. They can do this using programs and services that your regular account has full rights to access and leverage, be it linux, windows, or os/x.
In order for a 'virus' to work, it has to inject code into a binary or a script. The parents point is that a regular account does *not* have write-rights to any of the programs and services he uses.
I have 2 Palms lying around - had them for years. I never bought a single app for them. I've had an iPhone for 4 weeks - and I've already bought 2 apps for it.
As I tell the people that have an ipod and an iphone when they ask me if their new computer should be a mac - 'Of course, you've already made the decision'. That's when they ask if they can have Word... sigh.
The Nobel Jury awarded a peace prize to Fidel Castro. A peace prize for Fidel Castro is like a humanitarian award for Adolf Hitler. Fidel is a Marxist, and the stated goal of Marxists is using violent means to install world-wide Communism. Fidel Castro used military force to keep Cubans prisoner in Cuba, attempting to flee Cuba is punishable by death... how is that different from slavery?
Fidel Castro has never received a Nobel peace price.
Cuba placed a moratorium on the use of capital punishment in 2001. The rest of your post is just ridicululous.
Buy a PS3. The hardware is good, the build quality is good, the games are really good, it is a pretty decent media player, heck - it even runs Linux if you want it to.
Powering down your servers tends to introduce response issues.:-)
Some servers, like the HP ProLiant line, has power management features. Try experimenting with features like these first.
I will sound like a MS shill here, but this something I like about MS Exchange. The POP3, IMAP, and OWA services can all be configured to be SSL/TLS only.
So can pretty much every other contemporary email product. You are an MS shill.
When the Russians go rolling across Europe again as the resources of the planet become scarce, remember you said that. You will be praying for the U.S. and all of its "wasteful" high-tech weaponry to come on over (again) and save you. Maybe next time we should stay home and let you all eat each other.
Sorry to burst your bubble here, but:
Russian population: 145 million
EU-27 population: 493 million
Russian GDP: 610.6 billions euro
EU-27 GDP: 10957.9 billions euro
Russian defense budget: $31 billion (of which an estimated third is lost in corruption)
EU-27 Defense budget: $292.7 billion
Seriously, not to be flamebait, but I have a Wii, and I can download.. uh.. wait.. GAMES!! and, the beauty is, if I delete it, I can download it again, for free, anytime, as long as it is on my console only.
Personally, I've found both Venema and Duchovni to be both extremely helpful and clueful. IMHO their MTA more than outweights any haughtyness or abrasiveness from their side.
I have a D-Link DIR-655 set up with WPA. I'm typing this comment on a MacBook Pro running Leopard. Never had a problem with this combo. Neither has my wife with her MacBook/Leopard.
Are you using 802.11n? Compatibility issues are rife with this protocol:-/
When technology advances, Linux advances. Commercial OS vendors might take years to release a version with a new filesystem technology, etc.
I beg to differ.
Consider ZFS, DTrace, LLVM, PAM, Bonjour and launchd/SMF. Embraced by Apple and Sun - shunned or slowly adapted by GNU/Linux and major distros. Given the amount of cool new thechnology in OpenSolaris, I'm surprised it hasn't become more popular.
Look again. They (Norway) are only bound by some of them and more importantly, they only have to make laws resembling the EU's. They don't have to adopt EU laws
I never wrote that - I wrote that "Norway was bound by EU rules and regulations". The implication is that they have to pass laws that implements the said regulations.
They are in no way required to impose the energy tax like the one the EU did in 2003 nor do they have to impose all of the laws. But more importantly, the energy tax was an environmental move not a EEA action to which norway would be obligated to.
In fact both the environment and energy are covered by the agreement. See chapter 3 and chapter 4, article 24 of the EEA agreement. If you take a look at page 9 of annex 4 in the agreement, you will see that the 2003 EU directive is actually explicitly mentioned and in force.
First, the DOE report did include taxes.
Yes - I was actually contradicting myself there. As for the rest of your argument - line charges are not regulation.
What you can honestly read from the DOE report is that for the most part, in the EU (European Union Not Europe itself), consumers pay more then in the US. And as you pointed out, there is really no market reason for this other then regulation, taxes which is still regulation, and policy which again is regulation.
Again - for any meaningful comparison, the prices should have been PPP adjusted and the prices did not include any taxes. As I have tried to point out, countries bound by the same regulation and accessing the same market should have the same prices. As the prices differ by 400%, the price effect you can see by regulation must then be dwarfed by other factors (whatever that may be).
Applying this same principle, then a $0.295 and $0.071 from 3 years ago has roughly a 3 cent difference or so coming from the same markets and the rest is imposed outside the market costs by countries and circumstances themselves. I don't think anything presented by the DOE link is out of context nor is my representation of it.
As you point out, the spot price difference ammounts to appx. 50%. The DOE numbers differ more than 415%. No amount of imposed market cost can account for such a difference.
I would also like to point out that the Norwegian prices are lower than the corresponding US prices, even though the Norwegian market are exposed to the same regulation as the EU markets (through EEC).
To be honest, I don't think you can read any positive or negative regulation effect from the DOE prices.
