I learned on regular typewriters in middle school in the late 80's. Worked fine for me. Of course he's got to buy ink and paper. If he could find them, he could probably get used typewriters free. Brother still makes electric typewriters, but that doesn't really solve the problem.
So you get software no one likes in hardware no one would pay for. That sounds like a recipe for success.
The hardware isn't THAT bad. It's just not particularly great. People would probably pay for the hardware if it had a more reasonable price point.. I'm thinking around $300. You can't fix windows RT without replacing it, though.
I'm not sure how MS expects to compete here. Every competitor in this field charges $0 for the OS. MS is selling ONLY an OS. I guess they expect hardware manufacturers to eat the cost? It would be a little intriguing if RT and Windows 8 were binary level compatible, but they're not - they just look similar.
If you RTFA, you'll see that GeekNet have sold on Slashdot, SourceForge and Freecode, while retaining ownership of ThinkGeek:
Ken Langone, Chairman of Geeknet, added, "We are very pleased to find a new home for our media business, providing a platform for the sites and our media teams to thrive. With this transaction completed, we will now focus our full attention on growing ThinkGeek."
Right, which is why he's concerned for the future of SourceForge.
Wait: an article about some guys who reverse engineered a (very common) broadcom wireless chipset to add monitor mode to a linux kernel driver(complete with source and instructions on how to brick your own phone) is 'spam'?
What is slashdot for, if not trolling and arguing about linux drivers?
Since RAM prices dropped to about 20 bucks for 4GB sticks of ddr2 a few years ago. Actually, 8gb was pretty standard with anything but a budget pc for years before that happened.
Your whole post left my mouth agape. The standpoint that you are coming from, all programming can be simplified into dragging and dropping visual widgets and throwing in a bit of high-level platform code to tie it all together. If that is your view of what programming is, no wonder you think it isn't special. You aren't always programming on Windows. You don't always have desktop-sized amounts of memory. Sometimes YOU need to write one of those libraries that are NOT "already coded".
And no, an astronaut doesn't just "drive the shuttle"
You have to keep in mind, the post seems to have come from a designer. It just sounds like a lot of sour grapes to me.
So basically, what you're saying is that a monetary system used almost exclusively for illegal transactions was designed to keep criminals from being caught, and the existing users would not like it if it was possible to catch the criminals. Interesting.
Win 7 removed those 2 problems and suddenly everything is wonderful.
Your assertion implies that if I were to run Vista today with well-supported drivers and UAC disabled then it would suck no more than Windows 7. Sorry, but that isn't true by a long shot. Have you touched Vista in the last two or three years? I assure you, it still sucks--decidedly more than Windows 7.
It worked fine for me, I ran it from release day until the day 7 came out. Other than driver support (which wasn't a problem for me, I guess I was the only guy in the world with vista supported hardware), everything people bitched about was merely a matter of configuring the options the way you'd like them. UAC is a prime example of this. Another problem people had was running it on a pc with extremely low memory (less than 8GB). It sucks if you have inappropriate hardware to run it on I'm sure. Just as a Tesla roadster is awesome on the streets it was designed for but probably isn't great for off roading, vista was good on a reasonable system and sucked on underpowered systems.
I liked Vista, I like 7. I've tried Windows 8, and I have to say so far I do not like it at all. However, the terrible UI isn't want is really going to keep me off; it's the "report to Microsoft everything you install and run" that is going to keep me away.
For me, the year of linux on desktops is now. With Steam coming to Linux, along with Crossover and pure Linux-ported games, the inevitable has happened. I'm glad Visual Studio also runs perfectly on Wine (I'm also making sure to have a party with my friends on Visual Studio 2012 Virtual Launch Party, where thousands of geeks around the globe connect together to party the release of latest Visual Studio).
Everything I need works in Linux.
Steam coming to Linux is a start. It would take a lot more than the handful of valve games getting ported to seriously interest me, though. In my opinion it will be viable when you can reasonably assume any random game that is released will have a Linux version available. As far as I'm concerned a wine based solution is really no solution at all; unless it's like the last app you need and everything else is already native. I'm all for Linux on the desktop, but I think it's still got a long way to go.
