The point in my comment was that the two products have the same features. Then as a manager I think I would rather give that $1000 to the developer as a bonus than buy a product that can be had for free. Going by your example it is like selling apples by an apple tree. You could pay $1 for an apple, or you could just reach up and get an apple for free.
Also beware of the managers (if you are one - beware of yourself I guess;) that are just throwing thousands around even if they operate with millions. Today they'll throw away $1000 without thinking - tomorrow they'll throw away $100,000. YOu cannot say that $1000 is nothing, it is still $1000, at the very least donate it to victims of the earthquake or Katrina, for them $1000 would go a long way.
I have been developing, playing games and writing papers on Ubuntu since their first release. It seems to do a nice job with that. All you have to do is to get the backports repository access then you have the access to all the Debian packages that includes many games.
The obvious question of the grand(grand?)prent post as to why Ubuntu is so great, is not an easy one to explain, I guess one just has to try it. I have used Mandriva, SuSE, Fedora, Gentoo (waited 2 days for it to install!) Lycoris (before it was bought by Mandriva) and finally settled with Ubuntu. I guess things just seemed to work right out of the box or perhaps I like the openess and the message behind Ubuntu, or maybe both...
Why aren't you using the Debian package manager on a distro that supports it?
I have been using Ubuntu for the last year and love it. No more RPM hell like in Mandriva before.
I did try SuSE for a short while and liked it, but RPMs will always be RPMs.
also,
Yes office for MacOS X
Yes office for Windows
Yes office for [any OS with a web browser]
In one of the Slashdot posts/articles someone said how MS is the new IBM with the "Oh, nothing can happen to us, we are the biggest and the best, Google and Linux are just little barking puppies" attitude.
We'll just have to wait and see (and use OpenOffice until then, of course!).
I think the Cold War could have ended a lot worse than it did. But because of nuclear deterrents, a balance was established and then the country who went bankrupt first, lost the stand-off.
Also, if nuclear weapons haven't been available, there would've been other weapons to replace it. For example, there would've been a very wide proliferatoin of biological and chemical weapons, as well as conventional millitary. There would have been a need to have a much larger army, so there might have been a mandatory draft all through the Cold War in US, as expensive as nuclear warheads are, the increased army size would have probably more expensive.
Because Soviet Union was much larger than US, without nuclear weapons, they would have probably prevailed, since their manpower was much greater. (Think of China today, if we didn't have nuclear weapons and they invaded US, we might not have much of a chance. Their army can probably be bigger than our whole population).
In other words, because the human nature is what it is - rotten - there will always be wars and death and misery on this planet. That was the case 5000 years ago and that is the case today. The 20th century is the deadliest century in all the history. I think it would have been a lot deadlier if the Soviet Union would have won the Cold War stand-off. And if the nuclear weapons wouldn't be there, USSR might have won the war.
That also means that the virus can just infect them on the next reboot and then the anti-virus program won't be able to fix critical system files that have been infected. The best way is to just install Mozilla in your user folder.
That's a valid point. Perhaps the two schemes can co-exist. The record companies could use a little pressure and competition. As some artits will become more wealthy and more popular, the musicinas can perhaps directly purchase advertising and distribute the songs directly through some pay-per-song service and also make more in return. If I knew that my favourite band is getting most of the money, I am willing to pay a nice premium. Perhaps, some artists can even set up a donation scheme, much like the author of Bittorrent, to suppliment the sales.
Record companies can't make money at a dollar a song.
If more artists distributed their songs electronically, and stopped giving everything to the record company CEOs, $1 would not be too bad. Sell a million songs - make $1 million bucks. Sell a million albums and make $10 million. Heck, I would pay $3 a song if I knew most of it goes to the person who wrote it not the to some rich executive that contributed to the creation of the song as much as my chair contributes the creation of my programs, yet somehow the record companies get the bulk of the moeny today.
My problem is with DRM. I got some song of iTunes and I thought (I clicked through the agreement and what not) that if I buy the song I can play it anywhere like any other music file, especially on my Linux machine. Oh no! My windows drive died so I never reinstalled and am using Ubuntu, BUT I could not play the songs I payed for. Of course, I found out DVD Jon's site with his FairKeys and DeDRMS programs and removed the DRM from my songs, but I had to go through all that trouble to play songs that I already payed for!
For me at least,the main advantage to iTunes was an accessible and convient way to download music and $1 is the price of convinience more than anything. I could go to any P2P network and find and download the music for free, but the time it takes usually is worth more than $1 (at least for me). So if there was a site that you can get your music in plain mp3 or ogg or other non-DRM-crippled format, I would pay $1 just to save time. I don't know how they can do it with a P2P network though, but the underlying mechanism doesn't matter as long as I can get my songs faster.
You forgot the good ol' IBM "Deathstars". I got one of those that lasted a good 2 years then "click..click..dead!" taking with it some family photos and digital copies of some documents, as well as a good couple of weeks of my project work.
