but shouldn't beta be a functional version being tested for bugs?
yes. and gmail is a functional version. you can send and recieive email. and gmail is being tested for bugs. this is a bug and it will surely be fixed before it's official release.
i'm not sure i would call gmail a "beta" if it were 100% functional and 'sploit proof.
What was irking me about the GP post was the general mindset: "Why do we need improved security and/or longer patch cycles if we just can use a workaround."
wtf post are you reading? the GP said if you can't afford downtime, then load balance. how does that translate to "we don't need to improve security"???
no software is going to be written bug/exploit free the first time through. but you can't wave a magic wand and have all bugs and exploits fixed at once. it takes time to find bugs, let alone fix bugs, and you can't do it in one day. and as a result, fixes are going to be prioritized. it makes sense to fix remote exploits before local exploits, etc.
and in the article, Spengler complains that Linus never replied to his email. if one takes a minute to visit kernel.org, there's a big section on the main page with detailed intructions on how to report bugs. it doesn't say "Email Linus." how productive would that be if people simply emailed one person, Linus, with everything they found wrong with the kernel?
is the whole Linux bug fix system perfect? no. is there room for improvement? always. but i'd argue that it's pretty darn good when compared to some others.
so what? don't buy an iPod then. buy a portable music device from Creative, Rio, iRiver, Sony, Dell, or others. besides, the people i know that own iPods like the iTunes/iPod combo because it works so well together. i dont know any iPod owners that would want to get their music anywhere other than iTunes.
It's just that what Apple have done with the whole aac thing
what have they done? Apple licenses the AAC format. the AAC format is not controlled nor was it created by Apple. and they added DRM because they were told to by the RIAA, same as every other online music store. so tell me again, why are you angered by Apple?
the less tech savvy are forced to use an iPod if they would like to listen to their iTunes music on the go.
if people don't want to be "forced" into buying and iPod to listen to their iTunes music on the go, then don't use the iTunes service. there's a bunch of other online music stores that use other formats. seems simple enough to me.
Even more remarkable than a hot girl designing microchips, is the fact that QVC is selling something I would actually buy.
even more remarkable is that this is prolly the only article in/. history where a post by an AC consisting only of the word "Yes", in reponse to the question "is she hot?", got modded as "insightful"
i've never heard of anyone dying from looking at too much kinky transvestite-midget-beastiality pr0n either, so by your reasoning (since it's not physically harmful) kids should be able to freely access it, right?
I see what you mean, but just because it doesn't cost the companies anything doesn't mean they won't raise prices to make more money if they know lots of people are using it.
i know, i was indirectly suggesting looking into SBC instead of AT&T, if that's an option:)...
but anyways, did you try checking the little box on the client that disables p2p sharing and just downloads the patches? according to the WoW support site, that should allow you do dl patches even if your ISP doesn't allow p2p. i haven't actually tried it though so i don't know if it works well or not.
not sure where you're at in IL, but
here in chicago, a couple of my friends and I have SBC/Yahoo DSL and we haven't had any problems with the client or playing WoW... not yet anyway:)
I see where you're coming from, but 2 companies that came to mind when reading your post were Epic and id. UT and Quake are available for Linux. Yeah, I know that's only 2 companies and about as many games, but I'd be curious to see the sales stats. Obviously, I'm sure the Windows versions outsold the Linux versions, but I'm curious to know how much money the Linux versions made them. I wonder if there is that big a demand for them, or if they take in so much money from the Windows versions that they can afford to spend extra time on Linux versions.
I think AOL is to blame. After AOL acquired Nullsoft, the developers seemed to have been put on a nice short leash. Where as they were once able to freely develop without having to answer to anyone but themselves, they now had to get things OKed through AOL (at least it sure seemed that way). AOL axed both Gnutella and WASTE. I'm sure that had to be frustrating for the Nullsoft guys. As far as WMP goes, in the initial glory days of Winamp, WMP didn't have MP3 support (IIRC). WMP seemed to play catch-up to Winamp, with respect to MP3s, visual plug-ins, etc. In the late '90s and early '00s, when the MP3 format was really starting to gain momentum (the Napster days), Winamp was pretty much the defacto MP3 player. So, in my opinion, I think AOL is to blame, not so much MS. But hey, that's my opinion, I could be wrong as my memory isn't always the greatest...
the whole point of a RC is to find and fix bugs. hence the name "release candidate", not "release". there is no definitive number of RCs before a final release.
and if downloading and burning 1.1GB is too much of an effort, why don't you just pre-order
5.3? you don't have to worry about how many RCs there are and you'll be giving back a little. then again, you are complaining about wasting 2 CD-Rs, which costs less than the amount of change i have on the floor of my car...
