They had a guy in the "Data Room" with this awesome touch-screen interface. He could navigate it really quickly too, and it looked natural.
The CBS data display added very little to the broadcast. Instead, it allowed the guy to bring up even more irrelevant graphs that made his really neat display look little more than an expensive toy. Add the data display to Rather's inane metaphors and CBS was almost painful to watch.
BTW, by picking sputum as your ID, are you saying you identify personally with sputum?
Greed runs rampant in the USA. It's a fuck-thy-neighbor attitude and all it does is make us americans look like the rudest bunch of clueless assholes on this planet.
You should visit small-town USA. Yes, most of the people you would meet are both Republican and Christain, but if you don't say the wrong things, they are genuinely nice people. Just keep the conversations away from politics and gays, and it really isn't bad at all.
The problem is that in a democracy, these people tend to vote for someone who appeals to them. So they voted for Bush. What they don't realize is that Bush is not really a Christian and that he uses "faith" purely for political gain. If they realized how Bush used them, I'm sure they would be outraged. True Christians are not fuck-thy-neighbor assholes. The rare occasion of meeting a real Christian is quite moving, because they are very much not like most people. It is actually somewhat intimidating to meet someone who is happy and doesn't live entirely for themselves.
I wonder if people there see any similarity between civil rights regarding skin color and civil rights regarding marriage. I guess not, which is very disappointing.
A handy example is the belief that, left to its own devices, Microsoft wouldn't choose to crush the life out of any and all competition by fair play or foul.
If Libertarians had the opportunity to formulate the legal environment Microsoft exists in, Microsoft would have never come to exist as it does today. Corporations would be defined differently, share holders would have more accountability, and, in general, there would be more checks to have Microsoft be less blatantly negligent in their engineering. Currently, Microsoft has maneuvered with EULAs, corporate takeovers, etc., such that they continually pull bait-and-switches on their customers (sure Win 95 runs DOS games...thanks for your money...no you can't return your open box for a refund) with practically no recourse for cusomters other than to make the dive and dump Microsoft entirely, which is often hard to do.
I'm a Canadian that feels deeply disappointed that so many Americans can still vote for someone like Bush.
Americans are not that different than Canadians, in that roughly half are at average or below average intelligence. Seeing that roughly half of American voters voted for Bush, I wonder if there is a correlation.
According to that article on the Gestapo, things went from bad to really really really really bad within a decade. I have trouble seeing that the USA, even with the PATRIOT Act (as suspicious as it is), could decompose that swiftly. Given that the world changes significantly in sub-decade cycles, recently, (Vietnam, Cold War ending, Hong Kong changing hands, Iraq, etc.) the world will have changed again before any truly serious trends are established in the USA, espcecially considering how inter-dependent the USA is with the rest of the world. I suppose we should be more concerned about global trends in light of the history in the article, but those trends will take decades to take shape. The question is, then, whether people, world-wide, have the attention span to catch on.
i recently used SCSI for the first time when i built a new fileserver for home. yeh, it cost but the performance increase was phenomenal.. i got what i paid for.
I also prefer SCSI for the more-common 5-year warranties and very large MTBF ratings. I'm old enough, now, that I'm willing to pay more to not get slave-labor crap, and, for a multi-year investment, the extra $150 for a SCSI disk (I already had a controller) wasn't unreasonable. Even better, after a couple years, it's only two-thirds full, and my usage has stabilized (that last third will last a long time). It's also a really fast seek 10K RPM one, too, which is nice, and watching my CPU stay idle during huge activity is even nicer.
Solaris, also. It uses all unallocated physical RAM as a filesystem cache, and/tmp is typically mounted as a RAM-based filesystem that uses virtual memory instead of disk space for temporary storage. It requires keeping virtual memory size in mind when working with/tmp, but the tremendous speed of manipulating larger files in/tmp is more than worth it.
