You may use Verizon for your last mile, but AT&T's network is so sprawling that probably 90% of all North American internet traffic crosses their lines at some point, so you'd still be affected by this even though you don't pay AT&T a monthly bill.
You can say "it's just a game" but it's a game people are paying for. The very least I expect with a service I'm paying for is that it work. Several servers in WoW have had connectivity and lag issues since day one, and the way in which Blizzard appears to have been caught with their pants down is embarrassing. I came from everquest where transferring your character from one server to another was a relatively simple procedure, but Blizzard had no facility for doing this, and when they finally (months later) got around to allowing transfers at all, it was only from server A to server B. All in all Blizzard's response to these issues - many of which are caused by overcrowded servers and backend issues on their end - has been horrendous. After a while I got sick of it and cancelled my WoW account in August '05. It was a great game destroyed by technical failings that lesser games solved 5-6 years ago.
I don't think quality matters in this "new" Web. MySpace is a terrible site: the design is terrible, the interface is terrible, and the user-supplied content is horrible. Go to 20 random users' MySpace profiles and probably 15+ of them will burn your eyes. Despite these obvious shortcomings, my 14-year-old niece can't live without having 24/7 access to the site and the ability to see what drivel and stupid pics her friends have posted today. The point being that these sites are popular because of the community of users who use them, not because they provide "quality" content.
Most of these utilities have little to nothing to do with system administration. There's a BT client, an MP3 player, ImageMagick (?), and a terminal app that he lists as just being "Faster." I realize he's just a kid but these utilities are silly and have little to do with sysadminning.
Alienware is just a brand. They sell commodity hardware in a fancy case to people who play games but aren't savvy enough to see through the marketing. Dell can continue to make Dells, put them in an Alienware case, fire all of Alienware's staff and own the "gaming poser" market.
Red Hat owns the images and copyrights that have the words "Red Hat." Thats it, and thats what your paying for when you buy RHEL. Its not like they own or do the majority of the work on the software. Red Hat has no problem with not paying for OSS packages it uses, why should I have a problem with not paying Red Hat?
Red Hat funds a great deal of today's Linux development. They pay people to work full-time on many Free software products, including the Linux kernel itself.
It will be interesting to see how many people go back to paper filing their forms directly to the IRS. Should be a nightmare of un-automation for them.
Sadly it will probably be a very low number since most people tend to pay lip service to ideas like privacy while in practice not really doing anything about it. Convenience wins over privacy every time. Look at the rise of services like GM's OnStar. Yeah, they can unlock your car if you lock your keys in it, but they can also listen to anything you say in your car by remotely activating your phone if the FBI tells them to. People just don't care about privacy.
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Well if you think about how many press releases probably get submitted to Slashdot on a given day it's almost inevitable that a few will be accepted. There are any number of ad agencies flooding the queue with press releases because this site is among the most popular with IT/Engineering types. To say nothing of the smaller sites who write up a half-assed review of some crap gadget and flood the queue with it just to get the spike in page views that they can then show their advertisers.
Given how ignorant the overwhelming majority of the populace is (and continually opts to be), and how many people support the current U.S. administration's utter anti-openness, I don't see someone running on a platform of open information going very far. If you ask the average American if they support jailing a reporter for printing a story that says that the government has been monitoring all international phone calls since 9/11/01, "to keep the U.S. safe from terrorism," they'll more than likely say yes. Nevermind that this is an issue that goes to the very core freedoms on which the country was founded, and only petty thieves are stupid enough to pick up the phone and call their cohorts overseas to discuss their next nefarious scheme. Secrecy is the name of the game now. Just look at the documents that the CIA's been secretly reclassifying after Clinton declassified them. Maybe on a college campus it could work but we live in a nation where openness is bad and ignorance is bliss.
I think something proponents of "Apple should let OSX run on any x86 box" fail to consider is the cost of maintaining a support infrastructure for that scenario. By controlling the box and the software, Apple is able to control the possible problems that arise due to software/hardware incompatibility. Microsoft somehow has been able to push all of their support infrastructure into the hardware vendors' laps - if people buy a Dell and something goes wrong, they don't call Microsoft, they call Dell, even though the problem 90% of the time has to do with the Microsoft software, not the Dell hardware. This is an enormous savings for Microsoft. If Apple were to allow people to install OSX on any Intel hardware, vendors like Dell would still get the call, but when the user said they were using OSX, Dell would immediately stop supporting them and tell them to call Apple -- for Dell to support a new OS would be an enormous cost for them. Apple would then be saddled with this cost.
