Email isn't in plain sight, its private communication. Warrants are required to open snail mail. You think they are going to get warrants every time they want to do broad analysis, or continue to break the wiretapping laws?
If your company specializes in one type of software, then standardizing would probably work out ok if you choose the best language to suit it.
If your company has a lot of variety in what you do, then stardardizing is a bad idea. Each language has strengths and weaknesses. To ignore the weaknesses of a language and force it into a situation is usually possible, but not very efficient.
Would you use php to program an office suite? Would you use c++ for a simple web-script? Don't fall for Sun's PR and try to use java for every situation, unless you only program for 1 kind of situation.
Firefox and its plugins have serious memory leakage issues in linux. Last night with only 8 tabs open, I left firefox running overnight. 12 hours later I return to find firefox eating 980 Megs of memory. Thats right, a freaking gigabyte of memory.
I blame flash, but each new firefox version has gotten progressively worse in its memory usage.
There are also scary things that you can do with digital film to discourage piracy, such as watermarking films by theater, date, and time.
Watermarking is being done with analog film right now, and has been going on for the past year or so.
If you look at a modern digital film, such as Spiderman 2, you'll occasionally see some dots along the bottom of the screen.
Correct, and the same is done with analog but the dots are in a pattern across the screen.
police can track down which group of people saw the movie, and if you paid in advance or with a credit card, they know who was there
Thankfully, you are very wrong. Certainly the police won't be tracking anything. The MPAA can look at copies downloaded, and track it to the theater. Theaters absolutely will not, (and more importantly have no ability to) give up patron credit card information regarding particular shows. The digital cinema systems do not imprint a unique id code per screening of the film. Theater POS and backend office software do not effectively track credit card purchases by showing. What will happen is the MPAA may discover that a film was copied at a certain theater, and inform the management, perhaps offering lots of helpful pamphlets to give to employees to train them on how to catch pirates.
I know this because I'm the chief systems administrator and part of the upper management of a theater chain, and the person responsible for evaluating the software systems we use, and dealing with technical discussions with other companies / organizations. Believe me, if what you said was true, I would know the precise details of how it works.
Yes and no. The problem with distribution is, it costs a couple of thousand dollars to produce 1 copy of a film at a film lab. So, in order to minimize the costs, companies will only make a certain number of prints, and then ship them around. Now, person X at the far end of the country, or another country, cannot go to the movies to go see it. Its simply not available in that region yet. But, he can buy a copy on the street corner because the organized criminals are using digital transfers.
Simply, organized crime is beating Bollywood and Hollywood, because they have a faster distribution model and this cuts into profits.
If it was a digital distribution, there is no delay in shipping, or limits to how many theaters can play the movie at one time. Now instead of "See lowsy street corner quality" or "Not see the movie at all", it will be a choice between "See lowsy version" or "See decent version on the big screen".
So the shift to D cinema is not trying to eliminate piracy, its an attempt to catch up with Organized crimes better, cheaper, faster distribution model.
A 1.5MW windmill is massive. You have never seen a 10MW wind turbine, none exist. The largest (larger than the statue of liberty) generate 4.5MW. You are probably thinking 10kW. 150kW is a LOT of power from wind or solar. There is simply no way a system that could fit into a shipping container could generate that kind of power unless it includes a large diesel generator.
This guy is not harnless, he causes economic damage to the nation. Those are real-world consequences of having to divert resources that could be used to help businesses grow, into fighting spam. Setting up spam filters costs money, having workers delete dozens of junkmails daily costs money, downloading hundreds of gigs of junk costs money. Whether you like it or not, this guy causes real problems.
Most small businesses fail. Whether its software or brick-n-mortar, the simple fact is that most business ventures simply don't work out. Venture capitalists are not going to take extra risks to support Open Source companies versus any other small business, especially when the business model is so new.
I'm a long term linux user. I have definitely encountered dependency hell.
I started with linux 8 years ago and setup a slackware box. I didn't know anything, and ended up fubarring the system after about a year of installing new software on a regular basis. I tried Red Hat for a while 6+ years ago, and it ended in complete dependency hell. I despise RPM's to this day, despite any software progress, my hate still burns.
