Whoa, I thought for a minute that Nokia was adding special features to their smartphones. Makes the 'vibrate' ring setting take on a whole new meaning!
"Microsoft may be making a colossal mistake by trying to force the industry into a next-generation cycle before it is ready to move."
MS has been doing this for years in the IT industry, and succeeding at it. Why should this be any different? Microsoft says Jump, and the IT industry asks "How high?"
Congress can't overturn a decision by the Supreme Court, thats a convenience of having a well-designed government. What they can do is change the law, which would effectively allow someone to sue using the Betamax issue all over again. If this case makes it to the US Supreme Court, the Court could choose to apply the new law, or the old, or throw out the new, or the old, or somewhere in between.
So while Orrin Hatch may be a sleazy politician, he's not the Darth Vader who will pervert and destroy the entire copyright system in the US. (yeah, yeah, the ??AA has already done that, ha, ha, +1 Funny)
Why cast the argument in such statist terms: "trim $1billion or more from the annual energy costs of the USA"?
Nobody except liberals consider 'the annual energy costs of the USA'. People do (and should) consider THEIR annual energy costs. The fact that this decreases the amount of money spent in the USA is a secondary benefit, directly derived from the primary, i.e. the reduction in cost to the individual. The USA is not the Borg, and no country should be. Treating the entire country as one entity is the first step on a long, dark road.
And then dumping the silver nitrate and the rest of the witches' brew down the sink when you're done? No thanks. I'll keep the rivers around here clean, if its all the same. With digital, you can shoot and shoot, play around with fstop, shutter speed, exposure, everything, without wasting anything except time.
What's Google going to do to protect its users from mail bombs?
Now you're complaining that your free, 1GB-limit, access-from-anywhere email service could be mailbombed? Live with it. If Google "decides" anything more about our emails, we put on our tinfoil hats and scream. If we broadcast a bogus email address, obtained from gmail for clearly sinister purposes, and it gets mailbombed, we whine that Google doesn't "protect" us. Whats the story, or are we all just schizophrenic?
At the bottom, there is a seciton entitled "OSNews' EIC's opinion:"
Blah. She drones on and on about a flat filesystem with everything done as MIME attributes.
Here's what Linus said about MIME, who are we going to trust? The people who created MIME not only should be convicted, they should be shot on the spot. (Linus Torvalds)
"We have three competiting technologies with very few towers each. Hooray for lack of standards in rual America!" That's a pathetic attempt at a troll, maybe you should take a nap, have a meal, and try again. You'll get it eventually.
If this had been written up in the Wall Street Journal, and posted to a website where the median age of the readers was > 30, if the rabid trolling and flaming about "W" would still happen?
Its only 3 dB less. Remember that funky math that we said we'd never use? 2x the noise = +3dB. You can get more difference than this by simply switching your ghetto case fan for a good one. Unless of course Apple MEANT 1/2 the dB, which is a meaningless number w/o a reference: 1/2 the dB of a 6dB source is 3dB, or half the volume. 1/2 the dB of a 50 dB source is more significant.
So before we all drop to our knees on this one, lets consider the physics.
Why the rush and excitement over being able to say that you make no money? How about charging people for Gentoo, making a profit on it, and creating wealth, instead of a non-quantifiable warm & fuzzy feeling? I'm sure this will instantly be modded Troll, Flamebait, or Heresy, but I don't understand the pride people have in being able to declare that they make no money.
Why does this "Cringely" fellow make any kind of news? Is he a producer of code, or hardware, or is he merely a Talking Head that PHBs can quote? In other words, why do we care what he says?
Because the INSTALLER kernel is built into the ISO, and there's no support for the disks. Additionally, there's no support in the INSTALLED kernel, so even if you get the installer to install to/dev/ataraid/d0p0, the kernel, once booted, won't support it. How do you bootstrap the system w/o initial support? Hmm? Sounds like YOU'RE the one who's never compiled a kernel, or done an install short of simply booting the CDROM. Oh yeah, troll.
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Whoa, I thought for a minute that Nokia was adding special features to their smartphones. Makes the 'vibrate' ring setting take on a whole new meaning!
"Microsoft may be making a colossal mistake by trying to force the industry into a next-generation cycle before it is ready to move."
MS has been doing this for years in the IT industry, and succeeding at it. Why should this be any different? Microsoft says Jump, and the IT industry asks "How high?"