UNIX, in general, is much much much more efficient at using RAM than Windows. With Linux or Solaris, I can feel that my investment in RAM is worth something, rather than see the system start swapping long before the RAM is fully utilized. I wonder if Windows swaps early to compensate for all the memory leaks, which seem to appear like mold, even exponentially, as the system ages.
...their methodology makes me ashamed to share their opinions.
Why? Is it because the BSDs are closer to the public domain than GPL software is? Or is it due to the fact that they are much more purist about licensing issues than even most Linux distributions (all GPL software is isolated in its own directory, for example, and they completely switched packet filters based on licensing issues, at lest in OpenBSD)?
My own anecdotal experience would be roughly the same (sans OS X experience). I have known someone whose Linux box was rooted, but it, too, was a manual attack. Windows goes without saying. OpenBSD goes without saying, too (oppositely, of course).
Linux is a very good general purpose OS, but it's development is volatile enough that it requires a conservative approach with respect to security. I would use an older more mature kernel along with manually paring down the rc directories and inetd.conf, among other things. OpenBSD, on the other hand, is stripped out of the box, and the user must add services. I generally feel that Solaris ranks more with Linux, in that a manual hardening effort really is necessary. Never would I put Windows on the Internet--it would be like swimming in the ocean with steaks tied to my legs.
This morning, I voted with a pen-and-paper optical scan sheet. Unambiguous, easy, but not particularly fast. I'd rather have unambiguous than fast, however. No default values on the back of my form to worry about and my pen didn't crash, so I'd call my experience a success.
One thing I would wish for, however, is better coverage of the canidates in our newspapers. I had to leave a few races blank, because I had absolutely no clue who the people were. In other places I've lived, I grew used to opening the paper to figure out the more obscure races...no such luck this time.
I'm actually suprised by the moderation, too, although I feel it is more flamebait than troll. As a consolation, I have gotten one "overrated" moderation, so far.
...from what I've seen IBM doesn't hire and keep people with mental illness or a lack of cognitive processes.
Nearly every defense contractor I've met is a hard-core Republican, too. The reason is that they like to eat pork, no matter the cut. Many people at IBM probably are of a similar mindset, where biased corporate tax payoffs are good for stock options. I classify this as a mild mental illness, as money drives people to make strange choices, such as voting for a selectively pro-business canidate regardless of all the other baggage carried by the current administration.
There are a lot of very good research scientists who work at IBM, too...what do they think?
This is better than hanging chads, how?!?! I wonder if there will be so many lawsuits after this election that we won't know who the president is until 2012.
Bush is getting his 50% approval rating from somewhere, and I don't think it is college campuses.
I think support for Bush is largely a side-effect of mental illness, a very severe lack of cognitive processes, and/or such a burned-in zeal that the sky is pink and the earth is flat no matter what. There was this senile woman at the grocery store the other day, and she asked us if we were going to be "good Republicans" on Tuesday. Then there are the people who only care that Bush isn't a "baby killer". Then there are the people who think Bush is some sort of prophet. Then there are the people who vote for Bush, because the Democrats are commie pot-headed socialist utopic beatniks. Add up all those edge cases of humanity, and you could very well get most of that 50% (or 25%, considering how many people vote).
One very interesting trend I've noticed, is that intellectuals seem to be supporting Kerry, and that the people supporting Bush are either in favor of the war-mongering, are fundamentalist christians, or are people who believe that Republicans are more "capitalist" (highly debatable--see history of government balance sheets).
Before Tuesday, people really need to consider whether the words "Republican" or "Democrat" mean what they used to. It is very odd that the deficit shrunk under the Clinton administration, yet ballooned under Bush. It is very odd that Kerry mentions free trade for pharmaceuticals, yet Bush managed to evade that question in the debates. Only Kerry mentioned that the Patriot Act needs to be reviewed. Bush says that he wants to limit government intervention, but in the next sentence supports amending the Constitution. Bush is often anti-science, when science is the foundation for business growth. Note that Kerry's health care plan keeps the insurance industry in the loop--it is not a socialist pit like many people claim. I urge people to think about whether the historical definitions we are all used to matter anymore; I'm not convinced they do.
