Even the most ubiquitous repair group - geek squad at best buy - has shown itself numerous times to not be worthy of trust. If you need it repaired, you need to learn to do it yourself. Otherwise you will get screwed worse than a high school girl at a car mechanic.
... and no, I'm not saying this because I want to see his collection. I'm saying this because there could be at least three different relevant definitions of porn here, and we need to know which one is being used:
Pornography as defined by a religious extremist
Pornography as defined by a conservative government
Pornography as defined by someone who uses the internet regularly
In a culture were women wear veils, pornography might include a woman wearing what would be acceptable at a public school in the USA. And as our government continues to march towards increasing conservatism, their definition of pornography might not be far from that either.
They claim the PS3 does everything, while they keep taking things away form it. They should give out PS3 units that can still play PS2 games, and booth OtherOS. While we're at it, they should give them to people (like me) who don't yet own a PS3. After all, we might not be inclined to trust Sony in the future, but they can try buying some consumer trust...
I don't know that there has been a time prior to this when Fox News acknowledged that the Associated Press had good ideas - or even existed. Now they are joining forces?
Of course, we all know what they really want out of this, and it doesn't come down to "the truth".
The entire operation that is now ICANN, all its basic briefs and functions, was once run by one man, Jon Postel. Now you can spin it any way you want, but even with the growth of the network since 1994, ICANN should consist of an office with perhaps 20-30 people to perform the same task today. That would be an efficient operation.
I think you hit the nail on the head there; ICANN is bloated and mismanaged. However I think one could also make an argument that not only is ICANN doing a lot of functions that it didn't do before, it is also doing almost none of the functions it did originally.
There was a time when if you had a complaint to level against a registrar, you could do it through ICANN. They had the power to strip a registrar of their right to sell domains. Now, ICANN is - as you point out - run by business goons who came from the registrars themselves. Hence you bring up your registrar complaint and ICANN turns a blind eye to it because they make more money by doing nothing.
However on the plus side, selling gTLDs is seriously letting the wolves into the henhouse. This is good because it will help to bring about the end of ICANN as people will rapidly lose faith in it and seek out an alternative. The key is finding a reasonable alternative that will handle legacy requests without being so epically short-sighted and profit-obsessed.
We should be willing to allow some title line flexibility in order to properly designate acronyms. You, me, and every salivating spammer with deep pockets all know that ICANN has been calling it gTLD for a long time now.
Say goodbye to your mailbox, and hello to higher prices for internet access (and all forms of internet business), once the gTLDs go up for sale to the general public.
Of course, if you know how to get in on the.viagra domain first, you could make some quick cash for yourself - though afterwards you'll need to use all of it to handle your new deluge of spam. And if you think you can handle it by "just blocking all mail from.viagra", you are sorely mistaken.
They made up their minds some time ago that they will sell gTLDs, and come hell or high water that is what they will do. All the reason and logic in the world won't stop this machine.
The best you can do is find what will replace this broken registry system, and invest in it. Of course, eventually the ICANN idiots will end up in charge of that, and break it, too.
Generally, it is the first thing that comes to mind when I hear "tech failure". And being as everything that was new and exciting the last time this site worked properly is now "vintage" I think that label applies here just fine as well.
Did not write in, because slashdot has never had anywhere near that many readers. And considering the current volume here, even one thousand might be stretching it. Sure its big news that Skype is being sold, but why would several orders of magnitude more people than the number who actually read and post here suddenly climb over each other to write this piece of news in to this particular site?
In other words, to quote the slashdot conservative hero who interrupted the state of the union address a couple years ago:
I rather doubt the processing volume was precisely
9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
As stated in the summary. While the mark of 9.57ZB implies that number, it does not inherently mean that exact number - especially in a situation like this where that precise of a measurement is pretty well impossible.
Allow me to introduce you to the elephant in the corner that is owned by IBM - OS/2 Warp. Remember that? You know, the 32bit GUI OS that ran windows applications faster and more securely than the version of windows that was available at the same time?
