It caught my attention that the one called "cario" apparently can be used, in the future, while you are driving. Not only that, because people already text message while driving, but it apparently looks like the car of the future is a... kind of look like... a ford escort? Would that be the car we'll be driving in 2015? I hope not.
I had an excellent karma. I decided to ban the "Apple" section (I don't know why there's only ONE single section of a brand, and the others are generic, quite suspicious). However, by the time of the iPhone release, they decided to place iPhone articles on "Hardware", "IT", obviously on "Apple" and I was getting a little upset about it, more when I don't share the belief that Apple does everything right.
However, I posted on one of them, and that was the end of my excellent karma. Since then, I stopped posting on Slashdot for a while, and decided that I can only read some "funny" comments and that's it.
The "mod" points are falling into wrong hands at some points, and some people only reads comments feeling they are offensive. (It appears that I'm sarcastic, and that makes things worse).
I can't agree with you more, and now that I have mod points, I try to use them wisely (Always trying to put funny ones). Good luck with your karma, cause it took too much to me to be an excellent, and took only 1 second for a person to take it down.
Perhaps a better analogy would be approaching this guy and trust him.
I just visit trusted sites and open files from trusted people (and when we're talking about computers, that doesn't necessarily includes my mom).
Since I bought my last laptop, with vista, I never installed an AV because I didn't mind what happened to it, I had no valuable information. I had one AV free for the company I work for, installed it, and turned out no virus.
So my conclusion is, you need an AV directly proportional to your knowledge about computers and the knowledge of your close "online" friends. I've seen intruders running DoS attacks from unprotected "user" accounts on Mac OS.
Wow! First time I head someone talking that well about toshibas on/.
I've only had toshibas, one felt from my hands while I was writing on the hard drive, bounce on the floor and kept working for 2 more years with no problem (of course 3 years for a computer that was totally abused, I think is great). My current laptop is a Toshiba, and I'll keep buying them.
The reason why I buy them? Different than Apple's they.. really.. just work. Recently, to take their prices down, they fill them with tons of bloatware, which is a bit annoying, but the price difference you find between those and Apple/Lenovos/Sony is huge, and Toshiba built their computers, mostly, with their own toshiba parts. I love it! And CNET still have the best ultra portable to be a Toshiba!
We'll see if they can keep it up with the Apple aggressive marketing strategy.
I don't know if you are in the communications business, but not too long ago, when I was working for an ISP, I clearly remember that last-mile is the most expensive part of a communications system.
Since you are not taking into account the density, population and size of the countries, it's hard to understand this. Running fibers or cables to connect the people in US might not be as easy as connecting the people in Canada.
The East Coast of US, for example can be easier to wire because of the density. Not the same with the center or even west coast where people tends to spread apart. You can call it what ever you want. But if when you have to pay for tons of wires, and you see that your competition is deploying wireless equipment, you think twice before paying contractors to run the wires.
When deploying services to other high density areas, you deliver your system to a multiplexer in the basement of a building and serve several users (that probably already paid to get their wires from their apartments to the basement). That's way better for communications companies. But with that high amount of people in US living in houses ranch style with several feet between them and their closest neighbors, you have to pick between delivering an expensive service to a single person in rural areas, perhaps compensate with what people in urban areas... but the equation results in more expensive services.
On the other hand, if you spend money already on wiring those users, now thing about the equipment you need. Due to the density, you're not going to be able to use a big switch with several expansion cards, but probably you'll need to invest on several small switches that.. eventually you'll need to upgrade. Thus, everything is about costs and initial investment.
Luckily, the average income of US citizens and the "hype" of having better connections (for, I admit, I don't know what service), can lead to people getting those services, but they will have to pay for all the infrastructure anyways.
Also, I think it's important to remember that US is larger than other countries. Therefore, deploying new technologies takes not only more time but it's more expensive. Countries like Japan, which is small and wealthy, have a strategical advantage in quickly deploying any technology.
With this in mind, companies in the US are also aware the costs that leapfrogging has, and it's quite important to know what technology you're jumping in, because that could hurt or not your investments. For example, you don't want to jump into HD-DVDs now, knowing that Blu-ray may take over, doing that would be a waste of money. So, it's always good, also, not to take the first step, but watching other make the mistakes.
I agree, any poor calling for such thing would be simply called a "communist".
Certainly, wealthy people support poor people by paying taxes according to their incomes. Now, going international, that's an interesting point of view.
Oh, c'mon! this is what I got because I blocked the Apple section (I'm right not to like it) and you keep adding iPhone news to the "hardware" section! Pleasee!!!
Your network isn't secure because you're not able to bring it down. It's secure if during the processes you are able to avoid information leaks. Any network, no matter how secure, using a wrong implementation of a protocol becomes vulnerable.
Note that most of the WiFi protocols are still drafts and consequently there is not one unified way to do the things. Vendors need to literally open holes to give access to different technologies.
