let's assume that they have about a million servers already, then an improvement in overall load of 0.01% would then save them from buying 100 machines... makes spending time making the operating system run smoothly a lot more profitable.
actually I think it makes perfect sense if you belive that learning is hard work. You learn a lot which is a lot of hard work, and the other way you do a lot of hard work therefor you learn a lot. "steep learning curve" works for bot because they are mutually inclusive.
yea, and I used to worry about the compression of music on my device, but then I went and bought a device that plays FLAC. Now I don't. How's that for correlation!
I don't think that is true for all platforms at least. Way back (almost last year) I couldn't turn off some plug-ins in Firefox on a Linux desktop. However last time I checked, they could all be "turned off" (whatever that means... I guess disable.) Since Firefox loads these plug-ins, I guess it can choose not to load it.
In my opinion Mozilla needs to clear things up in their handling of add-ons. No add-ons should be hidden, The users should be notified of new plug-ins (seriously there couldn't be that many, so it shouldn't become annoying), and there should be an option to disable them all. Then there is no way of unintrusively hijacking the browser.
That doesn't apply to all professions in general, you wouldn't hire a politician that works as a stripper part time, and Microsoft wouldn't hire a guy that contributes to Wine in his spare time.
The funny thing is that solving Project Euler problems using Haskell on Saturdays, is one of my favorite free time activities. No kidding, I really love coding in Haskell, and Project Euler got some really interesting problems.
really now? Well compare that we might aswell just save the hair from the 6 billion people on the planet, that is going to grow the har anyways, and the the process of making silicon. To quote wikipedia, this is how that process is described there: "Silicon is commercially prepared by the reaction of high-purity silica with wood, charcoal, and coal, in an electric arc furnace using carbon electrodes. At temperatures over 1,900 ÂC (3,450 ÂF), the carbon reduces the silica to silicon..."
The people who should fear clouds are the people who want their data in their own hands, and don't trust third parties to handle it for then. It's that easy, and it's what will make SaaS fail.
We write SaaS, and almost all our customers ask us where we store the data, and if it we don't guarantee them it is in the country they are from they back off. And we write software for small firms only. Bigger clients want the software and the data stored in their own datacenter. They will not trust the "cloud" for that (and I wouldn't either). Not in the near future at least.
I agree, and to be quite honest I think that cloud computing for private people will make some fiz and then leave quietly, too many people are one of three categories: "dont get it", "don't want it" and "don't care too much to get it".
A lot of options are available before compiling the kernel, couldn't the choice of scheduler be one of them? it wouldn't defenetly be a great enhancement for the portable platforms...
Why is this post marked as a Troll? It's a legitimate viewpoint and one I agree with. I'll take function over form every time. Give me a good, fast, stable browser with a UI that isn't flashy, cluttered or distracting.
To be honest I think UI is important, maybe not as important as functionality and stability, but a good UI that makes for an ease of use really makes for a more enjoyable experience. Google usually makes great UIs such the ones of Chrome, SketchUp and picasa. Especially SketchUp, I really recomend trying it with the help of a couple of video tutorials. Chrome really got one thing very right and that it leaves a lot of space for the website, and moving around bookmarks is very intutive.
Ok, I maybe wrong here but I do have a couple of questions...
1. do the police go after you just because you are using encryption software?
2. Have you ever been asked to reveile the contents of your harddrive while going through customs?
3. have you ever had your computer be part of a forensic analysis?
ok I admit there is something wrong with UK police, I mean uping the right to detain a suspect to 3 months? (http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/07/uk_police_and_e.html) but is it really that bad to give sensitive information to the police? I mean you could end up in jail for it but then it's mostly lost isn't it?
don't give your children administrator privleges on your 'puter!!!!!!! I mean come on, you might aswell entrust them with your carkeys and credit information, and stikk them in a room full of strangers.
give it they might still be able to install some programs, and not all of them that good but from what I remember this is not the case with limewire.
and while your at it why not put up a firewall and restrict the internet access for all users. Maybe even turn of the port that limewire runs on, if the kid is smart enough to jump through all the hops to get limewire installed and running, he also knows how to restrict the sharing.
