The differences is that perl is a programming language and it's like other language you are allowed to use it to create as you wish.
On the other hand using gzip isn't a problem either. Because you can easily switch to a different program to do the same task or write you own and it would fit in just fine.
The problem as said so many time here is that the "core" fuctionility of this "product" which they get money from people for is from GPLed code.
Must as we get "flat rate" cable or DSL here in North America... it still cost you money for bandwidth with leased lines.
I do not mind paying a few dollars for the right to download at all. If it wasn't for loki and their delicious tribes 2 I would even buy a copy of mandrake and a copy of redhat. But as i want ot get the game i sort of need to buget...
SO prehaps that can be the next step micro payments for ftp use. I don't mind..
Hey i don't even need freaking see through drivers.
In haft life and as a result counter strike my card screws up at times and start making some objects flash rapidly. As a result if i move around abit i can get doors to flash just right for me to see through.
The result to say is a m4a1 at full auto..
I know it's "not right" but if you are in a game and already doing well do you want to quite haftlife and restart just so you don't cheat?
No need to say that while a magazine give you new info and say "playboy" give you new eh.. "enjoyment" a new copy of windows does what the old copy of windows does with maybe a few more improvements.
Say the switch from 3.1 to 9X. Now that was an improvment. You have way better graphics and a better interface. But I know of companies still running 3.1. Why? Cause it works!
The switch from 9X to 2000 was also reasonabled. It is more stabled ( a questionable statment in my own experiences ).
But look at the switch from NT to 2000. Sure you get plug and play. But that's not seriously an improvment. Most servers have what a bottom of the pile video card and some NICs you don't need plug and play.
What MS can do with this new pay scheme is not to offer you any reason to upgrade but make you do it. They can say whoops we don't offer lience for word 97 anymore sorry you'll have to pay for an upgrade to 2000.
Imagin getting the same copy of some magazine. For example sake take playboy again. Same photos same articals in a different lay out! all new ! woohoo!!!
Ok what about slashdot what does this page runs on? As I recall much less then what anandtech does with.
Now don't flame me but...
I have stop reading anandtech cause most of their "reviews" and "interviews" are just time wasters. Yes I visit their site once in a while now but I no long post to their boards nor do I visit their site each day.
This is another example of China's odd path of development. As it is the same in many developing countries of today.
The problems is like this. On one hand they have the "high tech" stuff already to some extend. On the other they still have people starving and dying from a mountain of problems.
Sure building this thing is a great idea in some ways. But I am sure bet you that there'll be problems and you'll never hear a single thing about it.
The way china works with projects like these is to make them and leave them.
A while back China had a terrible flood. Because 3 major dams they built were badly maintained. As a result the flood gates where slited up. What happened? IT flood much of china and caused what was estimated as the largest single lost of lives ever.
This is what china has always been like a disaster waiting to happen. There are laws and regulations but no real enforcement of it. And for this project they'll have a foreign company built it but most likely a chinese company's going to take over the day to day running of it. And that where the problems will occure.Not to mention the possible cost cutting that might happen at the contractor level.
Personally If this works out great. But then again i would cheer just as much if it falls over one day to prove we can't do just anything we want.
There are tons of books (sci-fi) where the oppressive power are eventually over thrown. There are also many writen where the power self corrects.
Dream on. Humanity is one heck of a complex machine. On one hand there are chances that this isn't bad and that there'll never be real problems resulting from big corps.
I tend to think otherwise. Simply all corps are not directly controlled by people. When you think about it you'll see what i mean.
Take Nike as an example. It's big corp it makes tons of money. It's a good examble because of it's business practice. Nikes is famous for it's sweat shops. It's a big deal and most people here knows about that.
So how did the sweat shops started? Nike no doubt has staffs dealing with each and every supplier. These staff are human with human aspirations. They want to do a good job in their boss's eyes. So they can get that promotion so they can afford to get that dream house.
Off they go to some developing country to see about this new factory. OF course they get the royle treatment from the boss of the factory. They might see signs of abuse and bad treatment of workers but heck it'll shave a few million a year off their balace sheet and well in their eyes they see that dream house not the bleeding hands or hot sweaty factory floor.
This is how corps work.. by the lowest human factors. Everyone just want to make that extra buck so I agree no this is a terrible thing.
Say MS does do this and it is a success the whole of North American and then the world are using hailstorm. Then what?
Say I am one of the bosses in the Russian mafia. I would be really interested in getting someone into MS right now to work on that project. To built in a back door or weakness and to keep it hidden. Untill the world is all under this hailstorm then what? Then I'll blackmail for million.
Or i blackmail Bill Gates and gain a controling share in MS and just suck the company dry.
On the other hand I can shut it all down destory everyone's data and basically ruin Microsoft and whatever method of communication that uses hailstorm.
