For someone who reads both Latin and English it reads like this. "But makes one think, who is benefitting? Who is benefitting from these articles?"
And that was exactly my intention, it's a figure of speech. Lookup anadiplosis. Anyway, I shouldn't be explaining semantic, people that knew what cui bono mean would be OK, people who didn't could simply skip it and go on, or look it up on the internet.
Although this is not a dupe, it practically is. Check this other story, New Way to Patch Defective Hardware, less than two months old. Basically, both approaches suck in the same way, they allow hardware manufacturers to be sloppy in order to rush the product out as fast as possible while allowing them to try to correct the errors that will appear later in the process. In short, they reinvented the FPGA.
Two non-stories. But makes one think, cui bono? Who is benefiting from these articles? Roland for sure, being such a click whore. But other than him, who else? Weird, very weird indeed.
First things first: why China? (The same question applies to Venezuela, Russia, Brazil or whatever is the target of the Slashdot "fifteen minutes of hate" of the day). Of course people should be concerned about what these countries do wrt losses of privacy and basic rights, but what about U.S. and E.U.? As we talk, they are working on a new agreement to share data from passengers on trans-Atlantic flights, a much more effective way to profile people, because it contains name, address, gender, destination, credit card number, everything, without needing to make any kind of assumption, everything is plain and clear. This is why I think that not only "in China", as the summary states, but in most countries in the world, this information can and will be used to tag people indiscriminetaly, subversive or not, terrorist or not, law abiding or not. So, take care of your own backyard before to point the poison ivy in your neighbor one.
Second, it is not like if Microsoft was the only one researching and developing on this field and, more than that, it is not like if Microsoft was not researching on this field, any government interested on this kind of technology would not research itself, or fund research on its public universities. So, throwing Microsoft name on the mix only reinforces my point, this submission is nothing but a flamebait, being the flame targets the usual suspects, proprietary software and communism.
Oh, yeah, very good thing. But for them, not for interoperability. It would be the death for access to Open Source and Open Formats all across the board of the federal government. If Microsoft can kill legislatures pro Open Formats using "only" lobbies, imagine how aggressively they would defend their own interests by having someone with capacity to directly influence TPTB.
Think about Cheney and Halliburton, but this time for I.T. instead of good ol' military contracts.
There is no such thing as "the perfect weapon", the "invulnerable shield" or, for all that matters, "invulnerable O.S.". If there is an Operational System that is secure enough to be resistant to hostile military attacks, it must certainly be kept 1) developed by the military itself 2) restricted for the general public, for the same reasons strong cryptography was back in the days. Who would be fool to let a tool like that potentially fall in the hands of the enemies (whatever side they are)?
Anyway, if there is any O.S. out there that cannot be compromised even by its own creator or by a determined enemy, we do not and will not know and, the most important thing, will not code.
I like Linux as much as every other guy here but, if you actually believe that Linux is flawless enough to endure a military funded search for flaws and vulnerabilities and come out immaculate, you must be out of touch with reality.
If "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", given enough eyeballs (and china has the most), money, military grade technology and bad intentions, every bugs is a potential weapon.
That's bullshit. You can't have it both ways, you know. GP was answering to a troll that said that this offer sucks because it comes with GNOME and not with KDE. If someone is savvy enough to be nitpick about distro, he is not the average user, so this remark about "Linux not being ready for prime-time" is bullshit. Even if was a completely newbie user wanting to install kubuntu over ubuntu, he could do it completely from the GUI using Synaptics. The "sudo apt-get" suggestion is only shorter and faster to explain than "click on Preferences->System->Synaptic, type your password and press OK in the screen that pops up, click on search on the screen that pops up, type kubuntu-desktop, click ok, mark the little square besides the kubuntu-desktop, click ok in the screen that pops up, click on apply, click OK in the screen that pops up". Nothing than an illustrated tutorial wouldn't solve, but saying "click on applications->accessories->terminal, type sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop (or copy and paste, your choice) in the screen that pops up, press enter, type your password and press enter, press Y and press enter" is simpler. And, in the long run, it can be abbreviated to "sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop", as the user get used to the whole thing.
