Using that logic it would be best if we didn't use any medication whatsoever. Vaccines should be outlawed too, or anybody who receives one should be sterilized.
Or you can go even further and argue against water purification, after all it's best if only the strongest survive, right?
Actually using any sort of technology is downright questionable, as it improves your life in a way not intended by nature.
I meant that Windows, OS X, and other operating systems are open platforms in the sense that you can run whatever software you like. It's not as if Apple prevents people from installing Firefox on OS X just 'cause it competes with Safari...
No, no, no. If I wanted to RTFA I wouldn't be posting on Slashdot. I'm here to make wildly speculative statements on issues on which I have no expertise.
"Opera's engineers have developed a version of Opera Mini that can run on an Apple iPhone, but Apple won't let the company release it because it competes with Apple's own Safari browser."
ZFS has licensing issues. Sun has licensed it under the CDDL, which is incompatible with the GPL. If Sun doesn't change the license, our best hope will be to get ZFS running on FUSE, like NTFS-3G.
Who said that a fallacy can't fit into more than one category? For example I can see our particular Reagan example also fitting into the following categories:
Correlation does not imply causation (cum hoc ergo propter hoc)
Argument from ignorance (argumentum ad ignorantiam)
Argumentum ad populum
Trust me, I can spend all day reading Wikipedia... Well, actually no, but I have no desire to get into a flame war over what fallacy this or that is, or is not.
look for a persuasive argument why Nancy and Ronald Reagan consulting fortune tellers and horoscopes might not be a good thing when Ron's got his finger on the nuclear button.
Did Reagan launch any nukes during the 80's? No? Then your argument is completely flawed. In fact, since he didn't launch after consulting fortune tellers, it would appear that using fortune tellers actually helps prevent nuclear annihilation. Or maybe I'm just being superstitious in seeing that cause and effect.
"Post hoc ergo propter hoc"
You are committing a logical fallacy. By the same logic: Reagan ate breakfast each morning. Therefore breakfast prevents nuclear war.
I sincerely hope you were being sarcastic about "Ubuntu 2000" being futuristic. Nonetheless, I would imagine that real names are easier to remember; try asking an average user whether they have Ubuntu 8.04 or 8.10...
The basic UI for Windows IS consistent, for themselves. Anybody programming it will have their idea on the UI and will tinker with it. The third party programs are the ones responsible for "perverting a consistent UI".
Really? Now compare Windows Media Player, Office 2003, Office 2007, Internet Explorer, Notepad, Visual Studio, and Windows Update. None of these, you might notice, are third-party applications, yet you might notice that they have some rather fundamental differences.
There's no longer any reason why paper cheques should be transferred between individuals either,
Sure there is. How do you pay a non-merchant? How would you pay a landlord?
Using a bank transfer or good old cash.
I've never heard of anybody successfully breaching bank security here in Finland, as I said in my original message, it really is very difficult.
Does not mean it has not happened.
I didn't mean that it wouldn't have happened, but the fact that I haven't seen a single news article about a breach in bank security (and I follow the news quite closely) speaks volumes about how likely it is.
There's no longer any reason why paper cheques should be transferred between individuals either, or between individuals and banks. Why have that unnecessary and easy to forge step in between?
Someone who steals your credit card, or just your credit card information, can run up charges at third party businesses. This is not possible using account transfers. There's nothing you can do with just my bank account number (except add money to it). It will only tell you what bank my account is in, and possibly which branch, but there is no way in which you can use it to access my funds.
Plus I've never heard of anybody successfully breaching bank security here in Finland, as I said in my original message, it really is very difficult.
I still can't believe that people in so-called "first world" countries still rely on cheques for financial transactions. Over here in Finland NOBODY ever uses cheques. Not business, not individuals.
Everybody uses electronic transfers, account to account. Transfers can be made online (usually authentication is done with a grid of disposable codes, once the grid is used up you automatically get a new one from the bank), in the bank (requires you to identify yourself with official ID, e.g. driver's license etc.) or by using a terminal in a bank or shopping mall (authentication by using a regular credit/debit card).
I pay my bills online, as does everybody else (including my 70+ year old grandfather).
Upside of using electronic transfers is that they are very traceable, you can always find out to whom an unauthorised transfer was made (as unlikely as that is. Even key logging software is useless as each access code can only be used once).
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Probably, but she's too busy keeping a watchful eye on Russia.
Using that logic it would be best if we didn't use any medication whatsoever. Vaccines should be outlawed too, or anybody who receives one should be sterilized.
Or you can go even further and argue against water purification, after all it's best if only the strongest survive, right?
Actually using any sort of technology is downright questionable, as it improves your life in a way not intended by nature.
Especially for those /etc/portage/package.* files... :sort brings some measure of sanity to them.