The possibility are limitless. Just take the game Deus Ex for instance.. this is just like it..
So i guess PGP is going to get used alot more eh?
So now every single piece of software i'll have to check with PGP or check the check sum to make sure it's most likely legit..
Great what a pain in the ass.
I don't think the idea there was that material does things to people but that idea is that haveing alternative lives does. And i fully agree with that.
I started using the internet around 1995. This was before ICQ became very popular and before the large stock bubble and bust. Most you u must have been using it way before that.. but anyhow.
I was 14 at the time and the first thing i was pointed to by my real life friends were chats. Wow I though this is great! I have all these people here talking to me. No longer was I the shy geeky kid unable to articulate my ideas and thoughs.
I was really very happy and my internet usage increased everyday. I guess at that age when you were insecure and there were all these "cool" people you know in real life you wish you can be just like them in someway. You hate part of them at the same time of course. Cause you know that drinking to death every friday isn't right and you know drugs does them no good. So you don't do it you envi them for being popular with the girls yet you hate them because of how they are popular.
Online no one noticed you are a pimple faced youth who in real life can't say two words right to the girl you have a crush on.So you are happy you make cyber friends who you plan on meeting but never got around to.
I went along like that for about 2 years while I slowly grew up. And slowly I find that dispite being able to be free from the problems i face in real life I wasn't really happy. Sure my real life best friend actually meet up with his internet girl ( they are great friends now but not going out) but I really don't know any of my internet friends a great deal and I wasn't any better at social stuff in real life.
So slowly I stop using the chats. Here i was spending way too much on internet bills chatting all day to strangers whom i would most likely not ever meet. While i was missing the real life missing out on bonding with real people. So i stop totally one day. And started playing quake of course that's another story all together..
So the moral of my story is internet stuff doesn't hurt you. But when you life your internet life more then your real one you could be in real trouble. Especially if you were a kid just starting ot learn about life. IT could damage you irreversiblily.
You are right IBM makes tons of money supporting stuff they don't make. Like SUN hardware and dell PCs...
I am supprised that most people don't realise this.
Now that's a good point.
Anyone ever had problems with badly done drivers for windows?
The reason why windows crash so much have muchto do with the drivers. If OS X does get support from chinese and taiwanese manufacturer you'll get tons of badly writen code prehaps even in kernel space.. imagin that...
Of course these people will also have to hire some unix programer to do the drivers. And i don't think we are a dime a dozen..
It's new it's untested it runs on expensive Macs. Why would you want to use it?
You say lots of programs works for it fine.. but not all programs.
Plus yes you can have a easy to config system but you can't have in a short time lots of people trains to take on real world problems that real servers faces everyday.
So no I don't think that OS X will be a real threat until say at least 1 year after it's released.
The media ban I don't concider a problem. It's a very good thing sometime concidering that media pressure can and have been proven to cause problems with cases elsewhere.
I think those who do actually understood the story. That's good concidering it is a very traditional chinese story.
Those who don't many should either learn the language or watch it again and read the story. It's not what they say but what's not said. As corny as that might sound.
What I personally like about the film is that it is the first of the matrix like film with a proper story. I liked the matrix but it has a few large holes in the story line. This story isn't scientifically correct or what so ever. But it's a fantacy story where magic is real. Where as in the matrix it's quite hard to imagin why the machine would keep any humans alive. For power? No shit that's what nuclear plants are for.
CTHD is more drama then kung fu so don't compair it to what Jacky Chan can do.. Speaking of which at least none of the people in CTHD farthered illegitmate children.
I hate jet lag. I should have never gone back here to HK for christmas.. I should sleep so seeya.
Actually if you ever heard from the MS people recuiting on campus you'll have to go "WTF?!!!". Cause work this out... they'll pay for your relocation, find you a place to stay, give you full health and benifits and other money eating shit. All for interns that stays for one summer. And you know what these interns do? We had a girl from Queen's who went and she tested encarta. In another word she used encarta and write up on bugs.
So that my friends is why it cost so damn much to get and run windows. Cause MS has to pay for all these extras and still make Billy millions every hour.
There can hardly be a reason to say MS isn't a monopoly. There isn't another way a company can afford to do this for each and every intern, they say about 700 each summer, they take in. The economics just don't work that way.
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The differences is that perl is a programming language and it's like other language you are allowed to use it to create as you wish.
On the other hand using gzip isn't a problem either. Because you can easily switch to a different program to do the same task or write you own and it would fit in just fine.
The problem as said so many time here is that the "core" fuctionility of this "product" which they get money from people for is from GPLed code.
Must as we get "flat rate" cable or DSL here in North America... it still cost you money for bandwidth with leased lines. I do not mind paying a few dollars for the right to download at all. If it wasn't for loki and their delicious tribes 2 I would even buy a copy of mandrake and a copy of redhat. But as i want ot get the game i sort of need to buget... SO prehaps that can be the next step micro payments for ftp use. I don't mind..
