Wow, you mention OSX and startup scripts in the same sentence, and make a offhand, too-casual reference to Ubuntu. Hint: There's no +1, Trendy mod.
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I get basically the same thing as a newer, clamshell Zaurus, but without Linux? I get a used Apple iBook, but without OSX or Mac goodness? Where's the compelling reason to buy?
This is not the difference between over-the-air TV and cable. This is not the difference between 8-track and CD. HD and digital cable are merely an incremental upgrade, using non-trivial technologies, to an already OK-for-most-uses/people setup. For everyone with a 25" TV screen, the people who don't have an entire 'home theater' room, HD and digital is overkill. Why would Joe Sixpack need composite, optical digital, DVI and Svideo outputs? People like TVs, existing cable, DVDs and VCRs because they are simple. RedOut->Red In, WhiteOut->WhiteIn, YellowOut->YellowIn, done. When digital shenanigans like the article happen, who can fix it? The drones at the TW help desk? The drones at the TW 'self service' center? Joe Sixpack? Its not ready for prime time because Nobody Wants It, thus it remains convoluted and kludgy, with competing standards and definitions (try explaining to your average Walmart shopper the difference between 480p, 720i, and 1080p and watch their eyes glaze over).
Please don't assume that you know anything about me, my motivations, my tastes, or my purchasing habits. Just because I read Slashdot, I am not an iPod-owning, MP3-downloading, PDA-using geek.
By "cute messenger girls", do you mean that crowd of dreadlock-wearing, cigarette smoking, locker-room smelling, hairy legged girls who loiter around the entrances to the buildings downtown? Some might call that cute, I suppose, this is Slashdot.
An unanticipated change in CO2 = "things are worse" ? How about "things are different than what the model, based on old data, predicted?" And the 'some of us' comment, clearly Flamebait, its one of the cheapest ad hominem attacks that there is. And you can't spell. And you're European. Welcome to my foe list. It's a good day.
So I can buy a $$$$ device which supports 3G, and run a VoIP app on it so that I can... talk, wirelessly, to anyone in the world? Wow... what an excellent invention!!!
Insert DVD #1 of N, boot machine. Enter some basic info Confirm full restore Swap disks as needed Reboot
None of this: install XP, then SP1, then drivers for your video card, then IE 6.1.666, then your backup/restore sw, then restore overwriting the Registry, reboot, blue screen, reboot in safe mode, reboot again, done.
I just moved an XP install from 1 disk to another using this hideous, kludgy method.
Or we'd be hearing an endless stream of bitching about default themes, antialiased fonts, the wisdom of making file and network browsing transparent, and the brilliance of putting metadata in the files themselves, just like BeOS did.
Is that they devalue the experience and skills necessary to do the job. You end up with a horde of PHBs who think that being a DBA or Unix admin is easy, since after all, they read a book on an airplane how to do it. Another consequence is that Management types tend to place less value on the advice and recommendations of their technical people, since they assume all the technical people did was read the cheesy book. Why do you think technical decisions get overriden by PHBs and Marketroids all the time? Because there is no longer the view/perception that being technical is actually hard to do. Since anyone can be an MCSE, who's to say that an MCSE's advice is better than anyone else's?
I've read of massive hardware installations and billing done at small schools, all by unscrupulous companies and oblivious administrators, at the public expense. Any time you have this kind of blank check, and any time its 'for the children', you're going to get this kind of graft. The only solution is to stop taxing long distance bills (read your phone bill some time), and make local communities fork over the cash - they will buy what they can afford or what they need, no more, no less. It will spark creative ways of managing networks, combining services with adjacent communities, community involvement, and basically return the $$ spent back to the local vendors (with the exception of the hardware cost). Inject Gubmint monopoly money, and of course the costs will explode - look at the medical industry in the US for an example.
If I can hear or watch it, I can record it. So what if its not digital? Other than instant fast forwarding, I'm not really impressed with DVDs over VHS. If it gets ridiculous, people will just sample off movie screens or TVs, the Gubmint won't be able to stop that. All you've done is created newer, more interesting types of piracy.
Although I've marked you as 'Friend', I have to weigh in here - if Rutan doesn't have initimate access to the NASA data, and NASA does, why can't they get stuff to orbit for the same price as Rutan? I think the OP was making that point - for all of Rutan's reinventing the wheel that he undoubtedly had to do, it really is even cheaper. Where is NASA in all of this?
Trust me, I know (ex-cult member). Mormons will squeeze 6 cents out of a nickel, because of their constant "we're persecuted, we have to live sparsely" mentality, which is really just used to keep the membership docile and accepting of anything the leaders spew.
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Quoth the poster... Translation: "Because if you do what I do, and just boot a Gentoo CD, then everyone will know its easy, and my high $$$ goes out the window. So please pay SANS or much $$$ so that the 'forensics' gig remains profitable, like the CISSP racket"
This might work in your 100 node network, but I work for a large US bank, with over 20,000 workstations, running a mix of 95, 98, 2000, XP Pro, XP Home, many of which are laptop users, and many of which run Novell, others which log into legacy domains, and some which log into AD. Show me the tool that manages them all, and I'll be impressed. PS. Having 20,000 workstations downloading SP2 simultaneously is out.
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Geesh, color screen, microdrive, slap in a wifi card.... maybe 45 minutes of battery? What is this good for?
Wow, you mention OSX and startup scripts in the same sentence, and make a offhand, too-casual reference to Ubuntu. Hint: There's no +1, Trendy mod.
I get basically the same thing as a newer, clamshell Zaurus, but without Linux? I get a used Apple iBook, but without OSX or Mac goodness? Where's the compelling reason to buy?
