I would like to add that many/most of the posts here dismiss and flame the article simply because of the author. While there may be valid reasons for this, I have yet to see calm, rational responses.
I have had tiring experiences dealing with management about Linux issues. It's simple for them (non-techie types) to understand "Windows" (and "Office") as a product, but sometimes difficult for "Linux".
What distro, GUI, file system should we use and why? What are the liability issues, if any. The abundance of choices can be daunting and difficult to qualify and quantify in business and, sometimes, technological terms -- and simply calling the boss "noob" doesn't really help:-)
Hell, I even had a hard time trying to decide which distro to use for my MythTV system. I ultimately chose Ubuntu, but I'm sure there could be a whole thread debating even this choice.
In a sense, he is right in that you cannot compare Windows and Linux, but you can compare Windows XP and Ubuntu 6.10, etc... His argument on security seems to focus on not knowing the credentials of the coders. People made a stink over a similar issue on Wikipedia, so maybe it's not so far out of line. There are problems with community developed systems and software, but there are also a lot of strengths, which the article fails to mention.
I think there are nuggets of truth in The Five Things. They may not be big, they may not be important, but I don't think they're in valid.
It annihilates matter when it comes into contact with it, releasing a burst of energy.
My understanding [which I admit is limited and may actually be completely lacking:-)] is that the anti-matter particles annihilate contacting matter when at (or close to) rest.
The idea for use in medical treatment is to propel anti-matter at such velocity so as to pass harmlessly through the body and to come to rest within the tumor, thus annihilating matter at that point.
It's finding the things that kill exclusively cancer cells that's the hard part.
You mean like this...
Reo-virus, or respiratory enteric orphan virus, is naturally occurring and believed to cause mild infections of the upper respiratory and gastro-intestinal tract in humans. However, in testing mice with implanted human cancer tumours, Lee and his team of researchers were able to show that reo-virus also has the ability to selectively kill a wide variety of cancer cells.
...Lee's findings have indicated that approximately two thirds of cancers cells bear an active Ras pathway and the remaining cells can be treated with a particular chemical to deactivate their anti-bodies against viruses.
If only treatments like these were ready in 2005... My wife of 20 years was diagnosed with a brain tumor (GBM) Thanksgiving 2005 and died in January 13, 2006. Nothing is special any more...
...it's our job to help DOT maximize the value of its Enterprise Agreement through the adoption of our technology...
We are Microsoft. Lower your Firewalls and surrender your systems. We will add your cultural and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your IT departments will adapt to service us.
Cancel or Allow? not to spoil the joke, but isn't this exactly how the system should respond?
Well... yes. In addition, the pilot should already have Admin rights, but perhaps "System" or "Trusted" will be required:-) [the latter being unobtainable for an interactive user as I understand it]
Of course, this will add a whole new dimension to the slogan, "Where do you want to go today?"
I foresee all manner of Clippy jokes (for both pilot and hijacker)...
For instance, in space the hero shouldn't be able to shout out instructions to the other astronauts from a spot several yards away.
In what movie did this ever happen? People talking to each other without communications equipment in the vaccuum of space?
He must have been thinking of the Futurama episode where Bender is lost in space. He talks, plays the piano, get tagged with some debris carrying little people who worship him as a God, brew him beer, then destroy themselves in a religious war (those on his tummy that believe in Bender, vs. those on his ass that don't). Eventually, Bender encounters a talking nebula that may actually be God. They chat for a while then Bender is flung back to Earth.
He's probably one of the only people at Google who can remember the Arpanet or what the Internet was like before the Web.
Hell, *I* remember ARPAnet and the Internet before the Web! BSD 4.2/3 on a VAX 785, Sun 3 and diskless clients, routing email using "host!host!user", ASCII terminals, Xerox LISP workstations and the days before EMACS... [ That last one can be used as either the beginning or end of a camp-fire horror story:-) ]
...and my server room. Damn v240's. Their power-supply fans are driving me nuts, too.
Saying what you see...
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Define - /etc?
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Disagree if you must, but (coming from 25+ years as a *nix sys-admin)/etc simply stands for et-cetera and is pronounced as such (or spelled out as E-T-C). The phrase "et-see" is simply silly.
As support, I ask how you pronounce "etc" when you read it in a book, magazine, etc...? How were you taught to pronounce it in your English class (apparently, so many years ago)?
...the failure was repeatable by dropping machines using the batteries from a certain height and at a certain angle...
A Sanyo spokes-person reports that the recall involves affixing a sticker to the affected batteries as to the proper height and angle from which to drop a laptop to avoid battery failure. All other procedures will void the warranty.
[Actually, their methodology reminds me of an old Police Squad episode where the detectives were trying to determine how a body fell into the chalk outline by repeatedly shooting volunteers from different angles. In the background was a pile of bodies from previous experiments.]
...we have traded dueling at dawn and other acts of violence over squabbles with lawyers and the court system...
Exactly, and as the expression of our disagreements become more "civilized" our tolerance grows. It's one thing to suffer through a lawsuit and quite another to lose a limb.
Reminds me of the Star Trek episode A Taste of Armageddon where the war between two planets has been going on for centuries as it's all computerized. Only once Kirk defies their orders to get vaporized and the *real* bombings are to ensue do they return to the negotiating table.
