Indeed... and that's why the public access computers I support run Windows, and why the Library Management System uses IE as a client, because Firefox can't support all required functionality and Chrome can sort-of but too much trouble to support; if you want less crap in your support day MS is a nobrainer... while at the same time you know you ought to join the guerillas...
Years ago I got tired of all the hassle trying to get FOSS drivers to work reliably with Nvidia cards. It was a nobrainer to go with the proprietary drivers and still is. Current example : FlightGear flight simulator : Segmentation fault.
I switched to Linux for reliability and security reasons rather than for any moral/ethical/economic reason, and my criteria are still : would I trust this OS with a mission-critical application. And to me, I can't really trust code that is put together as a workaround without direct access to all relevant technical information, and/or without cooperation of the hardware designers or even with the opposition of same, no matter the brilliance and dedication of the developers. The sad reality is that Nvidia, AMD etc are in a far better position to deliver drivers I can trust critical applications to.
The Supreme Leader has declared nuclear weapons sinful and un-Islamic, hence not to be developed or used. He comes across as a decent honest and serious man, more credible than many of the devious jerks leading Western countries - I would accept his word before that of Blair, Cameron, Bush, Obama or Sarkozy. Further - what he says goes in Iran, Ahmadinejad is just the frontman. Conclusion : Iran's enrichment program is for peaceful power-generation purposes, until we have evidence to the contrary.
This is rich, coming from the continent that exploited. killed and plundered across the entire planet for hundreds of years. Time to get on the new program, Europe.
Neither is it true for me... I have run for some time under SUSE : multiple virtual Windows servers, RHEL server, Windows 7, various appliances, on a multi-homed box using bridged network adapters... running IIS, SQLServer, etc... never a glitch or unexpected outcome.
Indeed - law enforcement needs to be able to monitor digital communications, anonymously, without identifyinjg individuals, to detect probabilities of mass instant social aggregation, and to respond accordingly. I.e. if the stats look like a riot forming, they have grounds for listening in. Police also need to be able to use the same technology themselves to respond quicker. I understand that you need police permission the form a large orderly demonstration - hence if social media traffic predicts a large gathering forming rapidly, then police are within their right to act... Dixon of Dock Green meets cyberwarfare.
The real question is, what does this say about the impact of online social media in modern society - this is a technology forum, not a social justice opinion shop. Reports say they're using BlackBerries - are they true ? Should social media be regulated ? If the folks running the zoo want to keep running it they always need to be better equipped than, and a step ahead of, the animals, and always used to be. Looks to me like the zookeepers here need to be able to detect, plan, aggregate and deploy before the animals get serious. To do that they need to have a computer system than monitors suspicious communications and predicts trouble before it starts. This may well be an infringement of current liberties and the British find that sort of thing distasteful. You can't very well enact laws that say vendors of communications devices must sell them with a proviso that they can't be used to plan illegal activities, any more than you could ban people using the telephone for illegal activities. But this to me looks similar to the ban on using the internet to host illegal porn - you can only start prceedings once there is evidence that illegal content has been posted online, you can't filter every ftp upload. Likewise Twitter etc... but you can do anonymous statistical analysis of message volume by area, and at a certain point enough would be available to warrant a human to listen in...but it would be open to charges of abuse, and the thresholds levels for human intervention are arbitrary and debateable. My guess is just that police need to be able to aggregate and deploy quicker, using social media themselves, to prevent these angry kids doing things they may well regret next day in court.
I think you missed my point, which is that there is no absolute truth, just competing points of view. Usually there is a rough correlation between the point of view of the smartest & most experienced members of a community and "truth" or "reality", but there is no guarantee. Human nature is for folks to compete to advance their view of "truth"... it's far simpler to live with the reality of approximations than it is to go nuts searching for absolute truth.
In any knowledge situation there is always competition for whose version of reality/truth comes out on top, Wikipedia, News Media, College, whatever. The folks who choose to participate in one of these systems understand this and play the game. Think of Wikipedia as opensource basic information... it complements the closed source system and suits different folks. Cathedral vs Bazaar. Wikipedia = Bazaar on steroids.
The only feature Win2k offered me over NT4 was USB, that was the only reason I changed. My post was an attempt to express my disillusionment with the marketing-perpetuated idea that we all need to regularly "update our system" as if it wore out. MS brought out increasingly flashy versions of its media player, all apparently necessary to "experience" media in new formats MS invented to necessitate upgrades. Meanwhile, NT4 could run Office, Web Browsers, and any other serious stuff I needed. I didn't get my computer for games or multimedia. I wanted a workstation.
