There's obviously a problem with a study that takes 8GB of data and concludes that there's no difference in quality between kernels with legendary uptimes and those that can't manage memory well enough to stay up more than a few weeks. This kind of study sounds interesting but it's not practical. Practical results come from real operations.
Here I was thinking that a spreadsheet was just a tool for redundant and boring business accounting and that kids should be taught something more fundamental like... math.
Either way you look at it, a free spreadsheet will teach the same lesson as the non free one, so the schools might as well save their money and teach kids the benefits of free software. When you know how to use one sheet, you know them all so there's no case for a school to waste money on Office. Businesses should learn this lesson too and most of them are.
"We might kill someone in a hospital or shut down emergency services." The risk of this occurring is overblown. Hospitals and emergency services already need backup plans in case of many exigencies from natural causes, including the types of power and communications outages that a DDOS could cause. Also, target preparation in cyberspace can create no-strike lists just like the physical world.
Carpet bomb misses hospital, honest! They are used to that sort of thing since Katrina anyhow. Lame.
This paper reads like an exercise in buzzword bingo. It's scary to think that the same people have real weapons at their disposal.
It's less than 20 miles from Boston, hardly the middle of nowhere. If the phone companies won't service rich people there, who will they serve? It's time to end their comfortable public servitude monopoly because they have obviously failed it.
Please make this a feature of IE, and IIS. Then fire the PR company you pay to harass Slashdot. It's obvious they can't control a single individual much less sway public opinion on Slashdot. They are also a bunch of paranoid idiots who howl at shadows while I run circles about their mod bombs. As your cash cows sicken and your stock price plummets, your employees have better things to do (like find another job) and your advertising money would be better spent in a more traditional fashion, like Adwords or Slashdot banner ads.
Delete your bookmarks, people. Redirect slashdot.org to 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file, in case you get the urge to go back.
I know you can do it, your engineers used to delete Netscape bookmarks with Windows Updates. Blocking YouTube has won you lots of fans, just imagine how much people would love you if you tried to run people off Slashdot. Good luck with that.
M$ has yet to unblock Truthout email, which is clearly politically motivated censorship and against the wishes of their customers. They have demonstrated how they despise their customers time and time again by sabotaging "third party" software. Blocking a competitor like YouTube is part of a long tradition of anti-trust. Such a block will serve M$'s interests and those of their big media pals. Let's see if our government has the morals and nerve to shut them down. The analog equivalent would be as if ATT were able to blank out mentions of NBC and jam their signal at the same time.
I've used M$ software from DOS 3.2 and know for a fact that each version has offered less user control and vendor competition with few actual feature or performance gains. Free software surpassed non free in performance and features over the last five years, so M$'s continued moves toward DRM are suicidal. At home, I've been M$ free for eight years. At work, I've had to put up with NT, W2K and occasionally XP and can say without doubt that W2K was better than the others but it still suffers from the whole M$ experience - lack of user control, obnoxious interruptions, network p0wnage and the fruitless attempts to prevent the all of the above.
Yes, I hate M$. It's not because of their technical failure, it's because they have forced their non free crap on vendors who would have otherwise offered their customers choices. M$ can not collapse soon enough, so their sabotage of XP is good news.
They make sure you pay too much no matter what you buy. XP is worth less than Xandros but we all know that Xandros costs less. Perhaps this is part of the M$ "patent deal" with Xandros but the details don't matter. All of Oz is being screwed by a predatory US company. As a US Citizen, I appologize for the failure of our laws.
If ZFS is worthwhile and not patent encumbered it will make it's way into all free software. Linux, freeDOS and others will eventually pick it up and no further action is required on Sun's part.
I'm glad that Sun and MySQL decided not to close off MySQL. That is all.
University campuses look more like China than the US these days. "Free Speech areas" to limit protest, the destruction of tenure so political dissent can be eliminated and networks under tight central control. It's gross and will only get better with regime change.
is just as big a joke as Vista capable. No one is going to buy the XP version of EEE PC and even fewer people are going to DIY wreck the things. 4GB is not enough space for XP and fiends and the installed system won't run as well as what you can get for $100 less.
Only people in CA. have the luxury of their utility company turning off their AC for them. How nice it must be to come home to a hot house after a long day of work. Yeah, I'd make some separate wiring to a few key appliances...
Do that kind of thing in the South and you'd have a rebellion. Temperature swings in high humidity environments create mold that destroy health and belongings.