"But so far, the precise cause of the problem remains unknown"
Needless to say, the problem is "It's an Apple". They will perfectly work (maybe) if the routers were AirPorts. What a headache for administrators.
PS: I knocked off a network switch by attempting to get its IP address using a windows laptop from a secured port binded to a single MAC address (Which wasn't the laptop's one). So guess again.
Perhaps people used to the previous control panel can't find the icon to "add/remove" programs anymore?
I had to install and uninstall software on at least 10 vista computers (different characteristics, different vendors, including Sony, Toshiba, Dell and Shuttle from Core Duos to Xeon Quads from 512MB to 8G RAM). Not a single one had a problem.
Since there was no water in the vending machine I just bought from I got a PowerADE, turns out, of course, its main ingredient is water, followed by high fructose corn syrup.
What I always been wondering is, why American sugar doesn't appear to sweet as much as the sugar I was used to when in south America. Is the sugar also made from the corn? Normally when in there I used to put only two little bags of sugar, here I need five or more.
People complain too much. They can get a computer with twice memory and twice HDD, thanks to Dell partners and install "FREE" linux on it. But, no, they complain, because the pre-installed Ubuntu is not cheaper!
Your original McAfee and the trial period of Norton that never vanished? I know several people that install the corporative AV on their new computers without noticing they have another trial version that came with it. It certainly brings the computer performance down.
Well, yeah so far you can replace the media with a HDD (around $100 and save $200) and the drive with a USB/firewire enclosure (~$40 and save ~$18000). They need to bring the prices down soon.
On the other hand, if this is not the right place to post stories about "male virgins", I don't know where else that might be. Note anyways, that wasn't the whole article, but the conversations focused, particularly on that one. Uhm... coincidence? You tell me.
If we all believed in those marketing strategies... we'd all had Apple computers with Windows Vista on them.
Computer jokes aside, I'm particularly afraid of those commercials about depression and how you should talk to your doctor to prescribe you medicines for it, I think it's pretty scary that they are trying to convince you about your moods and get money out of it.
None of the parents of your post were signed as ACs, neither yours. Why did you start your post with "Anonymous Coward"? Did you reply to the wrong person?
The article itself says they put around 30billion on the Gates Foundation, yeah, I was a bit confused when I saw that Gates was on the fifty some billions when he used to be around the nineties.
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It caught my attention that the one called "cario" apparently can be used, in the future, while you are driving. Not only that, because people already text message while driving, but it apparently looks like the car of the future is a... kind of look like... a ford escort? Would that be the car we'll be driving in 2015? I hope not.
I had an excellent karma. I decided to ban the "Apple" section (I don't know why there's only ONE single section of a brand, and the others are generic, quite suspicious). However, by the time of the iPhone release, they decided to place iPhone articles on "Hardware", "IT", obviously on "Apple" and I was getting a little upset about it, more when I don't share the belief that Apple does everything right.
However, I posted on one of them, and that was the end of my excellent karma. Since then, I stopped posting on Slashdot for a while, and decided that I can only read some "funny" comments and that's it.
The "mod" points are falling into wrong hands at some points, and some people only reads comments feeling they are offensive. (It appears that I'm sarcastic, and that makes things worse).
I can't agree with you more, and now that I have mod points, I try to use them wisely (Always trying to put funny ones). Good luck with your karma, cause it took too much to me to be an excellent, and took only 1 second for a person to take it down.
Perhaps a better analogy would be approaching this guy and trust him.
I just visit trusted sites and open files from trusted people (and when we're talking about computers, that doesn't necessarily includes my mom).
Since I bought my last laptop, with vista, I never installed an AV because I didn't mind what happened to it, I had no valuable information. I had one AV free for the company I work for, installed it, and turned out no virus.
So my conclusion is, you need an AV directly proportional to your knowledge about computers and the knowledge of your close "online" friends. I've seen intruders running DoS attacks from unprotected "user" accounts on Mac OS.
Wow! First time I head someone talking that well about toshibas on /.
I've only had toshibas, one felt from my hands while I was writing on the hard drive, bounce on the floor and kept working for 2 more years with no problem (of course 3 years for a computer that was totally abused, I think is great). My current laptop is a Toshiba, and I'll keep buying them.
The reason why I buy them? Different than Apple's they.. really.. just work. Recently, to take their prices down, they fill them with tons of bloatware, which is a bit annoying, but the price difference you find between those and Apple/Lenovos/Sony is huge, and Toshiba built their computers, mostly, with their own toshiba parts. I love it! And CNET still have the best ultra portable to be a Toshiba!
We'll see if they can keep it up with the Apple aggressive marketing strategy.
I don't know if you are in the communications business, but not too long ago, when I was working for an ISP, I clearly remember that last-mile is the most expensive part of a communications system. Since you are not taking into account the density, population and size of the countries, it's hard to understand this. Running fibers or cables to connect the people in US might not be as easy as connecting the people in Canada.