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Samhain - pronounced 'SOW-in' or 'SOW-een' or something... First quarter of the Celtic calendar, began around November 1st. Preperations for the winter were made and a feast was had to honor the dead. Became known as Halloween after the Celt's Samhain was combined with the Christian days of All Hallow's Eve and All Saint's Day.
Actually, if you follow the link from that page to David Cantrell's personal page, he states that he does not work on Slack anymore. And Chris Lumens' personal page states that he now works for Emperor Linux (he lists Slack as a former employer). So it looks like Patrick runs the show solo and Slack is a one-man distro...and Slack's website is overdue for an update:)
Why, when it's a video card article, is nVidia the "good guy", and ATi the "bad guy"?
I believe this is because the consensus is (at least from what I've seen/heard) nVidia has better Linux drivers/support. Being that there are a lot of Linux users that read/. it would make sense (i.e. rhyme and reason) that nVidia would be seen as the "good guy".
AMD and Intel are pretty much on an even playing field now, but that hasn't been the case for very long. It doesn't seem like that long ago that AMD was very much an underdog. I always have and always will be an AMD fanboy, not so much for their (former) underdog status, but mostly because I think Intel products are over-priced and, at least for what I do, I don't see a big enough performance difference (if any).
How about saving up money to help rebuild Iraq's infrastructure
already being done by various governments...
before we start wiring up luxuries for the inva^H^H^H^H^H liberating forces?
between jackoffs like yourself and the insurgents over there, the troops get enough crap as it is. why not help them stay in touch with family and friends? when sent away from home for long periods of time, it's usually nice to be able to communicate with loved ones...
I'm not trolling
yes you are...
I just wonder why we're not concentrating on why we're there in the first place...
if you'll notice, this is all privately funded. feel free to set up a privately funded project for rebuilding iraq. i could care less. just don't rag on someone else for trying to do something nice for the troops. heaven forbid someone do something compasionate for those who put their lives on the line on a daily basis.
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but shouldn't beta be a functional version being tested for bugs?
yes. and gmail is a functional version. you can send and recieive email. and gmail is being tested for bugs. this is a bug and it will surely be fixed before it's official release.
i'm not sure i would call gmail a "beta" if it were 100% functional and 'sploit proof.
from the pink-boxes-not-needed dept.
of course "boxes" means "computers" and not that other kind of box. slashdot is pro-eunuchs after all.
(the previous post is an attempt at humor)
What was irking me about the GP post was the general mindset: "Why do we need improved security and/or longer patch cycles if we just can use a workaround."
wtf post are you reading? the GP said if you can't afford downtime, then load balance. how does that translate to "we don't need to improve security"???
no software is going to be written bug/exploit free the first time through. but you can't wave a magic wand and have all bugs and exploits fixed at once. it takes time to find bugs, let alone fix bugs, and you can't do it in one day. and as a result, fixes are going to be prioritized. it makes sense to fix remote exploits before local exploits, etc.
and in the article, Spengler complains that Linus never replied to his email. if one takes a minute to visit kernel.org, there's a big section on the main page with detailed intructions on how to report bugs. it doesn't say "Email Linus." how productive would that be if people simply emailed one person, Linus, with everything they found wrong with the kernel?
is the whole Linux bug fix system perfect? no. is there room for improvement? always. but i'd argue that it's pretty darn good when compared to some others.
So no one else can sell RIAA music for the iPod.
so what? don't buy an iPod then. buy a portable music device from Creative, Rio, iRiver, Sony, Dell, or others. besides, the people i know that own iPods like the iTunes/iPod combo because it works so well together. i dont know any iPod owners that would want to get their music anywhere other than iTunes.
If a car manufacturer made a car that was prone to catching fire at random times, would you rather they
a) give you a free fire extinguisher?
or
b) fix the problem that causes the fire in the first place?
It's just that what Apple have done with the whole aac thing
what have they done? Apple licenses the AAC format. the AAC format is not controlled nor was it created by Apple. and they added DRM because they were told to by the RIAA, same as every other online music store. so tell me again, why are you angered by Apple?
the less tech savvy are forced to use an iPod if they would like to listen to their iTunes music on the go.
if people don't want to be "forced" into buying and iPod to listen to their iTunes music on the go, then don't use the iTunes service. there's a bunch of other online music stores that use other formats. seems simple enough to me.
Even more remarkable than a hot girl designing microchips, is the fact that QVC is selling something I would actually buy.
/. history where a post by an AC consisting only of the word "Yes", in reponse to the question "is she hot?", got modded as "insightful"
even more remarkable is that this is prolly the only article in
You *cannot* die from abuse of video games...
i've never heard of anyone dying from looking at too much kinky transvestite-midget-beastiality pr0n either, so by your reasoning (since it's not physically harmful) kids should be able to freely access it, right?
The only people aware of this were the people at The Department of Redundancy Department who were the only people already aware of this.
actually, if i RTFA right, it's there...
