If the government has the kindness to give you 45 BILLION dollars to bail your dumbass self out of the excrement filled pit you have dug. One would imagine that you would then at least have the decency to pay the taxes you owe.
Not these people. THAT, is why this whole tax-haven business is so offensive to normal citizens.
Please tell me you're not serious. Handy? Yes. Useful? Yes. Required? No. It's only my opinion, but the more I work with students the less critical thinking I run into. Perhaps being unplugged for more than two minutes might be useful.
Or maybe it won't. I suppose the only way to find out it to experiment on your class.
That's a fairly good point. Still I myself used Server 2003 for a while because activating all the other stuff was still easier than making the necessary changes.
Which *is* faster, being that 0 is lower than the Windows Xp setting. Yeah it's a trivial thing, but those windows enthusiasts have probably been annoyed by that delay every time they use a different desktop. I can understand why you wouldn't want to go to the hassle of changing the registry every time you reformat your machine, Windows Server would definitely be handy here.
I wouldn't mind even if it did only aspire to be just another media player, as long as it did it well. On my machine VLC still crashes occasionally; it isn't often but it would be better if it were more stable.
That isn't the problem. The point is that they agree to accept a monthly payment in exchange for anteing up with MORE money if needed. Statistically they come out on top anyway, unless a plague happens. The problem is when they decide to break their agreement and not keep up their end.
Unless your product is worth $10,000+ then you stand a solid chance of doing far more damage than you could possibly claim your product was worth. Not to mention people will rename and pass along your software to bystanders. Mind you I don't have any complaint as such, if they make the choice to avoid the law, then stepping into a claymore placed to catch thieves is part of the risk.
I'm only saying that I doubt these people have thought through all the possible consequences of their actions. The reason the big software companies don't do this is that they have more to lose than they stand to gain.
But, using hardware that would otherwise be idle is "resource intensive." It's a matter of perspective.
The problem is that this only works if the OS eventually gives the resources back. If it doesn't the resources are still gone for a comparatively minor benefit.
Israel is doing us all a favor by setting the right kind of precedent.
One of the things that really irritated me about Japan's foreign policy is that North Korea kidnaps 15 of their civilians and then admits to it. What do the Japanese do? Nothing. Nothing whatsoever, a few angry remarks during negotiations with NK which they've been roundly criticized for.
Free elections and wealth are important aspects of a country, but what's critical is also the length to which a country will go to protect those who are targeted by a foreign power. If they do nothing because "It's only one person", they've missed the point of what a country is.
The problem with your "theory" is Israel is placing the onus on the backs of children and civilians who may have no choice in the matter. By your "logic", 9/11 was completely justified - we DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED a leadership that has done all kinds of evil all over the world for a long time.
The civilians elected them in, they do hold a share of the responsibility. The children don't, that's why war is terrible.
Shit, with your "logic" why shouldn't Israel just nuke the whole area?
That's actually a brilliant argument, it's a testament to the LOVE that Israel holds for ALL people that they haven't done this.
The side most to blame is the side quickest to escalate the existing cycle of violence.
I believe another poster made the perfect argument. "Would you rather Israel respond proportionally, by firing rockets randomly into Hamas population centers?". They have the right to take action to defend their civilians, that's what they're doing.
Americans must start taking responsibility for what our bombs are doing over there. But I doubt anything will change until a significant number of Arabs immigrate to the US.
The Americans have no involvement in this whatsoever. Don't be so quick to assume your government is a godlike entity that controls the world like a giant spider. There are other governments out there too you know.
Israel is clearly violating the firm international law against collective punishment. It is killing and intimidating an entire population to punish it for the crimes of a few. If you think that this type of behaviour is acceptable, then I presume you also think that September 11 was acceptable insofar as the US has not exactly been an angel in its activities in the Middle East and therefore it was acceptable for a group from that region to exact revenge on defenceless US civilians? No? How odd.
I disagree. It was the state which attacked Israel, the state is made up of it's people, QED. The important distinction is that Israel isn't aiming for civilian targets on purpose, but that Hamas is using it's own civilians as a shield. Since they also target Israeli civilians on purpose, it's far too much of a stretch to accept that the civilians of the Hamas government are more important than the lives of the soldiers of your own country.
Your comments about the Palestine being a "welfare state" also ignore the principal causes of that, namely Israel's control over passage into and out of Palestine and Israel's seizure of large sections of useful land within Palestine. Most countries would probably be welfare states under such circumstances. Your comments about aid are also laughable given that Israel is the world's largest recipient of foreign aid.
Forgive my ignorance, but... doesn't Egypt do the same thing? They do it for the same reason that Israel does, Palestine sends out suicide bombers through it's borders.
