We call gravity a theory but you don't see people in legislatures trying to get 'both sides of the controvery' tought. I can't say gravity has been proven 100% but I can say there's a damn lot of testable evidence.
Funny you should mention that. Maybe IF (Intelligent Falling) could be the next alternative we'll see in science education.
With this summer's wanna-be blockbuster shrouded in the cloak of Tommy Cruises' Scientology rant, I'm dead curious to hear what insight Harlan has to offer on this topic.
In a recent survey of BotNet administrators, hosts running Microsoft Windows operating systems were found to have at least a 40% less TCO than a comparable Linux offering.
"With volume discounts and integrated tools, we can now offer "managed" remote hosts as low as 5 cents per unit."
Maureen was the one who called it a heart attack. It was only after a couple of Yahoo! Finance message board regulars started making phone calls (it's called "fact checking") to the county coroner's office that the suicide came to light. After this news made the rounds on forums and blogs, the family made a request "... that their privacy and the privacy of the Kreidel family in their time of grief be respected."
It was only after the suicide story started making the rounds that she changed her tune, saying that she was calling it a heart attack to protect the family, after which she had a few chioce words for those who actually got the scoop. Followed now by her revelation that it's a suicide. Journalism? Hardly.
Hosting and posting illegal content is (at least in some countries)
Trimming search input in the hopes of curbing "hate crimes" and pr0n is a dangerous precedent. I'd wager that policies like this make it easier to propagate 'revisionist' history.
IANAL (obviously, otherwise I wouldn't we wanking on/.) but is taking a picture of "the bean" a copyright violation or is it just selling/showing images of it put you on the wrong side of the law?
I had a look at the galleries in the links and I'd wager the Number One question asked by tourists is;
Talk rates and text messaging packages don't cut it for providers of cell services. This genre has been relegated to commodity status and is only profitable when oversold (sell "packages" where users will rarely tap peak usage).
Camera phones provide the necessary excuse to bill a per-packet rate to subscribers who want to push giant images to their IM friends. Upping the pixel density pads thier resource model.
This is not a leading-edge technology enhancemment on handheld devices, but rather a method to improve the billing cycle returns.
Don't get me wrong, it's nothing untoward, we all need to make a buck, but please don't try to sell it as a significant technology push. In fact, bragging rights go to the first one to provide it.
If Microsoft had bulletproof copy protection back in the Microsoft Windows 3.1/WFW3.11 days, they wouldn't have become the giant they are today. "Back in the day" lots of folks made a copy of the Windows floppies (yep, people used to sell software on floppies!) that came with the new PC delivered to the office for use on their home PCs, or even to 'update' older PCs in the office. It was a trivial task and it made Windows so prevalent in the work and home environment that by the time Windows 95 was launched people were hooked. Think crack dealer ("first one's free, dude.").
Whether by guilty conscience, rabid fan-dom, or dare I say consumer satisfaction, people were ready and willing to pony up the bucks to get the latest goods, even using a very liberal and unchecked upgrade policy. How many folks here remember doing the math on upgrades and realizing you could save a hundred bucks by using your copied diskettes as a "qualfying upgrade" product? This was also the case for Microsoft Office - you could go out and buy MS Works and an Upgrade Edition of MS Office 4.2 for less than the shelf price of a full-blown Office Standard install and feel like you've laid a can O' whup-ass on "the man".
That's about to change, the hammer is coming down, World Domination has been achieved. Every potential customer has been tapped. Format lock-in and closed document 'standards' ensure consumer lock-in for the next upgrade round. Maybe.
Consumers are geting really tired of the upgrade mill caused by operating system version changes/upgrades which invariably require them to upgrade all their applications as well, and the insufferable gymnastics involved in something as simple as moving or *gasp* copying their root install to a new hard disk. People really are getting smarter about software and the realize that Microsost is more worried about their intellectual property than the users' precious data. In short, they're treating us like criminals; guilty until proven innocent. SOP.
I like it. I see more and more customers looking at alternatives, and even if that means that have to buy a Linux install from us with Crossover Office just to run their MS Office stuff, so be it. The sooner the end user, the part of the equation that really matters, realizes how badly they've been treated, the better.
Sure, beige box twits who install dodgy copies of XP, and Joe Sixpack users who find themselves unable to update the pirated version they just "bought" with their new whiz-bang PC will find their machine rendered more useless with each newly discovered exploit to go wild, are gonna sweat it huge, but it just means more clients to me. I'm armed and ready with whatever distro they think is pretty enough, and can sell it with a clear conscience.
