yeah, but what's the default situation?
I while ago I created a personal website by simply uploading a few pages and Google started indexing it, so did the Internet Archive
later on I started to receive a lot of spam and phishing attenpts with granular information on my personal details, so I did what you say and had my pages removed from the Google index and the "Archive" (although I suspect that some tape backup copies, or leftover of GFS mirrors might still be lingering somewhere) but, guess what, in the meantime a German "how do you call those websites which copy & retain metadata from all over the place to make your searches end-up in their specially crafted advertising pages" still has them and makes the whole "opt-out" an actual shenanigan
you mean that you cannot start a new process pointing to the new libraries and then safely signal the "old" one to stop ?
in addition, I thought that you could easily restart the Linux Kernel without having to restart the physical hardware... surely that's what I would call a plug&play OS, not the other one...:-)
don't let your limitations impose themselves on other things...
well, it's not like we are talking of conquering half of the known world in a few years or invading Poland in a few weeks... I'm sure that people would allow a few days to count the votes given enough little helpers
and if you really want to go "modern", to give an example, back at University there were some busy classes were students took exams choosing answers on paper slips (much like the lottery ones) and these were quickly parsed by a (mechanical) scanner...
and how many times one has to calibrate a $300 PDA these days?
it's really abominable that these $A_LOT voting machines "forget" where a certain position on the screen is only after a few hours! it looks more a "feature" than a drift to me...
I'm growing tired of suggesting over and over the simple use of actual push-buttons (not on-screen ones) to go with the voting process (or to be considered for "manual override" use by the voter)...
and there I thought that the Earth was flat... luckily there are people who believe that instead it's spherical and that electrical power can be transmitted over long distance, as required...
I know that you're trolling, user 679911, because many of my colleagues get a big bonus for overperforming, and because the 100m world record keeps going down 20ms each year:-)
everything is relative, absolutism is a human convention...
you are implying that humankind will still "rule" this planet at that point...
what's the bacterial equivalent of travelling to another celestial body?:-)
people do download music from unauthorised distribution sources (what you and others insist on calling piracy or theft) when the price it too high and doesn't make it worth buying... much like fake Rolex watches from Singapore
now the various stores are finally being more reasonable in both prices and restrictions so the industry will start to notice a big increase in online sales and finally stop muttering about the issue...
consider that:
- it's crazy to think that virtual (intangible) goods should cost the same as physical ones as when they started the online music business;
- it's crazy to think that what you purchase one day (the license to listen a specific song), should be purchased again with each format-shift;
- it's crazy that you can't insure your "digital" music collection (unlike the physical one)... has anyone tried ?
- it's virtually impossible to resell all or part of that "digital" collection without getting into all sorts of troubles, like trying to remember each single place where it was backed-up too (in order to remove it from there)
- this list can go on... the judicial system is simply not yet ready to deal with all these innovations, so let's give it a hand to do it the right (consumer) way...
I keep using the Terminal (that is, the command line not the movie) for some "sudo" stuff (that is "Run As..." for the Windows folks) onyl because I've been rather lazy and not prepared a few shortcuts with the "ksudo" one
you can think that some of these names might appear unusual or uncommon to the average user, but try to remember your childhood and the first time that you heard a word like "convulsions" (what I get when I use Windows) or "desaparecidos" (what happened to it when I grew tired), surely you've asked around or looked it up somewhere... why should it be so difficult with Linux ?
it's not like everyone was born to excel in the use of words, or had access to a beautiful view from any vantage power point:-)
if by standards you mean widely-agreed practices and policies (like a few years ago the ITU decided to change some rules in relation to dialling phone numbers, mostly in European countries), that makes sense
otherwise, being force-fed a different "Microsoft user-experience" every 3 years (3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7) is not really speaking of standards... at least not from the users' point of view...
it's more like that your perception of what these words mean is a little confused, like those still insisting that PC (as in Personal Computer) means the operating system software and not the (smaller than mainframe) hardware...
well, actually, that's exactly what it is... otherwise what honestly would prevent a computer from running any software that can read your files?
the point here is that Microsoft & Co. have created a stringhold on file formats (which is not even 100% true because most of their formats and protocols have been available for a fee)
and seriously, have you tried to run that Windows application under WINE? anyway, who would still use platform-specific business software in this day and age? webapps like SalesForce are the way to go or you simply recompile your one for a different platform, unless you've chosen a lock-in language (big mistake!)
before you state the unobvious, please check your facts: Microsoft is losing terrain in every category of software and hardware...
and a teacher that can only teach from a specific textbook is not worth her title...
remember that the speed improvements in Windows 7 are simply "apparent" as they have just focussed in showing the user that he/she can actually multi-task on a computer... finally...
why the heck would one need Microsoft to create/port games to Linux ?! (unless you think that Microsoft is an entertainment company and not a serious business... one second, need to wipe my tears...)
anyway, things are going to change as there is this guy, you know, the artist formerly known as the creator of QuickTime, who came-up with this neat idea (yes, I'm overaged) that the games can run on a server farm and you simply need a broadband connection to play them (that is, receive the video output and send your controller input)...
and unless he does it to resurrect Apple Mac share only, I can see how that's going to bring down console numbers and revitalise computer-based gaming... please insert quarter to play!
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yeah, but what's the default situation?
