Yeah, right... so any Russian hacker or spotty-faced teenager can crank out fake passports in his garage. How long before the government's über-ROT26 encoding scheme is cracked? Once more, we'll end up with rules that penalize the law-abiding, while providing no protection against the criminal. Normal people will have to go through the annoyance WHEN, not if, the RFID tag in their passport fails, or is misread, and they are taken for Osama bin Laden, or Teddy Kennedy. Or wait, was this -1, Sarcastic?
What about the rest of the world, you insensitive clod!
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Or "the Host" as we call it. I work at a very large US Bank, and while there are all sorts of Unix machines, 1000's of Wintel boxen, anything that does anything other than file/print, ultimately involves the Mainframe. 80% of the data may not live there, since we have frames full of DB2 servers, but to get anything done, it need to go via MQ to the Host. Counting bytes doesn't necessarily mean anything - a simple Excel sheet can be > 1 Meg.
Crows can distinguish one, two, three, many. Crows are able to count hunters entering an area, unless you bring "many" people in, in which case the crows forget after a few of them leave, that there are more around.
Thank you, nameless Arabic and Central American mathematicians, for inventing the zero!
Sounds like a bunch of '1337 haX0rs to me. Or a bunch of 14 year olds in someone's attic. Seriously, would a real hacker a) reveal his plans, or b) draw attention to himself using 5kr1pt k1dd13s to DDOS a Republican website? The real hackers are the ones who, right now, are stealing your credit card number, and turning poorly maintained servers into warez servers.
I can no longer moderate since I've been to The Anti-Slash Jihad Website. If you read that site, never click any links to Slashdot, they pick you off by your HTTP-Referrer.
You're thinking of the Bussard Ramjet. Solar sails use the momentum of light as thrust, as opposed to sucking up interstellar gas. This has all been covered before, recently even, in a Slashdot article about the Japanese solar sail project.
For clearly identifying yourself. Another Foe, it must be a good day.
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Yes, I am a troll. Or am I? This from the culture who has tried, by law, to regulate the hour of the work week. What if I want to get ahead and work more? Sorry, I guess I can't. It's the crab-bucket mentality - if any crab tries to escape, the others pull him back into the water. Or in Germany, where I was told, that its illegal to have 2 jobs, the reasoning being that you're taking one from someone else.
The smuggled premise in THAT little gem is that everyone is equally qualified - however, since that is untrue, if you take a 2nd job, you aren't taking it from someone, that person never had a chance when compared to you anyway. Goodbye Europe, as I watch you sail off into the cultural, social and economic dustbins, I thank you for founding the U.S., but very little else.
for revealing yourselves to be the freedom-hating liberals that you are. This highly charged article, with an editorial that ITSELF was a "-1, Troll", and proves that the editors don't even RTFA, has provided so many new foes to my list, its been an excellent culling exercise. So many of you rose to michael's bait, that you exposed yourselves for what you are, and thus can now be Foe-moderated off the page. Cheers!
If you lived in a densely populated country the size of a postage stamp, you too would have digital radio coverage over 85% of it. Try leaving the city once in a while, you'll find that the US has a lot of empty space.
Remember the old registry hack from the NT 4 days? How much do you want to be that all you need is a kernel32.dll from a real XP install, and a suck=no entry in the HLKM\Screw\You\Microsoft key?
This is dumb on MS' part on so many levels - people will try it, see that it sucks, and go with $Localized-Government-Sponsored-Linux instead.
You'll invest MORE in upgrading, since these little überdevices are completely closed, from a platform, and probably source/OS perspective. Need the new wireless standard? Sorry. Need a RAM upgrade to run Longhorn? Sorry. Need a dual-head video card for a special project? Sorry. Neat PDA though, can you watch Seinfeld on the way to work? I predict that the more this appeals to someone in your office, the less work that person does to begin with.
I've been using Linux since the pre 1.0 days, back when you had to download the stack of Slackware floppies. I've trashed boxes rebooting them when XFree86 hung the console, because it wasn't stable on S3 Virge cards, and there was no such thing as ext3fs. I've uttered prayers to both Andre Hedrick and Donald Becker. I've recompiled kernels more times than I want to count. So unless you mean "you" in the general sense, please don't paint "me" with such a broad brush. You may inadvertently expose YOUR (lack of) comfort level in any of the topics you touch on. That being said, my point was that there is a gap between OSS and the "Just Works" world, and the business model which capitalizes on this gap will succeed.
