'Google record the discovery of a link and link changes over time. The speed at which a site gains links and the link life span.'
I fail to see how this would be helpful--if something's new and briefly popular, you only want to give it a high rank for a brief period and forget it once people stop linking. But if something's new and popular for a duration, you want to keep it well ranked.
Or you could find what libraries are necessary and copy them from a standard XP version.
The main utility for XP N is, of course, for people who don't want any sort of media player. The size reduction can't be more than ten or fifteen megabytes, at most, and the underlying OS shouldn't be any different. And it's just as easy to download and^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H legally acquire the regular version of WinXP. Or Gentoo, or Slackware, or VidaLinux....
Linux advocates deprecate Windows, citing its lack of bundled software as one of its flaws. But when Microsoft bundles a media player with its operating system, it's an unfair monopolization.
Same here--I usually take about three words to switch, maximum. The only computer I can use Dvorak on is my home computer, and I have reasonable efficiency on both. I don't really notice a difference in speed, though I haven't actually clocked myself; on the other hand, Dvorak seems more comfortable, and various program-specific key bindings seem easier. You don't accidentally paste when you want to copy, for instance.
Well, sort of--T. rex is a Saurischian, or lizard-hipped dinosaur, as are modern birds. (Actually, they've reverted to the other dominant hip type, which is why other dinosaurs are called Ornithischians, or bird-hipped.)
Except that would be forward-and-to-one-side compatibility.
Remember, kids, T. rex is a Coelurosaur, not a Carnosaur! Join our letter-writing campaign to correct two diagrams at the American Museum of Natural History today!
But if you exercise that right, you opt out of all protections provided by membership in that government. You're an open target for murder, theft, what-have-you. Moreover, if you own property, you'd need to pass through customs to move from there onto US soil, and any transactions you undertake are subject to tariffs and duties.
I'd like it if states and individuals could secede at will, though for most individuals, it'd be impractical.
Um, no. These are standards, not federally-instituted formats. As long as the required information is there, the state can have whatever format or design it wants. So you deal with people not knowing your state's license design still.
An acceptable federal repository for license information would be a three-part hash: one for your full name, one for your federal license number, and one a randomly assigned key. If you submit all three and are an authorized user, you get a link to the state database.
On the other hand, a client-based interstate system for license information retrieval would be nearly as effective, not too difficult to implement, and a good bit safer, especially from the FBI, NSA, etc.
S 786 states that the NWS must publish the information it collects and generates to the general public immediately. It also states that the NWS can't publish information in so doing it competes with the private sector. So the NWS is actually prevented from making weather reports (and this would, in fact, include hurricane warnings).
A lot of heterosexual people enjoy anal sex, too. Probably more (in number, though probably not percentage) heterosexual people enjoy anal sex than do homosexual people.
Though I personally haven't experienced santorum despite being at risk for it....
Actually, you can't build something similar with commercial, widely-available hardware. Micro-ATX motherboards are about three times the size of the MPC. And I haven't heard about do-it-yourself palmtop construction--using those components, maybe.
Synaptic Package Manager -> Valve's Steam distribution system? So Windows is getting package managers, but they have your credit card.
"Hoarders may have lots of money, yes, it's true, hacker, yes, it's true, But they cannot help their neighbors, that's not good, hacker, that's not good...."
Except for one thing: architects do the low-level design. The high-level design comes from the customer.
Programming is similar: management or sales generates a list of high-level requirements, which is translated into low-level requirements in the design documentation (similar to the work of a general contractor, to use your analogy); then it gets implemented.
Transgaming Technologies--WineX / Cedega handles ~70% of Windows games to a reasonable degree. It requires 3d hardware acceleration, though, which means getting the appropriate driver.
True, but an Internet cafe owner in Yemen isn't going to think 'Oh, this is the legitimate thing to do, and it's only going to cost me an extra week's revenue per computer when I'm already in debt and will take five years to own the business.' Instead, they'll think one of two things: 1) I can get Windows for a pittance from Tawfic down the block and install it on the computers. 2) I can get a writeable CD for even less of a pittance from Mahmoud up the block, burn a $LINUX_DISTRO iso, and install it on my computers.
In the end, it'll be a matter of how experienced the person is--if they can install a Linux distro and make it so their customers can use it as easily as Windows, they will. Otherwise, Windows. Plus there's the matter of hardware--if you're using a PII, you don't want WinXP; and there aren't many P3s/P4s in third-world countries. Though XPSE has relatively low requirements.
Such as me?
There are several thousand (I believe; certainly over 150 that I know of) conlangers in existence and still living. A conlanger is a person who invents or has invented one or more languages.
