There is sticking with the old strategy too long. Then there is choosing the wrong strategy to jump on to. As for SGI their real pain point wasn't IRIX or the threat of Microsoft. It was the cheap 3d (Matrox, VooDoo, ATI...) accelerated hardware coming out making SGI's improvements more irrelevant as the cheap stuff is "Good enough" Switching to NT really didn't help to defeat that threat. It actually exasperated it as it forced people to upgrade all their products giving them pause to compare the alternatives. Sure SGI was better but for half the price I can get a good enough PC that can run the same software. If they stuck with IRIX SGI would have still failed but it would have been much longer like Sun Microsystems.
They are not Devil Worshiping Atheist. That is a contradiction in terms. The view is that the Atheist serve the devil unknowingly, and thus be converted, and watched out for, as they are serving evil.
Being religious even a fanatic doesn't mean that you are stupid.
No. But such traits could lead to rape. He loves power and the fact that world leaders are afraid of him. Rape is a way to take power over an other person.
Thus making the original comment that thinking this guy could be a rapist is just a silly idea only to be believed by the religious right.
And how many technologies fail on FOSS systems. I just got a patch last year that allowed my wifi to connect in under 5 minutes. While Mac and Windows did it very fast for year. (2002 from my experience). Sure we like to see Microsoft fail because it is a huge company and has a strong foothold in our technology, and during the 90's it seemed to the media it could do no wrong. But looking at it's failures and saying Microsoft is all bad while I zealiously promote an other product ignoring it deficiencies. Is really a stupid idea that doesn't help either side.
Exactly that is the part I am not getting is she naming individual students or giving enough detail to know it is them. Or is she just being vague and it could or couldn't be any particular one.
Having gone threw high school Like most other adults. The idea that kids are good and bright is false. Their brains art developed in particular areas so in some areas they are quite smart in other they are quite dumb. So they do act animals and do a lot of bad thing, and they are proud of it. The Good kids are being good just out of fear, as it could block them from getting into college or being punished by the parents, not because they truly understand why such rules are really in place.
Real Calculus would be overkill; considering how many technical majors fail calculus the first time they take it would it make sense to force English majors to go through the same thing? Yes it would. As speaking as someone who had to take calculus twice (I actually did pass it the first time but I wasn't happy with the grade nor did I feel I really got the information) Because it really opens up the minds of the students on what math can do. Before Calculus math just seems like a process without an end. Calculus you can actually figure out how to use math to understand things.
Normally if the person has enough access to see the hashed Password they have enough access to change it, with their own. No need to decrypt it just change it with your own... When you are done you past it back in. The purpose of MD5 SHA or whatever isn't to keep your password as an uncrackable password. It is about keeping it encrypted enough to keep us from seeing peoples passwords. So when they go I don't know my password you can't just look it up and give it to them. You will need to go threw a password reset process.
It is important for the technical majors to get some Liberal arts in their skill set. It helps, even if our random internet rambling doesn't show this. However there is problem where society doesn't feel that Liberal Arts needs some technical skills too. I think it should be fair for any college graduate should have Real Calculus and an elective of a class that requires Calculus. As well as 2 Natural Sciences (Biology, Physics, Chemistry...) As well as English, Literature, and History (Plus one elective on one of those areas)
But most colleges go cry how their Tech majors need more of the Soft stuff, yet they will not notice that the techy stuff needs to be taught too.
Is this going to be new norm on Slashdot. A single developer company makes a cheap ripoff of a Copyrighted game. They post the program on a popular store platform, where the copyright holders can easily check on. They get a letter telling them to stop. Then they post whining to Slashdot because they figure just because we support open source software movement we feel it is OK to break copyrights. Open Source and FSF isn't about breaking the laws it is about making and releasing products with rules where those laws are not in effect.
Ok so you messed up. Were you really think you were going to make a living off of selling a Tetris ripoff?
Much like the only "news" segment on Fox News is about an hour a day and the rest is "commentary" That isn't much different then any other news broadcast. There is only really an hour of news everyday that mass people will care about. The rest is specialized by location or peer group.
What need is there for the middle ground? Because the Free software model restricts methods of making money. It can be done but you need to find a business model that will work. And often it will consist of making Powerful yet Hard to use products.
