Well it might be ancient but the sad thing is that it's still relevant and I would even say more so than it was before. The mere fact that debian and ubuntu are seperate distros when if fact they are so much alike is a proof to the relevancy of the article. And both distros are actually key players in the community. Time to wise up and stop wasting resources.
This Ubuntu is the best OS ever shit is really starting to get on my nerves. First of all even in the Linux world Gnome is inferior to KDE and 2nd linux and the OSS world still seem to lack the reliability of some of the programs available for Windows and Mac OS. Sorry but there is still no substitute for MS office and if you think otherwise you are either using under 10% of your office software or are full of s***. I am a *nix supporter and I have tried to even convert friends to it but you can't really do that when Ooo takes 5 times longer to draw a chart and when Ooo is still stuck at the level of office 97. My friends compare Ooo with Office 07 and I gotta admit 07 wins on pretty much every aspect. Not to mention the level of integration that some software companies have achieved within their own software suits... There isn't a singe software package that can replace any of the Adobe products ( except for Acrobat reader ).
What most linux bigots forget is that people are mostly stuck using Windows not because of the OS itself but because of the software that exists for Windows. Until you get the vendors to start offering the same products for linux, the OS stands absolutely no fighting change. Even Apple knows that. And this has really nothing to do with gaming and such. The fact that many people are willing to pay a pretty hefty sum of money for a Mac rather than installing linux should scream for itself. Yes Canonical has done a lot of good for the linux community but they are still missing the point.
FUI i am a linux user for about 10 years now and I have a pretty good overview of where linux was and where it is now.
there is a statistical formula that they use. What the Carnegie Melon study is trying to prove is that the data being plugged in the formula is wrong or the formula needs to be adjusted so that it takes into account other parameters as well.
ok first of all this is NOT propaganda and it IS very real. Do you think that the government along with MS and Sun would decide to move away from sha-1 if the was a chance for any of this to be a hoax? I know that this is a very circumstantial argument but if you want to know exactly how she did it all her research is published or is waiting to be released and you or anyone else is more than welcome to find a flaw in it.
However, the article is very misleading because it implies that the internet is in some kind of imminent danger of destruction when in fact there is no such thing. The only thing is that if you piss off some REALLY smart cracker he/she can steal and read your information even if it's encrypted with SHA-1. There is a substantial part of the decryption process that has to be done by hand and involves a serious amount of decision making that CANNOT be done by a computer yet. So you can sleep well tonight... noone will get to your bank account just yet.
I'm sorry but x86 has very little to do the the PC architecture and also there is no such thing as PC architecture. PC = personal computer and long gone are the days of the mainframes. I guess you ment IBM PC but even in that case the x86 is somewhat different. And as far as the RISC question goes, it's pretty simple. No Desktop OS and hence no general acceptance. And before anyone starts with the Linux argument... Linux has no real power on the market. The sad and ugly truth is that Linux does not sell computers and there is noone that can turn that bad rep around. At least not yet. And keep in mind that reputation is not always based on facts and figures.
because the spell checker is about the coolest new addition that I have seen in a browser. It nice to see innovation constantly flowing out of an OSS project. Way to go Mozilla!
so you were stupid enough to sell your company for a lower price than you should have... big deal... how is that criminal ( unless you view stupidity as a criminal act )? Plus there is the factor of News Corp. investing a huge amount of money which the previous owners obviously did not have in order to continue the huge growth of MySpace.
Actually, NO this is not what the cold war or capitalism is all about. There are limitations and this exactly why we have laws. It might come as a surprise to you but every western ( and I'm pretty sure most other ) country has corporate laws that put quite strict limitations to what is allowed in order to make profit. Did you forget Enron so fast? Or maybe Martha Stewart?