Don't get me wrong, it tears me up that the locals are suffering because of the actions of their government. However by allowing, funding and enabling their government to carry out attacks against innocents in other countries; they are complicit.
The fact that their whole OS stays exactly the same and doesn't improve a bit over the course of 5 years may have something to play in this situation.
I'll keep my non-improving OS thanks. Nothing annoys me more than people fiddling with the layout and features of a system just for the sake of it; and in doing so introducing bugs in stuff that used to work perfectly. This seems to happen in plenty of OSS projects, so I'd say that Microsoft is on to something there. If it works, don't mess with it.
With a free internet pipe I can easily see people making heavier use of Freenet. Here in Australia where high speed internet is paid for by the GB; it's hard to run a node 24/7. However if you're getting internet through a pipe that's unlimited, but of limited usefulness and possibly tracked then it's easier to justify doing more of your stuff on Freenet. It already supports sites, P2P and usenet style message boards the last time I checked, which was a few years back.
I am aware that this exists, but not to the needed extent. There's two problems with what they're doing.
1. It's a hassle to find the files. They're hidden away in a bunch of sub-directories I had to drill down to get to. Even then, I couldn't find all of the stuff I was looking for when I needed to back my Vista system up manually.
2. It doesn't work all the time, it works for some apps, but seems to fail for others.
It's funny, if they hadn't done anything, people would have complained about the lack of security. They try to make apps behave like they do in other OS versions, and they get chastised endlessly
Two points...
1. It's not the same people complaining in both cases, different groups have different and conflicting goals.
2. Microsoft doesn't make software for other OS versions, they make WINDOWS, they have no reason to mimic others just "because".
But here's what I don't get. Why didn't vista include a form of overlays? Something that allowed an app to "write" to it's folder or wherever; but that change only applied to that user account and not system wide. So an app could change a system file, but the OS would still read the original file and the app would read the changed version.
Yeah but Linux updates break stuff with disturbing regularity. Same for Windows updates.
Stuff like this will still happen intermittently because the people building our software are human and therefore fallible, no matter how seldom it actually happens.
I think I disagree with pretty much all of those. I'm using XP right now and after trying Linux, Vista and (briefly) DesktopBSD I came to the conclusion that no matter how "technologically superior" a particular design was, all that mattered was that the programmers made it work.
I'm sick of seeing the powerful program managers like gentoo's portage not work because people can't be arsed to check their packages compile in enough conditions. Yet at the same time Windows installs and uninstalls with clockwork precision, however shoddy and "messy" it appears, it can't be denied that it works, reliably, pretty much constantly. That's just one example. But I remain convinced that what's important is that they make stuff work...
With that in mind, there's only some stuff that I'd change. The little dog being one of them, I'd like them to push out an updated install disk with drivers supporting machines made after early 2008, native 3D after installation and not having to hunt after network drivers was one of the main attractions of Vista. Well, that's pretty much it actually. There's already support for IPV6 in Xp, although I've heard it's rather badly implemented, patching it might be nice.
Your theory bothers me because you want people to die.
Generally, we believe that this is a bad thing. While there are many risks to such a massive change in society, I still disagree with the alternative. Having the power to save people's lives, but choosing not to use it. Thus killing billions through inaction. Compared to that I believe that all other problems can be dealt with. Whatever happens, we will have forever to sort out a perfect solution.
But it's important to specify. The bodies aren't hers and the psycho rage is less destructive than the linux girlfriend.
Really it doesn't mean much but I have 518 hour uptime on this machine alone. On Windows Vista, it's fine almost all the time for almost all computers. You only hear about the corner cases of the horror of windows. With linux, don't we just sort of ignore all those faults?
"How do you abandon backwards compatibility without severely risking your installed base? Deciding if you want to code your new software for linux, osx, windows or all of the above becomes a very different question when you will have to learn new apis etc. any way you go."
QFT
In his second post on the subject Joel Spolksy makes a brilliant point about how this works in practice. If you have no software, you won't get users. That means that in all probability, you'll crash and burn before you get anywhere regardless of weather you're making Operating Systems, Processor Architectures or Consoles. Microsoft's success is due to a large degree to the fact that software, even old software, runs on their machines.
But consider, if it was a bot and the person running it was doing something else while on holiday; who spent more effort in this encounter? I mean the other player will neither know or care what happened while Chris here actually had to dedicate brain cells to this.
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If the government has the kindness to give you 45 BILLION dollars to bail your dumbass self out of the excrement filled pit you have dug. One would imagine that you would then at least have the decency to pay the taxes you owe.
