Now, in true/. style I didn't read TFA but I did read the summery and it doesn't say anything about Linux or source code.
Wow.
Also in true/. style, I didn't read your whole comment, but I saw something in there about "governed" and "WINE" and you made no mention of "legalized". Frankly I think the US Government has no right to prohibit alcohol sales.
I love retards who do nothing but bite the hand that feeds them. If we are such hypocrites why don't you try living in another country and see if it is any better? Try living in China the way you do here. It's easy to say we suck since it's all the rage, but if you think for one second that you'd get to say that about China if you lived there you are crazy.
Saying my country has faults is not the same as saying I hate my country. I'm pointing out that our government has done many of the same things as the Chinese government; it's just better at hiding them or explaining them away to its own citizens (the international community has not been so believing). Ours seems to think it knows the best way to do things, so it goes and invades Iraq to install democracy. Does that work? China is doing the same thing in Tibet, trying to assert their own culture... if you're flexible with the analog.
I like the argument that we are just being negative towards blacks, I mean muslims, I mean chineese because we don't want them to succeed. I think I've heard that somewhere before.
There are plenty of people in the US who feel exactly that way. If China is "successful", they will consume more oil and use more of Earth's limited resources, and some people are only satisfied when the US is in that top position. I'm all for the success of my own country, but I'd rather it not be at the expense of others. These Chinese citizens have a valid suspicion that we might be pro-Tibet because Tibet doesn't pose a threat to our own economic success like China does.
Here's hoping you get run over by a tank soon!
Well played. My arguments are hereby null and void!
So our past injustices excuse their modern day oppression?
We have our fair share of modern-day oppression. I know it's a beaten horse, but Iraq is the perfect example. We may justify our actions differently, but the end result is very similar. Of course, citizens and their governments don't have to agree, but the actions of the government are what typically represent its citizens in the international view.
There's a seemingly perfect version of Windows nestled between CE and XP: XP Embedded. Why is this not perfect for the Eee PC? It runs on even slower hardware with a tiny amount of RAM, and consumes minimal "HD" space (usually on a CF card). Its development interface does exactly the kind of component customization (don't want Notepad? gone.) that you might need on such a device, so it doesn't seem to make sense that MS would need to supply an even more stripped-down version. Actually, even if MS came up with someone smaller than XPe, they'd have a hard time getting it to run normal applications.
If there is one lesson that I have learned... Is that registrars have don't care who has a domain.
All generalizations are bad! I'll raise my hand in support of GoDaddy as well. If you're thick-skinned enough to ignore all their upsell attempts*, they're a straightforward and effective registrar with good prices. I can't speak for their other services, but as a registrar they do the job and they do it well. Automatic renewals by credit card (if you have them enabled) are a warm security blanket for anyone worried about their domains disappearing. Even if you have them enabled, you get plenty of warning emails before anything disappears.
*I don't mind upselling since those susceptible to it help keep my prices low.
When it comes to software development, companies prefer to make changes that affect the customer directly, and in the short term. The Ars article mentions that it would take a serious redistribution of resources to begin the port from Carbon to Cocoa, which means that feature development and stability improvements (things that the customer sees) would have slowed significantly. CS4 might come out with a few new features, but users would complain that it is basically a rehash of CS3 and there would be significant negative press. Arguments would intensify that Photoshop has hit a plateau, and future sales would be hurt.
All that would be the result of the forward-looking decision to port to Cocoa far before this point, and that decision would have had the potential to cause more problems for Adobe than they're seeing now by not having a Cocoa version ready. Today's news is bad press for Adobe, but it's not as bad as it could have been. In reality, people will get along with a 32-bit Mac version or the 64-bit Windows version instead. Since the problem of making a Cocoa port is now very customer-facing, the marketplace will likely be more forgiving of a feature stall over the next few years.
Had the people who created the Mezquita not been religious, they would have created their masterpieces in other places [citation needed], in other forms. Had Bach been an atheist, he still would have been driven to create [citation needed], and we would still be able to enjoy his genius today.
The point being made by the GP is that religion is what drove Bach to create his works, and is what inspired the creation of the Mezquita. Religion drove these specific people to commit time and energy where they might not have. Of course we can't prove that religion was the only thing that could have done so. However, your argument is like not giving credit to Einstein for the Theory of Relativity: sure, someone else probably would have realized the same thing if Einstein hadn't, but we give him credit because in this case that's what happened. Einstein led to Theory of Relativity just like in the GP's case, where Religion of Bach led to famous music.
A secure VPN or proxy is a very useful tool if you find yourself using insecure wifi often. Windows XP Pro (and better) offer VPN serving capabilities for at least one user. Alternatively, you could set up a free web proxy on localhost and use Hamachi or OpenSSH for port forwarding. In any case, it's definitely worth the peace of mind knowing that your traffic is at least somewhat obfuscated.