I am sure many of you have/want jobs where you can code and play with cool stuff and get paid so you can eat and have a family. Well where is that money going to come from? Donations may work to support a single developer, for a good product. Consulting works for some products. Or you need a big company who is using it just to one up everyone else. But in reality they need to make money to improve their product, and maintain it.
If you want a job doing this type of stuff thank god there are companies out there selling products to give you a job. Restricting revenue options for a company just so a small group of hackers can feel good. If you want the Free standard you better make those free standards really good. But why do these non-free standards make it. Because they have money to back them up and developers who will consistently work on the product.
While I agree that Fox News doesn't try to be even close to fare and balanced. But there is a "Liberal Media" Problem, and it isn't really their fault or some deep conspiracy to keep the media left leaning. It is quite simple. In very Basic terms it comes down to Liberal and Conservative. And I am not talking about Democrat or Republican, and people in both parties will show both traits. When someone who is Liberal sees a problem they want to fix it. The Conservative will say well lets leave it as the fix could be worse then the problem.
Both sides have good points. Many times liberals will shoot out put new laws on the books which neither solve the problem or makes new ones that are worse. And the Conservatives will often over look glaring problems.
But when it comes down to media it is easier for the Liberal to get attention as they are actively trying to change something. Because they are talking about it and the Conservative response is No this is a bad idea it will make it worse. So in general their views are made to look evil, greedy, and uncaring, while that may not be the case at all.
For example... Lets say a group wants to change all the Stop signs green. Stating a bunch of crap about how green is easier to see at night, the number of children that can be saved. lowering insurance rates etc.... But the Conservative group will say The world know Red means Stop, this is a stupid idea and in changing the process as most likely in the transition period a lot of people will die from that mistake. Probably more then the problem will fix.
So they end up looking like they don't care about insurance rates, saving kids etc... Just because their stance is to keep things less, vs. fixing things that don't need to be fixed. So using normal media methods it doesn't work.
What FoxNews does is tries to make the "Liberals" seems like a bunch of blabbering idiots who are out to make the world a worse place. Trying to get their views out without making them look like the evil ones.
I don't like either side myself. They need to think of a real way to really get a fare and balanced view out there, without making each other side look bad.
I could see Fox News jumping on this now. Further proof of a liberal conspiracy. There are so many people out there actually working for peace. Wikileaks isn't about peace it is just about making other people look bad. Yea lets leak some of the more shady deals countries made to protect the peace, so they will have to resent and go to war with each other... Yea lets give a peace prize to him. I agree it just as bad as giving it to sitting president who was in the middle of fighting 2 wars. Granted he didn't start it but to give a piece prize before he finished it was just dumb.
The peace prize is for the people who fit Liberal Europe's ideals, and stand up against "the man" and shakes things up. Does it helped for peace or not is immaterial.
How about giving to it to say Bill Gates who is helping starving nations. As we all should know Hungry people are most likely to war against each other then well fed ones.
Yes it is an open standard. It is not free. Get over it. And their license model is simple. You can use it for free... But if you make a lot of money off of it then you should pay. It really isn't that evil. GNU freedom is on the hard left. Closed standards for use by anyone who will pay a lot of money up front is to the far right. Why can't we bask in some middle ground.
At best they would communicate with their friends via email to an other university. That is about it. Chances are they didn't even know it was email they would have called it Pine or Elm or something like that. The Internet was for Technology Major/Geeks that is where they could live and be somewhat popular.
Of course... The network storage will be there when your manual backup get lost... If you have a detailed backup policy for your save games, you really need a life.
Or... It would be easier in general. the game player doesn't need to bother with buying external memory devices and keep track of them only to have the next version not support it. Cloud computing doesn't need to have an evil deed behind it. As it is just a remote server to save your data. Where for most people even techs who know the stuff, the data is probably safer being manged by the company then it is by yourself.
Still if you choose an open platform chances are when it is time to upgrade or migrate data. The stuff you had became out of date. So migrating your data isn't clean and heck the cables could have changed to a new open standard. By keeping a closed standard you are really loosing out on the Hacker market, and the 3rd party cloning market... (like netgear) who want to make money off of another company expensive R&D
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There is sticking with the old strategy too long. Then there is choosing the wrong strategy to jump on to.