Years ago I had NT4, and when correctly installed with SP4 I would have trusted my mother's life to it. It was a rocksolid no-bullshit industrial-strength Operating System.
Then along came Internet viruses, crapware, malware, spiware, upgrade-or-your-life, compulsory registration of configuration, and then it dawned on me that the industrial-strength OS had morphed into a marketing tool, and eye-candy was substituting for new features I needed, such as a network security model.
At that point I switched to Linux as my main box and Internet frontend, with a Windows 2000 box safely hiding behind a Lin ux firewall, which I access via TightVNC if I need to run a Windows app. If Windows NT 4 had USB I'd still be using it. Upgrades are a con.
Neither story actually tells us anything about the alleged issue. They mention MP3, Fraunhofer, speech conversion, Lucent, but zilch about Microsoft-MP3-Lucent-courtcase. Crap journalism.
... Bill is strutting about the ring and smashing Linus with an Xbox... this is ugly folks. But Linus is not out.. I don't believe it, he has a patch that makes metacity work properly with KDE apps.. Bill is horrified, he cannot respond... Steve tags and is in, he's smashing Linus with a new Ipod which is licensed to download the Beetles catalog... this is horrible... Linus shrieks in pain, RMS leaps in and poleaxes Steve with - I don't believe this folks, but it's a new GNU license which makes it illegal to make money out of software... will Steve survive ? Children should not be allowed to watch this... but Bill is back with - oh my God, he's brought out the superweapon - Vista Service Pack 1. Will he use it ? The horror, the horror..
Yep, it's the 08-15 user who decides what sells, what is dogfoodable. Time for the marketing-droids to tell the engineers that Joe 08-15 doesn't want to mount his USB stick, he ain't no pervert. He doesn't want to install 20 extra libraries to run a new game, he's happy with his local library. He wants to use a graphics program that works Exactly like Photoshop. He wants the computer to think for him, that's why he bought it. Linux is making leaps and bounds but it should come with a mental health warning for Joe 08-15. Especially if his dbus breaks.
Repeat after me : "my web content will meet a standard, not an operating system or browser/version".
Based on my experience with my bank and university, web admins get so bogged down in complaints that they eventually drop their websites complexity down to a level where nobody complains. For my bank that meant dropping java and javascript for online banking and relying 100% on ordinary html forms - it will work now for ANY user.
Only morons code for a browser/version/os.
I have an onboard nVidia video chip that delivers great performance at very low price. Using the OS driver performance is lousy, with the binary nVidia driver performance is great. And it comes with a nice gl configuration utility. I for one am greatful that nVidia even bothers with Linux, as the Linux community has about as much bargaining power with them as an ant has with an elephant. I can't see them changing the way they do business becauase of threats from the OS community.
For one bright shining moment, dot.com executives were zipping about the cities on skateboards. Then some idiot starting selling skateboards with motors and handlebars and the dot.coms all collapsed... We could have had it all. Richard Branson is our last hope.
Train a kid to think and he/she will figure out how to use any desktop computer. Train them how to use a specific type of computer and they'll never get beyond understanding "reboot". Youl'd call training people how to drive a particular brand of car stupid, but that's what happens with windopes traning.
From my experience in multinationals, this is a sign of a mature codebase.. realworld functional code evolves, it's when people try to redesign it from scratch that serious money gets burned. All that spaghetti gets the job done and is there because it works.. the stuff that doesn't will eventually wither into an appendix that never gets executed. A good programmer with debug tools can work on spaghetti., and instinctively knows not to touch that "historical dna", because some of it may still do something. If the guys up top know what features and functionality are the way to go, they can be rammed into the codebase.
The article is just an investor communication, published on the Ceragenix website under Investor Relations. Such communications are not the same as scientific journal publications, they just tell the investor where his money is going, usually down the drain. Example:-
PR guy on phone to head scientist : "I've got a hundred shareholders wanting to know why they aren't billionaires yet... do we have any discoveries yet, any liquids that turn green and smoke when you add the blue powder ?".
Head scientist : "Uh, we have something that may go somewhere in a few years, to do with HIV".
PR guy : "Great ! We'll announce that".
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Indeed... and that's why the public access computers I support run Windows, and why the Library Management System uses IE as a client, because Firefox can't support all required functionality and Chrome can sort-of but too much trouble to support; if you want less crap in your support day MS is a nobrainer... while at the same time you know you ought to join the guerillas...
