I think his major contention would be that it would be bad for Microsoft's business model to strip Windows down. This shouldn't be surprising, since the whole point of the anti-trust litigation is to attack MS's way of doing business!
Admitting something can be done is redundant. It is technically possible to do almost anything, but that isn't the point. What should and should not be done, or forced upon a company by Tha Man, is the question here. Stripping down Windows may indeed cripple Microsoft and traumatize the computer industry as Microsoft pundits claim. Or it might not. Whichever view is more convincing to a Judge is what matters here, not the almost limitless potential of technology.
"ACCRC is a self-sustaining, self-funded organization that trains unemployed, unskilled volunteer workers how to build and maintain Linux computers"
Why does that scare me? A non-profit training organization that takes the unemployed (lots of people are unemployed, this isn't the scary part) and unskilled people in the art of system administration? Damn. How about unemployed and skilled volunteers? There has to be more too this, otherwise I don't see how the program could churn out admins ready to work in a production enterprise environment. We've got enough junior hacks in the industry who think they know how to run Linux properly... "Hey! I know Lunix, hire me to run yer servors and computors, I am Linuxconf Certified"... *shudder*
Maybe its a <sarcasm>cleverly hidden school for 31337 hAx0rs who will run a flotilla of platforms useful for waves of DDoS attacks</sarcasm>
This happened to me with a 19" monitor and an online retailer (I can't remember their URL or even name... it was back when 19" monitors were about $500-600, and I picked it up for just under $400). They'd made an error in the pricing for the monitor, which involved approximately $150-200 in savings. The were gracious enough to simply complete their end of the order for myself and others who had ordered. I still regret only ordering one.
License, schmicense. Who cares... Nvidia rocks, they release timely updates to the drivers, their cards take the performance and quality crown, and they seem to genuinely care about supporting Linux. I wish the same could be said for ATI, who may be cooperative with the community at times, but not consistently. I have nothing but bad things to say about ATI, and I'm embarassed to have ever purchased their products.
Another hardware vendor worthy of note is Matrox. They've done a good job in supporting Linux, and deserve recognition for that effort.
For a light snack, I eat a bowl of tape (you used to be able to play Frogger on the Timex Sinclair 1000 with a audio cassette player... good times, good times...) with some soya sauce and crushed red pepper sprinkled on top.
They are tastier than punch cards with cheese and little slices of pepperoni on them
This is the same thing as the early scoopage of software releases which result in hammering servers before they are ready with mirrors.
Sure,/. hugely screwed this up, but if you don't want to read bleeding edge not-ready-for-primetime news, go read CNet. They'll let you know about the breaking news the week after. =)
I find it hard to believe that people couldn't figure out that was going to happen from the ads for this episode. I mean come on, you have to at least acknowledge that someone getting killed off was obvious to all but the most dense.
Alright, Kelly Hu would lessen the lame factor in the same way Jolie did for Boob... er... Tomb Raider. The movie still sucked (TR). I haven't seen Scorpian King, I'm basing my "it sucks" view on what I've been told by friends, what I've seen in trailers, and my hatred of professional wrestling. Hu is no reason to see the movie, if you want to see her check out Maxim or do a Google Images for her... its the Internet! Use it for its intended purpose... boobies.
I just learned of the blackout today, after I posted. I don't intend to follow it, because I don't entirely disagree with Tacoboy./. may have a high proportion of commenters/readers but that doesn't make him wrong. Besides, I don't really care either way, and I'd rather watch Scorpian King or read all the backlogged Katz reviews than be a sheep.
Is that sorta of like how we Canadians are incessantly snobbish and arrogant about how much we know about everywhere else? Maybe its because our own history (and current politics) are incredibly boring. "Of course you yanks" is just the kind of disgusting overgeneralization that you are whining about, yet somehow its ok when its a rant about the US? We sit around and stagnate with our high taxes and bitch at the Americans while they grow and prosper and build a military to protect our asses along with theirs in case the unthinkable happens and someone attacks North America. Yet we conveniently and transparently take advantage of the non-obvious benefits of what the US has produced, such as the Internet (yes it started there, no they didn't do it alone, but you'd better give them the credit for it). Why aren't you posting this on a Canadian site, hypocrite?
