But you do exactly one thing with a vehicle: you move stuff in it. It's an assembly of a few simple systems, including, usually, locks, AC, stereo, and the vehicle itself. Your car doesn't serve arbitrary media, facilitate content creation, and enable you to search the Internet and talk to your friends, as well as monitor itself, all with one complex system.
Sure, a computer isn't a single system, but it's a set of systems with a single interface, and your actions are rather more separated from effects than driving a car.
So if you want to have a computer that's configured so it'll 'just work', you need someone else to tell you what you're going to use it for. That's the only way to streamline the interface so people can maintain their laziness or stupidity, or not spend time they don't have to learn a complex interface.
Corporations, on the other hand, have special needs that a reduced interface would break. But they have the resources to hire people who do understand computers. Just like UPS hires mechanics to service its vehicles. There are two issues:
- Corporations don't want to spend more time and lose more money in implementing and testing secure systems--they want something that 'just works', not something that works well.
- The people being hired by corporations are probably incompetent or else uncaring, at least in the case of all those recent incidents such as the CardSystems breakin. Both factors are influenced by budgeting: corporations aren't spending enough to hire good IT people, and they aren't spending enough to pay their IT people to do a good job.
And I agree about Booth--he was a true champion of states' rights.
Why the hell would you have a corporate database directly accessible over the Internet? Even for online banking, wouldn't it make much more sense to have one server contacting customers, making sure that one IP goes with one account at a time, and requesting data from the database server?
Good point. If it weren't for nVidia and ATi providing their own releases of OpenGL (or at least OpenGL-compatible libraries for their drivers), this would likely reduce Windows gaming in favor of consoles quite significantly.
Sure, if they want to force their customers to make a swap partition on their hard drives and wait five minutes for the game to load. Not to mention not being able to save games, at least until Linux gets decent NTFS support.
If Microsoft were prevented from doing business in the EU, would that affect OEMs based in other areas shipping Microsoft products?
At any rate, the install base of WinXP is sufficient to carry further application development for another few years--long enough for Microsoft to bribe its way back into sales or take moderate measures to be allowed to trade in the EU again. Still, in the interim, there'd be a fair opportunity for Linux and BSD to gain significant market share, *if and only if* a sufficiently capable, user-friendly distribution were available and did some marketing. But advertising is expensive.
And as for the "it just works" hardware support, well, if you use Ubuntu, or Gentoo's genkernel, you get pretty much the same thing--especially with a USB daemon. It's just a matter of rebooting. Otherwise, you've chosen to customize your computer exactly to your needs, so you've explicitly decided against having this feature.
That was the only complaint from the article.
Good quote: 'Microsoft made some products which it would like to ship together with its OS, no where in the EULA does it say that "you are not authorized to install other software" If Mr. John Doe thinks media player is the worst piece of software he has ever used, he is free to go and download Winamp or Musicmatch Jukebox (neither of these offer free full versions).'
I'd also be free to install Cygwin or MinGW, compile X and XMMS, and use that. But I'd be free to do that even if the EULA prohibited it. I signed no contracts.
Did you read the ruling? Two sections of Guardsmark's employee handbook were in violation of law. One dealt with complaining about work with representatives of the company's clients; the other forbade solicitation while in uniform.
The third section (actually, section B) upheld the rule that forbids employees to "fraternize on duty or off duty, date[,] or become overly friendly with the client's employees or with co-employees."
There were several sections to the ruling. One of them did in fact regard the regulation forbidding employees to "fraternize on duty or off duty, date or become overly friendly with the client's employees or with co-employees."
Google's advantage is simplicity and categorization. If I go to the main page, I get a search engine and links to news, images, what have you.
People who've already customized their Google start pages won't want to switch just for that. I think the new MS search page will capture a lot of people who have been using Yahoo but dislike the ads, and some who don't want to customize Google.
Windows Update could make this a required change. No harm, no benefit, as far as Firefox is concerned. Web designers will get full PNG and CSS1.0 support.
DHTML aside, Firefox doesn't do too well with the Acid2 test. Orders of magnitude above IE, but not as good as it should be. (Though I don't care about in-line definiton of PNG images, and I doubt many people ever have an excuse to use them.)
Why hardware hacking? Just get a Mactel, put Linux on it, and install OS X in a virtual machine. You'll be able to log everything that the installer tries to do.
Of course, actually implementing a method to circumvent the DRM might not be so easy. You could modify a VM to do it, but then you'd be stuck running the OS in a VM. So you'd probably have to implement the fix either by modifying the install package or possibly by altering your BIOS.
I have two or three Windows licenses (which I'm not using); I signed no contract regarding them.
