I love how the unwashed masses of Slashdot "knew all along" that the Shuttle was "teh suck" and why didn't NASA ever do to get stuff into orbit instead.
Is anyone on here even an engineer? Is it too much to ask for someone who knows SOMETHING about aeronautics to weigh in? We're left with the punditry of people who've played Flight Simulator and read Heinlein novels...
How about you back up your claim that the USPTO has simply rubber-stamped this patent because they're clueless? THATs one of the easiest Slashdot karma whore posts to make...
like when Guardent "discovered" that with sufficient CPU power and a little knowledge of a TCP stream, you could, gasp, guess the next sequence number! OMG !!!111!one!! Call Dick Cheney!
I love it when 'researchers' 'discover' something like this. OMFG, SNMP sends messages in the clear! Start the bombing!
Seriously people, in the immortal words of/., "Nothing to see here, move along"
How did nobody at MS catch this? Security through obscurity? Blind hubris? Too much Koolaid? THIS, I feel, indicates more about the quality of Microsoft as an organization, than any stupid Ballmer or Gates speech.
Everyone has to give in, nobody is right or wrong Who are you, Jim Taggart?
I guess I'm just tired of everyone doing their own thing. In Soviet Russia, everyone's thing does you!
Geesh, this is the one of the most namby-pamby, wishy-washy, cant-we-all-just-get-along posts I've seen (that was modded up) in a long time. I suppose that this might be expected, for a young person living in a socialist country. There, now I will be marked 'troll' for stating the truth.
When there is a compromise between good and evil, good wins nothing, and evil wins everything - most importantly, it wins the sanction of the good. Suddenly the bad product is a 'valid' alternative to the good, theft is a 'valid' means to support yourself, and deception is as 'valid' a means of discourse as truth.
The compliant and useful tools like FF and Opera should say it, PROUDLY and LOUDLY, and not just to the slashdotensia. They need to come out and say "Microsoft produces a shoddy product which does not adhere to even itself, while our product on the other hand, is better because of X, Y and Z."
I love the tagline, the "keeping-the-bread-buttered" department.
Now pay attention, all of you who never had a civics class: The President is the Chief of the Executive Branch of the government. The Executive Branch of the government is there to enforce the laws created by the Legislative Branch (aka Congress) provided that they are consistent with the Constitution, as dictated by the Judicial Branch (Supreme Court).
This is like your local Police department appointing a "Drug Czar" or a "Gang Violence Prevention Czar" or "Soccer Moms must die" Czar. All of these (except the last) are valid positions - the department, faced with particular challenges which require specific expertise, creates a subdepartment to deal with them specifically.
19 year olds living in their basement running warez sites might disagree, but that doesn't make it untrue or shady, or worthy of the old tinfoil hat.
Actually, it does count. They sampled a VoIP line at some frequency, did the math and got 99.4%. I sample my landline at some frequency, do the math, and get 100%.
my land line works 100% of the time. That's not 2 nines, or even 5 nines. 100% of the time, through blizzard after blizzard here in the Northeast US, through rainstorms, through anything. You know what's nice about that? 911. 99.4% = 4 HOURS a month, your phone doesn't work. That's absurdly crappy. At that reliability level, it should be a free product.
As someone who has lived with medically treated depression for years, I think I know what I'm talking about. I wasn't equating that with needing this type of therapy, thank you Mr. Strawman.
Youve so indoctrinated children and (now) adults into thinking that wishing makes it so, and that self-esteem is more important than objective results, or that no matter what, you're entitled to a 'fair' life, and a 'good' job.
Guess what. Life isn't like that. So what does a college graduate do, when he finds that the world is a cold, hard place? Many things, becoming depressed is one of them.
"The trouble begins when you want to add things to it...(due to) the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break."
DLL hell? Duelling versions of the Exchange client?
only now, at the end, does s/w installation and removal not completely suck, XPs installer is decent, although sketchy programs dont always go cleanly.
Hey, I added a video camera? Oh wait, I have to put the registry into "display nonconnected devices mode" reboot, hand delete some stuff, and then reboot, with the camera disconnected, then connect it, THEN add the drivers! Welcome to Microsoft.
The inherent capacity for consumers to select the content they wish to receive will be the driving mechanism for keeping advertisements to a minimum and content quality consistent.
Except that this is the opposite of what most media-driven corporations are about. They want you to see ALL the ads, to the point where they want to make it illegal to skip over them.
Typically, they don't care so much about the QUALITY of the content, but its CONSISTENCY. Any decent webfarm can do that.
