My initial reaction? "Absurd. Ancient artifacts just cannot be stored accurately in digital form."
But I have since reconsidered. If you think about it, many researchers, scholars, and other academics need access only to the textual information contained in these precious artifacts. If this information is provided electronically, then they will not have to use the actual piece, and the risk of damage is lessened.
I support this wholeheartedly.
Look, stick with what works. If 85% of computer use is Office, then stay in Windows. If upgrades are too expensive...don't upgrade. If you want to be "up to date," then Linux isn't going to really be an option, since it will be a few years (if ever) before we see MS Office copying the latest features from Open Office.
Lindows was originally a Microsoft product, and Linux was just a spin-off of that, so I don't see how the judge could say that it is okay to still use the Lindows trademark when the product is no longer owned by Microsoft.
This is why I never use software for mission-critical applications. Software is buggy. It's the truth. It's a law or something. Buggy. Doesn't work.
Hardware, OTOH, rings true. Hardware will never let you down. It is built for the long haul, and will always be loyal by your side. I'd go to the end of the world with hardware.
Oh man. Why does Katz write a story for a website targetted at the knowledgeable computer elite about how he ran into all sorts of trouble trying to cancel AOL?
Not to mention that in the process he talks about his drawer full of old passwords and notes from his enormous history of tech support calls.
And the line about how he's going to torture the tech-support people's pets just doesn't make any sense...
This sounds exactly like the stupid "Internet keys" on my keyboard, and about as useful.
This product is dead before it starts. How come so many products that any idiot can tell you will fail still end up getting made? If they had taken half an hour to ask 5 people in a focus group if they would buy this product, then we would have to waste our time reading about it on slashdot.
One button to "watch a DVD?" I don't know about Windows, but on the Mac the DVD player starts when you stick the disc in, and you only have to hit the spacebar to watch it. And I know all the different OS's (even Linux) will auto-play audio CDs.
I just can't believe this shite. "Okay, guys, idea: a USB device with a bunch of buttons on it, and you use it to control the computer!" Uh, hello? It's a keyboard, they already make them.
When I first read this, I thought, "great!" After all, this is every slashdotnik's dream, right?
But then I paused. You see, as much as we'd like to think otherwise, information not only doesn't "want to be free," but it will fight tooth and nail against becoming free. In today's MTV-fueled, Britney Spears world, much of the intellectual property that's out there is so entangled in derivative works that true public domain is just a geek's pipe dream.
Puzzling how PC makers finally decide to copy Apple, and this is the feature they choose.
If I were in their position, I would have copied the Titanium G4 (affectionately termed the "TiBook", pun on the Ti (the chemical symbol for titanium) and iBook). Instead they copied an old model that burst into flames without warning, as suddenly as Anakin turns into Vader. But, I guess I should just be thankful they are following suit in other areas, as the specs on these laptops are pretty sweet: 512MB memory and DVD out of the box, and nice crisp displays. And those 1.7GHZ P4's are really hauling ass. No wonder they lit on fire!
I can't stress security enough. Too often we see the methodology of "write first, secure second."
No no no no. I'm sorry, that just won't cut it in today's world of scam artists. We need to be building in security on the server side from the ground up.
I am loath to resort to buzzwords, but "proactive" really describes just how I feel.
At my company we have met this challenge head-on by deploying a full server force of Mandrake Linux coupled with Apache 2. Apache 2 picks up where the original left off, with the added features of clones referring to Stormtroopers (as opposed to the original modular system). I find that our server compromises have decreased ~70% since making the switch from an IIS server farm.
I have also heard good things about BSD in regards to security and web apps. Great to see this finally getting the press it deserves.
It's official - Netcraft confirms: Apache is not dying.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered non-Apache community when recently IDC confirmed that Apache accounts for more than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Apache has lost less market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Apache isn't collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by not failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Apache's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Apache does not face a bleak future. In fact there will be a future for Apache because Apache isn't dying . Things are not looking very bad for Apache. As many of us are already aware, Apache continues to not lose market share. Red ink doesn't flow like a river of blood. RedHat Apache isn't the most endangered of them all, having not lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Apache on OpenBSD. How many users of Linux Apache are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus Linux posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Linux Apache users. NetBSD posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Linux posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of NetBSD Apache. A recent article put MS-IIS at about 80 percent of the web server market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 IIS users. This is consistent with the number of IIS Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of OpenBSD, abysmal sales and so on, Apache did not go out of business and wasn't taken over by Linux who sell another troubled OS. Now NetBSD is also not dead, its corpse not turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Apache has not steadily declined in market share. Apache isn't very sick and its long term survival prospects aren't very dim. If Apache is to survive at all it won't be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Apache continues to not decay. Anything short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Apache is not dying.
