You have to escape the less than sign (<) even in Plain Old Text (which really means just "add a <br> after each line break"), so if you type < becomes <
Vista's not that bad on new hardware. I've been using it for a couple of months and it doesn't really seem any different to XP.
The UAC stuff is a bit geeky, but it's not really too annoying. Explorer seems a bit slower if you're copying gigabytes of data around, but not unusably so.
I'm not sure that it's inconsistent to not want to torture Islamist scum bags. There are other considerations here - like not wanting our spooks to get into the habit of doing it, and that it probably doesn't work - which the reason we don't do it to domestic criminals.
It just seems normal police style psychological, non violent interrogation is the best way to get information out of people. But after I'm totally fine with sticking them alone in a small cell on suicide watch until they die of old age.
I think at least in the US it's not really about atheism and Christianity. It's more about Blue Team vs Red Team. So if you say "the Blue Team have better morality" or "the Blue Team are smarter" in a forum where the Blue Team outnumber the Reds like slashdot you'll get moderated up.
Just like if you say "Duke rules" at Duke, you'll get a cheer. The odd thing is that most slashdotters would probably sneer at this as dumb jock behaviour, but they'll happily mod up Blue Team posts and mod down Red Team ones.
A good sized chunk of christian morality comes from the old testement which your Jews, Muslims, Mormons all believe is the word of god the same as christians in fact mormon are christians just like catholics, protestants, coptics and Eastern orthodox. If there is a Wikipedia entry for "Moral Lifestyle due to religious beliefs" the picture would be of a Buddist. There is no way I can image a voodoo practicioner being any less moral than a christian homeopathic doctor either. Yeah, the good old Old Testament. Such a great book to get your morality from
Or they could try to help out Kari and the boys capturing some roaches and putting them in containers 10m, 50m, 100m, and so on upto 3000m from the center of likely target sites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Breakout&oldid=165719777#History_and_development
Al Alcorn was assigned as the project manager, and began development with Cyan Engineering in 1975. The same year, Alcorn assigned Steve Jobs to design a prototype. Jobs was offered USD$750, with an extra $100 each time a chip was eliminated from the prospected design. Jobs promised to complete a prototype within four days.
Jobs noticed his friend Steve Wozniak - employee of Hewlett-Packard - was capable of producing designs with a small amount of chips, and invited him to work on the hardware design with the prospect of splitting the $750 wage. Wozniak had no sketches and instead interpreted the game from its description. To save parts, he had "tricky little designs" difficult to understand for most engineers. Near the end of development, Wozniak considered moving the high score to the screen's top, but Jobs claimed Bushnell wanted it at the bottom; Wozniak unaware of any truth to his claims. The original deadline was met, and 50 chips were removed from Jobs' original design. This equated to a $5000 USD bonus, which Jobs kept secret from Wozniak, instead only paying him $375.
It's a shame you can't link into the middle of video files, e.g. http//server.com/video.avi?start=1_05&end=2_20 would start playing at 1 min 5 seconds of some video file and stop playing at 2 min 20 sec.
Goody. This should end well. People said that about plutonium and agent orange.
What exactly does "evaporate" mean when referring to black holes (stars)? They explode with the force of five million megatons of TNT - the power off 100,000 Tsar Bombas concentrated in tiny region of space
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation#Black_hole_evaporation
So, for instance, a 1 second-lived black hole has a mass of 2.28 × 10^5 kg, equivalent to an energy of 2.05 × 10^22 J that could be released by 5 × 10^6 megatons of TNT. The initial power is 6.84 × 10^21 W. The shockwave should be enough to totally destroy the Earth, not just obliterate the biosphere which is that best that can be achieved with present day fission/fusion weapons. Even lunar colonies would be hard pressed to survive the explosion. Maybe the moon would be blasted off in to deep space.
Yeah, until RMS starts to get angry about the Googlization of Linux and releases GPLv4 which forces them to release their code. Hope Google picked packages that don't have the "this version of the GPL later" clause.
BBC journalists are overwhelming left wing, far to the left of the current Labour government. When they criticise it, it's criticism coming from the left, just like they criticised the Tories from the left never from the right. E.g. anti war, pro public spending, pro NHS, skeptical about capitalism, anti globalisation, pro environmental protection and so on. Actually, I've met some BBC journalists and I can tell that they literally never speak to anyone right of center - all their friends are just as far left, and oddly just as public school as they are.