Your cellular call will be routed over the Internet using VOIP or over the public landline telephone network.
so does that mean not all calls will be over VOIP? or did i misread that?
I see what you mean, but just because it doesn't cost the companies anything doesn't mean they won't raise prices to make more money if they know lots of people are using it.
be used to build a beowulf cluster...
i know, i was indirectly suggesting looking into SBC instead of AT&T, if that's an option :)...
but anyways, did you try checking the little box on the client that disables p2p sharing and just downloads the patches?
according to the WoW support site, that should allow you do dl patches even if your ISP doesn't allow p2p. i haven't actually tried it though so i don't know if it works well or not.
maybe OT but...
:)
not sure where you're at in IL, but here in chicago, a couple of my friends and I have SBC/Yahoo DSL and we haven't had any problems with the client or playing WoW... not yet anyway
I see where you're coming from, but 2 companies that came to mind when reading your post were Epic and id. UT and Quake are available for Linux. Yeah, I know that's only 2 companies and about as many games, but I'd be curious to see the sales stats. Obviously, I'm sure the Windows versions outsold the Linux versions, but I'm curious to know how much money the Linux versions made them. I wonder if there is that big a demand for them, or if they take in so much money from the Windows versions that they can afford to spend extra time on Linux versions.
I think AOL is to blame. After AOL acquired Nullsoft, the developers seemed to have been put on a nice short leash. Where as they were once able to freely develop without having to answer to anyone but themselves, they now had to get things OKed through AOL (at least it sure seemed that way). AOL axed both Gnutella and WASTE. I'm sure that had to be frustrating for the Nullsoft guys. As far as WMP goes, in the initial glory days of Winamp, WMP didn't have MP3 support (IIRC). WMP seemed to play catch-up to Winamp, with respect to MP3s, visual plug-ins, etc. In the late '90s and early '00s, when the MP3 format was really starting to gain momentum (the Napster days), Winamp was pretty much the defacto MP3 player. So, in my opinion, I think AOL is to blame, not so much MS. But hey, that's my opinion, I could be wrong as my memory isn't always the greatest...
i live in the midwest (chicago to be exact), and want to know why this is "Insightful"? i take it none of the mods are from the midwest...
Have any friends/fam in the millitary?
yeah, quite a few actually. and all of them are rooting for Bush. So what's your point?
the whole point of a RC is to find and fix bugs. hence the name "release candidate", not "release". there is no definitive number of RCs before a final release.
and if downloading and burning 1.1GB is too much of an effort, why don't you just pre-order 5.3? you don't have to worry about how many RCs there are and you'll be giving back a little. then again, you are complaining about wasting 2 CD-Rs, which costs less than the amount of change i have on the floor of my car...
Samhain - pronounced 'SOW-in' or 'SOW-een' or something... First quarter of the Celtic calendar, began around November 1st. Preperations for the winter were made and a feast was had to honor the dead. Became known as Halloween after the Celt's Samhain was combined with the Christian days of All Hallow's Eve and All Saint's Day.
...or something like that...
for more info, see the wiki
More like at least a 3 man distro:
:)
http://www.slackware.com/about/
Actually, if you follow the link from that page to David Cantrell's personal page, he states that he does not work on Slack anymore. And Chris Lumens' personal page states that he now works for Emperor Linux (he lists Slack as a former employer). So it looks like Patrick runs the show solo and Slack is a one-man distro...and Slack's website is overdue for an update
so is alcohol. so it's a double whammy... people will be breaking the seal in double time.
Why, when it's a video card article, is nVidia the "good guy", and ATi the "bad guy"?
I believe this is because the consensus is (at least from what I've seen/heard) nVidia has better Linux drivers/support. Being that there are a lot of Linux users that read
AMD and Intel are pretty much on an even playing field now, but that hasn't been the case for very long. It doesn't seem like that long ago that AMD was very much an underdog. I always have and always will be an AMD fanboy, not so much for their (former) underdog status, but mostly because I think Intel products are over-priced and, at least for what I do, I don't see a big enough performance difference (if any).
How about saving up money to help rebuild Iraq's infrastructure
already being done by various governments...
before we start wiring up luxuries for the inva^H^H^H^H^H liberating forces?
between jackoffs like yourself and the insurgents over there, the troops get enough crap as it is. why not help them stay in touch with family and friends? when sent away from home for long periods of time, it's usually nice to be able to communicate with loved ones...
I'm not trolling
yes you are...
I just wonder why we're not concentrating on why we're there in the first place...
if you'll notice, this is all privately funded. feel free to set up a privately funded project for rebuilding iraq. i could care less. just don't rag on someone else for trying to do something nice for the troops. heaven forbid someone do something compasionate for those who put their lives on the line on a daily basis.