I assume you mean inventing since 'innovating' and inventing are not the same thing. For the best part of the twentieth century people have had no difficulty inventing things, all without the benefits of IP protection. This all changed in 1981 when an appellate court decided in favour of a patent for rubber curing under software control which led to directly to such nonscense as the above Tivo patent.
New innovations are protected ecnourageing more innovation and..
"The invention allows the user to store selected television broadcast programs while the user is simultaneously watching or reviewing another program"
The only effect this ruling will have is to *prevent* others entering the market and drive up prices. What exactly is innovative about the above. With old fashioned VHS recorders you could do exactly the same thing. Yet another example why the US patent system is broken.
Hmm, they should run their tool on its own source code, that would be fun
You beat me to it. How many defect per thousand lines of code did Coverity find in the Prevent utility. They did run it on their own software didn't they.
I'm not a programmer but I once wrote a blackjack game in Basic. I assume Prevent is good at finding basic coding errors but I doubt it could detect defects at a higher level of logic. Such as that pilot who wondered what would happen if he flipped the switch to raise the landing gear while still on the tarmac. Well rightoff one very expencive fighterjet. Would Prevent have detected this software error.
I have already taken care of the issue on how to make money during the day, when our younger market is in school..
That depends on how and who you get to run it. You *can* make money the thing is it may not be as much as you think. Given the nature of the technology your outgoings can be as much if not more than your incomings. Rent + rates + services + cost of hardware + software licenses + Internet connectivity can add up to a lot.
However, the question of whether or not a place like this can be successful, still remains..
Assuming you have three main sources of revenue: gamers, tourists and a sandwich bar, the sandwich bar will make the most. Business can be very erratic by time of day, of week and year. On average you can expect 25% to 60% usage.
I've seen plenty of undermanned and poorly planned places in the area (and on the East Coast) like this go under in six months. What is your opinion?
Depending on where you site it, you may end up providing the local junkie population with somewhere to shootup of an evening. If you intend to run it 24 hour, you will need some kind of security and/or swipe card activated locks.
What ideas and thoughts do you have that could help a place, like the one I'm proposing, succeed?
The basic services will just about cover your costs. You have to generate more income with 'added value'. eg: Personal login accounts with full office suite.daily, weekly monthly passes at a discount. The discounted cards can only be used between office hours eg 9.00 to 5pm. Special games nights @ $10.00 all night thur, fri and sat. Last but not least printing. Set up a mini print shop that will generate additional revenue. Photograph quality prints, scanning, OCR etc.
Do you have gaming cafes in your area that are successful? What unique techniques have they implemented?
I have seen a few cafes that were sucessfull mainly because they were run by the same knowledge people who owned it. Like a new restaurant it will be full the first few months. To keep them coming back you need to do things like organize tournaments and continually upgrade with the latest must-have Role-Playing Game.
When Microsoft comes up with something original, they often fail.. because they didn't work well when other people tried them before"
translation: MS does actually come up with something original. Other people copy it despite the fact other people tried it the first time. Something like Apple copying Vista desktop search into OS X Tiger (April) before Vista was even released (July) in beta in 2005.
"The reason why a lot of their "innovations" aren't widely used in the market is not because nobody thought of them before, it's because they didn't work well when other people tried them before"
Something that had prior existance is by definition *not* innovative.
"It doesn't bother me that Apple is not innovative"
translation: MS is really innovative.
What bothers me is that Apple isn't doing their share to fund innovation
A summary of research projects conducted over the past two decades..
'It's challenging for partners to build competencies to support Linux, because you never quite know what you're going to be supporting,'
Like how? Since when does a customer demand SuSe or Redhat. It's a decision for the distributor what base OS to use. The customer doesn't even know or care what that is.
'You don't get that repeatable [development] process to build your business over time.'
Same flawed logic here. The developer sells the same basic system (with minor modifications) to a number of customers. The same as Windows is sold over and over again.
"One of the beauties of the open-source model is that you get a lot of flexibility and componentization. The big downside is complexity,"
Flexibility does not equate to complexity. Is Windows simpler to develop on because it is closed.
"We had to learn.. different versions.. to meet the demands of customers." Lim Han Sheng, IBS Synergy
Has anyone reading this ever had a customer ring up and specifically demand a particular Linux OS. I'm talking about a new installation and not upgrading an existing one. When I see someone quoted on the fastFUD web site I tend to suspect their impartiality. Lets see some more quotes from IBS:
"because Linux was keeping the company from charging for services rendered or charging less"
Has Malaysia gone communist and told no one about it?
