One thing interesting about species like these is why they havn't evolved[?]
The answer is simple and obvious: it hasn't needed to. Whatever survival strategy it found has worked well enough that it hasn't needed to evolve. That does not mean that other isolated populations of said plant have not evolved into something else. Evolution does not mean that a species can not splinter and have one group adapt into a new species and another group stay the same.
WP 5.1 for DOS is as close to the perfect word processor that I've ever seen, and was my sole writing platform until two years ago. I'm still not sure which writing program I'm going to replace it with. I like NoteTabPro, but it doesn't quite do everything I want. OpenOffice is okay, but gets twitchy on me. I really like the ability to put passwords on my files, but there are other features that annoy me.
The specific issue here is the tools, not the medium. Photography and 3d rendering are media types. The camera, or the rendering program used is the tool. What the author is talking about is the tools used for writing.
He is disparaging the overcomplexity and obtrusive invasiveness of most word processors. He is arguing not that computer can't be used for writing, but that most word processing programs are unfit for the job.
And he's right. I stopped using Word for anything other than short.DOC files at work years ago beause it decided to help me when I didn't want it to, turn back on "features" I had repeatedly disabled and committed a multitude of other sins that got in my way. I loathe autocorrect and autospell. I'll worry about the spelling and the grammar when I'm going back and editing what I've written. But when I'm *writing* I want the damned thing to leave me alone and let me get my words recorded.
To make an analogy to photography, the author is compairing Word (and most other word processor programs) to fully automatic cameras. While they might be usefull for the average snapshot photographer, they are of little use to someone like Ansel Adams, whose artwork demands complete control of the camera and freedom from unanted distractions of the tool trying to "fix" a problem that doesn't exist.
It's not a small problem at all. The network I help admin was brought to its knees by the Blaster worm and we had, maybe, 100 computers infected out of thousands of units (my Division had five confiirmed infections out of a total of 150 active machines). The department that runs the routers does not have the manpower to cut off ports for specific computers so they close off predefined subnets. and I'm not talking about an underpaid college ResNet network. This is a large, well funded network.
Yes, their actions ARE drastic. But they are well within reason when you consider the manpower and scope of the problem.
I would not be at all surprized if college and universities started all future terms with th resnets shut off and only turned on when the computers attached to them have been proven to be clean and patched (or running an OS not suseptable to the current family of Windows exploits).
How many whacks with a Clue Stick does it take to penetrate the thick skulls at the RIAA? Evidently it takes a lot.
How long have people been complaining that CD prices are too high? A decade? Fifteen years? And they are just now starting to get it? I buy, at most, five or six (if I'm feeling frisky) CDs a year and at that I don't buy anything that costs more than $12.00 (unless it's an import or other non-standard, hard to find item).
Price has always been the problem with CDs. Always.
Agreed! I remember when I was 14 and I had a grand total of six cassette tapes. I had CHOICES. I could decide what I wanted to listen to and it kicked ass! Then one day I was 35 and had a music library of over 400 CDs and I couldn't find a damned thing to listen to.
Upgrading your PC for games is a fact of life that isn't going to go away any time soon. Every game designer writes for what will be available when the game comes out. If they don't, they get buried by the games that do.
A game console, on the other hand, presents the developer with a fixed, unchanging platform. All games written for that platform will work (unless the hardware or the media dies). Period.
IF there code isn't part of the kernel, and is only "user space" software, who cares? They can create whatever software they want on top of a very minumal kernel and as long as they don't use GPL software to build from, they don't have to release squat.
Who cares? No job is secure, ever. And more telemarketers have lost their jobs to firms outsourcing their jobs to India and other cheap-as-hell labor countries than will ever be efftected by a do-not-call list.
Can do. The Stepford 9000 Maid May unit can replace well over 1024 remote control units. She's available in bith full-sized and 11.5-inch height formats. She includes a charger and a USB cable for software updates.
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we had a dink here who would spam Quake and Q3:A servers. He'd join a game, get killed and then just "talk" for an hour. He might have even been a bot. I don't know.
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But teh spam message is not for the person who's computer is infected. It's for every email recipient that that computer user knows. The P2P spam network created in this way would be HUGE and unblockable. Who is going to block every subnet on earth? Not gonna happen. The best we can hope for is that ISPs get smart and start blocking SMTP ports on all ip addresses not registered as SMTP servers.
You, sir, look like the man who would emjoy the benefits of the new Stepford 9000! She's more customizable than the 7000 or 8000 series - all aspects of appearance can be modified to a wide variety of configurations. From tall and buxum to short and muscular and everything in between! With new patented No-Sass circuitry she won't ever cop an "attitude", unless you want her to. New to the Stepford 9000 series: she's compatible with your entertainment center's universal remote control!
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Sure. Then you are eating your bandwidth on the hardware you bought. Of course, the school in question might has a TOS agreement that prohibits this.
The answer is simple and obvious: it hasn't needed to. Whatever survival strategy it found has worked well enough that it hasn't needed to evolve. That does not mean that other isolated populations of said plant have not evolved into something else. Evolution does not mean that a species can not splinter and have one group adapt into a new species and another group stay the same.
WP 5.1 for DOS is as close to the perfect word processor that I've ever seen, and was my sole writing platform until two years ago. I'm still not sure which writing program I'm going to replace it with. I like NoteTabPro, but it doesn't quite do everything I want. OpenOffice is okay, but gets twitchy on me. I really like the ability to put passwords on my files, but there are other features that annoy me.
