That is kind of what the article was alluding to. I don't it's that black and white, but automatically assuming unusual behavior could be terrorist related?
Don't get me wrong, I want to see all terrorist fry, both foreign and domestic.
This sounds like a throwback to the 50's and early 60's when "Communism" was the buzz word, and a conforming America was key to not being "outed" as a Commy.
Ah-ha, perhaps we can have a "sideboob" slashdot section. sideboob.slashdot.org.
Postings about various sideboob sightings. Don't they have a website like that? Oh yeah...tmz, E entertainment, etc etc.
Same old story. Show us the patents so the OSS community can rewrite a better version of the alleged infringed code, and knock off this FUD patent Bull Sht.
Sony really pisses me off, which is why I have been boycotting anything Sony
First it's all of their proprietary format bullshit
Then it was the rootkit quagmire a few months back
Now it's this.
If you don't buy any Sony products now, is it possible to buy any less?
I agree, me-too's aren't always bad. They foster competition and innovation. But everything shouldn't be a me too.
When a new technology shows up and M$ wants in, they quickly buy a startup that has already developed something similar, and rebrands it to M$.
That's not even a me-too, that's just laziness. Who did they buyout for this online office thing?
And putting Outlook online...that's called webmail. (I'll give them credit though...the calendar reminders look just like the desktop Outlook...that's cool)
***Disclaimer: I'm joking around with this, so don't freak out!***
It's all one big conspiracy with MS and hardware makers.
Most people were content with their PC from 3 years ago. 1.8Ghz single core, and 512Mb or 1Gb or Ram was plenty.
A normal video card that doesn't require it's own power substation.
The hardware makers were freaking out, so Microsoft stepped in to save the day.
They said, we'll make an Operating SYstem that is such a resource hog, you won't be able to even install it with less than 1G ram. And we'll recommonend multicore chips, and super high end video cards.
Honestly, that takes some stones *recommended* ram is 2Gb and a multicore processor just to run the BASE OS!!!!
Vista will probably get there. XP had the same problems. No/lacking drivers, lacking hardware support for older stuff, games and certain apps wouldn't run, etc.
I hate the fact that MS crammed Vista down our throats with all these media blitzes, and ripped XP out from under our feet.
I think Vista would have done better if it was an option rather than requirement for new PCs.
The openmoko is going to rule. I'm very excited about it. Conventional phone makers should fear it.
We already know it's geek friendly, I'm hoping it will be non-geek friendly, and I hope people understand the major significance that the phone is not locked into 1 vendor, and everything uses common open standards. The fact that it uses a plain old USB cable to connect to PC blows my mind. Usually they have some proprietary connection and the end of a USB cable that's different for every phone, and they charge you $80 for it.
It'll be sweet:)
Hell yeah! I couldn't agree more.
Not trying to start a distro flame, but that's why I love Gentoo. It's so easy to rip out stuff you don't need. I shouldn't even say rip out, it's more like build with out.
But it depends on how you look at it.
That statement he made is complete BS.
Google is successful because of the rise the popularity of the internet.
This can be attributed to cheaper access to broadband, and cheaper and faster PCs.
It just happens that most people accessing the internet use Windows. Ok I'll give them that.
But google owes more to opensource than anything else. With out Linux and Apache, and whole slew of other open source projects, there would be no google.
Sure they could have built their infrastructure on Microsoft products, but it would have cost a lot more money, and they may have never been able to get that little startup off the ground.
Wireless is great and all, but it's also a pain in the ass. If something isn't working it's harder to diagnose than a wired connection.
Plus, could you imagine mission critical servers relying on a wireless connection? Yeah right.
(quote me on that in 10 years, when the whole word is wireless, haha)
Does that mean uninstalling spyware/adware is theft?
Quick, how do I reinstall my adware?
Because I do love the convenince of getting pop-ups without even having to visit a web site. What a time saver.
This is pretty cool.
I was working with an engineer from IBM who had a Linux laptop setup by IBM for his work computer.
It used OOo, as well as a Linux version of Lotus notes. (I know many of you hate Notes, but like the Mainframe, it'll be around forever b/c my company runs many critical apps off of Lotus notes databases)
He also had working VPN (I think it was IBM's connectivity software), so he could connect back to his office LAN from my office.
I was very impressed. He said that many of the engineers were piloting the new Linux desktops/laptops.
I wasn't saying that the bandwidth thing is what killed them...I know that it was the countless other shady things they were doing like hiding debt in fake businesses and investments.
