There is only one thing more pathetic than complaining about duplicate slashdot stories, and that is complaining about complaints about duplicate slashdot articles... Come on, who goes more recursive?
Is this really going to matter in the long run? I mean, apart from some lawyers getting a bit richer and a court being tied up for a considerable amount of time, will anything really change? What a waste...
Not wishing to be Flamebaity at all. MS have a lot of things severely wrong with them. For once they've dealt with an issue in timely fashion. This is not the Anti-MS rhetoric you're looking for.
Perhaps that is why this is news? eg. Man bites Dog, MS Fixes Security Flaw in Time?
This will not result in the removal of the crippled products, it will result in tariffs on the imports. The open hardware may be available, but it will be available only via the black market.
Which would then lead to counter-tarrifs, and a full scale trade war. Would the US government want to risk that just to please the RIAA and Microsoft? I think the farmers, the steel workers and the car industry would go nuts!
All advancement seems to be driven by people's need for prOn... Or do you really believe people use broadband, huge monitors and whopping big hard drives to download and look at Word documents all day?
I think the market is silently going to take care of this. Would you rather buy an intentionally crippled product, or an 'open' competing product? Yeah, they might make those illegal in the US, but the rest of the world won't follow, so there will always be a steady supply of 'open' hardware (which will probably be cheaper, too). After which the American industry will scream bloody murder because of the unfair competitive advantage of foreign corporations using all this open stuff. Then they will buy some senators to overturn this initiative, and all wil be well...
Or so I hope.
Not an Al Quaeda tactic
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I don't believe Osama's buddies would attempt something like this. Somebody else, maybe, but not Al Quaeda. They're much more interested in the 'honor' and the 'glory' of making big, bloody direct attacks. Look at their history of attacks: WTC, Khobar Towers, USS Cole, WTC again, Kenya embassy,... All aimed at directly attacking symbols of US hegemony, with big booms and many dead. Computers is just not like them.
I think if you add up all the Watts sucked up by the myriads of smaller PC's in those projects, you'd get a respectable amount of electricity too... Imagine just the inefficiency of having monitor screens on all these machines sucking up power alone.
Of course there are just as many bugs in open source software as in closed source. Most of it is even written by the same people: what they do at work is closed, what they hack upon during the night is open. The main difference lies in the speed and motivation to fix the bugs. Open source bugs can be fixed by anyone, but closed source bugs need to be fixed by vendors who are afraid to even admit they exist, for fear of losing customers.
Erm... all that money doesn't go to printing the texts. Most of it goes to the publishers/writers. So if you tossed it all on an e-book, you'd still have to pay the same amount, with the price of the e-book reader added. No, this is not logical, but CD's also cost plenty of money despite being ultra cheap to produce.
Hmmm... coming to a Napster server near you soon... college textbookz;-)
Erm... I thought the point of making notes during class was that you could use them to study the material, or annotate the provided texts. With a voice recorder you'd be forced to listen to every lecture *again* when exams rolled around. Surely no student has the time for that?
The idea looks nice, but the blocking factor would be the speed at which notes could be taken, I'm afraid. I grafitti much slower than I type, but I type slower than I can take notes on paper. So what you'd be left with would be an expensive replacement for textbooks.
Dunno, but broadband penetration in Belgium is among the highest in the world... There are a gazillion providers providing ADSL, and two or three cable companies. All in a country with only 10.000.000 inhabitants. Not bad, eh?
I think it is always a handicap to have a lack of knowledge. Not a deadly one, mind you. The killer combination is a lack of knowledge and a refusal to acknowledge it. Good managers listen to what their skilled subordinates tell them about their field of expertise, take into account other things like scheduling and customer demands, and then decide. Not listening to the techies can kill a project stone dead.
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There is only one thing more pathetic than complaining about duplicate slashdot stories, and that is complaining about complaints about duplicate slashdot articles... Come on, who goes more recursive?
I walked by when I was there... Unfortunately I was on my honeymoon and my wife isn't into Star Trek at all...
I just hope it is compatible with European TV signals...
When is this coming to Europe? Or is it a simultaneous region 1/2 release?
Is this really going to matter in the long run? I mean, apart from some lawyers getting a bit richer and a court being tied up for a considerable amount of time, will anything really change? What a waste...
