"If you had been using Microsoft Access/Money/Excel for your accounting needs, you would have experienced no downtime. I'm afraid it isn't Microsoft's responsibility to be sure each other vendor's applications work on the latest version of our operating system. Could I interest you in a Microsoft Money solution for your payroll needs? We can import data from virtually all of our competitors products and with our easy-to-use Setup Wizards, you would be able to re-build your application in next to no time. And best of all, this product is from Microsoft so it's guaranteed to stay current and keep in sync with the very latest in desktop operating system changes and have the highest level of operability with other industry-standard products like Quicken and TurboTax. Could I have a credit card number?"
I'm sorry, I can't believe for a minute that you seriously see Linux apps making headway into the desktop "productivity" software that is Microsoft's bread and butter. Microsoft will never allow it, they'll change some random part of the OS and break LINE as soon as Star Office or any non-MS application gets even a sliver of market penetration. Then they'll jump up and down and shout "Stable! Hah! It won't even run!" and the Linux community will be shafted just like we are with the buddy-buddy Microsoft and Hardware Vendor relationship that excludes us and makes us reverse engineer hardware just to write drivers. Microsoft people get to work on their drivers before the hardware release, we have to start from scratch when, and if, we can get our hands on one.
Now WINE on the other hand, I could see getting some slack from Microsoft. WINE still encourages the use of Microsoft products on the Application side. When Microsoft gets broken up, the Application side is where the real market dominance will show. The OS doesn't matter, it's transparent to the end user, use whatever you want, but the work? The data formats? All the things a _user_ will deal with? They will be Microsoft. As computer usage grows, Microsoft cares more about mindshare than it's OS. Let the technophiles use whatever OS they wish. The PHB and the average Joe don't care what OS they use as long as they know how to use the Apps. And Microsoft has by FAR the largest user base of all the application vendors.
Most people don't understand, Microsoft's future isn't in the OS, it's in the applications. It's in.NET and the service industry. OS and Hardware got them where they are, but they would be dumb to sit on their laurels. They're moving on into the application market, and since applications are much more static than operating systems and _FAR_ more static than hardware, they'll be even harder to dislodge there.
Hmm, I'm wondering if it's worth it to read replies anymore. Here's a thought, on the user info page, let us know who, as in username, replied to our posts. That way I don't waste my time reading replies from idiot ACs. Just a thought.
Atom holography is another stunning idea. Instead of making an image in light, as done in conventional holography, atom optics would make the hologram of atoms.
"What this means is, we could make a real, 3-dimensional replica of some object. We could copy objects." Meystre said.
So we can use these atom beams to shove individual atoms into place and replicate things.
I can understand this from a nano-manufacturing standpoint(few atoms to move into place would make this type of manufacturing more viable than having to assemble billions or trillions), but what about large-scale replication?
Since the particles have to be cooled to such a low temp before they can be maniplated with these atom beams, what happens when the replicated object warms up?
Now I need to go off on a huge long rant about the stupid lameness filter. The above post was rejected almost a dozen times with
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted.
Reason: Junk character post.
Now, I sent email to CowboyNeal about this because this is obviously not junk characters. I don't even have very many special characters. I've tried all kinds of mutations on this post. In the end I've deleted all the content I pasted from the article and re-typed everything. This is wrong guys, just plain wrong. Fix the freaking filter.
With an operational temperature of less than one Kelvin, I don't think this will catch on for mainstream holographic applications. It's hard enough to find a hot babe in real life, now you're going to tell me that the virtual ones are all literally frigid?
It's pretty hard to install onto a hard drive when the motherboard won't let you write to the drive without a Magic Decoder ring present....
Then I reverse-engineer their Magic Decoder ring, go down to Radio Shack, pick up a breadboard and some assorted components, build my own Magic Decoder ring and do whatever the hell I want with the hardware. I've done it before with stupid vendors who "secure" their stuff with "dongles" or some other nonsense. Then I post a HOWTO about the Magic Decoder ring and others can do it as well.
That having been said, I've never done it without a ligitimate reason. In college I worked for a radio station which was an AP affiliate. One day we were moving our workstations around and someone bashed the dongle attached to the back of a machine and broke it. Since we needed this to be able to broadcast our news, I ran across campus to the lab(where I was a lab assistant) and built a replacement dongle on an experiment board which we kept in place until the replacement arrived from AP customer service. I also replicated dongles for a digital design tool we had purchased for the lab but the vendor had sent fewer dongles than we had liscences. My makeshift dongles were removed once we had the permanent ones in place.
