Fact: *nix is more secure by design than windows. I do not think anyone disputes this.
If you were talking about Windows 98, yeah, you'd be absolutely right. You're just repeating a reputation that hasn't been true since the XP days. XP was based off of NT and has permissions and users, just like *nix.
A lot of PC people like to talk about how expensive macs are but they spend a lot more money upgrading their hardware every year.
You don't know what you're talking about. The only niche that upgrades their PC every year is the high-end gamer crowd, and even that has died down a lot.
Do you find leaving mail on a POP3 server is better than downloading locally to an mbox ?
One thing to be careful about, if you meant download and then delete from the server, is having access when you're not "local". I used to do this and screwed myself over once when I needed access to a particular email while on travel.
How on earth could you fill up 3 hours of time with questions about a traffic ticket? And second, what judge would allow that length of questioning? Most of them are short on patience and have a heavy workload.
If the music was worth buying, people would buy it.
When I want to listen to a song, I just find it on YouTube. The last time I bought a song was from iTunes almost 10 years ago. There really isn't any need to buy music, and I'm middle aged. It's even worse with the younger generation. Kids growing up with free streaming or downloads are replacing the traditional purchasers of music. It's a dying model.
People have always been complaining about the quality of the current generation of music. It's not why sales are down.
If not for the Apple/NeXtStep merger, we would all be stuck on windows 2000 UIs running VB and C/C++ applications that crashed often with memory leaks all over the place.
Oh please. First of all, you can go back to Smalltalk for object-oriented, garbage collected GUIs, and it pulled object-orientation from Simula, garbage collection from Lisp, and GUIs from Doug Engelbart. Variations on these ideas have been "in the air" for a long time.
Anyways, dismissing a company like Sun in favor of NeXT is rather dubious.
Apparently it's supposed to look like a submerged cube. I didn't realize that until I read an article on it. Once you look at it that way, it is kind of neat, but I don't think it works well in practice.
Sun and SGI made more money and ran a lot longer but for some reason had a lot less to show for it in the final analysis. In the Valhalla of computer companies they both preside over an empire of antiques and misfit toys. NeXT not so much.
Doesn't add up to me. What did NeXT have, in the final analysis? What does it preside over?
Also, love it, hate it, or "meh", Java is still very big today.
Do you really think Congress would pass a law that would allow cash tracking? Think of the mayhem such a law would create with the current "system" of campaign financing and "political contributions." Get real. This will never happen.
They'll just exempt themselves from the law by finding a "legitimate" need for such an exception.
I always though that the dollar bill, as opposed to just any money in the world, was made on purpose easy to counterfeit so that it would be used as the de facto worldwide currency.
I doubt it. Massive counterfeiting can easily make your currency worthless. The US gained worldwide currency status not by being easy to counterfeit, but by having a huge economy and a relatively stable currency.
Many of the security measures are just very old, and they've been conservative in introducing new ones.
We are talking about law. Anonymous is acting illegally to shut down somebody practicing free speech. If this free speech was "over the line", as you suggested, then you could argue it shouldn't be legally protected in the first place.
Apparently you don't even need to see it to recognize how much it sucks.
Apparently you think because you didn't like a movie that it must not be good.
I thought it looked pretty stupid before I saw it myself, not being a comic-guy either, but after seeing it I thought it was good (not great, but good).
It sucked for you, fine, but a lot of people liked the movie. It's obvious from reading the reviews here that those who didn't mostly just wanted more action. That's fine, too, but not everybody needs that.
I just don't get the bashing of the movie V. I never read the comic, but I did read up on it on Wikipedia, and the same ideas are still there. First, the story takes place in England. Second, it involves the rise of a 1984-style fascist government. Third, V sets out to take down the government.
A lot of the plot is the same from the comic. They made some safe changes (like Natalie isn't a prostitute), but I really fail to see how the movie "pandered to a very narrow political agenda".
Algorithms are unpatentable. All the current patents are about the application of a particular algorithm to a particular application.
That's a meaningless statement, in that the same applies to a mechanism in the physical world. It has to do something useful. So for all practical purposes, algorithms (like RSA, for instance) are patentable.
Marketing is about coming up with a product that the market wants. Sales is about telling everyone your product exists.
You're confusing the terms yourself. A big part of marketing is getting the word out about the product. Sales is typically focused on closing the deal.
You don't understand free speech either. Getting fired is one thing. Criminal actions taken against you is another. The laws just don't fly out the window because somebody got offended.
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Fact: *nix is more secure by design than windows. I do not think anyone disputes this.
If you were talking about Windows 98, yeah, you'd be absolutely right. You're just repeating a reputation that hasn't been true since the XP days. XP was based off of NT and has permissions and users, just like *nix.
A lot of PC people like to talk about how expensive macs are but they spend a lot more money upgrading their hardware every year.
You don't know what you're talking about. The only niche that upgrades their PC every year is the high-end gamer crowd, and even that has died down a lot.
*whoosh*
This is very different.... these are offprints and Turing simply recieved them in the post and handed them out to people he wanted to read them.