OSS is great, but many people (myself included) sometimes want it to Just Work. Look at the junk that is shovelled out of Redmond. Half-baked, half-assed authentication and directory services, insecure-by-design operating systems, no proper privilege separation, etc. etc. But plonk down 49 USD on a USB printer and click Print, and it prints! If I plug my USB 10/100 NIC into my laptop under RH 9, it kernel panics and dies. If I want to use my Radeon AIW under Solaris x86, I'll be lucky to get it to even work in text mode. The business model is to take the product and make it useful, just like a steel mill or lumber yard. Take raw material, make it accessible to the common man (consumer), who trades you the money value of his time for the product.
(MySQL|MSSQL|Oracle|DB2) is (cheaper|better|faster|ACID-compliant|'1337) and Postgres is (slower|buggier|missing features|has broken features|sucky)!!!
WTF? Why can't there be a standard, outside of the Linus quote "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from"? SD/MMC for little devices (Zaurus, phones, etc) and CF for big devices (camera, Zaurus, etc). Bah, give me a $300 2TB CF card, and you have a deal.
How can you claim the lofty title of taxpayer, when you live in a socialist state? Granted, LESS socialist than in the good ol' Soviet Russia (where the taxes pay you??). You folks, by law, belong to the state - your property and time belong to the state, for distribution among your fellow citizens, all for the glorious Good of the Collective. Sorry if you don't like it.
We can't just "find the pattern" in the stock market, since its created by people in the first place. To attempt to find said pattern it to say that human beings act in a particular way by nature, not volition, and that even in the presence of external force, people will act the same way. The problem becomes harder the more people you have working on it. One person may make a model which is accurate in the broad sense, precisely because he is unaware of the other stock market players, and vice versa. If everyone in the market got together to try and figure out the pattern, then the pattern would be whatever everyone wanted.
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Yeah, right... so any Russian hacker or spotty-faced teenager can crank out fake passports in his garage. How long before the government's über-ROT26 encoding scheme is cracked? Once more, we'll end up with rules that penalize the law-abiding, while providing no protection against the criminal. Normal people will have to go through the annoyance WHEN, not if, the RFID tag in their passport fails, or is misread, and they are taken for Osama bin Laden, or Teddy Kennedy.
Or wait, was this -1, Sarcastic?
What about the rest of the world, you insensitive clod!
Or "the Host" as we call it. I work at a very large US Bank, and while there are all sorts of Unix machines, 1000's of Wintel boxen, anything that does anything other than file/print, ultimately involves the Mainframe. 80% of the data may not live there, since we have frames full of DB2 servers, but to get anything done, it need to go via MQ to the Host. Counting bytes doesn't necessarily mean anything - a simple Excel sheet can be > 1 Meg.
Crows can distinguish one, two, three, many. Crows are able to count hunters entering an area, unless you bring "many" people in, in which case the crows forget after a few of them leave, that there are more around.
Thank you, nameless Arabic and Central American mathematicians, for inventing the zero!
I for one, welcome our new non-income-generating, but VC-attracting overlords. Where do I get my Aero chair?
Sounds like a bunch of '1337 haX0rs to me. Or a bunch of 14 year olds in someone's attic. Seriously, would a real hacker a) reveal his plans, or b) draw attention to himself using 5kr1pt k1dd13s to DDOS a Republican website? The real hackers are the ones who, right now, are stealing your credit card number, and turning poorly maintained servers into warez servers.
HCF
I can no longer moderate since I've been to The Anti-Slash Jihad Website. If you read that site, never click any links to Slashdot, they pick you off by your HTTP-Referrer.
You're thinking of the Bussard Ramjet. Solar sails use the momentum of light as thrust, as opposed to sucking up interstellar gas. This has all been covered before, recently even, in a Slashdot article about the Japanese solar sail project.
+1, Funny!
For clearly identifying yourself. Another Foe, it must be a good day.
Yes, I am a troll. Or am I?
This from the culture who has tried, by law, to regulate the hour of the work week. What if I want to get ahead and work more? Sorry, I guess I can't. It's the crab-bucket mentality - if any crab tries to escape, the others pull him back into the water. Or in Germany, where I was told, that its illegal to have 2 jobs, the reasoning being that you're taking one from someone else.
