Some of the friends I went to college with had plenty of money and great looking girl friends of the type most geeks and social outcasts would worship for their stunning beauty. My more-well-off friends would meet these women and be infatuated with them. Several months would go by and they would be oogling another beauty across the courtyard.
The same is true for my geek friends. They had girl friends who were not stunning, but attractive and smart. They would have been a great companion for anyone. The geek friend would also be infatuated for a few months and then suddenly would be eyeballing another woman in the computer lab.
Then it probably is. An email from a young, great looking, hard bodied male/female who is rich and has gobs of cash to spend on *you* is probably NOT for real.
More likely is that you will find someone who has your same interests and general income level, whom you will start a relationship with and then waver in and out of interest with.
That's real life.
Of course I still buy an occasional lottery ticket.
With so many HD-DVD players out there working, in the field, Microsoft wins again and the rest of the industry will need to make a massive change of tack and bring themselves into line.
With your comment stating the exact opposite of what my post and the other reply has written, I'd say we all are just guessing at this point and that we have, for the first time in many years, a real horse race on our hands. This is a good thing for the industry because it allows each faction to pitch the advantages to the general public, rather than just blindly following the 800# gorilla to the party.
Considering the smaller capacity of HD-DVD vs Blue-Ray, do you think that will hurt MS in the long run if they invest too heavily in their preferred standard?
What impact might this have on Microsoft's decision to use HD-DVD on the Xbox 360?"
I'd say that the impact will be to let people in the industry know that you can buck Microsoft and not suffer immediate penalty. If everyone else is in the Bluy-Ray camp and Microsoft isn't, then Microsoft will not look like it is leading the industry - an image they have been cultivating for nearly two decades.
This is an image impact for Microsoft. They will have to make HD-DVD work as a standard or accept defeat and use Blue-Ray in their next iteration of XBox.
"'I'm fuming mad,' said Sarah Gadye, the San Francisco middle school teacher who discovered the problem Thursday -- three years after the district purchased the service for elementary and middle school teachers. 'My own child could go into this, figure it out and get all this data on all these students.'"
Don't you believe for one MINUTE that we won't prosecute either. Hell, we could just bypass the criminal justice system and sue your precious little girl.
I think the many distros are the reason these companies want standards. They want to make sure their software will install and run on Gentoo, SuSE, Redhat, Fedora, Mandriva, etc etc. with no errors of libraries not being found, or missing directories. This is a good thing.
No argument here. What developer in their right mind would trade creating software for one file hierarchy and library standard for the current situation?
If they want to have these companies' end goal software running on their distro, they will have to follow these standards.
But one of the nice things about Linux is the energy that individual developers bring to their work. It may be that new developers will still create what they want because it scratches their itch, but will make a tool set that will allow a user to install software intended for standards-compliant distros.
How many of the distros will follow the standard? I know that it is commercially important for the major distros to follow the standard, but newer and more innovative distibutions may forgo them. If you spend much time running Red Hat or SuSE, you can get frustrated sitting down and attempting to edit scripts on Debian, or at least that had been a problem in the past. Gentoo seems to follow its own path, and I haven't spent more than a few hours working with Slackware in five years. These are just a few of the different approaches to linux file management (especially the rc scripting). Then there are the various package management systems, updaters, and user scripts. I haven't had time to play with Ubantu, but it would take me time to work through the directory tree to see how things are arranged as well.
Linux standards are a great idea, but I don't know how many of the dozens of distros will follow it.
Okay, now I'm not so pissed at my kids for spending time playing video games. My eldest is working on a high school class assignment programming a video game. If he can start at ~$60K as a college grad, then I guess his hours spent gaming will not have been a waste.
Is if my current ISP makes purchase a new antenna/modem. I shelled out $400 for the one I'm currently using so the thought of having a new equipment bill doesn't excite me much.
That said, it would be nice if I can get higher bandwidth for the same price. When they did an equipment upgrade at their network tower, I received twice the bandwidth for the same price (still a bit pricey at $65/month).
So the European equivalent of the MPAA/RIAA will have succeeded in shutting down file sharing of copyrighted material in Sweden only to see it pop up elsewhere in the world. This game will continue because, like all forms of covert smuggling operations, the excise tax charged by these organizations are viewed by the consumer as onerous and overpriced. If the music and film industry were to reduce their taxes, just as England did in the mid-18th Century, they will find that compliance increases and smuggling declines to nominal levels.
You can say the same thing about prohibition. Once you create a black market for a product through legislation or exorbitant pricing, it is impossible to put smuggling down permanently.
