But that's the life... and Carly won't be near the mess... But that's my opinion...
Of course she won't - how would running a sad, non-innovating, non-inventing, trying to make a profit in a low margin, commodity item market, still can't compete with Dell-company like HP be any fun. It would be much more fun, for her, if she went to some other company and sucked the life blood out of it.
Not to rehash the whole deal, but the merger made little sense - from any perspective - and we are now beginning to see what we will lose. I haven't seen any HP calculators for sale in a while...just those TI versions. My 48sx (gawd was I envious of those jerks with rich parents flaunting their 48g's around like they were geek-gods or something...) is still running strong, so it's all good.
and who would have guessed it, regulators "suddenly" allow the buy out with no questions asked.
What are you complaining about? The Echostar deal was not approved, which would have merged the only two satellite TV companies worth mentioning. Murdoch was beat out on that deal years ago and is now coming back to buy DirectTV. There isn't a conspiracy here. Calm down.
Besides, Fox is probably the last media company NOT to have their own distribution source, be it cable or satellite.
/. is made up of various populations - that is why oen post will say the MPAA is bad while the next will praise the new geek movie coming out. One thing we all have in common is the Internet.
Being part of a community involves give and take./. has done its fair of giving, so far as links to news and a place to comment is concerned. This has also involved more than a fair share of taking.
As a responsible net-citizen, though, the editors need to be far more considerate of other people. This is a clear case of inproper net behavior, something I would expect the newest AOL-newbie, spam producing, weenie to do.
Instead of complaining about how much spam you get everyday, Taco, why don't you do the community something useful and mirror the websites that you link to. We whine and complain about bad patents, spam, copyright abuse, monopolies, and then treat the net community with disrespect by effectively dos'ing random servers? It isn't funny anymore.
/. is made up of various populations - that is why oen post will say the MPAA is bad while the next will praise the new geek movie coming out. One thing we all have in common is the Internet.
Being part of a community involves give and take./. has done its fair of giving, so far as links to news and a place to comment is concerned. This has also involved more than a fair share of taking.
As a responsible net-citizen, though, the editors need to be far more considerate of other people. This is a clear case of inproper net behavior, something I would expect the newest AOL-newbie, spam producing, weenie to do.
Instead of complaining about how much spam you get everyday, Taco, why don't you do the community something useful and mirror the websites that you link to. We whine and complain about bad patents, spam, copyright abuse, monopolies, and then treat the net community with disrespect by effectively dos'ing random servers? It isn't funny anymore.
It always seems that someone complains about the "Microsoft Tax" when discussing running Linux on a regular computer. Why, then, is going out of the way to Linux to run on hardware bought from Microsoft that wonderful??
I can understand the coolness factor - the need to hack something. It just seems...ironic, I guess, that a community so vehemently opposed to Microsoft feels the need to acknowledge Microsoft at every turn. I would think that every little step independant (i.e. NOT directly opposed to Microsoft but, rather, truly original, unique, groundbreaking, etc.) would be much more impressive. As long as Microsoft is the "leader", in that the Linux community feels the need to mimick Microsoft, then Microsoft has a legitimate claim that they innovate (ignoring the obvious parts that were embraced and extended) - if the Free Software groups feel the need to mimick and follow Microsoft at every turn, then obviously Microsoft is doing something right.
existence of materials that have metaphysical qualities -- so-called "metamaterials" -- that transcend the laws of nature.
Just the like the duckbilled platypus - stupid thing just refuses to fall into our predefined categories. Maybe we are just discovering that we don't actually know everything!
The University of Phoenix has a large online program, offering numerous degrees and certificates. While not as well-known, or academically respected as Harvard, theh programs is apparently pretty good and successful.
I completely agree that these types of programs are what the Internet should enable for people: to do things that they are unable to do because of location. We are able to meet people, communicate, and maintain relationships (professionally and personally) on the Internet - using this resource to learn is the next logical and easy step. The hard part is getting the programs tough and effective so that they are respected.
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It still looks "obvious" to me,
Don't most patents look obvious after the fact? That seems to be the most difficult part about deciding whether these patents are valid - even for a non-technie, once you read the patent, the idea may seem obvious. This doesn't always make the patent invalid, though, right?
Your original post only said it would be more interesting if the blurb said that NWN on Linux required Windows in order to extract the game data. One can assume that you were implying it would be cool that playing on Linux without needing Windows, but this wasn't said.
Saying it was a troll was too much, perhaps, but it did come across as more about complaining about microsoft than attempting to inform people about something.
But this has been said - over and over again, every time a story gets posted about NWN. It doesn't make the fact that the client for Linux (albeit beta) has been released more interesting to be told, again, that you have to have Windows in order to install it.
