If you don't like the article, don't post it! If you *do* post it, have enough journalistic integrity to not be so damn apathetic about it.
Beyond that, you're Windows bashing is getting tired. Have you even *seen* Media Player 8? It's very sweet. The media it supports is incredible, and the DVD performance coupled with it's on-screen disappearing controls (when in full-screen mode) are great.
Jump off your bandwagon long enough to see the rest of the world, man. I challenge you to show me a media player for Linux that is as versitle, good looking, easy to use, highly supported and overall *good* as Windows Media Player 8. If you can't, you should consider switching.
I don't have a Tivo, but I suspect I will very soon. I'm struggling with the decision to go month-to-month, or just do the lifetime subscription. However, with this kind of thing coming down the pipeline, would it be insane of me to spend $200 (the equivilant of 20 months) on a lifetime subscription?
This may be a tad off-topic, but how have some of you been able to sleep at night after giving $200 to Tivo, not knowing if they'll be around, at least in their current capacity, long enough for your investment to have paid off?
I'm on the MS beta team for XP, and the last three builds I loaded (Beta 2, 2469 and 2475) have had this feature turned ON by default. Not only that, but it took quite a bit of digging to figure out what they were calling it, and which switch to pull to disable it.
I like Microsoft. I'm not bashing them. The new feature is interesting, but more annoying than anything. However, when I hit a web site recently that had University of Colombia in the text, but no link, MS had graciously (hehe) provided me with one. I got all kinds of info about the university, and links to relevant info, including their site.
Your initial response, though, is incorrect. It is not disabled by default. At least, not in the latest builds. RC-1 is due out soon, and that may change.
Ok, ok... God, I'm stupid. The more this went on, I finally realized it was intentional. Look, I'm tired, and I have a nasty "crick" in my neck from a broken set of box springs, allright?
Dave Winer, a longtime industry pundit and founder of UserLand Software (link to unfavorable news story about Winer's company), doesn't agree.
This is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time! This gal forgot to actually add the links to her article, and just left references to them instead! This one shows that she was going to deliberately seek an "unfavorable news story" about a company that was spouting anti-Microsoft information!
Don't get me wrong, I love Microsoft. I don't like these new tags, though--they're just annoying. But guess what? Dig into Tools | Options, and you can turn them off. Problem solved.
I saw the Myst III trailer both times I went and saw "Shrek" last weekend, and I was far from impressed. For one, the acting looked very lame. Also, the trailer tried to show how "fantastic" the Myst world looked, but it just managed to look clunky and contrived. Some of the gadgets (like the auto-magically expanding walkway) looked pretty neat, but overall, neither my wife or I were impressed.
Michael, I'm glad you thrashed the game, even if it was for different reasons. Slashdotters complain about degrading software quality a lot, but you're right--until more reviewers start speaking their mind, the crap-manufacturers will crank out more and more bunk.
I've always stayed out of the Kevin Mitnick debate, thinking that he was probably screwed by the system afterall. Our system *is* corrupt, right?
But based on the exploits he's credited for bragging about in this article, the guy decieved, manipulated and tore his way into places where he didn't belong, posing as a technician, programmer, whatever. Perhaps the legal process he was put through was wrong, but if this article is right, Mitnick was no good kid who was wrongly framed.
I'm not one to rain on anyone's parade, but did we not just see this whole scenario play out and die? Remember Indrema? I was psyched about Indrema, but I also understand the concepts that will likely be driven into the ground in this thread: There isn't room at the top, right now, for an upstart like this.
Personally, I'm looking forward to the XBox. I am a disgruntled Dreamcast and PS1 owner who is mad that the DC died and that the nextgen PS doesn't pack the punch it should. Nintendo is a joke. But still, that's just my opinion, and with the console market so crowded right now, how can anyone expect to jump in and make any money?
Sound like a lot of VC money that is looking for a match to burn it.
The Shredder team declined the invitation to come to Spain. It felt that the rules of the competition in Bahrain tilted too much toward man, rather than machine. For example, Kremnik will be given a copy of the program to evaluate on his own.
"Shredder" is really "Kasparov" in a box. He thought he could get a rematch with Kremnik this way...now he's pissed that he has to battle other computers first. Plus, he's not thrilled about spending a few weeks/months crammed in his little box at Kremnik's crib, being "evaluated".