It's official - Netcraft confirms: Apache is not dying.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered non-Apache community when recently IDC confirmed that Apache accounts for more than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Apache has lost less market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Apache isn't collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by not failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Apache's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Apache does not face a bleak future. In fact there will be a future for Apache because Apache isn't dying . Things are not looking very bad for Apache. As many of us are already aware, Apache continues to not lose market share. Red ink doesn't flow like a river of blood. RedHat Apache isn't the most endangered of them all, having not lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Apache on OpenBSD. How many users of Linux Apache are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus Linux posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Linux Apache users. NetBSD posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Linux posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of NetBSD Apache. A recent article put MS-IIS at about 80 percent of the web server market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 IIS users. This is consistent with the number of IIS Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of OpenBSD, abysmal sales and so on, Apache did not go out of business and wasn't taken over by Linux who sell another troubled OS. Now NetBSD is also not dead, its corpse not turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Apache has not steadily declined in market share. Apache isn't very sick and its long term survival prospects aren't very dim. If Apache is to survive at all it won't be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Apache continues to not decay. Anything short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Apache is not dying.
Fact: Apache is alive
Sure, and in the future, people will wear clothes made out of shiny synthetic silk material and cook all their food with electricity, and decorate their walls with pictures of cars. Feh.
As much as I'm sure you'd like to think your toys are paradigm-shattering conceptual breakthroughs, you know they only continue along the same path that Homer forged.
The Gutenberg character set is nothing more than a new way to implement the words used by real poets. The important advancements made possible by the spoken word are only re-codified by letters. Books are nothing more another way to store a text, and a crappy way at that. Parchment is even worse because its not durable. You can't sing or chant books (yet), and more importantly, you can't pass a cherished old story to your child as as heirloom.
The communal aspect of oral storytelling is important and wonderful, and you're cheating yourself if you don't appreciate the experience of being told a real story in a social place. You should curl up with a real storyteller around a fire with no paper and get some perspective on this technological terror you've created.
I know my initial reaction to this, along with that of all the other slashbots, was pure horror. "The Constitution!" I cried, "What about the Constitution?!?"
But I've been thinking since then, and I have a new perspective. When the Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution, it was 1776. That was a while ago. Needless to say, desktop publishing was not a reality. In fact, publishing was very expensive, prohibitively so for the majority of Americans. The Founding Fathers thought that it would be acceptible to have a free press exactly because "not just anyone" could publish!
In today's world of computers and Britney Spears, anyone can publish. Therefore, the rules need to change. The controls that used to be built-in in the form of costs must now be moved into the legal realm.
This sounds like a great book. I am a huge fan of this kind of writing, and I love rice and salt ('specially with a nice pat of butter...mmmm...), so I was thinking, "this book's for me."
But then I paused.
You see, I do almost all of my reading online these days. I get my news from differentsites and even check out the latest fiction in ebook format. I also listen to books on tape.
When you get right down to it, who has the time to read traditional media such as books anymore? In these modern days we are constantly on the go, and books have fallen aside to allow more efficient methods of information distribution to take their place.
With Gutenberg's press, the great oral tradition was left behind. And while we all appreciate its importance, we have moved on. It is time to do the same for printed books.
Slashdot Mirror
and in Sculley's arms no less!
What tragedy!
What brilliance!!
(WARNING: the above contains spoilers!)
My initial reaction? "Absurd. Ancient artifacts just cannot be stored accurately in digital form." But I have since reconsidered. If you think about it, many researchers, scholars, and other academics need access only to the textual information contained in these precious artifacts. If this information is provided electronically, then they will not have to use the actual piece, and the risk of damage is lessened. I support this wholeheartedly.
Look, stick with what works. If 85% of computer use is Office, then stay in Windows. If upgrades are too expensive...don't upgrade. If you want to be "up to date," then Linux isn't going to really be an option, since it will be a few years (if ever) before we see MS Office copying the latest features from Open Office.