I tried Debian for several years, and I had dependency problems from time to time, but never had system meltdowns from it.
I've been on gentoo for a couple years now, and had some issues, but far less than even the debian install.
Basically, as each version of distro adapts and gets more mature, the dependency issues have lessened. You could say that its because I've learned a lot about proper administration, or you could say its the software. I tend to think the various distros are learning better ways to resolve issues.
Beyond using its own MTA (postfix), the problem for larger sites is that each box is expected to stand alone. There is no way to have webservers, mailservers and database on seperate boxes.
Otherwise, its a very slick (and bandwith intensive) webmail client. I would implement it if it had a smaller client d/l.
Instead of working on something completely unrelated to your life, why not work with what you love? In my case, I like computers, I enjoy spending time on computers, and thus I enjoy my job which involves computers.
If you love bicycles, work at a bike shop, if you love guns, join the army or be an arms dealer.
If you hate computers and don't want to ever deal with them at home, then find a different job.
Well, you could call it a "problem", but the name "Digital Dark Age" is a bit alarmist. Not all information survives, and it never has. We have at the absolute most, 1% of the documents from 100 years ago, and in a hundred years, due to digital archiving etc, we'll probably have 5% of todays docs. Sure you can bemoan the loss of 95% of data, but you'd be ignoring the 500% increase in how much we've saved.
The numbers are of course all made up, but the point remains valid.
This technology has been feasible for many many years for the Pentagon. Do you really think 2 guys with a $100 budget discovered something the Pentagon with hundreds of billions of research dollars missed?
The reason silver is being used is because silver works great as an anti-microbial agent. Thats why water filters used to have silver in them. Various waterborne pathogens die after coming into contact with silver. The unfortunate side effect is that some of the silver might get into your water, and ingesting silver is bad for your health.
You might find it interesting that as an IT guy, I'm the one responsible for maintaining the server which tells the A/C repair guy when an A/C unit is failing.
We have an automated system across 6 buildings which communicates to a server all of the relevant information on how well the A/C units are functioning.
If that server goes down, suddenly the "person who makes sure the air conditioner is working correctly" can't do his job properly, and we would need to hire 2 more people to make up for the additional difficulties in error reporting between "its hot in here", and "widget #85 on unit #4A has failed and needs replacing".
You're missing an important distinction. They didnt have servers fail and not be able to pay bills for one day. They slowly went bankrupt until the day arrived that they could no longer pay their bills.
Sometimes the clients are dead-set on having a certain look, or certain functionality on their website. You can say, "This doesnt work in all browsers" but the answer is usually "make it work", rather than "keep it compliant to these sets of rules that dont reflect customer reality".
So, to get identical look and functionality across multiple browsers, some code substitution is needed. For my site, I had to put in 3 different chunks of code depending on whether browser is IE 5, 5.5, or 6, because each one measures space differently. Am I going to spend another hour trying to setup special if clauses to see if Opera is spoofing as IE? Nope, sorry. Better for Opera to just be standards compliant and get the base html rather than also add-in whatever wierd IE markups are needed to work properly.
Huh? Please explain what you think Google's strong point is. Please tell me what Google's main focus is since you claim it isn't indexing and searching information.
I looked at your post history, and none seem modded improperly. Maybe your posts get modded trolls because you are a troll? Posts which exist to call people sphincter breath, and to try to join your goofy ass psp pyramid scheme are not useful.
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I've personally never bought or been influenced by an add on a TV or radio.
Sorry to break it to you, but advertising influences you, whether you want it to or not, and whether you think it does or not.
Email isn't in plain sight, its private communication. Warrants are required to open snail mail. You think they are going to get warrants every time they want to do broad analysis, or continue to break the wiretapping laws?
If your company specializes in one type of software, then standardizing would probably work out ok if you choose the best language to suit it.
If your company has a lot of variety in what you do, then stardardizing is a bad idea. Each language has strengths and weaknesses. To ignore the weaknesses of a language and force it into a situation is usually possible, but not very efficient.