How is it evil to want to find people selling illegally copied software as legit?
What if the person checking their Windows is employed at a company who happens to have one unscrupulous sysadmin who pirated Windows repeatedly...then the BSA or whomever comes through and shuts his/her nice steady job down via their extortion racket. It tends to put that Holiday Fun Pack into perspective.
This is targeted to those who purchase a PC from some 3rd rate shop and want to check that the cd they were given is authentic.
My first thought was that it is aimed at people who will do anything for a t-shirt; i.e., those "girls gone wild...just wait til daddy orders a copy of your 5 minutes of fame" types. Sort of a self-selecting sample population, IMO, making any of Microsoft's published statistics worth taking with a grain of salt.
Microsoft will always be around as a legacy support services company, so the "win" occurs when they are relegated to that status. I predict: 10 to 15 years, given the magnitude of the difference from Windows 3.1 to Windows XP (i.e., it's a matter of user tolerance of change over time). Moving from Windows 3.1 to Windows XP really isn't that different than moving to Linux, because about as many Win 3.1 apps that run under Win XP is about as many as would run under WINE.
Microsoft gets a sweating "monkeyboy" Sun gets a "rabid libertarian" in a penguin costume IBM doesn't get mentioned much...sort of like the smoking man on X-files. HP gets some insane woman on a redecorating binge....why is it that IT companies are so damn weird?!?
IMHO they are going to have to do a major re-write of much of the OS to make security a real possibility.
Why don't they bring back Windows NT 3? On a dual 2.4GHz Opteron, would people still compilain about the performance? Even Sun is making some performance concessions by putting in end-to-end checksums in Solaris 10's new filesystem. There is enough excess performance, now, that focusing more on security and reliability is truly marketable.
...I'm pretty certain that if a "senior Microsoft team led by General Manager Martin Taylor" had come back to Ballmer and said, "Sorry boss, but we just can't beat free when it comes to TCO between two functionally identical products" then our man Mr. Taylor would be out of a very very well paying job, and the assignment would be given to the next peon in line and the procedure iterated until the boss has the "facts" that he wants to hear.
This is pretty much how Rumsfeld's war plan was developed, according to a recent documentary about the Iraq war. One general said "500,000 troops with post-invasion troubles", Rummy said "next", and another general said "50,000 with no troubles". The rest is history.
Solaris had its advantages, but X11 wasn't one of them and CDE wasn't another.
1) Your Sun workstation had a genuine and complete OpenGL implementation. 2) Sun provides the configuration for the X server, so you don't have to. 3) Sun's packages generally update the X server configuration for you, so you don't have to. 4) XDM for remote logins works out of the box. 5) Sun's drivers are integration tested with the hardware, so there are few suprises.
The only detractions I can say about Xsun/CDE are that there are extensions becoming popular in the XFree86/X.org realm that Sun hasn't adopted, yet, and that CDE, while functional, definitely has some flakes. However, I still use CDE, because GNOME still has a long way to go (looking foward to seeing how Solaris 10's GNOME works).
On the flip side, getting OpenGL working under many PC configurations is a flat out nightmare, and the configurations files are also a nightmare. Linux/X.org are nice, but even a rose has thorns.
Sun is not taking the retarded path of SGI or Intergraph. The Sun Opteron boxes are certified for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Sun will provide Solaris or Linux, but customers provide their own Windows (last I checked). For companies who already have Windows site licenses, this is not a problem at all.
Sun are keeping SPARC for data centers and engineering workstations and adding Opteron for everything that Opteron is good at. Sun is making Java and JDS the common thread among the two product lines, leaving people a choice of hardware platform and OS kernel (Solaris/SPARC, Solaris/x86, or Linux/x86).
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I wonder if pressing escape when prompted for a fingerprint...
They had a guy in the "Data Room" with this awesome touch-screen interface. He could navigate it really quickly too, and it looked natural.