Zoomie Dood seems to have the more current stuff in his post, but I will add that the data is pretty convincing that the synergistic effect of exposure to asbestos and smoking is about 50 times that of exposure to either material alone. I'm not sure of the precise toxicologic mechanism, but it is possible that the paralysis of cilia by smoking contributes to deep penetration of the fibers into the lungs. Teasing out how this contributes to cancer is challenging. Your comment about the carcinogens created by tobacco smoke is one that was addressed during my early industrial hygiene years. I'm not sure how much more has been added in that research since 1985.
I'm not sure if asbestos is an appropriate analog for nano-based respiratory hazards. When Dr. Irving J. Seilkoff published his report on the link between asbestos and respiratory ailments, there was already an abundant record of impairment in the form of asbestosis. Asbestosis is a scarring and sedimentation of the lung due to particulate inhalation. It is in a general family of respiratory ailments known as pneumoconiosis. That group includes silicosis (affects quarry workers) and black lung (coal miners). The link that Seilkoff is credited with is the connection of asbestos to lung cancer, which is has only one known asbestiform species in direct connection: crocidolite. This blue amphibole was used in ship construction and in homes in and around Australia (sorry mates!). This asbestiform mineral has been directly connected to one of the most virulent forms of lung cancer, mesothelioma. This cancer of the plural lining is fatal within months of diagnosis.
Connections between other asbestiform minerals and cancer is more complex. Tremolite and serpentenite have also been linked to lung cancer, but the connection is much more tenuous. Another factor that would complicate the study of asbestos as an analog is the size: an asbestos fiber is counted for toxicological purposes only when it fits a 5:1 aspect ratio and is >5 micron in length. That is the geometry that is most likely to fit into the alveoli. This deep penetration of asbestos into the tissues of the lung is presumed to be the mechanism that leads to cancer. Plaques form around the embedded spines of asbestos as microphages attack and envelope the fibers. This process leads to a general lessening of the effective surface area for gas transfer leading to shortness of breath. The mechanics leading to cancer, however, are dubious and have plagued researchers for more than two decades.
I can't see how the study of asbestos can illuminate any area of occupational health. I can, however, see how injury claims attorneys would use the experience of asbestos litigation in any future attack on the nano-industry.
I fail to see how web services in any way forced people to go with Windows.
I never said that. I said that Microsoft will win the OS war if all applications are completely web-based. There is no compelling reason to explore alternatives to Windows if all you need is a dumb terminal (fed by WinCE) to access the internet.
What compelling need is there for someone to relearn how to use a computer (ala Linux) if they already know how to navigate the web with their Windows-enabled box?
Microsoft doesn't care about its installed userbase.
I disagree. They hold every development up to the "Windows" to see how it fits in the desktop monopoly. That is how they have had to play catch up at least three different times (the internet, Netscape, Google).
It cares about the *future* installs.
Which is why they are dumping a ton of money into MSN. Do you think they like pissing away funds on the MSN console thingy they keep recycling? The MSN console thingy can control internet access.
So can Linux Trovalds & lead developers change their mind and decide to sell the Kernel ? OSS has some serious problems, I better start looking at the Redmond company.
The two thoughts above are completely disjointed. Perhaps you can explain how one open source company being bought leads to the Linux kernel being sold.
Even if your relationship were to hold and the kernel were up for sale, there are several IP holders who will bar any commercial transfer of the Linux kernel to any company. The Linux kernel is a limited partnership, not a sole-proprietorship. Linus may own the name and lots of the code, but he is not the only owner. And most Linux distributions are filled with GNU software. I think we all know where Stallman stands on commercial transfer of the code he controls.
And if you think jumping from brand X OS to brand Y OS is the solution to anything but a technical problem, you will be endlessly investing tens of thousands of dollars with every move (unless you stuck it out with open source apps).
"Web services are the future so this OS importance issue..."
In which case, Microsoft wins by default. With the largest installed userbase, they will still benefit from a full migration to web services. You will still need an OS to get to the internet regardless of whether everything is web-based.
The push for Linux will only come from the education market. When more children grow up in a UNIX-based world, then their preference will drive their purchase. It worked for Apple and Microsoft.
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Nothing like aiming high, huh?
Its called 'human nature'.
Some of the friends I went to college with had plenty of money and great looking girl friends of the type most geeks and social outcasts would worship for their stunning beauty. My more-well-off friends would meet these women and be infatuated with them. Several months would go by and they would be oogling another beauty across the courtyard.
The same is true for my geek friends. They had girl friends who were not stunning, but attractive and smart. They would have been a great companion for anyone. The geek friend would also be infatuated for a few months and then suddenly would be eyeballing another woman in the computer lab.
Then it probably is. An email from a young, great looking, hard bodied male/female who is rich and has gobs of cash to spend on *you* is probably NOT for real.
