Dragonfly BSd and the others have a pretty good system with the RCNG. It has a lot of the features that Apple's version has. I wish the more Linux distros had that type of thing integrated.
It looks like Apple's might be more comprehensive in that it encapsulates user scripts and user-specific items, and does them right. I'm not a big RCNG guy, so I don't know if it also does that and has all the messaging functions.
yea, it really seems to clean up a lot of things. Like being able to tell that the service or process shutdown, instead of just sending bigger and badder kill messages.
Looks like a nice clean API that has some nice message passing structure in it. I also kind of like the magic dealing with auto-resolving dependencies and starting programs in parallel if possible.
From the sound of it, it just seems cleaner in the back-end. Much less knowing specific Unix tricks or gotchas, and more of it just working and giving you the proper interfaces.
Well, that matters on how you're using the spreadsheet.
Also, if you're doing it by hand, how would that stop that error from propogating on down. I remember when I used to do tons of basic math by hand, little errors would still propagate through. At least with a spreadsheet, you can program in some error-checking logic.
With a spreadsheet it's a lot easier to get the same answer multiple times rather than doing it by hand each time.
There's nothing inherently evil with electronic spreadsheets. We had been using paper ones forever before then, and they had the same (and in many cases, worse) problems.
Exactly. There were most likely more errors of this type before the spreadsheet came to be. You read the article, and this guy is on some weird, stupid war against spreadsheets. The article, and the paper he wrote about spreadsheets is pure drivel, and horribly slanted. Not a study at all. He can't even suggest a viable alternative.
That's assuming that time stands still when it's sunny.......
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Surprisingly, a lot of criminals get caught that way. It's a pretty big hassle to make sure that everything is 100% encrypted, secure, etc. Most of them slip up once, and then it's all over.
Technology is going to progress, and by 2015 we'll have neat stuff, and by 2215 we'll have even neater stuff. End of story. It's not tied to Google or MS or anything else. It's tech.
Anyone theorizing about stuff now might as well go make their "predictions list" along with all the other Nostradmus' and people talking about flying cars.
Yes, but that would not be an update, but rather a fresh installation of the newere version, regardless of whether it kept your settings or not.
There's a subtle difference. One is just updating files, and the other is a complete re-install. It's slightly misleading to say "we're updating your software". They should say "an updated version has come out, click here to install it".
That said, they do need to fix it. Pretty much all applications can do this properly, and firefox should be able to also.
To tell you the truth, I'm kind of a mix between the two. I really think that podcasts are going down the right trail.
I used to manage all my music, scour for people I liked, and snatch up every song that I liked. I meticulously organized it, and spent quite a bit of time figuring out what I wanted to listen to, creating playlists, etc.
Then I got burnt out. I started listening to the radio a lot more often. I just wanted to listen to music. I didn't want all the hassle. That's why I'm now a Sirius satellite guy. I listen to their webstream, grab it and stick it on a portable player, or pick and choose some songs out of it that I personally want. Those, I go buy from iTunes.
Really, I just want music that I like. I also want my collection, so when I really want to hear something I can. Napster doesn't really meet either of those, but I can see how it would be appealing to people who would otherwise have thousands of cds. I just want music, and the flexibility to own some if I want it!
Um, how do you see IBM having more power than Linus? He created the thing, and people love him. IBM could start their own branch, but you'll still have Linus'.
Anyone want to guess which branch would be more popular?
I actually find it humorous to watch so called "experts" in science change their theories of "pre-historic" events to suit every new finding that doesn't match with their previous theory.
I'm sorry, but you're credibility about loving science went right out the window with that one. No one loves science, but then laughs when new evidence is brought to light. When that happens, people who love science are ecstatic, they're curious, they're intrigued, they're motivated. Least of all are they humored.
Science is the process of stumbling around in the dark, and documenting and interpreting what you find. There's almost never any guarantee that what we currently know is right. The same could be said about religious beliefs.
Seriously, the nanode is almost exactly the mac-mini. If only via had been able to produce the board on-time, it would have been first to market. Now it's going to be a couple of months behind.
