Here in the South-East of England, we have a water shortage and the water companies have imposed a hose-pipe ban... so filling a pool is right out of the question!
Additionally, in the more rural parts, there are also plenty of people who can't get broadband... so I guess "Aero" won't work for them either!
No water, no broadband! I'm going back to Bradford:-)
I don't suppose it'll be licensed under the GPLv3 then?!
I guess DRM is not going to go away anytime soon, so it would be better that the implementation is open-sourced. However, a high-quality open-sourced DRM mechanism is less likely to have the "holes" which the Hymn project, for example, rely on...
Anyway, it's probably doomed anyway... can you see Apple or Microsoft using it?
Look, it's not funny anymore. No more April Fools jokes! OK!
The really unfunny thing is that this is _so_ obviously an April Fools joke, that's it's not even remotely funny. At least the "UK Government shutting down GSM" was a plausible story, but this...
Fantastic! Now I'm completely unconfused.... So, Steve Jobs is actually Stevey Wonder! I've always wondered. Now everything is clear. I will definately not be buying anymore Apple Walkmans!
I must admit, When I hear "All you Need is Love" on the Radio, I immediately think: "Wow that was a good record by Steve Jobs! Why he ditched music and went on to start a computer company is completely beyond me!" Then I realise that I'm confused again, and it wasn't Steve Jobs at all... it was Woz! Sheesh I'm an idiot!
Indeed. They may produce a really useful peice of software... but the question still remains: would you trust them? Personally, the answer for me is No. Trust has to be earned.... unfortunately, once someone's trust has been breached, they're unlikely to give the trespasser a second chance. I for one hope the new Claria all the best in their new venture, but I for one, will not be one of their customers.
Does this sad event mark the end of the Mandriva as a distribution? Or at least the start of the end? I used Mandrake once and found it to be OK, but since then,the heat has cirtainly been put on by distros such as Ubuntu and Linspire for ease and OpenSuSE and FC for power. We'll see.
1 )They all produce(d) products for Microsoft DOS/Windows and then found that Microsoft was competing against them.
2) They're all doomed.
Symantec better find another business strategy.... fast, because as soon as the big OEM stop putting Norton on PC's as standard, and just ship with the default Microsoft products, then Symantec is truely dead.
Of course the real nail-in-the-coffin will be when Microsoft starts to delay the release of known threats and exploits until they have a fix, patch or update for thier product(s). You may ask yourself if Microsoft would really use thier privileged position to screw the competition.... well, of course they wouldn't!!;-) Nor would they ever dream of charging people for critical operating system / application fixes.
Red wine not good for you! Beer not good for you! Watching porn good for you! Watching porn makes you blind! Watching porn doesn't make you blind! Cocaine is good for you! Cocaine is not good for you! Red wine IS good for you!
Not everyone is convinced by the idea, of course. Indeed most researchers think it is highly dubious. One scientist who posted a message on Louis's website described it as 'bullshit'.
The slashdot posting would almost have you believe that Aliens had actually landed. Sheesh!
More likely to be some kind of alien biological weapon. Obviously, the aliens have read HG Wells' War of the Worlds and are making sure we get wiped out first. Of course, it's the Chickens they should be after. H5N1 is much bigger threat to alien life forms than the common cold.
Seriously, it seems liek every week that I read a slashdot article which proclaims that the days of the virus-free Mac environment are numbered, and that Mac users will soon be the number 1 target of the malware writers. It seems that if you can use the words "Mac" and "virus" ** in the same article then you're bound to get it posted on some tech news-sh^Hite. Then give it two or three days and virtually the same article will pop-up on the BBC's website with even more inflated dire warnings.
Everyone knows that Macs "could" be susceptible to malware, so why do we keep on hearing the same doom story over-and-over again? Why not wait until there is a real threat?!
Well, we know why don't we?! It's because the anti-virus / anti-spyware vendors aren't getting their fair share of money from Mac users, and so they keep banging on with their FUD!
If you hadn't posted as AC, I'd have added you to my Friends list!
My suggestion for the original poster is (as others have said) PAY the $125-$400 for Eagle. We need more commercially supported software on linux (**), so help by supporting a company that makes products for linux!
Cheers!