Look at Coca-Cola or Pepsi or Sony. They want to bombard you with ads, over and over again, forever. They're not going to allow you to select only the ads with the hot chicks, or turn ads off after 9pm.
is because kids nowadays are taught that wishing makes it so, that you can never be 100% right about anything, that there's no way to really know reality, that nobody has any control over anything, and that public opinion is more important than facts.
Faced with this, why NOT go into some soft social science, where you can graduate, and go work for some policy making body, who can govern the skeleton of America's scientific establishment ? Take the short-cut!
I mean, they were alright and cool back in 93-94, when WfWG was out, and worked pretty well, and Novell was cool, and PC Magazine could review 8 or 10 word processors in a shootout article. But now they're just pundits, like Dvorak, who respin company press releases as insight. Sort of like a glorified, corporate, Roland Piquipaille.
Anyway, nice to see FF get some press, but I wouldn't take it too seriously - PHB doesn't trust it anyway, and Joe 4Pack doesn't read ZDNet.
For demolishing the concept of causality. Thank you, Mr. Kant, for demolishing the concept of reason.
As you irrational people sow, so shall you reap.
When you look around and see that your socialized healthcare has destroyed medicine, that your empty philosophy has destroyed philosophy, that your bankrupt economic system has destroyed your means of survival, when your ethics have destroyed the last of the good and the just, what will you do then?
perhaps it was the government itself which created the problem, by raising barriers to market entry, and granting favors to those they felt like it (Cox, AT&T, whatnot)?
No, that couldn't be it. I hope for your sake that your high # is a sign of your relative youth, and that reality will eventually show you the errors you committed. Not, that this is not an ad hominem attack on your argument.
Slashdot Mirror
I love how the unwashed masses of Slashdot "knew all along" that the Shuttle was "teh suck" and why didn't NASA ever do to get stuff into orbit instead.
Is anyone on here even an engineer? Is it too much to ask for someone who knows SOMETHING about aeronautics to weigh in? We're left with the punditry of people who've played Flight Simulator and read Heinlein novels...
How about you back up your claim that the USPTO has simply rubber-stamped this patent because they're clueless? THATs one of the easiest Slashdot karma whore posts to make...
You know she's not at HP anymore, right?
like when Guardent "discovered" that with sufficient CPU power and a little knowledge of a TCP stream, you could, gasp, guess the next sequence number! OMG !!!111!one!! Call Dick Cheney!
/., "Nothing to see here, move along"
I love it when 'researchers' 'discover' something like this. OMFG, SNMP sends messages in the clear! Start the bombing!
Seriously people, in the immortal words of
How did nobody at MS catch this? Security through obscurity? Blind hubris? Too much Koolaid? THIS, I feel, indicates more about the quality of Microsoft as an organization, than any stupid Ballmer or Gates speech.
Everyone has to give in, nobody is right or wrong
Who are you, Jim Taggart?
I guess I'm just tired of everyone doing their own thing.
In Soviet Russia, everyone's thing does you!
Geesh, this is the one of the most namby-pamby, wishy-washy, cant-we-all-just-get-along posts I've seen (that was modded up) in a long time. I suppose that this might be expected, for a young person living in a socialist country. There, now I will be marked 'troll' for stating the truth.
When there is a compromise between good and evil, good wins nothing, and evil wins everything - most importantly, it wins the sanction of the good. Suddenly the bad product is a 'valid' alternative to the good, theft is a 'valid' means to support yourself, and deception is as 'valid' a means of discourse as truth.
The compliant and useful tools like FF and Opera should say it, PROUDLY and LOUDLY, and not just to the slashdotensia. They need to come out and say "Microsoft produces a shoddy product which does not adhere to even itself, while our product on the other hand, is better because of X, Y and Z."
Remember, the vested interest argument is a logical fallacy.
I love the tagline, the "keeping-the-bread-buttered" department.
Now pay attention, all of you who never had a civics class:
The President is the Chief of the Executive Branch of the government.
The Executive Branch of the government is there to enforce the laws created by the Legislative Branch (aka Congress) provided that they are consistent with the Constitution, as dictated by the Judicial Branch (Supreme Court).
This is like your local Police department appointing a "Drug Czar" or a "Gang Violence Prevention Czar" or "Soccer Moms must die" Czar. All of these (except the last) are valid positions - the department, faced with particular challenges which require specific expertise, creates a subdepartment to deal with them specifically.
19 year olds living in their basement running warez sites might disagree, but that doesn't make it untrue or shady, or worthy of the old tinfoil hat.
... WinHEC gave developers their first taste of Longhorn in over a year.
