we use binary units because formatted capacity is measured in binary units. It seems you haven't read my previous post I was linking to. Please do:) Your affirmation is wrong. The correct affirmation would be "we use binary units because some OSes reports formatted capacity in binary units".
Proof I've read your post in its entirety is that I was going to write "MS Windows" (like I did in the aforementionned post) instead of "some OSes":) . My server at home is a FreeBSD, I launched fdisk and it reports size in "Meg", neither MB nor MiB. So I can't say:) What command did you enter to get your MiB size as MB ?
The formula to convert si units into binary units is si_unit * (125/128) which comes out to 0.9765625. For example: a 750GB hard drive is 750(125/128) = 732.421875 Gigabytes. Also your formula isn't accurate, 10^(3n) / 2^(10n) ratio depends on n. Your estimation only works for n=1 (KB/KiB). For GB/GiB, n=3, and ratio is approximatively 0,93.
One terabyte is equivalent to 1,000 gigabytes. Hey, where do you think you are ? It's Slashdot here ! Everyone knows that ! What people here want to know is how much that does in Library of Congress...
The only thing you're getting by saying that is a flamewar between 10 kinds of people, whose who count only in MB (and disagree with you) an those who count in both MB and MiB (and agree with you) !
For my take on the issue, see this precedent post of mine.
I've read an article one year ago or something like that about the same subject in a French magazine. Except it wasn't worded the same way... It was about people hardwired to believe... not to believe specifically in god(s). Maybe you believe in science or 'nature' or something like that, not really related to the usual meaning of 'religion'.
It's more like a cognitive mechanism acting as rassuring you that there is an 'external' explanation for phenomenons you don't have a rational explanation for.
-- Now I'm thinking about a sketch from a french humorist Fernand Raynaud, that is loosely related to the topic, here is a small excerpt, verbatim, will understand who can...
- Pourquoi que les vaches elles ont des cornes et puis que les chevaux ils en ont pas? - C'est... C'est étudié pour!
(actually google translation is quite correct, just replace 'studied' by 'designed')
What about this argument that OSs other than Microsoft ones don't get malware developped for them because they don't have significant marketshare, again ?
Companies pirating mass quanities of MS software was a major concern Really ? Why ?
Not only did it kill MS revenue Really ? Never heard that. Please show us the numbers of MS sales plumetting...
it screwed consumers as they thought the copies they were buying were legitimate. Really ? How would that screw them ?
(Rest of your babble built upon baseless and wrong assumptions. How can that be modded +5, this is just plain revisionism)
Good ol' electrical phones don't call by themselves. Typewriters don't send whatever sensitive information you might have written. Game console don't spam other players.
Basically you don't get into problems with appliances, like iPod or the forthcoming iPhone.
Problem is that a computer is a generic hub for multiple appliances.
On a business system, an administrator installs appliances, while users can't, and system should behave as intended.
But on a home computer ?
Having distinct accounts with authentification (and UAC is not authentification if you have admin rights) might only help educated users...
If you really want a car analogy... What about someone buying a car CD player, to eventually find that that CD player is blocking the steering wheel every so often ?
The standard is already perverted... When a "standard" says:
2.15.3.6 autoSpaceLikeWord95 (Emulate Word 95 Full-Width Character Spacing)
This element specifies that applications shall emulate the behavior of a previously existing word processing application (Microsoft Word 95) when determining the spacing between full-width East Asian characters in a document's content.
[Guidance: To faithfully replicate this behavior, applications must imitate the behavior of that application, which involves many possible behaviors and cannot be faithfully placed into narrative for this Office Open XML Standard. If applications wish to match this behavior, they must utilize and duplicate the output of those applications. It is recommended that applications not intentionally replicate this behavior as it was deprecated due to issues with its output, and is maintained only for compatibility with existing documents from that application. end guidance] What value has that standard. Instead of 6000 pages of "specification", they could have put the standard as "OOXML applications should render OOXML documents in the same way as MS-Office 2007 renders them".
It's shorter, more accurate, and only a little less helpful...
To cite Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers editor Denis Diderot:
Parmi quelques hommes excellents, il y en eut de faibles, de médiocres et de tout à fait mauvais. De là cette bigarrure dans l'ouvrage où l'on trouve une ébauche d'écolier, à côté d'un morceau de maître ; une sottise voisine d'une chose sublime, une page écrite avec force, pûreté, chaleur, jugement, raison, élégance au verso d'une page pauvre, mesquine, plate et misérable. (from the French entry)
Basically, he says that the quality of the Encyclopédie was quite heterogeneous, and that you would find dumb things next to a sublime thing.
Wikipedia is young. It will become better with time. How much time did it took to Encyclopaedia Britannica to become a trustable source ?
To the grandparent, the overhead of SSH is tiny. The time spent entering your password over telnet is going to be greater than the time spent doing a public key handshake on anything faster than a 486SX. If you are lazy, share private keys on all of your trusted machines. Exagerated. My home server is a Pentium 166 MX. I can exchange less than 10Mbps with ssh, while I can transfer a little more than 30Mbps with rsh unencrypted content. That's why I'm using rsh.