I while ago I created a personal website by simply uploading a few pages and Google started indexing it, so did the Internet Archive
later on I started to receive a lot of spam and phishing attenpts with granular information on my personal details, so I did what you say and had my pages removed from the Google index and the "Archive" (although I suspect that some tape backup copies, or leftover of GFS mirrors might still be lingering somewhere) but, guess what, in the meantime a German "how do you call those websites which copy & retain metadata from all over the place to make your searches end-up in their specially crafted advertising pages" still has them and makes the whole "opt-out" an actual shenanigan
because Google can afford a server farm in the state with the cheapest electricity, while PB can only afford a museum...
or maybe I got this wrong and it all has to do with lobbying the democratic rulers
or maybe I got that wrong too and it has to do with how justice is relativistic...
you mean that you cannot start a new process pointing to the new libraries and then safely signal the "old" one to stop ? :-)
in addition, I thought that you could easily restart the Linux Kernel without having to restart the physical hardware... surely that's what I would call a plug&play OS, not the other one...
don't let your limitations impose themselves on other things...
nah, Bruce Willis is already on stand-by for this kind of situations...
as in: Java has been Open Source for the last 2 years link
I can send a wholesome 4 Divisions of them to you... :-)
why does that remind me of Microsoft Clippy? :-)
only two of the following can be true at any given moment (variation):
- real life
- being honest
- making mistakes
sorry, my attention has drifted, what was the question? :-)
well, it's not like we are talking of conquering half of the known world in a few years or invading Poland in a few weeks... I'm sure that people would allow a few days to count the votes given enough little helpers
and if you really want to go "modern", to give an example, back at University there were some busy classes were students took exams choosing answers on paper slips (much like the lottery ones) and these were quickly parsed by a (mechanical) scanner...
that's not "digital" enough, unless you count the use of fingers (digits) as such :-)
and how many times one has to calibrate a $300 PDA these days?
it's really abominable that these $A_LOT voting machines "forget" where a certain position on the screen is only after a few hours! it looks more a "feature" than a drift to me...
I'm growing tired of suggesting over and over the simple use of actual push-buttons (not on-screen ones) to go with the voting process (or to be considered for "manual override" use by the voter)...
then, if we have any loss or any toxic storage, can we bail it out?
and there I thought that the Earth was flat... luckily there are people who believe that instead it's spherical and that electrical power can be transmitted over long distance, as required...
I know that you're trolling, user 679911, because many of my colleagues get a big bonus for overperforming, and because the 100m world record keeps going down 20ms each year :-)
everything is relative, absolutism is a human convention...
you are implying that humankind will still "rule" this planet at that point... :-)
what's the bacterial equivalent of travelling to another celestial body?
people do download music from unauthorised distribution sources (what you and others insist on calling piracy or theft) when the price it too high and doesn't make it worth buying... much like fake Rolex watches from Singapore
now the various stores are finally being more reasonable in both prices and restrictions so the industry will start to notice a big increase in online sales and finally stop muttering about the issue...
consider that:
- it's crazy to think that virtual (intangible) goods should cost the same as physical ones as when they started the online music business;
- it's crazy to think that what you purchase one day (the license to listen a specific song), should be purchased again with each format-shift;
- it's crazy that you can't insure your "digital" music collection (unlike the physical one)... has anyone tried ?
- it's virtually impossible to resell all or part of that "digital" collection without getting into all sorts of troubles, like trying to remember each single place where it was backed-up too (in order to remove it from there)
- this list can go on... the judicial system is simply not yet ready to deal with all these innovations, so let's give it a hand to do it the right (consumer) way...
total FUD, stop drinking kool-aid...
I keep using the Terminal (that is, the command line not the movie) for some "sudo" stuff (that is "Run As..." for the Windows folks) onyl because I've been rather lazy and not prepared a few shortcuts with the "ksudo" one :-)
you can think that some of these names might appear unusual or uncommon to the average user, but try to remember your childhood and the first time that you heard a word like "convulsions" (what I get when I use Windows) or "desaparecidos" (what happened to it when I grew tired), surely you've asked around or looked it up somewhere... why should it be so difficult with Linux ?
it's not like everyone was born to excel in the use of words, or had access to a beautiful view from any vantage power point
if by standards you mean widely-agreed practices and policies (like a few years ago the ITU decided to change some rules in relation to dialling phone numbers, mostly in European countries), that makes sense
otherwise, being force-fed a different "Microsoft user-experience" every 3 years (3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7) is not really speaking of standards... at least not from the users' point of view...
it's more like that your perception of what these words mean is a little confused, like those still insisting that PC (as in Personal Computer) means the operating system software and not the (smaller than mainframe) hardware...
well, actually, that's exactly what it is... otherwise what honestly would prevent a computer from running any software that can read your files?
the point here is that Microsoft & Co. have created a stringhold on file formats (which is not even 100% true because most of their formats and protocols have been available for a fee)
and seriously, have you tried to run that Windows application under WINE? anyway, who would still use platform-specific business software in this day and age? webapps like SalesForce are the way to go or you simply recompile your one for a different platform, unless you've chosen a lock-in language (big mistake!)
before you state the unobvious, please check your facts: Microsoft is losing terrain in every category of software and hardware...
and a teacher that can only teach from a specific textbook is not worth her title...
remember that the speed improvements in Windows 7 are simply "apparent" as they have just focussed in showing the user that he/she can actually multi-task on a computer... finally...
how is Microsoft going to name their OSS alternative ? Minux !
Microsoft Minux Windows is Win-Win situation... but you can still Linux around with Samba !
(yes, this is pun re-intended, oops)
why the heck would one need Microsoft to create/port games to Linux ?! (unless you think that Microsoft is an entertainment company and not a serious business... one second, need to wipe my tears...)
anyway, things are going to change as there is this guy, you know, the artist formerly known as the creator of QuickTime, who came-up with this neat idea (yes, I'm overaged) that the games can run on a server farm and you simply need a broadband connection to play them (that is, receive the video output and send your controller input)...
and unless he does it to resurrect Apple Mac share only, I can see how that's going to bring down console numbers and revitalise computer-based gaming... please insert quarter to play!