Smitty_each_one strays far off the topic of M$'s embarrassing failure to acquire Yahoo to say:
quality printing (booklets and stuff) is not exactly a strong suit of Free Software. Which is kind of ironic, as text handling was one of the strong suits of the early Unix.
Which is ill informed. GNU/Linux distributions have been using post script as the basis for printing for a long time. This is the same basis every other professional printing house uses, so you should get world class printing from free software. There's are ample software to back that up on the user side from Latex to Open Office and lots of stuff in between. Open Office copies the functionality of Word to a fault. More reasonable word processors like Kword and Lyx are also available. There's also a wealth of graphic design software for things like posters and newspapers - inkscape and scribus spring to mind. For writing papers, books and technical journals there's still no beating Latex. You can find a template for just about anything and there are all sorts of easy to use editors, Lyx, Kile, Emacs and so on and so forth.
The last time you knocked me down to "terrible" -1 land, you did it in about two days. You have done it several times over the last five years but now you are powerful enough to keep me there.
Oh for the days when violating interns seemed like a shocking crime. OK, the last ass sold us out to Communist China. This one is going out of his way to make that crime worse and has also violated the constitution and whole nations.
It's almost dumb enough to be true but it's a transparent lie. They made backups before they switched systems and those backups should still exist. If nothing else, M$ has a copy of the pst files because they can and would. Windows is no way to run a government.
Software is an important and enabling part of freedom, but the other parts are important too. Lessig's books on Free Culture are good, but I'm really pleased to see a group that is making it all sound like fun. I hope Mr. Hill does well in setting up a local free culture group. Thanks for bringing that to a wider audience, AC.
This really has been a running theme of mine for a long time, but other people have had better ideas for promoting it and it's making me a happier person. I'm sure you can look back at my writings and find several of me whining that big greedy companies and their lawsuits take the fun out of music and other supposedly fun things. It's easy to see that free culture is going to be a run away success. Will Hill is right, free software is boring and only a few of us really care. What can be more fun than culture that's not owned by assholes? The Free Culture movement is going to make the Free Speech movement look small and it will pull free software right along with it. The party is on. Enjoy!
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There's obviously a problem with a study that takes 8GB of data and concludes that there's no difference in quality between kernels with legendary uptimes and those that can't manage memory well enough to stay up more than a few weeks. This kind of study sounds interesting but it's not practical. Practical results come from real operations.
If you want a job like this. Have you ever seen a place where VBA and Access has been anything but a resource sink?
Here I was thinking that a spreadsheet was just a tool for redundant and boring business accounting and that kids should be taught something more fundamental like ... math.
Either way you look at it, a free spreadsheet will teach the same lesson as the non free one, so the schools might as well save their money and teach kids the benefits of free software. When you know how to use one sheet, you know them all so there's no case for a school to waste money on Office. Businesses should learn this lesson too and most of them are.
Carpet bomb misses hospital, honest! They are used to that sort of thing since Katrina anyhow. Lame.
This paper reads like an exercise in buzzword bingo. It's scary to think that the same people have real weapons at their disposal.
It's less than 20 miles from Boston, hardly the middle of nowhere. If the phone companies won't service rich people there, who will they serve? It's time to end their comfortable public servitude monopoly because they have obviously failed it.
Where's your $200 billion network?
Please make this a feature of IE, and IIS. Then fire the PR company you pay to harass Slashdot. It's obvious they can't control a single individual much less sway public opinion on Slashdot. They are also a bunch of paranoid idiots who howl at shadows while I run circles about their mod bombs. As your cash cows sicken and your stock price plummets, your employees have better things to do (like find another job) and your advertising money would be better spent in a more traditional fashion, like Adwords or Slashdot banner ads.
I know you can do it, your engineers used to delete Netscape bookmarks with Windows Updates. Blocking YouTube has won you lots of fans, just imagine how much people would love you if you tried to run people off Slashdot. Good luck with that.
M$ has yet to unblock Truthout email, which is clearly politically motivated censorship and against the wishes of their customers. They have demonstrated how they despise their customers time and time again by sabotaging "third party" software. Blocking a competitor like YouTube is part of a long tradition of anti-trust. Such a block will serve M$'s interests and those of their big media pals. Let's see if our government has the morals and nerve to shut them down. The analog equivalent would be as if ATT were able to blank out mentions of NBC and jam their signal at the same time.
