If there are no backdoors are in the source, the tinfoil hat crowd will just say that the leaked source isn't the version used to build windows binaries, and the controversy will continue.
That would be wasy to verify.. If the compiled binary matches the commercial one, the this is the sourcode, otherwise there are tools to locate the differences..
You do realize you've just comitted a pretty serious Federal crime, don't you? I know you're kidding or just emoting the same frustration many others, myself included, feel about the willful disregard spammers seem to have for many things.
You Americans, you are alwayz zo uptite about petty things. Here in France, it's just a "Crime de passion".. And you walk away with it...
"Berkshire", "Marriott", "wireless", "touch" and "comment".
How many/. type folx are actually paying for linux distributions these days? I'm not seeking flamebait, but just curious. With distro's like Mandrake, Suse, and Redhat all starting to charge some cash for their production releases, are more people starting to look to alternatives such as Gentoo and Debian?
Actually I'd love to pay for Mandrake, the only problem is that the product life is damn to short.. 18 months for something I want to install onto production servers is wayyyy to short..
Even the 3 year Mandrake "Corporate Server" is a bit young death for my liking..
What I would like is something with a 5-6 year product life that could be bought under support contract.
I have raised this issue both in the mandrakeclub and with our Linux support company who has some connections to Mandrake, but so far, nothing has come out of it..
I'd realy love to use Mandrake but so far SuSE looks like the best choice for a production server.
The one study goes on comparing multiple windows boxes against a linux mainframe consolidation server... Umm... Well Linux can run on any platform windows can... why not use the same boxes? (Because it wouldn't produce favorable results for MS)
You are absolutely right. There is often a lot of information in the question itself, if you have access to it.
To get the full picture, you would need access to all communication between the entity that asked for the study to be done, and the company that did the study. From the moment they asked for it, and until it was released. Without that information the situation can be like "Yeah, okay the answer is 42, but what was the question again ?"
For over a year the US administration has been deceiving the public about Iraq, and now you are whining because some reporter talked about the weather outside without actually beeing there ???
Get a grip woman !!! This is peanuts compared to other things that have been going on.
Simply enough, it doesnt break once you set it up. Windows setups break on a regular basis, and my employers want yet more and more money.
Another reason to go with open protocols is that they don't "rust" with time.
We have RedHat 6.2 machines serving over 50 HTTP requests per second during peak hours. And the only reason we haven't changed them (upgraded ?) is that there are no problems with the services..(we apply our own patches of course)
Try to do that with a Microsoft product and after 2-3 years MS will have changed something in some protocol that forces you to "Upgrade".
I saw a reference to Hauppauge on slashdot, and guess what ? I bought one PVR-350..
Only to discover that it doesn't work with my MSI K7N2-L motherboard.. And when looking for the problem I found that Hauppauge does not recomment it's useage with VIA based motherboards (basically all motherboards with a AMD processor).
So my advice is to stay away from Hauppauge if you have a AMD CPU (like almose everyone I know).
According to websites, the Hauppauge PVR can work with **some** VIA based motherboards with the latest drivers and some BIOS tveaking (Disable CPU-to-PCI command buffering)..
I'll bet some horrifying data could be gathered on the speed with which riders' heads impact the pavement after an accident.
Umm... Wouldn't it be aproximately the same speed that the motercycle was going when it crashed?
Luckily, the answer to that is "no".
Even if you're driving at 200 km/h, your head's speed towards the ground is 0 m/s, if you fall, your helmet is only going to hit the ground at the speed it has gained while you fell from your bike.
Even if you are driving at 200 hm/h and are wearing leathers, unless you hit a obstacle, your head is going to be just fine. You are likely to get some burns from the heat that was generated by friction with the ground (through your leather protection). But little what won't heal in a few days or weeks.
Afterwards, the only thing you remember from your fall is the terrible noise your helmet made while scraping the ground..
I'll be glad to give it a moment of silence when shows like Big Brother and Survivor are finally gone.
