The only time web 2.0 comes to my mind is when clients ask "some little bit of this and that" to "lighten up" their site. and they dont seem to care much about it either.
we will still be putting extra volume (car size) on the limited space we have by putting their baggage space, 4 seats (of which 2 generally are not used), and huge engine cowling (most often its uneccessarily elongated forth for aestethics). Instead we could go for a bubble shape, a small baggage on top, use universal engine (maybe magnetic rails) and this way squeeze more bubbles where we could squeeze more cars and this way both speed up the transportation and decrease congestion.
yes i checked it, and i agree with it. and it is also doable.
you misinterpreted what i was saying - i said rail system, meaning anything to run stuff in predetermined lanes - and replacing ALL roads small and large.
you can run individualized&automatized units on these mass transit lanes, single-unit trains or whatever.
being from an industrial engineering background of sorts, what i think is this :
we had a course on work study in the branch - work study is something which is utterly simple in principle, but far reaching in consequence - it basically involves observing a process, dividing it into simple steps, and trying to improve bits and pieces of them. the resulting gain in efficiency generally is very noticeable.
if applied to this situation, we have this : there are (lets make it up) 10.000 cars treading the roads at a junction every day. each unit of this cars (on the average) is 3.5 to 4 meters in length. most of these carry 1, or 2 persons.
to pass a junction, these cars need to displace all their length, so that the car coming from behind can traverse the same length - you need to displace an 3.5 m car 3.5 meters so that another car can fill the spot.
what if the car was 1.5 meters in length ?
it would take 42% of the time for it to displace its volume, and empty the 1.5 meter space it occupies.
which means less than half the time at a junction crossing (or any straight mile of road for that matter) - which also means double the number of cars (averaging 1.5 m) could pass the same junction at the same time.
the problem is that, to provide an individual with private space, we have to make cars seperate units - all having engine cowling, a (even short in length) baggage, axles, roof, seats and connecting parts and such. with every individual unit we introduce to traffic, in fact we are introducing more units of volume needs moving.
hence if we had removed all the extra mass for individual units' transportation gear, consolidate it to a mass transit scheme, and just put individual spaces (bubbles, etc whatsoever) in this system, and extend the system ALL over the place, in every street, like a river delta, a flexible rail unit, we would be able to reach anywhere we want speedily, safely, without any effort, and without loss of sizeable privacy the cars are offering.
what i think is with THAT level of investment, we can provide personal spaces for all passengers - just resembling the extent of privacy in trains with private compartments. there is too much money in cars and roads.
that were spent to produce, sell and maintain those cars, we would be able to make endless lines of light rail-based mass transportation system that would have luxury that would put a 5 star hotel in shame ? and then we would be able to go anywhere we wanted by just leaning back, and faster ?
Unions are generally just another way for some other parasites to suck on the workforce - this time by 'leading' them.
Unions and such are not needed. Only thing is needed is the awareness of the 'people'. If people know and accept that some wage is very suckily low, and have the awareness not to go for it (unless they are desperate), there will be no exploit.
And as for the argument that says 'there always be desperate people', i can say only this : in a civil society there should be no desperate people. If you left out some people to be desperate, you ask for whats coming.
Check some european countries - there are good social security coverage in some of them - noone is desperate or starving - employers cant exploit nobody.
Some smugglers found a use for something about those species of penguins, and they are harvesting them like mad.
Might be some local 'delicatessen' thing going on in some part of underground china catering to some elite uppity crowd - (they eat anything except humans anyway), might be some collectors, might be some medical lab and so on.
Best solution i think is to set an armed corvette there on patrol and some squad to roam the area as part of u.n. and see if the population will contunie to decline.
Well, american instutitions are much enthusiastic about advertising american values about free speech, transparent government, democracy, freedom and such to the world.
We listen to those, then we visit to slashdot and see that the u.s. government is actively censoring what it does not like, and than, to add insult to injury, we are seeing people here that can actually support such a blatant blashpemy of values.
Think - up to this date os'es were mainly the basic framework to run programs on them. Even in that state, phletora of exploits, hacks, a million ways to hamper or exploit usage of a computer have surfaced in the last 15 years.
Now they are putting strong elements integral to os that are able to block, modify, permit or limit usage of some elements of os, software, 3rd party software, and even hardware. They are this way decreasing the workload of hackers/exploiters - now they just need to find a way to exploit the mechanism already present there.
Its no guessing that this will make using computers with vista both a pain in the ass, but also a security risk.
Its very hard on providers' side to fight spam, even more than the end user-side, with spamassasin and such.
First of all, it is very hard to discern legitimate email from spam with the recent tactics employed by spammers. an email with only a subject of "Re:" and 1.5 lines of text can be a reply from a friend, as well as viagra spam. Keyword rating, content examining (auto) can only take you so far, as you cant risk a client not receiving an important business related email.