Overall this article lives in the realm of sensationalism. What it means to say is that most companies could do more in order to protect your privacy but they don't because there is no money to be made of it. This does not mean that your privacy is in any eminent dager and I'm sorry but this is pretty much business as usual. Yes the privacy protection mechanisms are not the best possible but in pretty much all cases are adequate. The article is dead wrong on one point though. Most companies do not say that privacy is key for their business because you are more likelly to come back but because the aspect has become a prerequisite for the 1st purchase that you make. This applies to Internet sales especially.
well first of all your job is NOT to supervise the learning process at the school. So if the professor doesn't care if the students attend then you shouldn't either. A lot of profs have an attendance policy and those who don't know exactly why. Sorry to break it to you but you are just technical help and NOT a policy maker.
well like the article says... nothing much. Although a media pc would be great if you would like to get the best quality possible out of the slowly dieing format. That is with all digital setup and such. Although I would still go for an upsampling dvd player that is in the $150 - 250 range over a media pc. The size is better and the price as well.
Wow... did your parents beat you up when you were a kid? You mu friend have some serious issues and while letting your kid do whatever he'she wants won't solve them, there are some pretty good doctors that can. Anyway, this "invention" is about the dumbest way to spend money. If you really have to track your kid then you've missed out on some quality parent-child time. Yes, you do have to set limits for your children and teach them about honesty, responcibility, respect, and the likes but playing The Man with them is the fastest way to loose your parental respect. ( but them you already have ) Oh and 18 is really not the age that people reach maturity. For different people comes at a different time and this is why parents should be careful even after 18. Also parenting should not and does not mean guarding or stalking or spying. But then if you are really a parent you should know that ( or maybe you forgot too fast what it was to be a kid ).
Well I suppose SG-1 was getting old. Although why would you introduce a new vilain if you are tiried of the show? Anyway, hope they are not counting on Galactica alone to boost their ratings.
I suppose you haven't heard about BSD licencing. There are a great many projects under in out there and frankly I haven't seen any one of them that has been taken over because of the "crappy" licencing that they use. As far as GPL goes... well in order to make the military give you the source code that they've added to a gpl project you need to know that the changes exist. I don't know about you but most civilians and pretty much ALL OSS developers have never even seen a DoD or any military computer.
wait... I'm supposed to use OSS only to make Microsoft and the likes work harder? If an OSS project is better than a commercial counter part then isn't this reason enough?
This is kind old ( over a week now ) and the router is really not that great. The BT client is very buggy and have extremely limited capabilities compared to clients like Azureus. It is a great concept though even if it's a very pricy router. Embeded applications are slowly gaining momentum and this makes me a happy camper.
Dude first of all you have totally missed the point of the patent. Amazon is ALREADY collecting information about their users as are ALL online retailers. Your creditcard and your bank probably do the same thing so get over it, your privacy DOES NOT EXIST. The big thing here is that while Amazon used to provide everyone with a nice API to use their system and get information, now they are probably going to start charging people for the right to use the API in custom applications and Amazon's ideas would also be protected. They should've done this a long time ago if you ask me.
And as far as using Amazon goes, you could even walk to work for all I care. I use Amazon and will continue doing it because it's convinient and in most cases cheaper than retail stores ( especially the local bookstores ). Plus I also don't pay tax and get free shipping every time I order.
man I feel monkeys flying out of my a**. Never thought I'd see the day that GnuCash 2.0 gets released ( after being stuck at 1.8 for years )...
It's a great program though and a welcome adition to my system.
Kick the habit???... I have hardly ever seen anyone that stopped playing MMORGs. It was EverQuest at first and then they switch over to something else and now most are playing WoW. Plus the whole premice of WoW is that you can play it forever. The development never stops and with incremental upgrades of the engine there is no reason why it wouldn't last for quite a while.
As far as the game sales go... well they are not that much down. You do spend less on games but the problem is that if you don't play MMORGs then you are likely to play several games and your money gets distributed amond several companies and quite a few titles. When you play a MMORG you don't really have time to play other games. Also all of your money goes in the same company as you end up paying for a subscription. The new games that come out really mean nothing to you. And in general it hurts the gaming industry as inovation and variety gets slowly killed off.
