Before you pounce on the Windows Registry, just compare the number of times you have had to regedit a value, to the number of times you have edited a conf file. I think you will find the argument stands.
Actually, not.
I edited far more registers than conf files. Using linuxconf and dselect keeps you far from many conf files; actually I just modify SaMBa and Exim by hand. And Apache, but I configure it by hard also on the Windows installations I manage.
MAC addresses can be easily changed nowadays, even for the lowly Broadcomm gigabit NIC I have in my 15£ MSI planar.
I'm not entirely sure about the CPU-ID tho.
It does everything you ask for, except it has no internal hard drive so you have to connect an external USB/firewire one.
And it desn't do email, but you can get the firmware source from the website, and it supports site-to-site IPsec and other goodies. Installation of software is not complicated.
I used to works as IT support for a radiotheraphy group that developed particle accelerators "mods" for cancer treatment.
It turns out that the cure worked, it got rid of the optical nerve cancer that was killing the patient. Too bad the patient was had diabetes and died 1 week later. She was 80 as well.
So it could perfevtly be that the 50th patient died of something else, like car accident, work accident, etc etc.
Well, actually I used to do work with (IT support, nothing fancy) for part of the SUCIMA http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelconf/d03/papers/ CT09.pdf team (Badano, Ferrando e Pezzetta).
Well, the monitor uses a CCD indeed. Problem with CCDs is that usually it's a destructive monitor (it destroys the particle beam), so you must do some tricks (read the pdf) if you want to keep it.
Unfortunately, however this is still a long way from sentient AI. Something you could literally talk to and it would be correct in factual based questions 99% of the time and be able to think abstractly.
To achieve sentience it doesn't have to be correct, it has to to believe to be correct.
I don't think so but particle accelerators have to be properly set up after earthquakes, and LEP at CERN was sensible to moon phases (literally, also the earth itself is bent during tides).
Well, a couple of years ago I've downloaded it once and installed in about 50 computers. I even got a GMail account for it when it was still a "zomg zomg you have a GMail account you must get me one!!!111one111" craze. So we are way more than even.
Perl is not ugly, just really really idiomatic.
As with all idiomatic languages, you can't grok what something means if you're not exposed to it.
It's just a matter of "if you can't stand the line noise, get out from the code-kitchen!".:)
Even if I can understand easily Perl code, what I can't really stand is C pointer arithmetic if it steps too far...
I don't have an antivirus and my computer is virus free.
Once every 2 years I install an antivirus, update it, run it, it doesn't find anything, uninstall.
I use OO.org, Firefox, Mozilla. Most important, I sit behind a hardware firewall and my TinyFirewall is customized to death.
"I found myself thinking: "I can understand why German universities declined in the 1930s, after they excluded Jews. But surely they should have bounced back by now."
What kind of racist bullshit is that? He is blatantly promoting the idea that a, "Jew world conspiracy" is a good thing.
No. To put it mildly, number of great nuclear physicists were jews (or had jew relatives) in the 1930s, and racial laws kicket them out of Europe to the US and managed to give a huge amount of kill to build the atomic bomb in American hands instead of keeping in Europe. It's not that they were so many, just thet thay were researching the right stuff.
Just to mention a few names that come up: Albert Einstein, Emilio Segrè, Bruno Pontecorvo, Enrico Fermi's wife. Segrè and Pontecorvo were in Fermi's team (Panisperna Boys) in Rome where they discovered slow neutrons (crucial for fission).
As far as I can see (I know much better Italian and Eurozone politics than U.S.) your (U.S.) main problem is with detachment from your government. Like, for example, anarchists (both individualist and syndacalist currents), worldwide secessionists et al.
Government is concerned with mantaining, using and cultivating power.
Politics is concerned with community issues.
You can have grassroots politics, not grassroots government.
When you bring good politicians (people concerned in the right way with the right issues) to a place polluted with bad, bad customes of holding to power, usually they get tainted and their focus switches from their agenda (used in a neutral way here) to nurturing power. But sometimes they don't; IMHO It's just a matter of luck. In this regard in Italy in we've been having mixed results with socialdemocratic governments (too many agendas) and really bad luck with center-left ones (usually intent in creating laws to enforce monopolies held by ministers and in creating laws to give them legal immunity).