The rest of us have been getting a 'taste' of Microsofts 'Longhorn' for years now.... crappy sw, high prices, poor security, forced upgrades, etc.
It's funny, laugh. I haven't had my coffee yet today.
Actually, it does count. They sampled a VoIP line at some frequency, did the math and got 99.4%. I sample my landline at some frequency, do the math, and get 100%.
my land line works 100% of the time. That's not 2 nines, or even 5 nines. 100% of the time, through blizzard after blizzard here in the Northeast US, through rainstorms, through anything. You know what's nice about that? 911.
99.4% = 4 HOURS a month, your phone doesn't work. That's absurdly crappy. At that reliability level, it should be a free product.
As someone who has lived with medically treated depression for years, I think I know what I'm talking about. I wasn't equating that with needing this type of therapy, thank you Mr. Strawman.
Here's another theory:
Youve so indoctrinated children and (now) adults into thinking that wishing makes it so, and that self-esteem is more important than objective results, or that no matter what, you're entitled to a 'fair' life, and a 'good' job.
Guess what. Life isn't like that. So what does a college graduate do, when he finds that the world is a cold, hard place? Many things, becoming depressed is one of them.
Fristage Postage is mine, biatch.
let the numerous tinfoil hat references begin!
"The trouble begins when you want to add things to it...(due to) the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break."
DLL hell?
Duelling versions of the Exchange client?
only now, at the end, does s/w installation and removal not completely suck, XPs installer is decent, although sketchy programs dont always go cleanly.
Hey, I added a video camera? Oh wait, I have to put the registry into "display nonconnected devices mode" reboot, hand delete some stuff, and then reboot, with the camera disconnected, then connect it, THEN add the drivers! Welcome to Microsoft.
The inherent capacity for consumers to select the content they wish to receive will be the driving mechanism for keeping advertisements to a minimum and content quality consistent.
Except that this is the opposite of what most media-driven corporations are about. They want you to see ALL the ads, to the point where they want to make it illegal to skip over them.
Typically, they don't care so much about the QUALITY of the content, but its CONSISTENCY. Any decent webfarm can do that.
Look at Coca-Cola or Pepsi or Sony. They want to bombard you with ads, over and over again, forever. They're not going to allow you to select only the ads with the hot chicks, or turn ads off after 9pm.
is because kids nowadays are taught that wishing makes it so, that you can never be 100% right about anything, that there's no way to really know reality, that nobody has any control over anything, and that public opinion is more important than facts.
Faced with this, why NOT go into some soft social science, where you can graduate, and go work for some policy making body, who can govern the skeleton of America's scientific establishment
? Take the short-cut!
I mean, they were alright and cool back in 93-94, when WfWG was out, and worked pretty well, and Novell was cool, and PC Magazine could review 8 or 10 word processors in a shootout article. But now they're just pundits, like Dvorak, who respin company press releases as insight. Sort of like a glorified, corporate, Roland Piquipaille.
Anyway, nice to see FF get some press, but I wouldn't take it too seriously - PHB doesn't trust it anyway, and Joe 4Pack doesn't read ZDNet.
The cold hard fact is that IBM can't release the source code. So many non-disclosure agreements have sealed the fate of OS/2.
That didn't keep them from contributing secret code to Linux!!!1!one!
--Darl
For demolishing the concept of causality. Thank you, Mr. Kant, for demolishing the concept of reason.
As you irrational people sow, so shall you reap.
When you look around and see that your socialized healthcare has destroyed medicine, that your empty philosophy has destroyed philosophy, that your bankrupt economic system has destroyed your means of survival, when your ethics have destroyed the last of the good and the just, what will you do then?
I just clicked on the link, before I realized it was to OSNews! Gaaaa! I just gave that fat hag some page views. Damn, damn, damn.
This Cornell guy releases the same 'report' every other summer:
P imentel-ethanol.html
P imentel-ethanol.html
l .toocostly.ssl.html
http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/01/8.23.01/
http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/03/8.14.03/
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July05/ethano
If I didn't know better, I'd say "-1, Troll"
Some simple-minded individuals like to cry...
Nice ad hominem attack.
But anyone with any economic knowledge...
Ditto.
perhaps it was the government itself which created the problem, by raising barriers to market entry, and granting favors to those they felt like it (Cox, AT&T, whatnot)?
No, that couldn't be it. I hope for your sake that your high # is a sign of your relative youth, and that reality will eventually show you the errors you committed. Not, that this is not an ad hominem attack on your argument.
"Starting this year, HP will strive to build every one of our consumer devices to respect digital rights."
I guess the market has spoken, where's Carly now?