Man if you had 2 reps hang up on you then you are either trying really hard to convince them of something that even you are not sure of or you desperatelly need to work on your people skills. Anyway, like several people said it is very hard to clone a gsm phone and this is most likelly not the case. Make sure that you can really trust that your partner did not make those calls before blaming them on some insane idea like cloning. Also when you talk to the reps it usually works best if you restrain yourself from trying to tell them what to do. Yes there are some morons working as reps but most know what they are doing pretty well and would help you.
Also if it does turn out that someone else is using your account then the reps will know exactly what to do and they might also help you get you rmoney and minutes back. But like I said good people skills is the key...
Yes caller id blocking is only so that you the end user cannot see who's calling you but the point was that the guy went to the store and was pissed off that the people there couldn't help him. Those people really have no access to the caller ids and they really cannot do much as to finding your phone if it gets lost.
Scheme ??? rolf dude how is it that there is always someone like you to turn a discussion on driver quality to a this vs. that programming language?
[quote]I am slowly convinced, that any larger piece of C(++)-Code which handles strings, has in fact at least one Buffer overflow.[/quote]
PROVE IT!!!
Oh and genius a code that was written once can have just as many bugs as maintained code if not even more. Also there is no such code in the industry that was written once was never maintained and is in wide usage. Plus if a company has to educate it's programmers on how to write safe code then those people shoudln't have been hired for the job in the first place. C++ is a major language and if you've graduated with a CS degree you are still expected to know it ( even if not in great details ). Also while Assembler does help to understand some concepts in C++ it is by no means a requirement for writing great safe code. Understang computer architecture though is. Plus every good C++ book would tell you what the limitations of most datatypes and functions are. Like using cin for reading an unknown input and such...
OK so you seem to have some command of economic term though it is rudimentary at best. Unless you are a specialist in Chinese economy ( and I highly doubt that ) your statements are full of hot air. Unless there is a shortage of a specialist of a certain kind ( and this is not te case in most countries ) them producing even 1000 more specialist ( read graduates from a given major if you wish ) would create unemployment and hence would devalue the preexisting workers. You can basically lower the wages as a whole and you will still find enough people to work for you even at the lower price point. No think about the fact that most Chinese schools are pretty large and that in order to solve the current problem you would need to open up at least 50,000 more places ( each year ). Yes China is growing economically really fast but 50,000 - 100,000 more graduates each year would put some serious strain on the economy ( education in China is paid for by the government ). There is a lot more that free markets working here and the Chinese educational system is nothing like the American one. So I'd suggest that you don't run your mouth next time and first do some research. Also solving a cheating problem is a pretty huge task by itself. Almost in all cases you cannot just remove the reason why people are driven towards cheating so the solution would have to involve some change in the way people think. Only morale changes take a very long time.
Also if you have enough money to pay for some high-tech toys then buying books is no problem for you and the rest is really up to the person. If you want to go to college you can sit down and learn. So this whole article should be more about the lengths to which lazy Chinese go in order to avoid studying and still go to college.
First of all Web 2.0 is a huge hype and there is hardly and content behind the term.Also how exactly is a forum considered loss of privacy? Most sites have a policy to not disclose your personal information and it's actually a lot easier to get information about someone from say Slashdot and linux maling lists than it is from digg.com. Also digg.com is hardly a web2.0 site. Other than ajax there is nothing web 2.0 like there. It's basicly a huge forum with topics in every area of interest imaginable. Yes it's slightly different than everything else but still not web 2.0.
As far as privacy goes well if you talk with a friend on the street you also give up your privacy and everyone arround can listen to what you are saying. Yes on the Internet you have a lot more potential easedroppers but it's still the same thing. If you want to talk to someone privatelly there is email chat etc.
