I'm guessing that the U.S. Postal Service doesn't deserve too much of the credit for getting that postcard to your friend. Most likely they just identified an arbitrary Sun office location and delivered the card there, and it was the Sun mailroom staff and inter-office mail couriers that did the rest.
This is the same "smart automated house of the future" concept that has been touted fruitlessly since the 1950's. If there were any real demand for this, we'd all have homes like this already.
If there were no movements at all, a person could just release his source code, call the application freeware, and go have a smoke without first saluting someone else' battleflag.
A person can do that right now. What's your point?
The solution to spam isn't going to be in letting big brother take care of it for us
The solution to crime isn't going to be in letting big brother take care of it for us. Let's take the power back, vigilante justice and lynchings!
I'll save my breath and not explain why spam needs to be prevented at the source rather than discreetly filed to/dev/null after the damage has already been done -- all the arguments have been rehashed forever here. Bayesian filters treat the symptoms of the problem; they are not preventative medicine.
By regularly using mobile phones, especially to send text messages and by playing hand-held computer games, a physical mutation had developed in the under-25s, the researchers have found.
Who wrote this nonsense?
Developing strong thumb muscles from using mobile phones and video games is no more a physical mutation than 'mutating' the length of your hair by getting it cut, or 'mutating' your brain by going to school and learning stuff.
Everyone at a company, from your immediate supervisor up to the seniormost chief executive, is an employEE. You're all in the same boat -- you do what the owners and/or shareholders want, or you suffer the consequences.
You're crazy to walk out on your only opportunity these days.
You're crazier if you stay in a bad situation.
It's wrong to treat as an inevitability the idea that management holds all the cards, that they have more control over the quality of your life than you yourself do.
Collective bargaining, whether in the form of organized unions or ad-hoc groups of employees with a common grievance, are a powerful method to provide equal leverage to the little guy.
You wouldn't advise a person in an abusive relationship to stay put because they didn't have any marriage proposals from other people, would you?
Walking off just to prove a point or to be pissy won't cut it.
No, but if the company is telling you to do things that aren't in your job description, then the employers have voided their contract with you. IANAL but that ought to count for something as far as unemployment goes.
Easier yet, just refuse to work 20 hours of unpaid overtime a week, and all the other unreasonable demands they make of you. Let them fire you. Let them fire you all.
I bet I could get Netscape 0.9 (which Andreesen and co. referred to as 'Mozilla' back in the day) ported to the Amiga platform without too much effort... anyone got the source?
I own a patent on "posting the same old lame 'I patented the concept of patents' comments and so forth on a computer-based discussion forum". You all have to pay me a $100 license fee or immediately cease and desist your slashdot postings.
Where is it stated as a requirement that Slashdot editors be unbiased?
It's not a Slashdot requirement, it's a requirement of legitimate journalism. But hey, maybe Slashdot doesn't aspire to that. (If that's the case, I would ask they take the word 'news' off their masthead.)
As I say every time he spouts off, if Michael has an opinion about a story submission, he should post it as a comment in response to the story, the same way the rest of us have to. It's an abuse of his position (however flippantly the editors take their duties) to use the story summary as a soapbox for his personal opinions.
I know someone who works for Tivo, and according to that person the Tivo boxes at one time during development did have a working 30-second-skip-commercial feature, but user testing showed that few people used it, and there were preferred alternative methods of getting the same effect. So the feature was dropped from the codebase.
I wouldn't be surprised if ReplayTV is using a similar justification.
"Cell phones could disrupt aircraft systems" doesn't mean "making a call will 'bring down' the plane." I don't know where you got the idea that it did.
Most of the electrical systems on an airplane are to make the pilots' jobs easier (navigation systems, communications, autopilots) and for the comfort of passengers (cabin pressure, lights, TV screens). Very few of the systems are crucial to keeping the plane in the air, and even fewer don't have mechanical fallbacks in the event of failure.
Dumping - Export price that is "unfairly low," defined as either below the home market price (normal value) (hence price discrimination) or below cost.
The market price for a home computer OS has been $50-150 for as far back as I can remember.
Does that make companies that distribute open source software guilty of dumping?
If we're counting development cost as a recoupable expense, then OSS developers are guilty on that count as well. There is a cost in time and effort to write OSS software, even when no salary is paid.
Lindows is Lindows. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not a good product for some people.
Another reason Linux isn't ready for the desktop.
Microsoft, like 'em or not, tries to make their OSes a good product for ALL people. (Let's not waste time arguing about whether they succeed, or where they got their design concepts from...) Linux vendors are settling for 'good enough for SOME people' right now. If you're not one of those some, you're still SOL.
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I'm guessing that the U.S. Postal Service doesn't deserve too much of the credit for getting that postcard to your friend. Most likely they just identified an arbitrary Sun office location and delivered the card there, and it was the Sun mailroom staff and inter-office mail couriers that did the rest.
Wow, this is offtopic even for a Slashback.
All Bill has to do is buy up one record label, one movie studio and one TV network. [MS media domination scenario elided]
Yeah, I mean, look at how well AOL's purchase of the Time-Warner empire went...
This is the same "smart automated house of the future" concept that has been touted fruitlessly since the 1950's. If there were any real demand for this, we'd all have homes like this already.
(see also: videophones, flying cars)
If there were no movements at all, a person could just release his source code, call the application freeware, and go have a smoke without first saluting someone else' battleflag.
A person can do that right now. What's your point?
