Then you'd get $10 Billion dollars worth of Forks starting off the last release, and everything would be the same as usual, except that Oracle would have acquired a lot of software.
It would cause a ripple for a while, like it has with MySQL, but trust me, in time - we'll have found another FOSS solution. The same thing would happen elsewhere.
Personally, my biggest concern is that they kind of determine how redundancy works.
I mean, don't get me wrong, redundancy is a good thing - but when you aren't in control of it - your data is put into the hands of people you don't even know, and you won't even know it.
It's one thing to know that Google holds your documents, and that anyone at anytime could walk off with that server. At least then you'd know theres a breach and you've been compromised. Network breaches aside, as that can happen to you just as well as Google, and you can even try to hack into your own data to test Google's security.
The problem comes up when they have to copy the data onto another drive or media in order to keep a backup in case things go down. You can set up a contract and decide on how you want things done - but you'll never know if they make another copy for their records or not. And everyone knows its good practice to keep a backup offsite - so you're essentially trusting it to leave the building in the hands of someone you don't know.
Clearly you've never been attacked by one of the Giant Squids that swallow ocean liners. The Pacific is not as safe as it seems. Why do you think people are dumping all their trash in there? Too lazy to get to China? No! They're too scared to stay on the ocean any longer! And it's a new attack technique to polute their habitat to kill them off!
Sadly, reading slashdot is more interpretive as opposed to a compiled language, so really that "Nyaaargh" is probably a runtime error.
To people who are replying to me: If you use interpretive and metaphor in your post to make a clever pun on programming, I'll give you my Perl Textbook from College.
I guess some people harbour angry feelings towards him for releasing that military video - something along the lines of loose lips might sink ships. I think more good than harm came from releasing the video, but I can see where it strikes a nerve with some people.
I mean if your kid happened to be in the military - and it would appear that the military is hiding something your kids may or may not be doing - it would make you feel uneasy, to say the least. Most parents would still side with their kids though.
Ah yes, the most communicative of the fingers. I wonder why it isn't used to close apps when you're finished - seems like that would be a great stress reliever.
The thing is, if you ignore the sensationalist headline and look at what there doing, it's just a list of websites that are accessed over their network, which they're using to create an opt in filtering system.
While possibly selling that info to advertisers as well? I mean who is to say what they're doing with it. Of course they'll make some concession and tell you that its good for you.
Shut one's eyes tight or open one's arms wide, either way, one's a fool!
Problem is, most people who visit this site already know what this article is stating. They knew the study was bogus from the start because they are more in tune with torrents than the people doing the study. The issue arises when the "Recent Study" slamming torrents makes the 6:00 news and it makes a nice segway into how to combat piracy - however this article, showing that the data was incorrect and that they are either embellishing or straight up lieing, will get no mention on mainstream media whatsoever. The people who need to see this news won't see it, and the people who see this news already know. More tragic than ironic.
You're both wrong, it has nothing to do with government involvement at all. Democrat or Liberal, Evolution or Creation Science, both are going to be pushed into school by either the government or the local community chairman. For a Nation strongly founded with "In God we trust" engrained into the fabric of their society, it's very difficult to push this kind of stuff out of schools.
Other Western Nations don't see this kind of nonsense because they have seperated religion and state moreso than America. Every other political debate you see on TV ends up using the term "God Fearing Americans" or something like that. Trust me, its not your government that's the problem, its the foundation of American society that has somehow equated the success of the United States to it's belief in God. Let's face it, if its a democratic society (and I mean that in the sense of Democracy, not democrats being in power, you guys should look into changing that ambiguity) - than essentially if there were more people who were against this kind of teaching in schools that would affect the government. Also if the government weren't involved, than it would be the school systems, which if I exclude private schools, I believe is also full of elected representatives - so the power is still in the people.
This is a problem from the ground up, not the top down.
To say that Microsoft is trying new stuff is like getting your kids to eat Vegetables. Every one of their new products has been based off of something in their competitions line up - and the embarassing part is that the product ends up being WORSE than the competitor's somehow.
It's because Microsoft has been trying to mimick other companies. Apple has enough fanboys that it can produce a faulty product and still make money (See iPhone4), Microsoft however, doesn't have that kind of following behind it. Nobody is die hard Microsoft through and through so much that they would never try a droid.
If Ballmer is to be replaced, it should be by someone who will do 3 things: Keep the focus on the PC. Windows 7 is nice, and is the OS that vista should have been, only a couple years late. Develop an above average mobile OS. For someone with their size and their development team, its surprising that they lack in this regard. Every WinMobile release has been slow, laggy, and terribly designed. Fix the entertainment budget somehow, without axing it. I don't know if its true or not, but I hear the 360 and it's market are not profitable, and are actually losing Microsoft money. I don't know if thats true, I don't know why'd they continue if it were, but it'd be nice if that made enough money to continue its growth.
Question is whether Ballmer can stop pushing products like Zune quick enough to not get outted.
I got a wireless mouse and keyboard working on my XBox 360 and then played through Modern Warfare 2 in single player mode.