"...'I think I might take a look at patching it sometime this summer...'...Now I am worried the same thing will happen.. my precious U's network will be compromised and the admin will be thinking 'Wait.. I remember someone who knew about this security problem..'"
So, hack into it and patch it for the poor bastard. Never tell him. You'll be saving your own ass, saving the ass of the moron who can't find time to do his job, and your preserving University's security, all in one fell swoop.
Or, just post the name of the University here on/., and I'm sure someone will help remind him of his gaping orifice.
To: Dr. David Anthony, Ted Moore, Dennis Muizers
RE: Expulsion of Sean Sheeley
I am a Texas resident, and have worked within several independent school districts. It has come to my attention via an article on Slashdot (www.slashdot.org) that your district has removed a student named Sean Sheeley from his high school and relegated him to "alternative education". From the report, I have also come to understand that Mr. Sheeley has been constantly harassed by his fellow students, both verbally and physically, for many years. The harassment has gone beyond idle playground threats, and Mr. Sheeley has been mocked, physically harassed, and his personal property violated and even stolen.
I find your action reprehensible. For a student with no prior record of violence or any other kind of misbehavior, your "knee-jerk" reaction in light of recent school violence is a sick display of over-anxious administrators who have no clue about how to solve the social issues surrounding these and other events. You are doing your best, it seems, to *appear* to have a handle on things, when all you are doing is helping to breed a new generation of social misfits who either try to conform with the current "norm" or follow blindly, never resisting lest they be labeled a "dissenter" and cast into a pathetic form of social prison called "alternative education".
What was done to the students who harassed Mr. Sheeley? Has any action been taken against them? Why have you deemed one inappropriate remark from a good student to be so offensive that you felt it was worse than the years of harassment from the other students? Why does it seem that if Mr. Sheeley had lashed out in physical and verbal violence against his attackers, he would have received a slap on the wrist compared to what you have done for his off-hand remark? Why have you not taken this opportunity to counsel Mr. Sheeley and try to correct his actions civilly?
You are punishing the wrong students. You are throwing out the cream of the crop in order to preserve a multitude of socially spoiled goods, who know nothing more than how to bully and mock those who they can't understand. I would truly like to hear how you can defend yourself against these accusations. Until then, I hope that more people hear about your actions, and put *you* on trial. For your sake, I hope you'll be given a greater chance to defend yourself than you have awarded Mr. Sheeley.
--My Name
My Town, Texas
(PS to Slashdot: I used the email addresses I found in the responses in this forum: danthony@mckinneyisd.net, tlmoore@mckinneyisd.net, dmuizers@mckinneyisd.net)
Wait just a sec...isn't it our own government that helps screw the little guy by enforcing stupid patent and trademark laws? Isn't it the bevy of corrupt politicians that is turning our country into shit? It is *these* people that you'd like to see fiscally responsible for the operating system that runs your computer?
Isn't it our government that would already like to peek into our computers using systems like Carnivore?
Hey Uncle Sam! We know that you have lied, cheated, stolen and murdered in order to advance the corrupt ideals of a small percentage of high-profiled people! Since you know exactly nothing about creating operating systems, and since we trust you implicitly with our computers and private information, would you be responsible for helping us create an operating system, using our tax dollars, so we don't have to run Windows? Please? We trust that you won't be as mindless as the Marketing and Sales droids that we're always complaining about, because Heaven knows that you are responsible enough to only create good, wholesome programs for people that don't help line anyone's pocket.
No thanks. I'll take what I've got over that kind of control any day.
"We plan to put them on the spot," said Perens. "I don't know how much we will get out of them but we will say: 'It is time now that you are making money out of our software for you to help us with this.' I don't know if they will be nice to us or just tell us to go and get screwed."
Ok, so let's say you're cheating on your wife with your sister-in-law and her husband. Your wife doesn't know it, and your sister-in-law doesn't realize that you're screwing her husband on the side, too. All of a sudden, your wife says your family is going to be featured on the Jerry Springer Show. Ironically, your sister-in-law and her husband have plans to be out of town on the same day. What do you do?
