Should someone do anything against us OSS/slashdot crowd, do we find the person's name and attack humiliate him/her? Think of the SCO guy. His name is associated with evil throughout the IT world now, thanks to sites like slashdot. He might deserve it, but most people dont follow up and check whether he's actually as wrong as we're made to think (slashdot articles have been wrong/exaggerating on more than one occasion).
A recent artice accused Rogers execs of having links to terrorists. This is an extremely baseless accusation based on phone calls to somewhere in the middle east. But this shows we're turning from being a bazaar to a bit like a mafia. (Open your sources.... or else). Do article moderators and editors know how much personal damage can they cause?
I skimmed your text and youve missed out an important point. Microsoft runs on more computers than everything else combined. Thats called having monopoly of the market share.
Think of the Windows starter edition. Most OS makers wont deliberately cripple their OS to this extent... Lindows, BeOS etc sold their OS for cheap too but never crippled it since they didnt have a chance their customers would later fork out $150 for the full version. Now THESE guys were competing.
OSX is considered secure and stable. I'd like to have one. But in all the computers at home I dont have a single OSX machine. None of my games or special apps run on apple machines, nor do they run on Linux without emulation. Here we are succumbing to the monopoly you dont think exists. Almost all machines at work are Windows too. We have a few critical apps which keep us on Windows, not our zeal for an OS that requires frequent patches and uncalled-for reboots.
Microsoft never had a real monopoly over the server market, nor on the console market. They just entered the console market, and before unix and linux servers, there was netware and as400. But the desktops out there heavily outnumber servers and consoles. Therefore Microsoft is a monopoly.
Try this. Think of having a non-Linux setup at home and at work. See how well things run for you. Next think of a completely non-Microsoft setup everywhere, home and work. Think of all the obstacles.
Firefox comes with google has its homepage. I wont be surprised to hear google is the most hit page of all.
The real interesting statistic will be which page is most often TYPED INTO the address bar by the user. Search engines should be excluded to produce the most popular 'website' since people use search engines to GET to that website. MSNBC maybe the most 'hit' website but what is the percentage of users who actually READ the site after it has been loaded?
I dont know what this means for the many soccer moms who drive SUVs, nor for the larger families (more than 2 kids). People living away from metalled roads must really need this extension.
"High speed internet seems to be the one most determined to be a 'necessity'. A third of the country is said to pay more than $200.00 a month for their addiction, where 4 out of 10 pay between $100.00 and $150.00 a month."
This implies the Internet more than technology in general. Maybe the OP did intend 'technology'.
I though civ did a better job of this, version 1 through 4. You have the radiation fallout, cleanup, population killed, global warming, social and political aspects etc. Plus you have to GET all that technology and manufacture the nukes too.
Maybe DEFCON can be a mod to civ4, when the nuclear war starts, the interface switches to defcon. I'm just looking for an FPS mod to civ where I get to kill the enemy units 'personally' counterstrike style.
Wow Internet is expensive down south. Up here in Canada its between $20 to $50 for DSL or cable including the modem rental. I read somewhere Canada was claiming the worlds cheapest Internet, was some brochure or something.
That shows how governments need to nationalize the net, provide it to everyone for free. Then they can make do without forms for businesses, taxes etc.
I'm not addicted to cell phones, pdas, mp3 players, TV. I dont have that list (company provided cell phone). I'm a little addicted to the automobile, but I suppose it only replaced the horse. I'm addicted to the Internet... and the computer. But thats just the demographics I fall under, being on slashdot and all.
If mysql wanted to be a real database, they could've been one a long time ago. They're the envy of all other databases in the web market currently. I can see sqlite taking a small bite in time, but mysql is pretty much alone in its niche and doing a damn good job.
I wouldnt prefer my database working much slower while I have the fuzzy feeling of it having so and so features I dont use. Maybe they'll release another 'class' of their database to compete with the bigger guys with bigger features. I'll read the benchmarks then.
mysql is a completely different class of database than ms sql or oracle.