So I can call Uzbekistan more cheaply, all the while paying extortionate data transfer costs? How do I sign up?
Or is there some super-important feature that I'm missing.
Yes, there is.
This is not the difference between over-the-air TV and cable. This is not the difference between 8-track and CD. HD and digital cable are merely an incremental upgrade, using non-trivial technologies, to an already OK-for-most-uses/people setup. For everyone with a 25" TV screen, the people who don't have an entire 'home theater' room, HD and digital is overkill. Why would Joe Sixpack need composite, optical digital, DVI and Svideo outputs? People like TVs, existing cable, DVDs and VCRs because they are simple. RedOut->Red In, WhiteOut->WhiteIn, YellowOut->YellowIn, done. When digital shenanigans like the article happen, who can fix it? The drones at the TW help desk? The drones at the TW 'self service' center? Joe Sixpack? Its not ready for prime time because Nobody Wants It, thus it remains convoluted and kludgy, with competing standards and definitions (try explaining to your average Walmart shopper the difference between 480p, 720i, and 1080p and watch their eyes glaze over).
Please don't assume that you know anything about me, my motivations, my tastes, or my purchasing habits. Just because I read Slashdot, I am not an iPod-owning, MP3-downloading, PDA-using geek.
For posting Flamebait, and being European.
By "cute messenger girls", do you mean that crowd of dreadlock-wearing, cigarette smoking, locker-room smelling, hairy legged girls who loiter around the entrances to the buildings downtown? Some might call that cute, I suppose, this is Slashdot.
An unanticipated change in CO2 = "things are worse" ? How about "things are different than what the model, based on old data, predicted?" And the 'some of us' comment, clearly Flamebait, its one of the cheapest ad hominem attacks that there is. And you can't spell. And you're European. Welcome to my foe list. It's a good day.
So I can buy a $$$$ device which supports 3G, and run a VoIP app on it so that I can ... talk, wirelessly, to anyone in the world? Wow... what an excellent invention!!!
Insert DVD #1 of N, boot machine.
Enter some basic info
Confirm full restore
Swap disks as needed
Reboot
None of this: install XP, then SP1, then drivers for your video card, then IE 6.1.666, then your backup/restore sw, then restore overwriting the Registry, reboot, blue screen, reboot in safe mode, reboot again, done.
I just moved an XP install from 1 disk to another using this hideous, kludgy method.
Or we'd be hearing an endless stream of bitching about default themes, antialiased fonts, the wisdom of making file and network browsing transparent, and the brilliance of putting metadata in the files themselves, just like BeOS did.
Is that they devalue the experience and skills necessary to do the job. You end up with a horde of PHBs who think that being a DBA or Unix admin is easy, since after all, they read a book on an airplane how to do it. Another consequence is that Management types tend to place less value on the advice and recommendations of their technical people, since they assume all the technical people did was read the cheesy book. Why do you think technical decisions get overriden by PHBs and Marketroids all the time? Because there is no longer the view/perception that being technical is actually hard to do. Since anyone can be an MCSE, who's to say that an MCSE's advice is better than anyone else's?
I've read of massive hardware installations and billing done at small schools, all by unscrupulous companies and oblivious administrators, at the public expense. Any time you have this kind of blank check, and any time its 'for the children', you're going to get this kind of graft. The only solution is to stop taxing long distance bills (read your phone bill some time), and make local communities fork over the cash - they will buy what they can afford or what they need, no more, no less. It will spark creative ways of managing networks, combining services with adjacent communities, community involvement, and basically return the $$ spent back to the local vendors (with the exception of the hardware cost). Inject Gubmint monopoly money, and of course the costs will explode - look at the medical industry in the US for an example.
You are in very serious need of a(sic) upgrade to your twenty year old television
Why? Are you one of those people who buys a new PC every year because your old one is 'obsolete'?
If I can hear or watch it, I can record it. So what if its not digital? Other than instant fast forwarding, I'm not really impressed with DVDs over VHS. If it gets ridiculous, people will just sample off movie screens or TVs, the Gubmint won't be able to stop that. All you've done is created newer, more interesting types of piracy.
welcome our new green chameleon overlords.
Why?
You über-admin! We all bow before your 1337 4dm1n 5K1LZ!!!!!1111
and someone bit and gave it a +1, Insightful.
Any Slashdot reader who compares download speeds with GHz is clearly either an idiot or a troll.
Although I've marked you as 'Friend', I have to weigh in here - if Rutan doesn't have initimate access to the NASA data, and NASA does, why can't they get stuff to orbit for the same price as Rutan? I think the OP was making that point - for all of Rutan's reinventing the wheel that he undoubtedly had to do, it really is even cheaper. Where is NASA in all of this?
Trust me, I know (ex-cult member). Mormons will squeeze 6 cents out of a nickel, because of their constant "we're persecuted, we have to live sparsely" mentality, which is really just used to keep the membership docile and accepting of anything the leaders spew.
Quoth the poster...
Translation:
"Because if you do what I do, and just boot a Gentoo CD, then everyone will know its easy, and my high $$$ goes out the window. So please pay SANS or much $$$ so that the 'forensics' gig remains profitable, like the CISSP racket"
This might work in your 100 node network, but I work for a large US bank, with over 20,000 workstations, running a mix of 95, 98, 2000, XP Pro, XP Home, many of which are laptop users, and many of which run Novell, others which log into legacy domains, and some which log into AD. Show me the tool that manages them all, and I'll be impressed. PS. Having 20,000 workstations downloading SP2 simultaneously is out.