Read the article! It's all right there. "Cyber cafes" here are nothing more than unregulated casinos. They answer to no one, have no obligation to any sort of transparency. There places are scum that hide behind an innocent name and try to pass off taking money as charitable donations. Actual cyber cafes are unaffected.
This! There are no good datapoints in the article, the basic premise isn't backed up, and for Gawd's sake, it's a single blog post about a single Fremium site that didn't work. There's no study, no data, and certainly it's impossible to draw a conclusion about a whole industry based on one developer's experience!
No, the same Friday night Best Buy Canada started liquidating Touchpads, HP Shopping also lowered the price to $99. That same night HP announced the Firesale and the way they would handle it with their partners.
On Saturday night Best Buy finally decided to liquidate Touchpads, and sold out their store stock on Sunday.
Service and Tape Drives and Libraries. IBM and Sun combined means that IBM would make all the Enterprise class Tape drives and libraries. StorageTek (acquired a couple years ago) had the Enterprise market for Tapes and Libraries. In addition, this probably fits pretty well with IBM's service market, which also posts some huge numbers.
Storage is one of those areas that still has some stupid-huge margins, and IBM gets Sun's share at a firesale discount. IBM's disk + Suns tape = viable competition to EMC.
Think about it, it microtargets the biggest weakspot of the Corporate Exec... vanity. If you work for one of these companies expect to see Unisys gear soon.
Now this is a comment I agree with. A 600GB tape drive for $2000 is nothing to laugh at(unless you market it to store uncompressed HDTV for the home market). It sure doesn't make much sense to use it for home video, but I could really use it to back up my home network! I can't think of the last time I've completely backed up the network of computers sitting at home. I mean a few files here and there are saved to CDR, but in the event of a major disk crash I still have to reinstall a ton of software to get the particular box up and running. Check out the prices your average Quantum DLT, IBM Magstar, or 9840 go for before you laugh off the possibilities of D-VHS.
The fact is that guns kill people efficiently. Knives kill people, blunt objects kill people, guns are just more efficient.
But here is the deal, it is not the tool it is the society. Until we have a society that rasies all people to value all forms of human life, these incidents are going to keep repeating themselves. Happy Holidays and a merry Children Get Gifts Day!!!
That analogy works for me. It isn't against the law to look at windows, determine their type and make estimates of their security. It enables you to do things like say, "Wow those are gee-golly neat windows I should get some of those for my house." or "What an idiot, I can't believe that house only is using the XJy9 style of windows, my 10 year old could break into their house and rob them blind."
None of this is a crime! And a homeowner that watches someone scanning their windows can't sue for damages because they suddenly realize that the security of their windows stinks either. All this ruling does is apply some real world sense to a computer security case.
Now the earlier post about walking around inside your apartment and looking at all the cool stuff is a false analogy in my eyes. To me that is the equivalent of breaking into a system(or being invited in depending on circumstances) and scanning the filesystem.
Slashdot probably has a larger proportion of people who stress out their systems enough that a second processor makes sense. A second processor really makes sense when you consider a Linux user that is running a virtual windows environment with VMware or plex86, on compile machines, and on our home rendering farms.
Do you really believe this? Not only Communism, but society itself could not exist if your statement was correct. At some level, humans have to place their trust in each other. Without trust there is absolute anarchy. A society could not maintain the rule of law if its citizens were completely unwilling to put their trust in the goverment. You may be a cynic and say that society is inheriently corrumpt, but you place your trust in society everyday. The world you describe is as unrealistic as a utopian society. Reality lies somewhere inbetween.
No, the Linux mention is from the original article on Insane Hardware. Actually, the Slashdot article is pretty much just the Extreme article cut and pasted. (Thats why the html link is bad.)
God I feel cynical about posting this but I did just watch two puppets run though the motions of a debate and now I'm feeling a bit angry. It isn't about congress believing the tech industry, its about the wholesale purchase of our representitives. They aren't listening to us on this issue, they are following the money.
The IT industry is paying both parties enough that it gets what it wants. If they want cheap workers on H1-B's they will get them. Its not about filling America's labour demand. If that were true we wouldn't be giving out temporary visas, we'd be giving out green cards. So don't have any illusions here, cheap workers provide the IT industry with money. Money buys votes.
