This explanation smacks of pure denial (or outright lying) to me. CFCs have been proven to deplete ozone. We have a seen an exponential rise in CFC emissions over the last century. We have seen holes in the ozone lazer. We know that the greenhouse effect works. And the other explanation is... the sun, which has been around for billions of years, has suddenly gotten out of whack, but it's not our fault? I'm all for keeping an open mind to other possibilities, but that doesn't mean accepting the other possibilities when they're plainly motivated by other factors than reason.
should probably be optimised for multiple processors. I'm not sure how fine-grained the optimisation is, but I doubt you have to manually launch threads to get some benefits from a parallel machine like blue gene.
I don't really understand string theory, but I do try to keep up with it and stuff, as best I can. I heard once though, that "any problem" [presumably mathematical] "is solvable by adding extra dimensions". Can someone confirm this? And, if so, doesn't that make string theory, until proven, essentially a cop-out?
Netscape 3 was perfectly adequate for most people. Heck, people still use that old crap today. It was IE's bundling, as you yourself said, that was anti-competitive. Moreover, windows itself is anti-competitive, and microsoft has been convicted of these crimes in different countries around the world. Period.
If they'd wanted to have an open IM system, they'd have jumped on board with Jabber ages ago. This isn't anything to do with "openness", in the sense that most of us understand it; it just means that they have a plugin API now. That makes it "extensible by third parties", not "open."
You obviously haven't seen windows command line apps. They're MUCH worse, and just as common when you get into the few equally powerful things that windows actually offers. TIP: this *isn't* one of them; to do an upgrade like this on windows is *impossible*. The closest equivalent (upgrading via a CD you waited on, from windows 2000 to XP or something) takes longer, is less reliable, and breaks software.
For examples, see Microsoft's own new feature reports. There are plenty of them to choose from. I'll list one for you, but don't expect me to do your learning for you. The latest example I've seen is Vista Server Core, which is (still) a poor implementation of unix's modularity.
Losing $HOME, for anyone who cares about their data enough anyway, means restoring from backup (ie, somewhere outside $HOME, even if it's just in another dir). If something outside $HOME is compromised though, then then that user has risked many other systems and users; not just himself. In doing so, he made the 'net more difficult to police, and exposed himself to future troubles. We're all connected now.
Never mind. The whole thing is out of date already anyway. With Linux broadcatching apps like Democracy Player and KatchTV and Penguin TV, there's really no need to look at those sites again. Just run an app, and choose a show to watch:)
I didn't have time to read all of your comment right now. But I wanted to clear something up on your first point. Poor people do not have Cable/Satellite TVs and other relatively expensive modern items because our countries are wealthy. Quite the opposite is true, in fact. If they didn't have those things, they might not be so poor. Our society is based on marketing things that aren't truly necessary, to those who want to be happy, but aren't. This affects no one more than the poor, who work all day in crumby jobs to afford the things they don't need, as a way of making themselves feel better for having crumby jobs, a crumby neighbourhood, etc. Basically, it's slavery by another name, not wealth or freedom.
Grandparent is right, you're wrong. Unix is much more secure than windows, and windows is still catching up by incorporating those same design features, period.
Sorry, I just don't believe that. Even Microsoft themselves have said that Spyware on their OS etc. (NOT necessarily manually installed) is getting beyond the point of controlability. I have to conclude that you just don't realise what's happening on your system.
Since switching to Win XP from Windows 2000 during RC1, I've experienced a few crashes due to some bad ram, but beyond that it's been steady as a rock.
You must have a very different definition of stable than Unix users. Some of us like to be able to connect to the 'net without our machines being compromised.
Apparantly, these voices will be barely audible through white noise, and will only be available in japanese video format. I hear that bad things happen when you become too engrossed in trying to figure it all out though.
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I never claimed that the sun was stable. At what point did you adopt the belief that I did? ;)
Yes, but thankfully not all windows installations finish successfully
No, I (and he, probably) expected you to use reason for that.