If the courts become so enamored of Big Business that they actually _do_ begin to crack down on individuals who do this, then I'll leave the country. I won't use my tax dollars to support a country which won't support my rights to use my own property as I wish. Anyone who views me as a thief by default and taxes me based upon the hardware I own which "might" be used to violate other people's intellectual property will not get any support from me, fiscal or otherwise.
A copy of this post and the relevant sections of the article and earlier postings will be CC'ed to both my Senators, Congressman, and state representatives.
Or we just distribute Linux over Freenet. An open distribution model should keep it out of the hands of taxmen entirely.
Even if your future comes about, how many of us buy our systems from Dell or Gateway now and tweak/upgrade them as we see fit? Did those systems come with Windows? Probably. Did that stop us from downloading Slackware and mothballing that Windows Licsence?
Personally, I have to turn on other fans or open the case when I use mine to view upgrade shops online. It gets really hot and bothered looking at all the RAM, hard drives, and new CPU's out there.
You can specify rules for who matches your computer based on everything from age to storage(permanent and RAM) and even assign _importance_ to these factors. Then the results come back with scores. I met my match in "geek" What a suprise.
But I really love these options.
(select your interests)
HTTP
FTP
Telnet
SSH
DNS
CVS
Networking
File Serving
Databases
Word Processing
Music Making
MP3s
Graphics
Desktop Publishing
Games (3D)
Games (2D)
Games (Text)
Games (Online)
Games (MMORPG)
Code Hacking
Naughty Hacking
Warez
Pr0n
Web Surfing
I'm going to put in one of the servers at work and show it's only interest as Pr0n and see how many matches I get.
WTF?!? Moderators on crack? Why the hell is this modded as a troll? That is a real link to Google's cache of the site(sure, just the front page, and no pics, but still).
I'm off to metamod, you better hope I don't get this one.
Just copy the destination link into a Google search and the results page should have an option to view Google's cache of that page. The images aren't coming up for me though, I don't use this technique often enough to know if this is just a limititation of Google, or if it's just me.
This could give rise to a whole new breed of Seti@homers Those of us who either work at huge corporations with tons of extra hardware laying around after all the Y2K redundancy like mine or little dotcoms with more hardware than customers.
Now we'll show you some real power, silly @homers. A Beowulf cluster of E10K... drool.
3001:The Final Odyssey It's also the story with the towers and space elevators and a man-made ring around the planet. Everyone in the story has "braincaps" which function as ways to access information(think "The Matrix"), but when they were first implemented in large scale, there was resistance because they basically allowed direct monitoring of the mind. Unfortunately, the privacy advocates lost out and everyone in the story is wide open to scrutiny with only the assurances of the Gov't that they won't abuse the trust.
Hmm, another of Arthur Clarke's visions come true? The brain cap? Will it also help detect the seeds of criminal behavior and alert the authorities before it manifests itself? I like Clarke's stuff, but I would rather die than wear a brain cap.
a beowulf cluster of Dreamcasts!! I can afford it now! Drool...
Steven
The only sentence in the whole thing that isn't BS
on
Linux Is Going Down
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"In the case of Linux, the barriers to entry are less monetary and more experiential," said Salloum, who added that many of Applied Data Systems' Linux-oriented customers who are seeking rapid production of applications products are either well versed in Linux, or have access to Linux experts.
Well said. Now all we need to do is determine how to get Linux into schools and teach the next generation how to use it. I don't know very many people who go back to Win/NT after getting some *nix experience.
"There is absolutely nobody high up in this new administration who is familiar with the Net, and when they do hear about it, it's all hackers and perverts."
Microsoft wants more broadband in Australia because they've targeted us as one of the prime test markets for.NET. Make of that what you will.
Man! Bill must have taken that Austrailian joke page harder than you thought. To inflict that kind of retribution. It's a sad day for the land down under.
It's not Slashwin. It's \. That's Backslash-Dot. Accurate in both the fact that it uses Windows semantics and in the direction it's existance would probably take the industry.
Standard Embrace, Extend, Extinguish philosophy. Now their real challenge is getting someone who codes _worse_ than Taco to write it.
Slashdot Mirror
"If you had been using Microsoft Access/Money/Excel for your accounting needs, you would have experienced no downtime. I'm afraid it isn't Microsoft's responsibility to be sure each other vendor's applications work on the latest version of our operating system. Could I interest you in a Microsoft Money solution for your payroll needs? We can import data from virtually all of our competitors products and with our easy-to-use Setup Wizards, you would be able to re-build your application in next to no time. And best of all, this product is from Microsoft so it's guaranteed to stay current and keep in sync with the very latest in desktop operating system changes and have the highest level of operability with other industry-standard products like Quicken and TurboTax. Could I have a credit card number?"
