So what you're saying is, Gates is still a damn good businessman? Or is this less of a fact-based argument, based on hatred of his products? I know which I see...
While we're on this topic I'd like to point out that Macs feel much faster than they actually are because of the superb multi tasking and UI response under heavy load.
When I am encoding a video on my Windows machine I can't do anything else on my computer, if I try to click something it takes about 30 seconds for the menu to popup.
While I don't doubt for one second what you're saying, the same UI response could be achieved on Windows by dropping the priority of the video rendering task - I do it all the time with Vdub. Set it from Normal to Low and you'll get your responsive desktop back without noticing any meaningful loss of render speed. Unless, of course, you've got other tasks running that hit the CPU a lot, in which case you might want to batch your tasks or play around a little more with their priorities. Granted, messing with task priority is not the most user-friendly way of managing things in Windows, but it's there and it works:)
When the server detects a specific sequence of port-hits, it runs a command defined in its configuration file. This can be used to open up holes in a firewall for quick access.
Consider: Bob have whatever number of ancestors in generation N that Bob has. Alice also has some number of ancestors in generation N. If Bob and Alice have a child, Chris, together, Chris's ancestors in generation N+1 are simply the union of Bob's ancestors in generation N and Alice's ancestors in generation N. For example's sake, let's set N=2, the generation of Bob and Alice's grandparents. Bob has four grandparents, Alice has four grandparents. So Chris has eight great-grandparents. But if Bob and Alice are cousins, they share two grandparents, and while Chris still has eight great-grandparents (in a manner of speaking) he has only six unique grandparents.
Well, GPRS and the Nokia 6100 I had with me while I was stuck on the runway at Detroit for 5+ hours was an absolute godsend. The captain told us that there was a power cut in the airport (we had landed about 30 minutes after the thing started). At that point I took out my phone, found a local carrier (I think it was AT&T) and after trying to connect for about 20 minutes I finally got a signal. Checked BBC and Ananova websites and saw that we were not alone with no power. The lady I was sat next to coincidentally worked for some power company and, while speaking to her husband/boyfriend on her mobile, screamed out "I can hear my boss on CNN!!!11". heh
US Immigration wouldn't let us get off the plane with the ladder trucks so they flew us across to Minneapolis a few hours later. After another few hours I finally got through immigration only to find that my luggage had been lost!
Not the best day ever, and the airline refused to either put us up or refund the $120 it cost me to grab one of the last hotel rooms in a local Holiday Inn.
Finally got to Dallas the next morning, got my luggage delivered to Oklahoma the next day (on a Sunday too - woo yay!), and received a nice "thank god you got here ok" present from my fiance which more than made up for the previous day;-)
As I understand the DPA, and I'm not a lawyer so I say this with my own added seasoning, when my relationship with another party (which holds personal data on or about me) ends, that party is obliged to remove said data from their records in compliance with the DPA. As I understand it, Google is unable to fulfil that responsibility, ergo they are in breach of the DPA.
The issue is not the action of collecting my personal data - that's a red herring. I've already displayed my willingness for Google to have such data by accepting their T&Cs and, more importantly, by my use of the service.
From gmail's T&Cs: residual copies of email may remain on our systems, even after you have deleted them from your mailbox or after the termination of your account
This breaches point 5 of the 8 basic points of the act as outlined below:
1. Data should be processed fairly and lawfully.
2. Data should be obtained for one or more specified lawful purposes.
3. Data shall be adequate, relevant and not excessive.
4. Data shall be accurate and where necessary kept up to date.
5. Data is not kept longer than is necessary for its purpose.
6. Data shall be processed in accordance with subject rights under the Act.
7. Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised/unlawful processing, loss, destruction, damage to personal data.
8. Data shall not be transferred outside EEA unless that country/territory ensures adequate level of protection for rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data.
This seems to me to be very much a knee-jerk reaction. Provided that Google is up-fromt will all this, why shouldn't I be given the opportunity to opt-in to such a service?
For the vesy same reason that you can't "opt in" to slavery. The service happens to fall foul of certain EU privacy laws.
Did anybody actually read the article? (yeah yeah "you must be new here" +5 Funny)
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Before MP3s were Satan, I had a stereo system (hi-fi for us old folks) that could easily "rip" CDs, records, or tapes to cheap portable media (blank tapes). It didn't seem to be an issue then...
Did your stereo also connect to hundreds of thousands of others and allow them to listen to the song you just taped?
That's why it wasn't an issue then.
Maybe it's a bit before my time, but does anyone remember anything about PenWindows at all?