Up to this botnet thing, we heavily relied on trustable blacklists to filter en masse instead, which did a very good job weeding out spam, due to defining the most-highest rated spammers. However with the advent of the botnet issue, blacklists are not much helping either. Incoming spam, (means spam that is able to bypass the rbl, and land in mail transfer agent) has really increased in dramatic rate in the last 1-2 months.
The solution to this lies on the botnet issue i believe - botnets are providing a means for spammers to unload much spam without the fear of getting blacklisted with their ips - like the old method of infected computers sending spam. If we can find a solution to botnet thing, we might be able to use the same method also in reducing the virus infected computer spam.
whats the rush to conclude that someone thinks they are the same ?
in case you have noticed i said that there have been a lot of debates ensuing from various articles that are bent on java AND javascript are underrated. not java/javascript. It might as well be apples and liquid cooled rockets.
actually there is one debate that is in a few day older articles that is still not cooled down, about java this time.
apparently you did not read further than the first sentence.
whats the rush to conclude that someone thinks they are the same ?
in case you have noticed i said that there have been a lot of debates ensuing from various articles that are bent on java AND javascript are underrated. not java/javascript. It might as well be apples and liquid cooled rockets.
actually there is one debate that is in a few day older articles that is still not cooled down, about java this time.
Lately it is like as if some circles are almost pressuring the developer community to pay more attention to java, javascript and affiliated stuff. Every now and then someone pops up and says something to that effect and chaos ensues.
I just dont get why ?
Theres something called freedom. If something is useful for developers, they like it and they use it, and they think good of it, they pay it respect. If something does not catch their attention, or they think its not to their liking, they just ignore it.
I just dont get why are we being pressured to look into matters java, javascript. If they are respect-worthy, they will earn the respect by themselves good enough. If not, noone can make developers to respect something by propaganda or by coercion.
Those people are dead now, but they died peacefully, and many of them died at the end of their reign, and their reign only ended with their death.
"Checks and balances" - no such thing exists. Well, maybe only the balances part in that, any party trying to abuse power to a higher extent needs more powerful excuses - religion earlier, nationalism later, now, stuff like morals, values, traditions, child protection and such.
The only difference of now with medieval times is that, it is a much more delicate dance to rise to power and hold it. Its done under the veil of democracy - which supposedly gives people the governance.
Conspiracy theories and bullshit eh ?
Even in most democratic nations combined, the worlds 0.5-1% top rich circles control governments through the parties/electorates they support - the same minority holds major media channels to the extent that they can suppress or overemphasize issues. Elected assemblies can easily put out laws beneficial to the powerful rich, in conflict with what they were saying in their election agendas, and surprisingly can get away with that, even get elected a second, third time. In opposition to their voters' demands and wants, governments can push out laws detrimental to the commoners' well being, and often laws giving extra incentives to the already very rich.
And we are under democratic regimes. And you are saying that, governments are strong.
Cut the bullshit you say ? Bullshit is already cut, hand-made, tailored to fit. see above paragraph.
Didnt governments of u.s. and u.k. abuse their power ? Russia ? There have been many attempts in canada to restrict people's freedoms too, but so far they failed. Who knows what will they attempt in future and succeed ?
Politicians are accountable ? Pinochet ? Stalin ? Nixon ? How many politicians do you know that have given an account for his/her misdoings ?
Governments dont abuse power. Governments are just empty mechanisms that elected/appointed people fill. If a mal-intent party wins a vote, or becomes able to get someone appointed, they will abuse the power.
Nobody at Microsoft can install things on your computer without your permission.
Arent they already doing it attached to 'updates' and 'service packs' ? wga thing ? Wont microsoft updates be a trusted installer ? You will have to then either choose to go with known security holes or let microsoft run whatever 'update' it wishes ?
What we have at hand, the greedy elements in a society/group exploiting delicate issues to control/manipulate the public is not something that is a matter of belief or not.
In any society which is comprised of members that are less than utopic quality, it is a given that persons/groups that are willing/intent on manipulating the public to their varying needs will be present.
Theres no utopic quality grade society on the face of the earth as of now. as a result, it is best not to give anyone (present or future contenders) exploitable powers.
You can not leave your house's door open at night and say that "robbery having happened before and happened to others doesnt mean that it will happen again and happen to me"...
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How come ?
Xp does everything ok at the moment, and there are linux distros. why are you itching to go vista ?
.. with vista - You mean like their "success with Zune" ?