As for SGI their real pain point wasn't IRIX or the threat of Microsoft. It was the cheap 3d (Matrox, VooDoo, ATI...) accelerated hardware coming out making SGI's improvements more irrelevant as the cheap stuff is "Good enough" Switching to NT really didn't help to defeat that threat. It actually exasperated it as it forced people to upgrade all their products giving them pause to compare the alternatives. Sure SGI was better but for half the price I can get a good enough PC that can run the same software.
If they stuck with IRIX SGI would have still failed but it would have been much longer like Sun Microsystems.
They are not Devil Worshiping Atheist. That is a contradiction in terms. The view is that the Atheist serve the devil unknowingly, and thus be converted, and watched out for, as they are serving evil.
Being religious even a fanatic doesn't mean that you are stupid.
No. But such traits could lead to rape. He loves power and the fact that world leaders are afraid of him. Rape is a way to take power over an other person.
Thus making the original comment that thinking this guy could be a rapist is just a silly idea only to be believed by the religious right.
And how many technologies fail on FOSS systems. I just got a patch last year that allowed my wifi to connect in under 5 minutes. While Mac and Windows did it very fast for year. (2002 from my experience). Sure we like to see Microsoft fail because it is a huge company and has a strong foothold in our technology, and during the 90's it seemed to the media it could do no wrong. But looking at it's failures and saying Microsoft is all bad while I zealiously promote an other product ignoring it deficiencies. Is really a stupid idea that doesn't help either side.
I so wish I had Mod points today. I am sick of everyone making everything a political view.
OGG will never get mainstream. Get over it.
Exactly that is the part I am not getting is she naming individual students or giving enough detail to know it is them. Or is she just being vague and it could or couldn't be any particular one.
Having gone threw high school Like most other adults. The idea that kids are good and bright is false. Their brains art developed in particular areas so in some areas they are quite smart in other they are quite dumb. So they do act animals and do a lot of bad thing, and they are proud of it. The Good kids are being good just out of fear, as it could block them from getting into college or being punished by the parents, not because they truly understand why such rules are really in place.
Real Calculus would be overkill; considering how many technical majors fail calculus the first time they take it would it make sense to force English majors to go through the same thing?
Yes it would. As speaking as someone who had to take calculus twice (I actually did pass it the first time but I wasn't happy with the grade nor did I feel I really got the information) Because it really opens up the minds of the students on what math can do. Before Calculus math just seems like a process without an end. Calculus you can actually figure out how to use math to understand things.
Normally if the person has enough access to see the hashed Password they have enough access to change it, with their own. No need to decrypt it just change it with your own... When you are done you past it back in. The purpose of MD5 SHA or whatever isn't to keep your password as an uncrackable password. It is about keeping it encrypted enough to keep us from seeing peoples passwords. So when they go I don't know my password you can't just look it up and give it to them. You will need to go threw a password reset process.
It is important for the technical majors to get some Liberal arts in their skill set. It helps, even if our random internet rambling doesn't show this. However there is problem where society doesn't feel that Liberal Arts needs some technical skills too. I think it should be fair for any college graduate should have Real Calculus and an elective of a class that requires Calculus. As well as 2 Natural Sciences (Biology, Physics, Chemistry...) As well as English, Literature, and History (Plus one elective on one of those areas)
But most colleges go cry how their Tech majors need more of the Soft stuff, yet they will not notice that the techy stuff needs to be taught too.
Is this going to be new norm on Slashdot. A single developer company makes a cheap ripoff of a Copyrighted game. They post the program on a popular store platform, where the copyright holders can easily check on. They get a letter telling them to stop. Then they post whining to Slashdot because they figure just because we support open source software movement we feel it is OK to break copyrights. Open Source and FSF isn't about breaking the laws it is about making and releasing products with rules where those laws are not in effect.
Ok so you messed up. Were you really think you were going to make a living off of selling a Tetris ripoff?
But all those geek Creds lost about how they had a pink object that was invisible.
Much like the only "news" segment on Fox News is about an hour a day and the rest is "commentary"
That isn't much different then any other news broadcast. There is only really an hour of news everyday that mass people will care about. The rest is specialized by location or peer group.
What need is there for the middle ground?
Because the Free software model restricts methods of making money. It can be done but you need to find a business model that will work. And often it will consist of making Powerful yet Hard to use products.
I am sure many of you have/want jobs where you can code and play with cool stuff and get paid so you can eat and have a family. Well where is that money going to come from? Donations may work to support a single developer, for a good product. Consulting works for some products. Or you need a big company who is using it just to one up everyone else. But in reality they need to make money to improve their product, and maintain it.