"When a problem needed to be solved, Lim explains it was usually a case of having to ask friends or associates for advice"
Why didn't you ring up the Red Hat support desk?
"the tools available for MySQL were made by different companies, poorly integrated, and offered limited functionality"
"the difficulties IBSS encountered with Linux as a server.. relating to the display of fonts and font sizes, and the instability of the X.. IBSS could not integrate stored procedures into MySQL as it could with SQL Server 2000"
"IBSS is exploring the integrated innovation inherent in the Microsoft operating system"
Straight from fud.central. I see both you and Allchin hold this view.
"Once they get the hardware home, however, that Linux OS is quickly erased and replaced with a pirated copy of Windows -- often within 24 hours.. Allchin calls the practice of replacing the default OS with Windows flipping
But can we believe someone who once said this?
"If you're going to kill someone.. you just pull the trigger.. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger" Sept 18, 1993
"Do not be foolish.. do not archive your e-mail." May 2004
"Mitnick is a shithead. He broke the law, then got screwed in prison
Mitnick was held in prison with murders and psychopaths for four years eight months in solitary until he 'confessed'. The only people doing the screwing were journalist John Markoff and Tsutomu Shimomura. It was Markoffs sensationalist articles that caused Mitnick much noterity. What Markoff never told him was he was both working with Shimomura and also feeding information to the FBI. At the same time cultivating a friendship with Mitnick to write a book. The only crime Mitnick was guilty of was trusting people.
"I could be moved out of solitary on the condition that I waived my fundamental rights and agreed to: a) no bail hearing; b) no preliminary hearing"
"It is the opinion of most of IT professionals I work with that 99% of Windows XP crashes are due to sub-par driver programming by non-Microsoft developers"
You're kidding right? That would add up to a grand total of one. Search Google groups on 'Windows XP crash' results 192,000
"To use customer calls as a source of evidence that Windows XP is unstable is rediculous"
You mean it's evidence that it isn't unstable:)
"80% of Windows users are more destructive.. people who install and use Linux systems are part of the other 20%"
There is no causal relationship between the number of support calls and the quality of the users. Perhaps there are more XP support calls because it is a crap OS.
"In response to the "GNU/Linus" servers you run: What evidence do you have that they are more stable?"
Because he don't have to reinstall every three months or after a 'service pack' borked the system.
"My experience has been if I install a package without knowing exactly how it will effect the system I'm going to have unexpected problems with stability. This is true for Windows and Linux systems alike."
Not true I'm afraid. You're confusing 'Linus' with Windows. Apart from kernel or library updates an application only installs into its own directory. Uninstalling consists of removing the offending application. Totally removing an application under Windows is near impossible. With Linux it's also unneccessary to do the logout/shutdown/reboot shuffle.
"the same logic I used before: If it requires more technical knowledge to install a package on a Linux system you will get fewer unexpected problems just because Windows-based applications have wizards"
That is an illogical statement if you don't mind me saying so. Ease of use under Windows does not equate to harder to use under Linux. What happens if the Wizard fails, which it frequently does. Under SuSE click on Control Center (YaST), click on software, click install or uninstall.
"Seriously why is this a big deal?.. as far as I understand it is an additional measure of security, not the only measure", MoneyT
Allow me to explain it to you. The move to e-passports was so as you couldn't counterfeited them like the paper ones. One of the measures required, if not the primary one is the ability to not be cloned. Thats why they call them e-passports
"his grand achievement is... what? That that a fellow called John Smith could thus make a fake passport that still says John Smith?", Moraelin
No, that a follow called Osama could pass through an airport if it used electronic scanning. Or as the article mentions an electronic device could be activated when 'John Smith' opened his passport.
The same lack of thought seems to have gone into fingerprint scanning. As this article demonstrates it is possible to forge these as you leave your prints all over the place.
"that problem is the amazing lack of new and exciting software.. the Windows crowd has been using it for nearly a year or longer"
What new and exciting software are you refering. Please provide specifics. I don't mean some marketing phrase eg 'business ready' I mean what in functionality isn't represented on Linux.