The only time web 2.0 comes to my mind is when clients ask "some little bit of this and that" to "lighten up" their site. and they dont seem to care much about it either.
we will still be putting extra volume (car size) on the limited space we have by putting their baggage space, 4 seats (of which 2 generally are not used), and huge engine cowling (most often its uneccessarily elongated forth for aestethics). Instead we could go for a bubble shape, a small baggage on top, use universal engine (maybe magnetic rails) and this way squeeze more bubbles where we could squeeze more cars and this way both speed up the transportation and decrease congestion.
yes i checked it, and i agree with it. and it is also doable.
you misinterpreted what i was saying - i said rail system, meaning anything to run stuff in predetermined lanes - and replacing ALL roads small and large.
you can run individualized&automatized units on these mass transit lanes, single-unit trains or whatever.
well,
being from an industrial engineering background of sorts, what i think is this :
we had a course on work study in the branch - work study is something which is utterly simple in principle, but far reaching in consequence - it basically involves observing a process, dividing it into simple steps, and trying to improve bits and pieces of them. the resulting gain in efficiency generally is very noticeable.
if applied to this situation, we have this : there are (lets make it up) 10.000 cars treading the roads at a junction every day. each unit of this cars (on the average) is 3.5 to 4 meters in length. most of these carry 1, or 2 persons.
to pass a junction, these cars need to displace all their length, so that the car coming from behind can traverse the same length - you need to displace an 3.5 m car 3.5 meters so that another car can fill the spot.
what if the car was 1.5 meters in length ?
it would take 42% of the time for it to displace its volume, and empty the 1.5 meter space it occupies.
which means less than half the time at a junction crossing (or any straight mile of road for that matter) - which also means double the number of cars (averaging 1.5 m) could pass the same junction at the same time.
the problem is that, to provide an individual with private space, we have to make cars seperate units - all having engine cowling, a (even short in length) baggage, axles, roof, seats and connecting parts and such. with every individual unit we introduce to traffic, in fact we are introducing more units of volume needs moving.
hence if we had removed all the extra mass for individual units' transportation gear, consolidate it to a mass transit scheme, and just put individual spaces (bubbles, etc whatsoever) in this system, and extend the system ALL over the place, in every street, like a river delta, a flexible rail unit, we would be able to reach anywhere we want speedily, safely, without any effort, and without loss of sizeable privacy the cars are offering.
what i think is with THAT level of investment, we can provide personal spaces for all passengers - just resembling the extent of privacy in trains with private compartments. there is too much money in cars and roads.
that were spent to produce, sell and maintain those cars, we would be able to make endless lines of light rail-based mass transportation system that would have luxury that would put a 5 star hotel in shame ? and then we would be able to go anywhere we wanted by just leaning back, and faster ?
Nay. Europe never seen the union activity to the extent united states or canada have experienced.
Its the social democrat (democrat, in american lingo) governments that have created this result.
Unions are generally just another way for some other parasites to suck on the workforce - this time by 'leading' them.
Unions and such are not needed. Only thing is needed is the awareness of the 'people'. If people know and accept that some wage is very suckily low, and have the awareness not to go for it (unless they are desperate), there will be no exploit.
And as for the argument that says 'there always be desperate people', i can say only this : in a civil society there should be no desperate people. If you left out some people to be desperate, you ask for whats coming.
Check some european countries - there are good social security coverage in some of them - noone is desperate or starving - employers cant exploit nobody.
Good idea.
On the non-sarcastic side, assigning a corvet and 12-lot squad there wont cost a dime for un.
Some smugglers found a use for something about those species of penguins, and they are harvesting them like mad.
Might be some local 'delicatessen' thing going on in some part of underground china catering to some elite uppity crowd - (they eat anything except humans anyway), might be some collectors, might be some medical lab and so on.
Best solution i think is to set an armed corvette there on patrol and some squad to roam the area as part of u.n. and see if the population will contunie to decline.
Well, american instutitions are much enthusiastic about advertising american values about free speech, transparent government, democracy, freedom and such to the world.
We listen to those, then we visit to slashdot and see that the u.s. government is actively censoring what it does not like, and than, to add insult to injury, we are seeing people here that can actually support such a blatant blashpemy of values.
I dont know which is worse.
Yes thats another way of looking at it - but also with increased benefits
Think - up to this date os'es were mainly the basic framework to run programs on them. Even in that state, phletora of exploits, hacks, a million ways to hamper or exploit usage of a computer have surfaced in the last 15 years.
Now they are putting strong elements integral to os that are able to block, modify, permit or limit usage of some elements of os, software, 3rd party software, and even hardware. They are this way decreasing the workload of hackers/exploiters - now they just need to find a way to exploit the mechanism already present there.
Its no guessing that this will make using computers with vista both a pain in the ass, but also a security risk.