MS SQL is better compared with DB2 and Sybase. Mysql is better compared to smaller databases, maybe postgresql but I cant think of a commercial one. Mysql is for web pages (where milliseconds in serving time matter), while MS SQL and oracle are there for much larger purposes (ERP systems where queries can take many seconds, but far more users can be querying at a time). Its like comparing a 1.6L car with a 4.0L SUV and claiming the smaller car is faster therefore better, while ignoring all the strenths of the SUV.
In other words, if I have to build a database for a small bank, mysql, minisql, sqlite or dbase5 wont be it.
...The playstation 3 is banned from export from the US entirely. Sadly, Japan is where its made anyway so its everywhere.
Hmm. I'm a terrorist from Al Qaeda on a computer somewhere in Pakistan/Afghanistan/MiddleEast with an Internet connection. I need strong cyphers.
So hmm lemme see. What do I do? Either:
(1) I cry and whine that the US wont let me BUY a copy of symantec, in a country where 99% of the software is pirated. OR
(2) I google it up and download any tool I need. OR
(3) I goto the local software store and go 'Yo Osama can I have a symantec US edition, and a dvd or oracle, one of websphere and another of windows 2003 datacenter edition as well?'. He goes 'Sure thats (eq 10 cents)'. I go home and build Weapons of Mass Destruction (tm).
I know its a guaranteed Karma-earner to say 'right tool for the right job' everytime two technologies are compared anywhere on the web, but I'll go out on a limb and say Python (and other similar tools) are more right for more jobs than Java. You can use that expression for Linux vs Microsoft, VHS vs Beta, 802.11a vs 802.11g or QNX vs eCos. But comparisons are done with that already in mind.
I should say I've had a closed mind against Java for a long time. Its the only language (apart from Pascal) that I've despised enough never to have learned seriously. I feel comfortable with C, much more so than with C++, and tend to go more into deeply embedded devices with assembly languages. At the higher levels, I've used PHP and Visual Basic, and PHP is more intuitive to me. So theres my bias.
But The results of Java have so consistently been slow everywhere I've checked, its hard to believe Java can be fast. Java web apps load much more slow than PHP, Java applications can be resource hogs and on a higher level can be a real pain in the ass. Have you tried to install Oracle 9i or 10g? Have you had those 'wrong Java version' problems, where you have to find and specify that EXACT version else things break all around? I'd rather have the C source code and compile it for whatever platform I'll use it..NET seems to have failed to be the industry standard platform, maybe Java will too. Java has a stronger hold as a VM since the entire tech industry has been behind it and supported it minus Microsoft, but these so many other languages have been successful and flourished in spite of Java's standard usage and teaching in most colleges that I think somethings inherently wrong with Java's design as a VM. It tries to be a generalist, while the special languages PHP, Perl , Python, Ruby, C++, VB all continue to be successful.
If I were a hardware technician, I'd rather have a large set of specialized tools than one swiss army knife.
Shut up! Opera is the best available browser on many platforms, and Microsoft will just use its engine and kill the other ports. They'll also bastardize its engine again to break standards, so people will have to use MS Opera for many sites giving Firefox more grief. While its a smart move for Microsoft, it will hurt the consumers more.
I wasnt suggesting something like a kilt. Its open underneath. Shalwar Kameez is closed right to the ankles, pretty decent with no chance of wardrobe malfunction. Think of a track suit, but since it doenst hug your body its more comfy.
When you grow up in that dress in a windy area it doesnt do a thing. In that case, its the western undies which might make you more uncomfortable than originally intended. In a dusty area you have to wash the whole dress frequently anyway, minus the undies theres less to wash in total...
I guess depends on culture and practicality too. Bummer you can wear that dress downtown NYC... anymore...
Two replies (a) I know where Australia is located. Theyre allied to the US in the war too.
(b) I've been to Manhattan in July 2000 for 2 weeks. I walked around all over NYC. I've also lived all over Balochistan and Sindh in Pakistan.