Don't get me wrong I am all for letting kids to dangerous things ( http://www.ted.com/talks/gever_tulley_on_5_dangerous_things_for_kids.html) but teach them why it's dangerous, lay down some rules and do it with them.
Chrome is an attempt to increase Google's advertising space, giving them more eyeballs by bringing people to their search engine and other services. In other words, it's an attempt to tie people to all their branded services, Microsoft-style, but people on Slashdot won't criticize them for it because there's a huge bias against Microsoft and in favor of Google.
Ehm.... and that chrome mostly got the security stuff right, is open source, is damn fast and has made versions for linux and Mac has nothing to do with slashdotters feeling at least indifferent to it (I mean there is enough of people that have whined about the lack of adblock, rss support, etc.)...
Oh and by the way I do think that GPL is not a copyright licence (although it technically is) since it's main goal is to preserve the users right. read about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
well you don't sound as much of a MS word fanboy as a MS software salesman... There are better options at lower prices, that are open source (such as open office.)
how cool wouldn't it be to send up an apple! or you know something of other peculiar interest like I china bowl or a teddy bear....
and for a mear 8 grand it does make for the ultimate DIY project even if it is only for a couple of weeks! It would be cool to show that you do understand it so much that you can make one of your own!
I study at UIB(norway) and I can tell you about the things I love about the IT department:
- They have AD accounts for all users(students and employees) and the profile is avilable through ftp (that is if you want to use it at home)
- they provide firefox and thunderbird (and thunderbird is even pre set to use your university e-mail account) on all machines
- about 50% of the machines use Fedora and the rest is XP.
- When you enroll you get your ID and that autmoatically set you up with an e-mail account, an AD account (probobly not real AD but that Samba flavor but who cares anyways), a log on for the wi-fi(just a password program on the proxy, or you could use VPN), an account on a schedual/classorganizer they use and they set all of this up pretty nicely(like the touch about thunderbird I mentioned earlier)
-they got a really nice printer system (you can retrieve your documents at any printer you want)
to be fair. The crap usually comes with IE 6 (aka herpes) and either upgrading to IE8 or changing to firefox does stop a lot of that stuff from coming through. The funny thing is that IE6 is (by these statistics) still used by 12.78% of all users. An updated xp install usually runs a lot smoother then what it used to back when IE6 was big. Too bad I still see a lot of IE6 around everywhere even on my school campus I see them on some of the machines. But big thanks to the university for having Fedora on almost 50% of the machines.
I think the right option for you would have to be ordering the documents in a database and serving them up through a website. I think that would be helpfull for your satelite offices since mapping shares through samba over VPN is sometimes unstable and always nontrivial. Besides the system doesn't seem to be working for you.
You really don't have to be that proficiant with functional webpages to make something like this, especially if you use ruby on rails. A ruby on rails guy would probably use only a couple of hours to make such an application. Then you could have functionality like searching and sort by author, department, type and so on.
Why shouldn't an ATM run Windows? Cue the standard Windows-bashing, but a decently hardened copied of XP is more than sufficient for the minimal work that an ATM has to do.
I guess the designers of this system is actually saying the same as you are, but here is the catch.. XP is too much for what an ATM is supposed to do. With all the features of a desktop OS it brings with it security issues and possible bugs. Something as vital as an ATM should be running on custom software top to bottom, developed to handle the task at hand securily.
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let's assume that they have about a million servers already, then an improvement in overall load of 0.01% would then save them from buying 100 machines... makes spending time making the operating system run smoothly a lot more profitable.
well... ChromeOS ~= google Chrome / Chromium, right? just add some way of running Chromium and your done!
you could potentially integrate Skype into Empathy or Pidgin if the license is right so I think it's a good thing!
actually I think it makes perfect sense if you belive that learning is hard work. You learn a lot which is a lot of hard work, and the other way you do a lot of hard work therefor you learn a lot. "steep learning curve" works for bot because they are mutually inclusive.