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Well it might be ancient but the sad thing is that it's still relevant and I would even say more so than it was before. The mere fact that debian and ubuntu are seperate distros when if fact they are so much alike is a proof to the relevancy of the article. And both distros are actually key players in the community. Time to wise up and stop wasting resources.
This Ubuntu is the best OS ever shit is really starting to get on my nerves. First of all even in the Linux world Gnome is inferior to KDE and 2nd linux and the OSS world still seem to lack the reliability of some of the programs available for Windows and Mac OS. Sorry but there is still no substitute for MS office and if you think otherwise you are either using under 10% of your office software or are full of s***. I am a *nix supporter and I have tried to even convert friends to it but you can't really do that when Ooo takes 5 times longer to draw a chart and when Ooo is still stuck at the level of office 97. My friends compare Ooo with Office 07 and I gotta admit 07 wins on pretty much every aspect. Not to mention the level of integration that some software companies have achieved within their own software suits ... There isn't a singe software package that can replace any of the Adobe products ( except for Acrobat reader ).
What most linux bigots forget is that people are mostly stuck using Windows not because of the OS itself but because of the software that exists for Windows. Until you get the vendors to start offering the same products for linux, the OS stands absolutely no fighting change. Even Apple knows that. And this has really nothing to do with gaming and such. The fact that many people are willing to pay a pretty hefty sum of money for a Mac rather than installing linux should scream for itself. Yes Canonical has done a lot of good for the linux community but they are still missing the point.
FUI i am a linux user for about 10 years now and I have a pretty good overview of where linux was and where it is now.
there is a statistical formula that they use. What the Carnegie Melon study is trying to prove is that the data being plugged in the formula is wrong or the formula needs to be adjusted so that it takes into account other parameters as well.
ok first of all this is NOT propaganda and it IS very real. Do you think that the government along with MS and Sun would decide to move away from sha-1 if the was a chance for any of this to be a hoax? I know that this is a very circumstantial argument but if you want to know exactly how she did it all her research is published or is waiting to be released and you or anyone else is more than welcome to find a flaw in it. However, the article is very misleading because it implies that the internet is in some kind of imminent danger of destruction when in fact there is no such thing. The only thing is that if you piss off some REALLY smart cracker he/she can steal and read your information even if it's encrypted with SHA-1. There is a substantial part of the decryption process that has to be done by hand and involves a serious amount of decision making that CANNOT be done by a computer yet. So you can sleep well tonight ... noone will get to your bank account just yet.
I'm sorry but x86 has very little to do the the PC architecture and also there is no such thing as PC architecture. PC = personal computer and long gone are the days of the mainframes. I guess you ment IBM PC but even in that case the x86 is somewhat different. ... Linux has no real power on the market. The sad and ugly truth is that Linux does not sell computers and there is noone that can turn that bad rep around. At least not yet. And keep in mind that reputation is not always based on facts and figures.
And as far as the RISC question goes, it's pretty simple. No Desktop OS and hence no general acceptance. And before anyone starts with the Linux argument
because the spell checker is about the coolest new addition that I have seen in a browser. It nice to see innovation constantly flowing out of an OSS project. Way to go Mozilla!
so you were stupid enough to sell your company for a lower price than you should have ... big deal ... how is that criminal ( unless you view stupidity as a criminal act )? Plus there is the factor of News Corp. investing a huge amount of money which the previous owners obviously did not have in order to continue the huge growth of MySpace.
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All I have to say is another sore looser
Actually, NO this is not what the cold war or capitalism is all about. There are limitations and this exactly why we have laws. It might come as a surprise to you but every western ( and I'm pretty sure most other ) country has corporate laws that put quite strict limitations to what is allowed in order to make profit. Did you forget Enron so fast? Or maybe Martha Stewart? Overall this article lives in the realm of sensationalism. What it means to say is that most companies could do more in order to protect your privacy but they don't because there is no money to be made of it. This does not mean that your privacy is in any eminent dager and I'm sorry but this is pretty much business as usual. Yes the privacy protection mechanisms are not the best possible but in pretty much all cases are adequate. The article is dead wrong on one point though. Most companies do not say that privacy is key for their business because you are more likelly to come back but because the aspect has become a prerequisite for the 1st purchase that you make. This applies to Internet sales especially.
