to speak out when they come for you!!!
Bluntly put, this is NOT a question of his guilt or innocense. Rather, this is plain and simple, the President of the USA, is spitting on its constitution.
Be an American and contact your representatives.
The biggest problem is, most people have no idea how to actually benchmark MP systems. They'll do something lame and meaningless like, run a word benchmark and show that it didn't make any difference.
Mean while, back in the real world, more and more people are starting to really multitask and that's not just he domain of power users. More and more people are learning that they can do multiple things at the same time. More and more people are wanting to do something while they burn CD's, while they merge their mailing labels, and while they play a game.
Simply stated, MP systems are really starting to make sense for the masses. Most common OS's now support them. IMO, Intel clearly picked the worse possible time to walk about from dual CPU systems. Now, AMD just need to figure out a way to market this concept. Without marketing, this won't do this much good.
1) Agreed
2) No Root users? Bzzz...every user is a root user. This means if/when exploits do happen, the ability for them to ALWAYS be fatal is ALWAYS there.
3) The #1 biggest reason why remote exploits will be rare. This, and only this, is the primary reason.
4) Moot issue since pascal strings minimize that vast majority of these issues to begin with.
6) Pretty much every real OS has this concept. Mac is hardly alone.
7) True, being a minority does help. Other OS's play header tricks too. On the other hand, this also means much fewer selections in available applications which mean odds are automatically reduced in the number of possible exploits. Basically, zero applications means zero odds of being exploited. I think you can follow the logic from there.
8) Security through obscurity can sometimes help but rarely is the solution. In fact, history proves that this often creates more problems than it fixes because fewer eyes ever see enough code to fix it before it becomes a problem.
Someone, please mod the parent article up!!! This guy actually seems to have a clue!
OpenGL is an open specification. Anyone can write to that specification.
Gtk# doesn't currently work on Windows as the Microsoft runtime is incompatible with Gtk+ libraries that aren't linked with MSVC's lib.exe tool. Tor Lillqvist's Gtk+ for Windows won't work. While there's no active effort within the Mono project to recompile the DLLs, you're welcome to try yourself. build-dll is an example of how this has been achieved in the past.
This is something I try to point out from time to time. Until there becomes a defacto GUI widget toolkit for all .NET platforms, saying .NET and MONO allows for cross platform development is ultimately an invalid assertion.
.NET bindings, let alone are cross platform, it means writing all of the GUI over again for each perspective platform.
Unlike Java which provides its own GUI toolkit, most MONO applications are going to use their own native widget set. That means on Windows, MFC and on Unix/Linux, Motif, GTK+, Qt, FLTK, etc. Since few of these toolkits have
Tell me again why I'd waste my time?
If I want cross platform, I can already use Python + wxWindows (wxPython) or even Java to truely be platform indepenent. So please, tell me why I'd waste me time with Mono, let alone C# in general.
Shesh...what a waste of resources.
Well, I support such a concept, but the free licensing should only extend to citizens that paid for it. In other words, if you're not paying taxes, you shouldn't benefit from it.
The problem with security through obscurity is that once the information is revealed, it's nearly impossible to stop.
This is true, however, in the context that I explained, schedules are normally not the same for every trip...thus adding to it's security in the event of a leak. There's also the concept of "need to know". Surely you've heard of such a thing. If the concept works for world affairs and national security, i'm fairly sure it can work pretty well for plain-jane trucks.
Great, so by relying on everyone involved keeping this a secret, all it takes is for the secret to leak once and these shipments are put in danger.
In a single instance...at least in the context that I used. So, more accurately, "a shipment" would be put in danger.
Keeping the information secret does help. It weeds out many potential criminals. It reduces expenses defending against attacks that can't possibly succeed, but might cost money to stop. But if you're relying on it as your sole defense, you're foolish.
Foolish is making assuptions about things that were not asserted. No one said this was the sole source of protection. As such, these tactics are not the sole defense. Nonetheless, these serve to greatly reduce the cost of transport, ease the general public, and greatly enhance security. Like it or not, this type of security IS the first line of defense. Like it or not, it tends to work rather well.
To the best of my knowledge, no one has asserted anything that supports your "foolish" comment.
I decided to post rather than mod...
It's VERY important to remember two things...
Security by obscurity is bad when dealing when computers because computers by their very nature makes it much easier to root out patterns and obscure points of interest.
