While I agree with your sentiment that our elected representatives/leaders should learn some fiscal responsibility, there's a major point that breaks your analogy. In SimCity, you don't have to face re-election, and your policies go unchallenged.
Oh yeah? What about the the Pioneer and Voyager probes that we've sent (almost) out of the solar system!?
Relax. The amount of mass is too small to make a real difference. The December 2004 earthquake that caused the Indonesian tsunami released more energy than we've ever produced/harnessed as a race, and consequently moved many orders of magnitude more mass than we will in the foreseeable future. Its effect on Earth's rotation was the barest fraction of a percent.
Bah to that. Nobel prizes are for specific discoveries, not for a person's reputation since then.
However, in the context of GGP's point being that a Prize is due for total body of work, GP's point that various controversial acts of subject's career are enough to disqualify him seems valid.
Bah, I forgot to add the rest of the point I wanted to make, even with preview.
I wanted to add that I've switched over to Chrome, and really like it. It's fast, and seems to be slimmer than the FF 3.0.1 I've been using. All I really miss so far (given my method above, I haven't had adblock since 1.0 or so) are IE tab and Firebug. For the next couple of weeks, though, I don't need to inspect any page DOMs, so I'm good.
If adblock plus was a big deal for you, then just use the MVP hosts file (google it) for your own. It's essentially a list of advertising/malware domain names you can plunk into your hosts file to redirect 'em all to 127.0.0.1 . It works for any browser, and essentially filters advertising to just what comes from the site itself. Worst case, your local TV station website may still be ugly, but everything else is quite tolerable.
What's really interesting is reviewing your Apache/IIS logs later to see just how many ads get blocked.
There's this weird paradox in the pro-life movement that unborn life is elevated to sacredness but actual humans living on earth already who have memories and consciousness can be chucked aside without protest.
I don't necessarily subscribe to nor agree with the above notion, but I do want to point something out. The people who make that argument would say that is because the "memories and consciousness" people have made choices to be where they are, and unborns have not.
1. Many people want it
2. Few people want it, but they want it a lot.
That's why you'll end up with a U-shaped curve: very popular music will sell for a lot because so many people want it that you can raise the price until listeners squeal. And some unpopular songs will have higher prices because they appeal to a market with few people willing to spend a lot of money (say, "rare" jazz recordings or concert bootlegs).
I would contend the extra amount people are willing to spend for 'rare' Jazz recordings is a function of their rarity. Because there is a finite supply, the elasticity of their demand curve gains meaning. Songs on iTunes do not have this restriction.
By "rare" above I mean that they can try to artificially keep rare things rare with DRM. If they decide that DRM really, truly, genuinely doesn't work and everything sells a single copy and is instantly available for free, then everything changes.
That doesn't really apply either because while iTunes songs have DRM, it exists to lock a song to a user. The sales potential is still unlimited.
That fact that it's taken so long to release Vista is the very reason we can about the lack of features... What exactly have they been doing for the last four and a half years[?]
Patching Windows XP and 2000.
However, what I remember back when I tried it was that my software firewall went nuts (mostly because of the postbacks to the 4667 (or whatever) port used). I also noticed that there was an addition to the stack with the tool to remove new.net spyware. New.net works by intercepting DNS queries and resolving any of their "purchasable top-level domains" to a redirect on their site. When you use the removal tool (can't remember the name, and can't find it with Google, as irony would have it) you can see any DLLs set to handle network requests before they go out. Software firewalls work by placing a pointer to their DLL here. Anyway, one of the things I noticed listed was GDS, probably because that is how it logged IM conversations back before that became an option in the AIM client. I could be wrong, though.
It still sits in the middle of your TCP stack
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No one has posted yet, so either/. is borked or you guys are all hard at work, heh.
Reading over their developer site (http://desktop.google.com/queryapi.html), it looks like the engine still listens on the same port the first version did, so I am guessing it still sits in the middle of the Windows TCP/DNS stack so that when you go to the normal Google homepage, you see the desktop search choice, and results from your own desktop. I would rather GDS run as a process that searches my drive, listen on a port for my brower to post a search to, and then dump the results back to a browser window. The page I linked basically describes that, however without installing, I can't tell if they still incorporate themselves into their internet site.
