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In other news...
Microsoft today pushed congress to ban the l key from being sold on PC keyboards. A spokesperson said "You don't need to type that key to visit good and whoesome websites. On the other hand, that key is essentia to terrorists trying to visit communist and subversive sites. True patriots wi have nothing at a to worry about."
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Disney Comments
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Re:A good analogy...
Zoom! That was the sound of a joke going right over your head. Slashdot is not a good place for humorless cretins to hang out. Why don't you try here instead?
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Re:Let's hope for Media Player removal
You stupid fuck. You don't think grandparent post knew that? Just becuase you're too stupid to recognize the point of the post doesn't mean it was pointless. Slashdot isn't a site for cretins. Maybe here is more your speed.
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Shut you G-damned trap, you idiot!OK, I know this is flamebait, so sue me.
Here is one of many counterexamples to your SCO and Microsoft, et al own the media: Boise joins SCO Shakedown. Is "shakedown" a word you would expect to find in an article bought and paid for from Forbes, a business news organization. I've read many media accounts of this; they do not just parrot lies for SCO.
We have a great ally in IBM. Even if they are only our ally by neccessity, fine. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, at least for now.
Many organizations have strong lobbies in Congress. However, it is unfortunate that this will probably not come to affect the way most of us will vote. There are too many other issues.
Also, as I continue my rant, let me link this jerk who we not long ago considered to be a puppet for some organization interested in limiting our freedom to do what we want with our computers.
I'm going to post this rant again next time something dumb like this comes up early in the discussion. We have not lost the battle before it began. SCO's lawyer is clearly nowhere near perfect and IBM has an army of lawyers and a big stake in this.
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Re:Whoa
It's you. This may be more suitable. -
Mission: SPACE
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Illegal to link?
Well then, it's now illegal to link to websites that may contain copyrighted material. Gotcha.
Well, here's a link to a page about a DeCSS program (no, not the one you're thinking).
Here's another that distributes freeware.
Oh, and a link to Disney just for the hell of it.
A note to /. mods, editors, hosts, OSDN, etc.:
The (RI|MP)AA will not come burn your house down if you "inform them" of me this second! But the instant that you mark me as +1 Funny and click on, they're going to get you, too!
Pass this on to 15 of your friends within the next 1000000 minutes or you'll have bad luck forever and your dog will die, too! -
Make up your mind about copyright term extension
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The Narrowing of the Internet
"...offering users a choice of viewing a site and having it logged, or not viewing it"
This may sound like quite an elegant solution, especially compared to the outright blocking of sites not recognised by their master database but this could well end up creating a far more dangerous climate of self-censorship.
For instance, if a perfectly legimate but not "mainstream" site, say an anti-war one, hasn't yet made it onto their database, you have to accept that your boss will be notified of your visit and made aware of your doubts about the government.
In that situation, most people will just give up and put the corporate propaganda feed-pipe back in their mouths.
Donnacha
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Enter The Matrix?
rather than producing Hollywood-caliber graphics on a custom basis for each game, perhaps that function is better served by standalone companies that create characters and associated animations that game developers can license for use.
Licensing characters with animations? Movie license games are rarely[1] good games. Capcom and Virgin tried the licensed-character route in the 1990s, borrowing characters from cel-animated movies published by the company we love to hate. The games (such as Chip 'n Dale's Rescue Rangers, Aladdin, Pinocchio, The Lion King, etc) turned out way too one-dimensional to have any replay value. Or just read the reviews for Enter The Matrix.
[1] There is of course the occasional exception such as Goldeneye for Nintendo 64.
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just buy it!
This open-source story is being brought to you by Disney maker of Tron 2.
Yes we may be a heartless, monopolistic company, but we're not that other heartless monopolistic company who doesn't like open source. We at Disney love open source. Ummm. Look at Pixar! They use Linux! Granted we really don't own Pixar. But we regardless, we love Linux, and open-source, and you.
Just remember, when you think of Tron, think of open-source, and think of buying Tron 2. Better yet, don't think of buying it, just buy it! Hmmm, it is Windows only right now. That's not going to make you very happy.
Maybe WineX will work. Give it a shot, just buy it.
Tron, and open source platform, and a really nifty new game!
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Re:Only commercial microkernel?
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Re:Er... this is beginning to become a moral issue
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Re:Er... this is beginning to become a moral issue
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Re:Don?t Steal Music.
Don't Steal Music
Okay, fair enough. But what about copying, which is all these people are/were doing?
