It makes sense to me that a program wouldn't need the source code to detect errors. Source code is just a way for humans to understand computer programs, there's no reason computers would find source code easier to work with. Especially if it's the sort of find/replace deal that it sounds like.
WEP has always been less secure than WPA, especially because you can just brute-force a WEP password.
That's not the problem. You can brute force a WPA-TKIP password if you capture the handshake as someone connects, it just takes a really long time so it's not practical to do anything except a dictionary attack (and that would still take a loooong time). The problem with WEP is that you don't need to brute force the password, you can figure it out by collecting enough data packets. The only think slowing you down is the speed of the network. To give you an idea, I downloaded the example packets from aircrack-ng (basically simulating collecting enough packets from a WEP network), and my computer cracked the password in less than 15 seconds.
Games - As if you could play games on a netbook..
Right...
And there's no games available for the iPhone either.
Apparently it's not obvious enough from the context, but when I say games are a reason for staying with Windows, I mean games for Windows don't work on Linux (for the most part). Sorry for not making that explicit. Yes you can write new games, but people want the games they have to work, and getting big budget games to work on Linux would require a massive shift. Luckily, the kind of games that people want to play but don't work on Linux tend to be the kind of games that wouldn't run on a netbook.
Gee, I guess there must be millions of businesses all over the world supplying their clerical staff with Windows/'Photshop'.
And here's me thinking they were sticking to Microsoft because of document format lockin.
I assume you mean people who embed VB scripts in the excel documents? I suppose that's another use for Windows, but I seriously hope no one has to type up Excel documents all day on a netbook -- which is the situation I was talking about, so same response as Photoshop. For other uses of MS Office files, OpenOffice opens them fine. Impress/Powerpoint compatibility is pretty crappy too, but most people give their presentations from their own laptop, so you could just give the presentation in Impress.
And I think format lock-in has very little to do with it. The reason businesses use Windows is because their systems administrators aren't familiar with Linux (and retraining everyone is more expensive than a Windows license), or because someone high up in the company has been drinking too much of the Microsoft Kool-Aid XP.
Yes, exactly the kind of games that run fine on Linux. When I said "games" I thought it was implied that I was talking about games that only work on Windows (because those are the games that would keep you stuck on Windows).
How does cutting people who can't afford to buy new cars out of the equation honestly represent the data? Whatever the reason, the numbers are what they are, and taking people out arbitrarily to inflate the numbers doesn't make sense.
You're trying to show that BluRay is more popular than it is by arbitrarily removing everyone who doesn't own a BluRay player. People who buy HDTV's and people who buy BluRay players are the same people, considering them the entire market misrepresents the reality that most people don't own HDTV's, and BluRay will continue to be a niche market until they do.
It's almost a 25% improvement. And that's just linearly. I don't feel like calculating area based on the diagonal, but that's the difference between a 17" monitor and a 21" monitor (or a 21" and a 26").
More like "I wouldn't buy HD gas because I don't have an HD car, and I won't buy an HD car because they're just as comfortable on normal roads but 10x more expensive. And sure, the the difference in comfort between the HD car and SD car is noticable on HD roads, but buying an HD road is also 10x more expensive than a SD road (and I won't need to replace my car or road for 10+ years)."
I was trying to point out how everyone acts like BluRay is a big deal and buying decisions have something to do with BluRay disk prices, when the vast majority of people don't even own HD TV's.
So you mean the orange-transporation companies won't get the idea to just include the toll in the price? And that applied to every company that uses roads. No one is going to sell something for less than it cost them to produce it. All that would change is moving the price from taxes to tolls. And there might even be a benefit. I can think of two:
1. People will be encouraged to drive less, because the more you drive, the more you pay for roads (and the price of the roads is more easily identifiable when you pay for it directly).
2. Gas prices would make more sense, allowing diesel to become popular in the U.S. (diesel is better than regular gas, but it's taxed at a higher rate because big trucks tend to use it).
I wouldn't buy a BluRay movie unless it was significantly cheaper than one on DVD. Why would I pay more for a disk that I need a more expensive player for that outputs exactly the same (on my non-$2000 TV)?
The headline is incorrect. It should read "Publicly posted voice mails are indexed by Google" or possible "Google Voice users find out how the Internet works".
