I've heard of many cars where dominating noise at low speeds sounds something like this "Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,...". You can hear it clearly even when the car is stopped at traffic lights.
> Though noone will likely die or even loose any large ammounts of money or similar due to this particular case
They have already also blocked a site of several companies. Some which are not related to porn at all, but about 99% of the websites they block are legal porn-sites. Also a website who is making critique about this censorship and publishing a list of blocked but legal websites is blocked.
It is quite interesting how little people are defending these legal porn sites. As if it is okay to block them, just because they are porn.
I'm somewhat like you, except I don't usually write big systems based on others work. But I do sometimes look the source code to search e.g. why the program crashed and submit a bug report + patch to the developers.
I hate it when I'm using closed source software which has obviously a small bug, but I can't fix it. And the developer of the software is no longer working with it, so no-one will ever fix it.
I can think of two reasons: - They buy the stocks now when they are low, because hey think the stock will go up and then they can sell them with profit. - They buy the stocks to get the price up (and then sell them with profit).
Normally the stocks go up, down, up, down, etc. so if you buy when they have gone down, you will gain money later when they go up. But this isn't always the case. E.g. if you bought SCO stocks, you probably lost a lot.
Personally I would not risk my money on their shares. Firefox is eating their bread, OpenOffice is eating their butter and people are getting more and more aware of Linux. Not to mention iPod and Wii beating their other products.
I have no doubt that FreeDOS can do better than that, but I'm actually curious how fast is it? And is the speed so much better that it is better than 10 seconds with a GUI.
Guns kept in the home for self-protection are 22 times more likely to kill a family member or friend than to kill an assailant in self-defense. (Kellerman, Journal, Trauma, 1998) http://www.ncgv.org/facts
Science should be free for anyone to comment. I think that a wikipedia style page would work fine. Just let professors etc. be the moderators and e.g. lock the articles that are often trolled and allow only comments in the talk page. Or just allow comments in the talk pages. Making it easy for people to provide feedback will make the result much better.
Consider this. You got a video file, which is drm protected so no-one can copy it. Lets assume that drm is perfect and no-one is really not able to copy the file.
Okay, now take a video camera and voila, we got a copy.
If it is readable, it is possible to copy it. It can be made difficult, but never impossible.
It is nowadays. But > 10.000 years ago there was ice age, and the Pacific was partly frozen. People could have traveled by small boats and camp on the ice. First Americans might have been from Europe, perhaps later overrun by people from Asia (aka indians), to be then overrun by people from the Europe (Kolumbus and friends).
> Why would a business pay for software that benefits everybody else?
If they do that, they will
a) They will look better in the eyes of open source community. And trust me, you want this, because we are usually those who tell others what they should buy.
b) They become more attractive employer to those who are most talented. Like me;) . I would love to work for an open source project and I'm not alone.
c) They usually benefit from it directly also. For example if it is a text editor they decide to support, they can use that software themselves and they get to call the shots or at least make the fixes that are important to them. Quite many companies have their own internal tools, but if the project would be open source, they might get testing support and bug reports from the outside and even patches.
d) They might even join forces with their competitors, so that they would share the costs but also share the benefits. This would mean that both parties would benefit from it equally so they would not give advantage to the other, but on the other hand they could cut their development costs.
> Yes, but by usable I mean more than just being able to run the most recent applications.
Kernel's job is to be an interface between the hardware, drivers and applications. That is all.
You can speech recognition? That is fine, just add an application to do that. You want to change the configuration using only speech? That is fine, just add an application which can e.g. accept a command "configure Apache to handle php" and it will execute necessary installations and modify the apache configure file if needed. The user does not need to know what files are handled in the background, so there is no need to change those.
But okay, you think that the entire structure needs to be changed? Guess what, that can be done, because it is open source. Anyone with enough skills can do that.
IMHO you should be able to disable the nagging from the about:config. But not from the GUI. Just to make sure that those you disable it, know what they are doing and not doing it by accident.
You are forgetting that the spam and viruses spread by the people who don't upgrade when they should. So if you don't upgrade, you might cause harm to me also once your computer is owned by someone else. (But about:config option should be there for those who can control this risk by other ways.)
You don't seem to remember what the world was before Firefox. There really was no room for other browsers. Even Opera had to act like IE (even claim to be one) to be even barely usable.
Firefox is still open source and it has improved the websites around the world. I would like this trend to continue, so I will keep supporting Firefox.