Counting the vulnerabilities is not really the way to assess the security implications of those vulnerabilities. There are different kinds of vulnerabilities. Perhaps, on Firefox the attacker can crash my browser - not that big of a deal, I'll just restart and then look for a patch (which comes out pretty fast). But there might an IE vulerability taht will give remove admin access to my machine. Now I think, one of those vulnerabilities outweigh 10 of the first kind. So you cannot really compare.
They should have separated vulnerabilities into classes then also taken into account the average time between discovery and fix and ease of patching. Anyone one of such a study?
Country-wide broadband in Canada is not going to be easy when the whole middle of the country is mostly woods and not much else. But I guess even the bears in the woods want to read their Slashdot news...or is it Beardot News. Beardot: News for Bears, Stuff That Growls!... comming to a tree next to you at 1.5Mbps.
Exactly. That is what defines a chaotic system. But we don't know if the Earth is a chaotic system. Again, the burden should be on the scientists who claim "It's the end of the world as we know it!" to prove that before they prove that we are beyond a certain tipping point. In other words they should clearly show what makes it the tipping point, so that means they would have to have a very good model of the earth's climate, now that is not an easy task to do. I think we would see news about it, if anyone had created it. So we should first see "amazingly accurate model of Earth's climate created" before we see "This is the end of it all!" news.
What a coincidence, that is exactly what I am doing. Just send me your name, SSN, address, date of birth, mother's maiden name and I can make it all pretty useless for you;)
Sorry, I don't think we know each other. I know about Miami because I live in the area and have many friends that go and went to Miami. I have been on campus probably more than 10 times - I do like the ice-cream shop there, it is very good! But never been scooter jousting, which sounds like fun.
Yeah, there are plenty of dr. gonzo's out there, you can thank the late H.S. Thomson that...
The point was that the name is a little confusing. Anyone who is not from the area and hears about "I go to Miami, Oxford" always replies with "Huh? Is that Florida or England?".
Yes, Miami was a name of a local tribe and Oxford, well, I hope you know where they got that one...
A lot of universities use SSNs as student IDs which is really retarded. Why don't they just assign everyone a 14 digit number or a shorter alphanumeric code I don't know. Probably because they don't know how to do it and won't spend the money to ask somebody else who knows.
Good point. They should separate the sensitive information into a private network where the mainframes with the grades, student information and all the billing is kept and tightly control access to it.
But the problem here is human error. If the ex-chair or whoever that was, took the file and put it into his public folder, no security, no firewall, no isolated mainframes are going to help.
If you knew MU Oxford, you wouldn't ask that question. That place is a joke - a party school, and I am sure that extends to their IT. By the way, they are credited to have started a lot of fraternities and sororities in this country. Just that should answer your question.
It is basically one of those colleges that wants to look like an Ivy League school but it is just a one big glorified party, where rich parents can send their spoiled kids to study business and literature.
By the way, I still don't get their name. It is not in the freakin' Miami and certainly not anywhere near (geographically and academically) U of Oxford, England.
Hehe, sorry didn't mean to be too defensive. Honestly, I don't really buy carbonated beverages (I like tea and water) so I wouldn't really know what the exact price is. But I was just trying to point out the difference in decision making when spending order of magnitude more money.
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Also beware of the managers (if you are one - beware of yourself I guess ;) that are just throwing thousands around even if they operate with millions. Today they'll throw away $1000 without thinking - tomorrow they'll throw away $100,000. YOu cannot say that $1000 is nothing, it is still $1000, at the very least donate it to victims of the earthquake or Katrina, for them $1000 would go a long way.
And I'll take that extra $1000 as nice little Christmas bonus.
The obvious question of the grand(grand?)prent post as to why Ubuntu is so great, is not an easy one to explain, I guess one just has to try it. I have used Mandriva, SuSE, Fedora, Gentoo (waited 2 days for it to install!) Lycoris (before it was bought by Mandriva) and finally settled with Ubuntu. I guess things just seemed to work right out of the box or perhaps I like the openess and the message behind Ubuntu, or maybe both...
This is like trying to revive NeXT or OS/2. They had the whole handheld market "in the bag" and messed up. It is time to move on...
Why aren't you using the Debian package manager on a distro that supports it?
I have been using Ubuntu for the last year and love it. No more RPM hell like in Mandriva before.
I did try SuSE for a short while and liked it, but RPMs will always be RPMs.
Yes office for MacOS X
Yes office for Windows
Yes office for [any OS with a web browser]
In one of the Slashdot posts/articles someone said how MS is the new IBM with the "Oh, nothing can happen to us, we are the biggest and the best, Google and Linux are just little barking puppies" attitude.
We'll just have to wait and see (and use OpenOffice until then, of course!).
def eatGator(gator):
....try:
........digestGator(gator)
....except:
........dumpCore(gator)
........sys.exit(1)
I think the Cold War could have ended a lot worse than it did. But because of nuclear deterrents, a balance was established and then the country who went bankrupt first, lost the stand-off.