well first of all your job is NOT to supervise the learning process at the school. So if the professor doesn't care if the students attend then you shouldn't either. A lot of profs have an attendance policy and those who don't know exactly why. Sorry to break it to you but you are just technical help and NOT a policy maker.
well like the article says ... nothing much. Although a media pc would be great if you would like to get the best quality possible out of the slowly dieing format. That is with all digital setup and such. Although I would still go for an upsampling dvd player that is in the $150 - 250 range over a media pc. The size is better and the price as well.
Wow ... did your parents beat you up when you were a kid? You mu friend have some serious issues and while letting your kid do whatever he'she wants won't solve them, there are some pretty good doctors that can. Anyway, this "invention" is about the dumbest way to spend money. If you really have to track your kid then you've missed out on some quality parent-child time. Yes, you do have to set limits for your children and teach them about honesty, responcibility, respect, and the likes but playing The Man with them is the fastest way to loose your parental respect. ( but them you already have ) Oh and 18 is really not the age that people reach maturity. For different people comes at a different time and this is why parents should be careful even after 18. Also parenting should not and does not mean guarding or stalking or spying. But then if you are really a parent you should know that ( or maybe you forgot too fast what it was to be a kid ).
Well I suppose SG-1 was getting old. Although why would you introduce a new vilain if you are tiried of the show? Anyway, hope they are not counting on Galactica alone to boost their ratings.
I suppose you haven't heard about BSD licencing. There are a great many projects under in out there and frankly I haven't seen any one of them that has been taken over because of the "crappy" licencing that they use. As far as GPL goes ... well in order to make the military give you the source code that they've added to a gpl project you need to know that the changes exist. I don't know about you but most civilians and pretty much ALL OSS developers have never even seen a DoD or any military computer.
wait ... I'm supposed to use OSS only to make Microsoft and the likes work harder? If an OSS project is better than a commercial counter part then isn't this reason enough?
This is kind old ( over a week now ) and the router is really not that great. The BT client is very buggy and have extremely limited capabilities compared to clients like Azureus. It is a great concept though even if it's a very pricy router. Embeded applications are slowly gaining momentum and this makes me a happy camper.
Dude first of all you have totally missed the point of the patent. Amazon is ALREADY collecting information about their users as are ALL online retailers. Your creditcard and your bank probably do the same thing so get over it, your privacy DOES NOT EXIST. The big thing here is that while Amazon used to provide everyone with a nice API to use their system and get information, now they are probably going to start charging people for the right to use the API in custom applications and Amazon's ideas would also be protected. They should've done this a long time ago if you ask me. And as far as using Amazon goes, you could even walk to work for all I care. I use Amazon and will continue doing it because it's convinient and in most cases cheaper than retail stores ( especially the local bookstores ). Plus I also don't pay tax and get free shipping every time I order.
You're begging to get flamed, aren't you? Anyway it's great that OSS projects are doing code auditing much like closed source ones often do.
Sure Wideband is great but what does it have to do with the whole OSS router topic?
man I feel monkeys flying out of my a**. Never thought I'd see the day that GnuCash 2.0 gets released ( after being stuck at 1.8 for years ) ...
It's a great program though and a welcome adition to my system.
Kick the habit??? ... I have hardly ever seen anyone that stopped playing MMORGs. It was EverQuest at first and then they switch over to something else and now most are playing WoW. Plus the whole premice of WoW is that you can play it forever. The development never stops and with incremental upgrades of the engine there is no reason why it wouldn't last for quite a while.