-------- ** RMS wouldn't aggree with that, but I think Linus would!
I was looking for the post that mentioned that book... Because that my first thought. I've read the book... it's a good read.... well, no, it's typical Crichton crap... but I did enjoy it! Better than David Gibbins' Atlantis which I'm reading at the moment!
Back to robots. TFA seems a little confused with dimenions, and I know they're no-where near close (yet), but I really think that anyone planning to make self replicating nano-bot really should read Crichton's book....:-)
You're right about Oracle being under pressure.... but the pressure is not from MySQL, or Postgres, it's from M$ SQL.
Oracle sees M$ essentially giving away M$ SQL for education, development and non-commercial users. When starting on a new project, most people will start with the "easy" and "safe" option. That option is becoming M$ SQL. Oracle knows that once people have got used to one system, they're loathed to switch.
Note, that M$'s stratagy also hits at MySQL and Postgres: WHy bother to start with MySQL when M$'s SQL is "free" too?
You need to pop over to groklaw a bit mroe often! PJ has been doing a fab job keeping us all informed & amused. I must say, this Punch & Judy show is really getting juicy now. I can't wait 'til the court case starts properly.... then we'll really see who's been behind all this SCO crap. And to think I bought a copy of Caldera once. Doh. What a fuck-wit I am!
Thus the great cities that existed in the time of the Conquistadors had completely disappeared by the time the Mayflower settlers landed.
As it happens, I was brought up in the town (Harwich) where Christopher Jones, captian of the Mayflower lived, and from where, in 1620, the Mayflower set-sail before sailing to America (making a stop at Plymouth along the way).
Back to Unix...
The problem with Unix servers is that the big Unix vendors have spent so much time hyping Linux that they've forgotten their own Unix. AIX, HP/UX, Irix, they've died a death. It's almost got to the point where there's ol' Slowaris left.... Oh, and UnixWare of course:-)
I work for a small company just like the IBM ad., I am the IT department and my name's Dave. (Actually, my name's Tim, but I _am_ the IT department.)
Because we have several systems which are partly maintained by different 3rd parties, we currently run 4 Windows servers (1xNT4 and 3xW2K).
However, we _also_ have two Linux servers. One of them, is the main mail server and the other is the cvs repository.
I should think that the number of "small" Linux boxes is now pretty close to the number of "small" Windows boxes.... but I doubt whether they come into these stats.
Similarly, what about all the routers running Linux variants. Do they count? They're "servers" of a kind.
The scary thing is that people forget about slammer and blaster and the misery that having such a high percentage of Windows boxes (which all susceptible to the same vulnerabilities), can have within large organisations and across the internet as a whole. In nature mono-cultures like that would die-out very quicky.
Your are just soo right! The guy's not an idiot (common misconception), he's a very clever jounalist. Off course he speaks complete crap, everyone knows he speaks complete crap, but he keeps on doin' his stuff.
However, there is a tiny (tiny) little bit of truth in what he says.... sure at the moment, the Intel Macs can't boot directly into XP... but I'm pretty sure Microsoft will make sure Vista will boot smoothly. Just pop that little sucker DVD in there....
Apple _might_ even offer to sell you Windows pre-installed (doubt it personally), but they're not going to stop anyone buying a Mac just because they want to run Windows on it.
The question is: "Who in thier right mind would do such an insane thing?!" Well, I would. I'm a Mac fanboy and a Windows programmer. I'd lurv to make a nice shiny new Intel Mac on/under my desk rather than my stinky IBM! OK, it's not stinky, but it is noisy.... but then what do you (erm... I) expect it's a flippin' xSeries 206.... Anyhow, I'd much rather have a nice Mac there instead.... then when I'm a bit bored, I could just pop into MacOS X and make a nice little app for doing something and say, "Hey look, we support Macs now!"
Na.... I'm wrong. Dvorak just plain out of his skull again. Oh well.
Slashdot Mirror
Here in the South-East of England, we have a water shortage and the water companies have imposed a hose-pipe ban... so filling a pool is right out of the question!
:-)
Additionally, in the more rural parts, there are also plenty of people who can't get broadband... so I guess "Aero" won't work for them either!
