The US needs another innovation above and beyond computer technology to remain the global economic leader. Likely this will occur through nanotechnology or biotechnology.
There's quite a gap between `the US needs' and `this will occur'. Some would say that it takes balls to make a statement like that and I have to wonder: are they crystal? (-:
...lowered the seat by remote control, or better still automatically if your wife (any female SO or relative) carried her remote near it and the toilet wasn't being used.
That was the Sony DSC-F505; the F707 is better at focussing fast (but it's still the Achilles' heel of an otherwise fine camera, IMHO).
If you really want to see slow operation, set the thing for redeye-reduction plus noise correction and take a nightframing shot. <Press>... <Thunk> spung up flash... <flashity-flash-flash> the redeye bit... <flash>/<click> take the shot... <click> take the second blacked-out shot... process, process... you'd better not want a second shot of your subject.
How about little old ladies in wheelchairs who need oxygen.
Probably not, that sortof thing isn't that hard to verify, and little old ladies with oxygen tanks aren't exactly a high-risk group.
Are you sure? At that point, they don't have much life left to lose...
Also, (1) it would be fairly easy and cheap to simply loan them your own O2 tank for the trip or in some cases feed them from an airframe supply (2) standard wheelchairs won't fit through the doors or down the aisles on many 'planes so you'd probably be using the airline's chair anyway.
In order for MS to have access to the records, they need access to the DB. If the DB is not on a system w/ an MS OS, they have no right to that machine. Period. Get it?
Yes, I get it. But you're wrong. (-:
The machine is not the problem, the data are the problem. One of the constellation of possible actions which you authorise Microsoft to take when you agree to the EULA on any Windows workstation in the LAN is to install a sniffer (call it `Microsoft Diagnostics for a Networked Medical Environment 6.0' to drive the point home). The data is no use to anyone if it stays on the server, but as soon as it leaves the server and wanders past a Windows box, Bill can glom it and shove it into the `My Data' folder.
BTW, you didn't think the `My' in `My Computer' and `My Documents' referred to the user, did you?
there's all kinds of things you can do to keep this theoretical problem under control.
Many quite large and busy sites are running on PostgreSQL or even MySQL (true SQL afficiondos are permitted a short vomit break at this point). As they've freely admitted, even Microsoft hasn't figured out how to undercut `free'. Yet.
But forget the server, Win2kSP3 on a workstation means that Microsoft have the right to installer a sniffer (diagnostic software) on the workstation and directly or indirectly pilfer all of your HIPPA data. You gave them that right when you agreed to the EULA. What's the real cost of that?
Meanwhile, IRL, W2k is likely to sooner or later also give every t0m, d1c| and |-|4rry the same ability, albeit not the right to legally employ that ability, as if they cared.
If you want to really reveal codes, unzip your OOo document file (yes, with zip or pkzip) and use a text editor like vi or notepad on the results. Absolutely unbeatable for fixing up broken documents or producing strange effects not supported in the menus/dialogs. Incidentally, my OOo 1.0 and SO 5.2 will both survive reading Word files that kill MS-Office dead in its tracks (freeze or crash-and-burn).
At least, this one does. Perhaps it's because the peripherals all go through AMDs warpspeed interprocessor buss instead of brawling it out on the PCI or AGP playfields.
An Athlon gobbles less power than a P4 as well (not that this is a major accomplishment, dual P4s make effective room heaters). I think it has seomthing to do with a lower clock-rate for the same throughput.
As to reliability, not a blip. Pounded the life out of it when I first got it, just in case, and not a murmer.
Open/Star Office isn't doing the easy stuff yet its miles away from the hard stuff like OLE and Macros with VBA calls.
If you want OLE-stye operation, try gobeProductive. I presume you're under Windows, because you speak of OLE, which is good because the Linux port isn't really stable yet. gobeProductive is wetter than the wettest dreams of Microsoft's OLE development teams in terms of smooth integration.
As to the VB macros, no, thank you: I'll take the rusty spike in the ear instead. If you wanted to do that, you could hammer GnomeBASIC* into OOo and have a winner. I'd rather have Ruby, or failing that Python, and there are reprobates out there with a PERL fetish.
If you want Office macros to be useful elsewhere, I'd suggest throwing lots of money at Michael Kohn and asking him to write a OfficeBasic-to-ScriptingLingoOfYourChoice translator.
* I was a little miffed that they didn't call it something like Gnome Windowing BASIC so we could have a useful GeeWhizBASIC again.
For whatever reason, both WP and Lotus' Windows products were years late and the early versions were crash-happy under Windows to boot.
Hmm. With cries of `DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run' ringing in my imagination, it's not that hard to figure out what one of the reasons was. It's not as if DR-DOS was welcomed to Windows or anything.