Once again, a dude from Manhattan (who might have NO problems in the searing summer heat of NYC) will not last more than a couple of hours in the kind of heat Ive seen and expect to be in Iraq. 32C and 50C are 18C apart.
"Just as the rest of the world's view of the US comes through entertainment channels"
Thats so true.
Prior to coming to the US as a student, I used to think there are no fat people in USA. I also thought there were only 2 types of people; white people and black people.
So now pirated movies just wont display?? What about pirated MP3s? Need a DMCA compliant sound card?
Or they dont want the monitor's controller's firmware copied elsewhere?
And whats with the new slashdot page popup style ads? I could barely understand the screen. I hope the slashcode developers move the ads either to one side or the top. Shouldnt look like msn.com.
I agree with you, except for the crap part. The comments above yours are people fighting over whether Seagate, Maxtor or WD drives crash more. I've been using all kinds of drives for 18 odd years, and cant prefer one brand over another.
I've never had an IBM drive crash on me. Including the deathstars. I used to think IBM was bulletproof while I had 3 seagate drives crash on me in a row. Next I thought Maxtor and WD were awesome while I avoided Seagate. I had high opinions of Quantum and bought a bunch. Got bitten. Then I thought Fujitsu was awesome and avoided Maxtor and WD. Now I again think Seagate is good while Maxtor is next and WD is crap. In hindsight, they all have death rates. Slower speeds, less power usage, single platter etc mean they die much less. Bad batch, multi platter, high power usage, loud mean the drive will die faster.
Nowadays I'd just buy some quiet single-platter drive and rsync the important stuff onto the server. I expect to lose a drive every 5 years, and will take as much warranty as I can. Beside that, I'll hope there are enough harddisk companies out there to make good competition, instead of a monolith company selling crappy drives.
I'm on slashdot. Should I be loving Linux and hating Microsoft by definition?
Slashdot is more like a news site with plenty of smart commentary. Sure to some its a place where everyone gets together to bash Microsoft and say 'does it run linux?'.
I dont mind Linux, use it on one firewall and my embedded projects. But I also use Solaris, Windows, QNX, eCos, OpenBSD, netbsd, BeOS (sometimes) and the standard unix workstation pile (solaris, hpux, aix, tru64 even) for different things. Readers on slashdot are more diverse than you might think.
I'm appalled. You will firewall off an entire town and check every packet for viruses???
A few things why this is a terrible idea:
A single firewall like this will really make things slow. You are playing big brother. Expect to be asked to block P2P and games even. The performance will be terrible. VoIP will be unusable. Cost will rise, it will not scale. Dont allow immigrants.
See, if you want to provide an Internet connection, just buy some fat cisco or juniper switches. Divide the bandwidth fairly at level 2 and leave it at that. Some will use VPN, some will use P2P software, others will just browse and email. Leave the computers in their own hands. Setup a service whereby you'd re-image their computers for free, but apart from that, let them be. OpenBSD is awesome for a company where everyone should be working and computers are all owned by the company (IT department responsible for fixups). A town sounds like a place where people live in their homes doing whatever they want to do.
Youre not a part of the new homeland security are you?
In a certain part of Pakistan, people use a type of Hashish/Bhang/Marijuana/Pot mixed in a drink to be able to withstand the heat (when even in the shadows, the blowing wind just cooks you alive). All the desert colors must look nice in that state. But they'll get back home looking like Iraqis/Pakistanis themselves.
With such supplements, they wont need recruitment drives. Plenty of volunteers.
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Whenever you want to play Halflife 2.
Or Giants
Or use any MS based ERP system from work.
Or use the Lotus Notes client.
"Anyone know who this member was?"
What? Now we're a mafia?
Should someone do anything against us OSS/slashdot crowd, do we find the person's name and attack humiliate him/her? Think of the SCO guy. His name is associated with evil throughout the IT world now, thanks to sites like slashdot. He might deserve it, but most people dont follow up and check whether he's actually as wrong as we're made to think (slashdot articles have been wrong/exaggerating on more than one occasion).