Overloading words like "stealing" at the request of nasty anti-freedom companies is just a tool for them to screw us over even more.
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Re:Anybody feel like...
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Re:I know this is obviousSpecifically http://kids.pbs.org. Dragon Tails is cool.
There's also http://www.disney.com and http://www.nickjr.com.
I have nieces who are 6 and 8, I'll see what they like to go to.
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Anime?
Is it still anime if it's from disney?
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Re:Uh oh...
I foresaw that problem and to avoid all you trolls it nicely links shows www.disney.com
Most trolling people prolly belong there anyways as they should be 10 at most.
Though I have to admit, even when you are way above the 10 mark (double, triple and more ;) you will prolly enjoy Disney much more then the URL you originally intented to go to.
Ofcourse not every variation nor odd site can be filtered out, but hey.. it's a proxy.
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If the studios would listen to the pirates...
If the big studios are keeping such a close eye on the effect of illegal trading, why don't they use that information for marketing purposes?
I got a bootleg copy of Kiki's Delivery Service (the dub shown on JAL flights, IIRC), and it immediately became a hit with the kids and their friends. So when Disney finally got around to releasing it, did I say "Pfft, I've already got that one"? Heck no, I bought it as soon as I could find it! So why won't Disney make it available again?
But I don't want to get carried away about Disney (that would be a whole other discussion)... can I safely assume that this myopia is not specific to just one big studio? -
Re:Depends on the user
agreed.
the "savvy user" is not hunting around the internet for scrolling marques or 150kb animated gifs - they want content and usability. a good web site should be able to stand alone, without needing endless "pretty" crap to keep the surfer interested.
google is one of the most visited sites on the internet, and what's on its home page? very little. it loads fast, is highly usable, and serves it's purpose excellently. there are very few sites on the internet that do this well.
i think most web designers realise this. most pages for the "savvy user" (slashdot being an example) are functional, and really cut through the crap. check out a web site for a less particular demographic (how about disney - oooh! pictures! sounds!), and the site design is certainly different.
and web design brings about another sore point - browser compatability. seeing as most of the world uses ie now, nobody seems to care about what the pages look like in different browsers. i'd never use netscape (personally, i use opera, but i wish they'd get their game together just so there'd be more variation in browsers. those responsible for making the browsers would have to stick to the standards more closely, which would lead to greater browser compatability for all sites (hopefully!).
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Bandwidth Conservation?
Ummmm. Let's start with this site if massive media companies want to cut down on bandwidth!
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Re:Gene Patent
"But..the mouse itself can't be patented."
I refer you to Mickey Mouse
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Re:That's actually relevant.
Can't the courts decide if a law follows the spirit of the constitution, so to speak? Yes, constitutionally Congress has the right to pass things like the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act... but do you think preserving the copyright for a cartoon mouse created by a man who is long since dead is what our founding fathers had in mind? Copyright laws were created both to give the author/artist incentive to create new works *and* to ensure at some point new works could be created based on older stuff.
This is exactly how disney became so popular, by using the work of authors that had gone into the public domain! Snow White, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid are just a few examples of older works that Disney has used.
Now Disney, and other huge corporations like Sony etc. are trying to make sure that no one else can do what they have done. This, to me at least (I am not a Supreme Court Justice) goes against the spirit of the constitution. From the SFGate Story:The original decision made more than 200 years ago to limit the length of copyrights was deliberate and carefully considered. The goal, which was expressed at the time in letters written by Thomas Jefferson and others, was to allow newcomers to build on and improve works produced by others, but only after the original creators of those works were compensated fairly for their efforts. The reason: Human progress builds upon itself."
These companies are trying to stop progress, and trying to stop other from doing to them what they did to the brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, and Victor Hugo. -
Re:Resoloution is crap on a pc.what are you doing on slashdot!!!?? you are confused, angry (about what?) and just wrong! i'd secretly suspect you of flame baiting but you don't seem bright enough.
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This can be seen...
At Celebration, Florida. That's the perfect town that Disney created. My neighborhood is just starting to do this, thanks to me
:). It really does increase resale value in the suburbs, though, as the computer programmers working in the city move out to research labs and cushier jobs in the suburbs, they want their broadband. The initiative in my neighborhood is expected to increase housing values five percents (about $10,000!). We also expect the neighborhood to gain reputation as a home for high-rolling techies, which should increase values further. A very big gain in money for small investment. I highly recommend it. -
Re:Public Schools
Schools need to wake up and realize, if
And to make things easy for all you busy admins out there, Disney and Nickelodeon have teamed up to provide free white lists for schools! If you don't see one for your brand of filter, just ask! We'll be happy to help you. Let us do the hard part. Now you can be free to go back out and coach the softball team!