No water, no broadband! I'm going back to Bradford
I've know of two:
VMS
RiscOS
Ah, yes, I didn't think of that. Look out for the "bug fixes" posed by DVD Jon!! :-))
I don't suppose it'll be licensed under the GPLv3 then?!
I guess DRM is not going to go away anytime soon, so it would be better that
the implementation is open-sourced. However, a high-quality open-sourced
DRM mechanism is less likely to have the "holes" which the Hymn project,
for example, rely on...
Anyway, it's probably doomed anyway... can you see Apple or Microsoft using it?
Erm, no.
Look, it's not funny anymore. No more April Fools jokes! OK!
The really unfunny thing is that this is _so_ obviously an April
Fools joke, that's it's not even remotely funny. At least the "UK
Government shutting down GSM" was a plausible story, but this...
Sheesh!
It's you... because as far as I know, it's not the 4th of January in the UK.
Fantastic! Now I'm completely unconfused....
So, Steve Jobs is actually Stevey Wonder!
I've always wondered.
Now everything is clear.
I will definately not be buying anymore Apple Walkmans!
I must admit, When I hear "All you Need is Love" on the Radio, I
immediately think: "Wow that was a good record by Steve Jobs! Why
he ditched music and went on to start a computer company is completely
beyond me!" Then I realise that I'm confused again, and it wasn't Steve
Jobs at all... it was Woz! Sheesh I'm an idiot!
Indeed. They may produce a really useful peice of software... but the question
still remains: would you trust them?
Personally, the answer for me is No.
Trust has to be earned.... unfortunately, once someone's trust has been breached, they're unlikely to give the trespasser a second chance.
I for one hope the new Claria all the best in their new venture, but I for one, will not be one of their customers.
Does this sad event mark the end of the Mandriva as a distribution? Or at least the start of the end? I used Mandrake once and found it to be OK, but since then ,the heat has cirtainly been put on by distros such as Ubuntu and Linspire for ease and OpenSuSE and FC for power. We'll see.
Q: Is is red or blue?
A: Simple answer.... YES.
YES?!
Is it a fake? Yes.
What do the following companies have in common:
;-) Nor would they ever dream of charging people for critical operating system / application fixes.
Borland, Corel, WordPerfect, Novell, Symantec ?
1 )They all produce(d) products for Microsoft DOS/Windows and then found that Microsoft
was competing against them.
2) They're all doomed.
Symantec better find another business strategy.... fast, because as soon as the big OEM stop putting Norton on PC's as standard, and just ship with the default Microsoft products, then Symantec is truely dead.
Of course the real nail-in-the-coffin will be when Microsoft starts to delay the release of known threats and exploits until they have a fix, patch or update for thier product(s). You may ask yourself if Microsoft would really use thier privileged position to screw the competition.... well, of course they wouldn't!!
Red wine not good for you!
Beer not good for you!
Watching porn good for you!
Watching porn makes you blind!
Watching porn doesn't make you blind!
Cocaine is good for you!
Cocaine is not good for you!
Red wine IS good for you!
Take your pick.
Mine's a strong black coffee.
I think the article is referring to the PC's that IBM people have on thier own desktops rather than the PC's IBM (doesn't!) sell.
My favourite quote from the article is
The slashdot posting would almost have you believe that Aliens had actually landed. Sheesh!
More likely to be some kind of alien biological weapon. Obviously, the aliens have
read HG Wells' War of the Worlds and are making sure we get wiped out first. Of course,
it's the Chickens they should be after. H5N1 is much bigger threat to alien life forms
than the common cold.
NASA doesn't know the difference between yards and meters. How are they expected to get something like this right? Sheesh! I wouldn't trust them to tile my bathroom!
..the definition of FUD?!
Seriously, it seems liek every week that I read a slashdot article which proclaims that the days of the virus-free Mac environment are numbered, and that Mac users will soon be the number 1 target of the malware writers. It seems that if you can use the words "Mac" and "virus" ** in the same article then you're bound to get it posted on some tech news-sh^Hite. Then give it two or three days and virtually the same article will pop-up on the BBC's website with even more inflated dire warnings.
Everyone knows that Macs "could" be susceptible to malware, so why do we keep on hearing the same doom story over-and-over again? Why not wait until there is a real threat?!