The CBS data display added very little to the broadcast. Instead, it allowed the guy to bring up even more irrelevant graphs that made his really neat display look little more than an expensive toy. Add the data display to Rather's inane metaphors and CBS was almost painful to watch.
BTW, by picking sputum as your ID, are you saying you identify personally with sputum?
Greed runs rampant in the USA. It's a fuck-thy-neighbor attitude and all it does is make us americans look like the rudest bunch of clueless assholes on this planet.
You should visit small-town USA. Yes, most of the people you would meet are both Republican and Christain, but if you don't say the wrong things, they are genuinely nice people. Just keep the conversations away from politics and gays, and it really isn't bad at all.
The problem is that in a democracy, these people tend to vote for someone who appeals to them. So they voted for Bush. What they don't realize is that Bush is not really a Christian and that he uses "faith" purely for political gain. If they realized how Bush used them, I'm sure they would be outraged. True Christians are not fuck-thy-neighbor assholes. The rare occasion of meeting a real Christian is quite moving, because they are very much not like most people. It is actually somewhat intimidating to meet someone who is happy and doesn't live entirely for themselves.
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I wonder if people there see any similarity between civil rights regarding skin color and civil rights regarding marriage. I guess not, which is very disappointing.
A handy example is the belief that, left to its own devices, Microsoft wouldn't choose to crush the life out of any and all competition by fair play or foul.
If Libertarians had the opportunity to formulate the legal environment Microsoft exists in, Microsoft would have never come to exist as it does today. Corporations would be defined differently, share holders would have more accountability, and, in general, there would be more checks to have Microsoft be less blatantly negligent in their engineering. Currently, Microsoft has maneuvered with EULAs, corporate takeovers, etc., such that they continually pull bait-and-switches on their customers (sure Win 95 runs DOS games...thanks for your money...no you can't return your open box for a refund) with practically no recourse for cusomters other than to make the dive and dump Microsoft entirely, which is often hard to do.
I'm a Canadian that feels deeply disappointed that so many Americans can still vote for someone like Bush.
Americans are not that different than Canadians, in that roughly half are at average or below average intelligence. Seeing that roughly half of American voters voted for Bush, I wonder if there is a correlation.
According to that article on the Gestapo, things went from bad to really really really really bad within a decade. I have trouble seeing that the USA, even with the PATRIOT Act (as suspicious as it is), could decompose that swiftly. Given that the world changes significantly in sub-decade cycles, recently, (Vietnam, Cold War ending, Hong Kong changing hands, Iraq, etc.) the world will have changed again before any truly serious trends are established in the USA, espcecially considering how inter-dependent the USA is with the rest of the world. I suppose we should be more concerned about global trends in light of the history in the article, but those trends will take decades to take shape. The question is, then, whether people, world-wide, have the attention span to catch on.
i recently used SCSI for the first time when i built a new fileserver for home. yeh, it cost but the performance increase was phenomenal .. i got what i paid for.
I also prefer SCSI for the more-common 5-year warranties and very large MTBF ratings. I'm old enough, now, that I'm willing to pay more to not get slave-labor crap, and, for a multi-year investment, the extra $150 for a SCSI disk (I already had a controller) wasn't unreasonable. Even better, after a couple years, it's only two-thirds full, and my usage has stabilized (that last third will last a long time). It's also a really fast seek 10K RPM one, too, which is nice, and watching my CPU stay idle during huge activity is even nicer.
Now upgrade to Linux.
/tmp is typically mounted as a RAM-based filesystem that uses virtual memory instead of disk space for temporary storage. It requires keeping virtual memory size in mind when working with /tmp, but the tremendous speed of manipulating larger files in /tmp is more than worth it.
Solaris, also. It uses all unallocated physical RAM as a filesystem cache, and
UNIX, in general, is much much much more efficient at using RAM than Windows. With Linux or Solaris, I can feel that my investment in RAM is worth something, rather than see the system start swapping long before the RAM is fully utilized. I wonder if Windows swaps early to compensate for all the memory leaks, which seem to appear like mold, even exponentially, as the system ages.