The point is, if you know you're about to get screwed in a big way, why show up? This meeting is being announced as a "we're going to try to get you to fork over patents and thus some of your potential leverage for profit in the future, and make you feel horrible about it in front of thousands of people in the process" kind of meeting.
Who the Hell would show up for that?
Of course, Springer has a show every day--so there are plenty of stupid people...
You know, I've got the original Palm III, and as much as I'd love to spend the money on a new toy, I can't justify the expense. Why? Because my 2.5 year old Palm still does everything I want it to do: quickly, effeciently, and just like I want it to.
Why, for the sake of having Linux on a handheld, would I or anyone else want to accept a product that is admittedly inferior?
"BTW, I'm purposely not identifying the domain (though it's possible to figure it out) just because... well, frankly, I'd rather not give them the free traffic."
Personally, I'd like to know who it was just so that I can avoid ever purchasing anything they ever produce. Care to divulge? Email, if you'd like.
"If I heard about something named OpenIL, I'd instantly assume it had something to do with OpenGL, and I might even go as far, as I bet a lot of "end users" would, as to assume that it was from the same people."
Just because you, low-end users, and several crackpot, clueless politicians and corporate suits may "assume" incorrectly does not mean that other people will.
Did you look at the guy's web page? Does it strike you as an SGI look-alike? Does it strike you as the type of site that an average user would spend time at? Just because an AOLer might (dumb-assedly) assume that OpenIL = OpenGL doesn't mean that the kind of developer who would actually be at the site would.
--SC
PS. I'd rather be informed of potential corporate rape than just wake up the morning after and wonder why my ass is so swollen.
"...people who cannot use editors because of disabilities, menthal or physical."
I know, some people don't prefer the cool, crisp taste of menthol cigarettes. That's their choice. But to say it's a disability? I've smoke menthols before, and I can use an editor just fine.
I'm really beginning to doubt the level of intelligence displayed here on Slashdot.
I'm still Linux-ignorant, so I like to try new distros to see which provide the easiest installation, the most stable system, the latest features, and the fastest solution from blank drive to running desktop.
Libranet sounds great--this is the first time I've heard of it. But what if it is no better than the others? (Mandrake, Corel, SuSE, etc.) I've only got two ways to find out:
Download their previous version for free and try it out. But if it has problems that the new release fixes, how will I know?
Pay $15 to find out if their latest and greatest is everything they say it is. But what if it's not? What if I should have just stayed with something that was obtainable for free?
I'm not at all opposed to paying for Linux, if it's reasonable. But with so many variables, I'd be reluctant to purchase it before I tried it on my system. I wonder if this solution will work for them, or if they should have taken a "shareware" approach. Which will make them more money: curiosity before the sale or honesty afterward?
A visibly shaken Kenyan villager looks off into the distance as she answers my questions. "It appears that pre-humans and pre-penguins may have attempted copulation, the result being, well, this."
Photographs that she had taken earlier had already been confiscated, but the images she drew into the sand were no less than horrifying: Half "man", half "penguin".
The woman continued. "They kept mentioning something about 'open sores', so maybe it the fossils looked as if they had been damaged. I don't know. It's just so frightening, and disgusting. We might have evolved from this!"
This find may go far to confirm the suspicious genetic and mental ties between the human and ice-dwelling penguin species. Linus Torvalds, creator of the popular "Linux", penguin-based computer operating system, is reported to have been in the area only moments ago.
Neither Torvalds nor Archeologists at the site could be reached for comment.
Slashdot Mirror
Beyond that, you're Windows bashing is getting tired. Have you even *seen* Media Player 8? It's very sweet. The media it supports is incredible, and the DVD performance coupled with it's on-screen disappearing controls (when in full-screen mode) are great.
Jump off your bandwagon long enough to see the rest of the world, man. I challenge you to show me a media player for Linux that is as versitle, good looking, easy to use, highly supported and overall *good* as Windows Media Player 8. If you can't, you should consider switching.
--SC
--SC
This may be a tad off-topic, but how have some of you been able to sleep at night after giving $200 to Tivo, not knowing if they'll be around, at least in their current capacity, long enough for your investment to have paid off?