There are thousands of reasons for Apple not to release the OS as a standalone x86 OS. The most compelling is, as mentioned previously, that they've basically tried the "just license the OS" model and it burned them badly, so they'd be stupid to do it again.
it definitely sounds like Microsoft has found yet another way to ensure market dominance for a few more years....
Since Vista will likely ship on every new computer anyone buys, I don't see that being a major roadblock.
Not much thought needed here. The Windows tax will continue to be included in the price of all new PCs from major vendors, regardless of whether you actually want Windows or not, so Microsoft's dominance would be ensured even if Vista had no "innovations" and just bumped the version number
If you're looking for a new job because your old one isn't paying you enough, what's the problem with telling prospective employers that? When they ask why you're leaving, tell them you're looking for more opportunities to advance and don't feel you're getting that at your current position - that's code for "they aren't paying me enough." The question of how much it is will inevitably come up, as you say, so just tell them. If you think a company may screw you based on your previous salary, that's probably not a good company to join. What you want is a company that will pay you what you're "worth," and they probably have a figure in mind for your position before you even apply.
As an aside, whatever they offer you, get it in writing, and be wary of things like "Starting at 40,000, increasing up to $10,000 after 3 month review," I've gotten screwed by that type of language before. "Yeah, It's only a $2000 raise, but we did say 'up to' $10,000! (wink, wink)." I started looking for a new job that very day.
Most of the "hacks" described in the review seem to amount to "how to use these standard tools, which came with your distro, to do the task for which they were designed." Not really worthy of the title "hack" IMO...
This may be picking nits, but there is no "Gameboy DS," the system is called the Nintendo DS. This is significant because it indicates that it's intended to be thought of in the same family of systems as the "regular" consoles, not the Gameboy.
According to these pages: http://www.osnews.com/user.php?uid=2668 , http://jenett.org/ageless/1990s/ Dylan Knight Rogers is 16 years old. That would explain many of the criticisms in this thread. Both his site and his "blog" are now giving 404 errors so I can't even read the article myself.
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I am so glad I use verizon as my ISP.
You may use Verizon for your last mile, but AT&T's network is so sprawling that probably 90% of all North American internet traffic crosses their lines at some point, so you'd still be affected by this even though you don't pay AT&T a monthly bill.
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You can say "it's just a game" but it's a game people are paying for. The very least I expect with a service I'm paying for is that it work. Several servers in WoW have had connectivity and lag issues since day one, and the way in which Blizzard appears to have been caught with their pants down is embarrassing. I came from everquest where transferring your character from one server to another was a relatively simple procedure, but Blizzard had no facility for doing this, and when they finally (months later) got around to allowing transfers at all, it was only from server A to server B. All in all Blizzard's response to these issues - many of which are caused by overcrowded servers and backend issues on their end - has been horrendous. After a while I got sick of it and cancelled my WoW account in August '05. It was a great game destroyed by technical failings that lesser games solved 5-6 years ago.
I played on Doomhammer btw.
I don't think quality matters in this "new" Web. MySpace is a terrible site: the design is terrible, the interface is terrible, and the user-supplied content is horrible. Go to 20 random users' MySpace profiles and probably 15+ of them will burn your eyes. Despite these obvious shortcomings, my 14-year-old niece can't live without having 24/7 access to the site and the ability to see what drivel and stupid pics her friends have posted today. The point being that these sites are popular because of the community of users who use them, not because they provide "quality" content.
Most of these utilities have little to nothing to do with system administration. There's a BT client, an MP3 player, ImageMagick (?), and a terminal app that he lists as just being "Faster." I realize he's just a kid but these utilities are silly and have little to do with sysadminning.
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Alienware is just a brand. They sell commodity hardware in a fancy case to people who play games but aren't savvy enough to see through the marketing. Dell can continue to make Dells, put them in an Alienware case, fire all of Alienware's staff and own the "gaming poser" market.
Actually, just read this: http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=180923&c id=14969319
Red Hat owns the images and copyrights that have the words "Red Hat." Thats it, and thats what your paying for when you buy RHEL. Its not like they own or do the majority of the work on the software. Red Hat has no problem with not paying for OSS packages it uses, why should I have a problem with not paying Red Hat?
Red Hat funds a great deal of today's Linux development. They pay people to work full-time on many Free software products, including the Linux kernel itself.
It will be interesting to see how many people go back to paper filing their forms directly to the IRS. Should be a nightmare of un-automation for them.