Hey i don't even need freaking see through drivers.
In haft life and as a result counter strike my card screws up at times and start making some objects flash rapidly. As a result if i move around abit i can get doors to flash just right for me to see through.
The result to say is a m4a1 at full auto..
I know it's "not right" but if you are in a game and already doing well do you want to quite haftlife and restart just so you don't cheat?
I must agree here. I think whever made that comment has either no childhood forgotten it or is just a kid.
There is a world of differences between 13 year old and even a 14 year old.
No need to say that while a magazine give you new info and say "playboy" give you new eh.. "enjoyment" a new copy of windows does what the old copy of windows does with maybe a few more improvements.
Say the switch from 3.1 to 9X. Now that was an improvment. You have way better graphics and a better interface. But I know of companies still running 3.1. Why? Cause it works!
The switch from 9X to 2000 was also reasonabled. It is more stabled ( a questionable statment in my own experiences ).
But look at the switch from NT to 2000. Sure you get plug and play. But that's not seriously an improvment. Most servers have what a bottom of the pile video card and some NICs you don't need plug and play.
What MS can do with this new pay scheme is not to offer you any reason to upgrade but make you do it. They can say whoops we don't offer lience for word 97 anymore sorry you'll have to pay for an upgrade to 2000.
Imagin getting the same copy of some magazine. For example sake take playboy again. Same photos same articals in a different lay out! all new ! woohoo!!!
Ok what about slashdot what does this page runs on? As I recall much less then what anandtech does with.
Now don't flame me but...
I have stop reading anandtech cause most of their "reviews" and "interviews" are just time wasters. Yes I visit their site once in a while now but I no long post to their boards nor do I visit their site each day.
Some one here linked a page at CNN.com and yes the server is NT. And yes it was the server that went down.
How terribly true.
This is another example of China's odd path of development. As it is the same in many developing countries of today.
The problems is like this. On one hand they have the "high tech" stuff already to some extend. On the other they still have people starving and dying from a mountain of problems.
Sure building this thing is a great idea in some ways. But I am sure bet you that there'll be problems and you'll never hear a single thing about it.
The way china works with projects like these is to make them and leave them.
A while back China had a terrible flood. Because 3 major dams they built were badly maintained. As a result the flood gates where slited up. What happened? IT flood much of china and caused what was estimated as the largest single lost of lives ever.
This is what china has always been like a disaster waiting to happen. There are laws and regulations but no real enforcement of it. And for this project they'll have a foreign company built it but most likely a chinese company's going to take over the day to day running of it. And that where the problems will occure.Not to mention the possible cost cutting that might happen at the contractor level.
Personally If this works out great. But then again i would cheer just as much if it falls over one day to prove we can't do just anything we want.
You only get state ran stuff now in Russia and China..
Yes there are alternate choices but hardly very much.
There are tons of books (sci-fi) where the oppressive power are eventually over thrown. There are also many writen where the power self corrects.
Dream on. Humanity is one heck of a complex machine. On one hand there are chances that this isn't bad and that there'll never be real problems resulting from big corps.
I tend to think otherwise. Simply all corps are not directly controlled by people. When you think about it you'll see what i mean.
Take Nike as an example. It's big corp it makes tons of money. It's a good examble because of it's business practice. Nikes is famous for it's sweat shops. It's a big deal and most people here knows about that.
So how did the sweat shops started? Nike no doubt has staffs dealing with each and every supplier. These staff are human with human aspirations. They want to do a good job in their boss's eyes. So they can get that promotion so they can afford to get that dream house.
Off they go to some developing country to see about this new factory. OF course they get the royle treatment from the boss of the factory. They might see signs of abuse and bad treatment of workers but heck it'll shave a few million a year off their balace sheet and well in their eyes they see that dream house not the bleeding hands or hot sweaty factory floor.
This is how corps work.. by the lowest human factors. Everyone just want to make that extra buck so I agree no this is a terrible thing.
This brings up a very interesting idea..
Say MS does do this and it is a success the whole of North American and then the world are using hailstorm. Then what?
Say I am one of the bosses in the Russian mafia. I would be really interested in getting someone into MS right now to work on that project. To built in a back door or weakness and to keep it hidden. Untill the world is all under this hailstorm then what? Then I'll blackmail for million.
Or i blackmail Bill Gates and gain a controling share in MS and just suck the company dry.
On the other hand I can shut it all down destory everyone's data and basically ruin Microsoft and whatever method of communication that uses hailstorm.
The possibility are limitless. Just take the game Deus Ex for instance.. this is just like it..
I think OS/X runs with a BSD kernel on top of a Mach kernel.
