break up Apple and Sun, they make hardware and software
Owning the hardware and software doesn't break the antitrust laws. Using the marketshare from one in order to leverage into the other *does* break the antitrust laws.
The U.S. Antitrust laws don't make it illegal to have a monopoly in the USA. They illegalize a small subset of practices which have a large impact on consumers and competitors.
You couldn't be any farther from the truth. The *actual* reason that Sony has announced a Linux Release for the PS2 is because of pressure from the XBox.
According to popular rumor, the "HomeStation" is Microsoft's 2nd generation XBox. This will provide television recording, internet surfing, games, kitchen sink, etc. How can the poor little PS2 and its successors keep up with that?
How?
By using Open Source software. Currently, the PS2 running Linux has far more applications than the HomeStation (since the HomeStation is still in Development). All Sony has to do is stay ahead of Microsoft.
If Microsoft runs a native windows type OS or something on their HomeStation and markets it as a computer, then we have anti-trust laws being broke even more than now. Microsoft can't get away with owning the hardware and the software.
Re:Subscriptions should add value
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Just forward emails to grammar_nazi@slashdot.org to my *real* account and send me a/. Tshirt and I'll subscribe.
I'd pay more if I could get my first name as a UserID, but that was taken a long time ago. How about auctioning off unused accounts with cool names? Or renting the unused accounts that have cool names. You wouldn't be taking anything from the free readers if you were renting mike@slashdot.org or ben@slashdot.org to other users.
You don't have to like it. It's just an idea.
I'd pay 5 bucks to ban an IP address. That's right! Put a few Troll comments from a few troll bastards on a page and I get to select one and click 'Ban XXX_sporks IP address' button. I'd start by banning those bastards with the WWWWWWWWWW stretching across the screen.
Overall, Slashdot is still a good quality website. The number of insightful comments and intelligent posters hasn't gone down, it's gone up. Unfortunately, the amount of noise and trolls has also gone up.
Re:why can't slashcode filter individual accounts?
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It's open source. Why don't you write that feature yourself.
I wish people would quit free-loading off of opensource software and start coding.
We need every piece of code that we can get. Big projects such as Mozilla have recently announced that they are going to freeze many of the features until after Mozilla 1.0 is out. This is probably due to all the free-loaders not writing and contributing new features to the project.
...but I digress. Anyways, the Slashdot servers have been having uptimes of ~24 hours and I have been able to actively post ~60% percent of the time without formkey errors and static pages. This means that that other 60% should be taken up with new Slashcode features to enhance user experience and put the servers through more work. Remember, a wasted clock cycle can NEVER be regained.
So Start coding and do America a favor.
Re:This is the coolest governor ever
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All too many times, the government or teachers give out technology and try to use technology as a crutch in the education. Time and time again, the schools and students have proven that what they need isn't the latest and greatest calculator or the fastest internet connection. They need skilled and motivated teachers.
I believe that technology should supplement a strong education, rather that be the basis of it. Give the laptops to the teachers; they can take them home and plan the next days lesson rather then passing out laptops in class and telling the students to quietly browse the internet while Mrs. Smith cuts her fingernails.
They don't even teach multiplacation tables to childeren any more. Okemos, MI is an example of a school district that left multiplication tables out of their students' educations. They stated that it was due to the fact that students have easy access to calculators and computers and don't need to remember these things. I say that the Okemos school district was using technology as a crutch to remove a rigorous and somewhat challenging (for the teacher) thing from the curriculum. Young students need to sit down and learn that some things you have to memorize or work for and their are not always easy shortcuts.
</end rant>
Perhaps this was a better rant for my 'angry old man' alter ego.
Yeap. I have a mirror... hanging in my bathroom above the sink.
By the way, what's up with your horrible sentence structure? 'Looks like a new record.' -- No subject
The first sentence refers to the linked page as plural (because the site root is in parens). Please doublecheck your grammar next time and keep Slashdot a quality news site.
In this particular instance, Gnome was smoked by CDE! Now that's saying something.
Finally, on a grammatical note, please refrain from refering to Gnome as 'they'. Gnome is a desktop environment and should clearly be referred to in a singular sense.