Compare that to "click on Internet, enter on siteoftheapplication.tld, click on Download, click on app1.n.x, click on save to disk on the window that pops up, click OK, wait for the download to finish. Click on start menu, click on All Programs, click on My Computer, go to the folder where it downloaded, right click the app1.n.x.zip and click on extract here, enter the folder it created, double click setup.exe, click next, read what it says the screen says throughly and click "I agree" and next, click next, click next, click finish"
People like to bash the way software is installed with an one liner on the terminal on Linux because they probably never worked with clueless users remotely, over the phone. The first time you hear "what is Windows Explorer" or "how do I open the folder" you understand that everything you take for granted on Windows, like how to download things from internet, how to execute applications, how to open folders, is a complete mistery and totally not intuitive for the clueless user. Having synaptics, and in some extent, aptitude and apt-get, is a big improvement both for the experienced user and the completely new user. Only people that are used to the way Windows is and not willing to learn anything else may suffer a little bit, but I believe even the most clueless user can copy and paste a line of text on a screen and press enter.
So, to summarize, quit implying that installing software is harder on Ubuntu than on Windows, because that's bullshit. If the best case is compared for both, everything working as intended from the first time, Ubuntu is way superior to Windows.
Attributing quotes to Oscar Wilde is a ongoing meme on the Uncyclopedia. Most people were aware if not of Yogi Berra, at least that someone else than the original poster was the author, as that joke is widely known. If people were to give credits for every joke here, every soviet Russia would have to be attributed to Yakov Smirnoff, for instance.
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You should attribute if you "borrow" ideas. Otherwise, it looks like you are trying to make it your own.
After all the comments that Dell should sell Linux machines, and that they shouldn't charge more for them than the Linux one, it is time to put your money where your mouth is and start buying these beauties. I, for one, know that if they ever offer it here on good ol' Europe I'll be buying one as my replacement laptop. Not only buy them, but recommend them for people that are buying their first computers and never had contact with Windows. If they are going to give any serious use for the computer (that meaning, no mass marketed games), they will not miss anything on Windows. Peace.
Walt Mossberg: Bill Gates, what about a shared interview with Steve Jobs? Billg: Sharing a stage with Steve Jobs? That's the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft.
Just so you see that was a bargain for Google to acquire Doubleclick for that amount, and how much Microsoft was yearning for acquiring an advertising company, in order to better compete with Google on other fronts (instead of letting the real battle go to the "software as a service" front).
Do you want to know...._what_ _it_ is....? Google is everywhere. It's all around us, even in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to work, when you pay your taxes. Google is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth. A prison...for your mind....Unfortunately, no one can be..._told_ what Google is...you have to see it for yourself.
This is your _last chance_. After this, there is no turning back.....You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up and believe...whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill.....you stay in wonderland...and I show you just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Well, if the penalty becomes life in prison, it is better to put an eye patch, sail to the high seas and become a real murderous pirate, as, according with the U.S. Code, Title 18, Chapter 81, the penalty for being a real pirate is life imprisonment, but the profits can be way higher.
Bill Gates killed a potential hobbyist movement pro-Microsoft on its very beginning, just look at his open letter to hobbyists. Apple and Linux, on other hand, since their foundation had a big appeal with the amateur/hobbyist audience. The first place Woz showed his first machine was a Homebrew Computer Club, and Linus posted his newborn kernel in a newsgroup, for public evaluation.
That's how you get cult followers, appeal to the hobbyists, coders, enthusiasts, people that understand what is going on behind the scene.
If posting a picture of nekkid women in Hong Kong can get you arrested, I don't wanna imagine what happens to whoever is brave enough to post a link to Goatse there. Oh, my eyes!
meaning they could ignore the actual vote by Florida democrats and allow party leaders to decide how Florida's more than 200 delegates are divided up among the candidates.
With the election day coming, there is no doubt that a lot of retroactive immunities, pardons and whatnot will be signed just before Bush leaves. Were the Rep. sure that they would get the office again, they could do it furtively a la George Ford pardoning Nixon. But as the Dems, odds to win seems to be way higher, they must to act very fast and be sure to shred every piece of evidence. Just look at the whole house of cards falling, Gonzales, Wolfovitz, Rove, Libby, etc.
