Um, it would have nothing to do with anybody's stock value, and everything to do with how you knowingly and intentionally breached a contract that you were a party to. And how the hell are you supposed to have Liberties and Rights and Pursuits of Hapinesses and all that trolltastic crap your post is laden with, if you can't even expect people to be true to their word?
2) You're unobservant. Even though there isn't much point to it, people do it anyway. There are projects like this one and some others. None of them do anything useful, but see point 1.
But to a geek, small and quiet are generally "luxury" options. Given the extra $500, the geek isn't going to buy the computer equivalent of leather seats, he's going to get the turbos.
Really. Nobody said it was software, and the article title doesn't say anything about anyone getting h4x0red. I'd say your version is the most realistic. Just a matter of "we don't bother to do a good enough job of making sure people really have the authority to ask us to do these things."
If, on the other hand, you don't know that, you're going to spend half an hour trying to figure out how to make the window go away, and then once you do, you're going to wonder whether that little gumdrop closed the application, made the window go away, or just sent it somewhere else.
I don't know anything about any of this, but I do know that PeopleSoft made a crappy, awful product, which my school insists on using. Seeing as how their software couldn't possibly get any worse, from a UI perspective, tearing apart the company can't help but result in something better, making my life easier.
For starters, nothing modern has battery life anything like the Palm III used to have, especially not on anything capable of running Linux acceptibly.
Second, you're not going to get anything with a significant nifty factor for under $150. You could get one of the lower end Zires from Palm, or stretch your budget some and get a Tungsten|E, or you could find something used and hopefully not too beat-up from someone else -- and that's about it.
The science of statistics is basically all about saying how sure you are about things. For example, "given this set of data from the sample group, there's a 95% chance that the mean number of slashdotters per household worldwide lies between 0.15 and 0.23," or "Given these sets of measured position and velocity vectors, and their uncertainties, there is an 0.23% chance that object X's path will intersect with the earth's in the year 2038."
So perhaps they've taken a number of (extremely lo-res, I'm sure) measurements of the path of body X around star Y, and found that given the degree of certainty of their measurements, then there's a 99.1% chance that body X's velocity is consistent with orbit, but an 0.9% chance that all the errors stacked up the wrong way and it's really just speeding by in a hyperbolic orbit or something like that.
Thank you for bringing a little reason to the discussion. I'd just like to add that in some cases (such as NVidia's, at least according to NVidia), the problem isn't the vendor, but rather the people they buy components from, who make them sign various sorts of NDAs. In other words, it's not just customers that have to deal with encumbered hardware and software; it's the people who build stuff, too.
But that doesn't mean you shouldn't hold the vendors accountable; if they feel enough pressure, one can hope that they push it upstream, too, and someone emerges as a leader in "open components". Well, it could happen, anyway;)
Also, if you overpay your taxes and get a refund, you're lending the government your money for free for all those months -- which might explain why it happens so often:)
Funny, I thought the problem with SDIO WiFi was that it melted whatever device you plugged it into;)
But seriously, the wireless carriers make sure that anything and everything that can connect to their network. Maybe it's Palm this time (yes, I know all about their whole "remove XYZ so we can sell the one with XYZ for more" thing), but who's to say it's not Sprint?
But if they don't, then the first reaction will be that they're inferior to the geek on the street, and the second reaction will be that they're intentionally crippling their products. The second is probably closer to true, but really, I can't see that they want to have either image stand, so maybe they'll slide on this one, get a little control over it. But in the long run, of course, they still end up bending to the will of the carriers more than the customers.
Not much, except for shaky logic that explains how you gave them "permission" to install that software. I wasn't arguing that at all. I was just arguing the senseless virus violence:)
I fail to see how anything "made entirely of flowers" could possibly qualify as a robot, unless we've made great advances in DNA-based computing and animating plants.
Or did someone maybe mean it would be covered in flowers?
A program or piece of code [...] that "infects" one or more other programs by embedding a copy of itself in them, so that they become Trojan horses. When these programs are executed, the embedded virus is executed too, thus propagating the "infection". This normally happens invisibly to the user.
--Jargon File, via FOLDOC
VX2 is evil, but if you pay any attention to what the word virus actually means, you might notice that VX2 is not one.
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Um, it would have nothing to do with anybody's stock value, and everything to do with how you knowingly and intentionally breached a contract that you were a party to. And how the hell are you supposed to have Liberties and Rights and Pursuits of Hapinesses and all that trolltastic crap your post is laden with, if you can't even expect people to be true to their word?
Not when you're talking about one of these things. The SL-C3000 isn't much cheaper than a low-end laptop, at $819 from Dynamism.