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"Neutrality is right" is a choice, and merely accentuates the belief in a dichotomy you seem to rant against. What I think you meant to say is "There is no spoon".
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Are you nuts?
I sold my Cowboy Neal with Kung Fu Action Grip on Ebay for $200 CDN (thats about 50 bucks in a real currency).
The envelope exists, and must therefore be pushed. Its called progress and inovation.
Besides if you can get away with a CPU that slow, maybe you just aren't pushing yourself hard enough. Do something that requires real computing power and you'll see the need for something that is faster than a P120, game console running Linux or a PDA.
They are a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL, provide what is essentially a business portal service, as I understand it. That sounds all very uselessly redundant. It caters to people who are business oriented, etc etc etc (COMPUSERVE INTERACTIVE SERVICES OVERVIEW), and too "busy" to figure out how to bookmark CNN/Money, MSN Money, and News.com on their own.
What I'm trying to say is that the inertia of roughly "2 million busy adults" does not make CompuServe relevant, IMO.
AOL (I feel dirty typing that) choosing !IE is, aside from logical business-wise, a significant event in the so-called browser war.
I don't think time is well spent on discussing the "browser war", but our concerns should be focused on standard vs. proprietary tag/feature/etc support, HTML interpretation "correctness" and other metamatters.
This will probably be seen as a troll, but I quite honestly get the idea that Moshe Bar likes to see his name in print. Everything I've read (thats not everything he's written, just everything I've read) written by Dr. Bar seems overly self-congratulatory and spends too much time in self-promotion as opposed to donating clue to the reader. He has some thoughts on journaling filesystems that are interesting and don't seem to suffer from this problem (as much?).
Thats a subset of the basic message: information about application, daemon, and Operations System configuration are all stored in text files. Logs are also stored in test files. Much of what you work with is a script, in text. Data is not hidden, it easily manipulated, and these simple basis is the key to the power of UNIX.
No registry to obfuscate information.
They'll have to learn to become one with the command line once again =) That should be a problem for hardcore NT admins (or those learning to be one).
Somebody has to save the platform... Jobs will drive it into the ground by designing a series of desklamp/ceiling fan/etc shaped computers that will eventually make all sane serious computer users retch. Maybe if Apple keeps its commitment to "UNIX for the people" my grim views of Apple and MacOS will fade, but somehow I think Linux will eventually crush Apple.
Meanwhile, Microsoft will just become the meta-vendor for all desktops - Mac, Linux, foo
Japanese is a very well organized and accessible language. Much moreso than French, Spanish or English, for example. The problem lies in learning the ideograms once you get past the hiragana and katakana... kanji will make your brain bleed unless you have the opportunity to be exposed to a lot of it during and after learning some.
I don't recommend trying to get too far with the language unless you have friends, relatives, a loved one, or many trips in mind =)
Didn't work? Of course it worked. It had Window95-level stability issues, and thats a desktop-owning product. Smells like "works well enough for the masses" to me.
Now that Mozilla is at this milestone (I don't know if I can conceived of non 0.foo releases of this software, it just seems wrong somehow), how do you all think it compares with Konqueror, Galeon, Opera, etc? Does Mozilla have a chance to get (back?) on-top in the not-IE browser scuffle? (yes, scuffle... the war ended when Netscape challenged IE and got its head handed to it on a plate)
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Admitting something can be done is redundant. It is technically possible to do almost anything, but that isn't the point. What should and should not be done, or forced upon a company by Tha Man, is the question here. Stripping down Windows may indeed cripple Microsoft and traumatize the computer industry as Microsoft pundits claim. Or it might not. Whichever view is more convincing to a Judge is what matters here, not the almost limitless potential of technology.