I had simply read your last sentence putting "BSD" in place of the pronoun "their" instead of substituting "research team".
...their methodology makes me ashamed to share their opinions.
Why? Is it because the BSDs are closer to the public domain than GPL software is? Or is it due to the fact that they are much more purist about licensing issues than even most Linux distributions (all GPL software is isolated in its own directory, for example, and they completely switched packet filters based on licensing issues, at lest in OpenBSD)?
My own anecdotal experience would be roughly the same (sans OS X experience). I have known someone whose Linux box was rooted, but it, too, was a manual attack. Windows goes without saying. OpenBSD goes without saying, too (oppositely, of course).
Linux is a very good general purpose OS, but it's development is volatile enough that it requires a conservative approach with respect to security. I would use an older more mature kernel along with manually paring down the rc directories and inetd.conf, among other things. OpenBSD, on the other hand, is stripped out of the box, and the user must add services. I generally feel that Solaris ranks more with Linux, in that a manual hardening effort really is necessary. Never would I put Windows on the Internet--it would be like swimming in the ocean with steaks tied to my legs.
This morning, I voted with a pen-and-paper optical scan sheet. Unambiguous, easy, but not particularly fast. I'd rather have unambiguous than fast, however. No default values on the back of my form to worry about and my pen didn't crash, so I'd call my experience a success.
One thing I would wish for, however, is better coverage of the canidates in our newspapers. I had to leave a few races blank, because I had absolutely no clue who the people were. In other places I've lived, I grew used to opening the paper to figure out the more obscure races...no such luck this time.
This is pure troll and flamebait.
...from what I've seen IBM doesn't hire and keep people with mental illness or a lack of cognitive processes.
I'm actually suprised by the moderation, too, although I feel it is more flamebait than troll. As a consolation, I have gotten one "overrated" moderation, so far.
Nearly every defense contractor I've met is a hard-core Republican, too. The reason is that they like to eat pork, no matter the cut. Many people at IBM probably are of a similar mindset, where biased corporate tax payoffs are good for stock options. I classify this as a mild mental illness, as money drives people to make strange choices, such as voting for a selectively pro-business canidate regardless of all the other baggage carried by the current administration.
There are a lot of very good research scientists who work at IBM, too...what do they think?
This is better than hanging chads, how?!?! I wonder if there will be so many lawsuits after this election that we won't know who the president is until 2012.
Bush is getting his 50% approval rating from somewhere, and I don't think it is college campuses.
I think support for Bush is largely a side-effect of mental illness, a very severe lack of cognitive processes, and/or such a burned-in zeal that the sky is pink and the earth is flat no matter what. There was this senile woman at the grocery store the other day, and she asked us if we were going to be "good Republicans" on Tuesday. Then there are the people who only care that Bush isn't a "baby killer". Then there are the people who think Bush is some sort of prophet. Then there are the people who vote for Bush, because the Democrats are commie pot-headed socialist utopic beatniks. Add up all those edge cases of humanity, and you could very well get most of that 50% (or 25%, considering how many people vote).
One very interesting trend I've noticed, is that intellectuals seem to be supporting Kerry, and that the people supporting Bush are either in favor of the war-mongering, are fundamentalist christians, or are people who believe that Republicans are more "capitalist" (highly debatable--see history of government balance sheets).
Before Tuesday, people really need to consider whether the words "Republican" or "Democrat" mean what they used to. It is very odd that the deficit shrunk under the Clinton administration, yet ballooned under Bush. It is very odd that Kerry mentions free trade for pharmaceuticals, yet Bush managed to evade that question in the debates. Only Kerry mentioned that the Patriot Act needs to be reviewed. Bush says that he wants to limit government intervention, but in the next sentence supports amending the Constitution. Bush is often anti-science, when science is the foundation for business growth. Note that Kerry's health care plan keeps the insurance industry in the loop--it is not a socialist pit like many people claim. I urge people to think about whether the historical definitions we are all used to matter anymore; I'm not convinced they do.