Not these people. THAT, is why this whole tax-haven business is so offensive to normal citizens.
On behalf of Slashdot I accept that you were right and that we should have listened to you. Furthermore I bestow upon you the title of "Psyker".
Please tell me you're not serious. Handy? Yes. Useful? Yes. Required? No. It's only my opinion, but the more I work with students the less critical thinking I run into. Perhaps being unplugged for more than two minutes might be useful.
Or maybe it won't. I suppose the only way to find out it to experiment on your class.
That's a fairly good point. Still I myself used Server 2003 for a while because activating all the other stuff was still easier than making the necessary changes.
Which *is* faster, being that 0 is lower than the Windows Xp setting. Yeah it's a trivial thing, but those windows enthusiasts have probably been annoyed by that delay every time they use a different desktop. I can understand why you wouldn't want to go to the hassle of changing the registry every time you reformat your machine, Windows Server would definitely be handy here.
I wouldn't mind even if it did only aspire to be just another media player, as long as it did it well. On my machine VLC still crashes occasionally; it isn't often but it would be better if it were more stable.
That isn't the problem. The point is that they agree to accept a monthly payment in exchange for anteing up with MORE money if needed. Statistically they come out on top anyway, unless a plague happens. The problem is when they decide to break their agreement and not keep up their end.
Unless your product is worth $10,000+ then you stand a solid chance of doing far more damage than you could possibly claim your product was worth. Not to mention people will rename and pass along your software to bystanders. Mind you I don't have any complaint as such, if they make the choice to avoid the law, then stepping into a claymore placed to catch thieves is part of the risk.
I'm only saying that I doubt these people have thought through all the possible consequences of their actions. The reason the big software companies don't do this is that they have more to lose than they stand to gain.
But, using hardware that would otherwise be idle is "resource intensive." It's a matter of perspective.
The problem is that this only works if the OS eventually gives the resources back. If it doesn't the resources are still gone for a comparatively minor benefit.
Israel is doing us all a favor by setting the right kind of precedent.
One of the things that really irritated me about Japan's foreign policy is that North Korea kidnaps 15 of their civilians and then admits to it. What do the Japanese do? Nothing. Nothing whatsoever, a few angry remarks during negotiations with NK which they've been roundly criticized for.
Free elections and wealth are important aspects of a country, but what's critical is also the length to which a country will go to protect those who are targeted by a foreign power. If they do nothing because "It's only one person", they've missed the point of what a country is.
The problem with your "theory" is Israel is placing the onus on the backs of children and civilians who may have no choice in the matter. By your "logic", 9/11 was completely justified - we DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED a leadership that has done all kinds of evil all over the world for a long time.
The civilians elected them in, they do hold a share of the responsibility. The children don't, that's why war is terrible.
Shit, with your "logic" why shouldn't Israel just nuke the whole area?
That's actually a brilliant argument, it's a testament to the LOVE that Israel holds for ALL people that they haven't done this.
Yes, Hamas are monsters. So are the people they're fighting.
So if a cop accidentally shoots you while stopping a robbery, he's a monster?
The side most to blame is the side quickest to escalate the existing cycle of violence.
I believe another poster made the perfect argument. "Would you rather Israel respond proportionally, by firing rockets randomly into Hamas population centers?". They have the right to take action to defend their civilians, that's what they're doing.
Americans must start taking responsibility for what our bombs are doing over there. But I doubt anything will change until a significant number of Arabs immigrate to the US.
The Americans have no involvement in this whatsoever. Don't be so quick to assume your government is a godlike entity that controls the world like a giant spider. There are other governments out there too you know.
Israel is clearly violating the firm international law against collective punishment. It is killing and intimidating an entire population to punish it for the crimes of a few. If you think that this type of behaviour is acceptable, then I presume you also think that September 11 was acceptable insofar as the US has not exactly been an angel in its activities in the Middle East and therefore it was acceptable for a group from that region to exact revenge on defenceless US civilians? No? How odd.
I disagree. It was the state which attacked Israel, the state is made up of it's people, QED. The important distinction is that Israel isn't aiming for civilian targets on purpose, but that Hamas is using it's own civilians as a shield. Since they also target Israeli civilians on purpose, it's far too much of a stretch to accept that the civilians of the Hamas government are more important than the lives of the soldiers of your own country.
Your comments about the Palestine being a "welfare state" also ignore the principal causes of that, namely Israel's control over passage into and out of Palestine and Israel's seizure of large sections of useful land within Palestine. Most countries would probably be welfare states under such circumstances. Your comments about aid are also laughable given that Israel is the world's largest recipient of foreign aid.