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The Politics of Business
At the Disney Front Page, if you look up in the right hand corner you see the "Powered by HP" Ad.
HP is a Disney Technology partner, and as stated in the NYTIMES article"Disney's animation division is announcing today that it plans to use Hewlett-Packard workstations and data-serving computers running Linux for digital animation work in the future"
Historically, animation has been a Unix environment," said Al Gillen, an analyst at the International Data Corporation. "And what's happening in Hollywood is that another piece of the Unix market is moving into the Linux space."
Indeed, Mr. Carey observed that adopting Linux for part of its animation was part of its migration strategy to move away from its previous "homogeneous technology environment," revolving around SGI's Irix.
The Disney commitment is the second agreement in recent months for Hewlett-Packard systems running Linux in Hollywood. In January, Hewlett-Packard announced a three-year partnership with DreamWorks involving the purchase of Hewlett computers and some joint development of technology.
Hewlett-Packard, to be sure, has a heritage of doing business with Hollywood and Disney. The first product the founders William Hewlett and David Packard sold in 1938 was to Disney, an oscillator used to help produce the rich, textured soundtrack for the animated movie "Fantasia."
This is a deal brokered by Martin Fink, general manager for Hewlett-Packard's Linux systems division.
Disney is moving from Unix to Linux. Quite a smooth move, not only does this appease one of their most voiciferous antagonists, they get mucho positive P.R. -
Re:PuTTY rules
You're using https, I hope.
Why?
So you're sure that the program your client receives is the same as the program your server sends, not a trojaned version which turns off encryption, for example.
...and how does that trojaned version get onto the server? If salfter.dyndns.org is 0wn3d, I have bigger problems to deal with than a corrupt SSH client. I suppose someone could clone my website, hack dyndns.org to get the DNS entry for salfter.dyndns.org to point to the cloned site, and put a trojaned PuTTY on the cloned site that would know the IP address of the real salfter.dyndns.org...but who the hell's going to go to that kind of bother? Mine is just a personal website of maybe average quality (depending on whose opinion of it you seek). There are plenty of other targets that would be much more attractive for someone to take over.(Now that I've thought about it a bit, though, I suppose an end-run around such an attack would be to use the IP address instead of the name. It's easy enough to remember. Someone who's determined could crack these guys and reassign my IP address to another system...but then that basically knocks my machine off the net (so no harm will come to it), and (again) who would care enough to want to bother doing that?)
FWIW, the PuTTY download page isn't running on a secure server. It supplies various checksums for the files which you can use for verification, but (as Simon Tatham points out) the programs that do that verification aren't themselves verifiable. There is a point beyond which an eye for security turns into paranoia...nothing is ever 100% secure. At some point, you need to weigh the odds of something bad happening against the measures needed to protect against that something.
One final note: Keeping a copy of PuTTY on a secure site would entail getting a certificate from someone like Verisign, and they don't exactly have the best reputation in the world.
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Re:Anybody else notice....
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The ironic part is whether the digitized versions
Um, no. I promise the tablets will last longer, for reasons that should be so obvious, I'm not even going to bother listing them.
One fear a collegue of mine has is that we digitize everything and call those the cannonical versions, and then thousands of years in the future we're unable to cull accounting, historical, cultural information from this age cause it all gets lost in digital form. The fact that digical copies are much more likely to be lost while undergoing simple administrative tasks ('oops, I hit delete instead of copy') makes it even more likely that my assertion is true. Yet another case of having a hammer and making every problem a nail.
Whats the real solution? Make tons of copies, in tons of mediums, from digital to physical. That's my suggestion for historical data. And who'd do this?! US, while enjoying the works. Unfortunately, that wouldn't jive for the works of a dude whos been dead and should have had his works return to public domain awhile ago (or at least a few years ago, but Sonny Bono deep-sixed that one, as I understand it) - we face a real danger of having a very thin and fragile anthropological record centuries from now due to the current century vogue of being exeedingly restrictive with the distribution of cultural works. -
Editing decisions
Making links in random words in your post does not help readers find information any quicker when there's no discernable pattern in what they're for
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Re:"Fritz Hollings" is today's secret word!
