I thought the whole bailout (not the one for the car industry, but rather about credit) was about liquidity. As anyone in the business world can tell you, liquidity problems can sink the best companies. In other words: You can have the best business idea ever, but if no one wants to invest in it you won't be able to make money. Same can happen down the line. If you have all you money invested, for example in machines, because demand is so high, and then one of you customers pays his bills late you could go belly up very fast.
Some banks even pull that on you in normal times. Maybe because they think they can make more money by selling your assets than by waiting for interest to come.
Now because nobody trusts anybody anymore in the credit industry liquidity has dried up. Many good businesses could fail because they are unable to borrow money. If one of their customers pays late...
Tesla says they have orders for years to come. Maybe they have a very sound business, but still have problems getting money because of the banks.
As a user I found open source to be a lot more hassle free than closed source. Usually it open source is supported better and longer. I can download everything from Debian mirrors. When I used Nvidia I always had to do some additional steps.
Maybe not for a desktop machine, but for servers I like to use XFS. That started way back then when XFS was the first (and then only AFAIR) fs that supported running on softraid. It was not that long ago and CPU cycles were already so cheap on x86 that softaid was already a pretty nice solution for small servers.
For small servers I have not changed that setup (XFS on softraid level one on two cheap drives) ever since.
I guess for the big machines it might be very different. I am pretty happy with XFS as it is.
Ever since the plough got introduced there have been productivity gains. The tools that we use get better. And we need less input to produce the same or even more output.
What culture? I am from Europe and what you call American culture is either European culture or pop culture (based on Eurpean culture and then sent back up us).
They tried to predict if a hole will be exploited or not. Those are two outcomes. If you were to guess you would end up with a 50% chance of guessing right.
Only because the botnet operators steal resources in such a large manner they can turn a "profit". Whatever that may be. How do you calculate a script kiddies costs anyways?
The much more interesting information was the US$ 2700 for about 350 Million Spam messages received and (an estimated) four times as much sent.
Rounded up that is a dollar earned for every 10 Million messages received and 40 Million messages sent (and caught as spam early on). Not counting that: "Still, the researchers acknowledge their figures don't take into account perhaps the most profitable aspect of the pharma spam business: The repeat customer who comes back time and again to purchase refills."
I would like to see that figure (10 Million for 1 Dollar) put against the resources lost/spent fighting Spam. How much damage do they do in order to make money. Do they steal 1 Dollar for every Cent they make? 10 Dollars? 100 Dollars? How much does it hurt the economy?
And maybe it is finally time to do something serious about Spam.
They put many different prices on what is essentially the same chip. If others create windows drivers (like the guys at the kx-project) people can buy cheaper cards and still do the same they would do with expensive cards.
"Hopefully these players will gain traction among OS X users, which will finally force Apple to either step up in terms of features or open up iTunes for extensions."
Here's hoping the users will stop using proprietary software altogether and switch to open source Amarok. Not just to force Apple to make Itunes better.
What has Slashdot become? Open Source just there to force the others to make their proprietary stuff better so we can continue to use it? All hail to our proprietary masters?
When a new Windows gets released they will drop their support for all their older devices for the new Windows. So everyone that used those devices and upgrades their computer (which of cource comes with the new os) has to buy new devices as well. It also works the other way around. New computers will only have support for the new version of Windows. That way you can't even install the old Windows on the new computers. Either way, as soon as one of your hardware devices fails or you want to upgrade one of your hardware devices you need to upgrade everything.
This is why hardware device makers love a new version of Windows. They can sell more stuff.
Microsoft is pleasing the hardware device makers by releasing a new Windows version so soon.
I am not a fan of Palin, but give her a break. Do you know what Laura Bush wore and how much that cost? Or McCains wife. Those families have the money to spend 500.000 on a dress for one evening. If you were surrounded by those types and didn't have that kind of money what would you? Maybe she felt under pressure? We don't know.
No focus was one of the reasons they went down in the first place. Can someone tell me how many operating systems they had in use for their phones?
Off the top of my head:
1. Some JavaME thing (don't know the name) 2. MotoMAGX 3. Symbian 4. Don't they already have Windows Mobile? 5. P2K (for the low end)
Are there more?
Anyways, they now want to "focus" on "just" three. P2K, Windows, Android. IMHO they should either go for Android or for Windows. If they really want Android (Windows Mobile is a little 90s) they could just buy Windows phones from China and rebrand them for their business customers that need Windows Mobile.
If the clients use end-to-end encryption and share the password through a secure different channel (e.g. encrypted email) does it really matter if the server is your own?