Anyway, we're sliding offtopic. But it's an argument I would like to continue elsewhere.:)
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The good part is that in my fatherland cops are always too happy to step on other people's toes. Unless they are really rich toes, I mean.
MAC addresses can be easily changed nowadays, even for the lowly Broadcomm gigabit NIC I have in my 15£ MSI planar.
I'm not entirely sure about the CPU-ID tho.
It does everything you ask for, except it has no internal hard drive so you have to connect an external USB/firewire one.
And it desn't do email, but you can get the firmware source from the website, and it supports site-to-site IPsec and other goodies. Installation of software is not complicated.
And it's a damn fine router.
I used to works as IT support for a radiotheraphy group that developed particle accelerators "mods" for cancer treatment.
So it could perfevtly be that the 50th patient died of something else, like car accident, work accident, etc etc.It turns out that the cure worked, it got rid of the optical nerve cancer that was killing the patient. Too bad the patient was had diabetes and died 1 week later. She was 80 as well.
Well, actually I used to do work with (IT support, nothing fancy) for part of the SUCIMA http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelconf/d03/papers/ CT09.pdf team (Badano, Ferrando e Pezzetta).
Well, the monitor uses a CCD indeed. Problem with CCDs is that usually it's a destructive monitor (it destroys the particle beam), so you must do some tricks (read the pdf) if you want to keep it.
In every U.K. home you need at least 2 of them. I had one at my granny home in Italy as well.
If you really strive for it, even ones with legs.
It's about sharing the data to make the stata and intentions known, not to trick the other segments... :)
Smart question. About 1 person in 5-10 has both a laptop and a desktop, so let's say 40.
One CPU, two cores.
I don't think so but particle accelerators have to be properly set up after earthquakes, and LEP at CERN was sensible to moon phases (literally, also the earth itself is bent during tides).
Well, a couple of years ago I've downloaded it once and installed in about 50 computers. I even got a GMail account for it when it was still a "zomg zomg you have a GMail account you must get me one!!!111one111" craze. So we are way more than even.
Perl is not ugly, just really really idiomatic. As with all idiomatic languages, you can't grok what something means if you're not exposed to it. :)
It's just a matter of "if you can't stand the line noise, get out from the code-kitchen!".
Even if I can understand easily Perl code, what I can't really stand is C pointer arithmetic if it steps too far...
Actually they plan to do both lead-lead and hydrogen-antihydrogen collisions.
I don't have an antivirus and my computer is virus free.
Once every 2 years I install an antivirus, update it, run it, it doesn't find anything, uninstall. I use OO.org, Firefox, Mozilla. Most important, I sit behind a hardware firewall and my TinyFirewall is customized to death.
Just to mention a few names that come up: Albert Einstein, Emilio Segrè, Bruno Pontecorvo, Enrico Fermi's wife. Segrè and Pontecorvo were in Fermi's team (Panisperna Boys) in Rome where they discovered slow neutrons (crucial for fission).
As far as I can see (I know much better Italian and Eurozone politics than U.S.) your (U.S.) main problem is with detachment from your government. Like, for example, anarchists (both individualist and syndacalist currents), worldwide secessionists et al. :)
Government is concerned with mantaining, using and cultivating power.
Politics is concerned with community issues.
You can have grassroots politics, not grassroots government.
When you bring good politicians (people concerned in the right way with the right issues) to a place polluted with bad, bad customes of holding to power, usually they get tainted and their focus switches from their agenda (used in a neutral way here) to nurturing power. But sometimes they don't; IMHO It's just a matter of luck. In this regard in Italy in we've been having mixed results with socialdemocratic governments (too many agendas) and really bad luck with center-left ones (usually intent in creating laws to enforce monopolies held by ministers and in creating laws to give them legal immunity). Anyway, we're sliding offtopic. But it's an argument I would like to continue elsewhere.
It's good form, when advising a book, to spell its author name right.
Beside that, I can't see the point between "Il Principe" and this discussion.
It makes much more sense if written $$AA...
Funny how can you say the same about U.S.A.
This way you can even even use the same scale and appreciate the real proportion:l anguage%2C+python+language%2C+ruby+on+rails
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