Cert would beg to differ with you. While not indicitive of the whole, please don't pretend that the Open Source community and the script kiddie/cracker community don't share members. Browse Slashdot.org if you are looking for the motivations for attacking IIS over Apache.
I disagree. There are plenty of security issues with Apache. The only difference is that people attack IIS far more often. If the Apache group had half the ill will of Microsoft, how many worms would devistate Open Source software?
Which is not much. Which is why we IMPORT far more goods than we export. Ever hear of the Trade Deficit? America is the market. We are the consumers. More so than anybody else in the world.
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If you were up on your business news you'd realise that it is NOT working for K-Mart, who filed for Chapter 11.
Something that people are forgetting: America is the biggest consumer market these companies target. What happens when your target market can no longer afford to buy your products?
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Why? To bash Microsoft hardware of course. This is Slashdot afterall.
Carter was a complete failure as President. Many of the problems we had with OPEC at that time were because he (and Ford) couldn't handle the office much like the problems we have now are because Clinton and Bush can't handle it.
And if it was my choice, I'd take a robust economy without bombing the piss out of everybody, thankyouverymuch. You can have your stagflation, but you'll never get your OPEC embargos again.
Not really. They have every right and the ability to pull out. Cuba has done it, Soviets tried it, China recently dumped it, and most South American coutries do. (Stay out that is.) No one is putting a gun to their heads to do business with us. Hell, look at the Saudis. They get rich off us and support the very groups tring to bomb us. When Euros demontrate against the USA, does the USA roll in the tanks? Ask some oldtimers in the East Bloc what imperialism really is. The US many not always do the popular thing, but we most certainly are not trying to expand our borders.
I understand that not many people could envision in 1993 the internet we have today. However while I was not browsing Slashdot, I was indeed Gophering like a madman. More people than you think were plugged in. AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserv all battled to be my ISP. Most universities made the internet available to all students. So the notion that the internet was for normal folks was pretty much a given to anyone remotely clueful. The biggest hurdle at the time was just getting people to buy computers. Congress more or less just passed the law as an "oh, duh" move. Like repealing a law from the 1800's that is not relevant anymore. Didn't take much vision on their part.
Gore voted for the bill? Good for him. He wasn't the only one. Doesn't excuse him from his gross, ill-thought-out embellishment of the issue.
My original post wasn't meant to give any insight on the issue. It was a joke.:-p
Kill free radio? No. Kill Clear Channel/Infinity control of free radio? Yes. XM radio not only gives you the same 'hits' that your local stations play, it will also give you niche stations that are not commercially viable. Jazz, Blues, Classical, etc. If XM gets popular in your area, the only way for FM to compete is to start clueing in locally and getting clued-in DJs and let them set the plate rather than amass a coporate playlist. Hopefully, XM will force local FM stations to play local music.
Keep your skirt on. The other half of this story is that the hardware manufacturers have agreed to make DRM hardware. Get ready to stock up on the last remaining DRM-free hardware in the near future.
I gotta believe that part of the problem is the current economy. The chipmakers are desparate to find someone to buy the chips. The feel if the suck up to the music and video industry behemoths, that there'll be a new market.
Except it won't be the music and video industry buying these chips. It will be you and me. We all know that most tech-savy crowds (Ars, Slashdot, etc) will NOT be buying this crap. So they are doing this to alienate their potential market?
What they're really trying to do is figure out how they can enforce this *only* on Microsoft. But they're screwed. Enforce it on Microsoft and you have to enforce it with everyone else
The steering, braking, acceleration, hell just about everything is electronically controlled. I'm no electrician, but wouldn't that kind of spell doom for you if there was an electronic failure?
Do you really believe you can drive any car made in the last 15 years given an electrical failure?
Market forces eventually breakdown this model much like it has in the PC arena. Video and sound cars can be had for under $40. Besides, how many $30 fixes have you had with your car? Replacement oil cap? New plugs? Oil change? All these things are a direct replacement of parts, not a fix of them. Parts replacement will most likely be cheaper. Seriously, how many car repairs actually involve fixing a part rather than replacing a part?
Don't forget to lump Ford, DC, Toyota, Honda, and Nissan in there with your horsepucky. All are testing and pushing Hydrogen Fuel Cells as an answer to the problems of the internal combustion engine.
Using any console racing game will only re-enforce this. Please, oh please don't move the "gas" and brake pedels to my hands. My first thought when I first saw GM's vehical is what happens when I'm crusing down the street then reach to change the radio station? I stop accelerating? Let's just hope that they find a way to get the costs down and then remember to sell it to us in the US.