After playing with version 1 last year, I gave http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search /Copernic DS a shot, and have been happy with it. It's fast, has its own UI so it doesn't have to hook into how Windows talks to the web to let me use it, and it indexes IM conversations (athlough you have to manually point its indexer to your chat log directory). My main complaint in memory use. At my previous job, it could take up to 120 megs of memory. Here, where I have been for only 2 months, it uses around 35.
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If you're serious about that (and not just +1 funny, +1 insightful, or -1 troll), then I say we desperately need them.
The FA (both the official MS KB article and technet blog article) mention the fix was discovered after observing exploits in the wild, so yes.
While I agree with your sentiment that our elected representatives/leaders should learn some fiscal responsibility, there's a major point that breaks your analogy. In SimCity, you don't have to face re-election, and your policies go unchallenged.
Oh yeah? What about the the Pioneer and Voyager probes that we've sent (almost) out of the solar system!?
Relax. The amount of mass is too small to make a real difference. The December 2004 earthquake that caused the Indonesian tsunami released more energy than we've ever produced/harnessed as a race, and consequently moved many orders of magnitude more mass than we will in the foreseeable future. Its effect on Earth's rotation was the barest fraction of a percent.
Some would say that the peace prize gets undue respect from sharing it's name with the science prizes.
I thought it was because Nobel himself regarded the Peace Prize as his most important legacy.
Bah to that. Nobel prizes are for specific discoveries, not for a person's reputation since then.
However, in the context of GGP's point being that a Prize is due for total body of work, GP's point that various controversial acts of subject's career are enough to disqualify him seems valid.
Bah, I forgot to add the rest of the point I wanted to make, even with preview.
I wanted to add that I've switched over to Chrome, and really like it. It's fast, and seems to be slimmer than the FF 3.0.1 I've been using. All I really miss so far (given my method above, I haven't had adblock since 1.0 or so) are IE tab and Firebug. For the next couple of weeks, though, I don't need to inspect any page DOMs, so I'm good.
If adblock plus was a big deal for you, then just use the MVP hosts file (google it) for your own. It's essentially a list of advertising/malware domain names you can plunk into your hosts file to redirect 'em all to 127.0.0.1 . It works for any browser, and essentially filters advertising to just what comes from the site itself. Worst case, your local TV station website may still be ugly, but everything else is quite tolerable.
What's really interesting is reviewing your Apache/IIS logs later to see just how many ads get blocked.
There's this weird paradox in the pro-life movement that unborn life is elevated to sacredness but actual humans living on earth already who have memories and consciousness can be chucked aside without protest.
I don't necessarily subscribe to nor agree with the above notion, but I do want to point something out. The people who make that argument would say that is because the "memories and consciousness" people have made choices to be where they are, and unborns have not.
That fact that it's taken so long to release Vista is the very reason we can about the lack of features... What exactly have they been doing for the last four and a half years[?] Patching Windows XP and 2000.
Cool - I didn't know that.
However, what I remember back when I tried it was that my software firewall went nuts (mostly because of the postbacks to the 4667 (or whatever) port used). I also noticed that there was an addition to the stack with the tool to remove new.net spyware. New.net works by intercepting DNS queries and resolving any of their "purchasable top-level domains" to a redirect on their site. When you use the removal tool (can't remember the name, and can't find it with Google, as irony would have it) you can see any DLLs set to handle network requests before they go out. Software firewalls work by placing a pointer to their DLL here. Anyway, one of the things I noticed listed was GDS, probably because that is how it logged IM conversations back before that became an option in the AIM client. I could be wrong, though.
No one has posted yet, so either /. is borked or you guys are all hard at work, heh.
h /Copernic DS a shot, and have been happy with it. It's fast, has its own UI so it doesn't have to hook into how Windows talks to the web to let me use it, and it indexes IM conversations (athlough you have to manually point its indexer to your chat log directory). My main complaint in memory use. At my previous job, it could take up to 120 megs of memory. Here, where I have been for only 2 months, it uses around 35.
Reading over their developer site (http://desktop.google.com/queryapi.html), it looks like the engine still listens on the same port the first version did, so I am guessing it still sits in the middle of the Windows TCP/DNS stack so that when you go to the normal Google homepage, you see the desktop search choice, and results from your own desktop. I would rather GDS run as a process that searches my drive, listen on a port for my brower to post a search to, and then dump the results back to a browser window. The page I linked basically describes that, however without installing, I can't tell if they still incorporate themselves into their internet site.
After playing with version 1 last year, I gave http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-searc
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