That *isn't* a better analogy though. If you don't like the man with the disease, you can walk past him. You don't have to let him persistantly spit in your mouth 6 times a day or rape you, while you just stand back and take it (the equivalent of a worm trying to infect your system using known vulnerabilities).
These viruses are attempting to infiltrate your systems *maliciously*. The unfortunate sick man from your analogy is just minding his own business and trying to survive. He's probably already seen a doctor, because it's *HIS* problem, not yours.
It doesn't matter if it has been defined as a worm or not - you have the right to protect yourself or your own property from theft/damage/rape/disease by a 3rd party and use reasonable force to do so (in the UK anyway).
A guy in the apartment above you has left his door unlocked and then gone away. A malicous child walks in and turns the tap on for a laugh and then leaves. A while later the apartment is flooded and water is pouring though the ceiling into your property. Do you have the right to walk in though his unlocked door and turn off the tap?
I know what I'd do. It might not be legal, but I don't think anyone would stop me or arrest me and I don't think the owner would mind that much either.
How is this a repeat? I can't find any article like this on slashdot.
Post the link to the previous thread if you're going to state it's a repeat... That way people can actually find more relevant content if they want to...
With these stats, you're obviously running Linux on the PC and MaxOS X on the iMac?? (You omit to state these important facts in your technical comparitive review).
Windows only asks about 5 questions (PC name, password, time zone, keyboard layout etc) that it obviously can't predict with magic. MacOS probably doesn't ask you anything (never used it). MacOS has the incorrect PC name, password, time zone, keyboard layout etc on first boot.
Only Linux distros are capable of asking you 100+ questions on the install (usually do you want to install "grep", do you want to install "xcalc", do you want to install "ls" etc etc...).
I've never had to rebuild windows ever. Rebuilds are usually due to L-Users not knowing how their own computer works or how to fix simple problems.
"Mom could use it". If your Mom can't use windows, then she probably can't wipe her own ass either... Is it the two mouse buttons that causes her issues?
Dev tools cost per user - why not use the free ones? You seem to think that Open Source is somehow limited to iMacs?! You realise that all other major platforms have open source dev tools too right? Or were you too busy wiping your Mom's ass to have time to find that out?
Do you have any idea what it costs to master a DVD and have all the packaging designed and made up?
It's going to be a few thousand just to get a single disc ready to test.
Since it's on the DVD in video format, they would also have needed a video editing suite (stand alone or PC based) which are never cheap unless you pirate them). They would also have needed come DVD authoring software to produce all the menus and stuff.
This is aside from all the hardware required to capture all the video output from these old computers (you can't do it in software as most of them write straight into video memory and/or put the graphics card into an undocumented video mode).
I think basically, you have no idea what you're talking about if you think you can knock up a DVD like this for less than a few thousand...
You vastly underestimate how many Pentium 100's there are still running Windows 95 or even 3.11. Most people have no need to upgrade to gigahertz machines. I'm a software developer for ASP.NET applications and my Celeron 450 does me fine (albeit with 256mb ram rather than 64). Other developers in our office use Celeron 300s and some of the sales guys who only use e-mail get away with a P200. It doesn't matter how cheap an upgrade is, if you don't need it, most people won't buy it.
Only games players bother upgrading state of the art machines every couple of months. Office users just stick with what works and gets the job done.
If you told most office people that their computer would be taken away and upgraded to a new one every 3 months they'd have a heart attack.
Just because a program compiles, it doesn't mean it will work. It simply means it complies with the language specification and it's syntactially correct. The program itself might not work at all.
The same goes for CDs. The specification doesn't neccessarily mean that the CD will be playable - only that it has certain features and is encoded in a certain way.
I don't understand why Nokia haven't shoved a 128mb MP3 player on any of their phones?! It's a screamingly obvious thing to do - they already have decent batteries and audio circuitry and a screen all in the phone, so adding an MP3 player and a CF slot should be really cheap and easy.
Surely this is something more people than just me would be interested in?
"somewhere" - that really good reliable source of information.
"about MONO, we'll see" - go and see then - you only had to click the fscking link that I put there for you. Even a Windows user should be able to manage that.