More likely is that you will find someone who has your same interests and general income level, whom you will start a relationship with and then waver in and out of interest with.
That's real life.
Of course I still buy an occasional lottery ticket.
With so many HD-DVD players out there working, in the field, Microsoft wins again and the rest of the industry will need to make a massive change of tack and bring themselves into line.
With your comment stating the exact opposite of what my post and the other reply has written, I'd say we all are just guessing at this point and that we have, for the first time in many years, a real horse race on our hands. This is a good thing for the industry because it allows each faction to pitch the advantages to the general public, rather than just blindly following the 800# gorilla to the party.
Considering the smaller capacity of HD-DVD vs Blue-Ray, do you think that will hurt MS in the long run if they invest too heavily in their preferred standard?
What impact might this have on Microsoft's decision to use HD-DVD on the Xbox 360?"
I'd say that the impact will be to let people in the industry know that you can buck Microsoft and not suffer immediate penalty. If everyone else is in the Bluy-Ray camp and Microsoft isn't, then Microsoft will not look like it is leading the industry - an image they have been cultivating for nearly two decades.
This is an image impact for Microsoft. They will have to make HD-DVD work as a standard or accept defeat and use Blue-Ray in their next iteration of XBox.
No, I think it was 'recess'.
A $250 write off?
That is the result of a powerful lobby?
I thought you were talking real money.
How many of those default passwords do you think never got changed?
:)
And what is the name of your company again? (searches for pencil and paper).
"'I'm fuming mad,' said Sarah Gadye, the San Francisco middle school teacher who discovered the problem Thursday -- three years after the district purchased the service for elementary and middle school teachers. 'My own child could go into this, figure it out and get all this data on all these students.'"
Yes, and she could also be criminally negligent for doing so.
Don't you believe for one MINUTE that we won't prosecute either. Hell, we could just bypass the criminal justice system and sue your precious little girl.
Mwwwwwaaahahahahahaha!
I think the many distros are the reason these companies want standards. They want to make sure their software will install and run on Gentoo, SuSE, Redhat, Fedora, Mandriva, etc etc. with no errors of libraries not being found, or missing directories. This is a good thing.
No argument here. What developer in their right mind would trade creating software for one file hierarchy and library standard for the current situation?
If they want to have these companies' end goal software running on their distro, they will have to follow these standards.
But one of the nice things about Linux is the energy that individual developers bring to their work. It may be that new developers will still create what they want because it scratches their itch, but will make a tool set that will allow a user to install software intended for standards-compliant distros.
How many of the distros will follow the standard? I know that it is commercially important for the major distros to follow the standard, but newer and more innovative distibutions may forgo them. If you spend much time running Red Hat or SuSE, you can get frustrated sitting down and attempting to edit scripts on Debian, or at least that had been a problem in the past. Gentoo seems to follow its own path, and I haven't spent more than a few hours working with Slackware in five years. These are just a few of the different approaches to linux file management (especially the rc scripting). Then there are the various package management systems, updaters, and user scripts. I haven't had time to play with Ubantu, but it would take me time to work through the directory tree to see how things are arranged as well.
Linux standards are a great idea, but I don't know how many of the dozens of distros will follow it.
Okay, now I'm not so pissed at my kids for spending time playing video games. My eldest is working on a high school class assignment programming a video game. If he can start at ~$60K as a college grad, then I guess his hours spent gaming will not have been a waste.
Is if my current ISP makes purchase a new antenna/modem. I shelled out $400 for the one I'm currently using so the thought of having a new equipment bill doesn't excite me much.
That said, it would be nice if I can get higher bandwidth for the same price. When they did an equipment upgrade at their network tower, I received twice the bandwidth for the same price (still a bit pricey at $65/month).
So the European equivalent of the MPAA/RIAA will have succeeded in shutting down file sharing of copyrighted material in Sweden only to see it pop up elsewhere in the world. This game will continue because, like all forms of covert smuggling operations, the excise tax charged by these organizations are viewed by the consumer as onerous and overpriced. If the music and film industry were to reduce their taxes, just as England did in the mid-18th Century, they will find that compliance increases and smuggling declines to nominal levels.
You can say the same thing about prohibition. Once you create a black market for a product through legislation or exorbitant pricing, it is impossible to put smuggling down permanently.
Zoomie Dood seems to have the more current stuff in his post, but I will add that the data is pretty convincing that the synergistic effect of exposure to asbestos and smoking is about 50 times that of exposure to either material alone. I'm not sure of the precise toxicologic mechanism, but it is possible that the paralysis of cilia by smoking contributes to deep penetration of the fibers into the lungs. Teasing out how this contributes to cancer is challenging. Your comment about the carcinogens created by tobacco smoke is one that was addressed during my early industrial hygiene years. I'm not sure how much more has been added in that research since 1985.