It's an excellent suite. Try it, you'll be amazed! We should spamflood them asking them to opensource it, since it seems that few people want to buy it for US$200 a po) any more. Point out that its popularity would go through the roof, especially after it was ported to Unix/X (ie Linux+XFree and OS/X+XFree).
Let me guess, you're one of those people who freaks out hardcore when you find telnet in use, right?
Dunno about him, but I would be chasing up early payment on those invoices every time, and explicitly disclaiming warranty on security issues.
I've had a client blame me because one of their Windows clients ran an executable attachment which then sniffed, filtered and transmitted a lot of their plaintext (or near equivalent) traffic, notably including telnet and SMB passwords. Subsequently, their entire LAN become a DDoS zombie.
Oddly enough - from the logs - the telnet passwords were sniffed, but never used against the Unix boxes, only against the Windows machines, presumably in the (in this case justified) hope that they would use the same password twice.
Van der Waals' forces in gecko feet have been known about for a fair while now, at least two years because I remember explaining it to my (now 12yo) daughter when we [images roughly 500kB apeice] saw some geckos at WylooStation during a trip in June 2000, and this article was published in December 2000, referring to papers and articles from June 2000.
Include a broad spread of working examples ranging from `hello world' level through simple demos and games to a few fully working applications. And dual BSD/GPL licence the lot of it.
A big draw for me is having somewhere to start, being able to pick up a working app, however small, and stretch it to fit. The dual licencing is needed to enable both proprietary and OSS development based on those examples. BSD to allow BSDish and proprietary stretching-to-fit and GPL to allow Free stretch-to-fits.
Also, set up a site with stuff like the PERL repository or PHP's PEAR system. Your users will expand your template base for free, benefiting everyone except (possibly) your competition.
if you are giving a speech in a public area. And your topic is unpopular and ordinary people try to supress your speech by shouting, booing, or yelling so that you cannot be heard. Then they are violating your right to freedom of speech and the police are allowed to come in and supress the mob.
So... the police are allowed to suppress many people's right to free speech (the mob shouting the man on the soapbox down) in order to protect one person's right to free speech (the man on the soapbox).
And this is constitutional?
If it wasn't before, it should now be obvious to you why the US is a legal minefield.
Hmm. Given that they have something approaching 100 billion in $$$CASH$$$* available (and that's just Microsoft proper, nothing said about affiliates, subsiduaries, directors etc), 2 thousand billion in liquefiable assets doesn't seem too far fetched at all. Throw in the $$$CASH$$$ resources of Bill, Steve and a few other executives plus a flock of related companies, and you'd be well on your way (I guess over half a trillion $$$) to paying the fine out of $$$CASH$$$ - without even having to sell anything!
Yo, Trey Gates must really be rattling in his boots over those `stern measures' the DoJ is taking against him. People wonder about whether Linux will torpedo him on technical merit. Taking into account everything he's stashed away over the years, pies he has fingers in, etc, the dude could probably rustle up near on ten trillion hit points IRL if the need arose.
In a similar act of stupidity, a resident of New York lit a stick of dynamite to see how fast the fuse would burn. Having not planned his next step, and unable to extinguish the fuse, he threw it out of the window, where it landed in the street and killed sixty people. Does this guy deserve jail time for his stupidity?
Yes. At least. No question.
The bit with the battery could be just as dangerous if the resulting explosion took out some vital wiring in the 'plane. Or just blew a hole in the head of the guy sitting next to him. Either way, it's dangerous stupidity, and the guy needs a jail term for it. Whether it was simple or not is irrelevant.
This from someone who thinks many of our (au) laws are overdone, and the US laws are worse.
Thankfully all software that I use is open source, and can be readily compiled (by myself or a distributor such as Mandrake).
Worked well for me too until I had to make it work on NVidia nForce-based chipsets. Sweet chipset (GeForce2, sound, LAN, etc all built in with practically zero contention on the shared RAM and literally zero on the AGP buss since the peripherals all run through AMD's interCPU buss - oh, and no less than 6 USB ports on the board I have to hand (MSI K7N420 Pro)) the LAN card driver (only) is closed-source, the closed library they ship for it (nvlanlib.o) is apparently incompatible with gcc 3.2 - sorry about Mandrake 9.0 (and Redhat `Null') distributions, it won't recompile for love nor $$$. Now, what I completely fail to understand is that the FGeForce2 and sound kernel modules are completely OSS! Like, d'uh? It's akin to shipping an all-American vehicle with metric rims...
In case you don't understand the subject line, `proves' in the sense used there means `breaks', as in `tests to destruction'.
That's as bad as using an autodialler (the best way of forgetting numbers that I know of): what do you do when Password Safe or the system it runs on gronks and you need one of the passwords in it to restore a backup of it? Nevertheless, Free equivalents abound.
