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The internet has everything. You think it would not have a comparison of E3 Booth Babes?

http://news.com.com/2300-1043_3-6070849-1.html

Always? You're living in the past, before that vast majority of network traffic was funneled over a few backbones. It's already happened. Level 3 and Cogent had a spat and lots of people, including all Time Warner Cable customers were cut off from a significant portion of the net. There was no route.

Suppose that Google had 95% of the search market. Then, if Google either denies advertising space to a small company or lowers its page ranking (so that the company appears at the bottom of a list of 666 other businesses selling the same product), then the company could be hurt irrevocably. There is no viable way for the company to use an alternative search portal since since its tiny search of the search market reaches too small an audience. "Too small an audience" means "too few potential customers".

Well actually Microsoft is making a new version of Windows CE

Windows CE 6 beta

=D

the link to your article is http://news.com.com/China+says+its+scientist+faked +chip+research/2100-1006_3-6071983.html?tag=nefd.t op, it reads "China says its scientist faked chip research".

Woah, cal down. I'm not saying lighting shouldn't be considered in graphics technology, but some games today push it too far, and it looks like that's the way it will be in the next generation even more.

Examples: http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2006/083/reviews /924363_20060325_screen047.jpg
http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2006/news/03/21/ oblivion2_screen012.jpg
http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2006/066/924363_ 20060308_screen004.jpg
http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2005/257/reviews /928234_20050915_screen001.jpg

Woah, cal down. I'm not saying lighting shouldn't be considered in graphics technology, but some games today push it too far, and it looks like that's the way it will be in the next generation even more.

Examples: http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2006/083/reviews /924363_20060325_screen047.jpg
http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2006/news/03/21/ oblivion2_screen012.jpg
http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2006/066/924363_ 20060308_screen004.jpg
http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2005/257/reviews /928234_20050915_screen001.jpg

Woah, cal down. I'm not saying lighting shouldn't be considered in graphics technology, but some games today push it too far, and it looks like that's the way it will be in the next generation even more.

Examples: http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2006/083/reviews /924363_20060325_screen047.jpg
http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2006/news/03/21/ oblivion2_screen012.jpg
http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2006/066/924363_ 20060308_screen004.jpg
http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2005/257/reviews /928234_20050915_screen001.jpg

Woah, cal down. I'm not saying lighting shouldn't be considered in graphics technology, but some games today push it too far, and it looks like that's the way it will be in the next generation even more.

Examples: http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2006/083/reviews /924363_20060325_screen047.jpg
http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2006/news/03/21/ oblivion2_screen012.jpg
http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2006/066/924363_ 20060308_screen004.jpg
http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2005/257/reviews /928234_20050915_screen001.jpg

I'd bet my lunch the companies we are bashing (Yahoo, Google etc.) have given into more questionable American subpoena the name of "anti-terror" than Chinese over speech violations.

If you skip the one sided over sensationalized headlines typical of Slashdot and actually read what Yahoo said on the issue you will probably see their point.

Heck, the newest Macs can even run Windows itself.

Except after running windows, some of those macs ONLY run windows. Oops

While that may be technically true, it still is a de facto requirement for many things. I myself have attempted to obtain bank accounts without a SSN, and was told by the bank manager on two seperate occasions, "No, we can't force you to give us your SSN...but we don't need to let you have an account here, either.".

The measure sponsored by Clay Shaw of Florida, which would make it illegal in certain cases for anyone to refuse to do business with people who decline to supply their SSNs, would go a long way towards preventing this sort of abuse, but again, it only puts a band-aid on the underlying problem.

I'm not a compiler guy, but IIRC PPC Mac OS X binaries are compiled with -Os (ie: optimized for size), or that was what people said. Is Apple using the same options for Intel, or are they even using the Intel compiler instead of gcc?

I've this personal conspiration theory that when Jobs realized that IBM was not going to care anymore about laptops and Apple in general CPUs anymore (the real reason why Jobs switched to Intel - read the second paragraph of this interview) he planned a swtich which would harm IBM and PPC as much as he could, and misoptimizing PPC binaries would be an option.