Android phones can be had for 69 bucks with no contract and $40/month unlimited service at metropcs. These things will have to be REAL damn cheap to beat that.
Unless you mean to suggest that the entire financial meltdown was due to a security breach caused by poor security practices, I fail to see the relevance of your comment.
Which would be an interesting theory, incidentally.
I meant to say the financial meltdown was because of poor business practices (in part, at least). I see no reason why they would have poor practices in one area of their business and not others.
There was recent poll (on CNN I believe), that claimed people in general were satisfied with the TSA (note that some of them dont fly at all, and have never experienced the TSA, but decided to vote)
I also heard that people lobbying against gun rights in America don't own any guns themselves...
They're stupid enough to execute code formed from non-executable input.
* FIX OVER
Yes, let's go ahead and presume that the institutions that figuratively and in some cases literally built the first world nations we sit on our asses in have no idea how to sandbox and bound check a code read from a scanner in order to stop an "infection" from taking over... Why, there is no way every single bank, even the podunk credit unions that dot the land near and far, can figure out how to run a completely public banking portal without getting completely pwned on their first day and having their vaults emptied. Wait, no, I have that backwards. Good security IS possible, it's just hard for most slashpundits to imagine since it is completely beyond them.
Recent history suggest financial institutions do not have a good deal of competence. Maybe they once did, but not in recent years.
FB doesn't have the glaringly obvious problems[...]
Terrible privacy track record?
Besides, it's not only about problems. Does FB do anything exceptionally well? I see an evolution from ICQ, MSN, Skype, Second Life, Facebook, so I expect something else will pop up in the next 2-3 years that will absorb most of the attention of the consumers.
I don't think FB will be replaced by something that does the same thing like Google+ but it just might if FB continues to blatantly disregard users privacy rights.
I used both at the time. Back then, facebook had a clean and easy to use interface where myspace was a mess of a site to visit. Facebook has changed for the worse over the years, and now facebook is a mess and G+ has a nice clean interface. Unfortunately G+ doesn't have the people, which is why I haven't logged into my G+ account in months.
I think you're right about your prediction, though...
I don't know how long-term "founding" employees are treated (i.e. Zuckerberg), but my stock grants have always had a "fair market value" attached to stock grants, even pre-IPO stock. You'd have a hard time proving to the IRS that stock that was granted to you a day before a $40 IPO was worth $0. It's entirely possible that for some employees the tax liability on the stock is higher than the current market price.
I'm certainly no expert in the area, but wouldn't they only be liable for taxes based on profits made only when they sold the stock?
My employer gave us stock "options" a few years back, which meant that we could buy x number of shares at a preset price regardless of current market value. You could exercise the option and just take a payout on the difference (assuming the difference was positive) between the option price and current value. In my case I think I got about $1k for 400 shares. That was treated as investment income on my income taxes the next year.
Since this is slashdot and that means nobody reads the fucking articles, I'll answer it for you. They used a nylon based polymer. We use nylon polymers for clothing, wrapping meats, and sausage sheaths.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon Chinese manufactured nylon often contains DDM, which is dangerous if directly ingested. The articles don't detail the specific makeup of the polymers used, so even if they happened to not research this particular issue I'm sure as others have responded that the risk of starving to death would be deemed greater than the risk of the bird getting a tumor because of this.
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As he said, the answer is no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines
What about an old fashioned typewriter?
I learned on regular typewriters in middle school in the late 80's. Worked fine for me. Of course he's got to buy ink and paper. If he could find them, he could probably get used typewriters free. Brother still makes electric typewriters, but that doesn't really solve the problem.
So you get software no one likes in hardware no one would pay for. That sounds like a recipe for success.
The hardware isn't THAT bad. It's just not particularly great. People would probably pay for the hardware if it had a more reasonable price point.. I'm thinking around $300. You can't fix windows RT without replacing it, though.
I'm not sure how MS expects to compete here. Every competitor in this field charges $0 for the OS. MS is selling ONLY an OS. I guess they expect hardware manufacturers to eat the cost? It would be a little intriguing if RT and Windows 8 were binary level compatible, but they're not - they just look similar.