When I buy a book, I can do whatever I want with the book, so long as I don't produce and sell a derivative work or copies of the same work. There's no law in place that allows the publisher to demand that I read the book only while not wearing glasses, or only in Kansas. If there were an end-user license agreement included in the book that said that, no court would uphold it.
What's different about using software? Besides the DMCA, that is.
But the police should keep in mind that if they do something to a poor person, and if that person either wins the lottery or gets motivated enough to work and save, they'll be in trouble then.
Bah, that takes too much effort. It wouldn't happen often at all--maybe once every five years at the inside. The poor person in question would have to win the lottery or something similar (saving money and working doesn't cut it, and county/state/federal law enforcement officers don't generally harass college students in my experience, so that way's out); they'd have to remember the officer's name; they'd have to be the sort to hold grudges and vendettas; and the whole deal would have to transpire within the statute of limitations.
About cameras in cities, if the voters approved it, then that's okay. But it needs to be voter approved and temporary. Perhaps require it to be reapproved every 4 years during the mayoral election.
I strongly disagree with that. I want an electorate that will defend my rights even more than I will.
What was Osama bin Laden's reason for attacking, if he truly did that? And who had more to gain? Bush being able to sign into law stripping out rights? Or Osama bin Laden's reason?
Osama bin Laden would have benefitted greatly from those attacks. Think about it--he was fighting a nation that didn't want to actively and openly confront him. By attacking that nation, he could force a fair and open confrontation; once that was given, international coalitions against the US could be formed.
The trouble was, none of the Arab nations were willing to go against the US. Had bin Laden's plan worked, no doubt, every Muslim and Arab nation from Morocco to Lebanon to Iran would have joined together to fight the US as soon as the latter set foot on Arab soil.
I think one Senate vote ended up having it 100-0 for something bad.
Get farking references. The incident in question was an appropriations bill for the war in Iraq--voting against it would be political suicide. There was a rider on that bill in the form of the REAL ID Act.
But there's little difference between Republicans and Democrats these days. It's mainly a question of who to tax more and how much to spend on public services (health care, welfare, etc).
That's because it would take three gigadollars and reduce their profits a bit. Individuals usually don't buy new copies of Windows, but corporations do, especially OEMs. TFA didn't even mention profits or a motivating factor for this hypothetical switch.
Um, no. Gamers already have a vested interest in maintaining high levels of hardware, and by 2k7, 2GB of RAM will be ordinary. If Windows Vista requires 512MB RAM, the minimum desirable level will be around 1GB (compare XP's minimum 256MB and effective 512MB requirements). And Half-Life 2 plays decently under Windows with 512MB RAM.
I believe that GDI goes into a low-memory, null-CPU usage state when games are being played full-screen. Or at least, that would be a damn good idea. But I wonder if X can have a dual-layer mode with one hibernating layer.
On Vista being slow--first MS wants something that does what it's supposed to; then they optimize. That way they can use regression testing to determine what levels of optimization are unstable.
So you wish you hadn't done it, except you thought you should have? Or do you derive satisfaction from having helped a friend?
The grandparent wasn't saying that the actions involved in altruism are pleasurable. It was the status of having helped someone that's pleasurable. I'd wager that you would have thought worse of yourself had you not helped your friend--guilt as the stick and the pleasure of a clear conscience / happy friend / fulfilled duty as the carrot.
Perhaps they simply think it's better to have a functional but vulnerable server than to have a non-functional but non-vulnerable server. And if there's no exploit in the wild for that vulnerability, what's the rush? You can afford to spend a week testing.
Well, besides not wanting to be the one that discovers the exploit.
The complete corpus of Josephus regarding Jesus:
"Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day."
-- Antiquities, ch. 18
Another version reads as follows:
"At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus, and his conduct was good, and he was known to be virtuous. And many people from among the Jews and the other nations became his disciples. Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to die. And those who had become his disciples did not abandon their loyalty to him. They reported that he had appeared to them three days after his crucifixion, and that he was alive. Accordingly they believed that he was the Messiah, concerning whom the Prophets have recounted wonders."
This version was preserved in Arabic--much like most Greek philosophy currently known to us.
To be more relevant to the grandparent, you can't call a method on an object before defining the method. And in this case, you can't call the method before the object is defined.
I was homeschooled, too. Just for a few years, though--I had time to study, consider, and reject social interaction before foregoing it to that degree.
But I was intelligent enough to teach myself the content of the textbooks in about a third the span devoted in public classrooms (that is, three months rather than ten), and it only took half the time (three hours a day, not six). And it was only four years. Your mileage will definitely vary.
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Don't you dare suggest such a thing! The BSD daemon and Tux are FAR too young to consider that!