(of course this is just conspiration, Apple may have been using -Os precisely to get more performance)

CNET News.com asked telecommunications and Internet companies about cooperation with the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping scheme. We asked them: "Have you turned over information or opened up your networks to the NSA without being compelled by law?" Company Response Adelphia Communications Declined comment
AOL Time Warner No [1]
AT&T Declined comment
BellSouth Communications No
Cable & Wireless* No response
Cablevision Systems No
CenturyTel No
Charter Communications No [1]
Cingular Wireless No [2]
Citizens Communications No response
Cogent Communications* No [1]
Comcast No
Cox Communications No
EarthLink No
Global Crossing* Inconclusive
Google Declined comment
Level 3* No response
Microsoft No [3]
NTT Communications* Inconclusive [4]
Qwest Communications No [2]
SAVVIS Communications* No response
Sprint Nextel No [2]
T-Mobile USA No [2]
United Online No response
Verizon Communications Inconclusive [5]
XO Communications* No [1]
Yahoo Declined comment

The capacitors are one of the most problematic components:

http://news.com.com/PCs+plagued+by+bad+capacitors/ 2100-1041_3-5942647.html

The bad capacitors--or "bad caps" as they are sometimes called--are black and gold-colored low-ESR (equivalent series resistance) aluminum electrolytic cylinders about an inch in length and marked HN(M) and HM(M) on the side with a letter "X" stamped on the top. The capacitors are found in some motherboards, video cards and power supplies for PCs, monitors, video tape players and televisions.

Meet the DMCA. If the BSA has "evidence" of your wrongdoing, you get to pay for the audit and the "violated" company's legal bills. See here for a reference story and what to do about this kind of extortion. Essentially, you are screwed and have to pay the fines demanded without a fight. A fight would cost the average company half a million dollars, more if you include the cost of business disruption.

Software contracts and licenses are not normal contracts. The "agreement" between you and a non free software company is that you are so greatfull for the software that you will do as you are told.

Treating customers like this, Microsoft has completely lost it.

That's wrong and they don't. It's been easy enough to escape their "product" for six year, as proved by Ball Guitar Strings, GM, Lowes and many others. Even if it was difficult to get away, it's stupid to insult and harass your customers. You should not make customers angry enough to use abacuses when there are dozens of firms ready to replace your product with something that's cheaper and easier.

Actually your post reminded me of a bookmark I had laying around quite a while about why Ernie Ball dumped microsoft. FTA:

...Humiliated by the experience, Ball told his IT department he wanted Microsoft products out of his business within six months. "I said, 'I don't care if we have to buy 10,000 abacuses,'" recalled Ball, who recently addressed the LinuxWorld trade show. "We won't do business with someone who treats us poorly."

...What I really thought is that you ought to treat people the way you want to be treated. I couldn't treat a customer the way Microsoft dealt with me...I went from being a pro-Microsoft guy to instantly being an anti-Microsoft guy...

They never got to that point because AWC's lawyer told them to stick it.

It it works like a BSA raid, M$ will get a court order for an inspection based on some kind of "evidence", which could be anything from an anonymous phone call by a disgruntled employee to some program the secretary installed phoning home. AWC would then have the choice of paying for the inspection or another even more expensive "service" from a list M$ offers. The raid itself would involve massive disruption of work.

This is the appropriate response.

http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2006/129/928901_ 20060510_screen028.jpg Is good enough for me. :)

"It is time to admit what many security professional already know: We as security professional are drastically failing ourselves, our community and the people we are meant to protect. Too many of our security layers of defense are broken. Security professionals are enjoying a surge in business and growing salaries and that is why we tolerate the dismal situation we are facing. Yet it is our mandate, first and foremost, to protect."

Credit Card Breach Exposes 40 Million Accounts
Bank Of America Loses A Million Customer Records
Pentagon Hacker Compromises Personal Data
Online Attack Puts 1.4 Million Records At Risk
Hacker Faces Extradition Over 'Biggest Military Computer Hack Of All Time'
Laptop Theft Puts Data Of 98,000 At Risk
Medical Group: Data On 185,000 People Stolen
Hackers Grab LexisNexis Info on 32000 People
ChoicePoint Data Theft Widens To 145,000 People
PIN Scandal 'Worst Hack Ever'; Citibank Only The Start
ID Theft Hit 3.6 Million In U.S.
Georgia Technology Authority Hack Exposes Confidential Information of 570,000 Members
Scammers Access Data On 35,000 Californians
Payroll Firm Pulls Web Services Citing Data Leak
Hacker Steals Air Force Officers' Personal Information
Undisclosed Number of Verizon Employees at Risk of Identity Theft

"It is time to admit what many security professional already know: We as security professional are drastically failing ourselves, our community and the people we are meant to protect. Too many of our security layers of defense are broken. Security professionals are enjoying a surge in business and growing salaries and that is why we tolerate the dismal situation we are facing. Yet it is our mandate, first and foremost, to protect."