I think I just came across another ATM recently that was running a specialized version of Warp; so I guess we can't call it completely dead yet, even though IBM won't sell it for any amount of money.
I can't agree with you more on that one. At one point I had in my hardware ensemble at work a quad-cpu Alpha, each cpu at 667 MHz and 8gb ram total. That one box was faster than an entire rack of 2GHz Intel P4 systems. DEC was then sold to Compaq, who merged with HP. Which lead to the death of one of the greatest RISC chips the world has ever seen.
Well, if your opinions cloud your ability to perceive fact such that you don't know the difference between reality and troll, then I guess that statement may be accurate. Anyone who has actually managed both a Netware and a Windows Server would know better, though.
Abends come when you load a novell module on a server that is already running; they are most often caused by missing or incorrect prerequisites. They don't just come out of thin air.
A Windows server, on the other hand, like any other Windows box, will occasionally crash just out of the blue. No Windows server has ever been anywhere remotely close on its own to a Netware server in terms of reliability.
Next up, capability; Everything today is written for windows
That is irrelevant. The server software that is important to run on a server is available on systems other than Windows.
Sure, the base install is large for 2008, but it doesn't cause any issues so I'm not counting that as a "problem".
Actually it does, because it makes it more difficult to troubleshoot the base install if something is awry. Of course, Windows admins are used to rebooting and reinstalling their entire OS, so they don't see that as a big deal.
So the case for MS is pretty cut and dry
Sure; use MS if you enjoy crashing, have extra piles of money lying around that you don't know what else to do with, and don't need more than 4 nines of stability. On the plus side, it gets you the same unstable GUI for administration that you have on your workstations - which are also crashing regularly.
I'm still unsure why anyone would willingly subject themselves to novell.
I have yet to see a case made for why anyone would want to use Windows for their servers. And you certainly haven't made a case for it...
The value of eDirectory vs AD is debatable. However the advantages of Novell are clear regardless. Windows servers are bloated, overpriced, and underperforming with regards to reliability and capabilities. Netware servers would pull 5 or 6 nines routinely on their own, while you would need a server farm to pull even 4 or more nines with Windows server.
In other words, Netware was cheaper, more reliable, and required less hardware. On top of that, Netware had very few security flaws to tend to. On the other hand Windows ran poorly, was more expensive, and needed constant attention.
Sometimes, the company with the best product is not the company with the best business strategy. And we've seen before that when that happens, the company with the crappy product and the better business strategy almost always wins.
I think you missed the historical aspect here; I haven't been pursued by a collections agency in MN for about a decade or more now. I eventually got them off my ass by contacting the insurance company directly, and getting them to re-pay what they un-paid. At that point the bills were no longer overdue, and the collections agency got nothing from me directly.
The worst part though was that I had to deal with two of the three industries that make the MN axis of evil - in this case insurance companies and collections agencies (the third is private impound lots) - but at least I didn't end up having to declare bankruptcy, which would have been the only way I could have settled those several thousand dollars worth of medical bills.
Checking Columbia's website the first Mark C Taylor I find is chair of the Dept of Religion. It also says his PhD is in religion. I suspect he might not have much first-hand experience with scientific graduate programs, to know how cross-disciplinary they are. For that matter, the general push for NIH and NSF research funding has been for cross-disciplinary collaborative research.
Not to say that our system is perfect - it most certainly is not - I'm just not sure he's the right guy to evaluate it.
It was, however, a grocery store. You know, where people go to buy food, so they can eat. Most of the grocery stores that I frequent are open 24/7; I don't tend to look for a stores hours sign. And if the automatic door opens automatically for me, then I generally expect that the store is open.
My point is that these people didn't break into the store. In the case of most of those customers, there was no looting or even malicious activity. There were a few bad apples of course, but clearly quite a few people expected the store was open because the lights were on, the doors were open, and the cash registers were working.
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Even the most ubiquitous repair group - geek squad at best buy - has shown itself numerous times to not be worthy of trust. If you need it repaired, you need to learn to do it yourself. Otherwise you will get screwed worse than a high school girl at a car mechanic.
