They should really be paying, as the stuff that NASA develops eventually filters down to the high-tech companies to use in new products.
Now, I'd sure like to do my part in adding to NASA's budget, since I think NASA is doing a fantastic job and gets little or no recognition. So if a "scifi" tax got implemented I don't think I'd be against it.
What bothers me is people often find it hard to give NASA money (eg, politicians), because of the "oh, we've been to the moon, and walked in space, what else is there?" mentality.
But that's exactly the point! What else is there, and what can we learn?
Just look at history... limiting space budget only hurts us. We could already have had a colony on Mars for 10 years if it wasn't for cutbacks after we went to the moon.
Anandtech said: The name is Opteron and although it somewhat reminds us of the pain we went through when the Duron was announced, it's here to stay. The idea behind Opteron is to build off of the Latin root optimus meaning best or if you play with the translation a bit you get optimal unit or flagship.
Well, that's quite a stretch. Wouldn't "Octeron" or "Octalon" be better? That O-P-T doesn't go with the E-R-O-N.
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Let's take a recent example: Kazaa
Let's put Kazaa's ethical implications aside for a moment.
Users want Kazaa and access to the network which is available when many users run Kazaa (note this is not "Kazaa's network" since without a userbase they are useless).
Users don't want spyware (or at the least, spyware which they cannot uninstall/skip installing on their own).
Kazaa installs CyDoor and requires the CyDoor DLL for Kazaa to function. CyDoor is spyware. You do not have the option of installing Kazaa sans-CyDoor.
Why is this the case?
Because CyDoor means money for Kazaa; therefore Kazaa requires CyDoor. So even if you run AdAware and remove CyDoor, you're only slightly better off because CyDoor is gone. But now you can't use Kazaa. Let's pretend, though, that Kazaa does work without CyDoor. Then AdAware is doing exactly what users want: uninstalling/removing the spyware while leaving the rest of the application in a working state.
The problem isn't the fact that AdAware does a "dirty" uninstall of the spyware. The problem is the spyware.
I would like to thank you for participating in the discussion here on Slashdot; I would prefer to hear your own words rather than a bunch of slashbots mindlessly bashing you.
I hope that in the future you will think twice about directly attacking your customers' computers. If you're hoping to solve your computer/bandwidth problems, why not unplug the server and take a nice long vacation?
Woman: "In other news, a lot of stuff happened that doesn't really affect you. In fact, most of it was thousands of miles away. We would tell you about it, but you'd just worry, lose some hair, and die a few days sooner." Man: "We'll be right back after these messages from our honest sponsors..."
<accurate portrayals of real products>
Man: "...welcome back! And all this time I thought that sports car I drove made me more attractive to women." Woman: "And I thought men who drove sports cars were better in bed!" (glances at co-anchor) Man: "Upcoming later this hour, we sensationalize Timmy Smith's scraped knee, after a fall while he was attempting to ride a tricycle!" Woman: "And we'll inflate claims by virus companies that hackers are out to make your life a living hell." Man: "But first, let's go to Acton, Massachusetts for live coverage..." Reporter: "Yes, the trolls are out in force today! It's sensationalism at it's best! Not bothering to read the stories they post on, internet users around the world are honing their reactionary skills to a fine point, putting all logic and reason behind them..."
Open Source software has vulnerabilities?!? That's not the Slashbot party line, pal. Get with the program and stop spouting your pro-Microsoft, anti-Linux FUD!
they're advertised one HELL of a lot more aggressively than most newspapers -- probably has to do with the audience being more subject to faddish obsessions.
Typical music ad campaign as follows (on MTV, etc):
TV: Get the latest Britney CD, you want it. Viewer: No I don't. TV: Get the latest Britney CD, you want it. Viewer: No, really I don't. Lars: Downloading is bad! Napster evil! Viewer: Who's that schmuck? TV: Ignore that man! Get the latest Britney CD! Viewer: I want it? TV: You want it! Get the latest Britney CD! Viewer: What'll it cost? Maybe my sister would want it. TV: You wallet shows a crisp $20 bill. Viewer: Screw this, I'll just download it. TV: Get the latest Britney CD, you want it! Viewer: <click>
Same viewer reading a newspaper:
Paper: Get the latest Britney CD, and check out that sex appeal! Viewer: <turns the page>
Top 10 pirated albums downloaded last month 1 Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory: 5,300,000 2 POD - Satellite: 2,800,000 3 Creed - Weathered: 2,600,000 4 Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler: 2,500,000 5 Britney Spears - Britney: 2,000,000 6 Nelly - Country Grammar: 2,000,000 7 Nelly, et al - Training Day Soundtrack: 1,800,000 8 Creed - Human Clay: 1,600,000 9 Usher - 8701: 1,500,000 10 Incubus - Make Yourself: 1,500,000
Notice, all heavily marketed, all with extensive radio play. I wonder if the smaller bands would complain if they got that kind of exposure.
disproportionately to poorer individuals, who tend to gamble more (this is not a value judgement, just a fact)
Exactly. Here's a way to think about it.