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Although this is not a dupe, it practically is. Check this other story, New Way to Patch Defective Hardware, less than two months old. Basically, both approaches suck in the same way, they allow hardware manufacturers to be sloppy in order to rush the product out as fast as possible while allowing them to try to correct the errors that will appear later in the process. In short, they reinvented the FPGA.
Two non-stories. But makes one think, cui bono? Who is benefiting from these articles? Roland for sure, being such a click whore. But other than him, who else? Weird, very weird indeed.
First things first: why China? (The same question applies to Venezuela, Russia, Brazil or whatever is the target of the Slashdot "fifteen minutes of hate" of the day). Of course people should be concerned about what these countries do wrt losses of privacy and basic rights, but what about U.S. and E.U.? As we talk, they are working on a new agreement to share data from passengers on trans-Atlantic flights, a much more effective way to profile people, because it contains name, address, gender, destination, credit card number, everything, without needing to make any kind of assumption, everything is plain and clear. This is why I think that not only "in China", as the summary states, but in most countries in the world, this information can and will be used to tag people indiscriminetaly, subversive or not, terrorist or not, law abiding or not. So, take care of your own backyard before to point the poison ivy in your neighbor one.
Second, it is not like if Microsoft was the only one researching and developing on this field and, more than that, it is not like if Microsoft was not researching on this field, any government interested on this kind of technology would not research itself, or fund research on its public universities. So, throwing Microsoft name on the mix only reinforces my point, this submission is nothing but a flamebait, being the flame targets the usual suspects, proprietary software and communism.
Oh, yeah, very good thing. But for them, not for interoperability. It would be the death for access to Open Source and Open Formats all across the board of the federal government. If Microsoft can kill legislatures pro Open Formats using "only" lobbies, imagine how aggressively they would defend their own interests by having someone with capacity to directly influence TPTB.
Think about Cheney and Halliburton, but this time for I.T. instead of good ol' military contracts.
There is no such thing as "the perfect weapon", the "invulnerable shield" or, for all that matters, "invulnerable O.S.". If there is an Operational System that is secure enough to be resistant to hostile military attacks, it must certainly be kept 1) developed by the military itself 2) restricted for the general public, for the same reasons strong cryptography was back in the days. Who would be fool to let a tool like that potentially fall in the hands of the enemies (whatever side they are)?
Anyway, if there is any O.S. out there that cannot be compromised even by its own creator or by a determined enemy, we do not and will not know and, the most important thing, will not code.
I like Linux as much as every other guy here but, if you actually believe that Linux is flawless enough to endure a military funded search for flaws and vulnerabilities and come out immaculate, you must be out of touch with reality.
If "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", given enough eyeballs (and china has the most), money, military grade technology and bad intentions, every bugs is a potential weapon.
That's bullshit. You can't have it both ways, you know. GP was answering to a troll that said that this offer sucks because it comes with GNOME and not with KDE. If someone is savvy enough to be nitpick about distro, he is not the average user, so this remark about "Linux not being ready for prime-time" is bullshit. Even if was a completely newbie user wanting to install kubuntu over ubuntu, he could do it completely from the GUI using Synaptics. The "sudo apt-get" suggestion is only shorter and faster to explain than "click on Preferences->System->Synaptic, type your password and press OK in the screen that pops up, click on search on the screen that pops up, type kubuntu-desktop, click ok, mark the little square besides the kubuntu-desktop, click ok in the screen that pops up, click on apply, click OK in the screen that pops up". Nothing than an illustrated tutorial wouldn't solve, but saying "click on applications->accessories->terminal, type sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop (or copy and paste, your choice) in the screen that pops up, press enter, type your password and press enter, press Y and press enter" is simpler. And, in the long run, it can be abbreviated to "sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop", as the user get used to the whole thing.