In another word it is not neccessery in many aspects.. but of course i don't know the full story.
So i guess PGP is going to get used alot more eh? So now every single piece of software i'll have to check with PGP or check the check sum to make sure it's most likely legit.. Great what a pain in the ass.
I don't think the idea there was that material does things to people but that idea is that haveing alternative lives does. And i fully agree with that.
I started using the internet around 1995. This was before ICQ became very popular and before the large stock bubble and bust. Most you u must have been using it way before that.. but anyhow.
I was 14 at the time and the first thing i was pointed to by my real life friends were chats. Wow I though this is great! I have all these people here talking to me. No longer was I the shy geeky kid unable to articulate my ideas and thoughs.
I was really very happy and my internet usage increased everyday. I guess at that age when you were insecure and there were all these "cool" people you know in real life you wish you can be just like them in someway. You hate part of them at the same time of course. Cause you know that drinking to death every friday isn't right and you know drugs does them no good. So you don't do it you envi them for being popular with the girls yet you hate them because of how they are popular.
Online no one noticed you are a pimple faced youth who in real life can't say two words right to the girl you have a crush on.So you are happy you make cyber friends who you plan on meeting but never got around to.
I went along like that for about 2 years while I slowly grew up. And slowly I find that dispite being able to be free from the problems i face in real life I wasn't really happy. Sure my real life best friend actually meet up with his internet girl ( they are great friends now but not going out) but I really don't know any of my internet friends a great deal and I wasn't any better at social stuff in real life.
So slowly I stop using the chats. Here i was spending way too much on internet bills chatting all day to strangers whom i would most likely not ever meet. While i was missing the real life missing out on bonding with real people. So i stop totally one day. And started playing quake of course that's another story all together..
So the moral of my story is internet stuff doesn't hurt you. But when you life your internet life more then your real one you could be in real trouble. Especially if you were a kid just starting ot learn about life. IT could damage you irreversiblily.
I guess you can say with the industrial rev we got running water taps in everyone's house ....
Maybe in 5 year's time we'll be seeing new houses with liquid gas taps.. and i though washing my hands in the winter sucks..
Then they are just shutting out much of the world as their gene resource.
As we know inbreeding causes problems and diversity helps develope new traits that might be useful say if something worst then ebola comes around.
You are right IBM makes tons of money supporting stuff they don't make. Like SUN hardware and dell PCs... I am supprised that most people don't realise this.
Now that's a good point. Anyone ever had problems with badly done drivers for windows? The reason why windows crash so much have muchto do with the drivers. If OS X does get support from chinese and taiwanese manufacturer you'll get tons of badly writen code prehaps even in kernel space.. imagin that... Of course these people will also have to hire some unix programer to do the drivers. And i don't think we are a dime a dozen..
It's new it's untested it runs on expensive Macs. Why would you want to use it?
You say lots of programs works for it fine.. but not all programs.
Plus yes you can have a easy to config system but you can't have in a short time lots of people trains to take on real world problems that real servers faces everyday.
So no I don't think that OS X will be a real threat until say at least 1 year after it's released.
The media ban I don't concider a problem. It's a very good thing sometime concidering that media pressure can and have been proven to cause problems with cases elsewhere.
Some likes it some don't.
I think those who do actually understood the story. That's good concidering it is a very traditional chinese story.
Those who don't many should either learn the language or watch it again and read the story. It's not what they say but what's not said. As corny as that might sound.
What I personally like about the film is that it is the first of the matrix like film with a proper story. I liked the matrix but it has a few large holes in the story line. This story isn't scientifically correct or what so ever. But it's a fantacy story where magic is real. Where as in the matrix it's quite hard to imagin why the machine would keep any humans alive. For power? No shit that's what nuclear plants are for.
CTHD is more drama then kung fu so don't compair it to what Jacky Chan can do.. Speaking of which at least none of the people in CTHD farthered illegitmate children.
I hate jet lag. I should have never gone back here to HK for christmas.. I should sleep so seeya.
concidering that a PC's I/O ability is nothing to write home about I think the S/390 would actually provide a improvement in speed.
From what I read there isn't any final say on this yet. AS in it might be a feature you can't turn off depending on MS>
Actually if you ever heard from the MS people recuiting on campus you'll have to go "WTF?!!!". Cause work this out... they'll pay for your relocation, find you a place to stay, give you full health and benifits and other money eating shit. All for interns that stays for one summer. And you know what these interns do? We had a girl from Queen's who went and she tested encarta. In another word she used encarta and write up on bugs.
So that my friends is why it cost so damn much to get and run windows. Cause MS has to pay for all these extras and still make Billy millions every hour.
There can hardly be a reason to say MS isn't a monopoly. There isn't another way a company can afford to do this for each and every intern, they say about 700 each summer, they take in. The economics just don't work that way.