Security by obscurity in the physical world is a de facto standard and is paramount to many security issues. For example, like it or not, our goverment uses plain-jane trucks to move radioactive elements, high explosives, deadly biological materials, and large volumes of currency throughout our nation.
By not having the routes, the trucking schedules and payload information, a high degree of security is available. This is exactly security through obscurity. Would you want this information to be available? I know I sure wouldn't.
Imagine the cost (because of the physical security requirements) and the greatly increased odds of something bad happening in the event that this information were generally known to the public. I can easily imagine bad things for any number of reasons if this were public information. Since it's not, everything from protects (increasing the odds of accidents) to terrorist attacks are avoided, and this is just the short list.
In short, in the real world, security through obscurity is not only important, it's paramount to our national security...don't believe me, ask NTSA, NSA, CIA and the FBI as well as just about any other law enforcement agency. It's only with computers that this should be avoided; as a rule of thumb...
1) People prefer not to have to think and learn anything. This is the primary reason why people are not active in education or goverment.
2) People prefer not to have to think and learn anything. See #1. It's pretty well accepted that you'll be even dumber for having listened...nonetheless, zero effort was used to achieve this effect.
3) Vit C is not a herbal remedy and has over 30 yeras of research which supports it's effects. In fact, the only valid question still left that effects it's use is the required dosage level. Having said that, most studies indicate that it's somewhat higher than what the FDA pushes. MD Anderson even has done cancer research which used Vit C (amongst many others) which yielded a 5% - 15% higher recovery rate than traditional cancer treatments. This was in the fevor of when the FDA had plans to make viters illegal save only for prescription. It's echinecea that has little to no historical support for treatment. Please don't get confused.
4) Because they have a different view on life...and like most people, feel their view should be supported as well. This often has little to do with being right or wrong.
5) Given you're context, actually both are illegal. Having said that, both can be legal given a valid context and a prescription in hand.
Anything that takes longer than 30 seconds to understand is far beyond the Oprah-fried brains of the masses.
What makes us think the masses would care about facts?
This is, about the only thing we seem to agree on , however, I can't stress enough how valid it is. See my answers to points #1 and #2 to support your claim.
I wouldn't want a 21" CPU
Are you crazy?! Just imagine, it's the perfect size to scamble up some eggs on. Heat your coffee. Just start that compile and soon, it's a regular feast for everyone...
Not to mention that 2.6 million in the world of science and research is a drop in the bucket.
The president spends more than this much on fuel in his jet just running around the country during a typical term in office.
A side from that, it's the long shots that usually have the biggest pay offs.
It's like if you buy a warranty for your tv for 3 years, and it includes free parts for that tv at a set cost. And then the company comes back some time later and says, we aren't going to give you those same parts unless you pay for the upgraded warranty.
That's actually not the same thing at all. A better and more accurate example would be...for every part that we make, we'll provide and warranty. The third party extras for the attached VCR (third party software), you'll be required to pay for the third party parts...but will still put it together for you (free labor and delivery). Sounds like you got a MUCH better deal than what you thought were were...after all, you're getting something for nothing...Mandrake Soft is making it available in the first place...which is a service....at their expense....
Sounds very reasonable to me.
It's a matter of priniciples.
Principal must always be tempered with logic...other wise it only makes things worse.
Sometimes it makes more sense to be understanding and forgiving.
By being unreasonable, you're basically saying...I don't care about anyone else but my self...that view is a horrible shade of glass to put on your nose.
Heheh...
There is a slight difference....SO doesn't suck!
I know because I purchased WP for Linux and it's a horrible bastard product which they failed to have function properly out of the box...let alone failed to support with patches that it needed. As far as I'm conerened, they owe me money back!
Star Office on the other hand...is much faster than WP ever was on Linux and, hey, what a concept...it actually works!
Why is this a troll?
He seems to be asking if KDE is still the same old KDE with new eye candy or have things really gotten better?
...wish people would learn what a troll is...
It's not true for the software that I've written, because I tend to refactor and clean things up regularly. Half the time when I go into a function to fix a little bug, I figure out a cleaner way to rewrite the whole function, so over time it gets better and better.
In other words, his code decays MUCH faster than anyone elses. Glad he doesn't work for me. At "half the time", that means he's costing any project 50% more in his time/dollar worth. Ouch!