> How can you steal from them without them finding out?
1. Make everyone sign "The host can keep any stuff that is left behind" contract before entering. 2. Yell "oh my god, are those girls naked out there" 3. When everyone is out, close the door 4. Profit
That is actually not stealing, because you made them sign. If you want to steal, skip #1.
Inbreeding is a big part of it. Finland used to be a big forest with swamps and lakes everywhere (and still mostly is), which made moving around very difficult. So we (I'm from Finland also) were isolated not only from the rest of the world. But also our internal parts were isolated from other parts of the country.
As a proof of this, there are several genetic deceases that are more common in Finland than anywhere else. E.g. AGU decease, which is found from around 200 families in Finland and only in about 20 families outside Finland (population of Finland is about 1/1000 of the population of the Earth). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartylglucosaminuria
But one should remember that it is estimated that the human race itself used to consist of a very few individuals, before it started spreading. So we all are distantly very close relatives.
According to this study, there are more MySQL users than there are MSSQL users. So there goes down pretty much all your arguments (unless you can provide better source for database market share): http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/marketshare/
> there are more idiot level programmers using Microsoft stuff
> If that's the case then they could be affected too.
But for some reason they are not. This means that either a) It is Microsoft's fault after all b) People who use MSSQL write more crappy code than those who use e.g. MySQL c) Attackers only target MSSQL for some unknown reason. Which means that it is less secure by default.
So, which option would you like to take. Or do you see some other options?
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> Turing test results are a good indication of what the questions should be
In Turing test the human can ask unexpected questions and analyze them, so it is hard to prepare the computer to answer to them.
You can't do the same with a computer program operating on a website without first inventing pretty good human kind of an AI.
> Where is the choice?
You can pick any browser you want from these alternatives: IE6, IE7, IE8
I've heard of many cars where dominating noise at low speeds sounds something like this "Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, ...". You can hear it clearly even when the car is stopped at traffic lights.
> Though noone will likely die or even loose any large ammounts of money or similar due to this particular case
They have already also blocked a site of several companies. Some which are not related to porn at all, but about 99% of the websites they block are legal porn-sites. Also a website who is making critique about this censorship and publishing a list of blocked but legal websites is blocked.
It is quite interesting how little people are defending these legal porn sites. As if it is okay to block them, just because they are porn.
I'm somewhat like you, except I don't usually write big systems based on others work. But I do sometimes look the source code to search e.g. why the program crashed and submit a bug report + patch to the developers.
I hate it when I'm using closed source software which has obviously a small bug, but I can't fix it. And the developer of the software is no longer working with it, so no-one will ever fix it.
I can think of two reasons:
- They buy the stocks now when they are low, because hey think the stock will go up and then they can sell them with profit.
- They buy the stocks to get the price up (and then sell them with profit).
Normally the stocks go up, down, up, down, etc. so if you buy when they have gone down, you will gain money later when they go up. But this isn't always the case. E.g. if you bought SCO stocks, you probably lost a lot.
Personally I would not risk my money on their shares. Firefox is eating their bread, OpenOffice is eating their butter and people are getting more and more aware of Linux. Not to mention iPod and Wii beating their other products.
"Eeepc 2G Surf cold boot to X in 10 sec" (the video is quite impressive, even you see the results in the title):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzkQhHaFE0I
Some more details:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=25964
I have no doubt that FreeDOS can do better than that, but I'm actually curious how fast is it? And is the speed so much better that it is better than 10 seconds with a GUI.
> I do like the idea of owning a gun.
Guns kept in the home for self-protection are 22 times more likely to kill a family member or friend than to kill an assailant in self-defense. (Kellerman, Journal, Trauma, 1998)
http://www.ncgv.org/facts
They did get quite a lot of free marketing because of that campaign. And Microsoft has never been bad in marketing.
I'm scared that the adds had some psychological element to brainwash us.
I suppose you are right.
Not anymore, as the unidentified object also disappeared by itself.
Science should be free for anyone to comment. I think that a wikipedia style page would work fine. Just let professors etc. be the moderators and e.g. lock the articles that are often trolled and allow only comments in the talk page. Or just allow comments in the talk pages. Making it easy for people to provide feedback will make the result much better.
You are not thinking out of the box.
Consider this. You got a video file, which is drm protected so no-one can copy it. Lets assume that drm is perfect and no-one is really not able to copy the file.
Okay, now take a video camera and voila, we got a copy.