Consider http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7048325.stm
Mr Cheney, the brooding neo-conservative closely associated with the decision to invade Iraq, has little else in common with Mr Obama.
Mr Obama, the son of a Kenyan man and a white woman from Kansas, has earned epithets like "rock star" because of his popularity among young Democrats, and a reputation as a liberal because of his voting record in the Senate. Hmm, pretty clear where their sympathies lie.
That doesn't in itself make them bad journalists since lots of good journalists have believed in some strange things too. But the problem with the BBC is that if you work their and all your friends know that the government lied about WMD (rather than simply being wrong), or that Kyoto was sabotaged by big business (rather than failing because it was an expensive way to achieve nothing at all) then you know people will agree if you state these things even without proof. Which explains why fakers like Andrew Gilligan can survive on unattributed quotes confirming conventional wisdom for so long. Of course as soon as there was an enquiry it turns out his source hadn't said what he quoted.
Actually, I think the lack of political diversity at the BBC does directly lead to this. If everyone around you believes something, there's no incentive to spend time proving it.
I suppose they'll still block non-UK access, but I suppose that could be circumvented through a proxy. (Unless they are able to block them?) British http is different. E.g. GEUT instead of GET and POUST instead of POST.
I wonder how much of a discount he woulld get from Microsoft if he stopped selling Linux machines? Could Microsoft even ask for that I wonder, given the anti trust case?
In the UK the Daily Telegraph, a right wing newspaper quoted someone as calling someone else a "F*cking Nigger". The Guardian, a left wing paper, said that they should have written it as as "Fucking N**ger" which I thought was funny.
Don't use "meme" as a euphemism for "cliché". Cliches seem like an excellent example of memes actually.
They have heredity - the actual text of the cliche. E.g. "In Soviet Russia X verb Y", or "In Korea only old people do X".
They are subject to natural selection as popular memes will replicate faster by definition.
They have mutations - random(ish) changes, typos or non sequitur that add humour. They even have sexual repoduction since memes can be combined for humorous effect. E.g. in a story about dogs attacking people in North Korea I could quip "In Soviet Korea, dog eat old people!" combining two memes. Both effects are used to avoid an analogue of Muller's ratchet where a stale meme is no longer funny and thus is not copied.
They are also highly virulent to the point where they can take over message boards completely.
I guess the cost is a secret between Microsoft and the OEM. Which is bad, but you shouldn't punish the OEM for that.
Let's see the costs
The total of 311.85 euros of the overall purchase price of the notebook of 599 euros that Acer was forced to pay back was made up of 135.20 euros for Windows XP Home, 60 euros for Microsoft Works, 40.99 euros for PowerDVD, 38.66 euros for Norton Antivirus and 37 euros for NTI CD Maker. On top of that Acer had to pay a further 650 euros in, among other things, legal costs. 135 Euro for XP Home is much more than the $50 Dell allegedly pays. Even buying one copy of the XP Home is less -
Cheapest is $78 or EUR55. From the ars article -
So it turns out that not including Windows saves the consumer $50 from the regular list price. This amount is not too far off from what a large OEM like Dell would pay for a volume discount for Windows Vista Home Basic (the regular OEM price is about $95). Many value PC sellers try to make up for the cost of a Windows license by bundling demo and trial versions of software such as AOL (affectionately known as "crapware"), for which they receive money from software companies looking to increase their distribution levels. Dell is no exception to this practice, although on their web site it allows customers to select the option of not including various applications. OEMs like Dell pay about half price for bulk licensing. And they get a kickback from including trial versions. So it cost Acer a lot less than EUR135, more like EUR27 less kickbacks. Maybe they only pay EUR10-20 for Windows and the trialware. I think Works is very cheap too, since I can't imagine any other reason for it to be so common. EUR311 is clearly an outrageous overestimate.
So it seems like the jury wanted to give the customer a free laptop and make a political point about bundling. But Acer is an innocent victim in this scheme - even though they made a laptop that worked with an OS that most people want, they still ended up losing money on the deal.
But that NTFS "database" isn't really user accessible like BeFS was.
NTFS supports it, the functionality is just not exposed to user mode.
What you say is important.. it "could be done" typical Microsoft drivel... in BeOS it WAS done. When Microsoft was shipping Windows ME! They had features like OSX Spotlight and better because they implemented the OS and file system AROUND those features. The programmers that worked on BeOS moved over to Apple and reimplemented something "like" what BeOS had to make Spotlight on top of MacOSX.