Credit Card Breach Exposes 40 Million Accounts
Bank Of America Loses A Million Customer Records
Pentagon Hacker Compromises Personal Data
Online Attack Puts 1.4 Million Records At Risk
Hacker Faces Extradition Over 'Biggest Military Computer Hack Of All Time'
Laptop Theft Puts Data Of 98,000 At Risk
Medical Group: Data On 185,000 People Stolen
Hackers Grab LexisNexis Info on 32000 People
ChoicePoint Data Theft Widens To 145,000 People
PIN Scandal 'Worst Hack Ever'; Citibank Only The Start
ID Theft Hit 3.6 Million In U.S.
Georgia Technology Authority Hack Exposes Confidential Information of 570,000 Members
Scammers Access Data On 35,000 Californians
Payroll Firm Pulls Web Services Citing Data Leak
Hacker Steals Air Force Officers' Personal Information
Undisclosed Number of Verizon Employees at Risk of Identity Theft

"It is time to admit what many security professional already know: We as security professional are drastically failing ourselves, our community and the people we are meant to protect. Too many of our security layers of defense are broken. Security professionals are enjoying a surge in business and growing salaries and that is why we tolerate the dismal situation we are facing. Yet it is our mandate, first and foremost, to protect."

Credit Card Breach Exposes 40 Million Accounts
Bank Of America Loses A Million Customer Records
Pentagon Hacker Compromises Personal Data
Online Attack Puts 1.4 Million Records At Risk
Hacker Faces Extradition Over 'Biggest Military Computer Hack Of All Time'
Laptop Theft Puts Data Of 98,000 At Risk
Medical Group: Data On 185,000 People Stolen
Hackers Grab LexisNexis Info on 32000 People
ChoicePoint Data Theft Widens To 145,000 People
PIN Scandal 'Worst Hack Ever'; Citibank Only The Start
ID Theft Hit 3.6 Million In U.S.
Georgia Technology Authority Hack Exposes Confidential Information of 570,000 Members
Scammers Access Data On 35,000 Californians
Payroll Firm Pulls Web Services Citing Data Leak
Hacker Steals Air Force Officers' Personal Information
Undisclosed Number of Verizon Employees at Risk of Identity Theft

"It is time to admit what many security professional already know: We as security professional are drastically failing ourselves, our community and the people we are meant to protect. Too many of our security layers of defense are broken. Security professionals are enjoying a surge in business and growing salaries and that is why we tolerate the dismal situation we are facing. Yet it is our mandate, first and foremost, to protect."

Credit Card Breach Exposes 40 Million Accounts
Bank Of America Loses A Million Customer Records
Pentagon Hacker Compromises Personal Data
Online Attack Puts 1.4 Million Records At Risk
Hacker Faces Extradition Over 'Biggest Military Computer Hack Of All Time'
Laptop Theft Puts Data Of 98,000 At Risk
Medical Group: Data On 185,000 People Stolen
Hackers Grab LexisNexis Info on 32000 People
ChoicePoint Data Theft Widens To 145,000 People
PIN Scandal 'Worst Hack Ever'; Citibank Only The Start
ID Theft Hit 3.6 Million In U.S.
Georgia Technology Authority Hack Exposes Confidential Information of 570,000 Members
Scammers Access Data On 35,000 Californians
Payroll Firm Pulls Web Services Citing Data Leak
Hacker Steals Air Force Officers' Personal Information
Undisclosed Number of Verizon Employees at Risk of Identity Theft

"It is time to admit what many security professional already know: We as security professional are drastically failing ourselves, our community and the people we are meant to protect. Too many of our security layers of defense are broken. Security professionals are enjoying a surge in business and growing salaries and that is why we tolerate the dismal situation we are facing. Yet it is our mandate, first and foremost, to protect."