About IP spoofing, remember I was comparing rsh to telnet, not to ssh. Kerberos requires authentification so IP spoofing won't be enough, and IP spoofing can be detected checking MAC address. MAC address can also be spoofed, but it becomes more difficult to do that without being detected than a tcpdump.
Sending password in clear text is disturbing, even on a "trusted" network. I mean, it's so easy to do a tcpdump...
With rsh you don't even need to (instead edit.rhosts). And IIRC there's a possibility to use crypto like kerberos to authenticate (but I don't use it on my home LAN), while data is still sent without encryption.
But it already exists. So how does MS patent about a vaporware of them compares to an already working solution ? BTW it is fairly recent (patent pending) so I can understand that MS is genuinely unaware of prior art from a small business.
Apple sells hardware. IBM probably wouldn't have considered getting MacOS when opening the IBM PC compatible market. Maybe Gary Kildall's Digital Research would have that position. And if IBM didn't open the IMB PC compatible market maybe you would still have numerous competing hardware platform with Macs, Amigas, Ataris...
My guess is if someone's is going to be the next Microsoft, it's Google, with a full web-based software platform.
They're as 'off' as an ATX can be 'off' with the power supply switch to 'I'. You need a cold boot, but of course you still use some power. It's G2 state
I think Gates meant: I dare anybody to do that only once a month on the Windows machine. Almost. See how month is italicized in TFA. So he implicitly means that normal rate should be once a... week ? day ? hour ?:)
The interview has a lot of funny quotes...
I don't think the over 90 percent of the [population] who use Windows PCs think of themselves as dullards, or the kind of klutzes that somebody is trying to say they are. Of course, they're dinosaurs !
_Does the entire tenor of that campaign bother you, that Mac is the cool guy and PC-- _That's for my customers to decide. So please vote if you want Bill to be bothered or not about the entire tenor of that campaign. Erm sorry. You're probably not a customer, you're an end-user...
If you're interested, [Vista development chief] Jim Allchin will be glad to educate you feature by feature what the truth is. /me thinking about rats and room 101...
So you feel in 2010-2011 Microsoft will be back with the next big one? Absolutely. We'll tell you how Vista just wasn't good enough, and we'll know why, too. We need to wait and hear what consumers have to tell us. We don't know that, otherwise, of course, we would have done it this time. That explains all those features removed from V... erm... Longhorn ?
So can you give us an indication of what the next Windows will be like? Well, it will be more user-centric.
What does that mean? Bill then goes on explaining.Mac and and other Tiger mobility features
we've done some dramatic things [to improve security] in the code base. Apple hasn't done any of those things. No comment.
It's quite funny because he only shows how Microsoft products aren't ready for the business...
Face it, you can use a mixed environment, like Mac OS with Linux with FreeBSD with HP-UX with Solaris with... except MS-Windows than is unable (well, unwilling) to interoperate.
BTW, the concern with word documents is quite cheap. I never send.doc for anything else internal documentation where everyone has the same MS Office version, but use.rtf instead..doc isn't even interoperable between MS platforms (which Office version has the other guy ?)
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Your affirmation is wrong. The correct affirmation would be "we use binary units because some OSes reports formatted capacity in binary units".
Proof I've read your post in its entirety is that I was going to write "MS Windows" (like I did in the aforementionned post) instead of "some OSes"
So a 750 GB HD is only 698,49 GiB.
Seems you haven't read the past story about MS bypassing HOSTS file for microsoft sites.
The only thing you're getting by saying that is a flamewar between 10 kinds of people, whose who count only in MB (and disagree with you) an those who count in both MB and MiB (and agree with you) !
For my take on the issue, see this precedent post of mine.
Can you please let us know ?
I mean, I want to have the internal clock / BIOS clock set to GMT, but the task bar clock set to whatever timezone I'm in.
Of course you can always change your clock to show GMT (In fact, that's what I do as I only uses Windows for games at home), but that doesn't count.
I've read an article one year ago or something like that about the same subject in a French magazine. Except it wasn't worded the same way... It was about people hardwired to believe... not to believe specifically in god(s).
Maybe you believe in science or 'nature' or something like that, not really related to the usual meaning of 'religion'.
It's more like a cognitive mechanism acting as rassuring you that there is an 'external' explanation for phenomenons you don't have a rational explanation for.
--
Now I'm thinking about a sketch from a french humorist Fernand Raynaud, that is loosely related to the topic, here is a small excerpt, verbatim, will understand who can...
- Pourquoi que les vaches elles ont des cornes et puis que les chevaux ils en ont pas?
- C'est... C'est étudié pour!
(actually google translation is quite correct, just replace 'studied' by 'designed')
What about this argument that OSs other than Microsoft ones don't get malware developped for them because they don't have significant marketshare, again ?
(Rest of your babble built upon baseless and wrong assumptions. How can that be modded +5, this is just plain revisionism)
That's the real reason why they don't want to give source code to foreign armies... They don't want to be covered in shame :)
It will run... in 32bits mode (*)... if you only have 32MB of RAM...
I tried recently to install windows 95 on a p4 with 1.5GiB RAM. Install would fail with a "not enough memory" error message...