Well, we know why don't we?! It's because the anti-virus / anti-spyware vendors aren't getting their fair share of money from Mac users, and so they keep banging on with their FUD!
-----
** or Tojan, malware, spyware, etc...
:-)
If you hadn't posted as AC, I'd have added you to my Friends list!
My suggestion for the original poster is (as others have said) PAY the $125-$400 for Eagle. We need more commercially supported software on linux (**), so help by supporting a company that makes products for linux!
Cheers!
--------
** RMS wouldn't aggree with that, but I think Linus would!
I was looking for the post that mentioned that book... Because that my first thought. I've read the book... it's a good read.... well, no, it's typical Crichton crap... but I did enjoy it! Better than David Gibbins' Atlantis which I'm reading at the moment!
:-)
Back to robots. TFA seems a little confused with dimenions, and I know they're no-where near close (yet), but I really think that anyone planning to make self replicating nano-bot really should read Crichton's book....
You're right about Oracle being under pressure.... but the pressure is not
from MySQL, or Postgres, it's from M$ SQL.
Oracle sees M$ essentially giving away M$ SQL for education, development and non-commercial users. When starting on a new project, most people will start with the "easy" and "safe" option. That option is becoming M$ SQL. Oracle knows that once people have got used to one system, they're loathed to switch.
Note, that M$'s stratagy also hits at MySQL and Postgres: WHy bother to start with MySQL when M$'s SQL is "free" too?
You need to pop over to groklaw a bit mroe often! PJ has been doing a fab job keeping us all informed & amused. I must say, this Punch & Judy show is really getting juicy now. I can't wait 'til the court case starts properly.... then we'll really see who's been behind all this SCO crap. And to think I bought a copy of Caldera once. Doh. What a fuck-wit I am!
As it happens, I was brought up in the town (Harwich) where Christopher Jones, captian of the Mayflower lived, and from where, in 1620, the Mayflower set-sail before sailing to America (making a stop at Plymouth along the way).
Back to Unix...
The problem with Unix servers is that the big Unix vendors have spent so much time hyping Linux that they've forgotten their own Unix. AIX, HP/UX, Irix, they've died a death. It's almost got to the point where there's ol' Slowaris left.... Oh, and UnixWare of course :-)
You're (almost) right....
I work for a small company just like the IBM ad., I am the IT department and my name's Dave. (Actually, my name's Tim, but I _am_ the IT department.)
Because we have several systems which are partly maintained by different 3rd parties, we currently run 4 Windows servers (1xNT4 and 3xW2K).
However, we _also_ have two Linux servers. One of them, is the main mail server and the other is the cvs repository.
I should think that the number of "small" Linux boxes is now pretty close to the number of "small" Windows boxes.... but I doubt whether they come into these stats.
Similarly, what about all the routers running Linux variants. Do they count? They're "servers" of a kind.
The scary thing is that people forget about slammer and blaster and the misery that having such a high percentage of Windows boxes (which all susceptible to the same vulnerabilities), can have within large organisations and across the internet as a whole. In nature mono-cultures like that would die-out very quicky.
Your are just soo right! The guy's not an idiot (common misconception), he's a very clever jounalist. Off course he speaks complete crap, everyone knows he speaks complete crap, but he keeps on doin' his stuff.
However, there is a tiny (tiny) little bit of truth in what he says.... sure at the moment, the Intel Macs can't boot directly into XP... but I'm pretty sure Microsoft will make sure Vista will boot smoothly. Just pop that little sucker DVD in there....
Apple _might_ even offer to sell you Windows pre-installed (doubt it personally), but they're not going to stop anyone buying a Mac just because they want to run Windows on it.
The question is: "Who in thier right mind would do such an insane thing?!" Well, I would. I'm a Mac fanboy and a Windows programmer. I'd lurv to make a nice shiny new Intel Mac on/under my desk rather than my stinky IBM! OK, it's not stinky, but it is noisy.... but then what do you (erm... I) expect it's a flippin' xSeries 206.... Anyhow, I'd much rather have a nice Mac there instead.... then when I'm a bit bored, I could just pop into MacOS X and make a nice little app for doing something and say, "Hey look, we support Macs now!"
Na.... I'm wrong. Dvorak just plain out of his skull again. Oh well.