Twin ? Clone ? Rubbish : similar but unrelated is more like it.
Years ago I got tired of all the hassle trying to get FOSS drivers to work reliably with Nvidia cards. It was a nobrainer to go with the proprietary drivers and still is. Current example : FlightGear flight simulator : Segmentation fault. I switched to Linux for reliability and security reasons rather than for any moral/ethical/economic reason, and my criteria are still : would I trust this OS with a mission-critical application. And to me, I can't really trust code that is put together as a workaround without direct access to all relevant technical information, and/or without cooperation of the hardware designers or even with the opposition of same, no matter the brilliance and dedication of the developers. The sad reality is that Nvidia, AMD etc are in a far better position to deliver drivers I can trust critical applications to.
The Supreme Leader has declared nuclear weapons sinful and un-Islamic, hence not to be developed or used. He comes across as a decent honest and serious man, more credible than many of the devious jerks leading Western countries - I would accept his word before that of Blair, Cameron, Bush, Obama or Sarkozy. Further - what he says goes in Iran, Ahmadinejad is just the frontman. Conclusion : Iran's enrichment program is for peaceful power-generation purposes, until we have evidence to the contrary.
This is rich, coming from the continent that exploited. killed and plundered across the entire planet for hundreds of years. Time to get on the new program, Europe.
Neither is it true for me... I have run for some time under SUSE : multiple virtual Windows servers, RHEL server, Windows 7, various appliances, on a multi-homed box using bridged network adapters... running IIS, SQLServer, etc... never a glitch or unexpected outcome.
Indeed - law enforcement needs to be able to monitor digital communications, anonymously, without identifyinjg individuals, to detect probabilities of mass instant social aggregation, and to respond accordingly. I.e. if the stats look like a riot forming, they have grounds for listening in. Police also need to be able to use the same technology themselves to respond quicker. I understand that you need police permission the form a large orderly demonstration - hence if social media traffic predicts a large gathering forming rapidly, then police are within their right to act... Dixon of Dock Green meets cyberwarfare.
The real question is, what does this say about the impact of online social media in modern society - this is a technology forum, not a social justice opinion shop. Reports say they're using BlackBerries - are they true ? Should social media be regulated ? If the folks running the zoo want to keep running it they always need to be better equipped than, and a step ahead of, the animals, and always used to be. Looks to me like the zookeepers here need to be able to detect, plan, aggregate and deploy before the animals get serious. To do that they need to have a computer system than monitors suspicious communications and predicts trouble before it starts. This may well be an infringement of current liberties and the British find that sort of thing distasteful. You can't very well enact laws that say vendors of communications devices must sell them with a proviso that they can't be used to plan illegal activities, any more than you could ban people using the telephone for illegal activities. But this to me looks similar to the ban on using the internet to host illegal porn - you can only start prceedings once there is evidence that illegal content has been posted online, you can't filter every ftp upload. Likewise Twitter etc... but you can do anonymous statistical analysis of message volume by area, and at a certain point enough would be available to warrant a human to listen in...but it would be open to charges of abuse, and the thresholds levels for human intervention are arbitrary and debateable. My guess is just that police need to be able to aggregate and deploy quicker, using social media themselves, to prevent these angry kids doing things they may well regret next day in court.
I think you missed my point, which is that there is no absolute truth, just competing points of view. Usually there is a rough correlation between the point of view of the smartest & most experienced members of a community and "truth" or "reality", but there is no guarantee. Human nature is for folks to compete to advance their view of "truth"... it's far simpler to live with the reality of approximations than it is to go nuts searching for absolute truth.
In any knowledge situation there is always competition for whose version of reality/truth comes out on top, Wikipedia, News Media, College, whatever. The folks who choose to participate in one of these systems understand this and play the game. Think of Wikipedia as opensource basic information... it complements the closed source system and suits different folks. Cathedral vs Bazaar. Wikipedia = Bazaar on steroids.
The only feature Win2k offered me over NT4 was USB, that was the only reason I changed. My post was an attempt to express my disillusionment with the marketing-perpetuated idea that we all need to regularly "update our system" as if it wore out. MS brought out increasingly flashy versions of its media player, all apparently necessary to "experience" media in new formats MS invented to necessitate upgrades. Meanwhile, NT4 could run Office, Web Browsers, and any other serious stuff I needed. I didn't get my computer for games or multimedia. I wanted a workstation.