1) There really isn't much point to it.
2) You're unobservant. Even though there isn't much point to it, people do it anyway. There are projects like this one and some others. None of them do anything useful, but see point 1.
It's relevant not because you don't have to compile them, but because you don't have the choice to.
But to a geek, small and quiet are generally "luxury" options. Given the extra $500, the geek isn't going to buy the computer equivalent of leather seats, he's going to get the turbos.
Really. Nobody said it was software, and the article title doesn't say anything about anyone getting h4x0red. I'd say your version is the most realistic. Just a matter of "we don't bother to do a good enough job of making sure people really have the authority to ask us to do these things."
If, on the other hand, you don't know that, you're going to spend half an hour trying to figure out how to make the window go away, and then once you do, you're going to wonder whether that little gumdrop closed the application, made the window go away, or just sent it somewhere else.
are these the same guys who brought us quality pinball action in the earlier half of the 90s?
I don't know anything about any of this, but I do know that PeopleSoft made a crappy, awful product, which my school insists on using. Seeing as how their software couldn't possibly get any worse, from a UI perspective, tearing apart the company can't help but result in something better, making my life easier.
For starters, nothing modern has battery life anything like the Palm III used to have, especially not on anything capable of running Linux acceptibly.
Second, you're not going to get anything with a significant nifty factor for under $150. You could get one of the lower end Zires from Palm, or stretch your budget some and get a Tungsten|E, or you could find something used and hopefully not too beat-up from someone else -- and that's about it.
The science of statistics is basically all about saying how sure you are about things. For example, "given this set of data from the sample group, there's a 95% chance that the mean number of slashdotters per household worldwide lies between 0.15 and 0.23," or "Given these sets of measured position and velocity vectors, and their uncertainties, there is an 0.23% chance that object X's path will intersect with the earth's in the year 2038."
So perhaps they've taken a number of (extremely lo-res, I'm sure) measurements of the path of body X around star Y, and found that given the degree of certainty of their measurements, then there's a 99.1% chance that body X's velocity is consistent with orbit, but an 0.9% chance that all the errors stacked up the wrong way and it's really just speeding by in a hyperbolic orbit or something like that.
Thank you for bringing a little reason to the discussion. I'd just like to add that in some cases (such as NVidia's, at least according to NVidia), the problem isn't the vendor, but rather the people they buy components from, who make them sign various sorts of NDAs. In other words, it's not just customers that have to deal with encumbered hardware and software; it's the people who build stuff, too.
;)
But that doesn't mean you shouldn't hold the vendors accountable; if they feel enough pressure, one can hope that they push it upstream, too, and someone emerges as a leader in "open components". Well, it could happen, anyway
Also, if you overpay your taxes and get a refund, you're lending the government your money for free for all those months -- which might explain why it happens so often :)
But vim is still incredibly more powerful :)
And depending on the speaker's idea of pronunciation, you might see 'an history' on occasion.
NUMA machines are sweet. And linux is already reasonably adept at running on them, since 2.6.
It doesn't play Qtopia; it runs Qtopia. Qtopia isn't a media format but rather a smallish environment, meant for handhelds, based on Qt/Embedded.
Not what I was talking about, but okay. Yes, I was familiar with that.
Funny, I thought the problem with SDIO WiFi was that it melted whatever device you plugged it into ;)
But seriously, the wireless carriers make sure that anything and everything that can connect to their network. Maybe it's Palm this time (yes, I know all about their whole "remove XYZ so we can sell the one with XYZ for more" thing), but who's to say it's not Sprint?
But if they don't, then the first reaction will be that they're inferior to the geek on the street, and the second reaction will be that they're intentionally crippling their products. The second is probably closer to true, but really, I can't see that they want to have either image stand, so maybe they'll slide on this one, get a little control over it. But in the long run, of course, they still end up bending to the will of the carriers more than the customers.
Sure, sure. Who needs to RTFA when we have slashdot editors to discuss?
Not much, except for shaky logic that explains how you gave them "permission" to install that software. I wasn't arguing that at all. I was just arguing the senseless virus violence :)
I fail to see how anything "made entirely of flowers" could possibly qualify as a robot, unless we've made great advances in DNA-based computing and animating plants.
Or did someone maybe mean it would be covered in flowers?
A virus is:
--Jargon File, via FOLDOC
VX2 is evil, but if you pay any attention to what the word virus actually means, you might notice that VX2 is not one.
Nope. Even if freenet performed as advertised, that's the sort of thing that the freenet architecture, by design, can't handle. Look somewhere else. :)