Large university network, who knows if they're the ones that even set it up? There might be some records somewhere, but prob only the Univ and the people that set 'em up know who did it.
The assertion that "MS is faster at patching bugs than the OSS/FS community" is a true assertion?
Smells like either a troll or an accidental reversal. Probably provably false by at least a few studies out there too, but I've got a pizza in the oven and can't be fscked to look up stats/refs. Should be easy enough to google though.
If copying the music 10,000 times is theft on a massive scale, then why isn't taking the camera contrary to Ritz's wishes theft on a minor scale?
It's not theft doofus, it's copyright infringement. Big - BIG difference. One's criminal one's civil. Take a law class to learn why the differences are there, and why they severely make a difference, legally and (some would argue) ethically.
Anyway, if you BUY the camera (if that's what's done and there isn't a contract), then it's been upheld time and time again that you own it and you can do whatever the hell you want with it. Flush it down the toilet after running it through a blender if you want. Mod the hell out of it.
After all, I can make any whacked out business plan I want and then proceed on that basis. In my opinion, trying to hold pre-existing and once workable business plans to outdated / inferior technology is pretty much along the same lines...
That doesn't mean it's a smart thing to do though.
Yup. From what I've seen, almost everywhere does. I have found one type of person that generally doesn't have such a piss poor attitude though... at least among everyone I know in the US and abroad.
Pretty much anyone that travels outside their country, and likes it seems to have a lot more tolerance and seem to get along better. If you pay attention it's almost amazing at how travelling will change your perspective on quite a wide variety of things. Granted, some people just never change and will always be arrogant homeland-centric pricks, but from what I've seen it usually helps to remove some of the blinders that you never know you've developed living in the US.
Why not Target or Wal-Mart? They're both US companies, started in rural areas of the country.
Who's to say bigger chain stores are less efficient than the 10 smaller stores that would be needed to carry what they do? I've never really seen anything that leans either direction on this...
But I suppose if you just don't like "blights"... *shrugs* Logic can't win against an emotional appeal...
Not to be rude, but what's the big deal? I mean, if some high school kid near me came up with and implemented this with a cuecat or similiar, I'd be a little impressed, despite the system's obvious drawbacks/flaws.
Someone from MIT though? Jeez, c'mon...
Hope he just whipped something together one bored afternoon, although if I were going to MIT, I'd wonder how one could get bored there...
rofl, anyone can just go out and pick up a 21' color TV after a day or two of work? That's news to me, but then I've got other expenses too, commonly referred to as the "cost of living". Roof over head, food, and clothes.:P
Hell, I don't even own a TV (or have cable tv) in an effort to keep costs down.
Granted, I've given myself the "luxury" of a one bedroom apartment, mainly because I don't know anyone enough to room with 'em in my current situation.:P
Yeah, I'm living high on the hog...
Wish the days of getting paid *anything* to setup a datacenter/network/multi TB SAN were still possible in this area without a four year degree and like ten years of experience. Especially since %90 of the core technology you actually use wasn't even around ten years ago...
I hope people keep in mind that the key point here was his statement of "early Redhat employees". I'm guessing this means *really really* early, and not the option offering that RH did when they had all their IPO publicity.
I did a little snooping on what a friend of mine could've made as a contributor back when the whole redhat IPO initially caught press and RH announced that they were going to offer options to said contributors.
Optimax take was ~$150k US at maximum investment from the private contributor options that were offered.
Nothing to sneeze at, but not retirement by any means, at least if you live in the US...
Milage would really vary if the parent was talking about anything else though.;)
Not afraid... I've gotten burned too many times with different countries and eight digit numbers. I *do* prefer the latter, but only because it's more meaningful without a country refrerant.;)
So let's look at it this way... It doesn't matter to you that this performance gain comes into play only if a certain application is used? You think companies should be able to say, "okay, this runs at 90fps", when in fact it only runs at 90fps for *one* application? I know I'm waaaay stretching the technical difference here, but it still matters.
Yeesh, and you my friend are one of the reasons why companies put out substandard products and try to hide that fact.
They're going for the people that are willing to pay out the big bucks for these features on their graphics cards to get the latest and greatest when it possibly turns out that all those shiny high benchmarks they were looking for were artificially inflated...
Someone smell something that's reminiscent of a bait and switch? That's the only thing that comes to my mind. That's if all of this is actually true, I haven't independantly verified anything ofc...
Actually, it will just "magically infect you because you're running windows" in some circumstances.
The virus uses an iframe vuln that Outlook's "autopreview" feature is vulnerable to. You don't have to open the email, you just have to receive it and have autopreview on, which is how it's set by default ofc... No running or opening of the email is required. Sad huh?
I could've sworn that I'd captured some other virii have used this particular exploit in the past though... Oh well. *shrugs*
Are you kidding? ROFL... 1: Who do you sue? Well, if windows goes tits-up and you lose data... Nobody! Just try to sue MS for this, and see how far you get... By using the software, you jump through quite a few hoops that say that you agree to hold harmless MS for basically anything their software might do.