Irony overload. Big Oil man doesn't like ethenol and questions opponents motivation. In the article he refers to the Energy Return on Investment and ethanol is only viable is because of the subsidies. This in relation to corn ethanol. Yet Brazil can manage to replace 40% of its forign Oil demand with ethenol. A viable long term solution that actually returns revenue to the local economy through the cultivation of sugarcane.
"I started off on the energy balance of ethanol versus gasoline. We went back and forth on efficiency versusEROI.. corn ethanol would be around as long as the subsidies were there."
"The Brazilian ethanol industry is based on sugarcane; as of 2004, Brazil produces 14 billion liters annually, enough to replace about40% of its gasoline demand . Also as a result, they announced their independence from Middle East oil in April 2006"
"In my recent essay Vinod Khosla Debunked, I challenged Mr. Khosla to a written debate on his recent ethanol claims"
Why is it deemed necessary to 'debunk' Mr. Khosla. If wrong, then the Ethanol market will wither through the action of the market. I see here you dispute the 40% claim.
Oh, wait it gets even funnier. "Many so-called oil subsidies don't benefit the oil companies at all; they benefit consumers". And I suppose the reverse being that ethenol subsidies only benefit the companies"
Quite frankly I am confused with all these graphs and acronyms that I never heard of. I have a few simple question:br>
How much does it cost to produce a gallon of sugarcane ethanol?
How much does it cost to produce a gallon of oil?
What subsidies/tax breaks do the oil companies get?
What subsidies/tax breaks do the ethanol producers get?
Include the cost of drilling and Oil Rig construction
Include cost of clean up of any environmental damage
I'm sorry but this get even funnier. "I did indicate that as we continue to ramp up corn ethanol, our corn exports will fall and people in 3rd world countries will go hungry". The ethenol industry will steal food from the 3rd world. This is even more bizarre considering it is first world subsidies to the food industry that is currently destroying third world agriculture.
You're just one big shill for big OIL...
* assuming Big Oil actually pays for the oil and doesn't invade some country and liberate it.
* EROI = Energy Returns on Ethanol Production.
"As videos, blogs and Web pages created by amateurs remake the entertainment landscape, unknown directors, writers and producers are being catapulted into positions of enormous influence"
I wonder how many of these people of enormous influence will be around in a year never mind six months. A quick perusal of Forbidden illustrates exactly what it is famous for. Nothing wrong in viewing tottie but does everything have to be reduced to the level of the Sun's tit page.
"Some users will find the feature objectionable because it could give the bossman a new way to check up on employees"
What's stoping the bossman from going back through the tape archive and doing the same thing?
"or perhaps it could be exploited in some nefarious way by some nefarious person"
That shouldn't present a problem assuming that file system security can't be bypassed.
"When you access a Shadow Copy, the file and folderACLs still apply"
"VSS takes a snapshot (aka Shadow Copy) of the state of content stored on selected volume shares"
Could get the same functionality using rsync and using symlinks for files that haven't changed. Building up a number of virtual directories.
"the user can simply view.. and recover the file without troubling the administrator"
I recall Vax/VMS saved a different version each time the file was saved. Such functionality built directly into the file system. I read here that Xerox PARC got their first with something called Cedar.
"In Cedar, files were immutable; writing to a file produced a new version of the file and file names included a version number (e.g., filename! 10). A similar idea was found in the RSX, VMS [2], and TOPS-10/-20 [6] operating systems from Digital."
"Just replace their consoles and PCs with big exercise wheels like in hamster cages"
What's stoping these fearful parents going into the bedroom and removing the consoles from in front of the glaze-eyed children. The same with parents giving their kids mobile phones to keep them 'safe'. As if the posession of a phone is going to protect them from a mugger. Have they never heard of parental responcibility.
servers are not as easy of targets.. most Servers are behind Cisco Firewalls, with competent users"
Then why don't we see an equal number of breechs in Linuxland as Windows.
"A virus can be written for any Operating System, or software for that matter, it's a matter of motive"
Can be written but can it be run by clicking on a web link or opening an attachment. That motive being financial so why aren't all those e-commerce sites being compromised.
"So Symantec lacks the expertise to build a good firewall because they offer a virus scanner?...I mean that is your logic right?"
No, my logic is that MS lacks the expertise to make a secure OS. Given the nature of Windows and it's use JIT bytecode and RPC over HTTP, a firewall isn't going to be much use. The money spend on AV solutions would be better spent in building a secure OS. That is my logic.
