A better description of it's behaviour would be this: When you bought it, it had one feature set and functioned in a certain way. As time goes by, it's feature set is reduced and it's behaviour changes.
Still, aren't there a couple HUNDRED other channels on XM that one could listen to besides the O&A show? It's like canceling your cable because of bad reruns of the Rosanne show or something that "offended" you on the Colbert Report. Just change the channel, people. If nobody listens to that channel, it'll get canceled eventually.
Most geeks have a talent for law, but most people practicing law now are definitely not geeks. I can vouch for several lawyers and a couple of judges that they don't know crap about computers. When testifying as an expert witness about 4 years ago, I had to explain to the judge what an internet browser was. The lawyer on the case was just about as bad. On the good side, the lawyers do tend to pick stuff up quickly, especially when it pertains to their case. On the bad side, they tend to let it go quickly after the case is closed, too.
Well, you started off pretty good talking about Gaussian distributions and all, then you blew it on "largest audience possible: stupid people". Looking at your Gaussian argument, the largest audience possible would be the 68.2% of the population with IQs between 85 and 115. One would think that "stupid" people would lie outside the middle two standard deviations and be confined to 13.5% of the population.
True.. If that were the case, I'd be guilty for thousands upon thousands of murders from all those hours of Quake III Arena and Halo Online. I'd hate to see the charges filed for tea-bagging, too...
Wonder how much additional it'll cost to convert Yahoo's BSD servers to Windows. Remember how long (and how many failed attempts) there were to convert HotMail from Solaris?
So after 8 years, you'd probably need to buy a new one. Nah... They are better at pushing out marginal upgrades that eventually cause everybody to upgrade in sooner than 8 years. Sure, Office '07 can open up older word documents, but can open up an '07 crafted Word document in Office 2000?
Amen brother. In today's society of "ooh.. it's not my fault.." somebody needs to take the initiative to make the people responsible for the problem responsible and those people are the OWNERS of the pwned machines. Yes, Microsoft sucks. Yes, Microsoft has security problems. They do, however, release patches in a semi-reasonable time frame and people just DO NOT patch their machines like they should. Of course, there's kind of a "catch-22" with if you'r system is cut off from the network, how do you obtain patches... Still, that's a minor issue that could be managed with some network monitoring software and notifications like "hey - your system is infected and about to be disconnected unless you go apply all your patches and clean it up."
However, if after everybody with a Windows box agrees to keep their systems up to date and apply all the patches, how would this scorched earth policy work? You'd be snipping off access to somebody that has been exercising due diligence to keep their machines current. At that point, I think it's safe to start pointing the gun at the maker of the operating system and make them accountable for the damage their sub-standard security is causing.
Actually, pulling a large payload is more efficient with electric motors. If you are already hauling a large load then adding some heavy batteries is not that much of an addition to your weight compared to the load.
True enough, but I'm just wondering if it's feasible with current battery technology. If you need 800 pounds of batteries to get 400 miles of range out of a relatively light passenger car, how many pounds of batteries would you need to get the same range out of a vehicle that weighs 40 times more? Plus, cross country hauling trucks are limited by weight, so if the weight of the propulsion system goes up, you have to take weight out of the cargo which reduces the effectiveness and efficiency of that mode of transport. Plus, that would suck on a 1200 mile haul where you have to drive 4 hours, then wait for 3 or 4 hours for your batteries to charge back up before doing the next 400 miles. Maybe some kind of hybrid approach where a fuel cell charges the batteries and all you have to do is fill up the fuel cell at fueling stops instead of waiting for the batteries to recharge. Hmmm...
I knew about the trains being electric at the wheel, but they use diesel to generate that electricity. I did find a cool Union Pacific experiment called the "Green Goat" (look it up - too lazy to link) that replaced the 2000HP motor with a bunch of lead acid batteries, however it's kept charged by a much smaller gasoline engine (I think they said it was a 6 liter engine running a big alternator). Currently used only in switching, but they are testing other applications.
You'd have to go a long way to get oil down to 10 bucks a barrel. After converting all the natural gas and coal fired power plants (which don't have a lot to do with oil, by the way), you'd have to convince everybody to ditch their gas powered cars for electric cars. Then you've still got a whole transportation industry that probably will never convert. I've never heard of an electric airplane, have you? And diesel trucks are designed to drive for hundreds and hundreds of miles pulling huge payloads - not something that's practical with electricity yet. Trains, ocean tankers - same deal. Also, petroleum is used for quite a few other applications than fuel or lubrication. There are dozens of products that come out of oil that are used for making plastics which, in case you haven't looked lately, are EVERYWHERE.