He could fund a space elevator. USD$5-10G, cheaper than a bridge, bargain price and roughly 10% of Microsoft's current cash reserves.
I was going to say `no strings attached,' because nobody would be stupid enough to use Microsoft software to stabilise something that big (and therefore dangerous), but then I thought (1) sez who? they run Navy ships on it; and (2) the thing's just a great big carbon string anyway... a superstring, sort of.
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There's quite a gap between `the US needs' and `this will occur'. Some would say that it takes balls to make a statement like that and I have to wonder: are they crystal? (-:
...lowered the seat by remote control, or better still automatically if your wife (any female SO or relative) carried her remote near it and the toilet wasn't being used.
That was the Sony DSC-F505; the F707 is better at focussing fast (but it's still the Achilles' heel of an otherwise fine camera, IMHO).
If you really want to see slow operation, set the thing for redeye-reduction plus noise correction and take a nightframing shot. <Press>... <Thunk> spung up flash... <flashity-flash-flash> the redeye bit... <flash>/<click> take the shot... <click> take the second blacked-out shot... process, process... you'd better not want a second shot of your subject.
Are you sure? At that point, they don't have much life left to lose...
Also, (1) it would be fairly easy and cheap to simply loan them your own O2 tank for the trip or in some cases feed them from an airframe supply (2) standard wheelchairs won't fit through the doors or down the aisles on many 'planes so you'd probably be using the airline's chair anyway.
And I think your comment deserved friendlier moderation than that - especially given that mine got upped.
Yes, I get it. But you're wrong. (-:
The machine is not the problem, the data are the problem. One of the constellation of possible actions which you authorise Microsoft to take when you agree to the EULA on any Windows workstation in the LAN is to install a sniffer (call it `Microsoft Diagnostics for a Networked Medical Environment 6.0' to drive the point home). The data is no use to anyone if it stays on the server, but as soon as it leaves the server and wanders past a Windows box, Bill can glom it and shove it into the `My Data' folder.
BTW, you didn't think the `My' in `My Computer' and `My Documents' referred to the user, did you?
Ah, that reminds me of l0pht's motto: `Making the theoretical practical since 1992'.
Many quite large and busy sites are running on PostgreSQL or even MySQL (true SQL afficiondos are permitted a short vomit break at this point). As they've freely admitted, even Microsoft hasn't figured out how to undercut `free'. Yet.
But forget the server, Win2kSP3 on a workstation means that Microsoft have the right to installer a sniffer (diagnostic software) on the workstation and directly or indirectly pilfer all of your HIPPA data. You gave them that right when you agreed to the EULA. What's the real cost of that?
Meanwhile, IRL, W2k is likely to sooner or later also give every t0m, d1c| and |-|4rry the same ability, albeit not the right to legally employ that ability, as if they cared.
If you want to really reveal codes, unzip your OOo document file (yes, with zip or pkzip) and use a text editor like vi or notepad on the results. Absolutely unbeatable for fixing up broken documents or producing strange effects not supported in the menus/dialogs. Incidentally, my OOo 1.0 and SO 5.2 will both survive reading Word files that kill MS-Office dead in its tracks (freeze or crash-and-burn).
An Athlon gobbles less power than a P4 as well (not that this is a major accomplishment, dual P4s make effective room heaters). I think it has seomthing to do with a lower clock-rate for the same throughput.
As to reliability, not a blip. Pounded the life out of it when I first got it, just in case, and not a murmer.
If you want OLE-stye operation, try gobeProductive. I presume you're under Windows, because you speak of OLE, which is good because the Linux port isn't really stable yet. gobeProductive is wetter than the wettest dreams of Microsoft's OLE development teams in terms of smooth integration.
As to the VB macros, no, thank you: I'll take the rusty spike in the ear instead. If you wanted to do that, you could hammer GnomeBASIC* into OOo and have a winner. I'd rather have Ruby, or failing that Python, and there are reprobates out there with a PERL fetish.
If you want Office macros to be useful elsewhere, I'd suggest throwing lots of money at Michael Kohn and asking him to write a OfficeBasic-to-ScriptingLingoOfYourChoice translator.
* I was a little miffed that they didn't call it something like Gnome Windowing BASIC so we could have a useful GeeWhizBASIC again.
Both suites can read it. What have you got to lose?
Hmm. With cries of `DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run' ringing in my imagination, it's not that hard to figure out what one of the reasons was. It's not as if DR-DOS was welcomed to Windows or anything.
It's an excellent suite. Try it, you'll be amazed! We should spamflood them asking them to opensource it, since it seems that few people want to buy it for US$200 a po) any more. Point out that its popularity would go through the roof, especially after it was ported to Unix/X (ie Linux+XFree and OS/X+XFree).