Exactly, this is a good time to repeat the mantra, "Linux is not Redhat." I mean seriously, it might be inconvient for people who run Linux on Sparc, but it will not be a deathblow. As long as there is a userbase development of Linux will continue. These days you can probably find a version of Linux for your toaster, I really hope we don't have to worry about an established port of Linux.
Umm, no actually. Lets see I installed a new Video Driver for my old voodoo, that was a reboot. I installed Service Pack 1, that required a reboot. Windows 2000 still requires reboots. But then again, does the minute it takes to reboot a system really hurt that much?
Whoops, gotta reboot. Time to grab another beer. Maybe you shouldn't take that bit of advice though, could leave you as a raging alcoholic if you were to say do an install of Windows 95/98/ME.
No in fact they do not have the right to control the product they control. Especially if it is sent out through the USPS or distributed to anyone who walks into radio shack. The only way a comapany gets to control the hardware they control is through the use of binding legal documents. DC requires nothing like this.
In fact, Digital Convergence has now distributed their product in a way that violates the postal code too. What does it mean? Well according to the Post Office if I recieve on of these things without the free gift notice on it I am granted the right to use the hardware, or dispose of it as I see fit. Now there are some really good reasons for this. Imagine a comapny sending out products to individuals and then demanding payment even if the person who recieves the product did not order it. This happens and its called mail fraud. Digital Convergence isn't asking for money, but instead they are demanding that you use this product, which they sent out to you, in a certain way even though you didn't solicit it. This is one reason why this situation reeks.
I will not roll over while Digital Convergence attempts to strip me of yet another right. I have felt my rights as a consumer get battered every day. You know, it isn't even necessarily malicious either. I'm sure Digital Convergence is just trying like hell to cover their bottom line.
Okay, this is all a little out of control here. Does anyone actually read the articles? I followed both links then went and read the comments people have posted. I would have sworn that everyone else had read a couple of different stories. The comments people have given these two articles make it seem as though RMS and the KDE teams were flaming each other relentlessly. Instead the articles are very mild, and for the most part just restating facts
What is my take on the situation? I think it is spawned by a few posters who have never heard legal jargon. The term 'Forgive' is not used in a moralistic sense, but in a specific legal sense.
Get over it, RMS gave a nice little article which actually seemed to cheer on KDE for going GPL compatible. He listed a few minor issues that needed to be touched up on and went so far as to note that he, as the copyright holder for FSF code, was taking the first step in clearing the last of the hurdles of making KDE completely GPL compatible.
SO where exactly is the problem, is it that Richard Stallman cheers for Gnome? What the heck would you expect? Enough flames okay? The holy war is over, it was a tie.
First of all, I've got to say that Cowboy Beebop is right up there with my favorite Anime titles. It has humor, great animation, and a pretty decent story but most of all it has the best OST of any series i can think of right now! *grin* I can feel the flames that that might draw. But I am very serious, Bebop really has some energy and that is something that a few other titles could really pick up on(I'll mention no names!) There just aren't enough series with Jazz or Bebop in the soundtrack.
Now for the rant!
I love seeing Anime on Slashdot. Hell, anime stories are a breath of fresh air compared to the usual YRO and Katz submissions. But I'm ready to say pull the plug on it for the simple reason that 80% of the posts are offtopic rantings about how Slashdot should be all hardcore tech articles. The subject is a damn troll magnet. What the hell is wrong with people! I mean it's pretty sick that we have all this bullshit about free expression and being able to express ourselves, but as soon as Anime comes up the flames and trolls start to overwelm the comments. Its about time people starting using their heads, if you don't like the topic, don't post to it, and don't read it. Boycott the Anime topic. That speaks a hell of alot more than any "How is this News for Nerds?" or "Slashdot is turning into crap" posting from an Anonymous Coward does.
Here are the basics, from the way I understand them. The company flatplanet.com is offering a 80 USD software packagew that allows a user to spam the Gnuetella network. For you eighty buck, you not only get the software, but a upgrade path for each time Gnuetella figures out a way to filter the software.
Isn't progress great, its spammers like this that kill off things like Usenet and now Gnuetella. Mark my words, this program will do more damage to Gnutella than the RIAA could ever hope to.
Slashdot Mirror
Am I missing something? This looks like a high-tech tent with no cooking, cleaning, or living space.
Read the article! It's all right there. "Cyber cafes" here are nothing more than unregulated casinos. They answer to no one, have no obligation to any sort of transparency. There places are scum that hide behind an innocent name and try to pass off taking money as charitable donations. Actual cyber cafes are unaffected.