The smuggled premise in THAT little gem is that everyone is equally qualified - however, since that is untrue, if you take a 2nd job, you aren't taking it from someone, that person never had a chance when compared to you anyway.
Goodbye Europe, as I watch you sail off into the cultural, social and economic dustbins, I thank you for founding the U.S., but very little else.
Total cost of 0wnership?
God, event the editors don't RTFA, or even RTF(Submission)
for revealing yourselves to be the freedom-hating liberals that you are. This highly charged article, with an editorial that ITSELF was a "-1, Troll", and proves that the editors don't even RTFA, has provided so many new foes to my list, its been an excellent culling exercise. So many of you rose to michael's bait, that you exposed yourselves for what you are, and thus can now be Foe-moderated off the page.
Cheers!
Just because its hip to hate the US these days? Geesh, welcome to my foe list.
If you lived in a densely populated country the size of a postage stamp, you too would have digital radio coverage over 85% of it. Try leaving the city once in a while, you'll find that the US has a lot of empty space.
Remember the old registry hack from the NT 4 days? How much do you want to be that all you need is a kernel32.dll from a real XP install, and a suck=no entry in the HLKM\Screw\You\Microsoft key?
This is dumb on MS' part on so many levels - people will try it, see that it sucks, and go with $Localized-Government-Sponsored-Linux instead.
You'll invest MORE in upgrading, since these little überdevices are completely closed, from a platform, and probably source/OS perspective. Need the new wireless standard? Sorry. Need a RAM upgrade to run Longhorn? Sorry. Need a dual-head video card for a special project? Sorry. Neat PDA though, can you watch Seinfeld on the way to work?
I predict that the more this appeals to someone in your office, the less work that person does to begin with.
I've been using Linux since the pre 1.0 days, back when you had to download the stack of Slackware floppies.
I've trashed boxes rebooting them when XFree86 hung the console, because it wasn't stable on S3 Virge cards, and there was no such thing as ext3fs.
I've uttered prayers to both Andre Hedrick and Donald Becker.
I've recompiled kernels more times than I want to count.
So unless you mean "you" in the general sense, please don't paint "me" with such a broad brush. You may inadvertently expose YOUR (lack of) comfort level in any of the topics you touch on. That being said, my point was that there is a gap between OSS and the "Just Works" world, and the business model which capitalizes on this gap will succeed.
OSS is great, but many people (myself included) sometimes want it to Just Work. Look at the junk that is shovelled out of Redmond. Half-baked, half-assed authentication and directory services, insecure-by-design operating systems, no proper privilege separation, etc. etc.
But plonk down 49 USD on a USB printer and click Print, and it prints!
If I plug my USB 10/100 NIC into my laptop under RH 9, it kernel panics and dies.
If I want to use my Radeon AIW under Solaris x86, I'll be lucky to get it to even work in text mode.
The business model is to take the product and make it useful, just like a steel mill or lumber yard. Take raw material, make it accessible to the common man (consumer), who trades you the money value of his time for the product.
(MySQL|MSSQL|Oracle|DB2) is (cheaper|better|faster|ACID-compliant|'1337) and Postgres is (slower|buggier|missing features|has broken features|sucky)!!!
10240x more dupes?
WTF? Why can't there be a standard, outside of the Linus quote "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from"?
SD/MMC for little devices (Zaurus, phones, etc) and CF for big devices (camera, Zaurus, etc).
Bah, give me a $300 2TB CF card, and you have a deal.
How can you claim the lofty title of taxpayer, when you live in a socialist state? Granted, LESS socialist than in the good ol' Soviet Russia (where the taxes pay you??). You folks, by law, belong to the state - your property and time belong to the state, for distribution among your fellow citizens, all for the glorious Good of the Collective. Sorry if you don't like it.
We can't just "find the pattern" in the stock market, since its created by people in the first place. To attempt to find said pattern it to say that human beings act in a particular way by nature, not volition, and that even in the presence of external force, people will act the same way. The problem becomes harder the more people you have working on it. One person may make a model which is accurate in the broad sense, precisely because he is unaware of the other stock market players, and vice versa. If everyone in the market got together to try and figure out the pattern, then the pattern would be whatever everyone wanted.