The post was a troll - it is simply reposting an easy Microsoft bashing fact that anyone interested in the Linux client of NWN already knows.
Not to troll, and kudos to the dev for doing this, but I mean this still relies on someone having paid the MS tax to play the game. Sounds like a troll.
That's the Neverwinter Nights windows install disks. This is more appropriately called a "Bioware" tax, as in, you actually bought the game.
It wasn't the "definitive" desktop review! Do people not even read the Slashdot summaries anymore? Articles I can understand (who can really be bothered to follow a link that doesn't work half the time - there should just be a "Reply to this" link on the front page...no one really wants to read more)
This was a "definite" desktop review. As opposed to those reviews on other sites which may or may not be a review, possibly about desktops. Those sites are not quite sure. In this case, OSNews has done a thorough job of determining that, in fact, this is a review of desktops.
There is a difference but I don't see how bringing Microsoft (other than because we always have to bash Microsoft) into the argument is valid.
The difference is that open source software can be fixed by whomever knows that there is a problem. Making this information more widespread supposedly helps fix the problem faster.
In closed source software it has often been the case that threatening to go public with the information aids in getting the fix out faster. Once the fix is created, spreading the news as far and as fast as possible helps those that need the information receive it faster.
If someone publishes that there is a security breach that allows terrorists to obtain nuclear weapons from the U.S. government, there is very little likelihood that letting YOU know about it will help the problem be fixed faster. The difference is that in the computer security industry there are orders of magnitude more people able to fix the problem than there are people able to fix security issues in government facilities. I suppose the threat of going public could help fix the problem faster, but if the threat that the security breach will be utilized isn't enough then I don't know what would be.
If you really want something specific about "IT people" you shouldn't be asking for management books - look for something in psychology (or "Microserfs", ha!) instead. Actually, reading Slashdot or other IT-centric websites may help give some insight...
Any book that claims it can teach you how to manage a specific type of worker is lying to you and isn't worth the paper it is printed on. ALL people are different so there can't be a "Managing IT workers, for Dummies" just as there isn't "Managing HR workers, for Dummies".
This quote definitely makes me regret my decision to join the Navy over a dozen years ago:
"The problem with computers in the Army is they are bought by the gross and not necessarily purchased to accomplish certain functions. The Army doles out laptops in the same way we dole out boots, tents or any other class of supply."
In the Navy, the only they doled out were annoying uniforms and silly hats.
My roommate logged 15 days of playtime during the final EQ beta (about one month total time...) - after which his character was, justifiably, wiped (I had warned him....). This was, of course, not his job. Considering we were in the military (which meant one third of those days he slept at work and could not play) I really don't find this guy's whining too impressive...
One of my favorite lines was "the enemy is closing in! They're only 5 microns away!", to which I yelled back loudly at the screen, "well, then, scrape them off!".
Sigh. It's OK to invent units. It's not OK to have those units already mean something vastly different in real life.
Maybe that is why the mini-series is so desperately needed: to explain to viewers that everything they are watching is actually not humans versus cyclons, but tiny, subatomic creatures similiar to humans. This is, of course, the real reason that some are so vehemently opposed to the airing - the truth will be quite devastating.
Now why can't they bring back Wilma from Buck Rogers - she is what got to love sci-fi as a pre-pubescant teen, not thinking how intellectually superior I was to the show writers.
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Of course she won't - how would running a sad, non-innovating, non-inventing, trying to make a profit in a low margin, commodity item market, still can't compete with Dell-company like HP be any fun. It would be much more fun, for her, if she went to some other company and sucked the life blood out of it.
Not to rehash the whole deal, but the merger made little sense - from any perspective - and we are now beginning to see what we will lose. I haven't seen any HP calculators for sale in a while...just those TI versions. My 48sx (gawd was I envious of those jerks with rich parents flaunting their 48g's around like they were geek-gods or something...) is still running strong, so it's all good.
So that's how you do it...gonna go set one of those up now...
Besides, Fox is probably the last media company NOT to have their own distribution source, be it cable or satellite.
Being part of a community involves give and take. /. has done its fair of giving, so far as links to news and a place to comment is concerned. This has also involved more than a fair share of taking.
As a responsible net-citizen, though, the editors need to be far more considerate of other people. This is a clear case of inproper net behavior, something I would expect the newest AOL-newbie, spam producing, weenie to do.
Instead of complaining about how much spam you get everyday, Taco, why don't you do the community something useful and mirror the websites that you link to. We whine and complain about bad patents, spam, copyright abuse, monopolies, and then treat the net community with disrespect by effectively dos'ing random servers? It isn't funny anymore.