And even they suck when compared to open source/freeware alternatives such as Speedcrunch, Notepad++, and Paint.NET.
I meant that Windows, OS X, and other operating systems are open platforms in the sense that you can run whatever software you like. It's not as if Apple prevents people from installing Firefox on OS X just 'cause it competes with Safari...
No, no, no. If I wanted to RTFA I wouldn't be posting on Slashdot. I'm here to make wildly speculative statements on issues on which I have no expertise.
Linksys never allowed or created any infrastructure to allow third party development for your router.
Apple on the other hand wants to reap the benefits of third party applications without actually competing with them.
It's as if you could only run IE on Windows or Safari on OS X.
Aha, but market share of what? The browser market? The mobile browser market? The iPhone browser market?
At least on Nokia's S60 (Symbian) devices you can run what ever you like.
Antitrust lawsuit, anybody?
ZFS has licensing issues. Sun has licensed it under the CDDL, which is incompatible with the GPL. If Sun doesn't change the license, our best hope will be to get ZFS running on FUSE, like NTFS-3G.
Perhaps next time you should give the precise wording of your postulation more thought?
Who said that a fallacy can't fit into more than one category? For example I can see our particular Reagan example also fitting into the following categories:
Trust me, I can spend all day reading Wikipedia... Well, actually no, but I have no desire to get into a flame war over what fallacy this or that is, or is not.
look for a persuasive argument why Nancy and Ronald Reagan consulting fortune tellers and horoscopes might not be a good thing when Ron's got his finger on the nuclear button.
Did Reagan launch any nukes during the 80's? No? Then your argument is completely flawed. In fact, since he didn't launch after consulting fortune tellers, it would appear that using fortune tellers actually helps prevent nuclear annihilation. Or maybe I'm just being superstitious in seeing that cause and effect.
"Post hoc ergo propter hoc"
You are committing a logical fallacy. By the same logic:
Reagan ate breakfast each morning. Therefore breakfast prevents nuclear war.
I'm sure you've never had a typo.
I sincerely hope you were being sarcastic about "Ubuntu 2000" being futuristic. Nonetheless, I would imagine that real names are easier to remember; try asking an average user whether they have Ubuntu 8.04 or 8.10...
The basic UI for Windows IS consistent, for themselves. Anybody programming it will have their idea on the UI and will tinker with it. The third party programs are the ones responsible for "perverting a consistent UI".
Really? Now compare Windows Media Player, Office 2003, Office 2007, Internet Explorer, Notepad, Visual Studio, and Windows Update. None of these, you might notice, are third-party applications, yet you might notice that they have some rather fundamental differences.
Yes, you can photoshop, so to speak, your holiday pictures while getting cash.
True enough, I suppose.
Someone is still using OS/2? Perhaps there should also be bounties for porting software to Win 95 & NT 4.0 and Linux kernel v1.0...
There's no longer any reason why paper cheques should be transferred between individuals either,
Sure there is. How do you pay a non-merchant? How would you pay a landlord?
Using a bank transfer or good old cash.
I've never heard of anybody successfully breaching bank security here in Finland, as I said in my original message, it really is very difficult.
Does not mean it has not happened.
I didn't mean that it wouldn't have happened, but the fact that I haven't seen a single news article about a breach in bank security (and I follow the news quite closely) speaks volumes about how likely it is.
There's no longer any reason why paper cheques should be transferred between individuals either, or between individuals and banks. Why have that unnecessary and easy to forge step in between?
Someone who steals your credit card, or just your credit card information, can run up charges at third party businesses. This is not possible using account transfers. There's nothing you can do with just my bank account number (except add money to it). It will only tell you what bank my account is in, and possibly which branch, but there is no way in which you can use it to access my funds.
Plus I've never heard of anybody successfully breaching bank security here in Finland, as I said in my original message, it really is very difficult.
I still can't believe that people in so-called "first world" countries still rely on cheques for financial transactions. Over here in Finland NOBODY ever uses cheques. Not business, not individuals.
Everybody uses electronic transfers, account to account. Transfers can be made online (usually authentication is done with a grid of disposable codes, once the grid is used up you automatically get a new one from the bank), in the bank (requires you to identify yourself with official ID, e.g. driver's license etc.) or by using a terminal in a bank or shopping mall (authentication by using a regular credit/debit card).
I pay my bills online, as does everybody else (including my 70+ year old grandfather).
Upside of using electronic transfers is that they are very traceable, you can always find out to whom an unauthorised transfer was made (as unlikely as that is. Even key logging software is useless as each access code can only be used once).
No! They will return and destroy our Earthly technology.
Beware the mutations that will, as bad science movies have taught us, inevitably happen. The destruction of all life on Earth is nigh.