Why does that scare me? A non-profit training organization that takes the unemployed (lots of people are unemployed, this isn't the scary part) and unskilled people in the art of system administration? Damn. How about unemployed and skilled volunteers? There has to be more too this, otherwise I don't see how the program could churn out admins ready to work in a production enterprise environment. We've got enough junior hacks in the industry who think they know how to run Linux properly... "Hey! I know Lunix, hire me to run yer servors and computors, I am Linuxconf Certified"... *shudder*
Maybe its a <sarcasm>cleverly hidden school for 31337 hAx0rs who will run a flotilla of platforms useful for waves of DDoS attacks</sarcasm>
This happened to me with a 19" monitor and an online retailer (I can't remember their URL or even name... it was back when 19" monitors were about $500-600, and I picked it up for just under $400). They'd made an error in the pricing for the monitor, which involved approximately $150-200 in savings. The were gracious enough to simply complete their end of the order for myself and others who had ordered. I still regret only ordering one.
Another hardware vendor worthy of note is Matrox. They've done a good job in supporting Linux, and deserve recognition for that effort.
Good, bad, or ugly?
For a light snack, I eat a bowl of tape (you used to be able to play Frogger on the Timex Sinclair 1000 with a audio cassette player... good times, good times...) with some soya sauce and crushed red pepper sprinkled on top.
They are tastier than punch cards with cheese and little slices of pepperoni on them
Sure, /. hugely screwed this up, but if you don't want to read bleeding edge not-ready-for-primetime news, go read CNet. They'll let you know about the breaking news the week after. =)
I find it hard to believe that people couldn't figure out that was going to happen from the ads for this episode. I mean come on, you have to at least acknowledge that someone getting killed off was obvious to all but the most dense.
I just learned of the blackout today, after I posted. I don't intend to follow it, because I don't entirely disagree with Tacoboy. /. may have a high proportion of commenters/readers but that doesn't make him wrong. Besides, I don't really care either way, and I'd rather watch Scorpian King or read all the backlogged Katz reviews than be a sheep.
WWF is hella lame.
The Rock is hella lame.
This review is hella lame.
The Scorpian King is hella lame.
But at least its not "Men with Brooms".
... a Beowulf cluster of... erm. Nevermind.
"Neutrality is right" is a choice, and merely accentuates the belief in a dichotomy you seem to rant against. What I think you meant to say is "There is no spoon".
I sold my Cowboy Neal with Kung Fu Action Grip on Ebay for $200 CDN (thats about 50 bucks in a real currency).
What's a "dial-up"?
... its all about the throughput of the big pipe, baby. They lied when they told you "size doesn't matter".
The envelope exists, and must therefore be pushed. Its called progress and inovation.
Besides if you can get away with a CPU that slow, maybe you just aren't pushing yourself hard enough. Do something that requires real computing power and you'll see the need for something that is faster than a P120, game console running Linux or a PDA.
What I'm trying to say is that the inertia of roughly "2 million busy adults" does not make CompuServe relevant, IMO.
AOL (I feel dirty typing that) choosing !IE is, aside from logical business-wise, a significant event in the so-called browser war.
I don't think time is well spent on discussing the "browser war", but our concerns should be focused on standard vs. proprietary tag/feature/etc support, HTML interpretation "correctness" and other metamatters.
Some cheese with your whine?
I don't get the same impressions from Daniel Robbins of Gentoo, who wrote Advanced filesystem implementor's guide for IBM's developerWorks.
They'll have to learn to become one with the command line once again =) That should be a problem for hardcore NT admins (or those learning to be one).
Meanwhile, Microsoft will just become the meta-vendor for all desktops - Mac, Linux, foo
I don't recommend trying to get too far with the language unless you have friends, relatives, a loved one, or many trips in mind =)
Time to get engineers out from under the misperception that only through whoring themselves to vendors shall solutions be reached.
Now that Mozilla is at this milestone (I don't know if I can conceived of non 0.foo releases of this software, it just seems wrong somehow), how do you all think it compares with Konqueror, Galeon, Opera, etc? Does Mozilla have a chance to get (back?) on-top in the not-IE browser scuffle? (yes, scuffle... the war ended when Netscape challenged IE and got its head handed to it on a plate)