Now, wouldn't that be an excellent/. function... When a "sad" story is posted, noone can post a comment for the first 2 minutes..
Of course it's not a coincidence
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The games with wildly successful modification scenes are games that are commercially wildly successful, in general. The positive correlation is real.
Being "commercially successful" means just that. That is sells many copies, it does not mean that people are actually playing the game out of the box.. Take Half Life for example and look at how many people are playing Un-MODed HalfLife today.. Not many.. The ONLY reason Valve is still selling HalfLife, is because of the MODs..
Therefore talking about a "positive correlation" is, mildly put, misleading.
Playing spam from both sides might be likened to a pharmaceutical company enabling the spread of a disease in order to sell the cure.
Or it could be compared to Chaplin's film The Kid :
The Tramp rescues a baby abandoned by its despairing mother, brings it up to become his partner in a window-repair business - although it is the Kid's business to break the windows first
think you should read about what young and dumb kids sometimes SAY and what the DO...
Please, you're not arguing about the fact that the IPod battery only lasted 18 months and Apple wanted $250 for replacing it... That's the whole point... The Apple $99 replacement didn't exist at the time the video was released.
Here's a website with a nice counter to the dirty little secret. Not only has his ipod (and mine) lasted longer, but he has links to Apple's $99 replacement and 3rd party $49 replacement batteries.
Apple's $99 replacement program didn't exists (or was a very well guarded secret) at the time the video was made.
Read the whole story about why the video was made..
"We placed three calls to the Apple customer service line," says Neistat. "Then we went into the Apple store in Manhattan for help, and then we contacted the Apple executive offices directly. They all confirmed that there was no iPod battery replacement program and they all recommended that we buy a new iPod."
Ummm did you click on the link? Have you been brought up to date on this issue? Do you know the whole story?
Doesn't sound like it since if you did then you would know the "message" as you put it was totally ignorant of the TRUTH.
I think you should calm down a bit and read the Neistat Brothers Side of the story
It explains pretty well, that, prior to the video becoming popular, nobody was willing to offer information about the existance of Apple's "99$ Battery replaceent program" , Not even Apple !!
Tsk, tsk, don't get all nervous and upset about this:-)
Yes, going back to your post I see that I misread your statement about the hammer and the screwdriver. Mea culpa.
The thing that differed was the opinion of quality by people that are unfit to determine it's quality in the first place. Which was my whole point.
And how does that support your statement that quality is determined by the manufacturer ??
Your almost 100 year old quotation from Webster did nothing to support your argument (and I have absolutely *no* clue as to why you copied the whole thing.)
Unfortunately modern day books in economics are not freely availible on the Internet. So I found you this text from: http://www.issco.unige.ch/ewg95/node41.html
"The quality of use, on the other hand, refers to the extent to which the product meets the requirements that result from the purpose for which the product is to be used. The consumer's purpose can be derived from their needs and the ways in which the consumer uses a product in daily life. From this point of view, the concept of the user of a product is very closely related to that of quality. "
As I already pointed out, a low quality widget may be accepted by a consumer as a high quality solution, but that's only out of ignorance. It's not until a high quality solution is made available or presented to the consumer that he can begin to understand the difference of a high quality and low quality widget and truly judge the appropriateness, let alone estimate the quality.
You claim that "Quality" of a thing is somehow build into it and cannot change, and in the next sentance you claim that when a superior solution is made available, the quality of the first is reduced (which is what I am claiming since it's the consumer who defined quality.)
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What was that Rabbit thing. opportunity photographed on Mars and why did Nasa destroy it ??
If there are no backdoors are in the source, the tinfoil hat crowd will just say that the leaked source isn't the version used to build windows binaries, and the controversy will continue.
That would be wasy to verify.. If the compiled binary matches the commercial one, the this is the sourcode, otherwise there are tools to locate the differences ..
You do realize you've just comitted a pretty serious Federal crime, don't you? I know you're kidding or just emoting the same frustration many others, myself included, feel about the willful disregard spammers seem to have for many things.
