If Google stops doing business with China, it will be much easier to attack MSN or anyone else for doing business with them. Now they can just say (as you do) that everyone else is doing it too.
You really need to use the latest Java (click "Download JRE 5.0 Update 6") for Azureus to work properly. With 1.4.x I had lots of problems with crashes, slowdowns and disconnects when it had been running for a while. With 1.5 it runs fairly smoothly.
> Considering Apple switched to Intel for performance per watt, and also considering Intel wins that > race by a wide margin over the entire industry
Where did you get that from? Intel may be about to catch up with AMD in the near future, but at the moment AMD is way ahead on perfomance per watt. AMD's Athlon A64 Venice processors, which have been around since June, only use a little over 30 watts. Intel processors with comparable performance use at least twice that.
The opportunity to be better off (than your parents) is actually higher in many European countries than in the US, because decent education is free. The fact that I have to pay 50% or more of my income in taxes does not make it harder for me to get a better job, or to compete, because the rules are the same for everyone.
According to the CIA World Factbook, 12% live under the poverty line in the US, while in France (which has a significantly lower GDP per capita than the US) it is 6.5%.
Maybe in the US, but there is also communism/socialism, and an endless amount of variations between the two. If you take capitalism and add some socialism, you get an average European country. The richest in Europe are generally less rich than the richest in the US, but the poorest are also generally less poor.
VCR not intuitive? A VCR has basically the same sort of interface as a PVR, with the PVR quite a lot more complex. Biggest difference? You set a VCR to record by time, not by program.
On a PVR, you can just click record when you want to record something. When you want to view it, you look at the list of what you have recorded, and select what you want.
With a VCR, you first have to find a tape, check that there's nothing on it you want to keep, and then start recording. If you want to keep whats on the second half of the tape, but not the first, it's a mess. Trying to plan for this can be difficult, because you may not know what you want to keep until you've watched it.
Then, when you want to watch something, you first have to find the right tape, then you have to fast forward until you find it. You might say this is intuitive, but it's a lot more work, which in my opinion makes it feel less intuitive.
Here is a simpler experiment. Go into a large, unheated house in the middle of the winter. Light a single candle in each room. Keep them burning for days...weeks. Is the house noticeably warmer?
Now....let the weather change a little. One warm, sunny day. Just one.
I don't know where you live, but even in Norway, having the hottest days be 6 degrees celsius warmer, would be quite uncomfortable. CO2 is not replacing the the natural cycle, it is adding to it.
t protects users from lawsuits that the media companies will be filling against everybody who didn't upgrade to the "protected" player and who must therefor be a dirty pirate.
Saddam did much much worse than that. And we have eyewitnesses to it.
Unfortunately these "eyewitnesses" often have their own political agenda, and some of them (like the girl talking about how Iraqis put newborn babies on the floor to let them die) were proved to be lying, so these witnesses are not more trustworthy than pictures.
Well yes, that's partially because most of the time OSS "vendors" forego the testing procedures that commercial vendors do.
Well, it seem to me like at least Microsoft still has a worse track record when it comes to buggy fixes. Several times their security patches haven't even fixed the bug they're meant to fix.
Their choice is to vote for someone who is agianst abortion but for big corporations, or to vote for someone who is for abortion but agianst copyright extentions
The second guy sounds like a win/win to me.
But 90% of people have strong feelings about abortion, even though fewer than 1% of people will ever want/need/get one.
This is obviously what makes it so easy for them to be against it. Nothing like finding a small group of defenseless people to impose some moral rules on, when you can be fairly certain you won't come in the same position yourself.
Yet. It's only a matter of time before someone who doesn't want any payment for services and just wants to see millions of computers have their data destroyed writes a virus that does just that.
It would still be detected by virus companies and others, they would find out what it does, the press would publish it on the front page, and people would panic, and have their computers cleaned. Normal users don't bother doing that if they are in no immediate danger.
Next-gen: Random sentence inclusion into all word docs, change #'s in excel sheets, alter contents of address books, random data into access/sql databases.
I doubt that. The point of todays viruses is to make money for the writer, and they can't do that if they're removed, so they do as little harm as possible. These will survive much easier than destructional viruses. If there's a new development in viruses, my guess is it will be one that actually provides some kind of benefit for the user, to create a kind of symbiosis.