Just go with Server 2003 with PAE support. Same base as XP really with PAE support built in.
This! There are no good datapoints in the article, the basic premise isn't backed up, and for Gawd's sake, it's a single blog post about a single Fremium site that didn't work. There's no study, no data, and certainly it's impossible to draw a conclusion about a whole industry based on one developer's experience!
No, the same Friday night Best Buy Canada started liquidating Touchpads, HP Shopping also lowered the price to $99. That same night HP announced the Firesale and the way they would handle it with their partners. On Saturday night Best Buy finally decided to liquidate Touchpads, and sold out their store stock on Sunday.
It's about time that the nGage finally took off! Sidetalkin' forever yo!
Sarcasm? Palm\HP's have had inductive charging just like this since the Pre surfaced two years ago, powermats have been out for almost as long.
No, $25 total. 300 minutes, unlimited text/data.
Service and Tape Drives and Libraries. IBM and Sun combined means that IBM would make all the Enterprise class Tape drives and libraries. StorageTek (acquired a couple years ago) had the Enterprise market for Tapes and Libraries. In addition, this probably fits pretty well with IBM's service market, which also posts some huge numbers. Storage is one of those areas that still has some stupid-huge margins, and IBM gets Sun's share at a firesale discount. IBM's disk + Suns tape = viable competition to EMC.
Think about it, it microtargets the biggest weakspot of the Corporate Exec... vanity. If you work for one of these companies expect to see Unisys gear soon.
Do some research into the particular region-free DVD though! Last I heard, Apex was cutting out the region-free features on the 601A.
Now this is a comment I agree with. A 600GB tape drive for $2000 is nothing to laugh at(unless you market it to store uncompressed HDTV for the home market). It sure doesn't make much sense to use it for home video, but I could really use it to back up my home network! I can't think of the last time I've completely backed up the network of computers sitting at home. I mean a few files here and there are saved to CDR, but in the event of a major disk crash I still have to reinstall a ton of software to get the particular box up and running. Check out the prices your average Quantum DLT, IBM Magstar, or 9840 go for before you laugh off the possibilities of D-VHS.
The fact is that guns kill people efficiently. Knives kill people, blunt objects kill people, guns are just more efficient.
But here is the deal, it is not the tool it is the society. Until we have a society that rasies all people to value all forms of human life, these incidents are going to keep repeating themselves. Happy Holidays and a merry Children Get Gifts Day!!!
That analogy works for me. It isn't against the law to look at windows, determine their type and make estimates of their security. It enables you to do things like say, "Wow those are gee-golly neat windows I should get some of those for my house." or "What an idiot, I can't believe that house only is using the XJy9 style of windows, my 10 year old could break into their house and rob them blind."
None of this is a crime! And a homeowner that watches someone scanning their windows can't sue for damages because they suddenly realize that the security of their windows stinks either. All this ruling does is apply some real world sense to a computer security case.
Now the earlier post about walking around inside your apartment and looking at all the cool stuff is a false analogy in my eyes. To me that is the equivalent of breaking into a system(or being invited in depending on circumstances) and scanning the filesystem.
Slashdot probably has a larger proportion of people who stress out their systems enough that a second processor makes sense. A second processor really makes sense when you consider a Linux user that is running a virtual windows environment with VMware or plex86, on compile machines, and on our home rendering farms.
Do you really believe this? Not only Communism, but society itself could not exist if your statement was correct. At some level, humans have to place their trust in each other. Without trust there is absolute anarchy. A society could not maintain the rule of law if its citizens were completely unwilling to put their trust in the goverment. You may be a cynic and say that society is inheriently corrumpt, but you place your trust in society everyday. The world you describe is as unrealistic as a utopian society. Reality lies somewhere inbetween.
No, the Linux mention is from the original article on Insane Hardware. Actually, the Slashdot article is pretty much just the Extreme article cut and pasted. (Thats why the html link is bad.)
God I feel cynical about posting this but I did just watch two puppets run though the motions of a debate and now I'm feeling a bit angry. It isn't about congress believing the tech industry, its about the wholesale purchase of our representitives. They aren't listening to us on this issue, they are following the money.
The IT industry is paying both parties enough that it gets what it wants. If they want cheap workers on H1-B's they will get them. Its not about filling America's labour demand. If that were true we wouldn't be giving out temporary visas, we'd be giving out green cards. So don't have any illusions here, cheap workers provide the IT industry with money. Money buys votes.