This grade of machines need Linux on them... not Windows; and Asus has been in bed with MS for some while now.
it has support for red hat and suse...
yea, and I used to worry about the compression of music on my device, but then I went and bought a device that plays FLAC. Now I don't. How's that for correlation!
I don't think that is true for all platforms at least. Way back (almost last year) I couldn't turn off some plug-ins in Firefox on a Linux desktop. However last time I checked, they could all be "turned off" (whatever that means... I guess disable.) Since Firefox loads these plug-ins, I guess it can choose not to load it.
In my opinion Mozilla needs to clear things up in their handling of add-ons. No add-ons should be hidden, The users should be notified of new plug-ins (seriously there couldn't be that many, so it shouldn't become annoying), and there should be an option to disable them all. Then there is no way of unintrusively hijacking the browser.
That doesn't apply to all professions in general, you wouldn't hire a politician that works as a stripper part time, and Microsoft wouldn't hire a guy that contributes to Wine in his spare time.
The funny thing is that solving Project Euler problems using Haskell on Saturdays, is one of my favorite free time activities. No kidding, I really love coding in Haskell, and Project Euler got some really interesting problems.
nonsens, there are a lot of viral diseases for apples, just look here. Although I don't see what malware has to do with apples...
really now? Well compare that we might aswell just save the hair from the 6 billion people on the planet, that is going to grow the har anyways, and the the process of making silicon. To quote wikipedia, this is how that process is described there: "Silicon is commercially prepared by the reaction of high-purity silica with wood, charcoal, and coal, in an electric arc furnace using carbon electrodes. At temperatures over 1,900 ÂC (3,450 ÂF), the carbon reduces the silica to silicon..."
The people who should fear clouds ...
The people who should fear clouds are the people who want their data in their own hands, and don't trust third parties to handle it for then. It's that easy, and it's what will make SaaS fail. We write SaaS, and almost all our customers ask us where we store the data, and if it we don't guarantee them it is in the country they are from they back off. And we write software for small firms only. Bigger clients want the software and the data stored in their own datacenter. They will not trust the "cloud" for that (and I wouldn't either). Not in the near future at least.
I agree, and to be quite honest I think that cloud computing for private people will make some fiz and then leave quietly, too many people are one of three categories: "dont get it", "don't want it" and "don't care too much to get it".
A lot of options are available before compiling the kernel, couldn't the choice of scheduler be one of them? it wouldn't defenetly be a great enhancement for the portable platforms...
Why is this post marked as a Troll? It's a legitimate viewpoint and one I agree with. I'll take function over form every time. Give me a good, fast, stable browser with a UI that isn't flashy, cluttered or distracting.
To be honest I think UI is important, maybe not as important as functionality and stability, but a good UI that makes for an ease of use really makes for a more enjoyable experience. Google usually makes great UIs such the ones of Chrome, SketchUp and picasa. Especially SketchUp, I really recomend trying it with the help of a couple of video tutorials. Chrome really got one thing very right and that it leaves a lot of space for the website, and moving around bookmarks is very intutive.
Ok, I maybe wrong here but I do have a couple of questions...
1. do the police go after you just because you are using encryption software?