The EU type of regulation costs on average of 30% more to the consumer then American energy does before you add in taxes depending on where in the Eu you are.
Actually, the numbers you quote are after taxes. I also see that the numbers are calculated using 2007 exchange rates and not purchasing power parity (PPP). Your comparisons are therefore probably invalid, as the exchange rates vary wildly.
As a result, extrapolating any structural or regulation cost on top of these numbers makes no sense. As an example, the Nordic countries has a shared (and very deregulated) electricity market. The Nordic electricity suppliers can all buy their electricity on the same spot market. Despite this, your doe.gov page manages to present the electricity bought at the same market as $0.295 and $0.071 for Denmark and Norway respectively (2005).
Oh cry me a river. IE6 doesn't support recent CSS because it was released before the standard. If you use recent CSS the site won't work in IE6. It does have the most of the same features implemented before CSS was standardised - Microsoft basically out run the standards process
CSS1 was published in december 1996, CSS2 was published in may 1998. IE6 was released in august 2001 and only has partial CSS1 support.
Last time I checked, the OS that runs on the "fruit" has DTrace and (almost full - check zfs.macosforge.org) ZFS support. You can run OpenOffice, iWork and the MS Office suites on it. XQuartz now incorporates X11R7.4 code and appears pretty solid. A boatload of open-source software has been ported to it - available through the fink or macports repositories.
Given the above and the broad range of *very good* 3rd party software that is available for OSX, your friends have probably made a pretty good choice (consciously or not).
Ahh - the retort of a kid in his early teens. Try to do some independent research instead
of indulging in hateboy oneliners please. It might save Slashdot from the awful noise/content
ratio it currently has.
Apple and open standards? Don't make me laugh. Apple loves proprietary standards. Their business model is built on proprietary standards: a proprietary window system, a proprietary programming language, proprietary GUI APIs, proprietary iPod connectors, proprietary iTunes protocols, proprietary DRM, etc.
Proprietary programming language? Only a minority of languages are ISO standards. You might as well call haskell or ruby "proprietary". The ipod comes with a complementary USB connector - the ipod connector is not a problem unless you pretend it is. If you really owned an iMac you would have known that Apple as embraced open standards like posix, imap, pop, ical, webdav, caldav, nfs, ipp, ntp, ssh, svg, png, mpeg4, aac, odf etc.
In fact apple has opensourced a majority of its software portfolio. You should help and encourage Apple to be a better opensource citizen and encourage it to open more of its products. Not bash it mindlessly by inventing problems.
Yes, Apple uses plenty of free software; it saves them money. That's not a commitment to open standards.
Apple also contributes to loads of open source projects. That is a commitment to open standards.
[1] Rebecca L. Cann et al., "Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution," Nature, Vol 325, 1 January 1987, pp. 31-36
Also see Ann Gibbons, "Calibrating the Mitochondrial Clock," Science, Vol. 297, 2 January 1998, p. 29 for evidence that our common female ancestor lived approximately 6500 years ago. I'm not making this stuff up; the sources cited are evolutionists.
Did you actually read the paper you referenced? Here is an excerpt from the tentative conclusion on page 34 - for your convenience:
[..] this implies that the common ancestor of all surviving mtDNA
types existed 140,000 - 290,000 years ago.
I don't know much about European tests, except that they do have a "moose test" that involves testing the maximum speed that a vehicle can swerve. So maybe, just as the American tests favor heavily-armored body types, the European tests favor performance and agility.
The fact that Apple has given you full controll of your underlying software (i.e. kernel) invalidates your ludicrous claims. You can run your application 10 years after your mac breaks by replacing the original kernel with a modified open-source variant. How hard is this to fathom?
You tell me, because you don't seem to fathom it yourself! The Darwin kernel isn't what checks for Apple branded hardware. That's done by another OS X component.
And that "other OS X component" uses the Darwin kernel to access the hardware, right?
Similarly, if you bought a copy of Windows, and all you got was the NT kernel -- no Explorer, no system DLLs, no Minesweeper or Notepad -- you'd return it immediately. It'd be completely useless. [Insert joke about Windows being useless anyway.] An operating system is more than just a kernel.
The situation is a little cloudier when you're talking about Linux, because the term "Linux" properly only refers to the kernel itself. That's why some people insist on calling it GNU/Linux instead, because what most people think of as "Linux" actually includes a bunch of GNU tools that Mr. Torvalds had nothing to do with.
An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources.
If you had bothered to follow the link in my previous post, you would have seen the "system DLLs", the init program, the "GNU tools" and all the other stuff that compiles into an actual operating system.
Trust me on this - iTunes, Minesweeper and Notepad are not a part of any operating system. You seem to be confused by all of the stuff that is bundled with the OS. That stuff is just a courtesy of the vendor.
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In order for a 'virus' to work, it has to inject code into a binary or a script. The parents point is that a regular account does *not* have write-rights to any of the programs and services he uses.
I have 2 Palms lying around - had them for years. I never bought a single app for them. I've had an iPhone for 4 weeks - and I've already bought 2 apps for it.
Yes?
Fidel Castro has never received a Nobel peace price.