Its very hard on providers' side to fight spam, even more than the end user-side, with spamassasin and such.
First of all, it is very hard to discern legitimate email from spam with the recent tactics employed by spammers. an email with only a subject of "Re:" and 1.5 lines of text can be a reply from a friend, as well as viagra spam. Keyword rating, content examining (auto) can only take you so far, as you cant risk a client not receiving an important business related email.
Up to this botnet thing, we heavily relied on trustable blacklists to filter en masse instead, which did a very good job weeding out spam, due to defining the most-highest rated spammers. However with the advent of the botnet issue, blacklists are not much helping either. Incoming spam, (means spam that is able to bypass the rbl, and land in mail transfer agent) has really increased in dramatic rate in the last 1-2 months.
The solution to this lies on the botnet issue i believe - botnets are providing a means for spammers to unload much spam without the fear of getting blacklisted with their ips - like the old method of infected computers sending spam. If we can find a solution to botnet thing, we might be able to use the same method also in reducing the virus infected computer spam.
im quoting my earlier message :
whats the rush to conclude that someone thinks they are the same ?
in case you have noticed i said that there have been a lot of debates ensuing from various articles that are bent on java AND javascript are underrated. not java/javascript. It might as well be apples and liquid cooled rockets.
actually there is one debate that is in a few day older articles that is still not cooled down, about java this time.
apparently you did not read further than the first sentence.
whats the rush to conclude that someone thinks they are the same ?
in case you have noticed i said that there have been a lot of debates ensuing from various articles that are bent on java AND javascript are underrated. not java/javascript. It might as well be apples and liquid cooled rockets.
actually there is one debate that is in a few day older articles that is still not cooled down, about java this time.
Lately it is like as if some circles are almost pressuring the developer community to pay more attention to java, javascript and affiliated stuff. Every now and then someone pops up and says something to that effect and chaos ensues.
I just dont get why ?
Theres something called freedom. If something is useful for developers, they like it and they use it, and they think good of it, they pay it respect. If something does not catch their attention, or they think its not to their liking, they just ignore it.
I just dont get why are we being pressured to look into matters java, javascript. If they are respect-worthy, they will earn the respect by themselves good enough. If not, noone can make developers to respect something by propaganda or by coercion.
Oh man !
Those people are dead now, but they died peacefully, and many of them died at the end of their reign, and their reign only ended with their death.
"Checks and balances" - no such thing exists. Well, maybe only the balances part in that, any party trying to abuse power to a higher extent needs more powerful excuses - religion earlier, nationalism later, now, stuff like morals, values, traditions, child protection and such.
The only difference of now with medieval times is that, it is a much more delicate dance to rise to power and hold it. Its done under the veil of democracy - which supposedly gives people the governance.
Conspiracy theories and bullshit eh ?
Even in most democratic nations combined, the worlds 0.5-1% top rich circles control governments through the parties/electorates they support - the same minority holds major media channels to the extent that they can suppress or overemphasize issues. Elected assemblies can easily put out laws beneficial to the powerful rich, in conflict with what they were saying in their election agendas, and surprisingly can get away with that, even get elected a second, third time. In opposition to their voters' demands and wants, governments can push out laws detrimental to the commoners' well being, and often laws giving extra incentives to the already very rich.
And we are under democratic regimes. And you are saying that, governments are strong.
Cut the bullshit you say ? Bullshit is already cut, hand-made, tailored to fit. see above paragraph.
OH PLEASE !
Didnt governments of u.s. and u.k. abuse their power ? Russia ? There have been many attempts in canada to restrict people's freedoms too, but so far they failed. Who knows what will they attempt in future and succeed ?
Politicians are accountable ? Pinochet ? Stalin ? Nixon ? How many politicians do you know that have given an account for his/her misdoings ?
Governments dont abuse power. Governments are just empty mechanisms that elected/appointed people fill. If a mal-intent party wins a vote, or becomes able to get someone appointed, they will abuse the power.
Arent they already doing it attached to 'updates' and 'service packs' ? wga thing ? Wont microsoft updates be a trusted installer ? You will have to then either choose to go with known security holes or let microsoft run whatever 'update' it wishes ?
are you sure ?
You are confusing the contexts.
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What we have at hand, the greedy elements in a society/group exploiting delicate issues to control/manipulate the public is not something that is a matter of belief or not.
In any society which is comprised of members that are less than utopic quality, it is a given that persons/groups that are willing/intent on manipulating the public to their varying needs will be present.
Theres no utopic quality grade society on the face of the earth as of now. as a result, it is best not to give anyone (present or future contenders) exploitable powers.
You can not leave your house's door open at night and say that "robbery having happened before and happened to others doesnt mean that it will happen again and happen to me"