So Microsoft spent their vast resources making sure that ME could run Dos games, Win32 apps and WDM drivers written for 95, 98 and Windows 2000. Developers! Developers! Developers isn't just a slogan, Microsoft spend a fortune subsidizing third party developers. Most importantly they make sure that Windows release N+1 contains shims and compatibility stuff so broken third party code from N-1 will still run.
BeOS had warts mostly because it was such a different programming model nobody could even port applications to it to use features properly... and it was way too small of installed base to get money to fix the issues... chicken/egg problem (and mortgage payments) and all.
And Be spent their tiny resources building an OS with no third party support.
Consider 10 years later Microsoft after bragging for 3 years about adding it in to Vista had to pull WinFS from general distribution in Vista because they couldn't get it right... but somebody did way back then.
I dunno, I think no one cares about database filesystems. All the application that need it can do it in user space, which means they can run from an FS that doesn't do database stuff, like SMB on network drive, or FAT on a USB key, or an old version of NTFS.
These are the facts. Microsoft ended up paying $100 million to shut them up. And that contract term is STILL in OEM contracts today.. no Grub will be installed with Linux AND Windows from a licensed OEM ever for this reason.
"Be says in its suit that in early 1998 equipment manufacturer Hitachi committed verbally that it would load BeOS alongside Windows on a line of its PCs. Several months later, Hitachi told the start-up that it could not install the BeOS on its computers and that BeOS would have to be booted off a floppy disk, according to Be. Hitachi explained that the terms of its license with Microsoft prohibited pre-installation of another OS in a dual-boot configuration. Be further claims Hitachi revealed that Microsoft expressed its "anger" with Hitachi over its arrangement with Be.
Hitachi eventually shipped a line of computers with BeOS preinstalled on the hard drive. However, those computers were not preconfigured to allow the user to boot into the BeOS. "Hitachi's decision [...] resulted directly from threats by Microsoft," Be claimed in its filing. Be says that the same restrictions that deprived it from financial benefit through its Hitachi deal precluded it from entering pre-installation deals with other PC makers."
Dunno sounds like sour grapes to me. The article says Be missed its biggest opportunity to success when its Jean-Louis Gassee turned down a purchase offer from Apple in 1996, which reportedly wanted to pay $125 million for the start-up, but Gassee wanted $200 million. Apple purchased Next, a company launched by Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder and former CEO, for $400 million instead. Next's OS now powers Apple's computers in the form of MacOS X.
Now, Be says its failure was Microsoft's fault, since the company already possessed monopoly power for operating systems for Intel-compatible PCs
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You have to escape the less than sign (<) even in Plain Old Text (which really means just "add a <br> after each line break"), so if you type < becomes <
Vista's not that bad on new hardware. I've been using it for a couple of months and it doesn't really seem any different to XP.
The UAC stuff is a bit geeky, but it's not really too annoying. Explorer seems a bit slower if you're copying gigabytes of data around, but not unusably so.
I'm not sure that it's inconsistent to not want to torture Islamist scum bags. There are other considerations here - like not wanting our spooks to get into the habit of doing it, and that it probably doesn't work - which the reason we don't do it to domestic criminals.
It just seems normal police style psychological, non violent interrogation is the best way to get information out of people. But after I'm totally fine with sticking them alone in a small cell on suicide watch until they die of old age.
I think at least in the US it's not really about atheism and Christianity. It's more about Blue Team vs Red Team. So if you say "the Blue Team have better morality" or "the Blue Team are smarter" in a forum where the Blue Team outnumber the Reds like slashdot you'll get moderated up.
Just like if you say "Duke rules" at Duke, you'll get a cheer. The odd thing is that most slashdotters would probably sneer at this as dumb jock behaviour, but they'll happily mod up Blue Team posts and mod down Red Team ones.
I'm serious. http://www.unwords.com/unword/sarchasm.html Definition of sarchasm
1. (n.) The abyss between the creator of witticisms and the intended recipient who does not find the humor in it.
http://www.evilbible.com/
Or they could try to help out Kari and the boys capturing some roaches and putting them in containers 10m, 50m, 100m, and so on upto 3000m from the center of likely target sites.
If Mythbusters covered the same sort of territory as Bullshit it would be a lot more watchable.
You're supposed to call the Vermin Americans, and this test is violating their civil rights.
Is it bad that it reminded me of this?