"I really wish that Microsoft disappeared.. Then it will be Linux, MacOS, or whatever.. which will be plagued by security grief"
If it was true that you don't see such destructive security breeches on these other OSs because they are not popular, then why don't we see the same on servers running Linux/BsdUnix etc.
"Microsoft is at the top, and hence, is villified"
No, Ms is villified because they produce crap product and plot the destruction of their competitors/partners.
"there is NOTHING wrong with MS making an Anti-Virus, and Anti-Spyware solution"
How about producing an OS that don't catch viruses?
"Microsoft offers their Virus Protection as a FOR PAY product"
Further proof if that were necessary, that that MS is lacks the expertise to produce a secure Operating System.
I sat in a meeting yesterday with "developers" who had never heard of Bachus-Naur form. I routinely confer with "programmers" who have never heard of a finite state machine. I work daily with "data architects" who have never heard of Dr. Codd or of normalization. I am personally acquainted with upper managers who are just dying to replace OpenBSD-based firewalls with M$ Vista Server. THIS, my fellow cognoscenti, is the extent to which our society is infested with charlatans and ignorami.
That M$ can now, on the one hand, generate security holes of arbitrary obscurity, and, on the other, miraculously detect and repair them far and away better than their erstwhile "competitors" is a final and apocalyptic testimonial to the supreme stupidity (I use the word advisedly, in the sense of "willful ignorance") of our omnipotent layers of corporate management. Wasn't it bad enough when M$ were the sole possessors of the Most Sacred A[PB]Is? Wasn't it awful enough that they were able to ignore even the most rudimentary dictates of software engineering with impugnity -- that the drooling imbeciles in management would keep right on paying vast sums of money for hideous deformities of Logic without batting an eyelash? Do they now get to rake in huge profits from "repairing" systemic defects of their own intentional manufacture?
I am 41. I am tired and old. I have watched, like a Felliniesque "Sad Clown of Life," wave upon wave of utter inanity wash up on the vast, dead-whale-stinking beach of corporate and academic IT. I have seen too much. I can cry no more. I want to know how to stop caring now. How, for the love of God, do I join the endless ranks of these gibbering fools who never think one picometer beyond their golf handicaps? How, for the bleeding love of the pumping, pulsating heart of Jesus Christ on a pogo stick do I just sit in meetings daydreaming about jumping into my big yellow H2 and driving back to my prefab McMansion in the burb-sprawl and staining my redwood deck with Johnson's WaterSeal? Why oh why must I KNOW that the imminent deaths of such elegancies as Tru64 Unix and MIPS and Alpha are a sin against art and science and technology and Man? Can't I just be stupid too? What's so wrong with me? What have I done? Why must I suffer so?
One day, my friends, we will all lounge in paradise happily signing off on million-dollar purchases of Microsoft AntiVirus Protection(TM) with huge idiotic grins upon our faces and lovely oblivious strings of rancid drool dangling from our chins. We will not be tormented by the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Our eyes will bear the brilliant, unfocused glow of perfect, orgasmic stupidity. Until then, we must work to balance our egregious karma. Can there be any doubt whatever that we fried and devoured living human babies in each of our wretched previous incarnations?
What more glaring evidence can there be of our complete, total, and inherent evil? We sinners must needs endure the terrible, sadistic wrath of a cold and childish god. May he soon tire of so gleefully tormenting us. Amen. Railgun Sally
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'At least they found the error before it went out to the public .. sounds like no end user organizations are using it yet'
.. in July .. the estimated 3,600 units that had gone out the door so far"
"The operating system actually had begun shipping to manufacturing partners
was: Re:At least they caught it
Are 'non-final core components' the same thing as buggy software?
rs232's Recent Submissions - Title - Datestamp
non-final core components - Thursday August 17, @07:45PM Rejected
I assume you mean inventing since 'innovating' and inventing are not the same thing. For the best part of the twentieth century people have had no difficulty inventing things, all without the benefits of IP protection. This all changed in 1981 when an appellate court decided in favour of a patent for rubber curing under software control which led to directly to such nonscense as the above Tivo patent.
was Re:never getting a TiVo now
The only effect this ruling will have is to *prevent* others entering the market and drive up prices. What exactly is innovative about the above. With old fashioned VHS recorders you could do exactly the same thing. Yet another example why the US patent system is broken.