2. Have you ever been asked to reveile the contents of your harddrive while going through customs?
3. have you ever had your computer be part of a forensic analysis?
ok I admit there is something wrong with UK police, I mean uping the right to detain a suspect to 3 months? (http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/07/uk_police_and_e.html) but is it really that bad to give sensitive information to the police? I mean you could end up in jail for it but then it's mostly lost isn't it?
don't give your children administrator privleges on your 'puter!!!!!!! I mean come on, you might aswell entrust them with your carkeys and credit information, and stikk them in a room full of strangers. give it they might still be able to install some programs, and not all of them that good but from what I remember this is not the case with limewire. and while your at it why not put up a firewall and restrict the internet access for all users. Maybe even turn of the port that limewire runs on, if the kid is smart enough to jump through all the hops to get limewire installed and running, he also knows how to restrict the sharing. Don't get me wrong I am all for letting kids to dangerous things ( http://www.ted.com/talks/gever_tulley_on_5_dangerous_things_for_kids.html) but teach them why it's dangerous, lay down some rules and do it with them.
yea, but the term data mining refers to a lot of things in wich not all of them are that bad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining
Chrome is an attempt to increase Google's advertising space, giving them more eyeballs by bringing people to their search engine and other services. In other words, it's an attempt to tie people to all their branded services, Microsoft-style, but people on Slashdot won't criticize them for it because there's a huge bias against Microsoft and in favor of Google.
Ehm.... and that chrome mostly got the security stuff right, is open source, is damn fast and has made versions for linux and Mac has nothing to do with slashdotters feeling at least indifferent to it (I mean there is enough of people that have whined about the lack of adblock, rss support, etc.)... Oh and by the way I do think that GPL is not a copyright licence (although it technically is) since it's main goal is to preserve the users right. read about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
well you don't sound as much of a MS word fanboy as a MS software salesman... There are better options at lower prices, that are open source (such as open office.)
how cool wouldn't it be to send up an apple! or you know something of other peculiar interest like I china bowl or a teddy bear.... and for a mear 8 grand it does make for the ultimate DIY project even if it is only for a couple of weeks! It would be cool to show that you do understand it so much that you can make one of your own!
I study at UIB(norway) and I can tell you about the things I love about the IT department: - They have AD accounts for all users(students and employees) and the profile is avilable through ftp (that is if you want to use it at home) - they provide firefox and thunderbird (and thunderbird is even pre set to use your university e-mail account) on all machines - about 50% of the machines use Fedora and the rest is XP. - When you enroll you get your ID and that autmoatically set you up with an e-mail account, an AD account (probobly not real AD but that Samba flavor but who cares anyways), a log on for the wi-fi(just a password program on the proxy, or you could use VPN), an account on a schedual/classorganizer they use and they set all of this up pretty nicely(like the touch about thunderbird I mentioned earlier) -they got a really nice printer system (you can retrieve your documents at any printer you want)
to be fair. The crap usually comes with IE 6 (aka herpes) and either upgrading to IE8 or changing to firefox does stop a lot of that stuff from coming through. The funny thing is that IE6 is (by these statistics) still used by 12.78% of all users. An updated xp install usually runs a lot smoother then what it used to back when IE6 was big. Too bad I still see a lot of IE6 around everywhere even on my school campus I see them on some of the machines. But big thanks to the university for having Fedora on almost 50% of the machines.
I think the right option for you would have to be ordering the documents in a database and serving them up through a website. I think that would be helpfull for your satelite offices since mapping shares through samba over VPN is sometimes unstable and always nontrivial. Besides the system doesn't seem to be working for you. You really don't have to be that proficiant with functional webpages to make something like this, especially if you use ruby on rails. A ruby on rails guy would probably use only a couple of hours to make such an application. Then you could have functionality like searching and sort by author, department, type and so on.
As long as there is internet, there will be piracy. Plain n' simple.
keep it down man! we don't want them to shut down the net!
Why shouldn't an ATM run Windows? Cue the standard Windows-bashing, but a decently hardened copied of XP is more than sufficient for the minimal work that an ATM has to do.
I guess the designers of this system is actually saying the same as you are, but here is the catch.. XP is too much for what an ATM is supposed to do. With all the features of a desktop OS it brings with it security issues and possible bugs. Something as vital as an ATM should be running on custom software top to bottom, developed to handle the task at hand securily.