On my personal preference, use the word very rather than really. If you do, then you'll sound twice as intelligent as you currently do.
I'm just trying to improve the quality of Slashdot with this post, so please don't mod me into oblivion.
If I look out accross a valley and I see a tower, then it is polluting my view and thus has an environmental inpact. The very fact that these towers have to be in a prominent location in order to cover the most amount of area means that you will be able to see it from miles in any direction.
This doesn't mention the service drives and powerlines that they build in order to maintain these towers.
I prefer no towers. If somebody needs to use their phone badly enough, they will get a Satellite phone.
Especially in Maine, one of the last states 'wilderness' states and here we are going to decentralize everything and put wireless network towers up in the mountains.
It's not as refreshing when you hike to the top of a remote mountain and find a cel tower at the top. At least you can take the service drive back to the bottom, but it takes away something from the serenity. Maybe it's the phone call from your girlfriend wondering why you aren't spending the afternoon with her. You wouldn't have recieved it if the tower wasn't there.
I always thought that Nike should hire NASA to dye a large part of the moon's surface with a swoosh(tm). Since the same side of the moon always faces the earth, then the entire world would be able to see the Nike swoosh(tm). This marketing would reach out to the entire world in an effective way for Nike.
Of course, most people would be against this, but Nike could find a way to label those people as communistic or something.
That's a good way to do it. What about printing? Can you print those onto transparencies without the 10" screwing things up?
I'm not trying to say that you have a bad idea. I am genuinely interested in doing what you said, but I want to make sure that I can print a copy of the slides in case I can't use the computer during the presentation.
On your point about Systems Engineers, I was a systems engineer within Lockheed Martin and we used Powerpoint for presenations AND for drawing flowcharts, requirement diagrams, requirement analysis charts. I wasn't a suit either. I was a peon systems engineer and it wasn't my choice as to whether we used powerpoint or Dia (my preference) or some other package.
Most researchers don't use LaTeX for presentations. I would venture to guess that most Physics and Math professors don't even use LaTeX for presentations. I've seen some LaTeX presentations and I've even made one. It is my opinion that WYSIWYG is much more important for creating slides than it is for creating a document.
The reason that Blackbox hasn't changed in a long time is because you can't improve upon perfection!. I'm not sure why work isn't being done on the other windows managers. They still have a long ways to go until they are more like Blackbox.
The only thing this approach lacks is the VERY OCCASIONALLY useful photograph or map.
Althoug h I agree about the occasional use of images/graphics/tables/charts, I think that markers and transparencies take longer to make presentations with.
I can sit down and fire out a PowerPoint presentation in about 20 minutes. After that, I only need to make content related revisions until I give the presentation. Writing transparencies by hand would take much longer.
It stands on it's own, and is closer to a Java-like model
Wow! That is particularly innovative of Mircrosoft to innovate Java's security model like that. After innovative years of claiming that Java's model was too complicated for innovative programmers, Microsoft has finally innovated upon their word and embraced the model. Now that's what I call real innovation!! Thank you Justics Department!
Actually, the spreadsheet program *is* the killer ap that put the desktop computer into the corporation to begin with. Powerpoint is nice and is a value-added component of any computer office suite, but I believe that the spreadsheet application is a *necessary* component, thus Excel is the killer ap of the MS Office suite.
Only people I have ever seen use this are suits and sales monkey's.
...and students, engineers, IT management, teachers, , researchers, training staff, etc.
Just because you haven't seen people use PowerPoint doesn't mean that it doesn't get used. I can't help that your job/experiences don't include presenting/being presented information to/from others.
Good presentation software is invaluable to business and education. Just because some people waste hours with screen swipes, cheesy clip-art, and other useless crap doesn't mean that it's not useful. Once I have my content finalized, I can whip up a decent looking presentation in PowerPoint in about 1/2 hour... faster than I could ever do it by hand.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think it has something to do with the Simpsons. Ever since the Simpsons first aired, these whitey and cracker jokes have been popping up.