I don't know. I think Fritz Hollings should be linked to his true dark master, rather than a merely obscene site. Perhaps we could even link Disney to Fritz Hollings to complete the loop. Why not truly make him the senator from Disney?
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Re:"Fritz Hollings" is today's secret word!
I don't know. I think Fritz Hollings should be linked to his true dark master, rather than a merely obscene site. Perhaps we could even link Disney to Fritz Hollings to complete the loop. Why not truly make him the senator from Disney?
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Re:The correct way to do it is..Linux: the hype is over
According to the latest Gartner group research report, the Linux hype is finally over. Research shows that market share of Linux-driven production servers on the internet has finally declined to a single-digit number. The reasons for this are clear:
* Linux is unstable
* Linux has an unreliable filesystem
* Everybody uses Windows or BSD, nowadays
Research has clearly pointed out, that although there are still hordes of penguin-dressed geeks running around MIS departments, management has grown wise (or gone out of business) and doesn't even allow Linux workstations anymore, since the costs in maintaining these machines turned out to be astronomically high. The reasons for this are clear as well.
* Installation is a pain in the ass
- it usually takes a whole support team to install a geeks' workstation
* Bandwidth
- Installation and maintenance requires 4-5 times the bandwidth a 'normal' OS would require
* Integration and connectivity
- Linux was deliberately made completely incompatible and inoperatible with turnkey solutions like MS Exchange or MS SQL server. Investments in these products are therefore voided the minute you start rolling out Linux.
* Complexity
- Applications developed in Perl or C, the languages of the linux community have proven to be slow,
- unreliable, insecure and headaching complicated. Once developed and debugged, nobody is able to understand the code.
Therefore, it has been statistically proven that most companies have already moved away from Linux. This can be concluded from the following signs:
- All the 'geeks' wearing tux t-shirts are actually MIS support guys who are still studying for their MCSE exam.
- 'The screaming fast Linux machines at work' are actually refurbished workstations at a separated network segment, not allowed on the production network since every Linux (l)user seems to need nmap [insecure.org] to perform normal work-related computer operations.
- All the 'cool' Apache web servers are actually IIS machines with forged host headers. (yes, you can do that in IIS without recompiling anything. Heck, I lived for years without a C compiler and still do. )
- For the rare instance where a free UNIX is actually used in a production environment, management has smartened up and BSD is usually installed.
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Re:The correct way to do it is..Linux: the hype is over
According to the latest Gartner group research report, the Linux hype is finally over. Research shows that market share of Linux-driven production servers on the internet has finally declined to a single-digit number. The reasons for this are clear:
* Linux is unstable
* Linux has an unreliable filesystem
* Everybody uses Windows or BSD, nowadays
Research has clearly pointed out, that although there are still hordes of penguin-dressed geeks running around MIS departments, management has grown wise (or gone out of business) and doesn't even allow Linux workstations anymore, since the costs in maintaining these machines turned out to be astronomically high. The reasons for this are clear as well.
* Installation is a pain in the ass
- it usually takes a whole support team to install a geeks' workstation
* Bandwidth
- Installation and maintenance requires 4-5 times the bandwidth a 'normal' OS would require
* Integration and connectivity
- Linux was deliberately made completely incompatible and inoperatible with turnkey solutions like MS Exchange or MS SQL server. Investments in these products are therefore voided the minute you start rolling out Linux.
* Complexity
- Applications developed in Perl or C, the languages of the linux community have proven to be slow,
- unreliable, insecure and headaching complicated. Once developed and debugged, nobody is able to understand the code.
Therefore, it has been statistically proven that most companies have already moved away from Linux. This can be concluded from the following signs:
- All the 'geeks' wearing tux t-shirts are actually MIS support guys who are still studying for their MCSE exam.
- 'The screaming fast Linux machines at work' are actually refurbished workstations at a separated network segment, not allowed on the production network since every Linux (l)user seems to need nmap [insecure.org] to perform normal work-related computer operations.
- All the 'cool' Apache web servers are actually IIS machines with forged host headers. (yes, you can do that in IIS without recompiling anything. Heck, I lived for years without a C compiler and still do. )
- For the rare instance where a free UNIX is actually used in a production environment, management has smartened up and BSD is usually installed.
