I seem to remember a lot of people saying that Windows could never give the performance that DOS could when it comes to writing games - too much OS between the game and the hardware. Same argument when it comes to games on Linux compared to win95/8 (win2k doesn't really cut it for the same reasons).
Of course we all know how that turned out... Maybe the US government should intervene;-)
Surely apt-get is an app that sits on top of dpkg - rpm is not an app for getting updates so you can't compare the two. You should be comparing apt-get with red carpet or something equivalent for a true comparison...
I hate to say this, but your average Wal-mart shopper is going to be in for an unpleasant surprise if they try to install this on their system. You can say what you like about the Linux revolution, but your average Joe Punter really hasn't got a clue... This isn't pessimism, this is my experience. Even if they do buy it (because of some weird media hype they've read), it just isn't going to do what they think it does... If you can't install Microsoft Wank v8.4.4 they'll think they've been ripped off.
The trolls are twisting the threads. That's what trolls are for. I stumbled across Eco's stuff when I was going through my Pirsig phase. I'm with you (him). Slashdot is starting to lose my interest - I seem more interested in having a go at some misguided religious nut than following the current tech trends. Maybe I should retreat to a hermitage and read some more or something. All this talk of IPv6 and possible water on Mars is starting to wear a little thin. Seems a bit off-topic if you know what I mean. Heh. Ah well....
Assuming that you're the same Anonymous Coward that posted the first one (it's hard to tell when the person you're speaking to doesn't want people to know who s/he/it is), hehe, funny how my domain is demon. I like speaking to trolls. They've got as much time on their hands as I do...
Do you have no sense of double entendre? Come on man, lighten up. If my organ was propane powered I'd be a happy man... In fact if my organ was a large hot pipe I'd... errr. Oh for Christ's sake man. It's a beautifully filthy post.
I remember my days at Oxford. The dean would come in of a morning and make us wipe his organ down....
What you occultist oddballs don't seem to realise is your own bizarre hypocricy. Any mention of the supernatural that doesn't fit in with your own odd beliefs about what an ancient political/social tool (the bible to those who aren't paying attention) means in a modern context is taken as literally as your own thoughts about the good book.
Understand society, understand people. Don't try and shoehorn poeple into your own theories. For fuck's sake. And please stop posting on Slashdot. No one cares.
Stories like this make me think... In the phrase "piping hot cream", is piping an adjective or a verb. The Dutch viewers in the audience will get an extra level of meaning from that...
Having said that, an intrument that depends on explosions to work seems a little primitive. Cool, but primitive. So rub me down with a stiff wire brush and call me a troll;-)
Whoah. Infinite loop situation. Each extra atom in the computer to look after each extra address would need it's own extra atom to look after it. Gnnnk. Too many drugs, too little time - you'd need infinity, err, infinity plus... err oh Lord, time for bed. So, hang on a minute, how many atoms are there again?
OK, wait, let me start again... Lots plus lots times lots equals....
Man, if there are 2 billion people on the net (which there aren't) they could have ~10^20 addresses each. You could have an address for each widget in a hoojamaflip and still have some left over. Unless some fuckers like M$oft (although it's looking less and less likely that they're going to be around for long) buys a stupid number of addresses and takes the offline, there will be plenty for everyone, animal, vegetable or atom.
They should have done this at the start just in case... Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing;-)
All I seem to be seeing are the benefits and problems with taking E and why no one likes French people.
Struggling back to the point, I'm afraid that as head tech of an IT department that uses Linux boxes, the perils of everyone and their dog (including my boss's PA (who wants to 'get into IT and learn Linux' - oh dear). In fact, as an aside, my boss has decided that she's going to be our new first line support (two week trial). She's never used anything apart from Word in her life. Sweet Jesus help me) wanting to be a sysadmin are very apparent.
I hate to sound like a snob, but people should really keep away from Linux (or any other proper operating system) in a production environment unless they know what they're doing. This does not lend itself to click kiddies fucking everything up because they think they know what the difference is between RAID1 and RAID5.