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Actually seems like a decent article and study. I would believe 99%, and he goes on to say that there are tons of legitimate uses.
Especially in the top 60 channels. You aren't going to have hundreds of people in most of the chat channels because it's hard to chat with that many people! But you are in the warez channel since you need that many to be able to find any files!
Seems about right to me.
Stay there for a couple of years, learn one hell of a lot and get a ton of skills. Then leave. Think of it as investing in your future. Learning a lot now so that you can score that big job down the road.
Exactly. I mean, are ads really that bad? Most sites might have a banner ad at the top and then a couple down the sides of the article. A very small price to pay for free news.
I also like smaller sites supported by ads -- without the ads they might otherwise not be there.
I'll take a moderate amount of ads with my internet over an internet with no ads and less content any day.
I do block flash though -- I don't want ads playing music or anything like that.
No, the best solution they have come up with for disposal is breeder reactors.
Really, anything that's highly, or even mildly radioactive can be used in a nuclear plant if the plant is designed properly. Modern breader reactors only put out ~70 different types of radioactive isotopes (as opposed to the thousands that older ones do), and the longest half-life of the waste is 150 years. Waste isn't a problem with modern reactors.
However, the problem still is the fact that they make great tragets. Huge PR if one of those got hit. Most new reactors are extremely safe though, and don't have the problems associated with older ones.
Do a google for breeder reactors and the IFR.
In the past, people never got fired for buying IBM. Same goes for Microsoft and Intel and Oracle. That simple attitude is a cash cow. They could count on a decent chunk of money every quarter that they didn't really have to work for. That's a cash cow -- money rolling in just because you're there.
I can see it starting to happen with AMD in certain arenas. It might not be some huge cash cow like MS Office is to Microsoft, but there's a growing segment out there who thinks that AMD gives you the most bang for the buck. Once that attitude filters into corporate hierarchy, they get to sit back and reap the benefits. Hopefully they'll continue to innovate once this happens.
That's something they have to be pretty agressive about. They're starting to get a really good name among the PHB's and average joe's. So, they have to really fight to keep their reputation growing. Their new reputation is almost to the point where it's a selling point. They just need to keep it there, and then they have a cash cow.
Yes, I have lived much longer than 6 months without seeing a new movie. In fact, I did it quite often while I was poor and in college.
That's not to say that I didn't download stuff. I sure as hell did. Did I feel bad about it, kind of, but I was tight as hell on money, and I would never have bought that stuff ever. I just didn't have the means to do it back then.
But now, whenever I'm at a store or something and see a DVD that I had fond memories of watching the downloaded version, I buy it. Simple as that. Now I have money, so I buy them. In the long-term, I didn't deprive anyone of money. In fact, there were many movies that I discovered when downloaded, which I have now bought.
The only reason that current satellite internet is slower (latency wise) than wiredi nternet, is that it physically takes the light a full half second to go up and back down, and then you have your tradition routing delays. This would cut that down by an order of magnitude, and therefore would be a viable alternative to the standard wires.
Also, any cost is going to be an order of magnitude lower than what it would be for a satellite system, and those are still in business.
I'm not saying that this is going to be a spectacular success, but it seems to be a good solution to many of the current problems.
Yes, I did do that and am not vulnerable. Most likely because of the way that I have my firefox settings set.
Strike another win for software diversity limiting the effectiveness of exploits. Enough slightly different programs and settings, and many exploits won't work. Just witness all the Windows bugs, and how some of them only work on ~50% of the computers they infect, because the owner altered some of the default settings.
No, it's still impervious, the exploit didn't work on my system. Sorry, OSS still has a 100% perfect, virignal, like freshly-fallen snow track record./sarcasm
No one ever said any of those things, and I doubt that anyone believes them, so get off your high-horse.
Have you ever thought that it was an advertising salesman telling you to buy more ads? Not exactly unbiased.
I'm still of the belief that one good ad with good impact is better than many little ones. I notice that clever ad I may have only seen once or twice, but I couldn't tell you anything about the latest swiffer sweeper product or whatever else they advertise.