Were these Proprietary Microsoft products for the XBox or just any wireless device - and if not, was it difficult to get working?
I haven't tried it yet, I naturally assumed it wouldn't work exactly, but to have that... I would love to trump my friends across Live and have them baffled as to how my skill jumped so much.
an investigation of (1)subscribers to child porn websites [...] officials and (2) contractors with high-level security clearances who (3) allegedly purchased and downloaded child pornography, including an undisclosed number who used (4) their government computers to obtain the illegal material
Emphasis and selective cutting my own - but I don't think I really took anything too out of context.
1) So they were silly enough to subscribe to child porn website - create a paper trail for something they know is illegal. Instead of persuing attempts to acquire it without purchasing it - which would be a lot easier to deny. If you're credit card is on a statement, that'd difficult to deny. So already, I think these people are idiots.
2) The next thing - is Contractors with high level security. I know they meant officials included in that, but why on Earth would you give a Contractor high level security clearance? I wouldn't trust them further than broom closet.
3) Couldn't help but notice the word Allegedly. Just pointing it out, make of that what you will.
4) Seriously? On your work or government supplied computer you would partake in those activities?
Seriously the lack of common sense either completely astounds me - or smells fishy. I haven't yet decided if I want to put on my tin foil hat. (Never attribute to malice blah blah blah)
Yes but rooting the phone requires you to cut the yellow wire with the green stripes, not the green wire with the yellow stripes. If you get it wrong, you not only brick your phone, but every other droid x in a 3 block radius.
The only reason people flock to learn English and Mandarin are because The jobs that pay the most are in English Speaking Countries and China's power is steadily growing. It has nothing to do with the "ease" of learning the language.
Don't get me wrong, I like English's versatility, but when you try teaching it to someone who doesn't know English, it's not that simple. It's definately easier for the cousins of English like French and German, because the words themselves get transfered over, but the Syntax of English is what kills people. Because there is hardly an established syntax, so how do you determine what to teach?
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Then you'd get $10 Billion dollars worth of Forks starting off the last release, and everything would be the same as usual, except that Oracle would have acquired a lot of software.
It would cause a ripple for a while, like it has with MySQL, but trust me, in time - we'll have found another FOSS solution. The same thing would happen elsewhere.
I wish we could up-vote comments ourselves, I'd give this a ++.
We do. You just have to earn them, that's all. And once you earn them, you can waste them on as many +funny's as you want.
Personally, my biggest concern is that they kind of determine how redundancy works.
I mean, don't get me wrong, redundancy is a good thing - but when you aren't in control of it - your data is put into the hands of people you don't even know, and you won't even know it.
It's one thing to know that Google holds your documents, and that anyone at anytime could walk off with that server. At least then you'd know theres a breach and you've been compromised. Network breaches aside, as that can happen to you just as well as Google, and you can even try to hack into your own data to test Google's security.
The problem comes up when they have to copy the data onto another drive or media in order to keep a backup in case things go down. You can set up a contract and decide on how you want things done - but you'll never know if they make another copy for their records or not. And everyone knows its good practice to keep a backup offsite - so you're essentially trusting it to leave the building in the hands of someone you don't know.
Clearly you've never been attacked by one of the Giant Squids that swallow ocean liners. The Pacific is not as safe as it seems. Why do you think people are dumping all their trash in there? Too lazy to get to China? No! They're too scared to stay on the ocean any longer! And it's a new attack technique to polute their habitat to kill them off!
ESPECIALLY if you use the onboard keyboard Ease of Access tool!
Though generally this only deals with your mouse on the browser (I believe?)
Sadly, reading slashdot is more interpretive as opposed to a compiled language, so really that "Nyaaargh" is probably a runtime error.
To people who are replying to me: If you use interpretive and metaphor in your post to make a clever pun on programming, I'll give you my Perl Textbook from College.
I was wondering what happened to that.
I guess some people harbour angry feelings towards him for releasing that military video - something along the lines of loose lips might sink ships. I think more good than harm came from releasing the video, but I can see where it strikes a nerve with some people.
I mean if your kid happened to be in the military - and it would appear that the military is hiding something your kids may or may not be doing - it would make you feel uneasy, to say the least. Most parents would still side with their kids though.
But by warning users you are also informing the people who would use it against users. That's the double edged-ness of the situation.
Ah yes, the most communicative of the fingers. I wonder why it isn't used to close apps when you're finished - seems like that would be a great stress reliever.
You don't have to make love to the product.
You would if my app wasn't rejected.
I didn't know Apple did Trade-ins for non Apple products.
The thing is, if you ignore the sensationalist headline and look at what there doing, it's just a list of websites that are accessed over their network, which they're using to create an opt in filtering system.
While possibly selling that info to advertisers as well? I mean who is to say what they're doing with it. Of course they'll make some concession and tell you that its good for you.
Shut one's eyes tight or open one's arms wide, either way, one's a fool!
Simultaneously you mean? That leaves the vendor no time to fix the flaw.
The question basically boils down to: "I want to be an ethical person. How much time is appropriate to wait after reporting a flaw to the vendor?"