My comment wasn't too clear, but I was trying to say they were doing as one of their shady schemes, and abandoned it pretty quickly because it wasn't working.
If you ever watch the Documentry or read the book "The smartest guys in the room", you'll see that ENRON was trying to commoditize everything.
I think they wanted to try that with comsumer broad band, treating it like electricty.
Different rates for different times of day etc.
I could be wrong, I'm reciting this from memory
Anyway, my point is look at Enron now...
I remember the early days of real player. Back when you could legally download full southpark episodes from comedycentral.com in real media format at only 50MB each, it was great!
Not horrible quaility either back around 1999, and even for today's standards.
Then came the blinking try icon, ok I found where to disable that.
Then came registering, then the brutal automatic association of every media file to real player if you didn't carefully check your installer options.
The the annoyware tactics to upgrade to "Real Player Gold" so annoying.
Then came me not using realplayer anymore.
Sure, you can have all the data in my RAM, let me just power off the server and bring it to court.
I'll let you copy the memory to your thumb drive. HA!
Indeed...2 words for you. 1) Neo1978 2)OpenMoko
I think the first production run of the neo and openmoko is due out in October/November.
I'm getting ready...it's gonna be schweet!
Being forced to use Windows again is punishment enough.
Oh well, the dude's a hacker, can't he buy another crappy pc with Windows to run the gov't spyware, and just use another box to run Linux?
Hmm, probably violate the terms of the probation.
Not me man. I actively try to find items made in the US. I will gladly pay more for a US made item over some shitty quality Chinese made item.
Labor in China is so freaking cheap b/c it's practically slave labor. It's horrible.
I think alot of people will start thinking that way now that China has been exposed for their cheap product manufacturing. All those toys recalls should open some eyes, at least until the holiday season. Crap.
There are already heads up displays in some cars. Just another "Me Too" Microsoft Innovation that they probably bought from some startup.
I'm not putting out some flame bait, I'd think Linux powered fuzzy dice were lame too.
How about we develop better combustion technology, and better renewable resource technology, not more electronic crap to further distract the driver.
The virtual fuzzy dice idea is about as good as replacing the airbag on the steering wheel with a flat screen TV.
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That is kind of what the article was alluding to. I don't it's that black and white, but automatically assuming unusual behavior could be terrorist related? Don't get me wrong, I want to see all terrorist fry, both foreign and domestic.
This sounds like a throwback to the 50's and early 60's when "Communism" was the buzz word, and a conforming America was key to not being "outed" as a Commy.
Ah-ha, perhaps we can have a "sideboob" slashdot section. sideboob.slashdot.org.
Postings about various sideboob sightings. Don't they have a website like that? Oh yeah...tmz, E entertainment, etc etc.
If it's a Xerox patent from the 80's, doesn't that mean Microsoft is infringing on it as well? That would be hilarious if M$ ended up getting sued.
Same old story. Show us the patents so the OSS community can rewrite a better version of the alleged infringed code, and knock off this FUD patent Bull Sht.
Sony really pisses me off, which is why I have been boycotting anything Sony First it's all of their proprietary format bullshit Then it was the rootkit quagmire a few months back Now it's this. If you don't buy any Sony products now, is it possible to buy any less?
I agree, me-too's aren't always bad. They foster competition and innovation. But everything shouldn't be a me too. When a new technology shows up and M$ wants in, they quickly buy a startup that has already developed something similar, and rebrands it to M$. That's not even a me-too, that's just laziness. Who did they buyout for this online office thing? And putting Outlook online...that's called webmail. (I'll give them credit though...the calendar reminders look just like the desktop Outlook...that's cool)
***Disclaimer: I'm joking around with this, so don't freak out!*** It's all one big conspiracy with MS and hardware makers.
Most people were content with their PC from 3 years ago. 1.8Ghz single core, and 512Mb or 1Gb or Ram was plenty. A normal video card that doesn't require it's own power substation.
The hardware makers were freaking out, so Microsoft stepped in to save the day. They said, we'll make an Operating SYstem that is such a resource hog, you won't be able to even install it with less than 1G ram. And we'll recommonend multicore chips, and super high end video cards.
Honestly, that takes some stones *recommended* ram is 2Gb and a multicore processor just to run the BASE OS!!!! Vista will probably get there. XP had the same problems. No/lacking drivers, lacking hardware support for older stuff, games and certain apps wouldn't run, etc. I hate the fact that MS crammed Vista down our throats with all these media blitzes, and ripped XP out from under our feet. I think Vista would have done better if it was an option rather than requirement for new PCs.
