Neutral Evil. Lawful Evil types will follow laws & agreements to the letter, if not necessarily the spirit. Bush clearly thinks the law doesn't apply to him, so he's not lawful.
it's a great step to losing their common-carrier status. HA HA HA! You underestimate the power of bought congressweasels. One will slip in an amendment into a big must-pass bill, and Bob's their uncle.
XP gets the wrong driver or goes "la la la"; must do a great deal of Registry scrubbing to get the printer or other device usable on that computer.
Last time I made that mistake with a printer was not long after SP2, IIRC. The Sony camera was maybe a year ago (thinks to self "USB mass storage is USB mass storage, right? HA HA HA).
Most likely this "Windows 7" is a marketing name for what's really planned as a 6.1 release (Vista being 6.0).
That or they're lying; Windows 7 being the next major refresh of Windows in maybe five years but they're wanting you to think about the neat cool stuff while they're actually just talking about a point release next year.
*Maybe* they'll pull it off, but this is Microsoft and this is a Microsoft operating system. It's pretty much guaranteed to be late.
I agree with other posters who say this is another marketing ploy to keep businesses interested in Windows despite the Vista fiasco.
For our part we're going to get new computers with XP for as long as possible (so convenient that 30 June is the end of our fiscal year) and maybe re-image with XP after that, as long as there's drivers available.
Given that OpenSSH is maintained by the OpenBSD people, who use a similar version-number scheme, I guess we shouldn't expect big changes. The next release from OpenBSD 3.9 was 4.0, ditto 2.9 to 3.0, and it wasn't a major release or anything, just the next in the series.
It's a stupid versioning scheme, but it's what they use.
In the interest of saving the average Slashdotter's sanity, that really can be made into a car analogy. Jeep makes a Rubicon SUV, and with a little hand-waving...
Why yes, I recall a law called "posse comitatus", which specifically forbids using the military for law enforcement. But the traitorous Republican congress slipped in an amendment in 2006 that effectively nullified it.
HA HA HA. You're funny. We appear not to have the resources to properly train people or ensure that they're sufficiently computer-literate for self-administration. It's considered good enough if the luser can wrangle Quickbooks or whatever specific app the department uses; anything else is what we're for.
And we do a pretty good job. I'm apparently good because I get to spend much of my day keeping up with technical news &c instead of fighting fires, now that I've got the majority of my users on Active Directory & with actual security. Central administration is a godsend, especially for mundane things like filesharing & resetting passwords. They get at most one chance to be a local admin; screw up badly enough and that's it. And they've got defense-in-depth from outside attacks: passive defenses from Spybot S&D and SpywareBlaster, active defenses from Windows Defender & Symantec Antivirus, local & sitewide firewalls, regular updates for some programs, strong encouragement to use Firefox rather than Redmondware.
Even the gray-area users who have local admin but aren't the most clued-in don't cause me problems anymore. Usually it's hardware problems.
Some of my users would and can do a fine job of that, but they're outnumbered by the ones who aren't trained and/or bright enough to be trusted administering their own box. Click on shiny! free tool to clean spyware that it just detected when you visited this website, oh yes. Install all kinds of crap and wonder why the computer's crawling & BSODing. Get us audited by the BSA, etc.
Maybe for the better sort of user, but gods no for the unwashed masses.
They've been doing this for a while before OMG PONIES actually. There was one year where they had a really good April Fools' post about how Microsoft was doing something evil to Slashdot (cease-and-desisting or something) but too many people forgot what day it was & it got blown out of proportion.
So now we have the current situation of stories so stupid that anyone can tell they're fake.
because they bend the light via gravitational lensing. If a black hole is directly between you and a light source (like a distant galaxy) you see what's called an Einstein ring caused by the lensing.
Huh? The SG 550/StG 90 fires 5.56mm NATO ammunition & is an unrelated design, though it has a few features like the Kalashnikov. You may be thinking of Finland's RK and Valmet assault rifles, which are very nice & much-improved AK-47s.
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I'll leave the conclusion up to the reader. You're not going to meet a girlfriend over the Internet?
See the previous AC. If you've read the BOFH stories, you know that "kit" is .uk English for "equipment".
Are you implying that Chuck Norris is a munchkin?
You can't run far or fast enough, me bucko.
I still haven't gotten Active Directory binding to work with 10.5.2.
Neutral Evil. Lawful Evil types will follow laws & agreements to the letter, if not necessarily the spirit. Bush clearly thinks the law doesn't apply to him, so he's not lawful.