As far as the game sales go ... well they are not that much down. You do spend less on games but the problem is that if you don't play MMORGs then you are likely to play several games and your money gets distributed amond several companies and quite a few titles. When you play a MMORG you don't really have time to play other games. Also all of your money goes in the same company as you end up paying for a subscription. The new games that come out really mean nothing to you. And in general it hurts the gaming industry as inovation and variety gets slowly killed off.
Man if you had 2 reps hang up on you then you are either trying really hard to convince them of something that even you are not sure of or you desperatelly need to work on your people skills. Anyway, like several people said it is very hard to clone a gsm phone and this is most likelly not the case. Make sure that you can really trust that your partner did not make those calls before blaming them on some insane idea like cloning. Also when you talk to the reps it usually works best if you restrain yourself from trying to tell them what to do. Yes there are some morons working as reps but most know what they are doing pretty well and would help you. Also if it does turn out that someone else is using your account then the reps will know exactly what to do and they might also help you get you rmoney and minutes back. But like I said good people skills is the key ...
Yes caller id blocking is only so that you the end user cannot see who's calling you but the point was that the guy went to the store and was pissed off that the people there couldn't help him. Those people really have no access to the caller ids and they really cannot do much as to finding your phone if it gets lost.
Scheme ??? rolf dude how is it that there is always someone like you to turn a discussion on driver quality to a this vs. that programming language? [quote]I am slowly convinced, that any larger piece of C(++)-Code which handles strings, has in fact at least one Buffer overflow.[/quote] PROVE IT!!! Oh and genius a code that was written once can have just as many bugs as maintained code if not even more. Also there is no such code in the industry that was written once was never maintained and is in wide usage. Plus if a company has to educate it's programmers on how to write safe code then those people shoudln't have been hired for the job in the first place. C++ is a major language and if you've graduated with a CS degree you are still expected to know it ( even if not in great details ). Also while Assembler does help to understand some concepts in C++ it is by no means a requirement for writing great safe code. Understang computer architecture though is. Plus every good C++ book would tell you what the limitations of most datatypes and functions are. Like using cin for reading an unknown input and such ...
OK so you seem to have some command of economic term though it is rudimentary at best. Unless you are a specialist in Chinese economy ( and I highly doubt that ) your statements are full of hot air. Unless there is a shortage of a specialist of a certain kind ( and this is not te case in most countries ) them producing even 1000 more specialist ( read graduates from a given major if you wish ) would create unemployment and hence would devalue the preexisting workers. You can basically lower the wages as a whole and you will still find enough people to work for you even at the lower price point. No think about the fact that most Chinese schools are pretty large and that in order to solve the current problem you would need to open up at least 50,000 more places ( each year ). Yes China is growing economically really fast but 50,000 - 100,000 more graduates each year would put some serious strain on the economy ( education in China is paid for by the government ). There is a lot more that free markets working here and the Chinese educational system is nothing like the American one. So I'd suggest that you don't run your mouth next time and first do some research. Also solving a cheating problem is a pretty huge task by itself. Almost in all cases you cannot just remove the reason why people are driven towards cheating so the solution would have to involve some change in the way people think. Only morale changes take a very long time. Also if you have enough money to pay for some high-tech toys then buying books is no problem for you and the rest is really up to the person. If you want to go to college you can sit down and learn. So this whole article should be more about the lengths to which lazy Chinese go in order to avoid studying and still go to college.
First of all Web 2.0 is a huge hype and there is hardly and content behind the term.Also how exactly is a forum considered loss of privacy? Most sites have a policy to not disclose your personal information and it's actually a lot easier to get information about someone from say Slashdot and linux maling lists than it is from digg.com. Also digg.com is hardly a web2.0 site. Other than ajax there is nothing web 2.0 like there. It's basicly a huge forum with topics in every area of interest imaginable. Yes it's slightly different than everything else but still not web 2.0. As far as privacy goes well if you talk with a friend on the street you also give up your privacy and everyone arround can listen to what you are saying. Yes on the Internet you have a lot more potential easedroppers but it's still the same thing. If you want to talk to someone privatelly there is email chat etc.