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Re:The correct way to do it is..Linux: the hype is over
According to the latest Gartner group research report, the Linux hype is finally over. Research shows that market share of Linux-driven production servers on the internet has finally declined to a single-digit number. The reasons for this are clear:
* Linux is unstable
* Linux has an unreliable filesystem
* Everybody uses Windows or BSD, nowadays
Research has clearly pointed out, that although there are still hordes of penguin-dressed geeks running around MIS departments, management has grown wise (or gone out of business) and doesn't even allow Linux workstations anymore, since the costs in maintaining these machines turned out to be astronomically high. The reasons for this are clear as well.
* Installation is a pain in the ass
- it usually takes a whole support team to install a geeks' workstation
* Bandwidth
- Installation and maintenance requires 4-5 times the bandwidth a 'normal' OS would require
* Integration and connectivity
- Linux was deliberately made completely incompatible and inoperatible with turnkey solutions like MS Exchange or MS SQL server. Investments in these products are therefore voided the minute you start rolling out Linux.
* Complexity
- Applications developed in Perl or C, the languages of the linux community have proven to be slow,
- unreliable, insecure and headaching complicated. Once developed and debugged, nobody is able to understand the code.
Therefore, it has been statistically proven that most companies have already moved away from Linux. This can be concluded from the following signs:
- All the 'geeks' wearing tux t-shirts are actually MIS support guys who are still studying for their MCSE exam.
- 'The screaming fast Linux machines at work' are actually refurbished workstations at a separated network segment, not allowed on the production network since every Linux (l)user seems to need nmap [insecure.org] to perform normal work-related computer operations.
- All the 'cool' Apache web servers are actually IIS machines with forged host headers. (yes, you can do that in IIS without recompiling anything. Heck, I lived for years without a C compiler and still do. )
- For the rare instance where a free UNIX is actually used in a production environment, management has smartened up and BSD is usually installed.
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Re:The correct way to do it is..Linux: the hype is over
According to the latest Gartner group research report, the Linux hype is finally over. Research shows that market share of Linux-driven production servers on the internet has finally declined to a single-digit number. The reasons for this are clear:
* Linux is unstable
* Linux has an unreliable filesystem
* Everybody uses Windows or BSD, nowadays
Research has clearly pointed out, that although there are still hordes of penguin-dressed geeks running around MIS departments, management has grown wise (or gone out of business) and doesn't even allow Linux workstations anymore, since the costs in maintaining these machines turned out to be astronomically high. The reasons for this are clear as well.
* Installation is a pain in the ass
- it usually takes a whole support team to install a geeks' workstation
* Bandwidth
- Installation and maintenance requires 4-5 times the bandwidth a 'normal' OS would require
* Integration and connectivity
- Linux was deliberately made completely incompatible and inoperatible with turnkey solutions like MS Exchange or MS SQL server. Investments in these products are therefore voided the minute you start rolling out Linux.
* Complexity
- Applications developed in Perl or C, the languages of the linux community have proven to be slow,
- unreliable, insecure and headaching complicated. Once developed and debugged, nobody is able to understand the code.
Therefore, it has been statistically proven that most companies have already moved away from Linux. This can be concluded from the following signs:
- All the 'geeks' wearing tux t-shirts are actually MIS support guys who are still studying for their MCSE exam.
- 'The screaming fast Linux machines at work' are actually refurbished workstations at a separated network segment, not allowed on the production network since every Linux (l)user seems to need nmap [insecure.org] to perform normal work-related computer operations.
- All the 'cool' Apache web servers are actually IIS machines with forged host headers. (yes, you can do that in IIS without recompiling anything. Heck, I lived for years without a C compiler and still do. )
- For the rare instance where a free UNIX is actually used in a production environment, management has smartened up and BSD is usually installed.
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Re:The correct way to do it is..Linux: the hype is over
According to the latest Gartner group research report, the Linux hype is finally over. Research shows that market share of Linux-driven production servers on the internet has finally declined to a single-digit number. The reasons for this are clear:
* Linux is unstable
* Linux has an unreliable filesystem
* Everybody uses Windows or BSD, nowadays
Research has clearly pointed out, that although there are still hordes of penguin-dressed geeks running around MIS departments, management has grown wise (or gone out of business) and doesn't even allow Linux workstations anymore, since the costs in maintaining these machines turned out to be astronomically high. The reasons for this are clear as well.
* Installation is a pain in the ass
- it usually takes a whole support team to install a geeks' workstation
* Bandwidth
- Installation and maintenance requires 4-5 times the bandwidth a 'normal' OS would require
* Integration and connectivity
- Linux was deliberately made completely incompatible and inoperatible with turnkey solutions like MS Exchange or MS SQL server. Investments in these products are therefore voided the minute you start rolling out Linux.