Tammet's language is what we call a philosophical language. Vocabulary is built as a sort of phonetic map of meaning. This is far from realistic; we tend to want similar-sounding words to have vastly different functions so we can better differentiate through context. (You don't confuse 'hat' and 'cat' often because there are few situations in which they are treated similarly. If, on the other hand, the meaning of 'cat' was changed to be the meaning of 'wig', you would have more trouble.)
Philosophical languages are nothing new. Some examples off the top of my head are Ro, Ygyde, and aUI. Tammet's Mänti is probably the least screwed up of all them; it seems to have a very loose correlation between sound and meaning, compared to Ygyde (very ugly language, that).
Tammet's threat to introduce Mänti into academic circles angers me. He believes it to be an entirely new view of language possibilities, or he simply wants it to be an international auxiliary language. Constructed languages don't work as auxlangs; Esperanto failed (trust an oculist to make a language--and trust Polish phonology to take All-Under-Heaven), and before it Volapük and Solresol, and after it Ido, Interlingua, Europanto, Interglossa, Latino Moderne, and countless others.
If you own or advocate a particular auxlang, please do not feel that this reflects on you personally. Most if not all the languages listed had flaws that impaired ease of acquisition. However, with a speaker base of zero, it is not profitable to learn a language. That is why natural languages have been used as international auxiliaries.
Anyway, I'm sure that Mr. Tammet will have the utmost difficulty in finding a journal to publish him.
I would tend to agree; however, if Linux security required many fewer patches and added packages to achieve comparable security: 1. It will be simpler to secure Linux. 2. Since simpler things are generally more accessible, more people will be able to secure Linux than Windows, ceteris paribus 3. Less work will be involved in securing Linux 4. Less time will be spent in securing Linux 5. Ergo, it will be cheaper to secure Linux
Though actually, here's somewhere where Microsoft's omnipatch mentality comes in handy: you download one or two service packs that greatly improve security and require little thought to implement. Still, that would be less secure when running a server, even if it's more secure when a novice to implement Microsoft products.
Personally, I dual-boot and cringe whenever I let Windows get online. But that's just to protect from viruses and spyware. I'd use Linux for a server merely because I'm more comfortable with it and with the learning community. That's another aspect of network security: how easy it is to get help.
But since they often co-occur, you have a *lot* more trouble--you have to determine whether something's encrypted, hidden data or white noise. Is that an MD5 hash in your JPEG, or are you just happy to see me?
I tried to get a copy of http://www.stonybrook.edu/my university's monthly budget report, and the bill came to about the same....
No kidding, either. I think I've still got the letter around here somewhere; I should post it.
I'd do that for anyone who's looking for a Windows alternative and doesn't mind a bit of work. My girlfriend, though--she's using Windows, for a cause; she has to use software that's unstable enough in Windows and would be worse with an emulator. But when she's able, she'll switch to Linux, and the only way I'd put Ubuntu on her machine is so she has a nice graphical front-end for installing Gentoo. Hey, that's what I'm doing.
Ubuntu has a great feature: it works. It has a great drawback: though you can massage it to have everything you need, it doesn't come with a sane build environment. I wish the documentation had mentioned that in the first place; it was annoying to find out the hard way.
That's a great feature for clients. On the other hand, unless I'm planning to do a Gentoid bootstrap, I'd prefer workstations to come with a C compiler. Omitting it only serves to increase dependence on the package manager.
Freedom? What definition of freedom? Nobody in the western world would disagree on principle, but we might not agree with the implementation.
And what rights? Who determines that? Who has the right to ennumerate my rights?
If you value democracy, why not poll the world, or at least a representative sample thereof, and ask what, specifically, they think they should be entitled to? Freedom is often dangerous, and its dangers increase rapidly when you add more independent operators who each have their own freedoms.
I don't know, it seems like people are pretty quick to support a new dictator who promises a bit more security or sustenance. Merkians have been convinced that personal liberty is the only way, or at least the best way, to achieve this: "Those that would sacrifice a little liberty for security deserve neither" is the prevailing mantra. Yet we're not willing to touch the PATRIOT Act because (at least some of us think that) it might help the government beat terrorists.
But before suggesting that all humans have basic rights, try asking them about it. Western culture is perhaps more fixated on the idea of a single life per person, with each individual having importance; other cultures may be more community-oriented and prepared to sacrifice their liberties for the good of the group.
Anyway, as for it being optimised for right-handed people, I fail to see how that is possible. Every third letter or so will be typed with the left hand, minimum. The right hand receives more use, true, but by arranging all the vowels in one hand's home row, Dvorak also assures a fair amount of alternation. So you use both hands quite a bit, even if you use one more.
Perhaps a reversed Dvorak layout would be desirable, with the letter keys on each row transposed? On the other hand, increasing the number of standards is not a good thing, imhoe.