Let's say I make $100 this week (and in my society this is considered at or below the poverty line). I go gambling with my pals from work and gamble away $10. That's 10% of my income.
On my way out of the casino, I pass by my boss's boss, who makes $1000 a week. He's lost $10 today too, but for him it's only 1% of his weekly salary.
While the poor may gamble "more" there's also the fact that they simply have less to start with. Each dollar they lose is that much tougher to recover from (and make do without).
Not that I'm against gambling; personally I don't like to gamble because the house is statistically against me. That's why I take pride in losing my money on the stock market.:)
.gov M$ you owe us $15million M$ We pay up when you pay us for our software
Sorry, it doesn't work that way.
.gov M$ you owe us $15million M$ We pay up when you pay us for our software .gov Don't bother coming to work tomorrow; agents have already sealed the premises.
Although, technically it's.*.us not.gov. And MS isn't going after the Feds, they're going after related governmental entities (eg, VA).
Every time there's a Kazaa-related article, everyone posts links to the free, sans-spyware version. I think most people already have it if they want it.
I guess now that it's got the ".com" instead of ".tk" it's official and thus gets its own Slashdot story...
I agree. Every time there is an article along these lines (one of those things where most people say "Cool!"), there's always those few people who say "What's the point? They could be spending their energy hurling asteroids at the sun or calculating the exact value of Pi."
My question is, are these the same people every time? If so, why are they continually posting to the same kind of stories? Are they trolls? Do they have difficulty not clicking the link if they don't think it's interesting?
If you have to continually post the same responses over and over, I have to ask... what's the point?
Sun Ultra 30s are reasonably priced on eBay. I purchased one for around $500: 512 MB RAM, dual 4 GB SCSI drives, Elite3D M3 video, and a 300 Mhz processor with 2 MB cache. It also came with a 400 Mhz PC emulation card (Sun PCi, IIRC). I bought an adapter so I could use my VGA monitor for $15.
I'm new to Sun and Sparc, but have enjoyed my experience so far; in fact I have been very impressed with the design and quality of the U30.
I had no problems installing Solaris 8 or Gnome. I upgraded to Ximian without problems. Next I'll probably see if I can get KDE installed.
Why bother? Then you take the risk that there really is a valid reason and thus all the previous posters must be modded down as trolls. Of course, this kind of behavior (checking articles and sources to ensure journalistic integrity and informational accuracy) would throw Slashdot into a downward spiral such that the servers would beg for mercy (a degaussing tool).
...then you need to play Infiltration for Unreal Tournament. The Infiltration team does some of the best work I've seen, but they try to keep themselves a bit "lower key" than some of the higher profile mods (such as Strike Force). There tend to be less interviews, and less media coverage, but I think this is a good thing. This mod is not for everyone...
Don't jump into Infiltration, unless you know what you're doing. The mod tries to mimic real life as closely as possible... if you don't spend the time to learn how to play you will not enjoy it. But if you take the time you will thank yourself later (and you will wonder why you ever thought CounterStrike was entertaining). If you're like me and you try CounterStrike after you tried Infiltration, it will be hard to understand what people get so worked up about.
If you enjoy Infiltration, I recommend supporting the team by purchasing an Infiltration CD, which will be available when version 2.87 is released.
Obviously the point-and-click interface is far too limited for configuring. I'd like to present my "think and type" method of input, patent pending of course. If you'd like to license this technology, please type me up an email. Please note that in doing so I will be forced to charge you (retroactively) for previous use of my technology.
But seriously, is editing a file such a big deal? What did people do with DOS and autoexec.bat files? Cower away in fear?
I have an e-mail account called "cannedham" that I had posted on several web sites as a mailto: anchor on a 1x1 pixel graphic. Any e-mail sent to that address updates my Postfix header_checks file to protect the rest of my accounts. It works like a charm.
That sounds like a fantastic idea... care to post your methods for configuring postfix for that?
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Come to papa Gates, he'll take care of you, just like papa Stalin did before.
That's a bit overboard, don't you think?
Stalin killed millions of his own people. Gates sells software.
I know that you want to paint Microsoft et al in a negative light, but at least have some taste.
Like the whole semiconductor industry.
They should really be paying, as the stuff that NASA develops eventually filters down to the high-tech companies to use in new products.
Now, I'd sure like to do my part in adding to NASA's budget, since I think NASA is doing a fantastic job and gets little or no recognition. So if a "scifi" tax got implemented I don't think I'd be against it.