It may catch on elsewhere, but not in my department...
The delaying tactics of Microsoft are pretty clear. Clinton is not particularly pro-Microsoft. There's no intervention on his part. Bush, on the other hand, who is pretty likely to succeed him, is vocally pro-Microsoft. If Gates can delay until Clinton is replaced by someone that is pretty likely to intervene on their behalf, the whole thing is likely to either go away or be watered down enough for them not to lose their main advantage in the marketplace (i.e. closed APIs etc).
They're not stupid. They know exactly what to wait for. A resolution at this time would be very bad for them...
Just a quickie with a European slant (most of whome are asleep at the moment).
While impartiality is all very laudable, the whole EU situation does spring to mind. At the very best, legislation based on ignorant, disinterested committees, accepted because those committees shouldn't have a vested interest (or any other kind of interest for that matter) is worse than no legislation. At the very worst, they'll be as self serving as anyone else. At least people that have an obvious vested interest, whether it's financial or political, know (their half of) the facts and will find it harder to avoid debate.
Bottom line is, if they're impartial, they're probably not interested. Chances are they're not impartial, in which case we shouldn't be accepting their views on the basis that they are. Either way decisions will be made without the people that matter (that's us btw) having our say.
Oh dear. Cynicism and verbal diarhea will be death of me. If stroke, heart failure or lung cancer doesn't get me first...;-)
Someone moderate this up. The guy seems to know what he's on about.
It always seemed to me that all of our science is just a model to decribe what we observe. If the black hole theory doesn't cut it, then we need something else. The problem arises when you have two theories that work to a certain point, but then fall over (e.g. Newtonian and Relativistic physics). Scientists will use whatever theory is more appropriate to solving the problem that they currently face. If you're trying to get micro and macro physics to adhere to the same model, one of the existing views has to change, and frankly it isn't going to be quantum physics. It works too well...
I'm just glad to see that these boys aren't just sitting around...
While this is all very interesting from a legal point of view, I think that the article got it right. Napster is just the sacrificial icon - it represents what the band is annoyed about, namely piracy.
The fact of the matter is that there are any number of ways of distributing music (including tv and radio), so if people want to pirate music, they will always be able to. (they'd have to ban everything down to sound cards and radios if they really wanted to stamp out piracy - who'd listen to their music then)
Cutting off the Hydras head is pointless - unless you want to be a bit cynical and say that Metallica must realise this and is just going after a bit of easy publicity. Guess I must be a cynic... =)
No one seems to have pointed out that one of main things that gives Microsoft an edge over all of their competitors is that they have full and exclusive access to the Windows API. Breaking the company into two would mean that any information being tranferred between them is "on the market" and therefore available to anyone that's willing to pay for it. So next time they change the whole of the Windows OS in order to make Word work correctly (you'll notice that almost every system dll is replaced when you install Office) they have to tell everyone what they changed. No more undocumented API calls (in theory;-)). Woohoo.
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That's probably what you'll see on his pron site ;-)
Of course we all know how that turned out... Maybe the US government should intervene ;-)
Surely apt-get is an app that sits on top of dpkg - rpm is not an app for getting updates so you can't compare the two. You should be comparing apt-get with red carpet or something equivalent for a true comparison...
I've had a long day. I'm sorry.
Maybe we'll finally get some NTFS drivers that don't trash your filesystem. I hope these guys do post it.
The trolls are twisting the threads. That's what trolls are for. I stumbled across Eco's stuff when I was going through my Pirsig phase. I'm with you (him). Slashdot is starting to lose my interest - I seem more interested in having a go at some misguided religious nut than following the current tech trends. Maybe I should retreat to a hermitage and read some more or something. All this talk of IPv6 and possible water on Mars is starting to wear a little thin. Seems a bit off-topic if you know what I mean. Heh. Ah well....
Assuming that you're the same Anonymous Coward that posted the first one (it's hard to tell when the person you're speaking to doesn't want people to know who s/he/it is), hehe, funny how my domain is demon. I like speaking to trolls. They've got as much time on their hands as I do...