--SC
I like Microsoft. I'm not bashing them. The new feature is interesting, but more annoying than anything. However, when I hit a web site recently that had University of Colombia in the text, but no link, MS had graciously (hehe) provided me with one. I got all kinds of info about the university, and links to relevant info, including their site.
Your initial response, though, is incorrect. It is not disabled by default. At least, not in the latest builds. RC-1 is due out soon, and that may change.
--SC
Go easy on me, fellas.
--SC
This is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time! This gal forgot to actually add the links to her article, and just left references to them instead! This one shows that she was going to deliberately seek an "unfavorable news story" about a company that was spouting anti-Microsoft information!
Don't get me wrong, I love Microsoft. I don't like these new tags, though--they're just annoying. But guess what? Dig into Tools | Options, and you can turn them off. Problem solved.
--SC
Michael, I'm glad you thrashed the game, even if it was for different reasons. Slashdotters complain about degrading software quality a lot, but you're right--until more reviewers start speaking their mind, the crap-manufacturers will crank out more and more bunk.
--SC
But based on the exploits he's credited for bragging about in this article, the guy decieved, manipulated and tore his way into places where he didn't belong, posing as a technician, programmer, whatever. Perhaps the legal process he was put through was wrong, but if this article is right, Mitnick was no good kid who was wrongly framed.
--SC
Personally, I'm looking forward to the XBox. I am a disgruntled Dreamcast and PS1 owner who is mad that the DC died and that the nextgen PS doesn't pack the punch it should. Nintendo is a joke. But still, that's just my opinion, and with the console market so crowded right now, how can anyone expect to jump in and make any money?
Sound like a lot of VC money that is looking for a match to burn it.
--SC
"Shredder" is really "Kasparov" in a box. He thought he could get a rematch with Kremnik this way...now he's pissed that he has to battle other computers first. Plus, he's not thrilled about spending a few weeks/months crammed in his little box at Kremnik's crib, being "evaluated".
--SC
So, hack into it and patch it for the poor bastard. Never tell him. You'll be saving your own ass, saving the ass of the moron who can't find time to do his job, and your preserving University's security, all in one fell swoop.
Or, just post the name of the University here on /., and I'm sure someone will help remind him of his gaping orifice.
--SC
RE: Expulsion of Sean Sheeley
I am a Texas resident, and have worked within several independent school districts. It has come to my attention via an article on Slashdot (www.slashdot.org) that your district has removed a student named Sean Sheeley from his high school and relegated him to "alternative education". From the report, I have also come to understand that Mr. Sheeley has been constantly harassed by his fellow students, both verbally and physically, for many years. The harassment has gone beyond idle playground threats, and Mr. Sheeley has been mocked, physically harassed, and his personal property violated and even stolen.
I find your action reprehensible. For a student with no prior record of violence or any other kind of misbehavior, your "knee-jerk" reaction in light of recent school violence is a sick display of over-anxious administrators who have no clue about how to solve the social issues surrounding these and other events. You are doing your best, it seems, to *appear* to have a handle on things, when all you are doing is helping to breed a new generation of social misfits who either try to conform with the current "norm" or follow blindly, never resisting lest they be labeled a "dissenter" and cast into a pathetic form of social prison called "alternative education".
What was done to the students who harassed Mr. Sheeley? Has any action been taken against them? Why have you deemed one inappropriate remark from a good student to be so offensive that you felt it was worse than the years of harassment from the other students? Why does it seem that if Mr. Sheeley had lashed out in physical and verbal violence against his attackers, he would have received a slap on the wrist compared to what you have done for his off-hand remark? Why have you not taken this opportunity to counsel Mr. Sheeley and try to correct his actions civilly?
You are punishing the wrong students. You are throwing out the cream of the crop in order to preserve a multitude of socially spoiled goods, who know nothing more than how to bully and mock those who they can't understand. I would truly like to hear how you can defend yourself against these accusations. Until then, I hope that more people hear about your actions, and put *you* on trial. For your sake, I hope you'll be given a greater chance to defend yourself than you have awarded Mr. Sheeley.
--My Name
My Town, Texas
(PS to Slashdot: I used the email addresses I found in the responses in this forum: danthony@mckinneyisd.net, tlmoore@mckinneyisd.net, dmuizers@mckinneyisd.net)
--SC
Isn't it our government that would already like to peek into our computers using systems like Carnivore?