(*) You didn't mean on an Itanium, right ?
Your analogy is flawed.
Good ol' electrical phones don't call by themselves.
Typewriters don't send whatever sensitive information you might have written.
Game console don't spam other players.
Basically you don't get into problems with appliances, like iPod or the forthcoming iPhone.
Problem is that a computer is a generic hub for multiple appliances.
On a business system, an administrator installs appliances, while users can't, and system should behave as intended.
But on a home computer ?
Having distinct accounts with authentification (and UAC is not authentification if you have admin rights) might only help educated users...
If you really want a car analogy... What about someone buying a car CD player, to eventually find that that CD player is blocking the steering wheel every so often ?
When a "standard" says
This element specifies that applications shall emulate the behavior of a previously existing word processing application (Microsoft Word 95) when determining the spacing between full-width East Asian characters in a document's content.
[Guidance: To faithfully replicate this behavior, applications must imitate the behavior of that application, which involves many possible behaviors and cannot be faithfully placed into narrative for this Office Open XML Standard. If applications wish to match this behavior, they must utilize and duplicate the output of those applications. It is recommended that applications not intentionally replicate this behavior as it was deprecated due to issues with its output, and is maintained only for compatibility with existing documents from that application. end guidance] What value has that standard. Instead of 6000 pages of "specification", they could have put the standard as "OOXML applications should render OOXML documents in the same way as MS-Office 2007 renders them".
It's shorter, more accurate, and only a little less helpful...
To cite Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers editor Denis Diderot
Basically, he says that the quality of the Encyclopédie was quite heterogeneous, and that you would find dumb things next to a sublime thing.
Wikipedia is young. It will become better with time. How much time did it took to Encyclopaedia Britannica to become a trustable source ?
About IP spoofing, remember I was comparing rsh to telnet, not to ssh. Kerberos requires authentification so IP spoofing won't be enough, and IP spoofing can be detected checking MAC address. MAC address can also be spoofed, but it becomes more difficult to do that without being detected than a tcpdump.
What about rsh ?
.rhosts). And IIRC there's a possibility to use crypto like kerberos to authenticate (but I don't use it on my home LAN), while data is still sent without encryption.
Sending password in clear text is disturbing, even on a "trusted" network. I mean, it's so easy to do a tcpdump...
With rsh you don't even need to (instead edit
But it already exists. So how does MS patent about a vaporware of them compares to an already working solution ?
BTW it is fairly recent (patent pending) so I can understand that MS is genuinely unaware of prior art from a small business.
/me thinking of the "Learning Machine" in "The Under-Gifted"...
Get a lollipop for a row of good answers, one slap for a wrong answer (and you better not give multiple wrong answers in a row...)
Probably not.
Apple sells hardware. IBM probably wouldn't have considered getting MacOS when opening the IBM PC compatible market. Maybe Gary Kildall's Digital Research would have that position. And if IBM didn't open the IMB PC compatible market maybe you would still have numerous competing hardware platform with Macs, Amigas, Ataris...
My guess is if someone's is going to be the next Microsoft, it's Google, with a full web-based software platform.
They're as 'off' as an ATX can be 'off' with the power supply switch to 'I'. You need a cold boot, but of course you still use some power. It's G2 state
As in : If a video card is DX9 compatible, it is Vista Ready.
Well, apparently, at least their e-mail service doesn't exist anymore...
The interview has a lot of funny quotes... I don't think the over 90 percent of the [population] who use Windows PCs think of themselves as dullards, or the kind of klutzes that somebody is trying to say they are. Of course, they're dinosaurs ! _Does the entire tenor of that campaign bother you, that Mac is the cool guy and PC--
_That's for my customers to decide. So please vote if you want Bill to be bothered or not about the entire tenor of that campaign.
Erm sorry. You're probably not a customer, you're an end-user... If you're interested, [Vista development chief] Jim Allchin will be glad to educate you feature by feature what the truth is. /me thinking about rats and room 101... So you feel in 2010-2011 Microsoft will be back with the next big one?
Absolutely. We'll tell you how Vista just wasn't good enough, and we'll know why, too. We need to wait and hear what consumers have to tell us. We don't know that, otherwise, of course, we would have done it this time. That explains all those features removed from V... erm... Longhorn ? So can you give us an indication of what the next Windows will be like?
Well, it will be more user-centric.
What does that mean? Bill then goes on explaining
_Download http colon slash slash trojan dot com slash trojan dot exe
_Yes
_Run trojan dot exe
_Yes
Done !
Some more fuel about Apple being MS R&D department :) Well Xbox was an exception I guess...
;)
What would be news would be MS innovating, not announcing vaporware everytime someone in the IT field is announcing a consumer product
It's quite funny because he only shows how Microsoft products aren't ready for the business...
.doc for anything else internal documentation where everyone has the same MS Office version, but use .rtf instead. .doc isn't even interoperable between MS platforms (which Office version has the other guy ?)
Face it, you can use a mixed environment, like Mac OS with Linux with FreeBSD with HP-UX with Solaris with... except MS-Windows than is unable (well, unwilling) to interoperate.
BTW, the concern with word documents is quite cheap. I never send