What bothers me is people often find it hard to give NASA money (eg, politicians), because of the "oh, we've been to the moon, and walked in space, what else is there?" mentality.
But that's exactly the point! What else is there, and what can we learn?
Just look at history... limiting space budget only hurts us. We could already have had a colony on Mars for 10 years if it wasn't for cutbacks after we went to the moon.
Anandtech said:
The name is Opteron and although it somewhat reminds us of the pain we went through when the Duron was announced, it's here to stay. The idea behind Opteron is to build off of the Latin root optimus meaning best or if you play with the translation a bit you get optimal unit or flagship.
Well, that's quite a stretch. Wouldn't "Octeron" or "Octalon" be better? That O-P-T doesn't go with the E-R-O-N.
Let's take a recent example: Kazaa
Let's put Kazaa's ethical implications aside for a moment.
Users want Kazaa and access to the network which is available when many users run Kazaa (note this is not "Kazaa's network" since without a userbase they are useless).
Users don't want spyware (or at the least, spyware which they cannot uninstall/skip installing on their own).
Kazaa installs CyDoor and requires the CyDoor DLL for Kazaa to function. CyDoor is spyware. You do not have the option of installing Kazaa sans-CyDoor.
Why is this the case?
Because CyDoor means money for Kazaa; therefore Kazaa requires CyDoor. So even if you run AdAware and remove CyDoor, you're only slightly better off because CyDoor is gone. But now you can't use Kazaa. Let's pretend, though, that Kazaa does work without CyDoor. Then AdAware is doing exactly what users want: uninstalling/removing the spyware while leaving the rest of the application in a working state.
The problem isn't the fact that AdAware does a "dirty" uninstall of the spyware. The problem is the spyware.
I would like to thank you for participating in the discussion here on Slashdot; I would prefer to hear your own words rather than a bunch of slashbots mindlessly bashing you.
I hope that in the future you will think twice about directly attacking your customers' computers. If you're hoping to solve your computer/bandwidth problems, why not unplug the server and take a nice long vacation?
Woman: "In other news, a lot of stuff happened that doesn't really affect you. In fact, most of it was thousands of miles away. We would tell you about it, but you'd just worry, lose some hair, and die a few days sooner."
Man: "We'll be right back after these messages from our honest sponsors..."
<accurate portrayals of real products>
Man: "...welcome back! And all this time I thought that sports car I drove made me more attractive to women."
Woman: "And I thought men who drove sports cars were better in bed!" (glances at co-anchor)
Man: "Upcoming later this hour, we sensationalize Timmy Smith's scraped knee, after a fall while he was attempting to ride a tricycle!"
Woman: "And we'll inflate claims by virus companies that hackers are out to make your life a living hell."
Man: "But first, let's go to Acton, Massachusetts for live coverage..."
Reporter: "Yes, the trolls are out in force today! It's sensationalism at it's best! Not bothering to read the stories they post on, internet users around the world are honing their reactionary skills to a fine point, putting all logic and reason behind them..."
Open Source software has vulnerabilities?!? That's not the Slashbot party line, pal. Get with the program and stop spouting your pro-Microsoft, anti-Linux FUD!
</sarcasm>
Bad service is the one thing that will drive me away from a company, even if the product/service they are selling is good.
Exhibit A: RIAA
Exhibit B: MPAA
they're advertised one HELL of a lot more aggressively than most newspapers -- probably has to do with the audience being more subject to faddish obsessions.
Typical music ad campaign as follows (on MTV, etc):
TV: Get the latest Britney CD, you want it.
Viewer: No I don't.
TV: Get the latest Britney CD, you want it.
Viewer: No, really I don't.
Lars: Downloading is bad! Napster evil!
Viewer: Who's that schmuck?
TV: Ignore that man! Get the latest Britney CD!
Viewer: I want it?
TV: You want it! Get the latest Britney CD!
Viewer: What'll it cost? Maybe my sister would want it.
TV: You wallet shows a crisp $20 bill.
Viewer: Screw this, I'll just download it.
TV: Get the latest Britney CD, you want it!
Viewer: <click>
Same viewer reading a newspaper:
Paper: Get the latest Britney CD, and check out that sex appeal!
Viewer: <turns the page>
Top 10 pirated albums downloaded last month
1 Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory: 5,300,000
2 POD - Satellite: 2,800,000
3 Creed - Weathered: 2,600,000
4 Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler: 2,500,000
5 Britney Spears - Britney: 2,000,000
6 Nelly - Country Grammar: 2,000,000
7 Nelly, et al - Training Day Soundtrack: 1,800,000
8 Creed - Human Clay: 1,600,000
9 Usher - 8701: 1,500,000
10 Incubus - Make Yourself: 1,500,000
Notice, all heavily marketed, all with extensive radio play. I wonder if the smaller bands would complain if they got that kind of exposure.