Another reason people love and hate English Simultaneously: Homonyms.
Problem is, most people who visit this site already know what this article is stating. They knew the study was bogus from the start because they are more in tune with torrents than the people doing the study. The issue arises when the "Recent Study" slamming torrents makes the 6:00 news and it makes a nice segway into how to combat piracy - however this article, showing that the data was incorrect and that they are either embellishing or straight up lieing, will get no mention on mainstream media whatsoever. The people who need to see this news won't see it, and the people who see this news already know. More tragic than ironic.
You're both wrong, it has nothing to do with government involvement at all. Democrat or Liberal, Evolution or Creation Science, both are going to be pushed into school by either the government or the local community chairman. For a Nation strongly founded with "In God we trust" engrained into the fabric of their society, it's very difficult to push this kind of stuff out of schools.
Other Western Nations don't see this kind of nonsense because they have seperated religion and state moreso than America. Every other political debate you see on TV ends up using the term "God Fearing Americans" or something like that. Trust me, its not your government that's the problem, its the foundation of American society that has somehow equated the success of the United States to it's belief in God. Let's face it, if its a democratic society (and I mean that in the sense of Democracy, not democrats being in power, you guys should look into changing that ambiguity) - than essentially if there were more people who were against this kind of teaching in schools that would affect the government. Also if the government weren't involved, than it would be the school systems, which if I exclude private schools, I believe is also full of elected representatives - so the power is still in the people.
This is a problem from the ground up, not the top down.
Slashdot is written in Perl, a language that tends to self-obfuscate within minutes of having been written.
I sighed.
I nodded.
I shook my head.
I put my palm to my face.
If only it weren't true.
To say that Microsoft is trying new stuff is like getting your kids to eat Vegetables. Every one of their new products has been based off of something in their competitions line up - and the embarassing part is that the product ends up being WORSE than the competitor's somehow.
It's because Microsoft has been trying to mimick other companies. Apple has enough fanboys that it can produce a faulty product and still make money (See iPhone4), Microsoft however, doesn't have that kind of following behind it. Nobody is die hard Microsoft through and through so much that they would never try a droid.
If Ballmer is to be replaced, it should be by someone who will do 3 things:
Keep the focus on the PC. Windows 7 is nice, and is the OS that vista should have been, only a couple years late.
Develop an above average mobile OS. For someone with their size and their development team, its surprising that they lack in this regard. Every WinMobile release has been slow, laggy, and terribly designed.
Fix the entertainment budget somehow, without axing it. I don't know if its true or not, but I hear the 360 and it's market are not profitable, and are actually losing Microsoft money. I don't know if thats true, I don't know why'd they continue if it were, but it'd be nice if that made enough money to continue its growth.
Question is whether Ballmer can stop pushing products like Zune quick enough to not get outted.
If thats what you think, you don't understand evolution.
I got a wireless mouse and keyboard working on my XBox 360 and then played through Modern Warfare 2 in single player mode.
Were these Proprietary Microsoft products for the XBox or just any wireless device - and if not, was it difficult to get working?
I haven't tried it yet, I naturally assumed it wouldn't work exactly, but to have that... I would love to trump my friends across Live and have them baffled as to how my skill jumped so much.
The winners. At least statistically, winners have more fun.
an investigation of (1)subscribers to child porn websites [...] officials and (2) contractors with high-level security clearances who (3) allegedly purchased and downloaded child pornography, including an undisclosed number who used (4) their government computers to obtain the illegal material
Emphasis and selective cutting my own - but I don't think I really took anything too out of context.
1) So they were silly enough to subscribe to child porn website - create a paper trail for something they know is illegal. Instead of persuing attempts to acquire it without purchasing it - which would be a lot easier to deny. If you're credit card is on a statement, that'd difficult to deny. So already, I think these people are idiots.
2) The next thing - is Contractors with high level security. I know they meant officials included in that, but why on Earth would you give a Contractor high level security clearance? I wouldn't trust them further than broom closet.
3) Couldn't help but notice the word Allegedly. Just pointing it out, make of that what you will.
4) Seriously? On your work or government supplied computer you would partake in those activities?
Seriously the lack of common sense either completely astounds me - or smells fishy. I haven't yet decided if I want to put on my tin foil hat. (Never attribute to malice blah blah blah)
Yes but rooting the phone requires you to cut the yellow wire with the green stripes, not the green wire with the yellow stripes. If you get it wrong, you not only brick your phone, but every other droid x in a 3 block radius.
So I can understand people's fear in doing so.
The only reason people flock to learn English and Mandarin are because The jobs that pay the most are in English Speaking Countries and China's power is steadily growing. It has nothing to do with the "ease" of learning the language.
Don't get me wrong, I like English's versatility, but when you try teaching it to someone who doesn't know English, it's not that simple. It's definately easier for the cousins of English like French and German, because the words themselves get transfered over, but the Syntax of English is what kills people. Because there is hardly an established syntax, so how do you determine what to teach?
Well, you WERE. Not anymore.