2: Reliability? Both platforms can be reliable, but once a MS platform has problems (which you can never predict will happen), depending on the problem, you cannot even begin to attempt to recover the problem. Bleh...
3: Standard? You'll have the same issue in both systems, assuming you've ever used either. When MS's update (and hence MS themselves) can't even tell how/to what level your system is patched, how are you supposed to be able to? Gee, you're right, you can't.
It's not about adding to your playlist, it's about managing your playlist in a more intelligent -instead of almost completely random *shuffle* type- way. Of course you could build every playlist by hand every time, or use quite a few playlists with diff types of music, but if you've got a library of any descent size, you know this just doesn't work well.
Next time, read the article or at least see what the program mentioned does, will you?
Wheee, break out the tin foil hats. Or just don't participate if you don't want a stand alone application doing data mining on your all important mp3 listening habits. Or just use some strong crypto.:)
*sigh* Heh, c'mon, please... Just responding to myself here to avoid pasting the same thing in 5 or 6 times.
Of course people forge headers. I'm talking about the ones that don't, which I thought I covered in my origional posting.
Most of the rest are hotmail or aol, with a few wierd ones thrown in from the "sophisticated" that are forged.
I thought more people would catch the sarcasm running downhill there.
Unless they assign a response number and bounce back an email response to every forged header out there...lemme see... *digs out host and whois* Gee, guess 10 of the spams I just spot checked again from Yahoo/Hotmail aren't forged headers unless the evil spammers have somehow tainted my ISP's DNS servers. Anything's possible, but I'm not ready to break out the tinfoil hats quite yet.
Wow, I'm impressed. I just did a count on my junkmail/spam list and fully 100+ of the past 150 unsolicited email messages have come from Yahoo accounts alone. Most of the rest are hotmail or aol, with a few wierd ones thrown in from the "sophisticated" that are forged. I've given up on re-spamming "abuse at yahoo.com" and similar with them all even...
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Large university network, who knows if they're the ones that even set it up? There might be some records somewhere, but prob only the Univ and the people that set 'em up know who did it.
*shrugs*
The assertion that "MS is faster at patching bugs than the OSS/FS community" is a true assertion?
Smells like either a troll or an accidental reversal. Probably provably false by at least a few studies out there too, but I've got a pizza in the oven and can't be fscked to look up stats/refs. Should be easy enough to google though.
If copying the music 10,000 times is theft on a massive scale, then why isn't taking the camera contrary to Ritz's wishes theft on a minor scale?
It's not theft doofus, it's copyright infringement. Big - BIG difference. One's criminal one's civil. Take a law class to learn why the differences are there, and why they severely make a difference, legally and (some would argue) ethically.
Anyway, if you BUY the camera (if that's what's done and there isn't a contract), then it's been upheld time and time again that you own it and you can do whatever the hell you want with it. Flush it down the toilet after running it through a blender if you want. Mod the hell out of it.
After all, I can make any whacked out business plan I want and then proceed on that basis.
In my opinion, trying to hold pre-existing and once workable business plans to outdated / inferior technology is pretty much along the same lines...
That doesn't mean it's a smart thing to do though.
Yup. From what I've seen, almost everywhere does. I have found one type of person that generally doesn't have such a piss poor attitude though... at least among everyone I know in the US and abroad.
Pretty much anyone that travels outside their country, and likes it seems to have a lot more tolerance and seem to get along better. If you pay attention it's almost amazing at how travelling will change your perspective on quite a wide variety of things. Granted, some people just never change and will always be arrogant homeland-centric pricks, but from what I've seen it usually helps to remove some of the blinders that you never know you've developed living in the US.
Just my 2 bits.
Why not Target or Wal-Mart? They're both US companies, started in rural areas of the country.
Who's to say bigger chain stores are less efficient than the 10 smaller stores that would be needed to carry what they do? I've never really seen anything that leans either direction on this...
But I suppose if you just don't like "blights"... *shrugs* Logic can't win against an emotional appeal...
Not to be rude, but what's the big deal? I mean, if some high school kid near me came up with and implemented this with a cuecat or similiar, I'd be a little impressed, despite the system's obvious drawbacks/flaws.
Someone from MIT though? Jeez, c'mon...
Hope he just whipped something together one bored afternoon, although if I were going to MIT, I'd wonder how one could get bored there...
Nice try tool. I can find "pirated" crap around the net with Google... They must be pirates too! Arrr...
:P
I'd say it was "vaguely remember(ed)".
rofl, anyone can just go out and pick up a 21' color TV after a day or two of work? That's news to me, but then I've got other expenses too, commonly referred to as the "cost of living". Roof over head, food, and clothes. :P
:P
Hell, I don't even own a TV (or have cable tv) in an effort to keep costs down.
Granted, I've given myself the "luxury" of a one bedroom apartment, mainly because I don't know anyone enough to room with 'em in my current situation.
Yeah, I'm living high on the hog...