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Dragonfly BSd and the others have a pretty good system with the RCNG. It has a lot of the features that Apple's version has. I wish the more Linux distros had that type of thing integrated. It looks like Apple's might be more comprehensive in that it encapsulates user scripts and user-specific items, and does them right. I'm not a big RCNG guy, so I don't know if it also does that and has all the messaging functions.
yea, it really seems to clean up a lot of things. Like being able to tell that the service or process shutdown, instead of just sending bigger and badder kill messages.
Looks like a nice clean API that has some nice message passing structure in it. I also kind of like the magic dealing with auto-resolving dependencies and starting programs in parallel if possible.
From the sound of it, it just seems cleaner in the back-end. Much less knowing specific Unix tricks or gotchas, and more of it just working and giving you the proper interfaces.
Well, that matters on how you're using the spreadsheet.
Also, if you're doing it by hand, how would that stop that error from propogating on down. I remember when I used to do tons of basic math by hand, little errors would still propagate through. At least with a spreadsheet, you can program in some error-checking logic.
With a spreadsheet it's a lot easier to get the same answer multiple times rather than doing it by hand each time.
There's nothing inherently evil with electronic spreadsheets. We had been using paper ones forever before then, and they had the same (and in many cases, worse) problems.
Exactly. There were most likely more errors of this type before the spreadsheet came to be. You read the article, and this guy is on some weird, stupid war against spreadsheets. The article, and the paper he wrote about spreadsheets is pure drivel, and horribly slanted. Not a study at all. He can't even suggest a viable alternative.
That's assuming that time stands still when it's sunny.......
Surprisingly, a lot of criminals get caught that way. It's a pretty big hassle to make sure that everything is 100% encrypted, secure, etc. Most of them slip up once, and then it's all over.
What will they look like? I really don't care.
Technology is going to progress, and by 2015 we'll have neat stuff, and by 2215 we'll have even neater stuff. End of story. It's not tied to Google or MS or anything else. It's tech.
Anyone theorizing about stuff now might as well go make their "predictions list" along with all the other Nostradmus' and people talking about flying cars.
Yes, but that would not be an update, but rather a fresh installation of the newere version, regardless of whether it kept your settings or not. There's a subtle difference. One is just updating files, and the other is a complete re-install. It's slightly misleading to say "we're updating your software". They should say "an updated version has come out, click here to install it". That said, they do need to fix it. Pretty much all applications can do this properly, and firefox should be able to also.
To tell you the truth, I'm kind of a mix between the two. I really think that podcasts are going down the right trail.
I used to manage all my music, scour for people I liked, and snatch up every song that I liked. I meticulously organized it, and spent quite a bit of time figuring out what I wanted to listen to, creating playlists, etc.
Then I got burnt out. I started listening to the radio a lot more often. I just wanted to listen to music. I didn't want all the hassle. That's why I'm now a Sirius satellite guy. I listen to their webstream, grab it and stick it on a portable player, or pick and choose some songs out of it that I personally want. Those, I go buy from iTunes.
Really, I just want music that I like. I also want my collection, so when I really want to hear something I can. Napster doesn't really meet either of those, but I can see how it would be appealing to people who would otherwise have thousands of cds. I just want music, and the flexibility to own some if I want it!
Why is it hard to support them when they're in the middle of a hugely successful Mars mission?
No one outside the community even noticed this until recently, and in the end it really made no difference. So where's the beef?
Um, how do you see IBM having more power than Linus? He created the thing, and people love him. IBM could start their own branch, but you'll still have Linus'.
Anyone want to guess which branch would be more popular?
I actually find it humorous to watch so called "experts" in science change their theories of "pre-historic" events to suit every new finding that doesn't match with their previous theory.
I'm sorry, but you're credibility about loving science went right out the window with that one. No one loves science, but then laughs when new evidence is brought to light. When that happens, people who love science are ecstatic, they're curious, they're intrigued, they're motivated. Least of all are they humored.
Science is the process of stumbling around in the dark, and documenting and interpreting what you find. There's almost never any guarantee that what we currently know is right. The same could be said about religious beliefs.
Seriously, the nanode is almost exactly the mac-mini. If only via had been able to produce the board on-time, it would have been first to market. Now it's going to be a couple of months behind.