Not bad, that's almost a word-for-word copy.
At least you repeated the right comment, though, as the original was modded up to Score:5, Funny.
Humans, obviously...because Orcs would never stoop so low.
Imitation is the sincerest form of trolling
disproportionately to poorer individuals, who tend to gamble more (this is not a value judgement, just a fact)
:)
Exactly. Here's a way to think about it.
Let's say I make $100 this week (and in my society this is considered at or below the poverty line). I go gambling with my pals from work and gamble away $10. That's 10% of my income.
On my way out of the casino, I pass by my boss's boss, who makes $1000 a week. He's lost $10 today too, but for him it's only 1% of his weekly salary.
While the poor may gamble "more" there's also the fact that they simply have less to start with. Each dollar they lose is that much tougher to recover from (and make do without).
Not that I'm against gambling; personally I don't like to gamble because the house is statistically against me. That's why I take pride in losing my money on the stock market.
M$ We pay up when you pay us for our software
Sorry, it doesn't work that way.
M$ We pay up when you pay us for our software
Although, technically it's
This will hardly "save their ass"
Every time there's a Kazaa-related article, everyone posts links to the free, sans-spyware version. I think most people already have it if they want it.
I guess now that it's got the ".com" instead of ".tk" it's official and thus gets its own Slashdot story...
::rolls eyes::
If you have to ask why, don't.
I agree. Every time there is an article along these lines (one of those things where most people say "Cool!"), there's always those few people who say "What's the point? They could be spending their energy hurling asteroids at the sun or calculating the exact value of Pi."
My question is, are these the same people every time? If so, why are they continually posting to the same kind of stories? Are they trolls? Do they have difficulty not clicking the link if they don't think it's interesting?
If you have to continually post the same responses over and over, I have to ask... what's the point?
Sun Ultra 30s are reasonably priced on eBay. I purchased one for around $500: 512 MB RAM, dual 4 GB SCSI drives, Elite3D M3 video, and a 300 Mhz processor with 2 MB cache. It also came with a 400 Mhz PC emulation card (Sun PCi, IIRC). I bought an adapter so I could use my VGA monitor for $15.
I'm new to Sun and Sparc, but have enjoyed my experience so far; in fact I have been very impressed with the design and quality of the U30.
I had no problems installing Solaris 8 or Gnome. I upgraded to Ximian without problems. Next I'll probably see if I can get KDE installed.
Well, how do you say slashdotted in Christian? or Jew?
Probably the same place you learn what's a language and what's a religion.
Why bother? Then you take the risk that there really is a valid reason and thus all the previous posters must be modded down as trolls. Of course, this kind of behavior (checking articles and sources to ensure journalistic integrity and informational accuracy) would throw Slashdot into a downward spiral such that the servers would beg for mercy (a degaussing tool).
...then you need to play Infiltration for Unreal Tournament. The Infiltration team does some of the best work I've seen, but they try to keep themselves a bit "lower key" than some of the higher profile mods (such as Strike Force). There tend to be less interviews, and less media coverage, but I think this is a good thing. This mod is not for everyone...
Don't jump into Infiltration, unless you know what you're doing. The mod tries to mimic real life as closely as possible... if you don't spend the time to learn how to play you will not enjoy it. But if you take the time you will thank yourself later (and you will wonder why you ever thought CounterStrike was entertaining). If you're like me and you try CounterStrike after you tried Infiltration, it will be hard to understand what people get so worked up about.
If you enjoy Infiltration, I recommend supporting the team by purchasing an Infiltration CD, which will be available when version 2.87 is released.
Obviously the point-and-click interface is far too limited for configuring. I'd like to present my "think and type" method of input, patent pending of course. If you'd like to license this technology, please type me up an email. Please note that in doing so I will be forced to charge you (retroactively) for previous use of my technology.
But seriously, is editing a file such a big deal? What did people do with DOS and autoexec.bat files? Cower away in fear?
I have an e-mail account called "cannedham" that I had posted on several web sites as a mailto: anchor on a 1x1 pixel graphic. Any e-mail sent to that address updates my Postfix header_checks file to protect the rest of my accounts. It works like a charm.
That sounds like a fantastic idea... care to post your methods for configuring postfix for that?
It seems to me that it would be better to have:
abuse@[ spammerIP ]
That way things might actually get delivered.
For me, I deny deliveries to someguy@myIP, but sendmail accepts someguy@[myIP]
Fortunately, it's easy to add both!
JUST LINUX
JUST LINUX
LOL, we should all email this to our governmental representatives.
No kidding. I don't even run a virus scanner on my Mac... and I haven't had problems for years (in fact, in the history of my Mac ownership).
:)
But with regards to Parasite-Ware, that's why I'm moving to Solaris on SPARC.
Although, IE is available for it...