It is prolly a marketing trick. If they can appeal to two vastly different marketing segments, then they have a larger overall market. It doesn't matter if you think it's a great movie or if you just liked one half of it. If the first half appeals to you and the second half appeals to somebody else, then two poeple are mildly satisfied rather than one person liking/one person hating it.
Remember, if you *really* liked the movie or if you just thought it was okay, the MPAA still made $7 dollars off of you. They may as well market it to every possible segment.
Re:Shower Curtain Prior Art
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What I do is Duct Tape the shower curtain sealed all around the floor, walls, and yes... even the ceiling.
In addition to keeping the shower curtain where it belongs, this also forces me to take quick showers, because of CO2 poisoning if I'm in there for more than 7 minutes.
I've thus, killed 2 birds with one stone (or roll of duct tape). Extra benefits are mastery of the 6 1/2 minute shower and being able to shave afterwards while still dizzy.
Re:Simple answer
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That's a nice simple answer, Davace. You are a real genius. Now tell me, Davace, why does the shower curtain still 'suck' even when you take a cold shower? The researcher mentions that fact in the first paragraph of his article.
....dogh!!
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The grammar nazi (me) was too busy reading the warez version of the History of the Universe in 100 words or less, but your grammar comments seem correct.
Anyways, this Warez history is on the Ig Nobel website too. Let's see if this makes it through the lameness filter. It's pretty funny.
Slashdot Mirror
Owning the hardware and software doesn't break the antitrust laws. Using the marketshare from one in order to leverage into the other *does* break the antitrust laws.
The U.S. Antitrust laws don't make it illegal to have a monopoly in the USA. They illegalize a small subset of practices which have a large impact on consumers and competitors.
According to popular rumor, the "HomeStation" is Microsoft's 2nd generation XBox. This will provide television recording, internet surfing, games, kitchen sink, etc. How can the poor little PS2 and its successors keep up with that?
How?
By using Open Source software. Currently, the PS2 running Linux has far more applications than the HomeStation (since the HomeStation is still in Development). All Sony has to do is stay ahead of Microsoft.
If Microsoft runs a native windows type OS or something on their HomeStation and markets it as a computer, then we have anti-trust laws being broke even more than now. Microsoft can't get away with owning the hardware and the software.
I'd pay more if I could get my first name as a UserID, but that was taken a long time ago. How about auctioning off unused accounts with cool names? Or renting the unused accounts that have cool names. You wouldn't be taking anything from the free readers if you were renting mike@slashdot.org or ben@slashdot.org to other users.
You don't have to like it. It's just an idea.
I'd pay 5 bucks to ban an IP address. That's right! Put a few Troll comments from a few troll bastards on a page and I get to select one and click 'Ban XXX_sporks IP address' button. I'd start by banning those bastards with the WWWWWWWWWW stretching across the screen.
Overall, Slashdot is still a good quality website. The number of insightful comments and intelligent posters hasn't gone down, it's gone up. Unfortunately, the amount of noise and trolls has also gone up.
I wish people would quit free-loading off of opensource software and start coding.
We need every piece of code that we can get. Big projects such as Mozilla have recently announced that they are going to freeze many of the features until after Mozilla 1.0 is out. This is probably due to all the free-loaders not writing and contributing new features to the project.
...but I digress. Anyways, the Slashdot servers have been having uptimes of ~24 hours and I have been able to actively post ~60% percent of the time without formkey errors and static pages. This means that that other 60% should be taken up with new Slashcode features to enhance user experience and put the servers through more work. Remember, a wasted clock cycle can NEVER be regained.
So Start coding and do America a favor.
I believe that technology should supplement a strong education, rather that be the basis of it. Give the laptops to the teachers; they can take them home and plan the next days lesson rather then passing out laptops in class and telling the students to quietly browse the internet while Mrs. Smith cuts her fingernails.
They don't even teach multiplacation tables to childeren any more. Okemos, MI is an example of a school district that left multiplication tables out of their students' educations. They stated that it was due to the fact that students have easy access to calculators and computers and don't need to remember these things. I say that the Okemos school district was using technology as a crutch to remove a rigorous and somewhat challenging (for the teacher) thing from the curriculum. Young students need to sit down and learn that some things you have to memorize or work for and their are not always easy shortcuts.