On a side note, I like how you wiki-signed your post:)
Second, it is not even "whose" because Pi isn't a person.
That's one thing that sucks about English - in certain cases it is impossible for an object to possess something without being anthromorphized. I hereby define the word "whiches" to mean "the possessive form of which."
What part of an anonymous, read-only FTP login needs to be encrypted? There are still plenty of good uses for FTP that don't need the security of encryption.
My bet is one thing that was holding the MP3 player industry back was the very long time commitment required simply to get music onto the player, even in the first days of the iPod when it was not yet ubiquitous. Users either had to wait for a 1x audio rip of their CD, or a buggy digital rip, then wait a very long time for their computer to encode the MP3 file itself. The alternative, of course, was to download the MP3 at dialup speeds, which wasn't a whole lot better.
Of course, at that point you basically got a tape-quality audio file that only sounded good in noisy environments, though plenty of people still don't seem to care about this aspect.
CDs, by comparison, were immediately available and easier to use. When PCs/Macs became powerful enough that ripping and encoding took a more reasonable amount of time (and was fully automated by tools like iTunes), that's when MP3 players were able to take off.
Right because we all install 100 apps a day or make 100 system changes a day. I'm on my PC a lot and rarely get asked to continue. When I do, it's an install or a system change. Which makes sense.
Power users will be annoyed with UAC right from the start. It's okay if it asked only for deep system changes, but printing to a network printer? I'd like to see a poll of how many people still have UAC enabled.
Correcting you, you only need a huge amount of resources to get Vista with all it's eye-candy. Feel free to turn it off to get performance you can live with. In fact, when you install it, the OS suggests what level of eye candy.
Vista needs some serious horsepower whether you have the eyecandy enabled or not. The eye candy causes a big increase, but I had to upgrade my machine's 1GB of RAM to reach a reasonable level of performance even with Aero turned off, in order to run any intensive apps like Eclipse or Photoshop.
Lets start with the built in DRM - I only agree with this about Vista itself. Vista needs to be activated, etc.. Otherwise, what are you talking about. Vista doesn't check or care if I download 100 new movies and songs from my favorite torrent, burn then to DVD, upload, etc...
Just you wait until you buy that fancy new Blu-ray drive only to discover that Windows refuses to output DRM'd HD video to your monitor because it has no HDCP support. Vista has DRM that reaches deep into the subsystem, and when companies begin to take advantage of those features (by flagging Windows Media files appropriately), I bet you'll be surprised at what Vista refuses to let you do.
I use Vista at work because my laptop came with it, and if I could start over again I'd wipe it and go with XP. The wireless behavior is terrible, NetBIOS-based file shares are still spotty, the file explorer refuses to remember my preferences, files sometimes end up mysteriously undeleteable, and the new Minesweeper sucks. Windows 2000 people were against XP when it came out, but most folks came around and XP is now one of Microsoft's most solid operating systems. Vista is receiving much more flak than XP ever did, and while it might end up improving in the end, the negative press has left a pretty big scar.
Meanwhile manufacturers of players for the competing format Blu-ray stated they wouldn't see the need to bring down costs of their players because the format war had already been decided.
True, but when the manufacturers realize how the next war, between Blu-ray and standard DVDs, is just getting started, they'll change their tune. Until then, the uptake will probably be slow, as it was for HDTVs for years.
With users complaining about poor speed and high memory usage, moving to a higher-level language will hardly make anyone's day. C is one of the leanest and fastest languages that can be used across architectures and operating systems.
The latest episode of Frontline, which aired on Tuesday, explains how the administration has manipulated power in favor of the executive branch, making questionably legal moves in order to make the wiretapping program possible. Had the checks and balances been working, that program would never have made it off the ground. Congress has fought the program with generalized attacks, but has never gone so far as to eliminate it.
As for Congress being less popular than the president: I can only imagine that's because a) the people who agree with Bush like him for his charm, and Congress has little charm, and b) the majority of people who dislike the president end up hating Congress for being unwilling to stand up to him. I'm in that boat.
Congress should look at it this way: if they're so unpopular, they have nowhere to go but up by taking on the president's policies.
The most confusing part about all this is that any members of Congress continue to support the president on these matters. The broad wiretapping program is part of a serious (and so far successful) campaign by Cheney and his compatriots to expand the powers of the executive branch. While Congress continues to have their efficacy whittled away by the administration, they sit back and let him do it!
Why?
Do they need to align themselves with the president to enhance their image to the public? He's certainly not winning popular approval right now.
Do they need the approval and agreement of the president to achieve useful goals? He has yet to approve anything that doesn't fall into his specific ideology.
Do they expect the president to return the favor and compromise on other matters? He certainly hasn't so far.