In a culture were women wear veils, pornography might include a woman wearing what would be acceptable at a public school in the USA. And as our government continues to march towards increasing conservatism, their definition of pornography might not be far from that either.
They claim the PS3 does everything, while they keep taking things away form it. They should give out PS3 units that can still play PS2 games, and booth OtherOS. While we're at it, they should give them to people (like me) who don't yet own a PS3. After all, we might not be inclined to trust Sony in the future, but they can try buying some consumer trust...
Applications are supposed to be for productive work on your computer. Facebook is neither productive nor work. Really, it is better called a game.
I don't know that there has been a time prior to this when Fox News acknowledged that the Associated Press had good ideas - or even existed. Now they are joining forces?
Of course, we all know what they really want out of this, and it doesn't come down to "the truth".
The entire operation that is now ICANN, all its basic briefs and functions, was once run by one man, Jon Postel. Now you can spin it any way you want, but even with the growth of the network since 1994, ICANN should consist of an office with perhaps 20-30 people to perform the same task today. That would be an efficient operation.
I think you hit the nail on the head there; ICANN is bloated and mismanaged. However I think one could also make an argument that not only is ICANN doing a lot of functions that it didn't do before, it is also doing almost none of the functions it did originally.
There was a time when if you had a complaint to level against a registrar, you could do it through ICANN. They had the power to strip a registrar of their right to sell domains. Now, ICANN is - as you point out - run by business goons who came from the registrars themselves. Hence you bring up your registrar complaint and ICANN turns a blind eye to it because they make more money by doing nothing.
However on the plus side, selling gTLDs is seriously letting the wolves into the henhouse. This is good because it will help to bring about the end of ICANN as people will rapidly lose faith in it and seek out an alternative. The key is finding a reasonable alternative that will handle legacy requests without being so epically short-sighted and profit-obsessed.
We should be willing to allow some title line flexibility in order to properly designate acronyms. You, me, and every salivating spammer with deep pockets all know that ICANN has been calling it gTLD for a long time now.
.viagra domain first, you could make some quick cash for yourself - though afterwards you'll need to use all of it to handle your new deluge of spam. And if you think you can handle it by "just blocking all mail from .viagra", you are sorely mistaken.
Say goodbye to your mailbox, and hello to higher prices for internet access (and all forms of internet business), once the gTLDs go up for sale to the general public.
Of course, if you know how to get in on the
They made up their minds some time ago that they will sell gTLDs, and come hell or high water that is what they will do. All the reason and logic in the world won't stop this machine.
The best you can do is find what will replace this broken registry system, and invest in it. Of course, eventually the ICANN idiots will end up in charge of that, and break it, too.
Generally, it is the first thing that comes to mind when I hear "tech failure". And being as everything that was new and exciting the last time this site worked properly is now "vintage" I think that label applies here just fine as well.
one trillion readers
Did not write in, because slashdot has never had anywhere near that many readers. And considering the current volume here, even one thousand might be stretching it. Sure its big news that Skype is being sold, but why would several orders of magnitude more people than the number who actually read and post here suddenly climb over each other to write this piece of news in to this particular site?
In other words, to quote the slashdot conservative hero who interrupted the state of the union address a couple years ago:
YOU LIE
9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
As stated in the summary. While the mark of 9.57ZB implies that number, it does not inherently mean that exact number - especially in a situation like this where that precise of a measurement is pretty well impossible.
I'm interested to know where the floor plans came from. Real or made up?
They look similar to the wikipedia entry for the same - at least the stuff shown in those screen shots.
I don't think it's a very good hideout if that many people have visited it...
Mr. President, they'd like their Peace Prize back. Now.
Allow me to introduce you to the elephant in the corner that is owned by IBM - OS/2 Warp. Remember that? You know, the 32bit GUI OS that ran windows applications faster and more securely than the version of windows that was available at the same time?
