It's ridiculous to say that linux is made for servers and should be forked for desktops. The person cites Windows as an example for crying out loud! I guess Linux is supposed to be forked so that you have the stable, fast fork under the tutelage of Linus, and a slow, buggy, error-and-virus prone fork for the desktop.
But the scheduler could possibly be made better for desktops by the individual distributions giving the UI processes and audio/video processes a higher priority.
I personally think the NSA's had a quantum computer for a couple of years. All the theoretical groundwork was laid a long time ago, it was mostly an engineering problem and developing entangling techniques, etc. These are all things that a group of people with a massive, massive budget could overcome.
Blaming Putin's returning Russia to old-school Imperialism on Bush distracts from the real issues facing Russia. You could blame Putin's crackdown on the media and the murders of journalists and other opponents on Bush too if you wanted, but it'd be just as short sighted. There are many things to attack Bush for, but the decline of Russia isn't one of them.
You're also forgetting the different format of the result. In reality, if I've ever confused the two, it was several years ago. I find this suit ridiculous.
If Sony could choose between PS2 and PS3 sales right now, they'd take the PS3 sales in a heartbeat. Right now they've got the ever-elusive, vapor-like position of being the console with the least number of sales so far but the most supposed "potential." The PS2 will be dominant for maybe another year, and if the PS3 hasn't done better by then, you could see Sony in some serious pains.
What are you talking about? Slashdot editors, especially kdawson or zonk, would never, ever misquote an article and give it a sensational title when it's not warranted. If they started doing that, they'd lose mindshare to digg.
You forget that Google will probably still have cracks, whether on purpose or not, that information gets through. A filtered internet and search service is better than none at all.
activex isn't the issue, most web 2.0 avoids activex like it's the plague. As for whether security companies will block it, that's purely theoretical at this point and doesn't even look likely from where I'm standing.
With all due respect, your post is very indicative of why a manage should override the IT department. Your post says that these management types are like apple people and then go on to say how that's bad. Unfortunately, companies and management are focused on making money, and right now apple's making it hand over fist by being hip, trendy and incorporating usability and just the right amount of flash and bang, things which require at least some javascript to pull off on a website.
It can provide feedback as the user types, it can embed an IM window in the page, and it can update the mail while the user's still reading it so that they don't miss a reply that would invalidate theirs. None of those things can be done completely with a server side language. The complete disregard of a technology is as bad as its overuse.
If I read it correctly, the project that management had to override the IT department for was successful. Maybe the IT department foolishly thought that they knew what would hurt the business better than management.
I can't disagree more. End users are the only ones that know what's good for them. As a business, the goal is to give the customer what the customer will buy, and if that means web 2.0, then do web 2.0. If users flock to it, then it must be filling a need. Web 2.0 has some security issues and it's not optimal, but for a lot of applications that either doesn't matter or a good IT group could work around it anyway.
Let's not forget the environmental factor of using less electricity. More electricity means more carbon, and even if it doesn't matter to your company, it matters to other companies that your company will deal with.
I read up on it, but I didn't see the downsides of this technique being discussed. What's the drawback of using this technique as opposed to an actual earth-sized telescope?
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Or does he only rail against games that will become best sellers?
It's ridiculous to say that linux is made for servers and should be forked for desktops. The person cites Windows as an example for crying out loud! I guess Linux is supposed to be forked so that you have the stable, fast fork under the tutelage of Linus, and a slow, buggy, error-and-virus prone fork for the desktop.
But the scheduler could possibly be made better for desktops by the individual distributions giving the UI processes and audio/video processes a higher priority.
You're right, the 13 cents he makes per cd should totally be given back. Power to the people!
So it'll be "I am a lawyer but this is not legal advice"?
I personally think the NSA's had a quantum computer for a couple of years. All the theoretical groundwork was laid a long time ago, it was mostly an engineering problem and developing entangling techniques, etc. These are all things that a group of people with a massive, massive budget could overcome.
I hope that's what it's hinting at, because the alternatives really suck.
Wasn't it a demonstration of airplanes destroying a battleship that convinced the US to invest in an air force in the first place?
Shh! He's an intellectual who's blaming the world's ills on superpowers; quit trying to distract him with facts!
Blaming Putin's returning Russia to old-school Imperialism on Bush distracts from the real issues facing Russia. You could blame Putin's crackdown on the media and the murders of journalists and other opponents on Bush too if you wanted, but it'd be just as short sighted. There are many things to attack Bush for, but the decline of Russia isn't one of them.
Novell didn't pay as much in advertising this month is all.
The complaint I've heard about RHEL is that it doesn't send out security updates fast enough, sometimes taking weeks to distribute critical fixes.
It sounds to me like they're not storing small magnets, but small areas of magnetism on the wire (sorry, that made sense in my mind).
In other words, different parts of the wire are positive and others are negative, and they can get those polarities to move along the wire.
I'm predicting the zapper will work with virtual console titles that used the light gun.
You're also forgetting the different format of the result. In reality, if I've ever confused the two, it was several years ago. I find this suit ridiculous.
If Sony could choose between PS2 and PS3 sales right now, they'd take the PS3 sales in a heartbeat. Right now they've got the ever-elusive, vapor-like position of being the console with the least number of sales so far but the most supposed "potential." The PS2 will be dominant for maybe another year, and if the PS3 hasn't done better by then, you could see Sony in some serious pains.
In other words, I disagree.
What are you talking about? Slashdot editors, especially kdawson or zonk, would never, ever misquote an article and give it a sensational title when it's not warranted. If they started doing that, they'd lose mindshare to digg.
You forget that Google will probably still have cracks, whether on purpose or not, that information gets through. A filtered internet and search service is better than none at all.
activex isn't the issue, most web 2.0 avoids activex like it's the plague. As for whether security companies will block it, that's purely theoretical at this point and doesn't even look likely from where I'm standing.
With all due respect, your post is very indicative of why a manage should override the IT department. Your post says that these management types are like apple people and then go on to say how that's bad. Unfortunately, companies and management are focused on making money, and right now apple's making it hand over fist by being hip, trendy and incorporating usability and just the right amount of flash and bang, things which require at least some javascript to pull off on a website.
It can provide feedback as the user types, it can embed an IM window in the page, and it can update the mail while the user's still reading it so that they don't miss a reply that would invalidate theirs. None of those things can be done completely with a server side language. The complete disregard of a technology is as bad as its overuse.
If I read it correctly, the project that management had to override the IT department for was successful. Maybe the IT department foolishly thought that they knew what would hurt the business better than management.
I can't disagree more. End users are the only ones that know what's good for them. As a business, the goal is to give the customer what the customer will buy, and if that means web 2.0, then do web 2.0. If users flock to it, then it must be filling a need. Web 2.0 has some security issues and it's not optimal, but for a lot of applications that either doesn't matter or a good IT group could work around it anyway.
Let's not forget the environmental factor of using less electricity. More electricity means more carbon, and even if it doesn't matter to your company, it matters to other companies that your company will deal with.
I read up on it, but I didn't see the downsides of this technique being discussed. What's the drawback of using this technique as opposed to an actual earth-sized telescope?