Cuba placed a moratorium on the use of capital punishment in 2001. The rest of your post is just ridicululous.
Buy a PS3. The hardware is good, the build quality is good, the games are really good, it is a pretty decent media player, heck - it even runs Linux if you want it to.
Powering down your servers tends to introduce response issues. :-)
Some servers, like the HP ProLiant line, has power management features. Try experimenting with features like these first.
So can pretty much every other contemporary email product. You are an MS shill.
Sorry to burst your bubble here, but:
Russian population: 145 million
EU-27 population: 493 million
Russian GDP: 610.6 billions euro
EU-27 GDP: 10957.9 billions euro
Russian defense budget: $31 billion (of which an estimated third is lost in corruption)
EU-27 Defense budget: $292.7 billion
The russian army is said to currently be outmatched by any mid-sized european army.
Personally, I've found both Venema and Duchovni to be both extremely helpful and clueful. IMHO their MTA more than outweights any haughtyness or abrasiveness from their side.
I have a D-Link DIR-655 set up with WPA. I'm typing this comment on a MacBook Pro running Leopard. Never had a problem with this combo. Neither has my wife with her MacBook/Leopard.
Are you using 802.11n? Compatibility issues are rife with this protocol :-/
Don't use math as punishment - she will only grow up hating it and probably end up as a hairdresser.
I beg to differ. Consider ZFS, DTrace, LLVM, PAM, Bonjour and launchd/SMF. Embraced by Apple and Sun - shunned or slowly adapted by GNU/Linux and major distros. Given the amount of cool new thechnology in OpenSolaris, I'm surprised it hasn't become more popular.
I never wrote that - I wrote that "Norway was bound by EU rules and regulations". The implication is that they have to pass laws that implements the said regulations.
In fact both the environment and energy are covered by the agreement. See chapter 3 and chapter 4, article 24 of the EEA agreement. If you take a look at page 9 of annex 4 in the agreement, you will see that the 2003 EU directive is actually explicitly mentioned and in force.
Yes - I was actually contradicting myself there. As for the rest of your argument - line charges are not regulation.
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Look it up - European Economic Area. Norway is bound by EU rules and regulations.
Again - for any meaningful comparison, the prices should have been PPP adjusted and the prices did not include any taxes. As I have tried to point out, countries bound by the same regulation and accessing the same market should have the same prices. As the prices differ by 400%, the price effect you can see by regulation must then be dwarfed by other factors (whatever that may be).
As you point out, the spot price difference ammounts to appx. 50%. The DOE numbers differ more than 415%. No amount of imposed market cost can account for such a difference.
I would also like to point out that the Norwegian prices are lower than the corresponding US prices, even though the Norwegian market are exposed to the same regulation as the EU markets (through EEC).
To be honest, I don't think you can read any positive or negative regulation effect from the DOE prices.
Actually, the numbers you quote are after taxes. I also see that the numbers are calculated using 2007 exchange rates and not purchasing power parity (PPP). Your comparisons are therefore probably invalid, as the exchange rates vary wildly.
As a result, extrapolating any structural or regulation cost on top of these numbers makes no sense. As an example, the Nordic countries has a shared (and very deregulated) electricity market. The Nordic electricity suppliers can all buy their electricity on the same spot market. Despite this, your doe.gov page manages to present the electricity bought at the same market as $0.295 and $0.071 for Denmark and Norway respectively (2005).
CSS1 was published in december 1996, CSS2 was published in may 1998. IE6 was released in august 2001 and only has partial CSS1 support.
Last time I checked, the OS that runs on the "fruit" has DTrace and (almost full - check zfs.macosforge.org) ZFS support. You can run OpenOffice, iWork and the MS Office suites on it. XQuartz now incorporates X11R7.4 code and appears pretty solid. A boatload of open-source software has been ported to it - available through the fink or macports repositories.
Given the above and the broad range of *very good* 3rd party software that is available for OSX, your friends have probably made a pretty good choice (consciously or not).
Ahh - the retort of a kid in his early teens. Try to do some independent research instead of indulging in hateboy oneliners please. It might save Slashdot from the awful noise/content ratio it currently has.
Proprietary programming language? Only a minority of languages are ISO standards. You might as well call haskell or ruby "proprietary". The ipod comes with a complementary USB connector - the ipod connector is not a problem unless you pretend it is. If you really owned an iMac you would have known that Apple as embraced open standards like posix, imap, pop, ical, webdav, caldav, nfs, ipp, ntp, ssh, svg, png, mpeg4, aac, odf etc.
In fact apple has opensourced a majority of its software portfolio. You should help and encourage Apple to be a better opensource citizen and encourage it to open more of its products. Not bash it mindlessly by inventing problems.
Apple also contributes to loads of open source projects. That is a commitment to open standards.An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources.
If you had bothered to follow the link in my previous post, you would have seen the "system DLLs", the init program, the "GNU tools" and all the other stuff that compiles into an actual operating system.
Trust me on this - iTunes, Minesweeper and Notepad are not a part of any operating system. You seem to be confused by all of the stuff that is bundled with the OS. That stuff is just a courtesy of the vendor.