Being part of a community involves give and take. /. has done its fair of giving, so far as links to news and a place to comment is concerned. This has also involved more than a fair share of taking.
As a responsible net-citizen, though, the editors need to be far more considerate of other people. This is a clear case of inproper net behavior, something I would expect the newest AOL-newbie, spam producing, weenie to do.
Instead of complaining about how much spam you get everyday, Taco, why don't you do the community something useful and mirror the websites that you link to. We whine and complain about bad patents, spam, copyright abuse, monopolies, and then treat the net community with disrespect by effectively dos'ing random servers? It isn't funny anymore.
I can understand the coolness factor - the need to hack something. It just seems...ironic, I guess, that a community so vehemently opposed to Microsoft feels the need to acknowledge Microsoft at every turn. I would think that every little step independant (i.e. NOT directly opposed to Microsoft but, rather, truly original, unique, groundbreaking, etc.) would be much more impressive. As long as Microsoft is the "leader", in that the Linux community feels the need to mimick Microsoft, then Microsoft has a legitimate claim that they innovate (ignoring the obvious parts that were embraced and extended) - if the Free Software groups feel the need to mimick and follow Microsoft at every turn, then obviously Microsoft is doing something right.
Just the like the duckbilled platypus - stupid thing just refuses to fall into our predefined categories. Maybe we are just discovering that we don't actually know everything!
I completely agree that these types of programs are what the Internet should enable for people: to do things that they are unable to do because of location. We are able to meet people, communicate, and maintain relationships (professionally and personally) on the Internet - using this resource to learn is the next logical and easy step. The hard part is getting the programs tough and effective so that they are respected.
Don't most patents look obvious after the fact? That seems to be the most difficult part about deciding whether these patents are valid - even for a non-technie, once you read the patent, the idea may seem obvious. This doesn't always make the patent invalid, though, right?
Saying it was a troll was too much, perhaps, but it did come across as more about complaining about microsoft than attempting to inform people about something.
And redundant stories on /. ? :-)
The post was a troll - it is simply reposting an easy Microsoft bashing fact that anyone interested in the Linux client of NWN already knows.
That's the Neverwinter Nights windows install disks. This is more appropriately called a "Bioware" tax, as in, you actually bought the game.
This was a "definite" desktop review. As opposed to those reviews on other sites which may or may not be a review, possibly about desktops. Those sites are not quite sure. In this case, OSNews has done a thorough job of determining that, in fact, this is a review of desktops.
It also rubs the lotion on its' skin, or it gets the hose again...please do not be pressing in the penguin, as that excites the penguin too much.
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ARgh...posted to fast. Correct link here.
I can't even begin to record here all the things this combination brings to mind...
The difference is that open source software can be fixed by whomever knows that there is a problem. Making this information more widespread supposedly helps fix the problem faster.
In closed source software it has often been the case that threatening to go public with the information aids in getting the fix out faster. Once the fix is created, spreading the news as far and as fast as possible helps those that need the information receive it faster.
If someone publishes that there is a security breach that allows terrorists to obtain nuclear weapons from the U.S. government, there is very little likelihood that letting YOU know about it will help the problem be fixed faster. The difference is that in the computer security industry there are orders of magnitude more people able to fix the problem than there are people able to fix security issues in government facilities. I suppose the threat of going public could help fix the problem faster, but if the threat that the security breach will be utilized isn't enough then I don't know what would be.
Please don't be so rational - it breaks the flow of nonsense that I usually am able to indulge in when reading "Ask Slashdot" discussions.
Any book that claims it can teach you how to manage a specific type of worker is lying to you and isn't worth the paper it is printed on. ALL people are different so there can't be a "Managing IT workers, for Dummies" just as there isn't "Managing HR workers, for Dummies".
Is their webserver running from this same script engine?
In the Navy, the only they doled out were annoying uniforms and silly hats.
Oh, wait...nevermind.
Have you watched The Jerry Springer show lately?
My roommate logged 15 days of playtime during the final EQ beta (about one month total time...) - after which his character was, justifiably, wiped (I had warned him....). This was, of course, not his job. Considering we were in the military (which meant one third of those days he slept at work and could not play) I really don't find this guy's whining too impressive...
Maybe that is why the mini-series is so desperately needed: to explain to viewers that everything they are watching is actually not humans versus cyclons, but tiny, subatomic creatures similiar to humans. This is, of course, the real reason that some are so vehemently opposed to the airing - the truth will be quite devastating.
Now why can't they bring back Wilma from Buck Rogers - she is what got to love sci-fi as a pre-pubescant teen, not thinking how intellectually superior I was to the show writers.