Not wishing to be Flamebaity at all. MS have a lot of things severely wrong with them. For once they've dealt with an issue in timely fashion. This is not the Anti-MS rhetoric you're looking for.
Perhaps that is why this is news? eg. Man bites Dog, MS Fixes Security Flaw in Time?
This will not result in the removal of the crippled products, it will result in tariffs on the imports. The open hardware may be available, but it will be available only via the black market.
Which would then lead to counter-tarrifs, and a full scale trade war. Would the US government want to risk that just to please the RIAA and Microsoft? I think the farmers, the steel workers and the car industry would go nuts!
All advancement seems to be driven by people's need for prOn... Or do you really believe people use broadband, huge monitors and whopping big hard drives to download and look at Word documents all day?
I think the market is silently going to take care of this. Would you rather buy an intentionally crippled product, or an 'open' competing product? Yeah, they might make those illegal in the US, but the rest of the world won't follow, so there will always be a steady supply of 'open' hardware (which will probably be cheaper, too). After which the American industry will scream bloody murder because of the unfair competitive advantage of foreign corporations using all this open stuff. Then they will buy some senators to overturn this initiative, and all wil be well...
Or so I hope.
I don't believe Osama's buddies would attempt something like this. Somebody else, maybe, but not Al Quaeda. They're much more interested in the 'honor' and the 'glory' of making big, bloody direct attacks. Look at their history of attacks: WTC, Khobar Towers, USS Cole, WTC again, Kenya embassy,... All aimed at directly attacking symbols of US hegemony, with big booms and many dead. Computers is just not like them.
Anthrax, maybe.
Wasn't he forbidden to do any kind of computer related work ever again? And would testifying in this case mean breaking his parole? Just wondering...
I think if you add up all the Watts sucked up by the myriads of smaller PC's in those projects, you'd get a respectable amount of electricity too... Imagine just the inefficiency of having monitor screens on all these machines sucking up power alone.
... law-abiding citizens trying to reach the police because their store is being torn down by angry protesters?
I smell a lawsuit waiting to happen...
All I hope for is that they agree on one standard before beginning mass deployment. Not the early-cellphone debacle all over again please...
Didn't Gary Linneker once say something like :'Soccer is a game of eleven against eleven, and in the end, the Germans win'?
It seems my site has just become illegal to link to from the Netherlands!
And what, pray tell me, causes these security problems in open and closed source software? Might it be... bugs?
Idiots will be modded down without mercy, indeed! Take it away, moderators!
Of course there are just as many bugs in open source software as in closed source. Most of it is even written by the same people: what they do at work is closed, what they hack upon during the night is open.
The main difference lies in the speed and motivation to fix the bugs. Open source bugs can be fixed by anyone, but closed source bugs need to be fixed by vendors who are afraid to even admit they exist, for fear of losing customers.
'grafitti' is a noun, not a verb.
And a sentence begins with a capital letter...
Erm... all that money doesn't go to printing the texts. Most of it goes to the publishers/writers. So if you tossed it all on an e-book, you'd still have to pay the same amount, with the price of the e-book reader added. No, this is not logical, but CD's also cost plenty of money despite being ultra cheap to produce.
;-)
Hmmm... coming to a Napster server near you soon... college textbookz
Erm... I thought the point of making notes during class was that you could use them to study the material, or annotate the provided texts. With a voice recorder you'd be forced to listen to every lecture *again* when exams rolled around. Surely no student has the time for that?
The idea looks nice, but the blocking factor would be the speed at which notes could be taken, I'm afraid. I grafitti much slower than I type, but I type slower than I can take notes on paper. So what you'd be left with would be an expensive replacement for textbooks.
Dunno, but broadband penetration in Belgium is among the highest in the world... There are a gazillion providers providing ADSL, and two or three cable companies. All in a country with only 10.000.000 inhabitants. Not bad, eh?
I think it is always a handicap to have a lack of knowledge. Not a deadly one, mind you. The killer combination is a lack of knowledge and a refusal to acknowledge it. Good managers listen to what their skilled subordinates tell them about their field of expertise, take into account other things like scheduling and customer demands, and then decide. Not listening to the techies can kill a project stone dead.