Microsoft's Mark Russinovich acknowledges the risk factor but says it was a 'design choice' to balance security with ease of use."
So, requiring software to use (possibly unnecessary) elevated privileges to install thus allowing unrestricted access to the system and circumventing all user security is a "design choice"?
As the Mac vs. PC commercial goes, "You are coming to a sad realization. Cancel or Allow?"
Taking a lesson from Sony, Motorola has declared this phone the winner in the bendy-slider phone format. In addition, remarked a Motorola talking-head, "we were going to call it the 'Eclectic Slide', but were afraid we'd get sued by Richard Silver".
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Nibbler knows what it is and from where it comes...
Hack / NetHack
[God I'm old.]
I have had tiring experiences dealing with management about Linux issues. It's simple for them (non-techie types) to understand "Windows" (and "Office") as a product, but sometimes difficult for "Linux".
What distro, GUI, file system should we use and why? What are the liability issues, if any. The abundance of choices can be daunting and difficult to qualify and quantify in business and, sometimes, technological terms -- and simply calling the boss "noob" doesn't really help :-)
Hell, I even had a hard time trying to decide which distro to use for my MythTV system. I ultimately chose Ubuntu, but I'm sure there could be a whole thread debating even this choice.
In a sense, he is right in that you cannot compare Windows and Linux, but you can compare Windows XP and Ubuntu 6.10, etc... His argument on security seems to focus on not knowing the credentials of the coders. People made a stink over a similar issue on Wikipedia, so maybe it's not so far out of line. There are problems with community developed systems and software, but there are also a lot of strengths, which the article fails to mention.
I think there are nuggets of truth in The Five Things. They may not be big, they may not be important, but I don't think they're in valid.
Not to be too rah-rah, but I bet the cocaine was still confiscated, so while the "perp" was released, the drugs are still off the street...
My understanding [which I admit is limited and may actually be completely lacking :-)] is that the anti-matter particles annihilate contacting matter when at (or close to) rest.
The idea for use in medical treatment is to propel anti-matter at such velocity so as to pass harmlessly through the body and to come to rest within the tumor, thus annihilating matter at that point.
Was I even close? (Be nice, I tried.)
You mean like this...
If only treatments like these were ready in 2005... My wife of 20 years was diagnosed with a brain tumor (GBM) Thanksgiving 2005 and died in January 13, 2006. Nothing is special any more...
Exclusions: Does not work on blondes.
[Could... not... resist... I'm a bad, bad person. :-) ]
What kind of EGCG levels do you get with that?
We are Microsoft. Lower your Firewalls and surrender your systems. We will add your cultural and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your IT departments will adapt to service us.
Resistance is futile.
Well... yes. In addition, the pilot should already have Admin rights, but perhaps "System" or "Trusted" will be required :-) [the latter being unobtainable for an interactive user as I understand it]
Of course, this will add a whole new dimension to the slogan, "Where do you want to go today?"
I foresee all manner of Clippy jokes (for both pilot and hijacker)...
You are attempting to engage the Remote Control System.
Cancel or Allow?
Hell, *I* remember ARPAnet and the Internet before the Web! BSD 4.2/3 on a VAX 785, Sun 3 and diskless clients, routing email using "host!host!user", ASCII terminals, Xerox LISP workstations and the days before EMACS... [ That last one can be used as either the beginning or end of a camp-fire horror story :-) ]
I'm getting old.
As support, I ask how you pronounce "etc" when you read it in a book, magazine, etc...? How were you taught to pronounce it in your English class (apparently, so many years ago)?
Ya, I thought so. :-)
Hotblack Desiato will love this for his new stunt ship! After he's revived from spending a year dead - for tax purposes...
A Sanyo spokes-person reports that the recall involves affixing a sticker to the affected batteries as to the proper height and angle from which to drop a laptop to avoid battery failure. All other procedures will void the warranty.
[Actually, their methodology reminds me of an old Police Squad episode where the detectives were trying to determine how a body fell into the chalk outline by repeatedly shooting volunteers from different angles. In the background was a pile of bodies from previous experiments.]
That explains the crystal honeycomb I received in the mail last week. It was engraved, "So long and thanks for all the flowers."
Tiger recommeded a 7 iron; get him a copy of the Rover SDK...
Perhaps someone can arrange a quail-hunting trip for Balmer with Cheney...
Exactly, and as the expression of our disagreements become more "civilized" our tolerance grows. It's one thing to suffer through a lawsuit and quite another to lose a limb.
Reminds me of the Star Trek episode A Taste of Armageddon where the war between two planets has been going on for centuries as it's all computerized. Only once Kirk defies their orders to get vaporized and the *real* bombings are to ensue do they return to the negotiating table.
OK, I'm a geek...
So, requiring software to use (possibly unnecessary) elevated privileges to install thus allowing unrestricted access to the system and circumventing all user security is a "design choice"?
As the Mac vs. PC commercial goes, "You are coming to a sad realization. Cancel or Allow?"
Taking a lesson from Sony, Motorola has declared this phone the winner in the bendy-slider phone format. In addition, remarked a Motorola talking-head, "we were going to call it the 'Eclectic Slide', but were afraid we'd get sued by Richard Silver".
It just finished starting up yesterday.
They misspelled "DRM protection".