Of course Microsoft already knew that, and in preparation they announced the recent "Indemnification" program to keep MS users from being sued by SoundForge, or (even worse) by Deepz0ne.
Don't hang a pair of drives off each controller. Get a truckload of PCI ATA cards or a card with multiple controllers. Don't slave a drive. (No, I do NOT know what the correct PC term is for this).
Also, give 'mdadm' a whirl - a little nicer to use than the legacy raidtools-1.x (Neil's stuff really rocks!)
Software RAID5 has been working extrememly well for us, but it is NOT a replacement for a real backup strategy.
No, I'm not more knowlegable, but like many on/. I too have an opinion;)
Early adoption of Dos/Windows by 'casual' pirates is why Microsoft penetrated the market so quickly. (Tipping point again!)
Microsoft made HUGE leaps in market share by using "educational discounts" and having ineffective copy protection (for retail/business/edu versions). This merely accelerated the adoption process.
Bulletproof copy protection at a crucial time, like, say Windows 3.1/3.11 would have forced people to shell out hard cash for an OS, and would have allowed room for real market competition from the likes of OS/2, or the Apple hardware/OS bundle (granted, the Apple setup had its own lock-in woes). Instead, they played the crack dealer ("First one's on the house,kid") and reap the benefits of users' unwillingness to change to something new, and presented Industry with a workforce more conversant in the Microsoft Way. Eventually, people want the next version/office suite so bad, they're willing to pay for it.
It was a win/win for MS, and the consumers who are getting boned today are only doing so because, well, it's a habit.
The blades, perforators, points, and other cutting and chopping utensils were apparently used to hunt big game.
Everything is is "big game" when you're 3 feet tall. The elephants are at least on scale with their tiny stature, but they got a raw deal on the giant rat/lizard setup.
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Funny you should mention that. Maybe IF (Intelligent Falling) could be the next alternative we'll see in science education.
Aw hell. My tounge is stuck in my cheek again.
With this summer's wanna-be blockbuster shrouded in the cloak of Tommy Cruises' Scientology rant, I'm dead curious to hear what insight Harlan has to offer on this topic.
C'mon. You know you want to tell us.
Please?
In a recent survey of BotNet administrators, hosts running Microsoft Windows operating systems were found to have at least a 40% less TCO than a comparable Linux offering.
"With volume discounts and integrated tools, we can now offer "managed" remote hosts as low as 5 cents per unit."
Close.
"The Elegant Universe" is Brian Greene's book which Nova turned into a pretty decent two-part feature.
Exaclty, and I congratulate Apple for releasing this awesome Xbox killer into the gaming console market
...buthardly original.
iPod white, smooth look, and glowy buttons. MS is hooked on the "Look & Feel" thing again.
Maureen was the one who called it a heart attack. It was only after a couple of Yahoo! Finance message board regulars started making phone calls (it's called "fact checking") to the county coroner's office that the suicide came to light. After this news made the rounds on forums and blogs, the family made a request "... that their privacy and the privacy of the Kreidel family in their time of grief be respected."
It was only after the suicide story started making the rounds that she changed her tune, saying that she was calling it a heart attack to protect the family, after which she had a few chioce words for those who actually got the scoop. Followed now by her revelation that it's a suicide. Journalism? Hardly.Searching is not a crime. Period.
Hosting and posting illegal content is (at least in some countries)
Trimming search input in the hopes of curbing "hate crimes" and pr0n is a dangerous precedent. I'd wager that policies like this make it easier to propagate 'revisionist' history.
I run Microsoft Office under CodeWeavers' Crossover Office, both of which are licensed (read: I paid for it), so yes, I find the news disturbing.
It also appears to be a very shortsighted move on their part while under a worldwide antitrust microscope.
IANAL (obviously, otherwise I wouldn't we wanking on /.) but is taking a picture of "the bean" a copyright violation or is it just selling/showing images of it put you on the wrong side of the law?
I had a look at the galleries in the links and I'd wager the Number One question asked by tourists is;
Comparing p2p applications with sawed-off shotguns and virus code?
Why not just ban TCP/IP networking, and IPX (just in case)?
The application is not the problem. Jackasses trading in copyrighted material is. Get over it.
Probably for the same reason people put those "Free iPod" links in their sigs - gullibility and no sense of humor.
While that will prevent SPAM that originates in China, you may want to re-think your strategy.
According to this report, most of the spam comes from North America, with thanks to Zombie PCs.
Talk rates and text messaging packages don't cut it for providers of cell services. This genre has been relegated to commodity status and is only profitable when oversold (sell "packages" where users will rarely tap peak usage).