Steven
I'm sorry, I can't believe for a minute that you seriously see Linux apps making headway into the desktop "productivity" software that is Microsoft's bread and butter. Microsoft will never allow it, they'll change some random part of the OS and break LINE as soon as Star Office or any non-MS application gets even a sliver of market penetration. Then they'll jump up and down and shout "Stable! Hah! It won't even run!" and the Linux community will be shafted just like we are with the buddy-buddy Microsoft and Hardware Vendor relationship that excludes us and makes us reverse engineer hardware just to write drivers. Microsoft people get to work on their drivers before the hardware release, we have to start from scratch when, and if, we can get our hands on one.
.NET and the service industry. OS and Hardware got them where they are, but they would be dumb to sit on their laurels. They're moving on into the application market, and since applications are much more static than operating systems and _FAR_ more static than hardware, they'll be even harder to dislodge there.
Now WINE on the other hand, I could see getting some slack from Microsoft. WINE still encourages the use of Microsoft products on the Application side. When Microsoft gets broken up, the Application side is where the real market dominance will show. The OS doesn't matter, it's transparent to the end user, use whatever you want, but the work? The data formats? All the things a _user_ will deal with? They will be Microsoft. As computer usage grows, Microsoft cares more about mindshare than it's OS. Let the technophiles use whatever OS they wish. The PHB and the average Joe don't care what OS they use as long as they know how to use the Apps. And Microsoft has by FAR the largest user base of all the application vendors.
Most people don't understand, Microsoft's future isn't in the OS, it's in the applications. It's in
Steven
Hmm, I'm wondering if it's worth it to read replies anymore. Here's a thought, on the user info page, let us know who, as in username, replied to our posts. That way I don't waste my time reading replies from idiot ACs. Just a thought.
Steven
"What this means is, we could make a real, 3-dimensional replica of some object. We could copy objects." Meystre said.
So we can use these atom beams to shove individual atoms into place and replicate things.
I can understand this from a nano-manufacturing standpoint(few atoms to move into place would make this type of manufacturing more viable than having to assemble billions or trillions), but what about large-scale replication?
Since the particles have to be cooled to such a low temp before they can be maniplated with these atom beams, what happens when the replicated object warms up?
Now I need to go off on a huge long rant about the stupid lameness filter. The above post was rejected almost a dozen times with
Now, I sent email to CowboyNeal about this because this is obviously not junk characters. I don't even have very many special characters. I've tried all kinds of mutations on this post. In the end I've deleted all the content I pasted from the article and re-typed everything. This is wrong guys, just plain wrong. Fix the freaking filter.
Steven
With an operational temperature of less than one Kelvin, I don't think this will catch on for mainstream holographic applications. It's hard enough to find a hot babe in real life, now you're going to tell me that the virtual ones are all literally frigid?
Damn.
Steven
It's pretty hard to install onto a hard drive when the motherboard won't let you write to the drive without a Magic Decoder ring present....
Then I reverse-engineer their Magic Decoder ring, go down to Radio Shack, pick up a breadboard and some assorted components, build my own Magic Decoder ring and do whatever the hell I want with the hardware. I've done it before with stupid vendors who "secure" their stuff with "dongles" or some other nonsense. Then I post a HOWTO about the Magic Decoder ring and others can do it as well.
That having been said, I've never done it without a ligitimate reason. In college I worked for a radio station which was an AP affiliate. One day we were moving our workstations around and someone bashed the dongle attached to the back of a machine and broke it. Since we needed this to be able to broadcast our news, I ran across campus to the lab(where I was a lab assistant) and built a replacement dongle on an experiment board which we kept in place until the replacement arrived from AP customer service. I also replicated dongles for a digital design tool we had purchased for the lab but the vendor had sent fewer dongles than we had liscences. My makeshift dongles were removed once we had the permanent ones in place.
If the courts become so enamored of Big Business that they actually _do_ begin to crack down on individuals who do this, then I'll leave the country. I won't use my tax dollars to support a country which won't support my rights to use my own property as I wish. Anyone who views me as a thief by default and taxes me based upon the hardware I own which "might" be used to violate other people's intellectual property will not get any support from me, fiscal or otherwise.
A copy of this post and the relevant sections of the article and earlier postings will be CC'ed to both my Senators, Congressman, and state representatives.
Steven
Or we just distribute Linux over Freenet. An open distribution model should keep it out of the hands of taxmen entirely.