The solution to spam isn't going to be in letting big brother take care of it for us
/dev/null after the damage has already been done -- all the arguments have been rehashed forever here. Bayesian filters treat the symptoms of the problem; they are not preventative medicine.
The solution to crime isn't going to be in letting big brother take care of it for us. Let's take the power back, vigilante justice and lynchings!
I'll save my breath and not explain why spam needs to be prevented at the source rather than discreetly filed to
it seems to be a common "concept" these days that one can fight evil with evil ,-)
Law enforcement is evil?
By regularly using mobile phones, especially to send text messages and by playing hand-held computer games, a physical mutation had developed in the under-25s, the researchers have found.
Who wrote this nonsense?
Developing strong thumb muscles from using mobile phones and video games is no more a physical mutation than 'mutating' the length of your hair by getting it cut, or 'mutating' your brain by going to school and learning stuff.
Most hacks against my systems are from IP addresses that don't resolve back to a valid domain.
Since when does using an IP address oblige me to use DNS as well?
Back in my day we used bang-paths in our email addresses and we LIKED it that way, dadgummit!
I would say so... it's been what, 5 years since Satriani, Vai, and Johnson took their guitar-god triumvirate act on the road now?
Borland Delphi is a moderately popular development environment based on Pascal...
Who are these "employers" you speak of?
Everyone at a company, from your immediate supervisor up to the seniormost chief executive, is an employEE. You're all in the same boat -- you do what the owners and/or shareholders want, or you suffer the consequences.
You're crazy to walk out on your only opportunity these days.
You're crazier if you stay in a bad situation.
It's wrong to treat as an inevitability the idea that management holds all the cards, that they have more control over the quality of your life than you yourself do.
Collective bargaining, whether in the form of organized unions or ad-hoc groups of employees with a common grievance, are a powerful method to provide equal leverage to the little guy.
You wouldn't advise a person in an abusive relationship to stay put because they didn't have any marriage proposals from other people, would you?
Walking off just to prove a point or to be pissy won't cut it.
No, but if the company is telling you to do things that aren't in your job description, then the employers have voided their contract with you. IANAL but that ought to count for something as far as unemployment goes.
Easier yet, just refuse to work 20 hours of unpaid overtime a week, and all the other unreasonable demands they make of you. Let them fire you. Let them fire you all.
I bet I could get Netscape 0.9 (which Andreesen and co. referred to as 'Mozilla' back in the day) ported to the Amiga platform without too much effort... anyone got the source?
Interesting vehicle for natural selection. After a few generations, only the strong Mortal Kombat player genes will be left!
A system that favors the procreation of video game experts can't really be called natural selection, can it?
But if Michael in particular bugs you, just ignore him. I know there's a setting somewhere for that...
But this isn't a JonKatz kind of hate, where I don't want his articles to show up at all.
I like the articles that michael approves. I just don't like his approach to commenting on them.
I own a patent on "posting the same old lame 'I patented the concept of patents' comments and so forth on a computer-based discussion forum". You all have to pay me a $100 license fee or immediately cease and desist your slashdot postings.
Where is it stated as a requirement that Slashdot editors be unbiased?
It's not a Slashdot requirement, it's a requirement of legitimate journalism. But hey, maybe Slashdot doesn't aspire to that. (If that's the case, I would ask they take the word 'news' off their masthead.)
As I say every time he spouts off, if Michael has an opinion about a story submission, he should post it as a comment in response to the story, the same way the rest of us have to. It's an abuse of his position (however flippantly the editors take their duties) to use the story summary as a soapbox for his personal opinions.
I know someone who works for Tivo, and according to that person the Tivo boxes at one time during development did have a working 30-second-skip-commercial feature, but user testing showed that few people used it, and there were preferred alternative methods of getting the same effect. So the feature was dropped from the codebase.
I wouldn't be surprised if ReplayTV is using a similar justification.
"Remember the 8086? That was Intel Corp.'s first microprocessor for personal computers in 1978"
I was sure that intel had a 4004 in about 1971...
Yes, but 1971 wasn't in 1978...
"Cell phones could disrupt aircraft systems" doesn't mean "making a call will 'bring down' the plane." I don't know where you got the idea that it did.
Most of the electrical systems on an airplane are to make the pilots' jobs easier (navigation systems, communications, autopilots) and for the comfort of passengers (cabin pressure, lights, TV screens). Very few of the systems are crucial to keeping the plane in the air, and even fewer don't have mechanical fallbacks in the event of failure.
Why is it that anything Microsoft does is considered bad?
Are you new here?
Dumping - Export price that is "unfairly low," defined as either below the home market price (normal value) (hence price discrimination) or below cost.
The market price for a home computer OS has been $50-150 for as far back as I can remember.
Does that make companies that distribute open source software guilty of dumping?
If we're counting development cost as a recoupable expense, then OSS developers are guilty on that count as well. There is a cost in time and effort to write OSS software, even when no salary is paid.
Lindows is Lindows. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not a good product for some people.
Another reason Linux isn't ready for the desktop.
Microsoft, like 'em or not, tries to make their OSes a good product for ALL people. (Let's not waste time arguing about whether they succeed, or where they got their design concepts from...) Linux vendors are settling for 'good enough for SOME people' right now. If you're not one of those some, you're still SOL.
The average user doesn't know the difference between Windows/Lindows, except the fact that there is no Word, Excel, Outlook (Express), etc yet.
Unless you count OpenOffice, which I guess you've never heard of before.