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Cert would beg to differ with you. While not indicitive of the whole, please don't pretend that the Open Source community and the script kiddie/cracker community don't share members. Browse Slashdot.org if you are looking for the motivations for attacking IIS over Apache.
I disagree. There are plenty of security issues with Apache. The only difference is that people attack IIS far more often. If the Apache group had half the ill will of Microsoft, how many worms would devistate Open Source software?
#2. There are so many you can't keep up. SUS server is your friend. As well as a good admin, as you clearly are not.
Which is not much. Which is why we IMPORT far more goods than we export. Ever hear of the Trade Deficit? America is the market. We are the consumers. More so than anybody else in the world.
If you were up on your business news you'd realise that it is NOT working for K-Mart, who filed for Chapter 11.
Something that people are forgetting: America is the biggest consumer market these companies target. What happens when your target market can no longer afford to buy your products?
Why? To bash Microsoft hardware of course. This is Slashdot afterall.
And if it was my choice, I'd take a robust economy without bombing the piss out of everybody, thankyouverymuch. You can have your stagflation, but you'll never get your OPEC embargos again.
Not really. They have every right and the ability to pull out. Cuba has done it, Soviets tried it, China recently dumped it, and most South American coutries do. (Stay out that is.) No one is putting a gun to their heads to do business with us. Hell, look at the Saudis. They get rich off us and support the very groups tring to bomb us. When Euros demontrate against the USA, does the USA roll in the tanks? Ask some oldtimers in the East Bloc what imperialism really is. The US many not always do the popular thing, but we most certainly are not trying to expand our borders.
Gore voted for the bill? Good for him. He wasn't the only one. Doesn't excuse him from his gross, ill-thought-out embellishment of the issue.
My original post wasn't meant to give any insight on the issue. It was a joke. :-p
So what you are saying is that Gore supported a bill on the back end that gave the nod to what was completely obvious.
You obviously didn't live through the Carter administration, did you?
Kill free radio? No. Kill Clear Channel/Infinity control of free radio? Yes. XM radio not only gives you the same 'hits' that your local stations play, it will also give you niche stations that are not commercially viable. Jazz, Blues, Classical, etc. If XM gets popular in your area, the only way for FM to compete is to start clueing in locally and getting clued-in DJs and let them set the plate rather than amass a coporate playlist. Hopefully, XM will force local FM stations to play local music.
Keep your skirt on. The other half of this story is that the hardware manufacturers have agreed to make DRM hardware. Get ready to stock up on the last remaining DRM-free hardware in the near future.
Except it won't be the music and video industry buying these chips. It will be you and me. We all know that most tech-savy crowds (Ars, Slashdot, etc) will NOT be buying this crap. So they are doing this to alienate their potential market?
What they're really trying to do is figure out how they can enforce this *only* on Microsoft. But they're screwed. Enforce it on Microsoft and you have to enforce it with everyone else
Do you really believe you can drive any car made in the last 15 years given an electrical failure?
Market forces eventually breakdown this model much like it has in the PC arena. Video and sound cars can be had for under $40. Besides, how many $30 fixes have you had with your car? Replacement oil cap? New plugs? Oil change? All these things are a direct replacement of parts, not a fix of them. Parts replacement will most likely be cheaper. Seriously, how many car repairs actually involve fixing a part rather than replacing a part?
Maybe their NIC card had a glitch.
Technically, braking is accleration. Negitave accleration. Besides, ever here of friction?
Don't forget to lump Ford, DC, Toyota, Honda, and Nissan in there with your horsepucky. All are testing and pushing Hydrogen Fuel Cells as an answer to the problems of the internal combustion engine.
Using any console racing game will only re-enforce this. Please, oh please don't move the "gas" and brake pedels to my hands. My first thought when I first saw GM's vehical is what happens when I'm crusing down the street then reach to change the radio station? I stop accelerating? Let's just hope that they find a way to get the costs down and then remember to sell it to us in the US.
haha, I love your sig. That's the exact same thing I thought of when I saw Hugo Weaving playing Elrond.
They got one of the DOJ idiots. They'll never win the case in any substantial form. Wonder if he was at all involved with the USFL vs. NFL suit too.
Judge: I have no idea what this guy did, but these other guys seem irate. What the hell, give him 30 years.
People fear what they don't understand.