* Complexity
- Applications developed in Perl or C, the languages of the linux community have proven to be slow,
- unreliable, insecure and headaching complicated. Once developed and debugged, nobody is able to understand the code.
Therefore, it has been statistically proven that most companies have already moved away from Linux. This can be concluded from the following signs:
- All the 'geeks' wearing tux t-shirts are actually MIS support guys who are still studying for their MCSE exam.
- 'The screaming fast Linux machines at work' are actually refurbished workstations at a separated network segment, not allowed on the production network since every Linux (l)user seems to need nmap [insecure.org] to perform normal work-related computer operations.
- All the 'cool' Apache web servers are actually IIS machines with forged host headers. (yes, you can do that in IIS without recompiling anything. Heck, I lived for years without a C compiler and still do. )
- For the rare instance where a free UNIX is actually used in a production environment, management has smartened up and BSD is usually installed.
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Re:The correct way to do it is..Linux: the hype is over
According to the latest Gartner group research report, the Linux hype is finally over. Research shows that market share of Linux-driven production servers on the internet has finally declined to a single-digit number. The reasons for this are clear:
* Linux is unstable
* Linux has an unreliable filesystem
* Everybody uses Windows or BSD, nowadays
Research has clearly pointed out, that although there are still hordes of penguin-dressed geeks running around MIS departments, management has grown wise (or gone out of business) and doesn't even allow Linux workstations anymore, since the costs in maintaining these machines turned out to be astronomically high. The reasons for this are clear as well.
* Installation is a pain in the ass
- it usually takes a whole support team to install a geeks' workstation
* Bandwidth
- Installation and maintenance requires 4-5 times the bandwidth a 'normal' OS would require
* Integration and connectivity
- Linux was deliberately made completely incompatible and inoperatible with turnkey solutions like MS Exchange or MS SQL server. Investments in these products are therefore voided the minute you start rolling out Linux.
* Complexity
- Applications developed in Perl or C, the languages of the linux community have proven to be slow,
- unreliable, insecure and headaching complicated. Once developed and debugged, nobody is able to understand the code.
Therefore, it has been statistically proven that most companies have already moved away from Linux. This can be concluded from the following signs:
- All the 'geeks' wearing tux t-shirts are actually MIS support guys who are still studying for their MCSE exam.
- 'The screaming fast Linux machines at work' are actually refurbished workstations at a separated network segment, not allowed on the production network since every Linux (l)user seems to need nmap [insecure.org] to perform normal work-related computer operations.
- All the 'cool' Apache web servers are actually IIS machines with forged host headers. (yes, you can do that in IIS without recompiling anything. Heck, I lived for years without a C compiler and still do. )
- For the rare instance where a free UNIX is actually used in a production environment, management has smartened up and BSD is usually installed.
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Re:The correct way to do it is..Linux: the hype is over
According to the latest Gartner group research report, the Linux hype is finally over. Research shows that market share of Linux-driven production servers on the internet has finally declined to a single-digit number. The reasons for this are clear:
* Linux is unstable
* Linux has an unreliable filesystem
* Everybody uses Windows or BSD, nowadays
Research has clearly pointed out, that although there are still hordes of penguin-dressed geeks running around MIS departments, management has grown wise (or gone out of business) and doesn't even allow Linux workstations anymore, since the costs in maintaining these machines turned out to be astronomically high. The reasons for this are clear as well.
* Installation is a pain in the ass
- it usually takes a whole support team to install a geeks' workstation
* Bandwidth
- Installation and maintenance requires 4-5 times the bandwidth a 'normal' OS would require
* Integration and connectivity
- Linux was deliberately made completely incompatible and inoperatible with turnkey solutions like MS Exchange or MS SQL server. Investments in these products are therefore voided the minute you start rolling out Linux.
* Complexity
- Applications developed in Perl or C, the languages of the linux community have proven to be slow,
- unreliable, insecure and headaching complicated. Once developed and debugged, nobody is able to understand the code.
Therefore, it has been statistically proven that most companies have already moved away from Linux. This can be concluded from the following signs:
- All the 'geeks' wearing tux t-shirts are actually MIS support guys who are still studying for their MCSE exam.
- 'The screaming fast Linux machines at work' are actually refurbished workstations at a separated network segment, not allowed on the production network since every Linux (l)user seems to need nmap [insecure.org] to perform normal work-related computer operations.