Oh, and hey--one complaint (more of an observation actually), for those of you who complain about how often you must enter the root password on a PC, take a look at that page and see how often "SUDO" (the Linux equivalent) is required. Holy cow, it's like every single time you want to call apt-get (in other words, any time you want to install ANYTHING), you have to give up the root password.
Sudo only asks you once in every 5 minutes (configurable, I'm sure). If you had half a dozen commands prefixed with sudo, you'd only be asked for YOUR password once, the others use the cached creds until they time out 5 min later.
One guess - A Linux based operating system with the security extensions that the NSA wrote (a.k.a. SE-Linux). But then (adjusting my tinfoil hat) what other "enhancements" did they make to the kernel while they were dinking around in there? Only saving grace is that it's open source and all my tinfoil hat wearing brethren would be crying foul (or fowl even) if something was amiss.
... companies I go into choose MS solutions because it has the features they need and a face to yell at if something goes wrong.
And what do they tell you? "That'll be fixed in the next service pack, due out in 9 months or so." I'd rather take my chances with open source. At least somebody MIGHT fix the bug and you'd have a fix in your hands in a week or two, tops.
Hang on there hoss... So if I buy some XBox or something, I pay taxes on it. So if I sell it to somebody else, I have to pay taxes on it again? Where's the fairness in that? I'm getting screwed twice. Say the XBox was 400 bucks and I pay 10 pct taxes on it, that's 40 bucks to the Gov. If I sell it on EBay for 300 and have to pay taxes on it AGAIN for another 10 percent, that's 35 more bucks. Now this XBox has netted the government taxes TWICE. I've already paid taxes on it. If I want to sell it to somebody else, explain why I should have to pay taxes again?
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A better description of it's behaviour would be this: When you bought it, it had one feature set and functioned in a certain way. As time goes by, it's feature set is reduced and it's behaviour changes.
Well, that's better than having 800 pounds of batteries that'll only get you about 300 miles.
Still, aren't there a couple HUNDRED other channels on XM that one could listen to besides the O&A show? It's like canceling your cable because of bad reruns of the Rosanne show or something that "offended" you on the Colbert Report. Just change the channel, people. If nobody listens to that channel, it'll get canceled eventually.
Most geeks have a talent for law, but most people practicing law now are definitely not geeks. I can vouch for several lawyers and a couple of judges that they don't know crap about computers. When testifying as an expert witness about 4 years ago, I had to explain to the judge what an internet browser was. The lawyer on the case was just about as bad. On the good side, the lawyers do tend to pick stuff up quickly, especially when it pertains to their case. On the bad side, they tend to let it go quickly after the case is closed, too.
Well, at least it's not as bad as trying to unscrew pages made by FrontPage + Extensions. Those are a nightmare.
And as to the GGP's question, yes, here's one more that hand codes. jEdit rocks...
Well, you started off pretty good talking about Gaussian distributions and all, then you blew it on "largest audience possible: stupid people". Looking at your Gaussian argument, the largest audience possible would be the 68.2% of the population with IQs between 85 and 115. One would think that "stupid" people would lie outside the middle two standard deviations and be confined to 13.5% of the population.
Nothing really. It's a PR type statement by Mark that Linux is good enough to stand on it's own and if you give it a shot you shouldn't need Wine.
Still bringing up that same old tired argument, eh? Still clutching on to hope for change.
True.. If that were the case, I'd be guilty for thousands upon thousands of murders from all those hours of Quake III Arena and Halo Online. I'd hate to see the charges filed for tea-bagging, too...
Well, according to this the web end was FreeBSD and the backend (mail servers) was Solaris, so we were both right.
Wonder how much additional it'll cost to convert Yahoo's BSD servers to Windows. Remember how long (and how many failed attempts) there were to convert HotMail from Solaris?
I wonder if you'd get busted passing around this one:
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13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,64
or this one
1001 11111001 00010001 00000010 10011101 01110100 11100011 01011011 11011000 01000001 01010110 11000101 01100011 01010110 10001000 11000000
MOD PARENT UP!