They even learned off of maps that showed local geography as the Palestinian Authority wanted it to be rather than it actually was!
I suppose it's difficult to always be updated on where the Israelis decides the border is at any given time, considering how they're continuously expanding it into more of Palestine.
As a motorcycle rider, I can tell you that the increase in safety margins she enjoys riding on empty roads is probably 1000 times greater than the increased health risk the radiation poses.
No offence, but if you think that, you don't know much about motorcycle accidents. Most accidents (in Norway about 60%) happen without interference from other people. On the other hand, in the remaining 40%, the other part is usually to blame.
[In the army] They learn discipline, work ethic, and cooperation skills unmatched in the civilian world
Have you ever been in the army? The only things I learned, was how to appear stupid enough that nobody would ask me anything, always look like I was busy with some serious stuff if there were any work that needed to be done, or even better, be somewhere out of sight. If I actually had to do something, I would drag it out until the end of the day, because if I finished quickly, I would just be put to do another task.
Imagine attacking common words and phrases. If you read an english text, you would quickly notice words like "the" "a" "and", and it was a letter stuff like "you" and "me" Once you have a large set of common words and phrases you look at how they are placed and structured, and start making qualified guesses to their relationship.
That would only work if the language is gramatically equal to English. Even in Norwegian, which is very similar to English, there is no direct translation for "the" or "a" that would mean the same as in english, and you can be both "du" (just the person you), or "dere" (all of you). You don't have to look further than Spanish before there are a lot more differences, and I assume Japanese would be just gibberish.
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If Google stops doing business with China, it will be much easier to attack MSN or anyone else for doing business with them. Now they can just say (as you do) that everyone else is doing it too.
I've never meet an atheist or agnostic who didn't believe in something he or she could not properly support.
Of course I do, if it seems likely. I'm just not religous about it.
You really need to use the latest Java (click "Download JRE 5.0 Update 6") for Azureus to work properly. With 1.4.x I had lots of problems with crashes, slowdowns and disconnects when it had been running for a while. With 1.5 it runs fairly smoothly.
> Considering Apple switched to Intel for performance per watt, and also considering Intel wins that
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> race by a wide margin over the entire industry
Where did you get that from? Intel may be about to catch up with AMD in the near future, but at the moment AMD is way ahead on perfomance per watt. AMD's Athlon A64 Venice processors, which have been around since June, only use a little over 30 watts. Intel processors with comparable performance use at least twice that.
Here are some numbers for complete systems:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/07/13/the_amd_an
The opportunity to be better off (than your parents) is actually higher in many European countries than in the US, because decent education is free. The fact that I have to pay 50% or more of my income in taxes does not make it harder for me to get a better job, or to compete, because the rules are the same for everyone.
According to the CIA World Factbook, 12% live under the poverty line in the US, while in France (which has a significantly lower GDP per capita than the US) it is 6.5%.
Capitalism is the only the system we have
Maybe in the US, but there is also communism/socialism, and an endless amount of variations between the two. If you take capitalism and add some socialism, you get an average European country. The richest in Europe are generally less rich than the richest in the US, but the poorest are also generally less poor.
It also acts as a UV-filter, which squids living under water, don't need.
Ah, the good old "it's not a bug, it's a feature" argument. Always good to fall back on.
VCR not intuitive? A VCR has basically the same sort of interface as a PVR, with the PVR quite a lot more complex. Biggest difference? You set a VCR to record by time, not by program.
On a PVR, you can just click record when you want to record something. When you want to view it, you look at the list of what you have recorded, and select what you want.
With a VCR, you first have to find a tape, check that there's nothing on it you want to keep, and then start recording. If you want to keep whats on the second half of the tape, but not the first, it's a mess. Trying to plan for this can be difficult, because you may not know what you want to keep until you've watched it.
Then, when you want to watch something, you first have to find the right tape, then you have to fast forward until you find it. You might say this is intuitive, but it's a lot more work, which in my opinion makes it feel less intuitive.
how do you explain the vast amount of sexual reproduction in plants? Last time I checked, they don't have brains.
Perhaps the insects do the selecting for them?