Why would roads suddenly cost more if they weren't provided by the government? We pay for them now via taxes, so obviously the "tolls" aren't too high. The way we pay for them wouldn't change what they cost.
Yeah but you're thinking like a normal person. Remember, in the Ubuntu world, nothing is more important than a deadline, so even if the RC didn't boot, they'd still release on time (and leave the broken CD until the next major release). And by definition, that CD would be more stable than the next CD anyway (since it's older).
Couldn't you just use another webkit browser like Chromium, Konqueror, Epiphany or Midori? The only difference I'm aware of is the horrible font rendering on Macs (and old versions of Safari on Windows), but that shouldn't affect the layout.
But the internet hate machine is limited to harassing kids who like Twilight and making TIME polls say funny things. They're hardly a serious threat to anyone.
His command is actually even more complicated than it needs to be (deleting wine and reinstalling it). rm -rf ~/.wine && wine will delete the wine folder and rebuild it without the added pointlessness of reinstalling the binaries.
I meant 100% of a specific resource or group of resources. Like if someone owned 100% of the iron in the world. Obviously, the first response would be to try to find replacements for it, but I doubt that it could be completely replaced. And yes, i do think it's unrealistic.
So it's the free market's fault that people are too stupid to leave it alone? The fact that companies can use their money to influence the government is precisely the problem.
What I'm wondering is if there's a way to have the TPM chip sign the bootloader so you know if it has changed? Not encrypting it, just warning you if it changed, because if my motherboard fries I'd like to keep my data. It would be pretty useful, since presumably I'd know if I'd changed my motherboard.
I should've phrased that better. I meant monopolies that use their influence to raise prices. Steel and oil were extremely cheap while Carnegie Steel and Standard Oil were big. Had they used their influence to keep prices high, they would've been replaced by other businesses (or burned all of their money away buying up competitors).
Although, that does remind me of something I missed. It could be possible for one company to own 100% of the resources. It would take quite a bit of money to buy 100% of any product, but I guess it can't be discounted.
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It may be easier to fix the compiled version (at least for what they're doing).
Gigawatts? In my air!?
It makes sense to me that a program wouldn't need the source code to detect errors. Source code is just a way for humans to understand computer programs, there's no reason computers would find source code easier to work with. Especially if it's the sort of find/replace deal that it sounds like.
Exactly. Gmail is nice, but connecting to it from Evolution is nicer.
WEP has always been less secure than WPA, especially because you can just brute-force a WEP password.
That's not the problem. You can brute force a WPA-TKIP password if you capture the handshake as someone connects, it just takes a really long time so it's not practical to do anything except a dictionary attack (and that would still take a loooong time). The problem with WEP is that you don't need to brute force the password, you can figure it out by collecting enough data packets. The only think slowing you down is the speed of the network. To give you an idea, I downloaded the example packets from aircrack-ng (basically simulating collecting enough packets from a WEP network), and my computer cracked the password in less than 15 seconds.
Games - As if you could play games on a netbook..
Right...
And there's no games available for the iPhone either.
Apparently it's not obvious enough from the context, but when I say games are a reason for staying with Windows, I mean games for Windows don't work on Linux (for the most part). Sorry for not making that explicit. Yes you can write new games, but people want the games they have to work, and getting big budget games to work on Linux would require a massive shift. Luckily, the kind of games that people want to play but don't work on Linux tend to be the kind of games that wouldn't run on a netbook.
Gee, I guess there must be millions of businesses all over the world supplying their clerical staff with Windows/'Photshop'.
And here's me thinking they were sticking to Microsoft because of document format lockin.
I assume you mean people who embed VB scripts in the excel documents? I suppose that's another use for Windows, but I seriously hope no one has to type up Excel documents all day on a netbook -- which is the situation I was talking about, so same response as Photoshop. For other uses of MS Office files, OpenOffice opens them fine. Impress/Powerpoint compatibility is pretty crappy too, but most people give their presentations from their own laptop, so you could just give the presentation in Impress.
And I think format lock-in has very little to do with it. The reason businesses use Windows is because their systems administrators aren't familiar with Linux (and retraining everyone is more expensive than a Windows license), or because someone high up in the company has been drinking too much of the Microsoft Kool-Aid XP.