I'm not a programmer but I once wrote a blackjack game in Basic. I assume Prevent is good at finding basic coding errors but I doubt it could detect defects at a higher level of logic. Such as that pilot who wondered what would happen if he flipped the switch to raise the landing gear while still on the tarmac. Well rightoff one very expencive fighterjet. Would Prevent have detected this software error.
Assuming you have three main sources of revenue: gamers, tourists and a sandwich bar, the sandwich bar will make the most. Business can be very erratic by time of day, of week and year. On average you can expect 25% to 60% usage.
Depending on where you site it, you may end up providing the local junkie population with somewhere to shootup of an evening. If you intend to run it 24 hour, you will need some kind of security and/or swipe card activated locks.
The basic services will just about cover your costs. You have to generate more income with 'added value'. eg: Personal login accounts with full office suite.daily, weekly monthly passes at a discount. The discounted cards can only be used between office hours eg 9.00 to 5pm. Special games nights @ $10.00 all night thur, fri and sat. Last but not least printing. Set up a mini print shop that will generate additional revenue. Photograph quality prints, scanning, OCR etc.
I have seen a few cafes that were sucessfull mainly because they were run by the same knowledge people who owned it. Like a new restaurant it will be full the first few months. To keep them coming back you need to do things like organize tournaments and continually upgrade with the latest must-have Role-Playing Game.
translation: MS does actually come up with something original. Other people copy it despite the fact other people tried it the first time. Something like Apple copying Vista desktop search into OS X Tiger (April) before Vista was even released (July) in beta in 2005.
Something that had prior existance is by definition *not* innovative.
translation: MS is really innovative.
A summary of research projects conducted over the past two decades
Genome Research at the University of Nottingham
You mean like the Microsoft Linux Lab. Show me a reference to the Apple Windows Lab where they try and figure out MS innovations.
Thats five seperate mentions of innovation in all
'It's challenging for partners to build competencies to support Linux, because you never quite know what you're going to be supporting,'
.. different versions .. to meet the demands of customers." Lim Han Sheng, IBS Synergy
.. relating to the display of fonts and font sizes, and the instability of the X .. IBSS could not integrate stored procedures into MySQL as it could with SQL Server 2000"
...
Like how? Since when does a customer demand SuSe or Redhat. It's a decision for the distributor what base OS to use. The customer doesn't even know or care what that is.
'You don't get that repeatable [development] process to build your business over time.'
Same flawed logic here. The developer sells the same basic system (with minor modifications) to a number of customers. The same as Windows is sold over and over again.
"One of the beauties of the open-source model is that you get a lot of flexibility and componentization. The big downside is complexity,"
Flexibility does not equate to complexity. Is Windows simpler to develop on because it is closed.
"We had to learn
Has anyone reading this ever had a customer ring up and specifically demand a particular Linux OS. I'm talking about a new installation and not upgrading an existing one. When I see someone quoted on the fastFUD web site I tend to suspect their impartiality. Lets see some more quotes from IBS:
"because Linux was keeping the company from charging for services rendered or charging less"
Has Malaysia gone communist and told no one about it?
"When a problem needed to be solved, Lim explains it was usually a case of having to ask friends or associates for advice"
Why didn't you ring up the Red Hat support desk?
"the tools available for MySQL were made by different companies, poorly integrated, and offered limited functionality"
"the difficulties IBSS encountered with Linux as a server
"IBSS is exploring the integrated innovation inherent in the Microsoft operating system"
ha haa haaa
"There are giant economies of scale in a market which is 95-98% Windows"
...
Do you mean for the cost of hardware or software. Once the OS is made it's about zero cost to duplicate.
"One of the reasons why OEM Linux has all but disappeared from Walmart.com"
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"I know I know. I'm probably trolling"
..
.. Allchin calls the practice of replacing the default OS with Windows flipping
.. you just pull the trigger .. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger" Sept 18, 1993
.. do not archive your e-mail." May 2004
.. That exposes you to legal action, software viruses and endless technical troubles"
You probably are
"people will just put pirate copies of XP on it"
Straight from fud.central. I see both you and Allchin hold this view.
"Once they get the hardware home, however, that Linux OS is quickly erased and replaced with a pirated copy of Windows -- often within 24 hours
But can we believe someone who once said this?