If you RTFA, you'll see that GeekNet have sold on Slashdot, SourceForge and Freecode, while retaining ownership of ThinkGeek:
Ken Langone, Chairman of Geeknet, added, "We are very pleased to find a new home for our media business, providing a platform for the sites and our media teams to thrive. With this transaction completed, we will now focus our full attention on growing ThinkGeek."
Right, which is why he's concerned for the future of SourceForge.
This article is plain spam.
Wait: an article about some guys who reverse engineered a (very common) broadcom wireless chipset to add monitor mode to a linux kernel driver(complete with source and instructions on how to brick your own phone) is 'spam'?
What is slashdot for, if not trolling and arguing about linux drivers?
I agree, this article = "News for Nerds."
^ddr3, not ddr2.
Since RAM prices dropped to about 20 bucks for 4GB sticks of ddr2 a few years ago. Actually, 8gb was pretty standard with anything but a budget pc for years before that happened.
Your whole post left my mouth agape. The standpoint that you are coming from, all programming can be simplified into dragging and dropping visual widgets and throwing in a bit of high-level platform code to tie it all together. If that is your view of what programming is, no wonder you think it isn't special. You aren't always programming on Windows. You don't always have desktop-sized amounts of memory. Sometimes YOU need to write one of those libraries that are NOT "already coded". And no, an astronaut doesn't just "drive the shuttle"
You have to keep in mind, the post seems to have come from a designer. It just sounds like a lot of sour grapes to me.
So basically, what you're saying is that a monetary system used almost exclusively for illegal transactions was designed to keep criminals from being caught, and the existing users would not like it if it was possible to catch the criminals. Interesting.
Win 7 removed those 2 problems and suddenly everything is wonderful.
Your assertion implies that if I were to run Vista today with well-supported drivers and UAC disabled then it would suck no more than Windows 7. Sorry, but that isn't true by a long shot. Have you touched Vista in the last two or three years? I assure you, it still sucks--decidedly more than Windows 7.
It worked fine for me, I ran it from release day until the day 7 came out. Other than driver support (which wasn't a problem for me, I guess I was the only guy in the world with vista supported hardware), everything people bitched about was merely a matter of configuring the options the way you'd like them. UAC is a prime example of this. Another problem people had was running it on a pc with extremely low memory (less than 8GB). It sucks if you have inappropriate hardware to run it on I'm sure. Just as a Tesla roadster is awesome on the streets it was designed for but probably isn't great for off roading, vista was good on a reasonable system and sucked on underpowered systems.
I liked Vista, I like 7. I've tried Windows 8, and I have to say so far I do not like it at all. However, the terrible UI isn't want is really going to keep me off; it's the "report to Microsoft everything you install and run" that is going to keep me away.
For me, the year of linux on desktops is now. With Steam coming to Linux, along with Crossover and pure Linux-ported games, the inevitable has happened. I'm glad Visual Studio also runs perfectly on Wine (I'm also making sure to have a party with my friends on Visual Studio 2012 Virtual Launch Party, where thousands of geeks around the globe connect together to party the release of latest Visual Studio). Everything I need works in Linux.
Steam coming to Linux is a start. It would take a lot more than the handful of valve games getting ported to seriously interest me, though. In my opinion it will be viable when you can reasonably assume any random game that is released will have a Linux version available. As far as I'm concerned a wine based solution is really no solution at all; unless it's like the last app you need and everything else is already native. I'm all for Linux on the desktop, but I think it's still got a long way to go.
Depends on the nature of the "arrest"- without a Warrant, they're not operating within their authority. Seriously.
If you live within 100 miles of a U.S. Border, no warrant is needed. That's 66% of all Americans. http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty/are-you-living-constitution-free-zone
Family of 5, adds up to $200/month on my calculator - for a service that doesn't work when we travel on weekends? No thanks.
Some carriers could probably market the lack of coverage as a benefit ;) "No service in Hawaii!"
Android phones can be had for 69 bucks with no contract and $40/month unlimited service at metropcs. These things will have to be REAL damn cheap to beat that.
Business of buying and selling of IPv4-addresses, you mean ?:
http://addrex.net/ http://tradeipv4.com/ http://www.ipaddressbroker.net/
But all it will do is slow down adoption:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/07/18/1852243/sale-of-ipv4-addresses-hindering-ipv6-adoption
https://ripe64.ripe.net/archives/video/28/ https://ripe64.ripe.net/presentations/24-2012-04-16-internet-futures-a.pdf
I was merely joshing. I agree with you, extending availability of ipv4 in any way will slow down ipv6 and is (in my opinion) therefore bad.