You Americans, you are alwayz zo uptite about petty things. Here in France, it's just a "Crime de passion".. And you walk away with it ...
"Berkshire", "Marriott", "wireless", "touch" and "comment".
How many
Actually I'd love to pay for Mandrake, the only problem is that the product life is damn to short .. 18 months for something I want to install onto production servers is wayyyy to short ..
Even the 3 year Mandrake "Corporate Server" is a bit young death for my liking ..
What I would like is something with a 5-6 year product life that could be bought under support contract.
I have raised this issue both in the mandrakeclub and with our Linux support company who has some connections to Mandrake, but so far, nothing has come out of it ..
I'd realy love to use Mandrake but so far SuSE looks like the best choice for a production server.
The one study goes on comparing multiple windows boxes against a linux mainframe consolidation server... Umm... Well Linux can run on any platform windows can... why not use the same boxes? (Because it wouldn't produce favorable results for MS)
You are absolutely right. There is often a lot of information in the question itself, if you have access to it.
To get the full picture, you would need access to all communication between the entity that asked for the study to be done, and the company that did the study. From the moment they asked for it, and until it was released. Without that information the situation can be like "Yeah, okay the answer is 42, but what was the question again ?"
For over a year the US administration has been deceiving the public about Iraq, and now you are whining because some reporter talked about the weather outside without actually beeing there ???
Get a grip woman !!! This is peanuts compared to other things that have been going on.
Simply enough, it doesnt break once you set it up. Windows setups break on a regular basis, and my employers want yet more and more money.
Another reason to go with open protocols is that they don't "rust" with time.
We have RedHat 6.2 machines serving over 50 HTTP requests per second during peak hours. And the only reason we haven't changed them (upgraded ?) is that there are no problems with the services..(we apply our own patches of course)
Try to do that with a Microsoft product and after 2-3 years MS will have changed something in some protocol that forces you to "Upgrade".
When travelling, this is the perfect way to have your office at hand with 99% of the Wintel-Boxes out there.
Does it have support for encryption on the USB key ?? (The standard Mandrake already has a great support for encrypted partitions & data)
If it does, it would be one of the biggest promotion points (IMHO) ..
I saw a reference to Hauppauge on slashdot, and guess what ? I bought one PVR-350..
Only to discover that it doesn't work with my MSI K7N2-L motherboard.. And when looking for the problem I found that Hauppauge does not recomment it's useage with VIA based motherboards (basically all motherboards with a AMD processor).
So my advice is to stay away from Hauppauge if you have a AMD CPU (like almose everyone I know).
According to websites, the Hauppauge PVR can work with **some** VIA based motherboards with the latest drivers and some BIOS tveaking (Disable CPU-to-PCI command buffering)..
Just my 240 Euros ...
That's assuming a nice empty road on which to slide...
Uhh, that's what "Unless you hit a obstacle" means ... (You read the post you were replying to, didn't you ?)
I'll bet some horrifying data could be gathered on the speed with which riders' heads impact the pavement after an accident.
Umm... Wouldn't it be aproximately the same speed that the motercycle was going when it crashed?
Luckily, the answer to that is "no".
Even if you're driving at 200 km/h, your head's speed towards the ground is 0 m/s, if you fall, your helmet is only going to hit the ground at the speed it has gained while you fell from your bike.
Even if you are driving at 200 hm/h and are wearing leathers, unless you hit a obstacle, your head is going to be just fine. You are likely to get some burns from the heat that was generated by friction with the ground (through your leather protection). But little what won't heal in a few days or weeks.
Afterwards, the only thing you remember from your fall is the terrible noise your helmet made while scraping the ground ..
I should be able to shout "Hurray!" from the rooftops even if you feel like staring at a blank computer screen for a couple of minutes.
Of course you should,,, but /. is not required to provide you with the rooftop..
I'll be glad to give it a moment of silence when shows like Big Brother and Survivor are finally gone.