Heh
I remember my days at Oxford. The dean would come in of a morning and make us wipe his organ down....
What you occultist oddballs don't seem to realise is your own bizarre hypocricy. Any mention of the supernatural that doesn't fit in with your own odd beliefs about what an ancient political/social tool (the bible to those who aren't paying attention) means in a modern context is taken as literally as your own thoughts about the good book.
Understand society, understand people. Don't try and shoehorn poeple into your own theories. For fuck's sake. And please stop posting on Slashdot. No one cares.
Having said that, an intrument that depends on explosions to work seems a little primitive. Cool, but primitive. So rub me down with a stiff wire brush and call me a troll ;-)
OK, wait, let me start again... Lots plus lots times lots equals....
...faints...
They should have done this at the start just in case... Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing ;-)
It's about time. The sooner the better, if you ask me... (first post(?))
Struggling back to the point, I'm afraid that as head tech of an IT department that uses Linux boxes, the perils of everyone and their dog (including my boss's PA (who wants to 'get into IT and learn Linux' - oh dear). In fact, as an aside, my boss has decided that she's going to be our new first line support (two week trial). She's never used anything apart from Word in her life. Sweet Jesus help me) wanting to be a sysadmin are very apparent.
I hate to sound like a snob, but people should really keep away from Linux (or any other proper operating system) in a production environment unless they know what they're doing. This does not lend itself to click kiddies fucking everything up because they think they know what the difference is between RAID1 and RAID5.
It may catch on elsewhere, but not in my department...
Oh dear. Seems I'm not the first to point this out... Ah well. The arrogance of youth.
They're not stupid. They know exactly what to wait for. A resolution at this time would be very bad for them...
While impartiality is all very laudable, the whole EU situation does spring to mind. At the very best, legislation based on ignorant, disinterested committees, accepted because those committees shouldn't have a vested interest (or any other kind of interest for that matter) is worse than no legislation. At the very worst, they'll be as self serving as anyone else. At least people that have an obvious vested interest, whether it's financial or political, know (their half of) the facts and will find it harder to avoid debate.
Bottom line is, if they're impartial, they're probably not interested. Chances are they're not impartial, in which case we shouldn't be accepting their views on the basis that they are. Either way decisions will be made without the people that matter (that's us btw) having our say.
Oh dear. Cynicism and verbal diarhea will be death of me. If stroke, heart failure or lung cancer doesn't get me first... ;-)
Someone moderate this up. The guy seems to know what he's on about.
It always seemed to me that all of our science is just a model to decribe what we observe. If the black hole theory doesn't cut it, then we need something else. The problem arises when you have two theories that work to a certain point, but then fall over (e.g. Newtonian and Relativistic physics). Scientists will use whatever theory is more appropriate to solving the problem that they currently face. If you're trying to get micro and macro physics to adhere to the same model, one of the existing views has to change, and frankly it isn't going to be quantum physics. It works too well...
I'm just glad to see that these boys aren't just sitting around...
The fact of the matter is that there are any number of ways of distributing music (including tv and radio), so if people want to pirate music, they will always be able to. (they'd have to ban everything down to sound cards and radios if they really wanted to stamp out piracy - who'd listen to their music then)
Cutting off the Hydras head is pointless - unless you want to be a bit cynical and say that Metallica must realise this and is just going after a bit of easy publicity. Guess I must be a cynic... =)
No one seems to have pointed out that one of main things that gives Microsoft an edge over all of their competitors is that they have full and exclusive access to the Windows API. Breaking the company into two would mean that any information being tranferred between them is "on the market" and therefore available to anyone that's willing to pay for it. So next time they change the whole of the Windows OS in order to make Word work correctly (you'll notice that almost every system dll is replaced when you install Office) they have to tell everyone what they changed. No more undocumented API calls (in theory ;-)). Woohoo.
I don't know what you lot are laughing at. My fish just died ;-)