Hey Uncle Sam! We know that you have lied, cheated, stolen and murdered in order to advance the corrupt ideals of a small percentage of high-profiled people! Since you know exactly nothing about creating operating systems, and since we trust you implicitly with our computers and private information, would you be responsible for helping us create an operating system, using our tax dollars, so we don't have to run Windows? Please? We trust that you won't be as mindless as the Marketing and Sales droids that we're always complaining about, because Heaven knows that you are responsible enough to only create good, wholesome programs for people that don't help line anyone's pocket.
No thanks. I'll take what I've got over that kind of control any day.
--SC
Ok, so let's say you're cheating on your wife with your sister-in-law and her husband. Your wife doesn't know it, and your sister-in-law doesn't realize that you're screwing her husband on the side, too. All of a sudden, your wife says your family is going to be featured on the Jerry Springer Show. Ironically, your sister-in-law and her husband have plans to be out of town on the same day. What do you do?
The point is, if you know you're about to get screwed in a big way, why show up? This meeting is being announced as a "we're going to try to get you to fork over patents and thus some of your potential leverage for profit in the future, and make you feel horrible about it in front of thousands of people in the process" kind of meeting.
Who the Hell would show up for that?
Of course, Springer has a show every day--so there are plenty of stupid people...
--SC
Why, for the sake of having Linux on a handheld, would I or anyone else want to accept a product that is admittedly inferior?
--SC
Personally, I'd like to know who it was just so that I can avoid ever purchasing anything they ever produce. Care to divulge? Email, if you'd like.
--SC
--SC
Just because you, low-end users, and several crackpot, clueless politicians and corporate suits may "assume" incorrectly does not mean that other people will.
Did you look at the guy's web page? Does it strike you as an SGI look-alike? Does it strike you as the type of site that an average user would spend time at? Just because an AOLer might (dumb-assedly) assume that OpenIL = OpenGL doesn't mean that the kind of developer who would actually be at the site would.
--SC
PS. I'd rather be informed of potential corporate rape than just wake up the morning after and wonder why my ass is so swollen.
Was the author of the article you quoted adequately compensated for re-publishing his/her work in an online forum?
(Or is it ok, since everything is "free as in speech/beer" here on /.?)
--SC
Information wants to be free! (Unless it's mine, then it wants to be appropriately compensated for.)
--SC
I know, some people don't prefer the cool, crisp taste of menthol cigarettes. That's their choice. But to say it's a disability? I've smoke menthols before, and I can use an editor just fine.
I'm really beginning to doubt the level of intelligence displayed here on Slashdot.
--SC
Sound like the end-users aren't the only ones getting the shaft...
--SC
Libranet sounds great--this is the first time I've heard of it. But what if it is no better than the others? (Mandrake, Corel, SuSE, etc.) I've only got two ways to find out:
- Download their previous version for free and try it out. But if it has problems that the new release fixes, how will I know?
- Pay $15 to find out if their latest and greatest is everything they say it is. But what if it's not? What if I should have just stayed with something that was obtainable for free?
I'm not at all opposed to paying for Linux, if it's reasonable. But with so many variables, I'd be reluctant to purchase it before I tried it on my system. I wonder if this solution will work for them, or if they should have taken a "shareware" approach. Which will make them more money: curiosity before the sale or honesty afterward?--SC
Photographs that she had taken earlier had already been confiscated, but the images she drew into the sand were no less than horrifying: Half "man", half "penguin".
The woman continued. "They kept mentioning something about 'open sores', so maybe it the fossils looked as if they had been damaged. I don't know. It's just so frightening, and disgusting. We might have evolved from this!"
This find may go far to confirm the suspicious genetic and mental ties between the human and ice-dwelling penguin species. Linus Torvalds, creator of the popular "Linux", penguin-based computer operating system, is reported to have been in the area only moments ago.
Neither Torvalds nor Archeologists at the site could be reached for comment.
Shocking.
--SC
Surely, they can't be talking about the over-30 crowd. I hear those poor bastards are dumb as shit, according to leading Texas politicians.
Thank God I've got three years to go. Now, where's that pr0n?
--SC