Compare that to "click on Internet, enter on siteoftheapplication.tld, click on Download, click on app1.n.x, click on save to disk on the window that pops up, click OK, wait for the download to finish. Click on start menu, click on All Programs, click on My Computer, go to the folder where it downloaded, right click the app1.n.x.zip and click on extract here, enter the folder it created, double click setup.exe, click next, read what it says the screen says throughly and click "I agree" and next, click next, click next, click finish"
People like to bash the way software is installed with an one liner on the terminal on Linux because they probably never worked with clueless users remotely, over the phone. The first time you hear "what is Windows Explorer" or "how do I open the folder" you understand that everything you take for granted on Windows, like how to download things from internet, how to execute applications, how to open folders, is a complete mistery and totally not intuitive for the clueless user. Having synaptics, and in some extent, aptitude and apt-get, is a big improvement both for the experienced user and the completely new user. Only people that are used to the way Windows is and not willing to learn anything else may suffer a little bit, but I believe even the most clueless user can copy and paste a line of text on a screen and press enter.
So, to summarize, quit implying that installing software is harder on Ubuntu than on Windows, because that's bullshit. If the best case is compared for both, everything working as intended from the first time, Ubuntu is way superior to Windows.
Attributing quotes to Oscar Wilde is a ongoing meme on the Uncyclopedia. Most people were aware if not of Yogi Berra, at least that someone else than the original poster was the author, as that joke is widely known. If people were to give credits for every joke here, every soviet Russia would have to be attributed to Yakov Smirnoff, for instance.
After all the comments that Dell should sell Linux machines, and that they shouldn't charge more for them than the Linux one, it is time to put your money where your mouth is and start buying these beauties. I, for one, know that if they ever offer it here on good ol' Europe I'll be buying one as my replacement laptop. Not only buy them, but recommend them for people that are buying their first computers and never had contact with Windows. If they are going to give any serious use for the computer (that meaning, no mass marketed games), they will not miss anything on Windows. Peace.
Yeah, and that will be original. All over again
Walt Mossberg: Bill Gates, what about a shared interview with Steve Jobs?
Billg: Sharing a stage with Steve Jobs? That's the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft.
Just so you see that was a bargain for Google to acquire Doubleclick for that amount, and how much Microsoft was yearning for acquiring an advertising company, in order to better compete with Google on other fronts (instead of letting the real battle go to the "software as a service" front).
I have one thing to say for Microsoft selling 40 million vista licences in a week:
Holly crap!
SubtitleEditor. A screenshot. It is a little bit unstable, but works like a charm.
Do you want to know...._what_ _it_ is....? Google is everywhere. It's all around us, even in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to work, when you pay your taxes. Google is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth. A prison...for your mind....Unfortunately, no one can be..._told_ what Google is...you have to see it for yourself.
This is your _last chance_. After this, there is no turning back.....You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up and believe...whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill.....you stay in wonderland...and I show you just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
I have a truly marvellous proof of this proposition which this comment is too narrow to contain.
Well, if the penalty becomes life in prison, it is better to put an eye patch, sail to the high seas and become a real murderous pirate, as, according with the U.S. Code, Title 18, Chapter 81, the penalty for being a real pirate is life imprisonment, but the profits can be way higher.
Bill Gates killed a potential hobbyist movement pro-Microsoft on its very beginning, just look at his open letter to hobbyists. Apple and Linux, on other hand, since their foundation had a big appeal with the amateur/hobbyist audience. The first place Woz showed his first machine was a Homebrew Computer Club, and Linus posted his newborn kernel in a newsgroup, for public evaluation.
That's how you get cult followers, appeal to the hobbyists, coders, enthusiasts, people that understand what is going on behind the scene.
If posting a picture of nekkid women in Hong Kong can get you arrested, I don't wanna imagine what happens to whoever is brave enough to post a link to Goatse there. Oh, my eyes!
This is not what it means. It means one screen for two people at the same monitor. Lamest. Idea. Ever.
Hah, ok! It is a sign that you didn't ingested your morning mandatory caffeine levels when you make such silly mistakes like these :D Thanks.
With the election day coming, there is no doubt that a lot of retroactive immunities, pardons and whatnot will be signed just before Bush leaves. Were the Rep. sure that they would get the office again, they could do it furtively a la George Ford pardoning Nixon. But as the Dems, odds to win seems to be way higher, they must to act very fast and be sure to shred every piece of evidence. Just look at the whole house of cards falling, Gonzales, Wolfovitz, Rove, Libby, etc.