Wish the days of getting paid *anything* to setup a datacenter/network/multi TB SAN were still possible in this area without a four year degree and like ten years of experience. Especially since %90 of the core technology you actually use wasn't even around ten years ago...
Yeah, somehow price always matters more than quality... Except by those who are usually considered "well off".
Gee, ever think they might have something there?
Generally, doesn't paying for descent quality equipment (software/hardware/not counting free solutions, ofc!) pay off in the long run?
You bet your ass!
I hope people keep in mind that the key point here was his statement of "early Redhat employees". I'm guessing this means *really really* early, and not the option offering that RH did when they had all their IPO publicity.
;)
I did a little snooping on what a friend of mine could've made as a contributor back when the whole redhat IPO initially caught press and RH announced that they were going to offer options to said contributors.
Optimax take was ~$150k US at maximum investment from the private contributor options that were offered.
Nothing to sneeze at, but not retirement by any means, at least if you live in the US...
Milage would really vary if the parent was talking about anything else though.
Gee, all I did was type "www.ibm.com", click on "services and support", then click on "operating systems", to get...
Product families
Linux
All IBM middleware runs on Linux. And Linux runs on all IBM eServer
Midrange Servers (iSeries)
OS/400 is at the core of the iSeries platform.
UNIX Servers (pSeries)
IBM innovations power a new breed of AIX servers
and etc...
Wow, it IS tough to find a major company that supports open source!
Not afraid... I've gotten burned too many times with different countries and eight digit numbers. I *do* prefer the latter, but only because it's more meaningful without a country refrerant. ;)
Oh I wish I had mod points to up you pal...
Rofl, I usually hate it when people quibble over spelling in forums and etc, but your "eke" comment actually made me laugh out loud. :)
Not a bad idea about the lawsuit either. If this type of thing gets to be pervasive (as it's seeming to) something has to break...
So let's look at it this way... It doesn't matter to you that this performance gain comes into play only if a certain application is used? You think companies should be able to say, "okay, this runs at 90fps", when in fact it only runs at 90fps for *one* application? I know I'm waaaay stretching the technical difference here, but it still matters.
Yeesh, and you my friend are one of the reasons why companies put out substandard products and try to hide that fact.
They're going for the people that are willing to pay out the big bucks for these features on their graphics cards to get the latest and greatest when it possibly turns out that all those shiny high benchmarks they were looking for were artificially inflated...
Someone smell something that's reminiscent of a bait and switch? That's the only thing that comes to my mind. That's if all of this is actually true, I haven't independantly verified anything ofc...
Erk, yeah. So much for posting that freaking tired... My bad.
Actually, it will just "magically infect you because you're running windows" in some circumstances.
The virus uses an iframe vuln that Outlook's "autopreview" feature is vulnerable to. You don't have to open the email, you just have to receive it and have autopreview on, which is how it's set by default ofc... No running or opening of the email is required. Sad huh?
I could've sworn that I'd captured some other virii have used this particular exploit in the past though... Oh well. *shrugs*
Are you kidding? ROFL...
1: Who do you sue? Well, if windows goes tits-up and you lose data... Nobody! Just try to sue MS for this, and see how far you get... By using the software, you jump through quite a few hoops that say that you agree to hold harmless MS for basically anything their software might do.
2: Reliability? Both platforms can be reliable, but once a MS platform has problems (which you can never predict will happen), depending on the problem, you cannot even begin to attempt to recover the problem. Bleh...
3: Standard? You'll have the same issue in both systems, assuming you've ever used either. When MS's update (and hence MS themselves) can't even tell how/to what level your system is patched, how are you supposed to be able to? Gee, you're right, you can't.
Go away troll...
Next time, read the article or at least see what the program mentioned does, will you?
Nothing, it's not that type of plugin, if you would have bothered to look at the website/article. :P
Wheee, break out the tin foil hats. Or just don't participate if you don't want a stand alone application doing data mining on your all important mp3 listening habits. Or just use some strong crypto. :)
Of course people forge headers. I'm talking about the ones that don't, which I thought I covered in my origional posting.
Most of the rest are hotmail or aol, with a few wierd ones thrown in from the "sophisticated" that are forged.
I thought more people would catch the sarcasm running downhill there.
Unless they assign a response number and bounce back an email response to every forged header out there...lemme see... *digs out host and whois* Gee, guess 10 of the spams I just spot checked again from Yahoo/Hotmail aren't forged headers unless the evil spammers have somehow tainted my ISP's DNS servers. Anything's possible, but I'm not ready to break out the tinfoil hats quite yet.
Wow, I'm impressed. I just did a count on my junkmail/spam list and fully 100+ of the past 150 unsolicited email messages have come from Yahoo accounts alone. Most of the rest are hotmail or aol, with a few wierd ones thrown in from the "sophisticated" that are forged. I've given up on re-spamming "abuse at yahoo.com" and similar with them all even...
Or you can just look it up and go, "Oh! Of course." Jeez.