Ooh, he touched them! Surely that makes them worth... nope, still nothing.
Do you find leaving mail on a POP3 server is better than downloading locally to an mbox ?
One thing to be careful about, if you meant download and then delete from the server, is having access when you're not "local". I used to do this and screwed myself over once when I needed access to a particular email while on travel.
US interventionism doesn't prevent dictatorships, it creates them.
West Germany?
How on earth could you fill up 3 hours of time with questions about a traffic ticket? And second, what judge would allow that length of questioning? Most of them are short on patience and have a heavy workload.
When was the last big superstar group? Bon Jovi, wasn't it?
What the fuck, man, get out of the 80s.
Right now I'm listening to Duke Ellington
Does he have a performance better than Nat King Cole's "Unforgettable"?
If the music was worth buying, people would buy it.
When I want to listen to a song, I just find it on YouTube. The last time I bought a song was from iTunes almost 10 years ago. There really isn't any need to buy music, and I'm middle aged. It's even worse with the younger generation. Kids growing up with free streaming or downloads are replacing the traditional purchasers of music. It's a dying model.
People have always been complaining about the quality of the current generation of music. It's not why sales are down.
If not for the Apple/NeXtStep merger, we would all be stuck on windows 2000 UIs running VB and C/C++ applications that crashed often with memory leaks all over the place.
Oh please. First of all, you can go back to Smalltalk for object-oriented, garbage collected GUIs, and it pulled object-orientation from Simula, garbage collection from Lisp, and GUIs from Doug Engelbart. Variations on these ideas have been "in the air" for a long time.
Anyways, dismissing a company like Sun in favor of NeXT is rather dubious.
Apparently it's supposed to look like a submerged cube. I didn't realize that until I read an article on it. Once you look at it that way, it is kind of neat, but I don't think it works well in practice.
Sun and SGI made more money and ran a lot longer but for some reason had a lot less to show for it in the final analysis. In the Valhalla of computer companies they both preside over an empire of antiques and misfit toys. NeXT not so much.
Doesn't add up to me. What did NeXT have, in the final analysis? What does it preside over?
Also, love it, hate it, or "meh", Java is still very big today.
My god, man, where are you getting your tuna from?
You don't want to know.
Do you really think Congress would pass a law that would allow cash tracking?
Think of the mayhem such a law would create with the current "system" of campaign financing and "political contributions."
Get real. This will never happen.
They'll just exempt themselves from the law by finding a "legitimate" need for such an exception.
I always though that the dollar bill, as opposed to just any money in the world, was made on purpose easy to counterfeit so that it would be used as the de facto worldwide currency.
I doubt it. Massive counterfeiting can easily make your currency worthless. The US gained worldwide currency status not by being easy to counterfeit, but by having a huge economy and a relatively stable currency.
Many of the security measures are just very old, and they've been conservative in introducing new ones.
So, maybe you just missed the diamond in the rough.
That phrase doesn't mean what you think:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diamond+in+the+rough
The "rough" part refers to an uncut/unpolished diamond.
We are talking about law. Anonymous is acting illegally to shut down somebody practicing free speech. If this free speech was "over the line", as you suggested, then you could argue it shouldn't be legally protected in the first place.
Apparently you don't even need to see it to recognize how much it sucks.
Apparently you think because you didn't like a movie that it must not be good.
I thought it looked pretty stupid before I saw it myself, not being a comic-guy either, but after seeing it I thought it was good (not great, but good).
It sucked for you, fine, but a lot of people liked the movie. It's obvious from reading the reviews here that those who didn't mostly just wanted more action. That's fine, too, but not everybody needs that.
Mode me troll and flamebait, I don't give a fuck.
Yes you do, otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned it. Making statements like this is a good way to get modded +5.
I just don't get the bashing of the movie V. I never read the comic, but I did read up on it on Wikipedia, and the same ideas are still there. First, the story takes place in England. Second, it involves the rise of a 1984-style fascist government. Third, V sets out to take down the government.
A lot of the plot is the same from the comic. They made some safe changes (like Natalie isn't a prostitute), but I really fail to see how the movie "pandered to a very narrow political agenda".
Algorithms are unpatentable. All the current patents are about the application of a particular algorithm to a particular application.
That's a meaningless statement, in that the same applies to a mechanism in the physical world. It has to do something useful. So for all practical purposes, algorithms (like RSA, for instance) are patentable.
You are confusing marketing with sales.
Marketing is about coming up with a product that the market wants. Sales is about telling everyone your product exists.
You're confusing the terms yourself. A big part of marketing is getting the word out about the product. Sales is typically focused on closing the deal.
Could you link to a specific model of phone that came out before the iPhone that was comparable?
There will always be a dividing line to be found somewhere. I'm all for free speech, but do find protesting at a funeral to be over the line.
Emotionally, I agree. Legally, I don't.
You don't understand free speech either. Getting fired is one thing. Criminal actions taken against you is another. The laws just don't fly out the window because somebody got offended.