You are also making an assumption that he's got a fridge in the room. In a dorm room you've probably got a good source of outside ice. At worst you have cold water. Neither of which add heat like your pretty equation.
Maybe I could get a little more concerned about this is they let us know what the test was? When you are talking about government agencies, the words a computer and network security test could mean quite a few things. 10/200 computer are still running Win3.1 - you get a D+. You are missing meta tags on your intranet - D+.
Hard to have any kind of opinion about that article unless they tell us more about this magical test.
And right here with your own arguement you managed to expose one of the biggest problems with open source software to date. Mirosoft is packed FULL of features. Hardly anyone uses all of them but once you have a need you'll often discover that their product (bloated though it is) can already do it. In your example with open source, discover a need and then request IBM build it?!? Are you insane? What company can work on that business model?? I like some of the grass roots movement behind open source but realstically, where's the innovation? What can any one of the open source products offer the average user that MS can not?
What has the open source community got that rivals.NET? Have you tried developing in visual studio.net yet? It's light years beyond anything open source.
My intent wasn't to bash open source. I love that Linux is becoming mainstream enough to make microsoft stand up and take notice. But this arguement about going through your supplier for functionality that should have been there anyway is just plain dumb.
not to mention, if they are using your hard drive for storage space, what's to stop people from leaving all their kiddie porn on your machine?
It may be that I don't have a complete grasp of what people can and can not do with this system.
Now I can't even get back to their site to find out more -/.'s load killed their servers?
Would anyone else be worried about getting paid for providing illegally copied materials?
Of course people here follow ALL music related copyright laws but I've been told that there are those who don't.
It seems that actually receieving money for providing this content takes it to the next level and it wouldn't surprise me if someone like the RIAA tried going after end users on this one.
Just a thought...
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Oh, I am soooo getting the tin foil hat back out!
You are also making an assumption that he's got a fridge in the room. In a dorm room you've probably got a good source of outside ice. At worst you have cold water. Neither of which add heat like your pretty equation.
Maybe I could get a little more concerned about this is they let us know what the test was? When you are talking about government agencies, the words a computer and network security test could mean quite a few things. 10/200 computer are still running Win3.1 - you get a D+. You are missing meta tags on your intranet - D+.
Hard to have any kind of opinion about that article unless they tell us more about this magical test.
How hard is it to sit down and figure out your priorities.
Sig-o - can lead to marriage and a lifetime of hell on Earth.
Game - leads absolutely nowhere.
Hurm - um - nevermind, not so easy.
You Rock!!
And right here with your own arguement you managed to expose one of the biggest problems with open source software to date. Mirosoft is packed FULL of features. Hardly anyone uses all of them but once you have a need you'll often discover that their product (bloated though it is) can already do it. In your example with open source, discover a need and then request IBM build it?!? Are you insane? What company can work on that business model??
.NET? Have you tried developing in visual studio .net yet? It's light years beyond anything open source.
I like some of the grass roots movement behind open source but realstically, where's the innovation? What can any one of the open source products offer the average user that MS can not?
What has the open source community got that rivals
My intent wasn't to bash open source. I love that Linux is becoming mainstream enough to make microsoft stand up and take notice. But this arguement about going through your supplier for functionality that should have been there anyway is just plain dumb.
Gee dad, can I run seti@home on it too???
not to mention, if they are using your hard drive for storage space, what's to stop people from leaving all their kiddie porn on your machine? /.'s load killed their servers?
It may be that I don't have a complete grasp of what people can and can not do with this system.
Now I can't even get back to their site to find out more -
Would anyone else be worried about getting paid for providing illegally copied materials?
Of course people here follow ALL music related copyright laws but I've been told that there are those who don't.
It seems that actually receieving money for providing this content takes it to the next level and it wouldn't surprise me if someone like the RIAA tried going after end users on this one.
Just a thought...