The manufacturer makes sure their mainboard works with Windows and does not give details to anyone. If OTOH Mircosoft would want data from the manufacturer they would be happy to supply it. But Microsoft doesn't give a rat's behind. Because customers will not complain to Microsoft if it doesn't work. They will just buy another mainboard. Monopoly is sweet.
I always thought that MS gained marketshare/dominance through piracy. And I sill believe that that piracy is much more relevant in the adoption of Windows in emerging markets than anything else by a long shot.
Even if other systems come pre-installed. I guess the situation is now different because a large number of machines will come preinstalled with a very useful and useable os, which could prompt people to not just install pirated version of Windows on these machines as soon as they get them.
Affirmative action is wrong, but still right. So it might fit doublethink. I still believe affirmative action is sometimes justified. Because if we accept the fact that racism exists and that it does play in role in employment and that we won't get rid of that for another hundred years affirmative action is less wrong than no affirmative action.
Now you could argue that racism is not widespread anymore. But I hate to point out the fact that for example the number of blacks and hispanics in top jobs is still very, very low. And then we could argue that that is because the don't get the same education because of where they are raised and grow up. And that is what needs to be changed first. I suppose it is, but I still think that affirmative action while being wrong is still less wrong than the alternative.
'If people equate freedom of speech with watching child pornography, then the Rudd Labor Government is going to disagree.'
I suppose if you think you can agree or disagree about what falls under freedom of speech you have not understood the concept. I thought it basically meant that you not only let people have that freedom that agree with you, but also people that you disagree with. I certainly disagree with people watching child pornography. And I do think that people that hurt children need to be punished (really really hard), but I always thought that reading or watching something (as an aldult) does not hurt children.
Well, maybe he knows better than me. After all he his a government minister.
Linux is a growing very fast as a server os. They will still make money on the clients. I mean they are even giving out SUSE vouchers. Next thing you know, they will port MS Office to SUSE.
One article covers some events I was part of. While I would say that those were highly debated events and I probabely should not write about it myself, because I was involved, I still think it is very, very one-sided. I tried to argue my case on the discussion pages, but to no avail. For some reason the other side (radical liberals) thinks that their view must be the neutral one. And they have some more people.
They even got into an edit war with some Wikipedia-people, because actually those events are not even relvant enough to be part of that article.
And they still won. So now when someone reads about those events and wants to find out more he might, at some point, look at Wikipedia too check out what those events were all about. And as I am saying. What is in that article is complete bs.
And all the time I am thinking if I should get more involved because of the significance of Wikipedia. I guess I should.
And I don't get it. I have been to New York (US) three times. Once before and two times after 9/11. The first time just a couple month after it. I never, ever felt threatended by terrorists. The only thing I felt threatened of was the leftist extremists that went wild after we took student government from them.
But even if islam terrorists attacked our city I couldn't imagine feeling threatened. Because they don't target me. They target at random. There are more than 80 million people in Germany. I don't play the lottery. Why would I feel threatened?
As you correctly point out: - definitive tiers of haves and have-nots based on who's a member of the official state religion - wipe out anyone who doesn't believe in the state-sponsored religion
Many places where muslims are in the majority are rotten. Then again many places in southern Africa are even worse. But that is the reason why many muslims love places like Europe or America with religous freedom, because they can practice their form without fear of persecution from the majority kind of Islam. Just like the many christians that fled (christian) religious persecution in Europe just two centuries ago. You do remember what Halloween was all about?
Anyways, if you research christianity you will find just as many references to violence in theory (bible) as well as history (crusades) and current affairs (bloody fighting between christian and muslim villages in Indonesia).
Otherwise how can they make sure that you won't just copy the code you write for them and later add them to the project. After all even if you would have to rewrite all the code, because you don't want to copy and paste for legal reasons it would still be much easier the second time. So chances are you would do just that after you left their company. If I was in charge of that company I would make you sign that as well.
OTOH at the end you write that they want to take ownership of some code you wrote before. How much are they paying for that? If they don't want to pay anything for that how will you know they won't cheat on you in the future? Because just taking all that work and not paying is cheating. So ask them about money for all the hours that went into the code you already wrote. If they don't make a fair offer I would think again about working for them.
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I thought the whole bailout (not the one for the car industry, but rather about credit) was about liquidity. As anyone in the business world can tell you, liquidity problems can sink the best companies. In other words: You can have the best business idea ever, but if no one wants to invest in it you won't be able to make money. Same can happen down the line. If you have all you money invested, for example in machines, because demand is so high, and then one of you customers pays his bills late you could go belly up very fast.