Credit Card Breach Exposes 40 Million Accounts
Bank Of America Loses A Million Customer Records
Pentagon Hacker Compromises Personal Data
Online Attack Puts 1.4 Million Records At Risk
Hacker Faces Extradition Over 'Biggest Military Computer Hack Of All Time'
Laptop Theft Puts Data Of 98,000 At Risk
Medical Group: Data On 185,000 People Stolen
Hackers Grab LexisNexis Info on 32000 People
ChoicePoint Data Theft Widens To 145,000 People
PIN Scandal 'Worst Hack Ever'; Citibank Only The Start
ID Theft Hit 3.6 Million In U.S.
Georgia Technology Authority Hack Exposes Confidential Information of 570,000 Members
Scammers Access Data On 35,000 Californians
Payroll Firm Pulls Web Services Citing Data Leak
Hacker Steals Air Force Officers' Personal Information
Undisclosed Number of Verizon Employees at Risk of Identity Theft

"It is time to admit what many security professional already know: We as security professional are drastically failing ourselves, our community and the people we are meant to protect. Too many of our security layers of defense are broken. Security professionals are enjoying a surge in business and growing salaries and that is why we tolerate the dismal situation we are facing. Yet it is our mandate, first and foremost, to protect."

Credit Card Breach Exposes 40 Million Accounts
Bank Of America Loses A Million Customer Records
Pentagon Hacker Compromises Personal Data
Online Attack Puts 1.4 Million Records At Risk
Hacker Faces Extradition Over 'Biggest Military Computer Hack Of All Time'
Laptop Theft Puts Data Of 98,000 At Risk
Medical Group: Data On 185,000 People Stolen
Hackers Grab LexisNexis Info on 32000 People
ChoicePoint Data Theft Widens To 145,000 People
PIN Scandal 'Worst Hack Ever'; Citibank Only The Start
ID Theft Hit 3.6 Million In U.S.
Georgia Technology Authority Hack Exposes Confidential Information of 570,000 Members
Scammers Access Data On 35,000 Californians
Payroll Firm Pulls Web Services Citing Data Leak
Hacker Steals Air Force Officers' Personal Information
Undisclosed Number of Verizon Employees at Risk of Identity Theft

"It is time to admit what many security professional already know: We as security professional are drastically failing ourselves, our community and the people we are meant to protect. Too many of our security layers of defense are broken. Security professionals are enjoying a surge in business and growing salaries and that is why we tolerate the dismal situation we are facing. Yet it is our mandate, first and foremost, to protect."

Credit Card Breach Exposes 40 Million Accounts
Bank Of America Loses A Million Customer Records
Pentagon Hacker Compromises Personal Data
Online Attack Puts 1.4 Million Records At Risk
Hacker Faces Extradition Over 'Biggest Military Computer Hack Of All Time'
Laptop Theft Puts Data Of 98,000 At Risk
Medical Group: Data On 185,000 People Stolen
Hackers Grab LexisNexis Info on 32000 People
ChoicePoint Data Theft Widens To 145,000 People
PIN Scandal 'Worst Hack Ever'; Citibank Only The Start
ID Theft Hit 3.6 Million In U.S.
Georgia Technology Authority Hack Exposes Confidential Information of 570,000 Members
Scammers Access Data On 35,000 Californians
Payroll Firm Pulls Web Services Citing Data Leak
Hacker Steals Air Force Officers' Personal Information
Undisclosed Number of Verizon Employees at Risk of Identity Theft

"It is time to admit what many security professional already know: We as security professional are drastically failing ourselves, our community and the people we are meant to protect. Too many of our security layers of defense are broken. Security professionals are enjoying a surge in business and growing salaries and that is why we tolerate the dismal situation we are facing. Yet it is our mandate, first and foremost, to protect."