How is it evil to want to find people selling illegally copied software as legit?
What if the person checking their Windows is employed at a company who happens to have one unscrupulous sysadmin who pirated Windows repeatedly...then the BSA or whomever comes through and shuts his/her nice steady job down via their extortion racket. It tends to put that Holiday Fun Pack into perspective.
This is targeted to those who purchase a PC from some 3rd rate shop and want to check that the cd they were given is authentic.
My first thought was that it is aimed at people who will do anything for a t-shirt; i.e., those "girls gone wild...just wait til daddy orders a copy of your 5 minutes of fame" types. Sort of a self-selecting sample population, IMO, making any of Microsoft's published statistics worth taking with a grain of salt.
Of course it depends on what you mean by "win".
Microsoft will always be around as a legacy support services company, so the "win" occurs when they are relegated to that status. I predict: 10 to 15 years, given the magnitude of the difference from Windows 3.1 to Windows XP (i.e., it's a matter of user tolerance of change over time). Moving from Windows 3.1 to Windows XP really isn't that different than moving to Linux, because about as many Win 3.1 apps that run under Win XP is about as many as would run under WINE.
Monkeyboy is sweating.
...why is it that IT companies are so damn weird?!?
Microsoft gets a sweating "monkeyboy"
Sun gets a "rabid libertarian" in a penguin costume
IBM doesn't get mentioned much...sort of like the smoking man on X-files.
HP gets some insane woman on a redecorating binge.
IMHO they are going to have to do a major re-write of much of the OS to make security a real possibility.
Why don't they bring back Windows NT 3? On a dual 2.4GHz Opteron, would people still compilain about the performance? Even Sun is making some performance concessions by putting in end-to-end checksums in Solaris 10's new filesystem. There is enough excess performance, now, that focusing more on security and reliability is truly marketable.
...I'm pretty certain that if a "senior Microsoft team led by General Manager Martin Taylor" had come back to Ballmer and said, "Sorry boss, but we just can't beat free when it comes to TCO between two functionally identical products" then our man Mr. Taylor would be out of a very very well paying job, and the assignment would be given to the next peon in line and the procedure iterated until the boss has the "facts" that he wants to hear.
This is pretty much how Rumsfeld's war plan was developed, according to a recent documentary about the Iraq war. One general said "500,000 troops with post-invasion troubles", Rummy said "next", and another general said "50,000 with no troubles". The rest is history.
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It turns out that Titan is merely a left-over from the gods' last Nerf battle.
Solaris had its advantages, but X11 wasn't one of them and CDE wasn't another.
1) Your Sun workstation had a genuine and complete OpenGL implementation.
2) Sun provides the configuration for the X server, so you don't have to.
3) Sun's packages generally update the X server configuration for you, so you don't have to.
4) XDM for remote logins works out of the box.
5) Sun's drivers are integration tested with the hardware, so there are few suprises.
The only detractions I can say about Xsun/CDE are that there are extensions becoming popular in the XFree86/X.org realm that Sun hasn't adopted, yet, and that CDE, while functional, definitely has some flakes. However, I still use CDE, because GNOME still has a long way to go (looking foward to seeing how Solaris 10's GNOME works).
On the flip side, getting OpenGL working under many PC configurations is a flat out nightmare, and the configurations files are also a nightmare. Linux/X.org are nice, but even a rose has thorns.
Sun is not taking the retarded path of SGI or Intergraph. The Sun Opteron boxes are certified for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Sun will provide Solaris or Linux, but customers provide their own Windows (last I checked). For companies who already have Windows site licenses, this is not a problem at all.
Sun are keeping SPARC for data centers and engineering workstations and adding Opteron for everything that Opteron is good at. Sun is making Java and JDS the common thread among the two product lines, leaving people a choice of hardware platform and OS kernel (Solaris/SPARC, Solaris/x86, or Linux/x86).