Here is a simpler experiment. Go into a large, unheated house in the middle of the winter. Light a single candle in each room. Keep them burning for days...weeks. Is the house noticeably warmer? Now....let the weather change a little. One warm, sunny day. Just one.
I don't know where you live, but even in Norway, having the hottest days be 6 degrees celsius warmer, would be quite uncomfortable. CO2 is not replacing the the natural cycle, it is adding to it.
This is the same logic that causes Superfund in the US to clean up toxins to lower than naturally occuring levels wasting billions of dollars
So anything that occurs "naturally" is not dangerous?
No, it was DIVX.
t protects users from lawsuits that the media companies will be filling against everybody who didn't upgrade to the "protected" player and who must therefor be a dirty pirate.
Ah, the old "protection money" scheme.
Saddam did much much worse than that. And we have eyewitnesses to it.
Unfortunately these "eyewitnesses" often have their own political agenda, and some of them (like the girl talking about how Iraqis put newborn babies on the floor to let them die) were proved to be lying, so these witnesses are not more trustworthy than pictures.
At least in our system if I work hard enough and have a good job I can get good health care.
What if you don't have the health to work?
Well yes, that's partially because most of the time OSS "vendors" forego the testing procedures that commercial vendors do.
Well, it seem to me like at least Microsoft still has a worse track record when it comes to buggy fixes. Several times their security patches haven't even fixed the bug they're meant to fix.
Surely they don't believe e-voting is safe? If so they must believe traditional voting systems are just as or more unsafe. Why?
Their choice is to vote for someone who is agianst abortion but for big corporations, or to vote for someone who is for abortion but agianst copyright extentions
The second guy sounds like a win/win to me.
But 90% of people have strong feelings about abortion, even though fewer than 1% of people will ever want/need/get one.
This is obviously what makes it so easy for them to be against it. Nothing like finding a small group of defenseless people to impose some moral rules on, when you can be fairly certain you won't come in the same position yourself.
Yet. It's only a matter of time before someone who doesn't want any payment for services and just wants to see millions of computers have their data destroyed writes a virus that does just that.
It would still be detected by virus companies and others, they would find out what it does, the press would publish it on the front page, and people would panic, and have their computers cleaned. Normal users don't bother doing that if they are in no immediate danger.
Next-gen: Random sentence inclusion into all word docs, change #'s in excel sheets, alter contents of address books, random data into access/sql databases.
I doubt that. The point of todays viruses is to make money for the writer, and they can't do that if they're removed, so they do as little harm as possible. These will survive much easier than destructional viruses. If there's a new development in viruses, my guess is it will be one that actually provides some kind of benefit for the user, to create a kind of symbiosis.
They even learned off of maps that showed local geography as the Palestinian Authority wanted it to be rather than it actually was!
I suppose it's difficult to always be updated on where the Israelis decides the border is at any given time, considering how they're continuously expanding it into more of Palestine.
As a motorcycle rider, I can tell you that the increase in safety margins she enjoys riding on empty roads is probably 1000 times greater than the increased health risk the radiation poses.
No offence, but if you think that, you don't know much about motorcycle accidents. Most accidents (in Norway about 60%) happen without interference from other people. On the other hand, in the remaining 40%, the other part is usually to blame.
[In the army] They learn discipline, work ethic, and cooperation skills unmatched in the civilian world
Have you ever been in the army? The only things I learned, was how to appear stupid enough that nobody would ask me anything, always look like I was busy with some serious stuff if there were any work that needed to be done, or even better, be somewhere out of sight. If I actually had to do something, I would drag it out until the end of the day, because if I finished quickly, I would just be put to do another task.
Imagine attacking common words and phrases. If you read an english text, you would quickly notice words like "the" "a" "and", and it was a letter stuff like "you" and "me" Once you have a large set of common words and phrases you look at how they are placed and structured, and start making qualified guesses to their relationship.
That would only work if the language is gramatically equal to English. Even in Norwegian, which is very similar to English, there is no direct translation for "the" or "a" that would mean the same as in english, and you can be both "du" (just the person you), or "dere" (all of you). You don't have to look further than Spanish before there are a lot more differences, and I assume Japanese would be just gibberish.
It appears to be the wrong person, so you probably shouldn't harass her. Look further down.