Credit Card Breach Exposes 40 Million Accounts
Bank Of America Loses A Million Customer Records
Pentagon Hacker Compromises Personal Data
Online Attack Puts 1.4 Million Records At Risk
Hacker Faces Extradition Over 'Biggest Military Computer Hack Of All Time'
Laptop Theft Puts Data Of 98,000 At Risk
Medical Group: Data On 185,000 People Stolen
Hackers Grab LexisNexis Info on 32000 People
ChoicePoint Data Theft Widens To 145,000 People
PIN Scandal 'Worst Hack Ever'; Citibank Only The Start
ID Theft Hit 3.6 Million In U.S.
Georgia Technology Authority Hack Exposes Confidential Information of 570,000 Members
Scammers Access Data On 35,000 Californians
Payroll Firm Pulls Web Services Citing Data Leak
Hacker Steals Air Force Officers' Personal Information
Undisclosed Number of Verizon Employees at Risk of Identity Theft

"It is time to admit what many security professional already know: We as security professional are drastically failing ourselves, our community and the people we are meant to protect. Too many of our security layers of defense are broken. Security professionals are enjoying a surge in business and growing salaries and that is why we tolerate the dismal situation we are facing. Yet it is our mandate, first and foremost, to protect."

Credit Card Breach Exposes 40 Million Accounts
Bank Of America Loses A Million Customer Records
Pentagon Hacker Compromises Personal Data
Online Attack Puts 1.4 Million Records At Risk
Hacker Faces Extradition Over 'Biggest Military Computer Hack Of All Time'
Laptop Theft Puts Data Of 98,000 At Risk
Medical Group: Data On 185,000 People Stolen
Hackers Grab LexisNexis Info on 32000 People
ChoicePoint Data Theft Widens To 145,000 People
PIN Scandal 'Worst Hack Ever'; Citibank Only The Start
ID Theft Hit 3.6 Million In U.S.
Georgia Technology Authority Hack Exposes Confidential Information of 570,000 Members
Scammers Access Data On 35,000 Californians
Payroll Firm Pulls Web Services Citing Data Leak
Hacker Steals Air Force Officers' Personal Information
Undisclosed Number of Verizon Employees at Risk of Identity Theft

The motion-sensing demo was hilarious. The guy's ship was shaking like crazy, and it was comical seeing him try to keep both hands on the controller while twisting it around

Not to mention something like 12 states do in fact regulate gas prices to avoid the kind of price gouging that created the Standard Oil monopoly. Should the price be too low, the service stations are fined. If it's too high, the oil companies are investigated for consumer gouging and fined. Not that the consumer ever sees that money back - usually it gets dumped in some state fund.

    What they really want is to offer commercial content that they provide for a fee like TV on demand to be the majority of the bandwidth and non-commercial content (in their eyes) such as google searches to be throttled to a tiny portion of the bandwidth. If I were a cable company, I'd want that too, since I can charge more for various services - want fast TV on Demand and fast all around Internet? That is bundled for only $120/month. Each is individually priced at only $80 apiece (using a tiered pricing model where you need "basic" high speed first). I strongly suspect the cable companies will get their way on this one, just because of the FCC and supreme court's track record of backing of big businesses like the baby Bells.

    Google isn't getting any "special favors" anyhow - they get the _same_ treatment as everyone else - it's net NEUTRALITY. They pay for their telecom connection just like everyone else. Just because their content is better than yours and more people want to see it when it gets to your piece of the pipeline doesn't mean they're getting special favor - they're just offering better content. Buck up and offer something worth looking at and you can hog your share too.

Before yesterday they were saying simultaneous worldwide launch. Now "simultaneous" has been changed to mean "within the same week or so."

Unless the November 17 everybody-outside-Japan launch is written in stone and signed in blood, I wouldn't put much stock in it.

I did go looking for links but it's been hard going. One reference at Linux Weekly News that Linus wanted the 2.3.x dev cycle to be "half the length or less" of the 2.1.x dev cycle. (In reality, 2.3 took 18 months vs. 2.1's 27 months--shorter, but only by a third.)

Then, when 2.5 kicked off, they said they wanted to shorten 2.5.x over 2.3.x, and, well, 2.5.x took 25 months.

BTW, you can look at kernel.org if you don't beleive me on the timeline.

I'm not taking that bet, because I can guess how much your time is worth. Apple-haters tend to be failures at life.

for those that say Ubuntu is great, my own take on it: http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-6066271. html

No offence, but I hope I never have to meet you in a situation like that. Being critical or demanding does not require bad manners.