Also, if nuclear weapons haven't been available, there would've been other weapons to replace it. For example, there would've been a very wide proliferatoin of biological and chemical weapons, as well as conventional millitary. There would have been a need to have a much larger army, so there might have been a mandatory draft all through the Cold War in US, as expensive as nuclear warheads are, the increased army size would have probably more expensive.
Because Soviet Union was much larger than US, without nuclear weapons, they would have probably prevailed, since their manpower was much greater. (Think of China today, if we didn't have nuclear weapons and they invaded US, we might not have much of a chance. Their army can probably be bigger than our whole population).
In other words, because the human nature is what it is - rotten - there will always be wars and death and misery on this planet. That was the case 5000 years ago and that is the case today. The 20th century is the deadliest century in all the history. I think it would have been a lot deadlier if the Soviet Union would have won the Cold War stand-off. And if the nuclear weapons wouldn't be there, USSR might have won the war.
That also means that the virus can just infect them on the next reboot and then the anti-virus program won't be able to fix critical system files that have been infected. The best way is to just install Mozilla in your user folder.
That's a valid point. Perhaps the two schemes can co-exist. The record companies could use a little pressure and competition. As some artits will become more wealthy and more popular, the musicinas can perhaps directly purchase advertising and distribute the songs directly through some pay-per-song service and also make more in return. If I knew that my favourite band is getting most of the money, I am willing to pay a nice premium. Perhaps, some artists can even set up a donation scheme, much like the author of Bittorrent, to suppliment the sales.
If more artists distributed their songs electronically, and stopped giving everything to the record company CEOs, $1 would not be too bad. Sell a million songs - make $1 million bucks. Sell a million albums and make $10 million. Heck, I would pay $3 a song if I knew most of it goes to the person who wrote it not the to some rich executive that contributed to the creation of the song as much as my chair contributes the creation of my programs, yet somehow the record companies get the bulk of the moeny today.
For me at least,the main advantage to iTunes was an accessible and convient way to download music and $1 is the price of convinience more than anything. I could go to any P2P network and find and download the music for free, but the time it takes usually is worth more than $1 (at least for me). So if there was a site that you can get your music in plain mp3 or ogg or other non-DRM-crippled format, I would pay $1 just to save time. I don't know how they can do it with a P2P network though, but the underlying mechanism doesn't matter as long as I can get my songs faster.
You forgot the good ol' IBM "Deathstars". I got one of those that lasted a good 2 years then "click..click..dead!" taking with it some family photos and digital copies of some documents, as well as a good couple of weeks of my project work.
They should have separated vulnerabilities into classes then also taken into account the average time between discovery and fix and ease of patching. Anyone one of such a study?
Country-wide broadband in Canada is not going to be easy when the whole middle of the country is mostly woods and not much else. But I guess even the bears in the woods want to read their Slashdot news...or is it Beardot News. Beardot: News for Bears, Stuff That Growls! ... comming to a tree next to you at 1.5Mbps.
Exactly. That is what defines a chaotic system. But we don't know if the Earth is a chaotic system. Again, the burden should be on the scientists who claim "It's the end of the world as we know it!" to prove that before they prove that we are beyond a certain tipping point. In other words they should clearly show what makes it the tipping point, so that means they would have to have a very good model of the earth's climate, now that is not an easy task to do. I think we would see news about it, if anyone had created it. So we should first see "amazingly accurate model of Earth's climate created" before we see "This is the end of it all!" news.
What a coincidence, that is exactly what I am doing. Just send me your name, SSN, address, date of birth, mother's maiden name and I can make it all pretty useless for you ;)
Yeah, there are plenty of dr. gonzo's out there, you can thank the late H.S. Thomson that ...
Yes, Miami was a name of a local tribe and Oxford, well, I hope you know where they got that one...
A lot of universities use SSNs as student IDs which is really retarded. Why don't they just assign everyone a 14 digit number or a shorter alphanumeric code I don't know. Probably because they don't know how to do it and won't spend the money to ask somebody else who knows.
I am not bitter at all. I am sorry your personal info was given way by an ex-chair of your university. You are the one who should be bitter...
But the problem here is human error. If the ex-chair or whoever that was, took the file and put it into his public folder, no security, no firewall, no isolated mainframes are going to help.
It is basically one of those colleges that wants to look like an Ivy League school but it is just a one big glorified party, where rich parents can send their spoiled kids to study business and literature.
By the way, I still don't get their name. It is not in the freakin' Miami and certainly not anywhere near (geographically and academically) U of Oxford, England.
Besides take your daughter to work day, now you can have take your cat to work. You are only allowed to come in if your tank is full of cats.
Hehe, sorry didn't mean to be too defensive. Honestly, I don't really buy carbonated beverages (I like tea and water) so I wouldn't really know what the exact price is. But I was just trying to point out the difference in decision making when spending order of magnitude more money.