Don't we already have enough people on the internet? Why do we keep encouraging more? :-)
Note: to all you humor-impaired people, the smiley face indicates this is a JOKE.
But the internet is serious business!
Unless you mean to suggest that the entire financial meltdown was due to a security breach caused by poor security practices, I fail to see the relevance of your comment.
Which would be an interesting theory, incidentally.
I meant to say the financial meltdown was because of poor business practices (in part, at least). I see no reason why they would have poor practices in one area of their business and not others.
How are you supposed to build a posting history if you can't post without a posting history though?
Do you really think this is the first time this person has posted here?
New account has only posted to this story.
Posted the very second one was able to post even though this account is not a subscriber.
Has a very linux sounding username, but is very obviously shilling for microsoft.
I don't accuse every fanbois of being a shill, just those who follow that M.O.
I was kind of thinking Apple, since he bashed both MS and Google.
There was recent poll (on CNN I believe), that claimed people in general were satisfied with the TSA (note that some of them dont fly at all, and have never experienced the TSA, but decided to vote)
I also heard that people lobbying against gun rights in America don't own any guns themselves...
* FIX
They're stupid enough to execute code formed from non-executable input.
* FIX OVER
Yes, let's go ahead and presume that the institutions that figuratively and in some cases literally built the first world nations we sit on our asses in have no idea how to sandbox and bound check a code read from a scanner in order to stop an "infection" from taking over... Why, there is no way every single bank, even the podunk credit unions that dot the land near and far, can figure out how to run a completely public banking portal without getting completely pwned on their first day and having their vaults emptied. Wait, no, I have that backwards. Good security IS possible, it's just hard for most slashpundits to imagine since it is completely beyond them.
Recent history suggest financial institutions do not have a good deal of competence. Maybe they once did, but not in recent years.
If Jobs did the presentation it would be amazing.
I'd definitely be amazed if I saw a dead guy give a presentation.
"It compiles. Ship it!"
No, the summary clearly indicates that this code was written by amateurs rather than professionals.
FB doesn't have the glaringly obvious problems[...]
Terrible privacy track record?
Besides, it's not only about problems. Does FB do anything exceptionally well? I see an evolution from ICQ, MSN, Skype, Second Life, Facebook, so I expect something else will pop up in the next 2-3 years that will absorb most of the attention of the consumers.
I don't think FB will be replaced by something that does the same thing like Google+ but it just might if FB continues to blatantly disregard users privacy rights.
I used both at the time. Back then, facebook had a clean and easy to use interface where myspace was a mess of a site to visit. Facebook has changed for the worse over the years, and now facebook is a mess and G+ has a nice clean interface. Unfortunately G+ doesn't have the people, which is why I haven't logged into my G+ account in months.
I think you're right about your prediction, though...
I don't know how long-term "founding" employees are treated (i.e. Zuckerberg), but my stock grants have always had a "fair market value" attached to stock grants, even pre-IPO stock. You'd have a hard time proving to the IRS that stock that was granted to you a day before a $40 IPO was worth $0. It's entirely possible that for some employees the tax liability on the stock is higher than the current market price.
I'm certainly no expert in the area, but wouldn't they only be liable for taxes based on profits made only when they sold the stock?
My employer gave us stock "options" a few years back, which meant that we could buy x number of shares at a preset price regardless of current market value. You could exercise the option and just take a payout on the difference (assuming the difference was positive) between the option price and current value. In my case I think I got about $1k for 400 shares. That was treated as investment income on my income taxes the next year.
Since this is slashdot and that means nobody reads the fucking articles, I'll answer it for you. They used a nylon based polymer. We use nylon polymers for clothing, wrapping meats, and sausage sheaths.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon
Chinese manufactured nylon often contains DDM, which is dangerous if directly ingested. The articles don't detail the specific makeup of the polymers used, so even if they happened to not research this particular issue I'm sure as others have responded that the risk of starving to death would be deemed greater than the risk of the bird getting a tumor because of this.