A recent artice accused Rogers execs of having links to terrorists. This is an extremely baseless accusation based on phone calls to somewhere in the middle east. But this shows we're turning from being a bazaar to a bit like a mafia. (Open your sources.... or else). Do article moderators and editors know how much personal damage can they cause?
I skimmed your text and youve missed out an important point. Microsoft runs on more computers than everything else combined. Thats called having monopoly of the market share.
Think of the Windows starter edition. Most OS makers wont deliberately cripple their OS to this extent... Lindows, BeOS etc sold their OS for cheap too but never crippled it since they didnt have a chance their customers would later fork out $150 for the full version. Now THESE guys were competing.
OSX is considered secure and stable. I'd like to have one. But in all the computers at home I dont have a single OSX machine. None of my games or special apps run on apple machines, nor do they run on Linux without emulation. Here we are succumbing to the monopoly you dont think exists. Almost all machines at work are Windows too. We have a few critical apps which keep us on Windows, not our zeal for an OS that requires frequent patches and uncalled-for reboots.
Microsoft never had a real monopoly over the server market, nor on the console market. They just entered the console market, and before unix and linux servers, there was netware and as400. But the desktops out there heavily outnumber servers and consoles. Therefore Microsoft is a monopoly.
Try this. Think of having a non-Linux setup at home and at work. See how well things run for you. Next think of a completely non-Microsoft setup everywhere, home and work. Think of all the obstacles.
Alexa also says slashdot is hit way less than bbc.co.uk.
Its a challenge boys, lets slashdot bbc!! Test their hardware a bit.
Firefox comes with google has its homepage. I wont be surprised to hear google is the most hit page of all.
The real interesting statistic will be which page is most often TYPED INTO the address bar by the user. Search engines should be excluded to produce the most popular 'website' since people use search engines to GET to that website. MSNBC maybe the most 'hit' website but what is the percentage of users who actually READ the site after it has been loaded?
Penis extension?
I dont know what this means for the many soccer moms who drive SUVs, nor for the larger families (more than 2 kids). People living away from metalled roads must really need this extension.
"High speed internet seems to be the one most determined to be a 'necessity'. A third of the country is said to pay more than $200.00 a month for their addiction, where 4 out of 10 pay between $100.00 and $150.00 a month."
This implies the Internet more than technology in general. Maybe the OP did intend 'technology'.
I have lots of fun working at a high paying job. I'll have MORE fun with higher income.
I though civ did a better job of this, version 1 through 4. You have the radiation fallout, cleanup, population killed, global warming, social and political aspects etc. Plus you have to GET all that technology and manufacture the nukes too.
Maybe DEFCON can be a mod to civ4, when the nuclear war starts, the interface switches to defcon. I'm just looking for an FPS mod to civ where I get to kill the enemy units 'personally' counterstrike style.
Wow Internet is expensive down south. Up here in Canada its between $20 to $50 for DSL or cable including the modem rental. I read somewhere Canada was claiming the worlds cheapest Internet, was some brochure or something.
That shows how governments need to nationalize the net, provide it to everyone for free. Then they can make do without forms for businesses, taxes etc.
I'm not addicted to cell phones, pdas, mp3 players, TV. I dont have that list (company provided cell phone). I'm a little addicted to the automobile, but I suppose it only replaced the horse. I'm addicted to the Internet... and the computer. But thats just the demographics I fall under, being on slashdot and all.
If mysql wanted to be a real database, they could've been one a long time ago. They're the envy of all other databases in the web market currently. I can see sqlite taking a small bite in time, but mysql is pretty much alone in its niche and doing a damn good job.
I wouldnt prefer my database working much slower while I have the fuzzy feeling of it having so and so features I dont use. Maybe they'll release another 'class' of their database to compete with the bigger guys with bigger features. I'll read the benchmarks then.
mysql is a completely different class of database than ms sql or oracle.