Lindows was originally a Microsoft product, and Linux was just a spin-off of that, so I don't see how the judge could say that it is okay to still use the Lindows trademark when the product is no longer owned by Microsoft.
In a world where it ought to be a universal right to get connected instantly
There's pontification for you. He even prefaces it with "in a world where...", a favorite Katzism.
This is why I never use software for mission-critical applications. Software is buggy. It's the truth. It's a law or something. Buggy. Doesn't work.
Hardware, OTOH, rings true. Hardware will never let you down. It is built for the long haul, and will always be loyal by your side. I'd go to the end of the world with hardware.
I won't let software walk the dog.
Oh man. Why does Katz write a story for a website targetted at the knowledgeable computer elite about how he ran into all sorts of trouble trying to cancel AOL?
Not to mention that in the process he talks about his drawer full of old passwords and notes from his enormous history of tech support calls.
And the line about how he's going to torture the tech-support people's pets just doesn't make any sense...
Typical Katz fare. Time to reformat my brain.
This sounds exactly like the stupid "Internet keys" on my keyboard, and about as useful.
This product is dead before it starts. How come so many products that any idiot can tell you will fail still end up getting made? If they had taken half an hour to ask 5 people in a focus group if they would buy this product, then we would have to waste our time reading about it on slashdot.
One button to "watch a DVD?" I don't know about Windows, but on the Mac the DVD player starts when you stick the disc in, and you only have to hit the spacebar to watch it. And I know all the different OS's (even Linux) will auto-play audio CDs.
I just can't believe this shite. "Okay, guys, idea: a USB device with a bunch of buttons on it, and you use it to control the computer!" Uh, hello? It's a keyboard, they already make them.
I think I speak for the entire population of the Universe when I say: "holy cow."
This game looks good.
The one to beat for this Christmas season, that's for sure. (You listening, MS?)
We're rapidly approaching the point where games will be indistinguishable from real life.
Actually, maybe that already happened.
Something to consider.
Stay safe out there, everyone.
When I first read this, I thought, "great!" After all, this is every slashdotnik's dream, right?
But then I paused. You see, as much as we'd like to think otherwise, information not only doesn't "want to be free," but it will fight tooth and nail against becoming free. In today's MTV-fueled, Britney Spears world, much of the intellectual property that's out there is so entangled in derivative works that true public domain is just a geek's pipe dream.
If only it weren't so.
If Jupiter can do it, why can't we? I'd like to see Earth improve its moon count, as we have only one.
I thought we liked Orrin Hatch? Now he's a bad guy? Damn.
Must be a slow news day. That article about IA64 was completely unintelligible. Anyone have something good to talk about?
Christ.
It seems like everything affects the weather these days. Time to go burn some leaves.
Puzzling how PC makers finally decide to copy Apple, and this is the feature they choose.
If I were in their position, I would have copied the Titanium G4 (affectionately termed the "TiBook", pun on the Ti (the chemical symbol for titanium) and iBook). Instead they copied an old model that burst into flames without warning, as suddenly as Anakin turns into Vader. But, I guess I should just be thankful they are following suit in other areas, as the specs on these laptops are pretty sweet: 512MB memory and DVD out of the box, and nice crisp displays. And those 1.7GHZ P4's are really hauling ass. No wonder they lit on fire!
Anyway, keep up the good work, Toshiba.
I can't stress security enough. Too often we see the methodology of "write first, secure second."
No no no no. I'm sorry, that just won't cut it in today's world of scam artists. We need to be building in security on the server side from the ground up.
I am loath to resort to buzzwords, but "proactive" really describes just how I feel.
At my company we have met this challenge head-on by deploying a full server force of Mandrake Linux coupled with Apache 2. Apache 2 picks up where the original left off, with the added features of clones referring to Stormtroopers (as opposed to the original modular system). I find that our server compromises have decreased ~70% since making the switch from an IIS server farm.
I have also heard good things about BSD in regards to security and web apps. Great to see this finally getting the press it deserves.