"all kinds of IP rights" - and you reckon Sun doesn't have those for Java?
Microsoft is switching from a proprietary file format, to XML, and the first 100 comments are all flaming MS. WTF does it take to make you people happy?
They've already shown with.NET that they can make an entire programming framework (and at least 3 assocated languages) into an open standard and even have them ratified by the ECMA and maybe even ISO. Because of this people have already managed to port Perl, Python and many other languages to this framework before it even came out of beta! The guys at Ximian have even managed to port quite a bit of the framework itself as part of the Mono Project.
So perhaps instead of perpetually slating Microsoft, you could get off your arse and do something useful instead.
Maybe yes. The company name is Philips. So either of the two would have been ok...
"Philips SFFO 3cm 4Gig Optical Discs" would have been as accurate as "Sony Television" which is fine for a title.
But yeah, they may have wanted to say it in the possessive manner, in which case they should have written: "Philips' SFFO 3cm 4Gig Optical Discs" as you say.. Equivalent to Sony's Television...
The latter option though, makes it sound like they own *one*, rather than they produce them.
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That *isn't* a better analogy though. If you don't like the man with the disease, you can walk past him. You don't have to let him persistantly spit in your mouth 6 times a day or rape you, while you just stand back and take it (the equivalent of a worm trying to infect your system using known vulnerabilities).
These viruses are attempting to infiltrate your systems *maliciously*. The unfortunate sick man from your analogy is just minding his own business and trying to survive. He's probably already seen a doctor, because it's *HIS* problem, not yours.
It doesn't matter if it has been defined as a worm or not - you have the right to protect yourself or your own property from theft/damage/rape/disease by a 3rd party and use reasonable force to do so (in the UK anyway).
Nick...
Here's an analogy:
A guy in the apartment above you has left his door unlocked and then gone away. A malicous child walks in and turns the tap on for a laugh and then leaves. A while later the apartment is flooded and water is pouring though the ceiling into your property. Do you have the right to walk in though his unlocked door and turn off the tap?
I know what I'd do. It might not be legal, but I don't think anyone would stop me or arrest me and I don't think the owner would mind that much either.
Nick...
How is this a repeat? I can't find any article like this on slashdot.
Post the link to the previous thread if you're going to state it's a repeat... That way people can actually find more relevant content if they want to...
Nick...
It would be better if he could have spelt 'sight' properly (context: "line-of-site")...
Score: +1 Insitefool
With these stats, you're obviously running Linux on the PC and MaxOS X on the iMac?? (You omit to state these important facts in your technical comparitive review).
Windows only asks about 5 questions (PC name, password, time zone, keyboard layout etc) that it obviously can't predict with magic. MacOS probably doesn't ask you anything (never used it). MacOS has the incorrect PC name, password, time zone, keyboard layout etc on first boot.
Only Linux distros are capable of asking you 100+ questions on the install (usually do you want to install "grep", do you want to install "xcalc", do you want to install "ls" etc etc...).
I've never had to rebuild windows ever. Rebuilds are usually due to L-Users not knowing how their own computer works or how to fix simple problems.
"Mom could use it". If your Mom can't use windows, then she probably can't wipe her own ass either... Is it the two mouse buttons that causes her issues?
Dev tools cost per user - why not use the free ones? You seem to think that Open Source is somehow limited to iMacs?! You realise that all other major platforms have open source dev tools too right? Or were you too busy wiping your Mom's ass to have time to find that out?
Nick...
Do you have any idea what it costs to master a DVD and have all the packaging designed and made up?
It's going to be a few thousand just to get a single disc ready to test.
Since it's on the DVD in video format, they would also have needed a video editing suite (stand alone or PC based) which are never cheap unless you pirate them). They would also have needed come DVD authoring software to produce all the menus and stuff.
This is aside from all the hardware required to capture all the video output from these old computers (you can't do it in software as most of them write straight into video memory and/or put the graphics card into an undocumented video mode).
I think basically, you have no idea what you're talking about if you think you can knock up a DVD like this for less than a few thousand...
Nick...
> In addition (I post too fast)
Don't believe you...