"If you're going to kill someone
"Do not be foolish
What is a Naked PC?
"A Naked PC is one sold without an operating system
piracy_nakedpc has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt.
"Mitnick is a shithead. He broke the law, then got screwed in prison
Mitnick was held in prison with murders and psychopaths for four years eight months in solitary until he 'confessed'. The only people doing the screwing were journalist John Markoff and Tsutomu Shimomura. It was Markoffs sensationalist articles that caused Mitnick much noterity. What Markoff never told him was he was both working with Shimomura and also feeding information to the FBI. At the same time cultivating a friendship with Mitnick to write a book. The only crime Mitnick was guilty of was trusting people.
"I could be moved out of solitary on the condition that I waived my fundamental rights and agreed to: a) no bail hearing; b) no preliminary hearing"
"It is the opinion of most of IT professionals I work with that 99% of Windows XP crashes are due to sub-par driver programming by non-Microsoft developers"
:)
.. people who install and use Linux systems are part of the other 20%"
You're kidding right? That would add up to a grand total of one. Search Google groups on 'Windows XP crash' results 192,000
"To use customer calls as a source of evidence that Windows XP is unstable is rediculous"
You mean it's evidence that it isn't unstable
"80% of Windows users are more destructive
There is no causal relationship between the number of support calls and the quality of the users. Perhaps there are more XP support calls because it is a crap OS.
"In response to the "GNU/Linus" servers you run: What evidence do you have that they are more stable?"
Because he don't have to reinstall every three months or after a 'service pack' borked the system.
"My experience has been if I install a package without knowing exactly how it will effect the system I'm going to have unexpected problems with stability. This is true for Windows and Linux systems alike."
Not true I'm afraid. You're confusing 'Linus' with Windows. Apart from kernel or library updates an application only installs into its own directory. Uninstalling consists of removing the offending application. Totally removing an application under Windows is near impossible. With Linux it's also unneccessary to do the logout/shutdown/reboot shuffle.
"the same logic I used before: If it requires more technical knowledge to install a package on a Linux system you will get fewer unexpected problems just because Windows-based applications have wizards"
That is an illogical statement if you don't mind me saying so. Ease of use under Windows does not equate to harder to use under Linux. What happens if the Wizard fails, which it frequently does. Under SuSE click on Control Center (YaST), click on software, click install or uninstall.
"GOOD GOD, MAN! You're trying to run Vista with 512 MB of RAM?!?!? Jeez, no wonder you're having troubles."
He should switch to SuSE Linux. It can run with 512 MB with no problem.
was .. Re:I've been using beta and haven't had any proble
"Seriously why is this a big deal? .. as far as I understand it is an additional measure of security, not the only measure", MoneyT
Allow me to explain it to you. The move to e-passports was so as you couldn't counterfeited them like the paper ones. One of the measures required, if not the primary one is the ability to not be cloned. Thats why they call them e-passports
"his grand achievement is... what? That that a fellow called John Smith could thus make a fake passport that still says John Smith?", Moraelin
No, that a follow called Osama could pass through an airport if it used electronic scanning. Or as the article mentions an electronic device could be activated when 'John Smith' opened his passport.
The same lack of thought seems to have gone into fingerprint scanning. As this article demonstrates it is possible to forge these as you leave your prints all over the place.
"that problem is the amazing lack of new and exciting software .. the Windows crowd has been using it for nearly a year or longer"
What new and exciting software are you refering. Please provide specifics. I don't mean some marketing phrase eg 'business ready' I mean what in functionality isn't represented on Linux.
"Take the Evolution vs. Outlook 2003"
Does Outlook work with Open-Xchange Server
Irony overload. Big Oil man doesn't like ethenol and questions opponents motivation. In the article he refers to the Energy Return on Investment and ethanol is only viable is because of the subsidies. This in relation to corn ethanol. Yet Brazil can manage to replace 40% of its forign Oil demand with ethenol. A viable long term solution that actually returns revenue to the local economy through the cultivation of sugarcane.
.. corn ethanol would be around as long as the subsidies were there."
...
* assuming Big Oil actually pays for the oil and doesn't invade some country and liberate it.
* EROI = Energy Returns on Ethanol Production.