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'Google record the discovery of a link and link changes over time. The speed at which a site gains links and the link life span.' I fail to see how this would be helpful--if something's new and briefly popular, you only want to give it a high rank for a brief period and forget it once people stop linking. But if something's new and popular for a duration, you want to keep it well ranked.
The main utility for XP N is, of course, for people who don't want any sort of media player. The size reduction can't be more than ten or fifteen megabytes, at most, and the underlying OS shouldn't be any different. And it's just as easy to download and^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H legally acquire the regular version of WinXP. Or Gentoo, or Slackware, or VidaLinux....
Linux advocates deprecate Windows, citing its lack of bundled software as one of its flaws. But when Microsoft bundles a media player with its operating system, it's an unfair monopolization.
Same here--I usually take about three words to switch, maximum. The only computer I can use Dvorak on is my home computer, and I have reasonable efficiency on both. I don't really notice a difference in speed, though I haven't actually clocked myself; on the other hand, Dvorak seems more comfortable, and various program-specific key bindings seem easier. You don't accidentally paste when you want to copy, for instance.
Well, sort of--T. rex is a Saurischian, or lizard-hipped dinosaur, as are modern birds. (Actually, they've reverted to the other dominant hip type, which is why other dinosaurs are called Ornithischians, or bird-hipped.) Except that would be forward-and-to-one-side compatibility. Remember, kids, T. rex is a Coelurosaur, not a Carnosaur! Join our letter-writing campaign to correct two diagrams at the American Museum of Natural History today!
And a method for allowing bills to be voted for on a per-section basis would be nice.
But if you exercise that right, you opt out of all protections provided by membership in that government. You're an open target for murder, theft, what-have-you. Moreover, if you own property, you'd need to pass through customs to move from there onto US soil, and any transactions you undertake are subject to tariffs and duties. I'd like it if states and individuals could secede at will, though for most individuals, it'd be impractical.
Um, no. These are standards, not federally-instituted formats. As long as the required information is there, the state can have whatever format or design it wants. So you deal with people not knowing your state's license design still. An acceptable federal repository for license information would be a three-part hash: one for your full name, one for your federal license number, and one a randomly assigned key. If you submit all three and are an authorized user, you get a link to the state database. On the other hand, a client-based interstate system for license information retrieval would be nearly as effective, not too difficult to implement, and a good bit safer, especially from the FBI, NSA, etc.
Anyone can, if they get a license from Microsoft. Will Microsoft allow an open-source Linux project to use the format without reverse engineering?
S 786 states that the NWS must publish the information it collects and generates to the general public immediately. It also states that the NWS can't publish information in so doing it competes with the private sector. So the NWS is actually prevented from making weather reports (and this would, in fact, include hurricane warnings).
A lot of heterosexual people enjoy anal sex, too. Probably more (in number, though probably not percentage) heterosexual people enjoy anal sex than do homosexual people. Though I personally haven't experienced santorum despite being at risk for it....
Not at all. For that matter, since private corporations provide retirement investment services, we should eliminate social security while we're at it.
Actually, you can't build something similar with commercial, widely-available hardware. Micro-ATX motherboards are about three times the size of the MPC. And I haven't heard about do-it-yourself palmtop construction--using those components, maybe.
Hm...
Synaptic Package Manager -> Valve's Steam distribution system? So Windows is getting package managers, but they have your credit card.
"Hoarders may have lots of money, yes, it's true, hacker, yes, it's true,
But they cannot help their neighbors, that's not good, hacker, that's not good...."
Except for one thing: architects do the low-level design. The high-level design comes from the customer.
Programming is similar: management or sales generates a list of high-level requirements, which is translated into low-level requirements in the design documentation (similar to the work of a general contractor, to use your analogy); then it gets implemented.
If only ATi would release drivers for its cards supporting 3d acceleration on Linux. Never buying from them again.
Transgaming Technologies--WineX / Cedega handles ~70% of Windows games to a reasonable degree. It requires 3d hardware acceleration, though, which means getting the appropriate driver.
True, but an Internet cafe owner in Yemen isn't going to think 'Oh, this is the legitimate thing to do, and it's only going to cost me an extra week's revenue per computer when I'm already in debt and will take five years to own the business.' Instead, they'll think one of two things:
1) I can get Windows for a pittance from Tawfic down the block and install it on the computers.
2) I can get a writeable CD for even less of a pittance from Mahmoud up the block, burn a $LINUX_DISTRO iso, and install it on my computers.