MS SQL is better compared with DB2 and Sybase. Mysql is better compared to smaller databases, maybe postgresql but I cant think of a commercial one. Mysql is for web pages (where milliseconds in serving time matter), while MS SQL and oracle are there for much larger purposes (ERP systems where queries can take many seconds, but far more users can be querying at a time). Its like comparing a 1.6L car with a 4.0L SUV and claiming the smaller car is faster therefore better, while ignoring all the strenths of the SUV.
In other words, if I have to build a database for a small bank, mysql, minisql, sqlite or dbase5 wont be it.
...The playstation 3 is banned from export from the US entirely. Sadly, Japan is where its made anyway so its everywhere.
Hmm. I'm a terrorist from Al Qaeda on a computer somewhere in Pakistan/Afghanistan/MiddleEast with an Internet connection. I need strong cyphers.
So hmm lemme see. What do I do? Either:
(1) I cry and whine that the US wont let me BUY a copy of symantec, in a country where 99% of the software is pirated. OR
(2) I google it up and download any tool I need. OR
(3) I goto the local software store and go 'Yo Osama can I have a symantec US edition, and a dvd or oracle, one of websphere and another of windows 2003 datacenter edition as well?'. He goes 'Sure thats (eq 10 cents)'. I go home and build Weapons of Mass Destruction (tm).
I HATE multiple choice.
I know its a guaranteed Karma-earner to say 'right tool for the right job' everytime two technologies are compared anywhere on the web, but I'll go out on a limb and say Python (and other similar tools) are more right for more jobs than Java. You can use that expression for Linux vs Microsoft, VHS vs Beta, 802.11a vs 802.11g or QNX vs eCos. But comparisons are done with that already in mind.
.NET seems to have failed to be the industry standard platform, maybe Java will too. Java has a stronger hold as a VM since the entire tech industry has been behind it and supported it minus Microsoft, but these so many other languages have been successful and flourished in spite of Java's standard usage and teaching in most colleges that I think somethings inherently wrong with Java's design as a VM. It tries to be a generalist, while the special languages PHP, Perl , Python, Ruby, C++, VB all continue to be successful.
I should say I've had a closed mind against Java for a long time. Its the only language (apart from Pascal) that I've despised enough never to have learned seriously. I feel comfortable with C, much more so than with C++, and tend to go more into deeply embedded devices with assembly languages. At the higher levels, I've used PHP and Visual Basic, and PHP is more intuitive to me. So theres my bias.
But The results of Java have so consistently been slow everywhere I've checked, its hard to believe Java can be fast. Java web apps load much more slow than PHP, Java applications can be resource hogs and on a higher level can be a real pain in the ass. Have you tried to install Oracle 9i or 10g? Have you had those 'wrong Java version' problems, where you have to find and specify that EXACT version else things break all around? I'd rather have the C source code and compile it for whatever platform I'll use it.
If I were a hardware technician, I'd rather have a large set of specialized tools than one swiss army knife.
Shut up! Opera is the best available browser on many platforms, and Microsoft will just use its engine and kill the other ports. They'll also bastardize its engine again to break standards, so people will have to use MS Opera for many sites giving Firefox more grief. While its a smart move for Microsoft, it will hurt the consumers more.
Stop giving them ideas that will hurt us.
Hell no!
I wasnt suggesting something like a kilt. Its open underneath. Shalwar Kameez is closed right to the ankles, pretty decent with no chance of wardrobe malfunction. Think of a track suit, but since it doenst hug your body its more comfy.
When you grow up in that dress in a windy area it doesnt do a thing. In that case, its the western undies which might make you more uncomfortable than originally intended. In a dusty area you have to wash the whole dress frequently anyway, minus the undies theres less to wash in total...
I guess depends on culture and practicality too. Bummer you can wear that dress downtown NYC... anymore...
Two replies
(a) I know where Australia is located. Theyre allied to the US in the war too.