So what's left? Why is Congress bowing down to this monster at their own expense? I can't understand why the Republicans in Congress support such an unpopular tyrant, much less the Democrats. Congress looks like a bunch of whipped dogs. Do none of them have the balls to start giving our government some semblance of repair and restoration?
I recommend watching Frontline: Cheney's Law, which aired on Tuesday (the 16th). It's an eye-opening look at the broad expansion of powers that has taken place under Cheney's guidance. This issue of Frontline discusses the wiretap program as well as torture. What surprised me most is that it makes John Ashcroft look like the voice of reason during his years in the administration.
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Wow.
Also in true /. style, I didn't read your whole comment, but I saw something in there about "governed" and "WINE" and you made no mention of "legalized". Frankly I think the US Government has no right to prohibit alcohol sales.
Saying my country has faults is not the same as saying I hate my country. I'm pointing out that our government has done many of the same things as the Chinese government; it's just better at hiding them or explaining them away to its own citizens (the international community has not been so believing). Ours seems to think it knows the best way to do things, so it goes and invades Iraq to install democracy. Does that work? China is doing the same thing in Tibet, trying to assert their own culture ... if you're flexible with the analog.
There are plenty of people in the US who feel exactly that way. If China is "successful", they will consume more oil and use more of Earth's limited resources, and some people are only satisfied when the US is in that top position. I'm all for the success of my own country, but I'd rather it not be at the expense of others. These Chinese citizens have a valid suspicion that we might be pro-Tibet because Tibet doesn't pose a threat to our own economic success like China does.Well played. My arguments are hereby null and void!
We have our fair share of modern-day oppression. I know it's a beaten horse, but Iraq is the perfect example. We may justify our actions differently, but the end result is very similar. Of course, citizens and their governments don't have to agree, but the actions of the government are what typically represent its citizens in the international view.
They're calling us hypocrites, and as a citizen of "the West" I can say they're exactly right.
There's a seemingly perfect version of Windows nestled between CE and XP: XP Embedded. Why is this not perfect for the Eee PC? It runs on even slower hardware with a tiny amount of RAM, and consumes minimal "HD" space (usually on a CF card). Its development interface does exactly the kind of component customization (don't want Notepad? gone.) that you might need on such a device, so it doesn't seem to make sense that MS would need to supply an even more stripped-down version. Actually, even if MS came up with someone smaller than XPe, they'd have a hard time getting it to run normal applications.
Ah, but you did:
All generalizations are bad! I'll raise my hand in support of GoDaddy as well. If you're thick-skinned enough to ignore all their upsell attempts*, they're a straightforward and effective registrar with good prices. I can't speak for their other services, but as a registrar they do the job and they do it well. Automatic renewals by credit card (if you have them enabled) are a warm security blanket for anyone worried about their domains disappearing. Even if you have them enabled, you get plenty of warning emails before anything disappears.
*I don't mind upselling since those susceptible to it help keep my prices low.
When it comes to software development, companies prefer to make changes that affect the customer directly, and in the short term. The Ars article mentions that it would take a serious redistribution of resources to begin the port from Carbon to Cocoa, which means that feature development and stability improvements (things that the customer sees) would have slowed significantly. CS4 might come out with a few new features, but users would complain that it is basically a rehash of CS3 and there would be significant negative press. Arguments would intensify that Photoshop has hit a plateau, and future sales would be hurt.
All that would be the result of the forward-looking decision to port to Cocoa far before this point, and that decision would have had the potential to cause more problems for Adobe than they're seeing now by not having a Cocoa version ready. Today's news is bad press for Adobe, but it's not as bad as it could have been. In reality, people will get along with a 32-bit Mac version or the 64-bit Windows version instead. Since the problem of making a Cocoa port is now very customer-facing, the marketplace will likely be more forgiving of a feature stall over the next few years.
Please allow me to attach a few wiki tags:
The point being made by the GP is that religion is what drove Bach to create his works, and is what inspired the creation of the Mezquita. Religion drove these specific people to commit time and energy where they might not have. Of course we can't prove that religion was the only thing that could have done so. However, your argument is like not giving credit to Einstein for the Theory of Relativity: sure, someone else probably would have realized the same thing if Einstein hadn't, but we give him credit because in this case that's what happened. Einstein led to Theory of Relativity just like in the GP's case, where Religion of Bach led to famous music.
A secure VPN or proxy is a very useful tool if you find yourself using insecure wifi often. Windows XP Pro (and better) offer VPN serving capabilities for at least one user. Alternatively, you could set up a free web proxy on localhost and use Hamachi or OpenSSH for port forwarding. In any case, it's definitely worth the peace of mind knowing that your traffic is at least somewhat obfuscated.
On a side note, I like how you wiki-signed your post :)
They cannot be directly compared since the prior is a measure of weight, while the latter is a measure of volume.