In the end, it'll be a matter of how experienced the person is--if they can install a Linux distro and make it so their customers can use it as easily as Windows, they will. Otherwise, Windows. Plus there's the matter of hardware--if you're using a PII, you don't want WinXP; and there aren't many P3s/P4s in third-world countries. Though XPSE has relatively low requirements.
Such as me? There are several thousand (I believe; certainly over 150 that I know of) conlangers in existence and still living. A conlanger is a person who invents or has invented one or more languages. Tammet's language is what we call a philosophical language. Vocabulary is built as a sort of phonetic map of meaning. This is far from realistic; we tend to want similar-sounding words to have vastly different functions so we can better differentiate through context. (You don't confuse 'hat' and 'cat' often because there are few situations in which they are treated similarly. If, on the other hand, the meaning of 'cat' was changed to be the meaning of 'wig', you would have more trouble.) Philosophical languages are nothing new. Some examples off the top of my head are Ro, Ygyde, and aUI. Tammet's Mänti is probably the least screwed up of all them; it seems to have a very loose correlation between sound and meaning, compared to Ygyde (very ugly language, that). Tammet's threat to introduce Mänti into academic circles angers me. He believes it to be an entirely new view of language possibilities, or he simply wants it to be an international auxiliary language. Constructed languages don't work as auxlangs; Esperanto failed (trust an oculist to make a language--and trust Polish phonology to take All-Under-Heaven), and before it Volapük and Solresol, and after it Ido, Interlingua, Europanto, Interglossa, Latino Moderne, and countless others. If you own or advocate a particular auxlang, please do not feel that this reflects on you personally. Most if not all the languages listed had flaws that impaired ease of acquisition. However, with a speaker base of zero, it is not profitable to learn a language. That is why natural languages have been used as international auxiliaries. Anyway, I'm sure that Mr. Tammet will have the utmost difficulty in finding a journal to publish him.
I would tend to agree; however, if Linux security required many fewer patches and added packages to achieve comparable security:
1. It will be simpler to secure Linux.
2. Since simpler things are generally more accessible, more people will be able to secure Linux than Windows, ceteris paribus
3. Less work will be involved in securing Linux
4. Less time will be spent in securing Linux
5. Ergo, it will be cheaper to secure Linux
Though actually, here's somewhere where Microsoft's omnipatch mentality comes in handy: you download one or two service packs that greatly improve security and require little thought to implement. Still, that would be less secure when running a server, even if it's more secure when a novice to implement Microsoft products.
Personally, I dual-boot and cringe whenever I let Windows get online. But that's just to protect from viruses and spyware. I'd use Linux for a server merely because I'm more comfortable with it and with the learning community. That's another aspect of network security: how easy it is to get help.
But since they often co-occur, you have a *lot* more trouble--you have to determine whether something's encrypted, hidden data or white noise. Is that an MD5 hash in your JPEG, or are you just happy to see me?
I tried to get a copy of http://www.stonybrook.edu/my university's monthly budget report, and the bill came to about the same.... No kidding, either. I think I've still got the letter around here somewhere; I should post it.
Ubuntu has a great feature: it works. It has a great drawback: though you can massage it to have everything you need, it doesn't come with a sane build environment. I wish the documentation had mentioned that in the first place; it was annoying to find out the hard way.
That's a great feature for clients. On the other hand, unless I'm planning to do a Gentoid bootstrap, I'd prefer workstations to come with a C compiler. Omitting it only serves to increase dependence on the package manager.
And what rights? Who determines that? Who has the right to ennumerate my rights?
If you value democracy, why not poll the world, or at least a representative sample thereof, and ask what, specifically, they think they should be entitled to? Freedom is often dangerous, and its dangers increase rapidly when you add more independent operators who each have their own freedoms.
I don't know, it seems like people are pretty quick to support a new dictator who promises a bit more security or sustenance. Merkians have been convinced that personal liberty is the only way, or at least the best way, to achieve this: "Those that would sacrifice a little liberty for security deserve neither" is the prevailing mantra. Yet we're not willing to touch the PATRIOT Act because (at least some of us think that) it might help the government beat terrorists.
But before suggesting that all humans have basic rights, try asking them about it. Western culture is perhaps more fixated on the idea of a single life per person, with each individual having importance; other cultures may be more community-oriented and prepared to sacrifice their liberties for the good of the group.
Ever heard of left-handed Dvorak?
Anyway, as for it being optimised for right-handed people, I fail to see how that is possible. Every third letter or so will be typed with the left hand, minimum. The right hand receives more use, true, but by arranging all the vowels in one hand's home row, Dvorak also assures a fair amount of alternation. So you use both hands quite a bit, even if you use one more.
Perhaps a reversed Dvorak layout would be desirable, with the letter keys on each row transposed? On the other hand, increasing the number of standards is not a good thing, imhoe.