Forgive my ignorance, but... doesn't Egypt do the same thing? They do it for the same reason that Israel does, Palestine sends out suicide bombers through it's borders.
Don't get me wrong, it tears me up that the locals are suffering because of the actions of their government. However by allowing, funding and enabling their government to carry out attacks against innocents in other countries; they are complicit.
The fact that their whole OS stays exactly the same and doesn't improve a bit over the course of 5 years may have something to play in this situation.
I'll keep my non-improving OS thanks. Nothing annoys me more than people fiddling with the layout and features of a system just for the sake of it; and in doing so introducing bugs in stuff that used to work perfectly. This seems to happen in plenty of OSS projects, so I'd say that Microsoft is on to something there. If it works, don't mess with it.
With a free internet pipe I can easily see people making heavier use of Freenet. Here in Australia where high speed internet is paid for by the GB; it's hard to run a node 24/7. However if you're getting internet through a pipe that's unlimited, but of limited usefulness and possibly tracked then it's easier to justify doing more of your stuff on Freenet. It already supports sites, P2P and usenet style message boards the last time I checked, which was a few years back.
I am aware that this exists, but not to the needed extent. There's two problems with what they're doing.
1. It's a hassle to find the files. They're hidden away in a bunch of sub-directories I had to drill down to get to. Even then, I couldn't find all of the stuff I was looking for when I needed to back my Vista system up manually.
2. It doesn't work all the time, it works for some apps, but seems to fail for others.
It's funny, if they hadn't done anything, people would have complained about the lack of security. They try to make apps behave like they do in other OS versions, and they get chastised endlessly
Two points...
1. It's not the same people complaining in both cases, different groups have different and conflicting goals.
2. Microsoft doesn't make software for other OS versions, they make WINDOWS, they have no reason to mimic others just "because".
But here's what I don't get. Why didn't vista include a form of overlays? Something that allowed an app to "write" to it's folder or wherever; but that change only applied to that user account and not system wide. So an app could change a system file, but the OS would still read the original file and the app would read the changed version.
Yeah but Linux updates break stuff with disturbing regularity. Same for Windows updates.
Stuff like this will still happen intermittently because the people building our software are human and therefore fallible, no matter how seldom it actually happens.
I think I disagree with pretty much all of those. I'm using XP right now and after trying Linux, Vista and (briefly) DesktopBSD I came to the conclusion that no matter how "technologically superior" a particular design was, all that mattered was that the programmers made it work.
I'm sick of seeing the powerful program managers like gentoo's portage not work because people can't be arsed to check their packages compile in enough conditions. Yet at the same time Windows installs and uninstalls with clockwork precision, however shoddy and "messy" it appears, it can't be denied that it works, reliably, pretty much constantly. That's just one example. But I remain convinced that what's important is that they make stuff work...
With that in mind, there's only some stuff that I'd change. The little dog being one of them, I'd like them to push out an updated install disk with drivers supporting machines made after early 2008, native 3D after installation and not having to hunt after network drivers was one of the main attractions of Vista. Well, that's pretty much it actually. There's already support for IPV6 in Xp, although I've heard it's rather badly implemented, patching it might be nice.
There is a saying that there's no such thing as bad publicity. This is wrong. Just ask Michael Jackson or OJ Simpson.
Your theory bothers me because you want people to die.
Generally, we believe that this is a bad thing. While there are many risks to such a massive change in society, I still disagree with the alternative. Having the power to save people's lives, but choosing not to use it. Thus killing billions through inaction. Compared to that I believe that all other problems can be dealt with. Whatever happens, we will have forever to sort out a perfect solution.
But it's important to specify. The bodies aren't hers and the psycho rage is less destructive than the linux girlfriend.
Really it doesn't mean much but I have 518 hour uptime on this machine alone. On Windows Vista, it's fine almost all the time for almost all computers. You only hear about the corner cases of the horror of windows. With linux, don't we just sort of ignore all those faults?
"How do you abandon backwards compatibility without severely risking your installed base? Deciding if you want to code your new software for linux, osx, windows or all of the above becomes a very different question when you will have to learn new apis etc. any way you go."
QFT
In his second post on the subject Joel Spolksy makes a brilliant point about how this works in practice. If you have no software, you won't get users. That means that in all probability, you'll crash and burn before you get anywhere regardless of weather you're making Operating Systems, Processor Architectures or Consoles. Microsoft's success is due to a large degree to the fact that software, even old software, runs on their machines.
But consider, if it was a bot and the person running it was doing something else while on holiday; who spent more effort in this encounter? I mean the other player will neither know or care what happened while Chris here actually had to dedicate brain cells to this.