- All the 'cool' Apache web servers are actually IIS machines with forged host headers. (yes, you can do that in IIS without recompiling anything. Heck, I lived for years without a C compiler and still do. )
- For the rare instance where a free UNIX is actually used in a production environment, management has smartened up and BSD is usually installed.
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Re:The correct way to do it is..Linux: the hype is over
According to the latest Gartner group research report, the Linux hype is finally over. Research shows that market share of Linux-driven production servers on the internet has finally declined to a single-digit number. The reasons for this are clear:
* Linux is unstable
* Linux has an unreliable filesystem
* Everybody uses Windows or BSD, nowadays
Research has clearly pointed out, that although there are still hordes of penguin-dressed geeks running around MIS departments, management has grown wise (or gone out of business) and doesn't even allow Linux workstations anymore, since the costs in maintaining these machines turned out to be astronomically high. The reasons for this are clear as well.
* Installation is a pain in the ass
- it usually takes a whole support team to install a geeks' workstation
* Bandwidth
- Installation and maintenance requires 4-5 times the bandwidth a 'normal' OS would require
* Integration and connectivity
- Linux was deliberately made completely incompatible and inoperatible with turnkey solutions like MS Exchange or MS SQL server. Investments in these products are therefore voided the minute you start rolling out Linux.
* Complexity
- Applications developed in Perl or C, the languages of the linux community have proven to be slow,
- unreliable, insecure and headaching complicated. Once developed and debugged, nobody is able to understand the code.
Therefore, it has been statistically proven that most companies have already moved away from Linux. This can be concluded from the following signs:
- All the 'geeks' wearing tux t-shirts are actually MIS support guys who are still studying for their MCSE exam.
- 'The screaming fast Linux machines at work' are actually refurbished workstations at a separated network segment, not allowed on the production network since every Linux (l)user seems to need nmap [insecure.org] to perform normal work-related computer operations.
- All the 'cool' Apache web servers are actually IIS machines with forged host headers. (yes, you can do that in IIS without recompiling anything. Heck, I lived for years without a C compiler and still do. )
- For the rare instance where a free UNIX is actually used in a production environment, management has smartened up and BSD is usually installed.
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Re:The correct way to do it is..Linux: the hype is over
According to the latest Gartner group research report, the Linux hype is finally over. Research shows that market share of Linux-driven production servers on the internet has finally declined to a single-digit number. The reasons for this are clear:
* Linux is unstable
* Linux has an unreliable filesystem
* Everybody uses Windows or BSD, nowadays
Research has clearly pointed out, that although there are still hordes of penguin-dressed geeks running around MIS departments, management has grown wise (or gone out of business) and doesn't even allow Linux workstations anymore, since the costs in maintaining these machines turned out to be astronomically high. The reasons for this are clear as well.
* Installation is a pain in the ass
- it usually takes a whole support team to install a geeks' workstation
* Bandwidth
- Installation and maintenance requires 4-5 times the bandwidth a 'normal' OS would require
* Integration and connectivity
- Linux was deliberately made completely incompatible and inoperatible with turnkey solutions like MS Exchange or MS SQL server. Investments in these products are therefore voided the minute you start rolling out Linux.
* Complexity
- Applications developed in Perl or C, the languages of the linux community have proven to be slow,
- unreliable, insecure and headaching complicated. Once developed and debugged, nobody is able to understand the code.
Therefore, it has been statistically proven that most companies have already moved away from Linux. This can be concluded from the following signs:
- All the 'geeks' wearing tux t-shirts are actually MIS support guys who are still studying for their MCSE exam.
- 'The screaming fast Linux machines at work' are actually refurbished workstations at a separated network segment, not allowed on the production network since every Linux (l)user seems to need nmap [insecure.org] to perform normal work-related computer operations.
- All the 'cool' Apache web servers are actually IIS machines with forged host headers. (yes, you can do that in IIS without recompiling anything. Heck, I lived for years without a C compiler and still do. )
- For the rare instance where a free UNIX is actually used in a production environment, management has smartened up and BSD is usually installed.
-
Re:The correct way to do it is..Linux: the hype is over
According to the latest Gartner group research report, the Linux hype is finally over. Research shows that market share of Linux-driven production servers on the internet has finally declined to a single-digit number. The reasons for this are clear:
* Linux is unstable
* Linux has an unreliable filesystem
* Everybody uses Windows or BSD, nowadays
Research has clearly pointed out, that although there are still hordes of penguin-dressed geeks running around MIS departments, management has grown wise (or gone out of business) and doesn't even allow Linux workstations anymore, since the costs in maintaining these machines turned out to be astronomically high. The reasons for this are clear as well.