Would you use php to program an office suite? Would you use c++ for a simple web-script? Don't fall for Sun's PR and try to use java for every situation, unless you only program for 1 kind of situation.
Firefox and its plugins have serious memory leakage issues in linux. Last night with only 8 tabs open, I left firefox running overnight. 12 hours later I return to find firefox eating 980 Megs of memory. Thats right, a freaking gigabyte of memory.
I blame flash, but each new firefox version has gotten progressively worse in its memory usage.
Some clarificiations...
There are also scary things that you can do with digital film to discourage piracy, such as watermarking films by theater, date, and time.
Watermarking is being done with analog film right now, and has been going on for the past year or so.
If you look at a modern digital film, such as Spiderman 2, you'll occasionally see some dots along the bottom of the screen.
Correct, and the same is done with analog but the dots are in a pattern across the screen.
police can track down which group of people saw the movie, and if you paid in advance or with a credit card, they know who was there
Thankfully, you are very wrong. Certainly the police won't be tracking anything. The MPAA can look at copies downloaded, and track it to the theater. Theaters absolutely will not, (and more importantly have no ability to) give up patron credit card information regarding particular shows. The digital cinema systems do not imprint a unique id code per screening of the film. Theater POS and backend office software do not effectively track credit card purchases by showing. What will happen is the MPAA may discover that a film was copied at a certain theater, and inform the management, perhaps offering lots of helpful pamphlets to give to employees to train them on how to catch pirates.
I know this because I'm the chief systems administrator and part of the upper management of a theater chain, and the person responsible for evaluating the software systems we use, and dealing with technical discussions with other companies / organizations. Believe me, if what you said was true, I would know the precise details of how it works.
Yes and no. The problem with distribution is, it costs a couple of thousand dollars to produce 1 copy of a film at a film lab. So, in order to minimize the costs, companies will only make a certain number of prints, and then ship them around. Now, person X at the far end of the country, or another country, cannot go to the movies to go see it. Its simply not available in that region yet. But, he can buy a copy on the street corner because the organized criminals are using digital transfers.
Simply, organized crime is beating Bollywood and Hollywood, because they have a faster distribution model and this cuts into profits.
If it was a digital distribution, there is no delay in shipping, or limits to how many theaters can play the movie at one time. Now instead of "See lowsy street corner quality" or "Not see the movie at all", it will be a choice between "See lowsy version" or "See decent version on the big screen".
So the shift to D cinema is not trying to eliminate piracy, its an attempt to catch up with Organized crimes better, cheaper, faster distribution model.
A 1.5MW windmill is massive. You have never seen a 10MW wind turbine, none exist. The largest (larger than the statue of liberty) generate 4.5MW. You are probably thinking 10kW. 150kW is a LOT of power from wind or solar. There is simply no way a system that could fit into a shipping container could generate that kind of power unless it includes a large diesel generator.
This guy is not harnless, he causes economic damage to the nation. Those are real-world consequences of having to divert resources that could be used to help businesses grow, into fighting spam. Setting up spam filters costs money, having workers delete dozens of junkmails daily costs money, downloading hundreds of gigs of junk costs money. Whether you like it or not, this guy causes real problems.
Yes.. your British based magazine likes wierd British food. The number one restaurant in the world (according to them) serves:
delicacies such as snail porridge, mussels in popcorn sauce, and bacon and egg ice cream.
I have serious doubts about the judgement of anybody who chooses that as the best food in the world.
Most small businesses fail. Whether its software or brick-n-mortar, the simple fact is that most business ventures simply don't work out. Venture capitalists are not going to take extra risks to support Open Source companies versus any other small business, especially when the business model is so new.
I'm a long term linux user.
I have definitely encountered dependency hell.
I started with linux 8 years ago and setup a slackware box. I didn't know anything, and ended up fubarring the system after about a year of installing new software on a regular basis. I tried Red Hat for a while 6+ years ago, and it ended in complete dependency hell. I despise RPM's to this day, despite any software progress, my hate still burns.
I tried Debian for several years, and I had dependency problems from time to time, but never had system meltdowns from it.