...or have the ability to write your own print driver and output in absolutely any format. Incidentally, PDF->image is dead easy too.
Dunno about him, but I would be chasing up early payment on those invoices every time, and explicitly disclaiming warranty on security issues.
I've had a client blame me because one of their Windows clients ran an executable attachment which then sniffed, filtered and transmitted a lot of their plaintext (or near equivalent) traffic, notably including telnet and SMB passwords. Subsequently, their entire LAN become a DDoS zombie.
Oddly enough - from the logs - the telnet passwords were sniffed, but never used against the Unix boxes, only against the Windows machines, presumably in the (in this case justified) hope that they would use the same password twice.
Van der Waals' forces in gecko feet have been known about for a fair while now, at least two years because I remember explaining it to my (now 12yo) daughter when we [images roughly 500kB apeice] saw some geckos at Wyloo Station during a trip in June 2000, and this article was published in December 2000, referring to papers and articles from June 2000.
Include a broad spread of working examples ranging from `hello world' level through simple demos and games to a few fully working applications. And dual BSD/GPL licence the lot of it.
A big draw for me is having somewhere to start, being able to pick up a working app, however small, and stretch it to fit. The dual licencing is needed to enable both proprietary and OSS development based on those examples. BSD to allow BSDish and proprietary stretching-to-fit and GPL to allow Free stretch-to-fits.
Also, set up a site with stuff like the PERL repository or PHP's PEAR system. Your users will expand your template base for free, benefiting everyone except (possibly) your competition.
So... the police are allowed to suppress many people's right to free speech (the mob shouting the man on the soapbox down) in order to protect one person's right to free speech (the man on the soapbox).
And this is constitutional?
If it wasn't before, it should now be obvious to you why the US is a legal minefield.
Hmm. Given that they have something approaching 100 billion in $$$CASH$$$* available (and that's just Microsoft proper, nothing said about affiliates, subsiduaries, directors etc), 2 thousand billion in liquefiable assets doesn't seem too far fetched at all. Throw in the $$$CASH$$$ resources of Bill, Steve and a few other executives plus a flock of related companies, and you'd be well on your way (I guess over half a trillion $$$) to paying the fine out of $$$CASH$$$ - without even having to sell anything!
Yo, Trey Gates must really be rattling in his boots over those `stern measures' the DoJ is taking against him. People wonder about whether Linux will torpedo him on technical merit. Taking into account everything he's stashed away over the years, pies he has fingers in, etc, the dude could probably rustle up near on ten trillion hit points IRL if the need arose.
And you can bet he's too cheap to spend even a measly $10G on the world's biggest conveyor belt.
* this is one time I miss the BLINK tag
In a similar act of stupidity, a resident of New York lit a stick of dynamite to see how fast the fuse would burn. Having not planned his next step, and unable to extinguish the fuse, he threw it out of the window, where it landed in the street and killed sixty people. Does this guy deserve jail time for his stupidity?
Yes. At least. No question.
The bit with the battery could be just as dangerous if the resulting explosion took out some vital wiring in the 'plane. Or just blew a hole in the head of the guy sitting next to him. Either way, it's dangerous stupidity, and the guy needs a jail term for it. Whether it was simple or not is irrelevant.
This from someone who thinks many of our (au) laws are overdone, and the US laws are worse.
Worked well for me too until I had to make it work on NVidia nForce-based chipsets. Sweet chipset (GeForce2, sound, LAN, etc all built in with practically zero contention on the shared RAM and literally zero on the AGP buss since the peripherals all run through AMD's interCPU buss - oh, and no less than 6 USB ports on the board I have to hand (MSI K7N420 Pro)) the LAN card driver (only) is closed-source, the closed library they ship for it (nvlanlib.o) is apparently incompatible with gcc 3.2 - sorry about Mandrake 9.0 (and Redhat `Null') distributions, it won't recompile for love nor $$$. Now, what I completely fail to understand is that the FGeForce2 and sound kernel modules are completely OSS! Like, d'uh? It's akin to shipping an all-American vehicle with metric rims...
In case you don't understand the subject line, `proves' in the sense used there means `breaks', as in `tests to destruction'.
...at least two more sample points, one in about 1995/6 and one in 2001 or 2002. And why not at least one every year?
He could fund a space elevator. USD$5-10G, cheaper than a bridge, bargain price and roughly 10% of Microsoft's current cash reserves.
I was going to say `no strings attached,' because nobody would be stupid enough to use Microsoft software to stabilise something that big (and therefore dangerous), but then I thought (1) sez who? they run Navy ships on it; and (2) the thing's just a great big carbon string anyway... a superstring, sort of.
So... Modula-3 is not relevant because you don't like it, but Pascal is?
Admittedly, gpc exists but gm3c doesn't. Yet.