"I started off on the energy balance of ethanol versus gasoline. We went back and forth on efficiency versus EROI
"The Brazilian ethanol industry is based on sugarcane; as of 2004, Brazil produces 14 billion liters annually, enough to replace about 40% of its gasoline demand . Also as a result, they announced their independence from Middle East oil in April 2006"
"In my recent essay Vinod Khosla Debunked, I challenged Mr. Khosla to a written debate on his recent ethanol claims"
Why is it deemed necessary to 'debunk' Mr. Khosla. If wrong, then the Ethanol market will wither through the action of the market. I see here you dispute the 40% claim.
Oh, wait it gets even funnier. "Many so-called oil subsidies don't benefit the oil companies at all; they benefit consumers". And I suppose the reverse being that ethenol subsidies only benefit the companies"
Quite frankly I am confused with all these graphs and acronyms that I never heard of. I have a few simple question:br>
How much does it cost to produce a gallon of sugarcane ethanol?
How much does it cost to produce a gallon of oil?
What subsidies/tax breaks do the oil companies get?
What subsidies/tax breaks do the ethanol producers get?
Include the cost of drilling and Oil Rig construction
Include cost of clean up of any environmental damage
I'm sorry but this get even funnier. "I did indicate that as we continue to ramp up corn ethanol, our corn exports will fall and people in 3rd world countries will go hungry". The ethenol industry will steal food from the 3rd world. This is even more bizarre considering it is first world subsidies to the food industry that is currently destroying third world agriculture.
You're just one big shill for big OIL
"As videos, blogs and Web pages created by amateurs remake the entertainment landscape, unknown directors, writers and producers are being catapulted into positions of enormous influence"
I wonder how many of these people of enormous influence will be around in a year never mind six months. A quick perusal of Forbidden illustrates exactly what it is famous for. Nothing wrong in viewing tottie but does everything have to be reduced to the level of the Sun's tit page.
"Some users will find the feature objectionable because it could give the bossman a new way to check up on employees"
.. and recover the file without troubling the administrator"
What's stoping the bossman from going back through the tape archive and doing the same thing?
"or perhaps it could be exploited in some nefarious way by some nefarious person"
That shouldn't present a problem assuming that file system security can't be bypassed.
"When you access a Shadow Copy, the file and folder ACLs still apply "
"VSS takes a snapshot (aka Shadow Copy) of the state of content stored on selected volume shares"
Could get the same functionality using rsync and using symlinks for files that haven't changed. Building up a number of virtual directories.
"the user can simply view
I recall Vax/VMS saved a different version each time the file was saved. Such functionality built directly into the file system. I read here that Xerox PARC got their first with something called Cedar.
"In Cedar, files were immutable; writing to a file produced a new version of the file and file names included a version number (e.g., filename! 10). A similar idea was found in the RSX, VMS [2], and TOPS-10/-20 [6] operating systems from Digital."
Stick with Open Source under Windows because ...
.. and open-source vendors have traditionally portrayed the choice .. as a black-and-white decision"
"Would I want to put it all on Linux? Yeah, that's the geek in me,"
Only geeks can use Linux.
"But the Alfresco application doesn't necessarily run better under Linux"
OO applications run better under Windows.
'not having to rehire or retrain existing IT staff makes "the whole thing a wash"'
Configuring Alfresco, MySQL, Apache Tomcat and JBoss is more difficult under Linux than under Windows.
"Microsoft
Is there any citations where you can produce any such statements from any 'open-source' vendors?" We do really know where the retoric is coming from.
"One choice promises easier management at a higher price. The other offers lower costs and better security -- at the cost of more complexity"
A totally misrepresentation of the situation. Once it's installed a typical OO system requires less IT staff than its equivalent Windows setup.
What licensing restrictions come into play when running OO applications under Windows?
"Just replace their consoles and PCs with big exercise wheels like in hamster cages"
What's stoping these fearful parents going into the bedroom and removing the consoles from in front of the glaze-eyed children. The same with parents giving their kids mobile phones to keep them 'safe'. As if the posession of a phone is going to protect them from a mugger. Have they never heard of parental responcibility.
servers are not as easy of targets .. most Servers are behind Cisco Firewalls, with competent users"
Then why don't we see an equal number of breechs in Linuxland as Windows.
"A virus can be written for any Operating System, or software for that matter, it's a matter of motive"
Can be written but can it be run by clicking on a web link or opening an attachment. That motive being financial so why aren't all those e-commerce sites being compromised.