>5 micron in length.
That should be less than 5 micron in length.
I'm not sure if asbestos is an appropriate analog for nano-based respiratory hazards. When Dr. Irving J. Seilkoff published his report on the link between asbestos and respiratory ailments, there was already an abundant record of impairment in the form of asbestosis. Asbestosis is a scarring and sedimentation of the lung due to particulate inhalation. It is in a general family of respiratory ailments known as pneumoconiosis. That group includes silicosis (affects quarry workers) and black lung (coal miners). The link that Seilkoff is credited with is the connection of asbestos to lung cancer, which is has only one known asbestiform species in direct connection: crocidolite. This blue amphibole was used in ship construction and in homes in and around Australia (sorry mates!). This asbestiform mineral has been directly connected to one of the most virulent forms of lung cancer, mesothelioma. This cancer of the plural lining is fatal within months of diagnosis.
Connections between other asbestiform minerals and cancer is more complex. Tremolite and serpentenite have also been linked to lung cancer, but the connection is much more tenuous. Another factor that would complicate the study of asbestos as an analog is the size: an asbestos fiber is counted for toxicological purposes only when it fits a 5:1 aspect ratio and is >5 micron in length. That is the geometry that is most likely to fit into the alveoli. This deep penetration of asbestos into the tissues of the lung is presumed to be the mechanism that leads to cancer. Plaques form around the embedded spines of asbestos as microphages attack and envelope the fibers. This process leads to a general lessening of the effective surface area for gas transfer leading to shortness of breath. The mechanics leading to cancer, however, are dubious and have plagued researchers for more than two decades.
I can't see how the study of asbestos can illuminate any area of occupational health. I can, however, see how injury claims attorneys would use the experience of asbestos litigation in any future attack on the nano-industry.
My niece began with XP at age four. Windows is in her home and in her hand every day. Something she can touch.
Get her a copy of Knoppix and by age seven she will be knocking out bash scripts.
Linux is what my daughters started with and what they prefer to use. One is sixteen and the other is eleven.
I fail to see how web services in any way forced people to go with Windows.
I never said that. I said that Microsoft will win the OS war if all applications are completely web-based. There is no compelling reason to explore alternatives to Windows if all you need is a dumb terminal (fed by WinCE) to access the internet.
What compelling need is there for someone to relearn how to use a computer (ala Linux) if they already know how to navigate the web with their Windows-enabled box?
There is the possibility of delivering the OS in the same way you deliver the web-based applications.
We've been hearing this from Sun for years now.
Not likely to happen in the US with the lack of universal broadband. You are at least a decade out for this to happen here.
Microsoft doesn't care about its installed userbase.
I disagree. They hold every development up to the "Windows" to see how it fits in the desktop monopoly. That is how they have had to play catch up at least three different times (the internet, Netscape, Google).
It cares about the *future* installs.
Which is why they are dumping a ton of money into MSN. Do you think they like pissing away funds on the MSN console thingy they keep recycling? The MSN console thingy can control internet access.
So can Linux Trovalds & lead developers change their mind and decide to sell the Kernel ?
OSS has some serious problems, I better start looking at the Redmond company.
The two thoughts above are completely disjointed. Perhaps you can explain how one open source company being bought leads to the Linux kernel being sold.
Even if your relationship were to hold and the kernel were up for sale, there are several IP holders who will bar any commercial transfer of the Linux kernel to any company. The Linux kernel is a limited partnership, not a sole-proprietorship. Linus may own the name and lots of the code, but he is not the only owner. And most Linux distributions are filled with GNU software. I think we all know where Stallman stands on commercial transfer of the code he controls.
And if you think jumping from brand X OS to brand Y OS is the solution to anything but a technical problem, you will be endlessly investing tens of thousands of dollars with every move (unless you stuck it out with open source apps).
I see your last point as a complete non sequitur.
"Web services are the future so this OS importance issue..."
In which case, Microsoft wins by default. With the largest installed userbase, they will still benefit from a full migration to web services. You will still need an OS to get to the internet regardless of whether everything is web-based.
The push for Linux will only come from the education market. When more children grow up in a UNIX-based world, then their preference will drive their purchase. It worked for Apple and Microsoft.
Examples? See recent SC decision on eminent domain.
You'll get no argument here.
Nasa is really just afraid of the V'Ger Effect
Beautifully obscure.
Touche!
Your post seems to imply that you support the right to shoot tresspassers, yet the article you link to is quite clearly against it. What gives?
Enigma.