The openmoko is going to rule. I'm very excited about it. Conventional phone makers should fear it. We already know it's geek friendly, I'm hoping it will be non-geek friendly, and I hope people understand the major significance that the phone is not locked into 1 vendor, and everything uses common open standards. The fact that it uses a plain old USB cable to connect to PC blows my mind. Usually they have some proprietary connection and the end of a USB cable that's different for every phone, and they charge you $80 for it. It'll be sweet:)
Hell yeah! I couldn't agree more. Not trying to start a distro flame, but that's why I love Gentoo. It's so easy to rip out stuff you don't need. I shouldn't even say rip out, it's more like build with out.
But it depends on how you look at it.
That statement he made is complete BS.
Google is successful because of the rise the popularity of the internet.
This can be attributed to cheaper access to broadband, and cheaper and faster PCs.
It just happens that most people accessing the internet use Windows. Ok I'll give them that.
But google owes more to opensource than anything else. With out Linux and Apache, and whole slew of other open source projects, there would be no google. Sure they could have built their infrastructure on Microsoft products, but it would have cost a lot more money, and they may have never been able to get that little startup off the ground.
Wireless is great and all, but it's also a pain in the ass. If something isn't working it's harder to diagnose than a wired connection. Plus, could you imagine mission critical servers relying on a wireless connection? Yeah right. (quote me on that in 10 years, when the whole word is wireless, haha)
Does that mean uninstalling spyware/adware is theft?
Quick, how do I reinstall my adware?
Because I do love the convenince of getting pop-ups without even having to visit a web site. What a time saver.
This is pretty cool.
I was working with an engineer from IBM who had a Linux laptop setup by IBM for his work computer. It used OOo, as well as a Linux version of Lotus notes. (I know many of you hate Notes, but like the Mainframe, it'll be around forever b/c my company runs many critical apps off of Lotus notes databases)
He also had working VPN (I think it was IBM's connectivity software), so he could connect back to his office LAN from my office.
I was very impressed. He said that many of the engineers were piloting the new Linux desktops/laptops.
I wasn't saying that the bandwidth thing is what killed them...I know that it was the countless other shady things they were doing like hiding debt in fake businesses and investments. My comment wasn't too clear, but I was trying to say they were doing as one of their shady schemes, and abandoned it pretty quickly because it wasn't working.
If you ever watch the Documentry or read the book "The smartest guys in the room", you'll see that ENRON was trying to commoditize everything.
I think they wanted to try that with comsumer broad band, treating it like electricty.
Different rates for different times of day etc.
I could be wrong, I'm reciting this from memory
Anyway, my point is look at Enron now...
I remember the early days of real player. Back when you could legally download full southpark episodes from comedycentral.com in real media format at only 50MB each, it was great!
Not horrible quaility either back around 1999, and even for today's standards. Then came the blinking try icon, ok I found where to disable that.
Then came registering, then the brutal automatic association of every media file to real player if you didn't carefully check your installer options.
The the annoyware tactics to upgrade to "Real Player Gold" so annoying.
Then came me not using realplayer anymore.
Can we use this to clobber telemarketers and phone scammers? That would be great.
That would be like a car company wanting to improve acceleration and efficiency in it's cars by testing them all on a downhill slope.
Sure, you can have all the data in my RAM, let me just power off the server and bring it to court.
I'll let you copy the memory to your thumb drive. HA!
Indeed...2 words for you. 1) Neo1978 2)OpenMoko
I think the first production run of the neo and openmoko is due out in October/November.
I'm getting ready...it's gonna be schweet!
Being forced to use Windows again is punishment enough.
Oh well, the dude's a hacker, can't he buy another crappy pc with Windows to run the gov't spyware, and just use another box to run Linux?
Hmm, probably violate the terms of the probation.
Not me man. I actively try to find items made in the US. I will gladly pay more for a US made item over some shitty quality Chinese made item. Labor in China is so freaking cheap b/c it's practically slave labor. It's horrible. I think alot of people will start thinking that way now that China has been exposed for their cheap product manufacturing. All those toys recalls should open some eyes, at least until the holiday season. Crap.
Hahaha, loved both those comments! Great stuff. HA!
There are already heads up displays in some cars. Just another "Me Too" Microsoft Innovation that they probably bought from some startup.
I'm not putting out some flame bait, I'd think Linux powered fuzzy dice were lame too.
How about we develop better combustion technology, and better renewable resource technology, not more electronic crap to further distract the driver.
The virtual fuzzy dice idea is about as good as replacing the airbag on the steering wheel with a flat screen TV.