"So Symantec lacks the expertise to build a good firewall because they offer a virus scanner?...I mean that is your logic right?"
No, my logic is that MS lacks the expertise to make a secure OS. Given the nature of Windows and it's use JIT bytecode and RPC over HTTP, a firewall isn't going to be much use. The money spend on AV solutions would be better spent in building a secure OS. That is my logic.
"I really wish that Microsoft disappeared .. Then it will be Linux, MacOS, or whatever .. which will be plagued by security grief"
If it was true that you don't see such destructive security breeches on these other OSs because they are not popular, then why don't we see the same on servers running Linux/BsdUnix etc.
"Microsoft is at the top, and hence, is villified" No, Ms is villified because they produce crap product and plot the destruction of their competitors/partners.
"there is NOTHING wrong with MS making an Anti-Virus, and Anti-Spyware solution"
How about producing an OS that don't catch viruses?
"Microsoft offers their Virus Protection as a FOR PAY product"
Further proof if that were necessary, that that MS is lacks the expertise to produce a secure Operating System.
I sat in a meeting yesterday with "developers" who had never heard of Bachus-Naur form. I routinely confer with "programmers" who have never heard of a finite state machine. I work daily with "data architects" who have never heard of Dr. Codd or of normalization. I am personally acquainted with upper managers who are just dying to replace OpenBSD-based firewalls with M$ Vista Server. THIS, my fellow cognoscenti, is the extent to which our society is infested with charlatans and ignorami.
That M$ can now, on the one hand, generate security holes of arbitrary obscurity, and, on the other, miraculously detect and repair them far and away better than their erstwhile "competitors" is a final and apocalyptic testimonial to the supreme stupidity (I use the word advisedly, in the sense of "willful ignorance") of our omnipotent layers of corporate management. Wasn't it bad enough when M$ were the sole possessors of the Most Sacred A[PB]Is? Wasn't it awful enough that they were able to ignore even the most rudimentary dictates of software engineering with impugnity -- that the drooling imbeciles in management would keep right on paying vast sums of money for hideous deformities of Logic without batting an eyelash? Do they now get to rake in huge profits from "repairing" systemic defects of their own intentional manufacture?
I am 41. I am tired and old. I have watched, like a Felliniesque "Sad Clown of Life," wave upon wave of utter inanity wash up on the vast, dead-whale-stinking beach of corporate and academic IT. I have seen too much. I can cry no more. I want to know how to stop caring now. How, for the love of God, do I join the endless ranks of these gibbering fools who never think one picometer beyond their golf handicaps? How, for the bleeding love of the pumping, pulsating heart of Jesus Christ on a pogo stick do I just sit in meetings daydreaming about jumping into my big yellow H2 and driving back to my prefab McMansion in the burb-sprawl and staining my redwood deck with Johnson's WaterSeal? Why oh why must I KNOW that the imminent deaths of such elegancies as Tru64 Unix and MIPS and Alpha are a sin against art and science and technology and Man? Can't I just be stupid too? What's so wrong with me? What have I done? Why must I suffer so?
One day, my friends, we will all lounge in paradise happily signing off on million-dollar purchases of Microsoft AntiVirus Protection(TM) with huge idiotic grins upon our faces and lovely oblivious strings of rancid drool dangling from our chins. We will not be tormented by the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Our eyes will bear the brilliant, unfocused glow of perfect, orgasmic stupidity. Until then, we must work to balance our egregious karma. Can there be any doubt whatever that we fried and devoured living human babies in each of our wretched previous incarnations?
What more glaring evidence can there be of our complete, total, and inherent evil? We sinners must needs endure the terrible, sadistic wrath of a cold and childish god. May he soon tire of so gleefully tormenting us. Amen. Railgun Sally
"No, ignoring blatant flaws in OSS makes you a fanboy."
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No, resorting to name calling makes you a TROLL
"Openoffice is slow"
False
"awkward to use"
How so exactly. Most users can't tell the difference
"and lacks a lot of features"
Exactly what kind of functionality does it lack?
"I think I'll stick with MS Office, for a professional user the price is not important"
The corollary meaning being 'professional' users don't use OO and the rest only use it because it is 'free'
"after all time is not worthless."
If this isn't a TROLL, I don't know what is.
Who are you going to be next week?