But you do exactly one thing with a vehicle: you move stuff in it. It's an assembly of a few simple systems, including, usually, locks, AC, stereo, and the vehicle itself. Your car doesn't serve arbitrary media, facilitate content creation, and enable you to search the Internet and talk to your friends, as well as monitor itself, all with one complex system.
Sure, a computer isn't a single system, but it's a set of systems with a single interface, and your actions are rather more separated from effects than driving a car.
So if you want to have a computer that's configured so it'll 'just work', you need someone else to tell you what you're going to use it for. That's the only way to streamline the interface so people can maintain their laziness or stupidity, or not spend time they don't have to learn a complex interface.
Corporations, on the other hand, have special needs that a reduced interface would break. But they have the resources to hire people who do understand computers. Just like UPS hires mechanics to service its vehicles. There are two issues:
- Corporations don't want to spend more time and lose more money in implementing and testing secure systems--they want something that 'just works', not something that works well.
- The people being hired by corporations are probably incompetent or else uncaring, at least in the case of all those recent incidents such as the CardSystems breakin. Both factors are influenced by budgeting: corporations aren't spending enough to hire good IT people, and they aren't spending enough to pay their IT people to do a good job.
And I agree about Booth--he was a true champion of states' rights.
Why the hell would you have a corporate database directly accessible over the Internet? Even for online banking, wouldn't it make much more sense to have one server contacting customers, making sure that one IP goes with one account at a time, and requesting data from the database server?
If you want to pronounce it like the Greek hero, /ajax/ or /ajak_h/.
/ej.dZ&ks/.
In general, in English:
I use CXS, and so can you: http://cassowary.free.fr/Linguistics/cxschart.png
I landed a 5000lb rocket on the moon! Deliver the cash or I'll blow it up!
Good point. If it weren't for nVidia and ATi providing their own releases of OpenGL (or at least OpenGL-compatible libraries for their drivers), this would likely reduce Windows gaming in favor of consoles quite significantly.
Sure, if they want to force their customers to make a swap partition on their hard drives and wait five minutes for the game to load. Not to mention not being able to save games, at least until Linux gets decent NTFS support.
If Microsoft were prevented from doing business in the EU, would that affect OEMs based in other areas shipping Microsoft products?
At any rate, the install base of WinXP is sufficient to carry further application development for another few years--long enough for Microsoft to bribe its way back into sales or take moderate measures to be allowed to trade in the EU again. Still, in the interim, there'd be a fair opportunity for Linux and BSD to gain significant market share, *if and only if* a sufficiently capable, user-friendly distribution were available and did some marketing. But advertising is expensive.
And as for the "it just works" hardware support, well, if you use Ubuntu, or Gentoo's genkernel, you get pretty much the same thing--especially with a USB daemon. It's just a matter of rebooting. Otherwise, you've chosen to customize your computer exactly to your needs, so you've explicitly decided against having this feature.
That was the only complaint from the article.
Good quote:
'Microsoft made some products which it would like to ship together with its OS, no where in the EULA does it say that "you are not authorized to install other software" If Mr. John Doe thinks media player is the worst piece of software he has ever used, he is free to go and download Winamp or Musicmatch Jukebox (neither of these offer free full versions).'
I'd also be free to install Cygwin or MinGW, compile X and XMMS, and use that. But I'd be free to do that even if the EULA prohibited it. I signed no contracts.
Did you read the ruling? Two sections of Guardsmark's employee handbook were in violation of law. One dealt with complaining about work with representatives of the company's clients; the other forbade solicitation while in uniform.
The third section (actually, section B) upheld the rule that forbids employees to "fraternize on duty or off duty, date[,] or become overly friendly with the client's employees or with co-employees."
There were several sections to the ruling. One of them did in fact regard the regulation forbidding employees to "fraternize on duty or off duty, date or become overly friendly with the client's employees or with co-employees."
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We've known about this risk for years. What's so special about this? The fact that scientists have quantified it more accurately?
Google's advantage is simplicity and categorization. If I go to the main page, I get a search engine and links to news, images, what have you.
People who've already customized their Google start pages won't want to switch just for that. I think the new MS search page will capture a lot of people who have been using Yahoo but dislike the ads, and some who don't want to customize Google.
Windows Update could make this a required change. No harm, no benefit, as far as Firefox is concerned. Web designers will get full PNG and CSS1.0 support.
So who loses in this scenario?
DHTML aside, Firefox doesn't do too well with the Acid2 test. Orders of magnitude above IE, but not as good as it should be. (Though I don't care about in-line definiton of PNG images, and I doubt many people ever have an excuse to use them.)
Why hardware hacking? Just get a Mactel, put Linux on it, and install OS X in a virtual machine. You'll be able to log everything that the installer tries to do.
Of course, actually implementing a method to circumvent the DRM might not be so easy. You could modify a VM to do it, but then you'd be stuck running the OS in a VM. So you'd probably have to implement the fix either by modifying the install package or possibly by altering your BIOS.