Would Apple Computer care about someone selling a coat?

Oh for Gods sake - stop being such a whiney fanboy. All large corporations are litigious and Apple is one of the worst offenders.

They've issued legal threats to everyone from The Church of Satan (for "Made with Macintosh banner") to the (now ex) owners of the itunes.co.uk domain (registered long before Apple started selling music)

Go and register AppleMac.co.uk (or something similar) and see how long it is before the lawyers arrive.

To help people install Linux, for the first time, the following was targeted at this, keeping a dual boot system:
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-5982893. html

for those that say Ubuntu is great, my own take on it:
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-6066271. html

a better option for helping people pick a distro:
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php

To help people install Linux, for the first time, the following was targeted at this, keeping a dual boot system:
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-5982893. html

for those that say Ubuntu is great, my own take on it:
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-6066271. html

a better option for helping people pick a distro:
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php

Serious. Screw apple and their 'intellectual property' bullshit.

They are sueing their own customers! Nobody does that, not even Microsoft. And it's not like Apple hasn't been doing this before..

Putting DRM in their itunes products and then forcing a application that removes the DRM to be developed outside the United States.

Suing multiple websites and blogs for posting information about up and coming products. These are Apple's FANBOYS they are throwing lawyers at.

And now suing SomethingAwful??!! WTF are they thinking?

This goes to show you that between Microsoft and Apple desktops you should be happy that Microsoft won because Apple is worse then Bill Gates and friends... The only difference is that Apple is too small to cause much damage compared to Microsoft.

Seriously. Who do you think said this:
"The PC wars are over. Microsoft won a long time ago. If I were the head of Apple, I would milk the Mac for all it's worth and then move on the next big thing."

Steve Jobs, of course. And he was right, and is still right.

If your a Linux or *BSD user and somebody asks you why don't use just use OS X just point them at these links and remember that quote:
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/antislapp.html
http://news.com.com/Apple+lawsuit+Thinking+differe nt/2010-1047_3-5611497.html

Seriously. Do you want to want to give your money to a company that is trying to subvert the First Amendment of the U.S. constitution in the name of protecting their 'Trade secrets'?

I own a Ibook now, but I'll NEVER EVER BUY ANOTHER APPLE PRODUCT EVER AGAIN.
No itunes. No ipod. No Imac, powermac or any such nonsesense. Never again.

I'm posting this even though I moderated, just because the story really really is in need of help. (translation, you get two fp trolls)

The "story" is just a bunch of screenshots, and a link to a blog on techrepublic.com.com that you need to register to see. Once I got into the blog, it wasn't even on the page, because this was posted there April 20th with the following "content":

I just finished my installation of Fedora Core 5. It was a painless installation. I will be concentrating next on getting XenSource installed using Fedora Core 5. The IT grapevine says it is easier to install Xen on FC5 than FC4.

Has anyone out there installed Xen on FC5 yet? If so, I would like to be able to pick your brain if I stumble and trust me I will stumble. Xen seems really difficult to install from the initial reading I have done. I have a sneaking suspicion it is going to be painful. We shall see.

Click the link to view my FC5 Installation Gallery.

• Installation Face Off: Windows vs. Linux
• Installation Face Off: Windows vs. Linux Part II

Note: Here is my installation gallery for Linspire Five-O

That was it, just a "have you done it?" and photos, on flickr no less. It was done by Steven S. Warren though, who was the contributer to zdnet, so it wasn't out and out theft, just quite dumb. As someone previous said, looks like they just posted it to display all the ads on each page. But if you want to see that, there is allways the Printable Version with only 1 ad.

I'm posting this even though I moderated, just because the story really really is in need of help. (translation, you get two fp trolls)

The "story" is just a bunch of screenshots, and a link to a blog on techrepublic.com.com that you need to register to see. Once I got into the blog, it wasn't even on the page, because this was posted there April 20th with the following "content":

I just finished my installation of Fedora Core 5. It was a painless installation. I will be concentrating next on getting XenSource installed using Fedora Core 5. The IT grapevine says it is easier to install Xen on FC5 than FC4.