I've used M$ software from DOS 3.2 and know for a fact that each version has offered less user control and vendor competition with few actual feature or performance gains. Free software surpassed non free in performance and features over the last five years, so M$'s continued moves toward DRM are suicidal. At home, I've been M$ free for eight years. At work, I've had to put up with NT, W2K and occasionally XP and can say without doubt that W2K was better than the others but it still suffers from the whole M$ experience - lack of user control, obnoxious interruptions, network p0wnage and the fruitless attempts to prevent the all of the above.
Yes, I hate M$. It's not because of their technical failure, it's because they have forced their non free crap on vendors who would have otherwise offered their customers choices. M$ can not collapse soon enough, so their sabotage of XP is good news.
They make sure you pay too much no matter what you buy. XP is worth less than Xandros but we all know that Xandros costs less. Perhaps this is part of the M$ "patent deal" with Xandros but the details don't matter. All of Oz is being screwed by a predatory US company. As a US Citizen, I appologize for the failure of our laws.
Today it's every 10 days. Tomorrow it's 30 times a second like Vista's insane audio checks.
If ZFS is worthwhile and not patent encumbered it will make it's way into all free software. Linux, freeDOS and others will eventually pick it up and no further action is required on Sun's part.
I'm glad that Sun and MySQL decided not to close off MySQL. That is all.
University campuses look more like China than the US these days. "Free Speech areas" to limit protest, the destruction of tenure so political dissent can be eliminated and networks under tight central control. It's gross and will only get better with regime change.
is just as big a joke as Vista capable. No one is going to buy the XP version of EEE PC and even fewer people are going to DIY wreck the things. 4GB is not enough space for XP and fiends and the installed system won't run as well as what you can get for $100 less.
M$
Bill Gates did but they only used it to shoot both of them in the foot.
Only people in CA. have the luxury of their utility company turning off their AC for them. How nice it must be to come home to a hot house after a long day of work. Yeah, I'd make some separate wiring to a few key appliances...
Do that kind of thing in the South and you'd have a rebellion. Temperature swings in high humidity environments create mold that destroy health and belongings.
Smitty_each_one strays far off the topic of M$'s embarrassing failure to acquire Yahoo to say:
Which is ill informed. GNU/Linux distributions have been using post script as the basis for printing for a long time. This is the same basis every other professional printing house uses, so you should get world class printing from free software. There's are ample software to back that up on the user side from Latex to Open Office and lots of stuff in between. Open Office copies the functionality of Word to a fault. More reasonable word processors like Kword and Lyx are also available. There's also a wealth of graphic design software for things like posters and newspapers - inkscape and scribus spring to mind. For writing papers, books and technical journals there's still no beating Latex. You can find a template for just about anything and there are all sorts of easy to use editors, Lyx, Kile, Emacs and so on and so forth.
The UK will continue to cooperate or declare a "phony war" until the US threatens them directly. Nothing new from that monarchy/autocracy.
They could not land Yahoo so they have to kick around OLPC a while. It makes Steve feel better to crush something at times like this.
Yes, but at least I'm rich.
The OLPC project should not waste it's time porting code to a second rate OS if it's interested in getting them out and knowledge to children.
The last time you knocked me down to "terrible" -1 land, you did it in about two days. You have done it several times over the last five years but now you are powerful enough to keep me there.
Oh for the days when violating interns seemed like a shocking crime. OK, the last ass sold us out to Communist China. This one is going out of his way to make that crime worse and has also violated the constitution and whole nations.
It's almost dumb enough to be true but it's a transparent lie. They made backups before they switched systems and those backups should still exist. If nothing else, M$ has a copy of the pst files because they can and would. Windows is no way to run a government.
Software is an important and enabling part of freedom, but the other parts are important too. Lessig's books on Free Culture are good, but I'm really pleased to see a group that is making it all sound like fun. I hope Mr. Hill does well in setting up a local free culture group. Thanks for bringing that to a wider audience, AC.
This really has been a running theme of mine for a long time, but other people have had better ideas for promoting it and it's making me a happier person. I'm sure you can look back at my writings and find several of me whining that big greedy companies and their lawsuits take the fun out of music and other supposedly fun things. It's easy to see that free culture is going to be a run away success. Will Hill is right, free software is boring and only a few of us really care. What can be more fun than culture that's not owned by assholes? The Free Culture movement is going to make the Free Speech movement look small and it will pull free software right along with it. The party is on. Enjoy!
things are being managed well without your help.