I think I just came across another ATM recently that was running a specialized version of Warp; so I guess we can't call it completely dead yet, even though IBM won't sell it for any amount of money.
I can't agree with you more on that one. At one point I had in my hardware ensemble at work a quad-cpu Alpha, each cpu at 667 MHz and 8gb ram total. That one box was faster than an entire rack of 2GHz Intel P4 systems. DEC was then sold to Compaq, who merged with HP. Which lead to the death of one of the greatest RISC chips the world has ever seen.
Well, if your opinions cloud your ability to perceive fact such that you don't know the difference between reality and troll, then I guess that statement may be accurate. Anyone who has actually managed both a Netware and a Windows Server would know better, though.
A Windows server, on the other hand, like any other Windows box, will occasionally crash just out of the blue. No Windows server has ever been anywhere remotely close on its own to a Netware server in terms of reliability.
Next up, capability; Everything today is written for windows
That is irrelevant. The server software that is important to run on a server is available on systems other than Windows.
Sure, the base install is large for 2008, but it doesn't cause any issues so I'm not counting that as a "problem".
Actually it does, because it makes it more difficult to troubleshoot the base install if something is awry. Of course, Windows admins are used to rebooting and reinstalling their entire OS, so they don't see that as a big deal.
So the case for MS is pretty cut and dry
Sure; use MS if you enjoy crashing, have extra piles of money lying around that you don't know what else to do with, and don't need more than 4 nines of stability. On the plus side, it gets you the same unstable GUI for administration that you have on your workstations - which are also crashing regularly.
I'm still unsure why anyone would willingly subject themselves to novell.
I have yet to see a case made for why anyone would want to use Windows for their servers. And you certainly haven't made a case for it...
The value of eDirectory vs AD is debatable. However the advantages of Novell are clear regardless. Windows servers are bloated, overpriced, and underperforming with regards to reliability and capabilities. Netware servers would pull 5 or 6 nines routinely on their own, while you would need a server farm to pull even 4 or more nines with Windows server.
In other words, Netware was cheaper, more reliable, and required less hardware. On top of that, Netware had very few security flaws to tend to. On the other hand Windows ran poorly, was more expensive, and needed constant attention.
Sometimes, the company with the best product is not the company with the best business strategy. And we've seen before that when that happens, the company with the crappy product and the better business strategy almost always wins.
sponsored by the NASA
Makes it sound as though purchasing NASA is part of the grand publicity tour of The Donald.
I think you missed the historical aspect here; I haven't been pursued by a collections agency in MN for about a decade or more now. I eventually got them off my ass by contacting the insurance company directly, and getting them to re-pay what they un-paid. At that point the bills were no longer overdue, and the collections agency got nothing from me directly.
The worst part though was that I had to deal with two of the three industries that make the MN axis of evil - in this case insurance companies and collections agencies (the third is private impound lots) - but at least I didn't end up having to declare bankruptcy, which would have been the only way I could have settled those several thousand dollars worth of medical bills.
Checking Columbia's website the first Mark C Taylor I find is chair of the Dept of Religion. It also says his PhD is in religion. I suspect he might not have much first-hand experience with scientific graduate programs, to know how cross-disciplinary they are. For that matter, the general push for NIH and NSF research funding has been for cross-disciplinary collaborative research.
Not to say that our system is perfect - it most certainly is not - I'm just not sure he's the right guy to evaluate it.
The store was supposed to be CLOSED.
It was, however, a grocery store. You know, where people go to buy food, so they can eat. Most of the grocery stores that I frequent are open 24/7; I don't tend to look for a stores hours sign. And if the automatic door opens automatically for me, then I generally expect that the store is open.
My point is that these people didn't break into the store. In the case of most of those customers, there was no looting or even malicious activity. There were a few bad apples of course, but clearly quite a few people expected the store was open because the lights were on, the doors were open, and the cash registers were working.
In other news, Slashdot readers more liberal than not.
I can understand why one would not want their own name - or even a slashdot alias - associated with such a massive act of non sequitur.