Sadly it will probably be a very low number since most people tend to pay lip service to ideas like privacy while in practice not really doing anything about it. Convenience wins over privacy every time. Look at the rise of services like GM's OnStar. Yeah, they can unlock your car if you lock your keys in it, but they can also listen to anything you say in your car by remotely activating your phone if the FBI tells them to. People just don't care about privacy.
The winner is clear!
Well if you think about how many press releases probably get submitted to Slashdot on a given day it's almost inevitable that a few will be accepted. There are any number of ad agencies flooding the queue with press releases because this site is among the most popular with IT/Engineering types. To say nothing of the smaller sites who write up a half-assed review of some crap gadget and flood the queue with it just to get the spike in page views that they can then show their advertisers.
Given how ignorant the overwhelming majority of the populace is (and continually opts to be), and how many people support the current U.S. administration's utter anti-openness, I don't see someone running on a platform of open information going very far. If you ask the average American if they support jailing a reporter for printing a story that says that the government has been monitoring all international phone calls since 9/11/01, "to keep the U.S. safe from terrorism," they'll more than likely say yes. Nevermind that this is an issue that goes to the very core freedoms on which the country was founded, and only petty thieves are stupid enough to pick up the phone and call their cohorts overseas to discuss their next nefarious scheme. Secrecy is the name of the game now. Just look at the documents that the CIA's been secretly reclassifying after Clinton declassified them. Maybe on a college campus it could work but we live in a nation where openness is bad and ignorance is bliss.
Nice offhand comment about the "epic horse."
... but Super Bowl XL was aired on ABC, which is owned by Disney, and not a Murdoch-owned property.
That's a poor title. Something like "Is Apple Ending Open Source Efforts?" would be more fitting.
No, it's more like saying, "If I put something on the public internet, it's OK for any user agent to fetch it unless I tell them not to."
Couldn't they just tell Googlebot not to index their images via robots.txt?
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Case closed? Oh, sorry, I forgot Google has lots of money.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2053731645 001034711
I'm in the USA and what I'm seeing on this page is: This video is not playable in your country.
So for all the people saying "blame China, not Google," now do we blame Google or the USA?
That's why the parent post said "unless you're running a home server."
I think something proponents of "Apple should let OSX run on any x86 box" fail to consider is the cost of maintaining a support infrastructure for that scenario. By controlling the box and the software, Apple is able to control the possible problems that arise due to software/hardware incompatibility. Microsoft somehow has been able to push all of their support infrastructure into the hardware vendors' laps - if people buy a Dell and something goes wrong, they don't call Microsoft, they call Dell, even though the problem 90% of the time has to do with the Microsoft software, not the Dell hardware. This is an enormous savings for Microsoft. If Apple were to allow people to install OSX on any Intel hardware, vendors like Dell would still get the call, but when the user said they were using OSX, Dell would immediately stop supporting them and tell them to call Apple -- for Dell to support a new OS would be an enormous cost for them. Apple would then be saddled with this cost.
There are thousands of reasons for Apple not to release the OS as a standalone x86 OS. The most compelling is, as mentioned previously, that they've basically tried the "just license the OS" model and it burned them badly, so they'd be stupid to do it again.
If you're looking for a new job because your old one isn't paying you enough, what's the problem with telling prospective employers that? When they ask why you're leaving, tell them you're looking for more opportunities to advance and don't feel you're getting that at your current position - that's code for "they aren't paying me enough." The question of how much it is will inevitably come up, as you say, so just tell them. If you think a company may screw you based on your previous salary, that's probably not a good company to join. What you want is a company that will pay you what you're "worth," and they probably have a figure in mind for your position before you even apply.
As an aside, whatever they offer you, get it in writing, and be wary of things like "Starting at 40,000, increasing up to $10,000 after 3 month review," I've gotten screwed by that type of language before. "Yeah, It's only a $2000 raise, but we did say 'up to' $10,000! (wink, wink)." I started looking for a new job that very day.
Most of the "hacks" described in the review seem to amount to "how to use these standard tools, which came with your distro, to do the task for which they were designed." Not really worthy of the title "hack" IMO...
This may be picking nits, but there is no "Gameboy DS," the system is called the Nintendo DS. This is significant because it indicates that it's intended to be thought of in the same family of systems as the "regular" consoles, not the Gameboy.
According to these pages: http://www.osnews.com/user.php?uid=2668 , http://jenett.org/ageless/1990s/ Dylan Knight Rogers is 16 years old. That would explain many of the criticisms in this thread. Both his site and his "blog" are now giving 404 errors so I can't even read the article myself.