* Installation is a pain in the ass
- it usually takes a whole support team to install a geeks' workstation
* Bandwidth
- Installation and maintenance requires 4-5 times the bandwidth a 'normal' OS would require
* Integration and connectivity
- Linux was deliberately made completely incompatible and inoperatible with turnkey solutions like MS Exchange or MS SQL server. Investments in these products are therefore voided the minute you start rolling out Linux.
* Complexity
- Applications developed in Perl or C, the languages of the linux community have proven to be slow,
- unreliable, insecure and headaching complicated. Once developed and debugged, nobody is able to understand the code.
Therefore, it has been statistically proven that most companies have already moved away from Linux. This can be concluded from the following signs:
- All the 'geeks' wearing tux t-shirts are actually MIS support guys who are still studying for their MCSE exam.
- 'The screaming fast Linux machines at work' are actually refurbished workstations at a separated network segment, not allowed on the production network since every Linux (l)user seems to need nmap [insecure.org] to perform normal work-related computer operations.
- All the 'cool' Apache web servers are actually IIS machines with forged host headers. (yes, you can do that in IIS without recompiling anything. Heck, I lived for years without a C compiler and still do. )
- For the rare instance where a free UNIX is actually used in a production environment, management has smartened up and BSD is usually installed.
-
Re:The correct way to do it is..Linux: the hype is over
According to the latest Gartner group research report, the Linux hype is finally over. Research shows that market share of Linux-driven production servers on the internet has finally declined to a single-digit number. The reasons for this are clear:
* Linux is unstable
* Linux has an unreliable filesystem
* Everybody uses Windows or BSD, nowadays
Research has clearly pointed out, that although there are still hordes of penguin-dressed geeks running around MIS departments, management has grown wise (or gone out of business) and doesn't even allow Linux workstations anymore, since the costs in maintaining these machines turned out to be astronomically high. The reasons for this are clear as well.
* Installation is a pain in the ass
- it usually takes a whole support team to install a geeks' workstation
* Bandwidth
- Installation and maintenance requires 4-5 times the bandwidth a 'normal' OS would require
* Integration and connectivity
- Linux was deliberately made completely incompatible and inoperatible with turnkey solutions like MS Exchange or MS SQL server. Investments in these products are therefore voided the minute you start rolling out Linux.
* Complexity
- Applications developed in Perl or C, the languages of the linux community have proven to be slow,
- unreliable, insecure and headaching complicated. Once developed and debugged, nobody is able to understand the code.
Therefore, it has been statistically proven that most companies have already moved away from Linux. This can be concluded from the following signs:
- All the 'geeks' wearing tux t-shirts are actually MIS support guys who are still studying for their MCSE exam.
- 'The screaming fast Linux machines at work' are actually refurbished workstations at a separated network segment, not allowed on the production network since every Linux (l)user seems to need nmap [insecure.org] to perform normal work-related computer operations.
- All the 'cool' Apache web servers are actually IIS machines with forged host headers. (yes, you can do that in IIS without recompiling anything. Heck, I lived for years without a C compiler and still do. )
- For the rare instance where a free UNIX is actually used in a production environment, management has smartened up and BSD is usually installed.
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Re:Might as well outlaw the game of baseball
Would proprietary hardware schemes built into motherboard or video card chipsets necessarily be out of reach of open source projects such as Linux? Couldn't a video card using a proprietary DRM chip publish the API needed to use the chip without revealing the secrets of how the chip worked (to prevent knock-offs of the video card)? Or are you assuming there would be a way to tell the chip to ignore the DRM codes and play pirated material anyway, thus they wouldn't reveal the APIs?I'm sure some manufacturer out there would want the Linux/*BSD market enough to build stuff that enabled open software to use the device as the law intended while preventing illegal use. If only one did it, they'd capture 100% of that market! As I see it, they want DRM built into the DVD-RW drives, not Windows, just so they can prevent software (like Linux) from getting around DRM the way DeCSS does.
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AKA - MagicFX
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Re:Rob Malda caught in circle jerk--kills self
Now that's just sad. I mean, I've seen better trolls than that here.
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Re:Ben Stein: Friend of the Lardass
Jews, all of them! Fat, ugly, stinking JEWS