</end rant>
Perhaps this was a better rant for my 'angry old man' alter ego.
By the way, what's up with your horrible sentence structure? 'Looks like a new record.' -- No subject
The first sentence refers to the linked page as plural (because the site root is in parens). Please doublecheck your grammar next time and keep Slashdot a quality news site.
Finally, on a grammatical note, please refrain from refering to Gnome as 'they'. Gnome is a desktop environment and should clearly be referred to in a singular sense.
On my personal preference, use the word very rather than really. If you do, then you'll sound twice as intelligent as you currently do.
I'm just trying to improve the quality of Slashdot with this post, so please don't mod me into oblivion.
This doesn't mention the service drives and powerlines that they build in order to maintain these towers.
I prefer no towers. If somebody needs to use their phone badly enough, they will get a Satellite phone.
As long as the
GPL = Viral
so shall
Microsoft = ( Microshaft | Micro$oft | Corporate-greedy-bastards )
Especially in Maine, one of the last states 'wilderness' states and here we are going to decentralize everything and put wireless network towers up in the mountains.
It's not as refreshing when you hike to the top of a remote mountain and find a cel tower at the top. At least you can take the service drive back to the bottom, but it takes away something from the serenity. Maybe it's the phone call from your girlfriend wondering why you aren't spending the afternoon with her. You wouldn't have recieved it if the tower wasn't there.
Of course, most people would be against this, but Nike could find a way to label those people as communistic or something.
screwing things up?
I'm not trying to say that you have a bad idea. I am genuinely interested in doing what you said, but I want to make sure that I can print a copy of the slides in case I can't use the computer during the presentation.
I stand corrected.
Most researchers don't use LaTeX for presentations. I would venture to guess that most Physics and Math professors don't even use LaTeX for presentations. I've seen some LaTeX presentations and I've even made one. It is my opinion that WYSIWYG is much more important for creating slides than it is for creating a document.
</joke, not flamebait>
Althoug h I agree about the occasional use of images/graphics/tables/charts, I think that markers and transparencies take longer to make presentations with.
I can sit down and fire out a PowerPoint presentation in about 20 minutes. After that, I only need to make content related revisions until I give the presentation. Writing transparencies by hand would take much longer.
Wow! That is particularly innovative of Mircrosoft to innovate Java's security model like that. After innovative years of claiming that Java's model was too complicated for innovative programmers, Microsoft has finally innovated upon their word and embraced the model. Now that's what I call real innovation!! Thank you Justics Department!
Actually, the spreadsheet program *is* the killer ap that put the desktop computer into the corporation to begin with. Powerpoint is nice and is a value-added component of any computer office suite, but I believe that the spreadsheet application is a *necessary* component, thus Excel is the killer ap of the MS Office suite.
...and students, engineers, IT management, teachers, , researchers, training staff, etc.
Just because you haven't seen people use PowerPoint doesn't mean that it doesn't get used. I can't help that your job/experiences don't include presenting/being presented information to/from others.
Good presentation software is invaluable to business and education. Just because some people waste hours with screen swipes, cheesy clip-art, and other useless crap doesn't mean that it's not useful. Once I have my content finalized, I can whip up a decent looking presentation in PowerPoint in about 1/2 hour... faster than I could ever do it by hand.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think it has something to do with the Simpsons. Ever since the Simpsons first aired, these whitey and cracker jokes have been popping up.
Remember, if you *really* liked the movie or if you just thought it was okay, the MPAA still made $7 dollars off of you. They may as well market it to every possible segment.
Now that's one telltale heart!!
In addition to keeping the shower curtain where it belongs, this also forces me to take quick showers, because of CO2 poisoning if I'm in there for more than 7 minutes.
I've thus, killed 2 birds with one stone (or roll of duct tape). Extra benefits are mastery of the 6 1/2 minute shower and being able to shave afterwards while still dizzy.
....dogh!!
Anyways, this Warez history is on the Ig Nobel website too. Let's see if this makes it through the lameness filter. It's pretty funny.