The East Coast of US, for example can be easier to wire because of the density. Not the same with the center or even west coast where people tends to spread apart. You can call it what ever you want. But if when you have to pay for tons of wires, and you see that your competition is deploying wireless equipment, you think twice before paying contractors to run the wires.
When deploying services to other high density areas, you deliver your system to a multiplexer in the basement of a building and serve several users (that probably already paid to get their wires from their apartments to the basement). That's way better for communications companies. But with that high amount of people in US living in houses ranch style with several feet between them and their closest neighbors, you have to pick between delivering an expensive service to a single person in rural areas, perhaps compensate with what people in urban areas... but the equation results in more expensive services.
On the other hand, if you spend money already on wiring those users, now thing about the equipment you need. Due to the density, you're not going to be able to use a big switch with several expansion cards, but probably you'll need to invest on several small switches that.. eventually you'll need to upgrade. Thus, everything is about costs and initial investment.
Luckily, the average income of US citizens and the "hype" of having better connections (for, I admit, I don't know what service), can lead to people getting those services, but they will have to pay for all the infrastructure anyways.
Also, I think it's important to remember that US is larger than other countries. Therefore, deploying new technologies takes not only more time but it's more expensive. Countries like Japan, which is small and wealthy, have a strategical advantage in quickly deploying any technology.
With this in mind, companies in the US are also aware the costs that leapfrogging has, and it's quite important to know what technology you're jumping in, because that could hurt or not your investments. For example, you don't want to jump into HD-DVDs now, knowing that Blu-ray may take over, doing that would be a waste of money. So, it's always good, also, not to take the first step, but watching other make the mistakes.
I agree, any poor calling for such thing would be simply called a "communist". Certainly, wealthy people support poor people by paying taxes according to their incomes. Now, going international, that's an interesting point of view.
Oh, c'mon! this is what I got because I blocked the Apple section (I'm right not to like it) and you keep adding iPhone news to the "hardware" section! Pleasee!!!
Man! You can imagine how revolutionary the iPhone is, it requests MAC addresses not IP addresses. No wonder why it's messing up that network.
Don't worry, Steve Jobs will tell us everything is going to be just fine... there there.
Current networks are just not prepared for the revolutionary TCP, UDP and ICMP packets from the iPhone.
Note that most of the WiFi protocols are still drafts and consequently there is not one unified way to do the things. Vendors need to literally open holes to give access to different technologies.
Needless to say, the problem is "It's an Apple". They will perfectly work (maybe) if the routers were AirPorts. What a headache for administrators.
PS: I knocked off a network switch by attempting to get its IP address using a windows laptop from a secured port binded to a single MAC address (Which wasn't the laptop's one). So guess again.
I always thought AOL was a virus. Is the people installing it for fun or just for the challenge?
Perhaps people used to the previous control panel can't find the icon to "add/remove" programs anymore?
I had to install and uninstall software on at least 10 vista computers (different characteristics, different vendors, including Sony, Toshiba, Dell and Shuttle from Core Duos to Xeon Quads from 512MB to 8G RAM). Not a single one had a problem.
Since there was no water in the vending machine I just bought from I got a PowerADE, turns out, of course, its main ingredient is water, followed by high fructose corn syrup.
What I always been wondering is, why American sugar doesn't appear to sweet as much as the sugar I was used to when in south America. Is the sugar also made from the corn? Normally when in there I used to put only two little bags of sugar, here I need five or more.
The end result seems to be converging though... to porn.
I guess that's the whole point of Beowulf clusters...
and I admire it!
Gotta love the "Noooooooo" during the slow motion (I bet a couple of /. readers did the same) and the iSmoke(tm).
People complain too much. They can get a computer with twice memory and twice HDD, thanks to Dell partners and install "FREE" linux on it. But, no, they complain, because the pre-installed Ubuntu is not cheaper!
Let's talk about half-full / half-empty glasses.
Your original McAfee and the trial period of Norton that never vanished? I know several people that install the corporative AV on their new computers without noticing they have another trial version that came with it. It certainly brings the computer performance down.
Well, yeah so far you can replace the media with a HDD (around $100 and save $200) and the drive with a USB/firewire enclosure (~$40 and save ~$18000). They need to bring the prices down soon.
On the other hand, if this is not the right place to post stories about "male virgins", I don't know where else that might be.
Note anyways, that wasn't the whole article, but the conversations focused, particularly on that one.
Uhm... coincidence? You tell me.
If we all believed in those marketing strategies... we'd all had Apple computers with Windows Vista on them.
Computer jokes aside, I'm particularly afraid of those commercials about depression and how you should talk to your doctor to prescribe you medicines for it, I think it's pretty scary that they are trying to convince you about your moods and get money out of it.
None of the parents of your post were signed as ACs, neither yours. Why did you start your post with "Anonymous Coward"? Did you reply to the wrong person?
The article itself says they put around 30billion on the Gates Foundation, yeah, I was a bit confused when I saw that Gates was on the fifty some billions when he used to be around the nineties.
Typical /. user... showing off about their knowledge on "contact-less sex".