If you want a job doing this type of stuff thank god there are companies out there selling products to give you a job. Restricting revenue options for a company just so a small group of hackers can feel good. If you want the Free standard you better make those free standards really good. But why do these non-free standards make it. Because they have money to back them up and developers who will consistently work on the product.
While I agree that Fox News doesn't try to be even close to fare and balanced. But there is a "Liberal Media" Problem, and it isn't really their fault or some deep conspiracy to keep the media left leaning. It is quite simple.
In very Basic terms it comes down to Liberal and Conservative. And I am not talking about Democrat or Republican, and people in both parties will show both traits.
When someone who is Liberal sees a problem they want to fix it.
The Conservative will say well lets leave it as the fix could be worse then the problem.
Both sides have good points. Many times liberals will shoot out put new laws on the books which neither solve the problem or makes new ones that are worse. And the Conservatives will often over look glaring problems.
But when it comes down to media it is easier for the Liberal to get attention as they are actively trying to change something. Because they are talking about it and the Conservative response is No this is a bad idea it will make it worse. So in general their views are made to look evil, greedy, and uncaring, while that may not be the case at all.
For example... Lets say a group wants to change all the Stop signs green. Stating a bunch of crap about how green is easier to see at night, the number of children that can be saved. lowering insurance rates etc.... But the Conservative group will say The world know Red means Stop, this is a stupid idea and in changing the process as most likely in the transition period a lot of people will die from that mistake. Probably more then the problem will fix.
So they end up looking like they don't care about insurance rates, saving kids etc... Just because their stance is to keep things less, vs. fixing things that don't need to be fixed. So using normal media methods it doesn't work.
What FoxNews does is tries to make the "Liberals" seems like a bunch of blabbering idiots who are out to make the world a worse place. Trying to get their views out without making them look like the evil ones.
I don't like either side myself. They need to think of a real way to really get a fare and balanced view out there, without making each other side look bad.
I could see Fox News jumping on this now. Further proof of a liberal conspiracy. There are so many people out there actually working for peace. Wikileaks isn't about peace it is just about making other people look bad. Yea lets leak some of the more shady deals countries made to protect the peace, so they will have to resent and go to war with each other... Yea lets give a peace prize to him. I agree it just as bad as giving it to sitting president who was in the middle of fighting 2 wars. Granted he didn't start it but to give a piece prize before he finished it was just dumb.
The peace prize is for the people who fit Liberal Europe's ideals, and stand up against "the man" and shakes things up. Does it helped for peace or not is immaterial.
How about giving to it to say Bill Gates who is helping starving nations. As we all should know Hungry people are most likely to war against each other then well fed ones.
Yes it is an open standard. It is not free. Get over it. And their license model is simple. You can use it for free... But if you make a lot of money off of it then you should pay. It really isn't that evil. GNU freedom is on the hard left. Closed standards for use by anyone who will pay a lot of money up front is to the far right. Why can't we bask in some middle ground.
In the mean time when they are shifting they get a lot of people who are unaccustom to that new method
You mean AltaVista? A year later?
At best they would communicate with their friends via email to an other university. That is about it. Chances are they didn't even know it was email they would have called it Pine or Elm or something like that. The Internet was for Technology Major/Geeks that is where they could live and be somewhat popular.
A lot of audiophiles still say vacuum tubes are better for amps then transistors. As well it gives a pure distortion effect vs. an emulated one.
Of course... The network storage will be there when your manual backup get lost... If you have a detailed backup policy for your save games, you really need a life.
Or... It would be easier in general. the game player doesn't need to bother with buying external memory devices and keep track of them only to have the next version not support it. Cloud computing doesn't need to have an evil deed behind it. As it is just a remote server to save your data. Where for most people even techs who know the stuff, the data is probably safer being manged by the company then it is by yourself.
I have traveled to the future only to learn that there isn't a way to travel to the future. So it didn't happen.
Still if you choose an open platform chances are when it is time to upgrade or migrate data. The stuff you had became out of date. So migrating your data isn't clean and heck the cables could have changed to a new open standard. By keeping a closed standard you are really loosing out on the Hacker market, and the 3rd party cloning market... (like netgear) who want to make money off of another company expensive R&D