Some banks even pull that on you in normal times. Maybe because they think they can make more money by selling your assets than by waiting for interest to come.
Now because nobody trusts anybody anymore in the credit industry liquidity has dried up. Many good businesses could fail because they are unable to borrow money. If one of their customers pays late ...
Tesla says they have orders for years to come. Maybe they have a very sound business, but still have problems getting money because of the banks.
As a user I found open source to be a lot more hassle free than closed source. Usually it open source is supported better and longer. I can download everything from Debian mirrors. When I used Nvidia I always had to do some additional steps.
Maybe not for a desktop machine, but for servers I like to use XFS. That started way back then when XFS was the first (and then only AFAIR) fs that supported running on softraid. It was not that long ago and CPU cycles were already so cheap on x86 that softaid was already a pretty nice solution for small servers.
For small servers I have not changed that setup (XFS on softraid level one on two cheap drives) ever since.
I guess for the big machines it might be very different. I am pretty happy with XFS as it is.
Ever since the plough got introduced there have been productivity gains. The tools that we use get better. And we need less input to produce the same or even more output.
What culture? I am from Europe and what you call American culture is either European culture or pop culture (based on Eurpean culture and then sent back up us).
They tried to predict if a hole will be exploited or not. Those are two outcomes. If you were to guess you would end up with a 50% chance of guessing right.
And they were only 40% right and 60% wrong?
Cool, now I can run Vista on my Thinkpad X41? I'm gonna ... ... wait!
No, thx, I think I'm gonna pass that one and stay with Debian. Mind you.
That was close.
(the hd on the X41 is a 1.8, not a 2.5, my hdparm -t gives me 18.29 MB/sec, imagine Vista on that baby)
Only because the botnet operators steal resources in such a large manner they can turn a "profit". Whatever that may be. How do you calculate a script kiddies costs anyways?
The much more interesting information was the US$ 2700 for about 350 Million Spam messages received and (an estimated) four times as much sent.
Rounded up that is a dollar earned for every 10 Million messages received and 40 Million messages sent (and caught as spam early on). Not counting that: "Still, the researchers acknowledge their figures don't take into account perhaps the most profitable aspect of the pharma spam business: The repeat customer who comes back time and again to purchase refills."
I would like to see that figure (10 Million for 1 Dollar) put against the resources lost/spent fighting Spam. How much damage do they do in order to make money. Do they steal 1 Dollar for every Cent they make? 10 Dollars? 100 Dollars? How much does it hurt the economy?
And maybe it is finally time to do something serious about Spam.
They put many different prices on what is essentially the same chip. If others create windows drivers (like the guys at the kx-project) people can buy cheaper cards and still do the same they would do with expensive cards.
"Hopefully these players will gain traction among OS X users, which will finally force Apple to either step up in terms of features or open up iTunes for extensions."
Here's hoping the users will stop using proprietary software altogether and switch to open source Amarok. Not just to force Apple to make Itunes better.
What has Slashdot become? Open Source just there to force the others to make their proprietary stuff better so we can continue to use it? All hail to our proprietary masters?
I second this.
I use Buffalo devices and dd-wrt
When a new Windows gets released they will drop their support for all their older devices for the new Windows. So everyone that used those devices and upgrades their computer (which of cource comes with the new os) has to buy new devices as well. It also works the other way around. New computers will only have support for the new version of Windows. That way you can't even install the old Windows on the new computers. Either way, as soon as one of your hardware devices fails or you want to upgrade one of your hardware devices you need to upgrade everything.
This is why hardware device makers love a new version of Windows. They can sell more stuff.
Microsoft is pleasing the hardware device makers by releasing a new Windows version so soon.
I am not a fan of Palin, but give her a break. Do you know what Laura Bush wore and how much that cost? Or McCains wife. Those families have the money to spend 500.000 on a dress for one evening. If you were surrounded by those types and didn't have that kind of money what would you? Maybe she felt under pressure? We don't know.
No focus was one of the reasons they went down in the first place. Can someone tell me how many operating systems they had in use for their phones?
Off the top of my head:
1. Some JavaME thing (don't know the name)
2. MotoMAGX
3. Symbian
4. Don't they already have Windows Mobile?
5. P2K (for the low end)
Are there more?
Anyways, they now want to "focus" on "just" three. P2K, Windows, Android. IMHO they should either go for Android or for Windows. If they really want Android (Windows Mobile is a little 90s) they could just buy Windows phones from China and rebrand them for their business customers that need Windows Mobile.