I've been on gentoo for a couple years now, and had some issues, but far less than even the debian install.
Basically, as each version of distro adapts and gets more mature, the dependency issues have lessened. You could say that its because I've learned a lot about proper administration, or you could say its the software. I tend to think the various distros are learning better ways to resolve issues.
Beyond using its own MTA (postfix), the problem for larger sites is that each box is expected to stand alone. There is no way to have webservers, mailservers and database on seperate boxes.
Otherwise, its a very slick (and bandwith intensive) webmail client. I would implement it if it had a smaller client d/l.
Instead of working on something completely unrelated to your life, why not work with what you love? In my case, I like computers, I enjoy spending time on computers, and thus I enjoy my job which involves computers.
If you love bicycles, work at a bike shop, if you love guns, join the army or be an arms dealer.
If you hate computers and don't want to ever deal with them at home, then find a different job.
Well, you could call it a "problem", but the name "Digital Dark Age" is a bit alarmist. Not all information survives, and it never has. We have at the absolute most, 1% of the documents from 100 years ago, and in a hundred years, due to digital archiving etc, we'll probably have 5% of todays docs. Sure you can bemoan the loss of 95% of data, but you'd be ignoring the 500% increase in how much we've saved.
The numbers are of course all made up, but the point remains valid.
Friendly fire can be a real bummer.
This technology has been feasible for many many years for the Pentagon. Do you really think 2 guys with a $100 budget discovered something the Pentagon with hundreds of billions of research dollars missed?
You're right, the Gimp doesn't have very strong text manipulation. What I do is run both Gimp and Inkscape. Inkscape is wonderful for text.
Are you aware that the #1 cause of accidents in my state is people that drive too slow?
The reason silver is being used is because silver works great as an anti-microbial agent. Thats why water filters used to have silver in them. Various waterborne pathogens die after coming into contact with silver. The unfortunate side effect is that some of the silver might get into your water, and ingesting silver is bad for your health.
You might find it interesting that as an IT guy, I'm the one responsible for maintaining the server which tells the A/C repair guy when an A/C unit is failing.
We have an automated system across 6 buildings which communicates to a server all of the relevant information on how well the A/C units are functioning.
If that server goes down, suddenly the "person who makes sure the air conditioner is working correctly" can't do his job properly, and we would need to hire 2 more people to make up for the additional difficulties in error reporting between "its hot in here", and "widget #85 on unit #4A has failed and needs replacing".
You're missing an important distinction. They didnt have servers fail and not be able to pay bills for one day. They slowly went bankrupt until the day arrived that they could no longer pay their bills.
Sometimes the clients are dead-set on having a certain look, or certain functionality on their website. You can say, "This doesnt work in all browsers" but the answer is usually "make it work", rather than "keep it compliant to these sets of rules that dont reflect customer reality".
So, to get identical look and functionality across multiple browsers, some code substitution is needed. For my site, I had to put in 3 different chunks of code depending on whether browser is IE 5, 5.5, or 6, because each one measures space differently. Am I going to spend another hour trying to setup special if clauses to see if Opera is spoofing as IE? Nope, sorry. Better for Opera to just be standards compliant and get the base html rather than also add-in whatever wierd IE markups are needed to work properly.
And how exactly will the govt recognize which sites are which unless they are notified? Have 5,000 official porn-surfers hunting new porn?
Keep in mind that people pay with their credit cards every single day for illegal drugs, illegal software, and yes, illegal porn.
Just because a transaction takes place via credit card doesn't make it easy to trace. There are BILLIONS of cc transactions a day.
I dont know how happy the boss would be that you made the whole office collaborate on a machine that encourages the workers to sit around watching TV.
Search isn't Google's strong point anymore.
Huh? Please explain what you think Google's strong point is. Please tell me what Google's main focus is since you claim it isn't indexing and searching information.
I looked at your post history, and none seem modded improperly. Maybe your posts get modded trolls because you are a troll? Posts which exist to call people sphincter breath, and to try to join your goofy ass psp pyramid scheme are not useful.
You sir, are a troll.