Camera phones provide the necessary excuse to bill a per-packet rate to subscribers who want to push giant images to their IM friends. Upping the pixel density pads thier resource model.
This is not a leading-edge technology enhancemment on handheld devices, but rather a method to improve the billing cycle returns.
Don't get me wrong, it's nothing untoward, we all need to make a buck, but please don't try to sell it as a significant technology push. In fact, bragging rights go to the first one to provide it.
Yeah - but he's the one who get his "brass ones" nailed to the Inquisition chair every time some DMCA twit gets a knot in his gonch.
Yeah. There. I Said it.
If Microsoft had bulletproof copy protection back in the Microsoft Windows 3.1/WFW3.11 days, they wouldn't have become the giant they are today. "Back in the day" lots of folks made a copy of the Windows floppies (yep, people used to sell software on floppies!) that came with the new PC delivered to the office for use on their home PCs, or even to 'update' older PCs in the office. It was a trivial task and it made Windows so prevalent in the work and home environment that by the time Windows 95 was launched people were hooked. Think crack dealer ("first one's free, dude.").
Whether by guilty conscience, rabid fan-dom, or dare I say consumer satisfaction, people were ready and willing to pony up the bucks to get the latest goods, even using a very liberal and unchecked upgrade policy. How many folks here remember doing the math on upgrades and realizing you could save a hundred bucks by using your copied diskettes as a "qualfying upgrade" product? This was also the case for Microsoft Office - you could go out and buy MS Works and an Upgrade Edition of MS Office 4.2 for less than the shelf price of a full-blown Office Standard install and feel like you've laid a can O' whup-ass on "the man".
That's about to change, the hammer is coming down, World Domination has been achieved. Every potential customer has been tapped. Format lock-in and closed document 'standards' ensure consumer lock-in for the next upgrade round. Maybe.
Consumers are geting really tired of the upgrade mill caused by operating system version changes/upgrades which invariably require them to upgrade all their applications as well, and the insufferable gymnastics involved in something as simple as moving or *gasp* copying their root install to a new hard disk. People really are getting smarter about software and the realize that Microsost is more worried about their intellectual property than the users' precious data. In short, they're treating us like criminals; guilty until proven innocent. SOP.
I like it. I see more and more customers looking at alternatives, and even if that means that have to buy a Linux install from us with Crossover Office just to run their MS Office stuff, so be it. The sooner the end user, the part of the equation that really matters, realizes how badly they've been treated, the better.
Sure, beige box twits who install dodgy copies of XP, and Joe Sixpack users who find themselves unable to update the pirated version they just "bought" with their new whiz-bang PC will find their machine rendered more useless with each newly discovered exploit to go wild, are gonna sweat it huge, but it just means more clients to me. I'm armed and ready with whatever distro they think is pretty enough, and can sell it with a clear conscience.
Are you?
Of course Microsoft already knew that, and in preparation they announced the recent "Indemnification" program to keep MS users from being sued by SoundForge, or (even worse) by Deepz0ne.
/me coughs
Don't hang a pair of drives off each controller. Get a truckload of PCI ATA cards or a card with multiple controllers. Don't slave a drive. (No, I do NOT know what the correct PC term is for this).
Also, give 'mdadm' a whirl - a little nicer to use than the legacy raidtools-1.x (Neil's stuff really rocks!)
Software RAID5 has been working extrememly well for us, but it is NOT a replacement for a real backup strategy.
No, I'm not more knowlegable, but like many on /. I too have an opinion ;)
Early adoption of Dos/Windows by 'casual' pirates is why Microsoft penetrated the market so quickly. (Tipping point again!)
Microsoft made HUGE leaps in market share by using "educational discounts" and having ineffective copy protection (for retail/business/edu versions). This merely accelerated the adoption process.
Bulletproof copy protection at a crucial time, like, say Windows 3.1/3.11 would have forced people to shell out hard cash for an OS, and would have allowed room for real market competition from the likes of OS/2, or the Apple hardware/OS bundle (granted, the Apple setup had its own lock-in woes). Instead, they played the crack dealer ("First one's on the house,kid") and reap the benefits of users' unwillingness to change to something new, and presented Industry with a workforce more conversant in the Microsoft Way. Eventually, people want the next version/office suite so bad, they're willing to pay for it.
It was a win/win for MS, and the consumers who are getting boned today are only doing so because, well, it's a habit.
Everything is is "big game" when you're 3 feet tall. The elephants are at least on scale with their tiny stature, but they got a raw deal on the giant rat/lizard setup.
...then all we need is a revival of the big station wagons!
Would have to be 247-9999
Am I the only one here who feels like they need a shower after seeing this?