You were just trying get TWO Score+5's and reap the karma...
Blame it on packet fragmentation if you like...
Nick...
1. Get X-Box private key.
2. ?
3. Profit!
It's a book actually you stupid man.
What the fsck is "foosball"?!
It's Fußball, Fussball or Football surely - but not foosball! It comes from the German word.
Nick...
Sounds like a massive amount of money to have to pay just for royalties of the *name*. It's not even that good.
What's in a name...? Everyone would still have bought it if it was called a "PS2".
Nick...
You vastly underestimate how many Pentium 100's there are still running Windows 95 or even 3.11.
Most people have no need to upgrade to gigahertz machines. I'm a software developer for ASP.NET applications and my Celeron 450 does me fine (albeit with 256mb ram rather than 64). Other developers in our office use Celeron 300s and some of the sales guys who only use e-mail get away with a P200. It doesn't matter how cheap an upgrade is, if you don't need it, most people won't buy it.
Only games players bother upgrading state of the art machines every couple of months. Office users just stick with what works and gets the job done.
If you told most office people that their computer would be taken away and upgraded to a new one every 3 months they'd have a heart attack.
Nick...
It says "typical" not "state of the art". Most desktop PCs *ARE* around 500Mhz and *DO* have only 64mb of RAM.
The article is clearly dated "Dec 10 2002" so it's not "from around a year ago" at all - no idea where you got that from.
Nick...
I don't understand. Is there an English copy?
I shoved that into babelfish but it didn't come up with anything - no matter what language I selected...
Matters not, whether you can see it.
Red, it is.
Feel it, you can.
Blue, it must become.
The force is not strong with you... Much to learn you have.
But neither of these could also run on land could they? They're just slight variations on normal jet-skis.
I couldn't find anything similar in the links you posted.
BMG has no intention of "stopping production of CDs" - it simply intends to copy protect them all.
That's hardly the same as not producing them. The title of this article is very misleading.
Just because a program compiles, it doesn't mean it will work. It simply means it complies with the language specification and it's syntactially correct. The program itself might not work at all.
The same goes for CDs. The specification doesn't neccessarily mean that the CD will be playable - only that it has certain features and is encoded in a certain way.
Nick...
I don't understand why Nokia haven't shoved a 128mb MP3 player on any of their phones?! It's a screamingly obvious thing to do - they already have decent batteries and audio circuitry and a screen all in the phone, so adding an MP3 player and a CF slot should be really cheap and easy.
Surely this is something more people than just me would be interested in?
What's the official benchmark of this thing, on a well known scale like QFPS (Quake Frames Per Second)...? :)
"somewhere" - that really good reliable source of information.
"about MONO, we'll see" - go and see then - you only had to click the fscking link that I put there for you. Even a Windows user should be able to manage that.
"all kinds of IP rights" - and you reckon Sun doesn't have those for Java?
Microsoft is switching from a proprietary file format, to XML, and the first 100 comments are all flaming MS. WTF does it take to make you people happy?
.NET that they can make an entire programming framework (and at least 3 assocated languages) into an open standard and even have them ratified by the ECMA and maybe even ISO. Because of this people have already managed to port Perl, Python and many other languages to this framework before it even came out of beta! The guys at Ximian have even managed to port quite a bit of the framework itself as part of the Mono Project.
They've already shown with
So perhaps instead of perpetually slating Microsoft, you could get off your arse and do something useful instead.
Nick...
How can you change a MAC address other than by purchasing a new NIC?
Maybe yes. The company name is Philips. So either of the two would have been ok...
:)
"Philips SFFO 3cm 4Gig Optical Discs" would have been as accurate as "Sony Television" which is fine for a title.
But yeah, they may have wanted to say it in the possessive manner, in which case they should have written:
"Philips' SFFO 3cm 4Gig Optical Discs" as you say.. Equivalent to Sony's Television...
The latter option though, makes it sound like they own *one*, rather than they produce them.
Ok I'm getting really pedantic now. I'm sorry - I'll stop...
It's "Philips" not "Philip's".
Whoever wrote that needs to read this:
http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif