I think perhaps you should have waited until IE8 actually started and ran for the first time. At first run, I am taken to a page where I can choose anything and everything. I invariably turn off all accelorators, change my home page, and change my search engine at that first run, restart IE8 to check that my changes took, then never run IE8 again.
Yeah, this is my own MS bashing article, but let's bash MS for the things they do wrong. The fact is, installation and first run of IE8 makes it tolerably good. And, I'll also mention that IE7 and IE8 both went a long way toward actually securing Windows against malware. Not nearly far enough, but it's a tremendous improvement over IE5 and IE6.
If I were to say "64 bit flash is nonexistent", the statement would only be mildly inaccurate. It only exists on Linux in any form, where it relies on IA32 libraries, and crashes consistently. I test drove it, I watched for months for an update that might fix the problems, and finally uninstalled it. (deleted it, actually, there's no real installation or uninstallation)
Cute. I liked that. A mod should give you points.:^) But, as you may have notice, I'm not one for buzzwords. I could point you to a dictionary, and suggest the word "productivity". "Velocity" properly belongs to several discussions, including projectiles, vehicles, athletics, and astrophysics. In the environment under discussion here, "velocity" is a terribly contrived buzzword.
Most of your millions of people who own cars live in the city. They can walk to anything and everything that is necessary in life. There's a grocery store, a hardware store, and a department store within walking distance of wherever they live. They have buses. They have trains. They have all sort of mass transit options, that I don't have. Not to mention, most of them CHOOSE to live in a suburb located 30 miles of more from where they work.
Me? I'm a long damn way from the nearest grocery store, doctor's office, or anything else. You begrudge me a trip into town each week to buy groceries? As I said, I'll keep my keys. At least until the roads become safe to ride horses on again.
No, I won't hand my keys over. I share my vehicle with three other adult drivers. I oversee the usage of that vehicle like a petty tyrant. "You can't combine those 3 trips into just ONE trip into town?" I will continue to jealously guard my car keys. I hope to have everyone trained to think in terms of one trip into town each week. Just doing my little bit to save fuel, and make the roadways safer.
Now, how many frivolous trips do you make each week?
So, do you follow the 2 second rule, the 3 second rule, or the 5 second rule?
The stopping distances are taught for a reason, yes. That reason is that graphic demonstrations make lasting impressions. I took my own sons out, and DEMONSTRATED. We made paint marks on the roadway, I let them accelerate to a given speed, then hit the brakes at the first mark, and made a new mark where the car stopped. No, this didn't measure reaction time - but I stressed with each test that they had to add that little bit to their stopping distance.
When the kid stands there, and sees just how far he travels AFTER hitting the break pedal, he begins to understand.
"And by the time you've recalled the appropriate stopping distance for the speed, you've just ploughed straight into the car in front without slowing."
Yes, I understand that some people have problems walking and chewing gum at the same time. Go back to my original post. We don't NEED THEM on the highways. Deny them a driver's license.
Not sure that's a good example of anything. We haven't even attained "good enough". Much of what NASA sells us is smoke and mirrors. "Ohh, we have a space plane! Pretty!! Aren't we awesome?" The space plane never was a solution to put people into space - it's a distraction, meant to mask our lack of dedication. (The occasional man suspended temporarily just outside the atmosphere does NOT constitute "people in space")
It would be terrible to grow up in a world where there are real consequences for our actions, wouldn't it? It's just wonderful that we have a nanny state to mandate the use of seatbelts, airbags, ABS, etc ad nauseum, all designed to protect us from our own idiocy.
I have a couple of better ideas. First, let's get about 2/3 of the people off of the roads. We don't NEED the millions of automobiles that are out there. Second, let's have real driver's education. It was silently dropped sometime after I got out of high school. Today, driver's ed is less than a sick joke.
Quick, without looking it up, tell me what the stopping distances are, including reaction time, at 40, 50, 60, and 70 mph. How many school kids are being taught that sort of stuff?
I was tested on it. Failing the test would have meant that I could not take the driving part of the course, and I wouldn't have been able to get my driver's license til I was 18. My, my, how the laws have changed.
I think Davester answered your question quite well. MS is in the business of making money, NOT the business of making a stable, secure operating system.
Some of the most stable, secure operating systems can be downloaded for FREE. They also pretty much give the lie to the "good enough" mentioned in TFA. Linux is already "good enough" for any purpose to which it might be put, with the exception of high end gaming. People won't accept "good enough". They want bells and whistles, eyecandy, and someone to hold their hands while reassuring them that a corporate giant cares about them.
Cares about them? Yeah, right - the check is in the mail, too.
The concept of being licensed to use a computer is entirely bad. Not that I think it's "good", but it's not entirely bad.
If computer education starts with bash, we could make it a "good" thing. Imagine - millions of people who start computing with a basic understanding of files systems and low level operations.
Wait a minute - - - does Microsoft have a lobby in Australia? Hmmm - stupid question, right? These classes will teach people that clicking "start" is the right way to turn a computer off. Totally bad idea.....
"Mr. Malinconico said that in addition to the complaint against Google, the federation was also looking at other measures to try to generate more revenue from the Web"
I'll translate that from Italian.
"We don't think people should make money unless they share it with us, despite the fact that we have nothing to offer that anybody wants to see."
Anyone is a fool to trust the government. But, "Does the president now have the option of disconnecting people when they disagree with his policies? Disconnect bloggers that criticize his health-reform?"
The article is decidedly partisan. I sit here near the middle. From the year 2000 to 2008, I heard the dems blaming the repubs for infringing on our rights with the unpatriotic act. I hear the same cries now, but they are coming from the other side. Nothing new, really.
And, the dems and repubs are all a bunch of chumps, because it's the GOVERNMENT pushing for this. No matter which party is "in charge", the governmental framework that they are "running" pushes for more and more control. One year, it's republicans whining for control for the sake of security. The next year, the dems are whining for more control, "Think of the children".
Grow some balls, people. Kick them all out of Washington. Stop reelecting the same old party, and the same old people. Cut funding and cut personnel for every government agency in half, and stop paying pensions to elected officials. Then, we can sit down and start cutting the worthless crap out of the US Code.
Mr. Fluxx, I just can't let that comment go by without challenge. We, lusers in general, mock Microsoft and it's monopoly. We mock the mindset of people who just use Windows because it's all they know, and they are unwilling to learn or to explore. We mock conformity, in general.
I change OS's from time to time, just to see what's happening in Suse-land, Debian-land, Ubuntu-land, Solaris-land - well, you get the idea. Each flavor of Linux has it's good points, and each flavor has something that I don't think highly of.
I could name a favorite, and do everything in my power to sell that favorite, while denigrating the other flavors of Linux. But, not only would that be petty - it may actually impede innovation!
Which of us is to say that one team or the other will NOT stumble over the best thing since sliced bread in the next year or ten? At the moment, Ubuntu seems to be leading the way toward "The year of Linux on the desktop". But, how can you read the future? Anything can happen. Most especially, anything can happen when we don't have all the facts. Computer science is still in it's infancy.
Linus and his associates could conceivably have a flash of inspiration tomorrow, and rewrite the kernel in a manner that turns the computer world on end tomorrow. Or, more likely, a bunch of hackers do the same, to spite Linus and his entrenched hierarchy. Soon after, ALL the flavors of Linux that we love today may be replaced by "The Next Big Thing".
What I'm trying to say is, don't be a dick. If slackware looks like a waste to you, that's cool. Keep it to yourself. The kind of crap you posted just gives ammo to the astroturfers who are pushing the MS agenda.
Why? Are you a chauvinist sexist pig holdover from the sixties? There are plenty of women working for homeland security, including this rather homely broad
I wonder if there's a market for petrified woodies from the moon? I'm calling the local "marital aids" store....
Speaking of stupid schitz: Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.
Yes, I can see that if I make two posts within 5 minutes, I may be preventing someone else from posting their own stupid schitzls. My apologies to all of/.
West Virginia? Why not? That little postage stamp sized state full of mountains and valleys may not be the first state to come to mind when you think "IT" or "Department of Defense", BUT, it isn't very far from Washington D.C. The state is pretty much surrounded by other states with top secret schitzl. Yeah, some of it spills over.
If a person can't think of any other use for getting inside of West Virginia's official network, he could gain access to the department of transportation, then offer to "fix" bad driving records for a fee. A single fix should pay for a laptop. Heck, I'd like to make my own driver's record disappear!
Uhhhm. You may well be right, some organizations would be stupid enough to do that. But, mostly, I would expect them to be SMALLER organizations. On the other hand, we are talking about the government......
I know that I wouldn't use them without reinstalling the OS. In fact, it is probably safe to assume they came with Windows on them. Mine would very quickly have some flavor of Linux on it, PLUS a freshly installed Windows - inside of a virtual machine!
Mod parent up. Everyone who reads slashdot WANTS to think that they are technically inclined. Those who are unable or unwilling to distinguish between pentesters, hackers, crackers, script kiddies, and the myriad other classes of people out there are only deluding themselves about their technical abilities.
Oh - wait. Maybe I'm deluding myself. Slashdot. I actually read arguments here that Windows is better than Linux for no better reason than an author is afraid of the CLI. Let me shut up and slink out of here - I've done nothing but embarrass myself by talking to the wrong audience.
No capitals, no exclamation mark, just a quiet little whoosh. Just about the volume of a tired gnat flying past a dog's ass. Had you bothered to read ANYTHING before you commented, then you might warrant a real whoosh.
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I think perhaps you should have waited until IE8 actually started and ran for the first time. At first run, I am taken to a page where I can choose anything and everything. I invariably turn off all accelorators, change my home page, and change my search engine at that first run, restart IE8 to check that my changes took, then never run IE8 again.
Yeah, this is my own MS bashing article, but let's bash MS for the things they do wrong. The fact is, installation and first run of IE8 makes it tolerably good. And, I'll also mention that IE7 and IE8 both went a long way toward actually securing Windows against malware. Not nearly far enough, but it's a tremendous improvement over IE5 and IE6.
If I were to say "64 bit flash is nonexistent", the statement would only be mildly inaccurate. It only exists on Linux in any form, where it relies on IA32 libraries, and crashes consistently. I test drove it, I watched for months for an update that might fix the problems, and finally uninstalled it. (deleted it, actually, there's no real installation or uninstallation)
Cute. I liked that. A mod should give you points. :^) But, as you may have notice, I'm not one for buzzwords. I could point you to a dictionary, and suggest the word "productivity". "Velocity" properly belongs to several discussions, including projectiles, vehicles, athletics, and astrophysics. In the environment under discussion here, "velocity" is a terribly contrived buzzword.
Most of your millions of people who own cars live in the city. They can walk to anything and everything that is necessary in life. There's a grocery store, a hardware store, and a department store within walking distance of wherever they live. They have buses. They have trains. They have all sort of mass transit options, that I don't have. Not to mention, most of them CHOOSE to live in a suburb located 30 miles of more from where they work.
Me? I'm a long damn way from the nearest grocery store, doctor's office, or anything else. You begrudge me a trip into town each week to buy groceries? As I said, I'll keep my keys. At least until the roads become safe to ride horses on again.
No, I won't hand my keys over. I share my vehicle with three other adult drivers. I oversee the usage of that vehicle like a petty tyrant. "You can't combine those 3 trips into just ONE trip into town?" I will continue to jealously guard my car keys. I hope to have everyone trained to think in terms of one trip into town each week. Just doing my little bit to save fuel, and make the roadways safer.
Now, how many frivolous trips do you make each week?
So, do you follow the 2 second rule, the 3 second rule, or the 5 second rule?
The stopping distances are taught for a reason, yes. That reason is that graphic demonstrations make lasting impressions. I took my own sons out, and DEMONSTRATED. We made paint marks on the roadway, I let them accelerate to a given speed, then hit the brakes at the first mark, and made a new mark where the car stopped. No, this didn't measure reaction time - but I stressed with each test that they had to add that little bit to their stopping distance.
When the kid stands there, and sees just how far he travels AFTER hitting the break pedal, he begins to understand.
"And by the time you've recalled the appropriate stopping distance for the speed, you've just ploughed straight into the car in front without slowing."
Yes, I understand that some people have problems walking and chewing gum at the same time. Go back to my original post. We don't NEED THEM on the highways. Deny them a driver's license.
"harmful to our velocity"
WTF is that supposed to mean? You're losing money, and you wish to lose money more rapidly? Or, you're not coding fast enough?
Sounds like one of those buzzwords. Did you buy that from the vendor, as well?
"Or the continuing drive to put humans in space."
Not sure that's a good example of anything. We haven't even attained "good enough". Much of what NASA sells us is smoke and mirrors. "Ohh, we have a space plane! Pretty!! Aren't we awesome?" The space plane never was a solution to put people into space - it's a distraction, meant to mask our lack of dedication. (The occasional man suspended temporarily just outside the atmosphere does NOT constitute "people in space")
It would be terrible to grow up in a world where there are real consequences for our actions, wouldn't it? It's just wonderful that we have a nanny state to mandate the use of seatbelts, airbags, ABS, etc ad nauseum, all designed to protect us from our own idiocy.
I have a couple of better ideas. First, let's get about 2/3 of the people off of the roads. We don't NEED the millions of automobiles that are out there. Second, let's have real driver's education. It was silently dropped sometime after I got out of high school. Today, driver's ed is less than a sick joke.
Quick, without looking it up, tell me what the stopping distances are, including reaction time, at 40, 50, 60, and 70 mph. How many school kids are being taught that sort of stuff?
I was tested on it. Failing the test would have meant that I could not take the driving part of the course, and I wouldn't have been able to get my driver's license til I was 18. My, my, how the laws have changed.
I think Davester answered your question quite well. MS is in the business of making money, NOT the business of making a stable, secure operating system.
Some of the most stable, secure operating systems can be downloaded for FREE. They also pretty much give the lie to the "good enough" mentioned in TFA. Linux is already "good enough" for any purpose to which it might be put, with the exception of high end gaming. People won't accept "good enough". They want bells and whistles, eyecandy, and someone to hold their hands while reassuring them that a corporate giant cares about them.
Cares about them? Yeah, right - the check is in the mail, too.
Typo. Oh well. Should have caught it sooner.
The concept of being licensed to use a computer is entirely bad. Not that I think it's "good", but it's not entirely bad.
If computer education starts with bash, we could make it a "good" thing. Imagine - millions of people who start computing with a basic understanding of files systems and low level operations.
Wait a minute - - - does Microsoft have a lobby in Australia? Hmmm - stupid question, right? These classes will teach people that clicking "start" is the right way to turn a computer off. Totally bad idea.....
No fair! That obvious response was mine! I want it back! But, the question remains: should we use our CPU's as GPU's?
Maybe not soon, but just maybe a ghost of a chance?
"Mr. Malinconico said that in addition to the complaint against Google, the federation was also looking at other measures to try to generate more revenue from the Web"
I'll translate that from Italian.
"We don't think people should make money unless they share it with us, despite the fact that we have nothing to offer that anybody wants to see."
"When Rockefeller, the chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced the original bill in April"
Forgot the part that proves the partisanship is truly bogus, meant to influence the chumps.
Read TFA
and we're here to help you.
Anyone is a fool to trust the government. But, "Does the president now have the option of disconnecting people when they disagree with his policies? Disconnect bloggers that criticize his health-reform?"
The article is decidedly partisan. I sit here near the middle. From the year 2000 to 2008, I heard the dems blaming the repubs for infringing on our rights with the unpatriotic act. I hear the same cries now, but they are coming from the other side. Nothing new, really.
And, the dems and repubs are all a bunch of chumps, because it's the GOVERNMENT pushing for this. No matter which party is "in charge", the governmental framework that they are "running" pushes for more and more control. One year, it's republicans whining for control for the sake of security. The next year, the dems are whining for more control, "Think of the children".
Grow some balls, people. Kick them all out of Washington. Stop reelecting the same old party, and the same old people. Cut funding and cut personnel for every government agency in half, and stop paying pensions to elected officials. Then, we can sit down and start cutting the worthless crap out of the US Code.
For a date, you mean? Some guys who need badges and guns to establish their machismo are really turned on by cross dressers. ;^)
Mr. Fluxx, I just can't let that comment go by without challenge. We, lusers in general, mock Microsoft and it's monopoly. We mock the mindset of people who just use Windows because it's all they know, and they are unwilling to learn or to explore. We mock conformity, in general.
I change OS's from time to time, just to see what's happening in Suse-land, Debian-land, Ubuntu-land, Solaris-land - well, you get the idea. Each flavor of Linux has it's good points, and each flavor has something that I don't think highly of.
I could name a favorite, and do everything in my power to sell that favorite, while denigrating the other flavors of Linux. But, not only would that be petty - it may actually impede innovation!
Which of us is to say that one team or the other will NOT stumble over the best thing since sliced bread in the next year or ten? At the moment, Ubuntu seems to be leading the way toward "The year of Linux on the desktop". But, how can you read the future? Anything can happen. Most especially, anything can happen when we don't have all the facts. Computer science is still in it's infancy.
Linus and his associates could conceivably have a flash of inspiration tomorrow, and rewrite the kernel in a manner that turns the computer world on end tomorrow. Or, more likely, a bunch of hackers do the same, to spite Linus and his entrenched hierarchy. Soon after, ALL the flavors of Linux that we love today may be replaced by "The Next Big Thing".
What I'm trying to say is, don't be a dick. If slackware looks like a waste to you, that's cool. Keep it to yourself. The kind of crap you posted just gives ammo to the astroturfers who are pushing the MS agenda.
Why? Are you a chauvinist sexist pig holdover from the sixties? There are plenty of women working for homeland security, including this rather homely broad
I wonder if there's a market for petrified woodies from the moon? I'm calling the local "marital aids" store....
Speaking of stupid schitz: Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.
Yes, I can see that if I make two posts within 5 minutes, I may be preventing someone else from posting their own stupid schitzls. My apologies to all of /.
West Virginia? Why not? That little postage stamp sized state full of mountains and valleys may not be the first state to come to mind when you think "IT" or "Department of Defense", BUT, it isn't very far from Washington D.C. The state is pretty much surrounded by other states with top secret schitzl. Yeah, some of it spills over.
If a person can't think of any other use for getting inside of West Virginia's official network, he could gain access to the department of transportation, then offer to "fix" bad driving records for a fee. A single fix should pay for a laptop. Heck, I'd like to make my own driver's record disappear!
Uhhhm. You may well be right, some organizations would be stupid enough to do that. But, mostly, I would expect them to be SMALLER organizations. On the other hand, we are talking about the government......
I know that I wouldn't use them without reinstalling the OS. In fact, it is probably safe to assume they came with Windows on them. Mine would very quickly have some flavor of Linux on it, PLUS a freshly installed Windows - inside of a virtual machine!
Mod parent up. Everyone who reads slashdot WANTS to think that they are technically inclined. Those who are unable or unwilling to distinguish between pentesters, hackers, crackers, script kiddies, and the myriad other classes of people out there are only deluding themselves about their technical abilities.
Oh - wait. Maybe I'm deluding myself. Slashdot. I actually read arguments here that Windows is better than Linux for no better reason than an author is afraid of the CLI. Let me shut up and slink out of here - I've done nothing but embarrass myself by talking to the wrong audience.
whoosh
No capitals, no exclamation mark, just a quiet little whoosh. Just about the volume of a tired gnat flying past a dog's ass. Had you bothered to read ANYTHING before you commented, then you might warrant a real whoosh.