LEAVE WOZ ALONE!!!! [cries]
Jobs noticed his friend Steve Wozniak - employee of Hewlett-Packard - was capable of producing designs with a small amount of chips, and invited him to work on the hardware design with the prospect of splitting the $750 wage. Wozniak had no sketches and instead interpreted the game from its description. To save parts, he had "tricky little designs" difficult to understand for most engineers. Near the end of development, Wozniak considered moving the high score to the screen's top, but Jobs claimed Bushnell wanted it at the bottom; Wozniak unaware of any truth to his claims. The original deadline was met, and 50 chips were removed from Jobs' original design. This equated to a $5000 USD bonus, which Jobs kept secret from Wozniak, instead only paying him $375.
But if everyone that likes the Daily Show refused to do business with Viacom, Viacom might stop making it.
It's a shame you can't link into the middle of video files, e.g. http//server.com/video.avi?start=1_05&end=2_20 would start playing at 1 min 5 seconds of some video file and stop playing at 2 min 20 sec.
Your sig is wrong.
It should be
0x09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation#Black_hole_evaporation So, for instance, a 1 second-lived black hole has a mass of 2.28 × 10^5 kg, equivalent to an energy of 2.05 × 10^22 J that could be released by 5 × 10^6 megatons of TNT. The initial power is 6.84 × 10^21 W. The shockwave should be enough to totally destroy the Earth, not just obliterate the biosphere which is that best that can be achieved with present day fission/fusion weapons. Even lunar colonies would be hard pressed to survive the explosion. Maybe the moon would be blasted off in to deep space.
Yeah, until RMS starts to get angry about the Googlization of Linux and releases GPLv4 which forces them to release their code. Hope Google picked packages that don't have the "this version of the GPL later" clause.
Consider
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7048325.stm Mr Cheney, the brooding neo-conservative closely associated with the decision to invade Iraq, has little else in common with Mr Obama.
Mr Obama, the son of a Kenyan man and a white woman from Kansas, has earned epithets like "rock star" because of his popularity among young Democrats, and a reputation as a liberal because of his voting record in the Senate. Hmm, pretty clear where their sympathies lie.
That doesn't in itself make them bad journalists since lots of good journalists have believed in some strange things too. But the problem with the BBC is that if you work their and all your friends know that the government lied about WMD (rather than simply being wrong), or that Kyoto was sabotaged by big business (rather than failing because it was an expensive way to achieve nothing at all) then you know people will agree if you state these things even without proof. Which explains why fakers like Andrew Gilligan can survive on unattributed quotes confirming conventional wisdom for so long. Of course as soon as there was an enquiry it turns out his source hadn't said what he quoted.
Actually, I think the lack of political diversity at the BBC does directly lead to this. If everyone around you believes something, there's no incentive to spend time proving it.
Swedish society works a bit like an Ayn Rand novel minus the hero/heroine, so I doubt they have too much to worry about.
$50 being too much it seems.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070525-windows-tax-is-50-according-to-dell-linux-pc-pricing.html
I wonder how much of a discount he woulld get from Microsoft if he stopped selling Linux machines? Could Microsoft even ask for that I wonder, given the anti trust case?
In the UK the Daily Telegraph, a right wing newspaper quoted someone as calling someone else a "F*cking Nigger". The Guardian, a left wing paper, said that they should have written it as as "Fucking N**ger" which I thought was funny.
It's funny how there's always a wiki on things like this, even though the editors spend their whole lives removing them.
They have heredity - the actual text of the cliche. E.g. "In Soviet Russia X verb Y", or "In Korea only old people do X".
They are subject to natural selection as popular memes will replicate faster by definition.
They have mutations - random(ish) changes, typos or non sequitur that add humour. They even have sexual repoduction since memes can be combined for humorous effect. E.g. in a story about dogs attacking people in North Korea I could quip "In Soviet Korea, dog eat old people!" combining two memes. Both effects are used to avoid an analogue of Muller's ratchet where a stale meme is no longer funny and thus is not copied.
They are also highly virulent to the point where they can take over message boards completely.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070525-windows-tax-is-50-according-to-dell-linux-pc-pricing.html
I guess the cost is a secret between Microsoft and the OEM. Which is bad, but you shouldn't punish the OEM for that.