Has anyone out there installed Xen on FC5 yet? If so, I would like to be able to pick your brain if I stumble and trust me I will stumble. Xen seems really difficult to install from the initial reading I have done. I have a sneaking suspicion it is going to be painful. We shall see.

Click the link to view my FC5 Installation Gallery.

• Installation Face Off: Windows vs. Linux
• Installation Face Off: Windows vs. Linux Part II

Note: Here is my installation gallery for Linspire Five-O

That was it, just a "have you done it?" and photos, on flickr no less. It was done by Steven S. Warren though, who was the contributer to zdnet, so it wasn't out and out theft, just quite dumb. As someone previous said, looks like they just posted it to display all the ads on each page. But if you want to see that, there is allways the Printable Version with only 1 ad.

I'm posting this even though I moderated, just because the story really really is in need of help. (translation, you get two fp trolls)

The "story" is just a bunch of screenshots, and a link to a blog on techrepublic.com.com that you need to register to see. Once I got into the blog, it wasn't even on the page, because this was posted there April 20th with the following "content":

I just finished my installation of Fedora Core 5. It was a painless installation. I will be concentrating next on getting XenSource installed using Fedora Core 5. The IT grapevine says it is easier to install Xen on FC5 than FC4.

Has anyone out there installed Xen on FC5 yet? If so, I would like to be able to pick your brain if I stumble and trust me I will stumble. Xen seems really difficult to install from the initial reading I have done. I have a sneaking suspicion it is going to be painful. We shall see.

Click the link to view my FC5 Installation Gallery.

• Installation Face Off: Windows vs. Linux
• Installation Face Off: Windows vs. Linux Part II

Note: Here is my installation gallery for Linspire Five-O

That was it, just a "have you done it?" and photos, on flickr no less. It was done by Steven S. Warren though, who was the contributer to zdnet, so it wasn't out and out theft, just quite dumb. As someone previous said, looks like they just posted it to display all the ads on each page. But if you want to see that, there is allways the Printable Version with only 1 ad.

FYI, Dell now owns Alienware. Where's your knowledge?

As for affluence, it's been reported that Mac users are more affluent than PC users. The same study reported that most Mac users are more highly educated than PC users too, which goes hand in hand with the higher level of affluence. You must bear in mind that the study is from 2002. So, his statements were backed up. Sorry you didn't know about it.

Perhaps this has something to do with Yahoo being sued over alleged pay-per-click fraud Just throwing it out there.

middle of this article.

Dan Bricklin mentions it.

I can't find the interview though.

My favorite Bill G. quote is his support of software piracy in China and the third world:

"Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."

Just like the neighborhood pusher. "Come on kids, the first hit is free..."

If we want an economy that even approximates a 'free-market', then we need legislation.

You're spot on. Without regulations, a market is impossible. Particularly in matters concerning infrastructure, information flow, etc. But I agree the majority of Congressfolks are pretty clueless about technology, so I always cringe when I see bills relating to technology, fearing the worst.

One reason to be hopeful, though: Rick Boucher, one of this bill's sponsors, strikes me as a person who "gets" tech and the "public-good" benefits of online culture more than most. I sat in on some of the DMCA subcommittee hearings, and he was the sole member of the House subcommittee at that time who actually understood the issues (and as a result opposed most of the DMCA, ultimately unsuccessfully). He's also one who has been behind several efforts to blunt the harshest provisions of the DMCA.

See, for example, http://news.com.com/2010-1071-825335.html.

So let's not write off his efforts and those of his cosponsors out of hand, just because we "don't like legislation." Let's take a look at the specifics.

http://news.com.com/FCC+approves+Net-wiretapping+t axes/2100-1028_3-6067971.html?tag=nefd.lede They just did!

Google does not need to pay one cent to place all these products in its search engine, which has a huge market share.
But Google's page doesn't include products from competitors.

Agreed. Never has a company sunk so quickly due to the efforts of enthusiastic hackers.

I never got around to building one. The whole Netpliance/i-Opener thing turned into a fiasco so quickly that it seemed prudent to hang on to my $200 until the smoke cleared. But I still have links to the info, and give them to my colleagues as a textbook example of a business plan gone wrong, and fast:

Slashdot links:
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=netpliance

News.com article:
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-248437.html