Now, wouldn't that be an excellent /. function ... When a "sad" story is posted, noone can post a comment for the first 2 minutes ..
The games with wildly successful modification scenes are games that are commercially wildly successful, in general. The positive correlation is real.
Being "commercially successful" means just that. That is sells many copies, it does not mean that people are actually playing the game out of the box .. Take Half Life for example and look at how many people are playing Un-MODed HalfLife today .. Not many .. The ONLY reason Valve is still selling HalfLife, is because of the MODs..
Therefore talking about a "positive correlation" is, mildly put, misleading.
Playing spam from both sides might be likened to a pharmaceutical company enabling the spread of a disease in order to sell the cure.
Or it could be compared to Chaplin's film The Kid :
The Tramp rescues a baby abandoned by its despairing mother, brings it up to become his partner in a window-repair business - although it is the Kid's business to break the windows first
I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything.
Or.. "It was broken when we got it, we didn't break it, and it was OK when we gave it back !!"
think you should read about what young and dumb kids sometimes SAY and what the DO...
Please, you're not arguing about the fact that the IPod battery only lasted 18 months and Apple wanted $250 for replacing it ... That's the whole point ... The Apple $99 replacement didn't exist at the time the video was released.
You are simply attacking the messenger ...
Here's a website with a nice counter to the dirty little secret. Not only has his ipod (and mine) lasted longer, but he has links to Apple's $99 replacement and 3rd party $49 replacement batteries.
Apple's $99 replacement program didn't exists (or was a very well guarded secret) at the time the video was made.
Read the whole story about why the video was made..
"We placed three calls to the Apple customer service line," says Neistat. "Then we went into the Apple store in Manhattan for help, and then we contacted the Apple executive offices directly. They all confirmed that there was no iPod battery replacement program and they all recommended that we buy a new iPod."
Ummm did you click on the link? Have you been brought up to date on this issue? Do you know the whole story?
Doesn't sound like it since if you did then you would know the "message" as you put it was totally ignorant of the TRUTH.
I think you should calm down a bit and read the Neistat Brothers Side of the story
It explains pretty well, that, prior to the video becoming popular, nobody was willing to offer information about the existance of Apple's "99$ Battery replaceent program" , Not even Apple !!
Seems like the makers of this "film" have some secrets of their own:
That's the correct /. troll spirit ... Attack the messenger instead of the message..
We give you Ipod's Dirty Secret
"It's the only way we can release a product with more holes than IE".
I guess that means Microsoft Security should be codenamed "Chainmail"..
Why not extend dns to support unicode? That way they'd be no translation or other crap to go through.
Because some total fuckhead at the patent office allowed the idea to be Patented.
Tsk, tsk, don't get all nervous and upset about this
Yes, going back to your post I see that I misread your statement about the hammer and the screwdriver. Mea culpa.
The thing that differed was the opinion of quality by people that are unfit to determine it's quality in the first place. Which was my whole point.
And how does that support your statement that quality is determined by the manufacturer ??
Your almost 100 year old quotation from Webster did nothing to support your argument (and I have absolutely *no* clue as to why you copied the whole thing.)
Unfortunately modern day books in economics are not freely availible on the Internet. So I found you this text from: http://www.issco.unige.ch/ewg95/node41.html
"The quality of use, on the other hand, refers to the extent to which the product meets the requirements that result from the purpose for which the product is to be used. The consumer's purpose can be derived from their needs and the ways in which the consumer uses a product in daily life. From this point of view, the concept of the user of a product is very closely related to that of quality. "
As I already pointed out, a low quality widget may be accepted by a consumer as a high quality solution, but that's only out of ignorance. It's not until a high quality solution is made available or presented to the consumer that he can begin to understand the difference of a high quality and low quality widget and truly judge the appropriateness, let alone estimate the quality.
You claim that "Quality" of a thing is somehow build into it and cannot change, and in the next sentance you claim that when a superior solution is made available, the quality of the first is reduced (which is what I am claiming since it's the consumer who defined quality.)