Let's see the costs The total of 311.85 euros of the overall purchase price of the notebook of 599 euros that Acer was forced to pay back was made up of 135.20 euros for Windows XP Home, 60 euros for Microsoft Works, 40.99 euros for PowerDVD, 38.66 euros for Norton Antivirus and 37 euros for NTI CD Maker. On top of that Acer had to pay a further 650 euros in, among other things, legal costs. 135 Euro for XP Home is much more than the $50 Dell allegedly pays. Even buying one copy of the XP Home is less -
http://www.google.com/products?q=%22xp+home+(oem)%22&btnG=Search&hl=en&show=dd&checkout=1
Cheapest is $78 or EUR55. From the ars article - So it turns out that not including Windows saves the consumer $50 from the regular list price. This amount is not too far off from what a large OEM like Dell would pay for a volume discount for Windows Vista Home Basic (the regular OEM price is about $95). Many value PC sellers try to make up for the cost of a Windows license by bundling demo and trial versions of software such as AOL (affectionately known as "crapware"), for which they receive money from software companies looking to increase their distribution levels. Dell is no exception to this practice, although on their web site it allows customers to select the option of not including various applications. OEMs like Dell pay about half price for bulk licensing. And they get a kickback from including trial versions. So it cost Acer a lot less than EUR135, more like EUR27 less kickbacks. Maybe they only pay EUR10-20 for Windows and the trialware. I think Works is very cheap too, since I can't imagine any other reason for it to be so common. EUR311 is clearly an outrageous overestimate.
So it seems like the jury wanted to give the customer a free laptop and make a political point about bundling. But Acer is an innocent victim in this scheme - even though they made a laptop that worked with an OS that most people want, they still ended up losing money on the deal.
But that NTFS "database" isn't really user accessible like BeFS was.
NTFS supports it, the functionality is just not exposed to user mode.
What you say is important.. it "could be done" typical Microsoft drivel... in BeOS it WAS done. When Microsoft was shipping Windows ME! They had features like OSX Spotlight and better because they implemented the OS and file system AROUND those features. The programmers that worked on BeOS moved over to Apple and reimplemented something "like" what BeOS had to make Spotlight on top of MacOSX.
So Microsoft spent their vast resources making sure that ME could run Dos games, Win32 apps and WDM drivers written for 95, 98 and Windows 2000. Developers! Developers! Developers isn't just a slogan, Microsoft spend a fortune subsidizing third party developers. Most importantly they make sure that Windows release N+1 contains shims and compatibility stuff so broken third party code from N-1 will still run.
BeOS had warts mostly because it was such a different programming model nobody could even port applications to it to use features properly... and it was way too small of installed base to get money to fix the issues... chicken/egg problem (and mortgage payments) and all.
And Be spent their tiny resources building an OS with no third party support.
Consider 10 years later Microsoft after bragging for 3 years about adding it in to Vista had to pull WinFS from general distribution in Vista because they couldn't get it right... but somebody did way back then.
I dunno, I think no one cares about database filesystems. All the application that need it can do it in user space, which means they can run from an FS that doesn't do database stuff, like SMB on network drive, or FAT on a USB key, or an old version of NTFS.
As far as proof look here: http://www.itjungle.com/mid/mid022702-story06.html
(found on an old slashdot post! http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/08/2031244)
These are the facts. Microsoft ended up paying $100 million to shut them up. And that contract term is STILL in OEM contracts today.. no Grub will be installed with Linux AND Windows from a licensed OEM ever for this reason.
"Be says in its suit that in early 1998 equipment manufacturer Hitachi committed verbally that it would load BeOS alongside Windows on a line of its PCs. Several months later, Hitachi told the start-up that it could not install the BeOS on its computers and that BeOS would have to be booted off a floppy disk, according to Be. Hitachi explained that the terms of its license with Microsoft prohibited pre-installation of another OS in a dual-boot configuration. Be further claims Hitachi revealed that Microsoft expressed its "anger" with Hitachi over its arrangement with Be.
Hitachi eventually shipped a line of computers with BeOS preinstalled on the hard drive. However, those computers were not preconfigured to allow the user to boot into the BeOS. "Hitachi's decision [...] resulted directly from threats by Microsoft," Be claimed in its filing. Be says that the same restrictions that deprived it from financial benefit through its Hitachi deal precluded it from entering pre-installation deals with other PC makers."
Dunno sounds like sour grapes to me. The article says
Be missed its biggest opportunity to success when its Jean-Louis Gassee turned down a purchase offer from Apple in 1996, which reportedly wanted to pay $125 million for the start-up, but Gassee wanted $200 million. Apple purchased Next, a company launched by Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder and former CEO, for $400 million instead. Next's OS now powers Apple's computers in the form of MacOS X.
Now, Be says its failure was Microsoft's fault, since the company already possessed monopoly power for operating systems for Intel-compatible PCs