Was it renamed Windows CE in a later life?
Or was it just another MS experiment?
From the article:
In late 1993, Go was sold to AT&T where it was ultimately merged into the company's portable computer subsidiary. In 1994 the phone company shut down the effort in portable computing. Three months later Microsoft canceled its PenWindows project.
In 1996, Mr. Kaplan wrote a book, "Start-Up: A Silicon Valley Adventure" (Penguin USA), in which he blamed Microsoft, in part, for the demise of Go. Two years later, Marlin Eller, a former Microsoft programmer who was part of the PenWindows project, wrote in "Barbarians Led by Bill Gates" (Owl Books) that the intent of the PenWindows project had been primarily to undermine Go.
Is that why I have two loyalty cards on my keyring and three more in my wallet?
If you're worried about privacy (in a supermarket of all places) that much why would you voluntarily sign up to loyalty (otherwise known as purchase tracking and marketing) schemes?
None of the superkarkets around here force me to have them. Of course, they all offer them, but I don't have to have one to shop there.
She spends 98% of her tech support time with the windoze folks.
Every time another virus runs amok, she adds another Mac person..
Without meaning to sound patronising, perhaps she should do some work to secure the windows boxes instead of letting viruses "run amok". I work in a 100% Microsoft shop (well, ok, we have Solaris boxes, IBM mainframes and a few linux machines dotted around) and in all the years I've been here we haven't been hit by one single virus. Our network is plenty secure, thanks, and while I'd rather we didn't use so many Microsoft products, viruses/worms come last on the list of my reasons to change.
Frankly I'm getting sick and tired of paper MCSEs who know about as much about properly securing a network as I know about how financial markets work.
Rant over.:) That wasn't particularly directed at your wife - your story was merely the catalyst.
The Amiga did this over a decade ago with it's "locale" settings. Anybody could produce a localised translation of application menus etc. In fact there are hundreds of such "locale" settings on aminet.
Way back in the mid 90's, when I was accessing the net on my souped-up A1200, Amiga had already been sold a couple of times. Didn't Gateway have a hand in it for a while, then Escom and god knows how many others. I understand that this time it isn't a complete company sell-off, but seriously, how many companies has Amiga (or major assets of) been owned by in the last decade or so?
I spent the 90's and early this century waiting for AOS4 but every time I go to their website I see "coming soon" banners. The last time http://os.amiga.com/os4/ was changed was Oct 15, 2003. I'll keep looking, but in the meantime the best way I'm able to use AmigaOS is via emulation.
It's the same in the UK. Millions of paper votes are counted in a matter of hours. It's a system that works well, so I don't understand the need to force through such obvious broken technology.
Only on slashdot would a lighthearted comparison between a Microsoft product and a linux product get modded down as Troll. Way to go, my ub3r-l337 brothers, how's life in your parents' basement treating you? Gotta go - I think I hear your mum calling for your laundry.
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So what you're saying is, Gates is still a damn good businessman? Or is this less of a fact-based argument, based on hatred of his products? I know which I see...
While I don't doubt for one second what you're saying, the same UI response could be achieved on Windows by dropping the priority of the video rendering task - I do it all the time with Vdub. Set it from Normal to Low and you'll get your responsive desktop back without noticing any meaningful loss of render speed. Unless, of course, you've got other tasks running that hit the CPU a lot, in which case you might want to batch your tasks or play around a little more with their priorities. Granted, messing with task priority is not the most user-friendly way of managing things in Windows, but it's there and it works :)
Thank you for writing one of the most interesting posts I've read on /. for a long long time.
pfft, XP has had this for ages....
Oh, wait. I know this one! I'm driving the train!
US Immigration wouldn't let us get off the plane with the ladder trucks so they flew us across to Minneapolis a few hours later. After another few hours I finally got through immigration only to find that my luggage had been lost!
Not the best day ever, and the airline refused to either put us up or refund the $120 it cost me to grab one of the last hotel rooms in a local Holiday Inn.
Finally got to Dallas the next morning, got my luggage delivered to Oklahoma the next day (on a Sunday too - woo yay!), and received a nice "thank god you got here ok" present from my fiance which more than made up for the previous day ;-)
The issue is not the action of collecting my personal data - that's a red herring. I've already displayed my willingness for Google to have such data by accepting their T&Cs and, more importantly, by my use of the service.