If the clients use end-to-end encryption and share the password through a secure different channel (e.g. encrypted email) does it really matter if the server is your own?
The manufacturer makes sure their mainboard works with Windows and does not give details to anyone. If OTOH Mircosoft would want data from the manufacturer they would be happy to supply it. But Microsoft doesn't give a rat's behind. Because customers will not complain to Microsoft if it doesn't work. They will just buy another mainboard. Monopoly is sweet.
I always thought that MS gained marketshare/dominance through piracy. And I sill believe that that piracy is much more relevant in the adoption of Windows in emerging markets than anything else by a long shot.
Even if other systems come pre-installed. I guess the situation is now different because a large number of machines will come preinstalled with a very useful and useable os, which could prompt people to not just install pirated version of Windows on these machines as soon as they get them.
Affirmative action is wrong, but still right. So it might fit doublethink. I still believe affirmative action is sometimes justified. Because if we accept the fact that racism exists and that it does play in role in employment and that we won't get rid of that for another hundred years affirmative action is less wrong than no affirmative action.
Now you could argue that racism is not widespread anymore. But I hate to point out the fact that for example the number of blacks and hispanics in top jobs is still very, very low. And then we could argue that that is because the don't get the same education because of where they are raised and grow up. And that is what needs to be changed first. I suppose it is, but I still think that affirmative action while being wrong is still less wrong than the alternative.
'If people equate freedom of speech with watching child pornography, then the Rudd Labor Government is going to disagree.'
I suppose if you think you can agree or disagree about what falls under freedom of speech you have not understood the concept. I thought it basically meant that you not only let people have that freedom that agree with you, but also people that you disagree with. I certainly disagree with people watching child pornography. And I do think that people that hurt children need to be punished (really really hard), but I always thought that reading or watching something (as an aldult) does not hurt children.
Well, maybe he knows better than me. After all he his a government minister.
Linux is a growing very fast as a server os. They will still make money on the clients. I mean they are even giving out SUSE vouchers. Next thing you know, they will port MS Office to SUSE.
One article covers some events I was part of. While I would say that those were highly debated events and I probabely should not write about it myself, because I was involved, I still think it is very, very one-sided. I tried to argue my case on the discussion pages, but to no avail. For some reason the other side (radical liberals) thinks that their view must be the neutral one. And they have some more people.
They even got into an edit war with some Wikipedia-people, because actually those events are not even relvant enough to be part of that article.
And they still won. So now when someone reads about those events and wants to find out more he might, at some point, look at Wikipedia too check out what those events were all about. And as I am saying. What is in that article is complete bs.
And all the time I am thinking if I should get more involved because of the significance of Wikipedia. I guess I should.
And I don't get it. I have been to New York (US) three times. Once before and two times after 9/11. The first time just a couple month after it. I never, ever felt threatended by terrorists. The only thing I felt threatened of was the leftist extremists that went wild after we took student government from them.
But even if islam terrorists attacked our city I couldn't imagine feeling threatened. Because they don't target me. They target at random. There are more than 80 million people in Germany.
I don't play the lottery. Why would I feel threatened?
Why are all you people afraid?
As you correctly point out:
- definitive tiers of haves and have-nots based on who's a member of the official state religion
- wipe out anyone who doesn't believe in the state-sponsored religion
Many places where muslims are in the majority are rotten. Then again many places in southern Africa are even worse. But that is the reason why many muslims love places like Europe or America with religous freedom, because they can practice their form without fear of persecution from the majority kind of Islam. Just like the many christians that fled (christian) religious persecution in Europe just two centuries ago. You do remember what Halloween was all about?
Anyways, if you research christianity you will find just as many references to violence in theory (bible) as well as history (crusades) and current affairs (bloody fighting between christian and muslim villages in Indonesia).
I don't trust electronic voting, no matter what runs on the machine.
Otherwise how can they make sure that you won't just copy the code you write for them and later add them to the project. After all even if you would have to rewrite all the code, because you don't want to copy and paste for legal reasons it would still be much easier the second time. So chances are you would do just that after you left their company. If I was in charge of that company I would make you sign that as well.
OTOH at the end you write that they want to take ownership of some code you wrote before. How much are they paying for that? If they don't want to pay anything for that how will you know they won't cheat on you in the future? Because just taking all that work and not paying is cheating. So ask them about money for all the hours that went into the code you already wrote. If they don't make a fair offer I would think again about working for them.