(b) I've been to Manhattan in July 2000 for 2 weeks. I walked around all over NYC. I've also lived all over Balochistan and Sindh in Pakistan.
Once again, a dude from Manhattan (who might have NO problems in the searing summer heat of NYC) will not last more than a couple of hours in the kind of heat Ive seen and expect to be in Iraq. 32C and 50C are 18C apart.
"Just as the rest of the world's view of the US comes through entertainment channels"
Thats so true.
Prior to coming to the US as a student, I used to think there are no fat people in USA. I also thought there were only 2 types of people; white people and black people.
Standing in Manhattan I was so confused.
On a monitor?
So now pirated movies just wont display?? What about pirated MP3s? Need a DMCA compliant sound card?
Or they dont want the monitor's controller's firmware copied elsewhere?
And whats with the new slashdot page popup style ads? I could barely understand the screen. I hope the slashcode developers move the ads either to one side or the top. Shouldnt look like msn.com.
I agree with you, except for the crap part. The comments above yours are people fighting over whether Seagate, Maxtor or WD drives crash more. I've been using all kinds of drives for 18 odd years, and cant prefer one brand over another.
I've never had an IBM drive crash on me. Including the deathstars. I used to think IBM was bulletproof while I had 3 seagate drives crash on me in a row. Next I thought Maxtor and WD were awesome while I avoided Seagate. I had high opinions of Quantum and bought a bunch. Got bitten. Then I thought Fujitsu was awesome and avoided Maxtor and WD. Now I again think Seagate is good while Maxtor is next and WD is crap. In hindsight, they all have death rates. Slower speeds, less power usage, single platter etc mean they die much less. Bad batch, multi platter, high power usage, loud mean the drive will die faster.
Nowadays I'd just buy some quiet single-platter drive and rsync the important stuff onto the server. I expect to lose a drive every 5 years, and will take as much warranty as I can. Beside that, I'll hope there are enough harddisk companies out there to make good competition, instead of a monolith company selling crappy drives.
Too many assumptions.
I'm on slashdot. Should I be loving Linux and hating Microsoft by definition?
Slashdot is more like a news site with plenty of smart commentary. Sure to some its a place where everyone gets together to bash Microsoft and say 'does it run linux?'.
I dont mind Linux, use it on one firewall and my embedded projects. But I also use Solaris, Windows, QNX, eCos, OpenBSD, netbsd, BeOS (sometimes) and the standard unix workstation pile (solaris, hpux, aix, tru64 even) for different things. Readers on slashdot are more diverse than you might think.
I thought that phrase came from French. De Ja Vu!
I'm appalled. You will firewall off an entire town and check every packet for viruses???
A few things why this is a terrible idea:
A single firewall like this will really make things slow.
You are playing big brother. Expect to be asked to block P2P and games even.
The performance will be terrible. VoIP will be unusable.
Cost will rise, it will not scale. Dont allow immigrants.
See, if you want to provide an Internet connection, just buy some fat cisco or juniper switches. Divide the bandwidth fairly at level 2 and leave it at that. Some will use VPN, some will use P2P software, others will just browse and email. Leave the computers in their own hands. Setup a service whereby you'd re-image their computers for free, but apart from that, let them be. OpenBSD is awesome for a company where everyone should be working and computers are all owned by the company (IT department responsible for fixups). A town sounds like a place where people live in their homes doing whatever they want to do.
Youre not a part of the new homeland security are you?
Theyre even cheaper on the planet Dune.
IIRC it recycles your own waste. Great message to send to the troops!
Beer isnt always good for health.
In a certain part of Pakistan, people use a type of Hashish/Bhang/Marijuana/Pot mixed in a drink to be able to withstand the heat (when even in the shadows, the blowing wind just cooks you alive). All the desert colors must look nice in that state. But they'll get back home looking like Iraqis/Pakistanis themselves.
With such supplements, they wont need recruitment drives. Plenty of volunteers.