If it is readable, it is possible to copy it. It can be made difficult, but never impossible.
It is nowadays. But > 10.000 years ago there was ice age, and the Pacific was partly frozen. People could have traveled by small boats and camp on the ice. First Americans might have been from Europe, perhaps later overrun by people from Asia (aka indians), to be then overrun by people from the Europe (Kolumbus and friends).
Here is an image of how far the ice really was:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Northern_icesheet_hg.png
You could have traveled from Spain to the USA using the technology that was available at that day.
> Why would a business pay for software that benefits everybody else?
If they do that, they will
a) They will look better in the eyes of open source community. And trust me, you want this, because we are usually those who tell others what they should buy.
b) They become more attractive employer to those who are most talented. Like me ;) . I would love to work for an open source project and I'm not alone.
c) They usually benefit from it directly also. For example if it is a text editor they decide to support, they can use that software themselves and they get to call the shots or at least make the fixes that are important to them. Quite many companies have their own internal tools, but if the project would be open source, they might get testing support and bug reports from the outside and even patches.
d) They might even join forces with their competitors, so that they would share the costs but also share the benefits. This would mean that both parties would benefit from it equally so they would not give advantage to the other, but on the other hand they could cut their development costs.
> Yes, but by usable I mean more than just being able to run the most recent applications.
Kernel's job is to be an interface between the hardware, drivers and applications. That is all.
You can speech recognition? That is fine, just add an application to do that. You want to change the configuration using only speech? That is fine, just add an application which can e.g. accept a command "configure Apache to handle php" and it will execute necessary installations and modify the apache configure file if needed. The user does not need to know what files are handled in the background, so there is no need to change those.
But okay, you think that the entire structure needs to be changed? Guess what, that can be done, because it is open source. Anyone with enough skills can do that.
You are forgetting that Linux is an open source project, which is actively developed. It only supported 386 processors at first, but now the list is too long to be posted here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_portability_and_supported_architectures#List_of_supported_architectures
Old versions of Linux won't be usable after 30 years, but recent versions will be.
IMHO you should be able to disable the nagging from the about:config. But not from the GUI. Just to make sure that those you disable it, know what they are doing and not doing it by accident.
You are forgetting that the spam and viruses spread by the people who don't upgrade when they should. So if you don't upgrade, you might cause harm to me also once your computer is owned by someone else. (But about:config option should be there for those who can control this risk by other ways.)
You don't seem to remember what the world was before Firefox. There really was no room for other browsers. Even Opera had to act like IE (even claim to be one) to be even barely usable.
Firefox is still open source and it has improved the websites around the world. I would like this trend to continue, so I will keep supporting Firefox.
> How can you steal from them without them finding out?
1. Make everyone sign "The host can keep any stuff that is left behind" contract before entering.
2. Yell "oh my god, are those girls naked out there"
3. When everyone is out, close the door
4. Profit
That is actually not stealing, because you made them sign. If you want to steal, skip #1.
I would respect it more if the html (or xhtml in this case) would be actually valid. It is not even close.
54 errors:
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fseantevis.com%2Fkansas%2F3000%2Frunning-for-office-xkcd-style%2F
Inbreeding is a big part of it. Finland used to be a big forest with swamps and lakes everywhere (and still mostly is), which made moving around very difficult. So we (I'm from Finland also) were isolated not only from the rest of the world. But also our internal parts were isolated from other parts of the country.
As a proof of this, there are several genetic deceases that are more common in Finland than anywhere else. E.g. AGU decease, which is found from around 200 families in Finland and only in about 20 families outside Finland (population of Finland is about 1/1000 of the population of the Earth). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartylglucosaminuria
But one should remember that it is estimated that the human race itself used to consist of a very few individuals, before it started spreading. So we all are distantly very close relatives.
According to this study, there are more MySQL users than there are MSSQL users. So there goes down pretty much all your arguments (unless you can provide better source for database market share):
http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/marketshare/
> there are more idiot level programmers using Microsoft stuff
Can't disagree with that argument.
> If that's the case then they could be affected too.
But for some reason they are not. This means that either
a) It is Microsoft's fault after all
b) People who use MSSQL write more crappy code than those who use e.g. MySQL
c) Attackers only target MSSQL for some unknown reason. Which means that it is less secure by default.
So, which option would you like to take. Or do you see some other options?
PHP: - Sorry, OSS work does not count, besides I have never heard of that project. Have you done any real work in your life? ...
Linus: -