Years ago I had NT4, and when correctly installed with SP4 I would have trusted my mother's life to it. It was a rocksolid no-bullshit industrial-strength Operating System. Then along came Internet viruses, crapware, malware, spiware, upgrade-or-your-life, compulsory registration of configuration, and then it dawned on me that the industrial-strength OS had morphed into a marketing tool, and eye-candy was substituting for new features I needed, such as a network security model. At that point I switched to Linux as my main box and Internet frontend, with a Windows 2000 box safely hiding behind a Lin ux firewall, which I access via TightVNC if I need to run a Windows app. If Windows NT 4 had USB I'd still be using it. Upgrades are a con.
As a descendent of Aesop I've already sued La Fontaine. In fact I've already had your idea and am suing you too.
Neither story actually tells us anything about the alleged issue. They mention MP3, Fraunhofer, speech conversion, Lucent, but zilch about Microsoft-MP3-Lucent-courtcase. Crap journalism.
... Bill is strutting about the ring and smashing Linus with an Xbox... this is ugly folks. But Linus is not out.. I don't believe it, he has a patch that makes metacity work properly with KDE apps.. Bill is horrified, he cannot respond... Steve tags and is in, he's smashing Linus with a new Ipod which is licensed to download the Beetles catalog... this is horrible... Linus shrieks in pain, RMS leaps in and poleaxes Steve with - I don't believe this folks, but it's a new GNU license which makes it illegal to make money out of software... will Steve survive ? Children should not be allowed to watch this... but Bill is back with - oh my God, he's brought out the superweapon - Vista Service Pack 1. Will he use it ? The horror, the horror..
Yep, it's the 08-15 user who decides what sells, what is dogfoodable. Time for the marketing-droids to tell the engineers that Joe 08-15 doesn't want to mount his USB stick, he ain't no pervert. He doesn't want to install 20 extra libraries to run a new game, he's happy with his local library. He wants to use a graphics program that works Exactly like Photoshop. He wants the computer to think for him, that's why he bought it. Linux is making leaps and bounds but it should come with a mental health warning for Joe 08-15. Especially if his dbus breaks.
Repeat after me : "my web content will meet a standard, not an operating system or browser/version". Based on my experience with my bank and university, web admins get so bogged down in complaints that they eventually drop their websites complexity down to a level where nobody complains. For my bank that meant dropping java and javascript for online banking and relying 100% on ordinary html forms - it will work now for ANY user. Only morons code for a browser/version/os.
Does that mean that if I wrap this stuff round the aerial of my FM radio It'll turn Leonard Cohen into Michael Jackson ?
I have an onboard nVidia video chip that delivers great performance at very low price. Using the OS driver performance is lousy, with the binary nVidia driver performance is great. And it comes with a nice gl configuration utility. I for one am greatful that nVidia even bothers with Linux, as the Linux community has about as much bargaining power with them as an ant has with an elephant. I can't see them changing the way they do business becauase of threats from the OS community.
For one bright shining moment, dot.com executives were zipping about the cities on skateboards. Then some idiot starting selling skateboards with motors and handlebars and the dot.coms all collapsed... We could have had it all. Richard Branson is our last hope.
Train a kid to think and he/she will figure out how to use any desktop computer. Train them how to use a specific type of computer and they'll never get beyond understanding "reboot". Youl'd call training people how to drive a particular brand of car stupid, but that's what happens with windopes traning.
From my experience in multinationals, this is a sign of a mature codebase.. realworld functional code evolves, it's when people try to redesign it from scratch that serious money gets burned. All that spaghetti gets the job done and is there because it works.. the stuff that doesn't will eventually wither into an appendix that never gets executed. A good programmer with debug tools can work on spaghetti., and instinctively knows not to touch that "historical dna", because some of it may still do something. If the guys up top know what features and functionality are the way to go, they can be rammed into the codebase.
The article is just an investor communication, published on the Ceragenix website under Investor Relations. Such communications are not the same as scientific journal publications, they just tell the investor where his money is going, usually down the drain. Example :-
PR guy on phone to head scientist : "I've got a hundred shareholders wanting to know why they aren't billionaires yet... do we have any discoveries yet, any liquids that turn green and smoke when you add the blue powder ?".
Head scientist : "Uh, we have something that may go somewhere in a few years, to do with HIV".
PR guy : "Great ! We'll announce that".