Exactly, this is a good time to repeat the mantra, "Linux is not Redhat." I mean seriously, it might be inconvient for people who run Linux on Sparc, but it will not be a deathblow. As long as there is a userbase development of Linux will continue. These days you can probably find a version of Linux for your toaster, I really hope we don't have to worry about an established port of Linux.
Umm, no actually. Lets see I installed a new Video Driver for my old voodoo, that was a reboot. I installed Service Pack 1, that required a reboot. Windows 2000 still requires reboots. But then again, does the minute it takes to reboot a system really hurt that much?
Whoops, gotta reboot. Time to grab another beer. Maybe you shouldn't take that bit of advice though, could leave you as a raging alcoholic if you were to say do an install of Windows 95/98/ME.
No in fact they do not have the right to control the product they control. Especially if it is sent out through the USPS or distributed to anyone who walks into radio shack. The only way a comapany gets to control the hardware they control is through the use of binding legal documents. DC requires nothing like this.
In fact, Digital Convergence has now distributed their product in a way that violates the postal code too. What does it mean? Well according to the Post Office if I recieve on of these things without the free gift notice on it I am granted the right to use the hardware, or dispose of it as I see fit. Now there are some really good reasons for this. Imagine a comapny sending out products to individuals and then demanding payment even if the person who recieves the product did not order it. This happens and its called mail fraud. Digital Convergence isn't asking for money, but instead they are demanding that you use this product, which they sent out to you, in a certain way even though you didn't solicit it. This is one reason why this situation reeks.
I will not roll over while Digital Convergence attempts to strip me of yet another right. I have felt my rights as a consumer get battered every day. You know, it isn't even necessarily malicious either. I'm sure Digital Convergence is just trying like hell to cover their bottom line.
Thanks, I really didn't mean any harm. It popped into my head so I had to post it. No hostility intended.
Okay, this is all a little out of control here. Does anyone actually read the articles? I followed both links then went and read the comments people have posted. I would have sworn that everyone else had read a couple of different stories. The comments people have given these two articles make it seem as though RMS and the KDE teams were flaming each other relentlessly. Instead the articles are very mild, and for the most part just restating facts
What is my take on the situation? I think it is spawned by a few posters who have never heard legal jargon. The term 'Forgive' is not used in a moralistic sense, but in a specific legal sense.
Get over it, RMS gave a nice little article which actually seemed to cheer on KDE for going GPL compatible. He listed a few minor issues that needed to be touched up on and went so far as to note that he, as the copyright holder for FSF code, was taking the first step in clearing the last of the hurdles of making KDE completely GPL compatible.
SO where exactly is the problem, is it that Richard Stallman cheers for Gnome? What the heck would you expect? Enough flames okay? The holy war is over, it was a tie.
First of all, I've got to say that Cowboy Beebop is right up there with my favorite Anime titles. It has humor, great animation, and a pretty decent story but most of all it has the best OST of any series i can think of right now! *grin* I can feel the flames that that might draw. But I am very serious, Bebop really has some energy and that is something that a few other titles could really pick up on(I'll mention no names!) There just aren't enough series with Jazz or Bebop in the soundtrack.
Now for the rant!
I love seeing Anime on Slashdot. Hell, anime stories are a breath of fresh air compared to the usual YRO and Katz submissions. But I'm ready to say pull the plug on it for the simple reason that 80% of the posts are offtopic rantings about how Slashdot should be all hardcore tech articles. The subject is a damn troll magnet. What the hell is wrong with people! I mean it's pretty sick that we have all this bullshit about free expression and being able to express ourselves, but as soon as Anime comes up the flames and trolls start to overwelm the comments. Its about time people starting using their heads, if you don't like the topic, don't post to it, and don't read it. Boycott the Anime topic. That speaks a hell of alot more than any "How is this News for Nerds?" or "Slashdot is turning into crap" posting from an Anonymous Coward does.
Here are the basics, from the way I understand them. The company flatplanet.com is offering a 80 USD software packagew that allows a user to spam the Gnuetella network. For you eighty buck, you not only get the software, but a upgrade path for each time Gnuetella figures out a way to filter the software.
Isn't progress great, its spammers like this that kill off things like Usenet and now Gnuetella. Mark my words, this program will do more damage to Gnutella than the RIAA could ever hope to.