Amen brother. In today's society of "ooh.. it's not my fault.." somebody needs to take the initiative to make the people responsible for the problem responsible and those people are the OWNERS of the pwned machines. Yes, Microsoft sucks. Yes, Microsoft has security problems. They do, however, release patches in a semi-reasonable time frame and people just DO NOT patch their machines like they should. Of course, there's kind of a "catch-22" with if you'r system is cut off from the network, how do you obtain patches... Still, that's a minor issue that could be managed with some network monitoring software and notifications like "hey - your system is infected and about to be disconnected unless you go apply all your patches and clean it up."
However, if after everybody with a Windows box agrees to keep their systems up to date and apply all the patches, how would this scorched earth policy work? You'd be snipping off access to somebody that has been exercising due diligence to keep their machines current. At that point, I think it's safe to start pointing the gun at the maker of the operating system and make them accountable for the damage their sub-standard security is causing.
Hey! I remember that guy...
How's it hanging? Hehe..
True enough, but I'm just wondering if it's feasible with current battery technology. If you need 800 pounds of batteries to get 400 miles of range out of a relatively light passenger car, how many pounds of batteries would you need to get the same range out of a vehicle that weighs 40 times more? Plus, cross country hauling trucks are limited by weight, so if the weight of the propulsion system goes up, you have to take weight out of the cargo which reduces the effectiveness and efficiency of that mode of transport. Plus, that would suck on a 1200 mile haul where you have to drive 4 hours, then wait for 3 or 4 hours for your batteries to charge back up before doing the next 400 miles. Maybe some kind of hybrid approach where a fuel cell charges the batteries and all you have to do is fill up the fuel cell at fueling stops instead of waiting for the batteries to recharge. Hmmm...
I knew about the trains being electric at the wheel, but they use diesel to generate that electricity. I did find a cool Union Pacific experiment called the "Green Goat" (look it up - too lazy to link) that replaced the 2000HP motor with a bunch of lead acid batteries, however it's kept charged by a much smaller gasoline engine (I think they said it was a 6 liter engine running a big alternator). Currently used only in switching, but they are testing other applications.
You'd have to go a long way to get oil down to 10 bucks a barrel. After converting all the natural gas and coal fired power plants (which don't have a lot to do with oil, by the way), you'd have to convince everybody to ditch their gas powered cars for electric cars. Then you've still got a whole transportation industry that probably will never convert. I've never heard of an electric airplane, have you? And diesel trucks are designed to drive for hundreds and hundreds of miles pulling huge payloads - not something that's practical with electricity yet. Trains, ocean tankers - same deal. Also, petroleum is used for quite a few other applications than fuel or lubrication. There are dozens of products that come out of oil that are used for making plastics which, in case you haven't looked lately, are EVERYWHERE.
Sudo only asks you once in every 5 minutes (configurable, I'm sure). If you had half a dozen commands prefixed with sudo, you'd only be asked for YOUR password once, the others use the cached creds until they time out 5 min later.
True enough. If it was my Mom, I'd agree with you 100%, but gees, cut me some slack - the guy was posting on Slashdot after all...
One guess - A Linux based operating system with the security extensions that the NSA wrote (a.k.a. SE-Linux). But then (adjusting my tinfoil hat) what other "enhancements" did they make to the kernel while they were dinking around in there? Only saving grace is that it's open source and all my tinfoil hat wearing brethren would be crying foul (or fowl even) if something was amiss.
Careful... Don't prove that is so or you might get yourself killed at the next zebra crossing.
... companies I go into choose MS solutions because it has the features they need and a face to yell at if something goes wrong.And what do they tell you? "That'll be fixed in the next service pack, due out in 9 months or so." I'd rather take my chances with open source. At least somebody MIGHT fix the bug and you'd have a fix in your hands in a week or two, tops.
Ok.. It's buggy. Have you submitted bug reports? Doesn't do any good to gripe about the rain if you're not willing to do something about it.
Hang on there hoss... So if I buy some XBox or something, I pay taxes on it. So if I sell it to somebody else, I have to pay taxes on it again? Where's the fairness in that? I'm getting screwed twice. Say the XBox was 400 bucks and I pay 10 pct taxes on it, that's 40 bucks to the Gov. If I sell it on EBay for 300 and have to pay taxes on it AGAIN for another 10 percent, that's 35 more bucks. Now this XBox has netted the government taxes TWICE. I've already paid taxes on it. If I want to sell it to somebody else, explain why I should have to pay taxes again?