This explanation smacks of pure denial (or outright lying) to me. CFCs have been proven to deplete ozone. We have a seen an exponential rise in CFC emissions over the last century. We have seen holes in the ozone lazer. We know that the greenhouse effect works. And the other explanation is... the sun, which has been around for billions of years, has suddenly gotten out of whack, but it's not our fault? I'm all for keeping an open mind to other possibilities, but that doesn't mean accepting the other possibilities when they're plainly motivated by other factors than reason.
"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work to the benefit of us all."
with a good compiler designed for the machine, something like:
#define NUMPROCS x
int array[NUMPROCS];
function getval(int indx) {
return array[indx];
}
while(1) {
for(i=0; iNUMPROCS; i++) {
array[i] ^= getval(i);
}
}
should probably be optimised for multiple processors. I'm not sure how fine-grained the optimisation is, but I doubt you have to manually launch threads to get some benefits from a parallel machine like blue gene.
It's OK, you can feel sorry for him when his is the last country, and he realises that it no longer functions alone :)
I don't really understand string theory, but I do try to keep up with it and stuff, as best I can. I heard once though, that "any problem" [presumably mathematical] "is solvable by adding extra dimensions". Can someone confirm this? And, if so, doesn't that make string theory, until proven, essentially a cop-out?
That's because they're used to IE, due to bundling.
Netscape 3 was perfectly adequate for most people. Heck, people still use that old crap today. It was IE's bundling, as you yourself said, that was anti-competitive. Moreover, windows itself is anti-competitive, and microsoft has been convicted of these crimes in different countries around the world. Period.
anything to distract owners from the fact that they supported a convicted monopoly by buying it I guess.
If they'd wanted to have an open IM system, they'd have jumped on board with Jabber ages ago. This isn't anything to do with "openness", in the sense that most of us understand it; it just means that they have a plugin API now. That makes it "extensible by third parties", not "open."
Please use correct terminology. The GPL is FREE SOFTWARE, not OSS.
Sounds like you have a bad case of upgrade infatuation ;)
You obviously haven't seen windows command line apps. They're MUCH worse, and just as common when you get into the few equally powerful things that windows actually offers. TIP: this *isn't* one of them; to do an upgrade like this on windows is *impossible*. The closest equivalent (upgrading via a CD you waited on, from windows 2000 to XP or something) takes longer, is less reliable, and breaks software.
For examples, see Microsoft's own new feature reports. There are plenty of them to choose from. I'll list one for you, but don't expect me to do your learning for you. The latest example I've seen is Vista Server Core, which is (still) a poor implementation of unix's modularity.
Losing $HOME, for anyone who cares about their data enough anyway, means restoring from backup (ie, somewhere outside $HOME, even if it's just in another dir). If something outside $HOME is compromised though, then then that user has risked many other systems and users; not just himself. In doing so, he made the 'net more difficult to police, and exposed himself to future troubles. We're all connected now.
Nope, sorry. Almost by definition, the odds are that I'm one of the observers who noticed.
Never mind. The whole thing is out of date already anyway. With Linux broadcatching apps like Democracy Player and KatchTV and Penguin TV, there's really no need to look at those sites again. Just run an app, and choose a show to watch :)
I didn't have time to read all of your comment right now. But I wanted to clear something up on your first point. Poor people do not have Cable/Satellite TVs and other relatively expensive modern items because our countries are wealthy. Quite the opposite is true, in fact. If they didn't have those things, they might not be so poor. Our society is based on marketing things that aren't truly necessary, to those who want to be happy, but aren't. This affects no one more than the poor, who work all day in crumby jobs to afford the things they don't need, as a way of making themselves feel better for having crumby jobs, a crumby neighbourhood, etc. Basically, it's slavery by another name, not wealth or freedom.
Grandparent is right, you're wrong. Unix is much more secure than windows, and windows is still catching up by incorporating those same design features, period.
Sorry, I just don't believe that. Even Microsoft themselves have said that Spyware on their OS etc. (NOT necessarily manually installed) is getting beyond the point of controlability. I have to conclude that you just don't realise what's happening on your system.
Much of the world can't tell its ass from its elbow
You must have a very different definition of stable than Unix users. Some of us like to be able to connect to the 'net without our machines being compromised.
Apparantly, these voices will be barely audible through white noise, and will only be available in japanese video format. I hear that bad things happen when you become too engrossed in trying to figure it all out though.