I have two or three Windows licenses (which I'm not using); I signed no contract regarding them.
When I buy a book, I can do whatever I want with the book, so long as I don't produce and sell a derivative work or copies of the same work. There's no law in place that allows the publisher to demand that I read the book only while not wearing glasses, or only in Kansas. If there were an end-user license agreement included in the book that said that, no court would uphold it.
What's different about using software? Besides the DMCA, that is.
Did you sign a contract with Apple regarding the use of their software? If not, the EULA's no better, and possibly worse, than a verbal agreement.
Bah, that takes too much effort. It wouldn't happen often at all--maybe once every five years at the inside. The poor person in question would have to win the lottery or something similar (saving money and working doesn't cut it, and county/state/federal law enforcement officers don't generally harass college students in my experience, so that way's out); they'd have to remember the officer's name; they'd have to be the sort to hold grudges and vendettas; and the whole deal would have to transpire within the statute of limitations.
About cameras in cities, if the voters approved it, then that's okay. But it needs to be voter approved and temporary. Perhaps require it to be reapproved every 4 years during the mayoral election.I strongly disagree with that. I want an electorate that will defend my rights even more than I will.
What was Osama bin Laden's reason for attacking, if he truly did that? And who had more to gain? Bush being able to sign into law stripping out rights? Or Osama bin Laden's reason?Osama bin Laden would have benefitted greatly from those attacks. Think about it--he was fighting a nation that didn't want to actively and openly confront him. By attacking that nation, he could force a fair and open confrontation; once that was given, international coalitions against the US could be formed.
I think one Senate vote ended up having it 100-0 for something bad.The trouble was, none of the Arab nations were willing to go against the US. Had bin Laden's plan worked, no doubt, every Muslim and Arab nation from Morocco to Lebanon to Iran would have joined together to fight the US as soon as the latter set foot on Arab soil.
Get farking references. The incident in question was an appropriations bill for the war in Iraq--voting against it would be political suicide. There was a rider on that bill in the form of the REAL ID Act.
But there's little difference between Republicans and Democrats these days. It's mainly a question of who to tax more and how much to spend on public services (health care, welfare, etc).
That's because it would take three gigadollars and reduce their profits a bit. Individuals usually don't buy new copies of Windows, but corporations do, especially OEMs. TFA didn't even mention profits or a motivating factor for this hypothetical switch.
Um, no. Gamers already have a vested interest in maintaining high levels of hardware, and by 2k7, 2GB of RAM will be ordinary. If Windows Vista requires 512MB RAM, the minimum desirable level will be around 1GB (compare XP's minimum 256MB and effective 512MB requirements). And Half-Life 2 plays decently under Windows with 512MB RAM.
I believe that GDI goes into a low-memory, null-CPU usage state when games are being played full-screen. Or at least, that would be a damn good idea. But I wonder if X can have a dual-layer mode with one hibernating layer.
On Vista being slow--first MS wants something that does what it's supposed to; then they optimize. That way they can use regression testing to determine what levels of optimization are unstable.
So you wish you hadn't done it, except you thought you should have? Or do you derive satisfaction from having helped a friend?
The grandparent wasn't saying that the actions involved in altruism are pleasurable. It was the status of having helped someone that's pleasurable. I'd wager that you would have thought worse of yourself had you not helped your friend--guilt as the stick and the pleasure of a clear conscience / happy friend / fulfilled duty as the carrot.
Perhaps they simply think it's better to have a functional but vulnerable server than to have a non-functional but non-vulnerable server. And if there's no exploit in the wild for that vulnerability, what's the rush? You can afford to spend a week testing.
Well, besides not wanting to be the one that discovers the exploit.
The complete corpus of Josephus regarding Jesus: "Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day." -- Antiquities, ch. 18 Another version reads as follows: "At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus, and his conduct was good, and he was known to be virtuous. And many people from among the Jews and the other nations became his disciples. Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to die. And those who had become his disciples did not abandon their loyalty to him. They reported that he had appeared to them three days after his crucifixion, and that he was alive. Accordingly they believed that he was the Messiah, concerning whom the Prophets have recounted wonders." This version was preserved in Arabic--much like most Greek philosophy currently known to us. To be more relevant to the grandparent, you can't call a method on an object before defining the method. And in this case, you can't call the method before the object is defined.
I was homeschooled, too. Just for a few years, though--I had time to study, consider, and reject social interaction before foregoing it to that degree.
But I was intelligent enough to teach myself the content of the textbooks in about a third the span devoted in public classrooms (that is, three months rather than ten), and it only took half the time (three hours a day, not six). And it was only four years. Your mileage will definitely vary.