Even if your future comes about, how many of us buy our systems from Dell or Gateway now and tweak/upgrade them as we see fit? Did those systems come with Windows? Probably. Did that stop us from downloading Slackware and mothballing that Windows Licsence?
Steven
Rock groups like Böhse Onkelz are skeptical about the value of computer fees, but they want them anyway.
Fuckers.
Steven
Personally, I have to turn on other fans or open the case when I use mine to view upgrade shops online. It gets really hot and bothered looking at all the RAM, hard drives, and new CPU's out there.
Steven
You can specify rules for who matches your computer based on everything from age to storage(permanent and RAM) and even assign _importance_ to these factors. Then the results come back with scores. I met my match in "geek" What a suprise.
But I really love these options.
(select your interests)
HTTP
FTP
Telnet
SSH
DNS
CVS
Networking
File Serving
Databases
Word Processing
Music Making
MP3s
Graphics
Desktop Publishing
Games (3D)
Games (2D)
Games (Text)
Games (Online)
Games (MMORPG)
Code Hacking
Naughty Hacking
Warez
Pr0n
Web Surfing
I'm going to put in one of the servers at work and show it's only interest as Pr0n and see how many matches I get.
Steven
Yikes! And I thought Slashdot was shoddy journalism!
Steven
WTF?!? Moderators on crack? Why the hell is this modded as a troll? That is a real link to Google's cache of the site(sure, just the front page, and no pics, but still).
I'm off to metamod, you better hope I don't get this one.
Steven
Too funny. Of course Google has their cache of the page, but navigating through the different cached pages can be a pain. Here's a few
Their main page in Google's cache
The Railgun Theory in Google's cache
Some difficulties they ran into in Google's cache
Just copy the destination link into a Google search and the results page should have an option to view Google's cache of that page. The images aren't coming up for me though, I don't use this technique often enough to know if this is just a limititation of Google, or if it's just me.
Steven
This could give rise to a whole new breed of Seti@homers Those of us who either work at huge corporations with tons of extra hardware laying around after all the Y2K redundancy like mine or little dotcoms with more hardware than customers.
Now we'll show you some real power, silly @homers. A Beowulf cluster of E10K... drool.
Steven
3001:The Final Odyssey It's also the story with the towers and space elevators and a man-made ring around the planet. Everyone in the story has "braincaps" which function as ways to access information(think "The Matrix"), but when they were first implemented in large scale, there was resistance because they basically allowed direct monitoring of the mind. Unfortunately, the privacy advocates lost out and everyone in the story is wide open to scrutiny with only the assurances of the Gov't that they won't abuse the trust.
Steven
Hmm, another of Arthur Clarke's visions come true? The brain cap? Will it also help detect the seeds of criminal behavior and alert the authorities before it manifests itself? I like Clarke's stuff, but I would rather die than wear a brain cap.
Steven
a beowulf cluster of Dreamcasts!! I can afford it now! Drool...
Steven
"In the case of Linux, the barriers to entry are less monetary and more experiential," said Salloum, who added that many of Applied Data Systems' Linux-oriented customers who are seeking rapid production of applications products are either well versed in Linux, or have access to Linux experts.
Well said. Now all we need to do is determine how to get Linux into schools and teach the next generation how to use it. I don't know very many people who go back to Win/NT after getting some *nix experience.
Steven
Those MSCE's can be pretty thick. I'd recommend Beowulf for Dummies but they'd probably just end up at Beowulf for Dummies
Steven
WHAT!!!! What fsck did she just send us!!! I used to know, but now it's just a blank!
Steven
Username: cyph3rpunk0
Password: cyph3rpunk
Enjoy the article.
"There is absolutely nobody high up in this new administration who is familiar with the Net, and when they do hear about it, it's all hackers and perverts."
Sounds like a pretty good assessment to me.
Steven
Microsoft wants more broadband in Australia because they've targeted us as one of the prime test markets for .NET. Make of that what you will.
Man! Bill must have taken that Austrailian joke page harder than you thought. To inflict that kind of retribution. It's a sad day for the land down under.
Steven
I really think your analysis is spot on, but you need to change all instances of Idiot(s) to links to http://www.daytraders.com
[The Mole from South Park the Movie]Day Traders! I FUCKING hate Day Traders![/The Mole from South Park the Movie]
Steven
It's not Slashwin. It's \. That's Backslash-Dot. Accurate in both the fact that it uses Windows semantics and in the direction it's existance would probably take the industry.
Standard Embrace, Extend, Extinguish philosophy. Now their real challenge is getting someone who codes _worse_ than Taco to write it.
Steven