XP gets the wrong driver or goes "la la la"; must do a great deal of Registry scrubbing to get the printer or other device usable on that computer.
Last time I made that mistake with a printer was not long after SP2, IIRC. The Sony camera was maybe a year ago (thinks to self "USB mass storage is USB mass storage, right? HA HA HA).
Most likely this "Windows 7" is a marketing name for what's really planned as a 6.1 release (Vista being 6.0).
That or they're lying; Windows 7 being the next major refresh of Windows in maybe five years but they're wanting you to think about the neat cool stuff while they're actually just talking about a point release next year.
Or, since this is Slashdot, it's sensationalism.
XP *still* doesn't handle USB that well. Buy a cheap new inkjet printer & plug it in before you run the install CD. See what happens.
Same thing happened not that long ago with a Sony digital camera I was gifted. Thankfully we've got more than one computer.
*Maybe* they'll pull it off, but this is Microsoft and this is a Microsoft operating system. It's pretty much guaranteed to be late.
I agree with other posters who say this is another marketing ploy to keep businesses interested in Windows despite the Vista fiasco.
For our part we're going to get new computers with XP for as long as possible (so convenient that 30 June is the end of our fiscal year) and maybe re-image with XP after that, as long as there's drivers available.
Given that OpenSSH is maintained by the OpenBSD people, who use a similar version-number scheme, I guess we shouldn't expect big changes. The next release from OpenBSD 3.9 was 4.0, ditto 2.9 to 3.0, and it wasn't a major release or anything, just the next in the series.
It's a stupid versioning scheme, but it's what they use.
In the interest of saving the average Slashdotter's sanity, that really can be made into a car analogy. Jeep makes a Rubicon SUV, and with a little hand-waving...
Why yes, I recall a law called "posse comitatus", which specifically forbids using the military for law enforcement. But the traitorous Republican congress slipped in an amendment in 2006 that effectively nullified it.
But again, the Decider is above the law.
HA HA HA. You're funny. We appear not to have the resources to properly train people or ensure that they're sufficiently computer-literate for self-administration. It's considered good enough if the luser can wrangle Quickbooks or whatever specific app the department uses; anything else is what we're for.
And we do a pretty good job. I'm apparently good because I get to spend much of my day keeping up with technical news &c instead of fighting fires, now that I've got the majority of my users on Active Directory & with actual security. Central administration is a godsend, especially for mundane things like filesharing & resetting passwords. They get at most one chance to be a local admin; screw up badly enough and that's it. And they've got defense-in-depth from outside attacks: passive defenses from Spybot S&D and SpywareBlaster, active defenses from Windows Defender & Symantec Antivirus, local & sitewide firewalls, regular updates for some programs, strong encouragement to use Firefox rather than Redmondware.
Even the gray-area users who have local admin but aren't the most clued-in don't cause me problems anymore. Usually it's hardware problems.
Laziness *is* a virtue, if you're smart about it.
False. I'm not a subscriber, but have been here for many years & can tag.
Maybe Taco finally blocked the 'tards who kept tagging the same things all the time.
Some of my users would and can do a fine job of that, but they're outnumbered by the ones who aren't trained and/or bright enough to be trusted administering their own box. Click on shiny! free tool to clean spyware that it just detected when you visited this website, oh yes. Install all kinds of crap and wonder why the computer's crawling & BSODing. Get us audited by the BSA, etc.
Maybe for the better sort of user, but gods no for the unwashed masses.
I'd take you more seriously if you didn't write like you were semi-literate, what with the perception of conservatives being less educated and all.
Well damn, and here I was going to post about how amazed I was that the submitter and Taco spelt "lightning" correctly.
You suck.
Think about that.
They've been doing this for a while before OMG PONIES actually. There was one year where they had a really good April Fools' post about how Microsoft was doing something evil to Slashdot (cease-and-desisting or something) but too many people forgot what day it was & it got blown out of proportion.
So now we have the current situation of stories so stupid that anyone can tell they're fake.
Shit. That reminds me that I'm going to have to ignore Slashdot tomorrow because it'll be full of unfunny-because-they're-trying-too-hard stories.
because they bend the light via gravitational lensing. If a black hole is directly between you and a light source (like a distant galaxy) you see what's called an Einstein ring caused by the lensing.
Huh? The SG 550/StG 90 fires 5.56mm NATO ammunition & is an unrelated design, though it has a few features like the Kalashnikov. You may be thinking of Finland's RK and Valmet assault rifles, which are very nice & much-improved AK-47s.