Yes, exactly the kind of games that run fine on Linux. When I said "games" I thought it was implied that I was talking about games that only work on Windows (because those are the games that would keep you stuck on Windows).
How does cutting people who can't afford to buy new cars out of the equation honestly represent the data? Whatever the reason, the numbers are what they are, and taking people out arbitrarily to inflate the numbers doesn't make sense.
You're trying to show that BluRay is more popular than it is by arbitrarily removing everyone who doesn't own a BluRay player. People who buy HDTV's and people who buy BluRay players are the same people, considering them the entire market misrepresents the reality that most people don't own HDTV's, and BluRay will continue to be a niche market until they do.
It's almost a 25% improvement. And that's just linearly. I don't feel like calculating area based on the diagonal, but that's the difference between a 17" monitor and a 21" monitor (or a 21" and a 26").
More like "I wouldn't buy HD gas because I don't have an HD car, and I won't buy an HD car because they're just as comfortable on normal roads but 10x more expensive. And sure, the the difference in comfort between the HD car and SD car is noticable on HD roads, but buying an HD road is also 10x more expensive than a SD road (and I won't need to replace my car or road for 10+ years)."
I was trying to point out how everyone acts like BluRay is a big deal and buying decisions have something to do with BluRay disk prices, when the vast majority of people don't even own HD TV's.
So you mean the orange-transporation companies won't get the idea to just include the toll in the price? And that applied to every company that uses roads. No one is going to sell something for less than it cost them to produce it. All that would change is moving the price from taxes to tolls. And there might even be a benefit. I can think of two:
1. People will be encouraged to drive less, because the more you drive, the more you pay for roads (and the price of the roads is more easily identifiable when you pay for it directly).
2. Gas prices would make more sense, allowing diesel to become popular in the U.S. (diesel is better than regular gas, but it's taxed at a higher rate because big trucks tend to use it).
I wouldn't buy a BluRay movie unless it was significantly cheaper than one on DVD. Why would I pay more for a disk that I need a more expensive player for that outputs exactly the same (on my non-$2000 TV)?
The headline is incorrect. It should read "Publicly posted voice mails are indexed by Google" or possible "Google Voice users find out how the Internet works".
Why would roads suddenly cost more if they weren't provided by the government? We pay for them now via taxes, so obviously the "tolls" aren't too high. The way we pay for them wouldn't change what they cost.
Yeah but you're thinking like a normal person. Remember, in the Ubuntu world, nothing is more important than a deadline, so even if the RC didn't boot, they'd still release on time (and leave the broken CD until the next major release). And by definition, that CD would be more stable than the next CD anyway (since it's older).
Couldn't you just use another webkit browser like Chromium, Konqueror, Epiphany or Midori? The only difference I'm aware of is the horrible font rendering on Macs (and old versions of Safari on Windows), but that shouldn't affect the layout.
But the internet hate machine is limited to harassing kids who like Twilight and making TIME polls say funny things. They're hardly a serious threat to anyone.
His command is actually even more complicated than it needs to be (deleting wine and reinstalling it). rm -rf ~/.wine && wine will delete the wine folder and rebuild it without the added pointlessness of reinstalling the binaries.
I meant 100% of a specific resource or group of resources. Like if someone owned 100% of the iron in the world. Obviously, the first response would be to try to find replacements for it, but I doubt that it could be completely replaced. And yes, i do think it's unrealistic.
So what exactly should we do? Leave the government alone and just accept that we're screwed?
So it's the free market's fault that people are too stupid to leave it alone? The fact that companies can use their money to influence the government is precisely the problem.
What I'm wondering is if there's a way to have the TPM chip sign the bootloader so you know if it has changed? Not encrypting it, just warning you if it changed, because if my motherboard fries I'd like to keep my data. It would be pretty useful, since presumably I'd know if I'd changed my motherboard.
I should've phrased that better. I meant monopolies that use their influence to raise prices. Steel and oil were extremely cheap while Carnegie Steel and Standard Oil were big. Had they used their influence to keep prices high, they would've been replaced by other businesses (or burned all of their money away buying up competitors).
Although, that does remind me of something I missed. It could be possible for one company to own 100% of the resources. It would take quite a bit of money to buy 100% of any product, but I guess it can't be discounted.