From gmail's T&Cs:
residual copies of email may remain on our systems, even after you have deleted them from your mailbox or after the termination of your account
This breaches point 5 of the 8 basic points of the act as outlined below:
1. Data should be processed fairly and lawfully.
2. Data should be obtained for one or more specified lawful purposes.
3. Data shall be adequate, relevant and not excessive.
4. Data shall be accurate and where necessary kept up to date.
5. Data is not kept longer than is necessary for its purpose.
6. Data shall be processed in accordance with subject rights under the Act.
7. Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised/unlawful processing, loss, destruction, damage to personal data.
8. Data shall not be transferred outside EEA unless that country/territory ensures adequate level of protection for rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data.
For the vesy same reason that you can't "opt in" to slavery. The service happens to fall foul of certain EU privacy laws.
Did anybody actually read the article? (yeah yeah "you must be new here" +5 Funny)
More often than not it's modded insightful too...
Did your stereo also connect to hundreds of thousands of others and allow them to listen to the song you just taped?
That's why it wasn't an issue then.
Indeed. For more information on this, you could do worse than starting here: fusion.org.uk
you won't even hear the kaboom - the nanobots will have already turned the universe into a huge grey goo by then...
Was it renamed Windows CE in a later life?
Or was it just another MS experiment?
From the article:
In late 1993, Go was sold to AT&T where it was ultimately merged into the company's portable computer subsidiary. In 1994 the phone company shut down the effort in portable computing. Three months later Microsoft canceled its PenWindows project.
In 1996, Mr. Kaplan wrote a book, "Start-Up: A Silicon Valley Adventure" (Penguin USA), in which he blamed Microsoft, in part, for the demise of Go. Two years later, Marlin Eller, a former Microsoft programmer who was part of the PenWindows project, wrote in "Barbarians Led by Bill Gates" (Owl Books) that the intent of the PenWindows project had been primarily to undermine Go.
If you're worried about privacy (in a supermarket of all places) that much why would you voluntarily sign up to loyalty (otherwise known as purchase tracking and marketing) schemes?
None of the superkarkets around here force me to have them. Of course, they all offer them, but I don't have to have one to shop there.
Or that one where Bruce Willis played a ghost...
Every time another virus runs amok, she adds another Mac person..
Without meaning to sound patronising, perhaps she should do some work to secure the windows boxes instead of letting viruses "run amok". I work in a 100% Microsoft shop (well, ok, we have Solaris boxes, IBM mainframes and a few linux machines dotted around) and in all the years I've been here we haven't been hit by one single virus. Our network is plenty secure, thanks, and while I'd rather we didn't use so many Microsoft products, viruses/worms come last on the list of my reasons to change.
Frankly I'm getting sick and tired of paper MCSEs who know about as much about properly securing a network as I know about how financial markets work.
Rant over. :) That wasn't particularly directed at your wife - your story was merely the catalyst.
The Amiga did this over a decade ago with it's "locale" settings. Anybody could produce a localised translation of application menus etc. In fact there are hundreds of such "locale" settings on aminet.
If I had mod points you'd get them all. That was the funniest thing I've read on slashdot in weeks!
I spent the 90's and early this century waiting for AOS4 but every time I go to their website I see "coming soon" banners. The last time http://os.amiga.com/os4/ was changed was Oct 15, 2003. I'll keep looking, but in the meantime the best way I'm able to use AmigaOS is via emulation.
It's the same in the UK. Millions of paper votes are counted in a matter of hours. It's a system that works well, so I don't understand the need to force through such obvious broken technology.
Why is this nonsense getting moderated informative?
I despair.. i really do.
Only on slashdot would a lighthearted comparison between a Microsoft product and a linux product get modded down as Troll. Way to go, my ub3r-l337 brothers, how's life in your parents' basement treating you? Gotta go - I think I hear your mum calling for your laundry.
- Play my giant MP3/Ogg collection
My Xbox does that.
- Have a slideshow of all the digital photos I've ever taken.
My Xbox does that.
- watch DVD's and rip them if they're any good.
My Xbox does that.
- play about 40G of movies on command,and share them on my local network.
My Xbox does that.
- Have a nice auto-updating weather display, with forecasts and satellite photos.
My Xbox does that.
- Read a bunch of RSS newsfeeds
My Xbox does that.
All of which is accessible from my remote....
My Xbox does that.
and free, if your time is worth nothing ;-)
My Xbox doesn't do that, but it does play Xbox, PSX, Amiga, SNES, N64, Genesis, Arcade, NES etc games... ;-)
You're new here, yeah? :)
(Yeah, I know, I know, +1 Redundant)
Should this be modded Insightful or Funny? Perhaps +1 SignOfTheTimes :)