That's one thing that sucks about English - in certain cases it is impossible for an object to possess something without being anthromorphized. I hereby define the word "whiches" to mean "the possessive form of which."
What part of an anonymous, read-only FTP login needs to be encrypted? There are still plenty of good uses for FTP that don't need the security of encryption.
My bet is one thing that was holding the MP3 player industry back was the very long time commitment required simply to get music onto the player, even in the first days of the iPod when it was not yet ubiquitous. Users either had to wait for a 1x audio rip of their CD, or a buggy digital rip, then wait a very long time for their computer to encode the MP3 file itself. The alternative, of course, was to download the MP3 at dialup speeds, which wasn't a whole lot better.
Of course, at that point you basically got a tape-quality audio file that only sounded good in noisy environments, though plenty of people still don't seem to care about this aspect.
CDs, by comparison, were immediately available and easier to use. When PCs/Macs became powerful enough that ripping and encoding took a more reasonable amount of time (and was fully automated by tools like iTunes), that's when MP3 players were able to take off.
Well gee, that provides a lot of information.
I believe you mean "We". Actually, I suppose you could have meant "U.S.", but there's no reason to be all racist about it.
Power users will be annoyed with UAC right from the start. It's okay if it asked only for deep system changes, but printing to a network printer? I'd like to see a poll of how many people still have UAC enabled.
Vista needs some serious horsepower whether you have the eyecandy enabled or not. The eye candy causes a big increase, but I had to upgrade my machine's 1GB of RAM to reach a reasonable level of performance even with Aero turned off, in order to run any intensive apps like Eclipse or Photoshop.
Just you wait until you buy that fancy new Blu-ray drive only to discover that Windows refuses to output DRM'd HD video to your monitor because it has no HDCP support. Vista has DRM that reaches deep into the subsystem, and when companies begin to take advantage of those features (by flagging Windows Media files appropriately), I bet you'll be surprised at what Vista refuses to let you do.
I use Vista at work because my laptop came with it, and if I could start over again I'd wipe it and go with XP. The wireless behavior is terrible, NetBIOS-based file shares are still spotty, the file explorer refuses to remember my preferences, files sometimes end up mysteriously undeleteable, and the new Minesweeper sucks. Windows 2000 people were against XP when it came out, but most folks came around and XP is now one of Microsoft's most solid operating systems. Vista is receiving much more flak than XP ever did, and while it might end up improving in the end, the negative press has left a pretty big scar.
True, but when the manufacturers realize how the next war, between Blu-ray and standard DVDs, is just getting started, they'll change their tune. Until then, the uptake will probably be slow, as it was for HDTVs for years.
With users complaining about poor speed and high memory usage, moving to a higher-level language will hardly make anyone's day. C is one of the leanest and fastest languages that can be used across architectures and operating systems.
On the contrary, you made his point all the more relevant.
The latest episode of Frontline, which aired on Tuesday, explains how the administration has manipulated power in favor of the executive branch, making questionably legal moves in order to make the wiretapping program possible. Had the checks and balances been working, that program would never have made it off the ground. Congress has fought the program with generalized attacks, but has never gone so far as to eliminate it.
As for Congress being less popular than the president: I can only imagine that's because a) the people who agree with Bush like him for his charm, and Congress has little charm, and b) the majority of people who dislike the president end up hating Congress for being unwilling to stand up to him. I'm in that boat.
Congress should look at it this way: if they're so unpopular, they have nowhere to go but up by taking on the president's policies.
The most confusing part about all this is that any members of Congress continue to support the president on these matters. The broad wiretapping program is part of a serious (and so far successful) campaign by Cheney and his compatriots to expand the powers of the executive branch. While Congress continues to have their efficacy whittled away by the administration, they sit back and let him do it!
Why?
Do they need to align themselves with the president to enhance their image to the public? He's certainly not winning popular approval right now.
Do they need the approval and agreement of the president to achieve useful goals? He has yet to approve anything that doesn't fall into his specific ideology.
Do they expect the president to return the favor and compromise on other matters? He certainly hasn't so far.
So what's left? Why is Congress bowing down to this monster at their own expense? I can't understand why the Republicans in Congress support such an unpopular tyrant, much less the Democrats. Congress looks like a bunch of whipped dogs. Do none of them have the balls to start giving our government some semblance of repair and restoration?
I recommend watching Frontline: Cheney's Law, which aired on Tuesday (the 16th). It's an eye-opening look at the broad expansion of powers that has taken place under Cheney's guidance. This issue of Frontline discusses the wiretap program as well as torture. What surprised me most is that it makes John Ashcroft look like the voice of reason during his years in the administration.
This is SP23 :)
With names like Viagra von Penis Enlarger and Porn McWeight-Loss, you and your coworker should have seen it coming!