The specific issue here is the tools, not the medium. Photography and 3d rendering are media types. The camera, or the rendering program used is the tool. What the author is talking about is the tools used for writing.
.DOC files at work years ago beause it decided to help me when I didn't want it to, turn back on "features" I had repeatedly disabled and committed a multitude of other sins that got in my way. I loathe autocorrect and autospell. I'll worry about the spelling and the grammar when I'm going back and editing what I've written. But when I'm *writing* I want the damned thing to leave me alone and let me get my words recorded.
He is disparaging the overcomplexity and obtrusive invasiveness of most word processors. He is arguing not that computer can't be used for writing, but that most word processing programs are unfit for the job.
And he's right. I stopped using Word for anything other than short
To make an analogy to photography, the author is compairing Word (and most other word processor programs) to fully automatic cameras. While they might be usefull for the average snapshot photographer, they are of little use to someone like Ansel Adams, whose artwork demands complete control of the camera and freedom from unanted distractions of the tool trying to "fix" a problem that doesn't exist.
Earthlink, among several others, is already doing this. And winning.
Amazing. Not even clownfish speak Whale.
What you don't understand is that most of these computers are never repaired. They aren't patched and they are never cleaned of virii or spyware.
It's not a small problem at all. The network I help admin was brought to its knees by the Blaster worm and we had, maybe, 100 computers infected out of thousands of units (my Division had five confiirmed infections out of a total of 150 active machines). The department that runs the routers does not have the manpower to cut off ports for specific computers so they close off predefined subnets. and I'm not talking about an underpaid college ResNet network. This is a large, well funded network.
Yes, their actions ARE drastic. But they are well within reason when you consider the manpower and scope of the problem.
I would not be at all surprized if college and universities started all future terms with th resnets shut off and only turned on when the computers attached to them have been proven to be clean and patched (or running an OS not suseptable to the current family of Windows exploits).
How many whacks with a Clue Stick does it take to penetrate the thick skulls at the RIAA? Evidently it takes a lot.
How long have people been complaining that CD prices are too high? A decade? Fifteen years? And they are just now starting to get it? I buy, at most, five or six (if I'm feeling frisky) CDs a year and at that I don't buy anything that costs more than $12.00 (unless it's an import or other non-standard, hard to find item).
Price has always been the problem with CDs. Always.
Agreed! I remember when I was 14 and I had a grand total of six cassette tapes. I had CHOICES. I could decide what I wanted to listen to and it kicked ass! Then one day I was 35 and had a music library of over 400 CDs and I couldn't find a damned thing to listen to.
Upgrading your PC for games is a fact of life that isn't going to go away any time soon. Every game designer writes for what will be available when the game comes out. If they don't, they get buried by the games that do.
A game console, on the other hand, presents the developer with a fixed, unchanging platform. All games written for that platform will work (unless the hardware or the media dies). Period.
I hear you. My wife got really good at Soul Calibur very fast. She never got better than I was, but she didn't put the time into it like I did.
But my wife, like many other people I know, doesn't really like games that require speed. Freecell and other games of that type are more her speed.
I've been seeing that, yes. It makes it a pain in the butt to access AOL sites with Firebird. Not that I particularly like accessing AOL sites.
... and through the nasty little kneebiters are the barbie!
Children. It's what's for dinner!
IF there code isn't part of the kernel, and is only "user space" software, who cares? They can create whatever software they want on top of a very minumal kernel and as long as they don't use GPL software to build from, they don't have to release squat.
And so what? That's the way it goes when you give your work away for free. As long as they abide by the GPL, they can do as they please.
Don't like them making money off of your wiork, don't release your work under the GPL.
Who cares? No job is secure, ever. And more telemarketers have lost their jobs to firms outsourcing their jobs to India and other cheap-as-hell labor countries than will ever be efftected by a do-not-call list.
The humor of this post is lost without the parent. Evidently noone knew who Mandark was. :(
The mods make me sad.
Yes, language does evolve. But pig-ignorance is not evolution.
RacerX, WohUnknownToSpeedWasActuallyHisOlderBrotherRexWhoR anAwayYearsAgo.
The Japanese already have virtual pop stars. Kyoko Date was one attempt at this. I'm sure that there have been more since 1998.
Can do. The Stepford 9000 Maid May unit can replace well over 1024 remote control units. She's available in bith full-sized and 11.5-inch height formats. She includes a charger and a USB cable for software updates.
we had a dink here who would spam Quake and Q3:A servers. He'd join a game, get killed and then just "talk" for an hour. He might have even been a bot. I don't know.
But teh spam message is not for the person who's computer is infected. It's for every email recipient that that computer user knows. The P2P spam network created in this way would be HUGE and unblockable. Who is going to block every subnet on earth? Not gonna happen. The best we can hope for is that ISPs get smart and start blocking SMTP ports on all ip addresses not registered as SMTP servers.
This could turn into a VERY ugly mess.
You, sir, look like the man who would emjoy the benefits of the new Stepford 9000! She's more customizable than the 7000 or 8000 series - all aspects of appearance can be modified to a wide variety of configurations. From tall and buxum to short and muscular and everything in between! With new patented No-Sass circuitry she won't ever cop an "attitude", unless you want her to. New to the Stepford 9000 series: she's compatible with your entertainment center's universal remote control!