Actually seems like a decent article and study. I would believe 99%, and he goes on to say that there are tons of legitimate uses. Especially in the top 60 channels. You aren't going to have hundreds of people in most of the chat channels because it's hard to chat with that many people! But you are in the warez channel since you need that many to be able to find any files! Seems about right to me.
Stay there for a couple of years, learn one hell of a lot and get a ton of skills. Then leave. Think of it as investing in your future. Learning a lot now so that you can score that big job down the road.
Exactly. I mean, are ads really that bad? Most sites might have a banner ad at the top and then a couple down the sides of the article. A very small price to pay for free news. I also like smaller sites supported by ads -- without the ads they might otherwise not be there. I'll take a moderate amount of ads with my internet over an internet with no ads and less content any day. I do block flash though -- I don't want ads playing music or anything like that.
No, the best solution they have come up with for disposal is breeder reactors. Really, anything that's highly, or even mildly radioactive can be used in a nuclear plant if the plant is designed properly. Modern breader reactors only put out ~70 different types of radioactive isotopes (as opposed to the thousands that older ones do), and the longest half-life of the waste is 150 years. Waste isn't a problem with modern reactors. However, the problem still is the fact that they make great tragets. Huge PR if one of those got hit. Most new reactors are extremely safe though, and don't have the problems associated with older ones. Do a google for breeder reactors and the IFR.
eh, because they're bastards.
In the past, people never got fired for buying IBM. Same goes for Microsoft and Intel and Oracle. That simple attitude is a cash cow. They could count on a decent chunk of money every quarter that they didn't really have to work for. That's a cash cow -- money rolling in just because you're there.
I can see it starting to happen with AMD in certain arenas. It might not be some huge cash cow like MS Office is to Microsoft, but there's a growing segment out there who thinks that AMD gives you the most bang for the buck. Once that attitude filters into corporate hierarchy, they get to sit back and reap the benefits. Hopefully they'll continue to innovate once this happens.
That's something they have to be pretty agressive about. They're starting to get a really good name among the PHB's and average joe's. So, they have to really fight to keep their reputation growing. Their new reputation is almost to the point where it's a selling point. They just need to keep it there, and then they have a cash cow.
Yes, I have lived much longer than 6 months without seeing a new movie. In fact, I did it quite often while I was poor and in college. That's not to say that I didn't download stuff. I sure as hell did. Did I feel bad about it, kind of, but I was tight as hell on money, and I would never have bought that stuff ever. I just didn't have the means to do it back then. But now, whenever I'm at a store or something and see a DVD that I had fond memories of watching the downloaded version, I buy it. Simple as that. Now I have money, so I buy them. In the long-term, I didn't deprive anyone of money. In fact, there were many movies that I discovered when downloaded, which I have now bought.
The only reason that current satellite internet is slower (latency wise) than wiredi nternet, is that it physically takes the light a full half second to go up and back down, and then you have your tradition routing delays. This would cut that down by an order of magnitude, and therefore would be a viable alternative to the standard wires. Also, any cost is going to be an order of magnitude lower than what it would be for a satellite system, and those are still in business. I'm not saying that this is going to be a spectacular success, but it seems to be a good solution to many of the current problems.
Yes, I did do that and am not vulnerable. Most likely because of the way that I have my firefox settings set.
Strike another win for software diversity limiting the effectiveness of exploits. Enough slightly different programs and settings, and many exploits won't work. Just witness all the Windows bugs, and how some of them only work on ~50% of the computers they infect, because the owner altered some of the default settings.
No, it's still impervious, the exploit didn't work on my system. Sorry, OSS still has a 100% perfect, virignal, like freshly-fallen snow track record. /sarcasm
No one ever said any of those things, and I doubt that anyone believes them, so get off your high-horse.
Have you ever thought that it was an advertising salesman telling you to buy more ads? Not exactly unbiased.
I'm still of the belief that one good ad with good impact is better than many little ones. I notice that clever ad I may have only seen once or twice, but I couldn't tell you anything about the latest swiffer sweeper product or whatever else they advertise.