It's official - Netcraft confirms: Apache is not dying.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered non-Apache community when recently IDC confirmed that Apache accounts for more than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Apache has lost less market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Apache isn't collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by not failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Apache's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Apache does not face a bleak future. In fact there will be a future for Apache because Apache isn't dying . Things are not looking very bad for Apache. As many of us are already aware, Apache continues to not lose market share. Red ink doesn't flow like a river of blood. RedHat Apache isn't the most endangered of them all, having not lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Apache on OpenBSD. How many users of Linux Apache are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus Linux posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Linux Apache users. NetBSD posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Linux posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of NetBSD Apache. A recent article put MS-IIS at about 80 percent of the web server market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 IIS users. This is consistent with the number of IIS Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of OpenBSD, abysmal sales and so on, Apache did not go out of business and wasn't taken over by Linux who sell another troubled OS. Now NetBSD is also not dead, its corpse not turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Apache has not steadily declined in market share. Apache isn't very sick and its long term survival prospects aren't very dim. If Apache is to survive at all it won't be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Apache continues to not decay. Anything short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Apache is not dying.
Fact: Apache is alive
It's official - Netcraft confirms: Apache is not dying. Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered non-Apache community when recently IDC confirmed that Apache accounts for more than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Apache has lost less market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Apache isn't collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by not failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Apache's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Apache does not face a bleak future. In fact there will be a future for Apache because Apache isn't dying . Things are not looking very bad for Apache. As many of us are already aware, Apache continues to not lose market share. Red ink doesn't flow like a river of blood. RedHat Apache isn't the most endangered of them all, having not lost 93% of its core developers. Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Apache on OpenBSD. How many users of Linux Apache are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus Linux posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Linux Apache users. NetBSD posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Linux posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of NetBSD Apache. A recent article put MS-IIS at about 80 percent of the web server market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 IIS users. This is consistent with the number of IIS Usenet posts. Due to the troubles of OpenBSD, abysmal sales and so on, Apache did not go out of business and wasn't taken over by Linux who sell another troubled OS. Now NetBSD is also not dead, its corpse not turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that Apache has not steadily declined in market share. Apache isn't very sick and its long term survival prospects aren't very dim. If Apache is to survive at all it won't be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Apache continues to not decay. Anything short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Apache is not dying. Fact: Apache is alive
This comment intrigued me, so I looked in Mr. Vaidhyanathan's latest book:
Table of Contets
Sure, and in the future, people will wear clothes made out of shiny synthetic silk material and cook all their food with electricity, and decorate their walls with pictures of cars. Feh.
As much as I'm sure you'd like to think your toys are paradigm-shattering conceptual breakthroughs, you know they only continue along the same path that Homer forged.
The Gutenberg character set is nothing more than a new way to implement the words used by real poets. The important advancements made possible by the spoken word are only re-codified by letters. Books are nothing more another way to store a text, and a crappy way at that. Parchment is even worse because its not durable. You can't sing or chant books (yet), and more importantly, you can't pass a cherished old story to your child as as heirloom.
The communal aspect of oral storytelling is important and wonderful, and you're cheating yourself if you don't appreciate the experience of being told a real story in a social place. You should curl up with a real storyteller around a fire with no paper and get some perspective on this technological terror you've created.
Let me get this straight.
You are asking a bunch of unemployed programmers how to best manage the foreigners you hired to take their places?
Hope you brought your asbestos suit.
I know my initial reaction to this, along with that of all the other slashbots, was pure horror. "The Constitution!" I cried, "What about the Constitution?!?"
But I've been thinking since then, and I have a new perspective. When the Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution, it was 1776. That was a while ago. Needless to say, desktop publishing was not a reality. In fact, publishing was very expensive, prohibitively so for the majority of Americans. The Founding Fathers thought that it would be acceptible to have a free press exactly because "not just anyone" could publish!
In today's world of computers and Britney Spears, anyone can publish. Therefore, the rules need to change. The controls that used to be built-in in the form of costs must now be moved into the legal realm.
Jefferson would want it this way.
My family swears by that film, but I've yet to see it.
This sounds like a great book. I am a huge fan of
this kind of writing, and I love rice and salt ('specially with a nice pat of butter...mmmm...), so I was thinking, "this book's for me."
But then I paused.
You see, I do almost all of my reading online these days. I get my news from different sites and even check out the latest fiction in ebook format. I also listen to books on tape.
When you get right down to it, who has the time to read traditional media such as books anymore? In these modern days we are constantly on the go, and books have fallen aside to allow more efficient methods of information distribution to take their place.
With Gutenberg's press, the great oral tradition was left behind. And while we all appreciate its importance, we have moved on. It is time to do the same for printed books.
:(
How many times do we have to hear about the Star Wars axe? Many more, I'm sure.
And CmdrTaco, we all know about your tickets, you post about them in every story.