Don't even talk to me about spending money replacing something that works.
No, he doesn't replace an application at one time, it does it over a period of time, one function at a time. LOL!
Well, most people with encyclopedias only look up 0.01% of the topics in the encyclopedia. But would you rather have the Encyclopedia Britannica or would you rather have a lightweight brochure containing the top 100 topics?
What? I thought they were asking about optimization and maintaining code that no one used?!?! Perhaps he answered a different question for Reader's Digest and was confused.
The good news is that a lot of stuff I write about UI is starting to have an impact on the Gnome and KDE people. There's a lot more appreciation for the value of good UI than there used to be in the Linux community. Once every open-sourcer has seen their marriage break up by installing Linux on their non-technical spouse's computer, they'll finally understand that, no, most people don't prefer command lines.
Hmmm....and I thought this was a process of evolution simply because neither KDE or GNOME can snap their fingers and have everything under the sky that makes everyone happy. Gosh, it's taken MS how many years and they still don't have it right. Suddenly this is all about you Joe? Ya, I'm sure the face of UI is changed because you're the only one that can understand how computers are used. Oh ya...I forgot...you're the only one with parents that use computers...
Well, I write code every day, and have done so for most of the last 20 years. I think this is pretty self evident if you read what I write on my site, but slashdotters are not exactly famous for reading the things they are commenting on!
Seems I read what you said and I must say, aside from your high opinion of your self, you don't seem to understand much else.
I recently saw on a show...man, I wish I could remember which one it was, on either discovery or history channel where someone said in a passing statement about how the government has been researching this for a number of years already and that he would not be surprised if they already had a working prototype as of this late date.
Grrr
If only I can remember where I saw that....
. . . a bank based on the "duck test." It accepts deposits, it pays interest, it earns money on cash on deposit, it clears transactions, . . . About the only thing it doesn't do is hold itself accountable to the standards that should be expected of a bank.
Which PayPal really doesn't do...
They are what is known as a clearing house. Basically they do in proxy for other institutions. This is what I said last time this came up. Seems, while the Fed's didn't state it as such per se, they seem to feel the same way.
Now then, are they a "wire" service...sounds like...and as such, some states are going to make them become licensed money transfer services...which is more or less what they are doing.
Except that there has been several double-blind tests using people's own ultra high end audio equipment that listen to classical (said to be the best for true audiophiles to hear "issues" -- I'll take their word for it) which had difficulty hearing the difference. Well, that's not exactly true, I should say, they had trouble picking out the orginal recording even though they could hear differences. Funny thing is, "best" is often not truely measurable...thus you don't have a tool which can readily do it. "Best" is often a gauge of which met or exceeded expectation based on previous listening experience. With that known and understood, it's very possible that some people may not actually enjoy the original audio source. This fact is often forgotten. Another point in fact is, if this were not true, the number of equalizers sold to audiophiles, and the masses in general, would be greatly reduced!!!
Most find 256-bit quality MP3 encodings to meet or beat their expectations...especially given the audio equipment most use. This includes many audiophiles too.
Now then, remove the $100,000 worth of high-end audio equipement and suddenly pretty much everyone is happy beyond compare.
I don't know about you, but my self, like most of the masses don't have ultra high-end audio equipment so when someone says we need better, really has no meaning, let alone value to 95% of the earth's population.
They are sheep if they go where they are led. Unless they make an actual effort to become educated, they are sheep.
Like it or not, spinning it "PC" doesn't make it any less true.
Fact is, most people are quite happy to take the spoon full they get from TV and newspapers, reguardless of the source; which is sometimes hidden or obscured.
Hmmm...the half dozen people I know that are in the service tell a completely different story.
hehe
Reality is exactly as I put it. They had bugs in their linked list implementations for a VERY long time. When I contacted the developers about this, they told me they knew about it and that it had already been fixed in the current development tree. I asked about a patch for the current "stable" (which had lots of other causes for it to crash too). I was told to fix it my self or wait until they got around to it. Furthermore, they said they probably wouldn't get around to it because the next major release was out "ANY TIME NOW". Wow, two years later, here it is. The bug that they knew was there for over 4 months since I reported it, was finally fixed a total of 8 months after it was known to exist.
Take your queries and come back to planet earth were reality and experince matters.