Congress can't overturn a decision by the Supreme Court, thats a convenience of having a well-designed government. What they can do is change the law, which would effectively allow someone to sue using the Betamax issue all over again. If this case makes it to the US Supreme Court, the Court could choose to apply the new law, or the old, or throw out the new, or the old, or somewhere in between.
So while Orrin Hatch may be a sleazy politician, he's not the Darth Vader who will pervert and destroy the entire copyright system in the US. (yeah, yeah, the ??AA has already done that, ha, ha, +1 Funny)
Why cast the argument in such statist terms: "trim $1billion or more from the annual energy costs of the USA"?
Nobody except liberals consider 'the annual energy costs of the USA'. People do (and should) consider THEIR annual energy costs. The fact that this decreases the amount of money spent in the USA is a secondary benefit, directly derived from the primary, i.e. the reduction in cost to the individual. The USA is not the Borg, and no country should be. Treating the entire country as one entity is the first step on a long, dark road.
People do not typically "flame" about VB's functionality, but rather the breed of programmers and the vendor,IDE and API lock-in which accompany it.
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-1, Bad Grammar
And then dumping the silver nitrate and the rest of the witches' brew down the sink when you're done? No thanks. I'll keep the rivers around here clean, if its all the same. With digital, you can shoot and shoot, play around with fstop, shutter speed, exposure, everything, without wasting anything except time.
And other posts, trolls, and crapfloods will make the editing of such a text a continual headache.
Schernau's 2nd Law strikes: by "signing" your post with either your real name or your sig, you invalidate the message in the post by being a dork
As an early Yahoo! user, I had a 6 MB box, which proved how '1337 I was. Now I'm just a 100MB schlub like everyone else.
You seem to need that "third input".
What's Google going to do to protect its users from mail bombs?
Now you're complaining that your free, 1GB-limit, access-from-anywhere email service could be mailbombed? Live with it. If Google "decides" anything more about our emails, we put on our tinfoil hats and scream. If we broadcast a bogus email address, obtained from gmail for clearly sinister purposes, and it gets mailbombed, we whine that Google doesn't "protect" us. Whats the story, or are we all just schizophrenic?
Don't want that "vulnerability"? Don't use Gmail!
At the bottom, there is a seciton entitled "OSNews' EIC's opinion:"
Blah. She drones on and on about a flat filesystem with everything done as MIME attributes.
Here's what Linus said about MIME, who are we going to trust?
The people who created MIME not only should be convicted, they should be shot on the spot. (Linus Torvalds)
you lose! But thanks for playing.
"We have three competiting technologies with very few towers each. Hooray for lack of standards in rual America!"
That's a pathetic attempt at a troll, maybe you should take a nap, have a meal, and try again. You'll get it eventually.
So if there's a static, 20KB PDF file, it somehow slashdots a server? Bah, I call whore.
If this had been written up in the Wall Street Journal, and posted to a website where the median age of the readers was > 30, if the rabid trolling and flaming about "W" would still happen?
Except in the Silmarillion, the creation was likened to an extremely complex symphony, whereas this is just white noise.
Its only 3 dB less. Remember that funky math that we said we'd never use? 2x the noise = +3dB. You can get more difference than this by simply switching your ghetto case fan for a good one. Unless of course Apple MEANT 1/2 the dB, which is a meaningless number w/o a reference: 1/2 the dB of a 6dB source is 3dB, or half the volume. 1/2 the dB of a 50 dB source is more significant.
So before we all drop to our knees on this one, lets consider the physics.
Why the rush and excitement over being able to say that you make no money? How about charging people for Gentoo, making a profit on it, and creating wealth, instead of a non-quantifiable warm & fuzzy feeling? I'm sure this will instantly be modded Troll, Flamebait, or Heresy, but I don't understand the pride people have in being able to declare that they make no money.
By signing your name to your post, you have lost more credibility than you attempted to gain.
This is clearly a lie, I just booted the Mandrake 10 CD, and there were no silraid or ataraid modules available.
Why does this "Cringely" fellow make any kind of news? Is he a producer of code, or hardware, or is he merely a Talking Head that PHBs can quote? In other words, why do we care what he says?
Because the INSTALLER kernel is built into the ISO, and there's no support for the disks. Additionally, there's no support in the INSTALLED kernel, so even if you get the installer to install to /dev/ataraid/d0p0, the kernel, once booted, won't support it.
How do you bootstrap the system w/o initial support? Hmm? Sounds like YOU'RE the one who's never compiled a kernel, or done an install short of simply booting the CDROM.
Oh yeah, troll.