There's nothing wrong with an OS/application that only geeks can use. Just don't try to market it to non-geeks, and there's no problem whatsoever.
I personally don't want my OS and applications dumbed down to the level of other OSs. The lack of control and options in metacity, for example, is shocking. It's almost getting to the point where you have to swallow default configs if you want the "user-friendly" distros to even work right at all.. For example, I can't turn off Nautilus unless I don't care that my background doesn't get properly set to my root window, something that should not depend on nautilus at all. (and doesn't, I can go manually reset each time I restart X, without starting nautilus).
I won't even get into the hassles if, god forbid, you want to run a second X session on:2.
If anything, the lame attempts of programmers to second guess what the end-users want, locking them into defaults, and not testing non-default configs, is a horrible trend in general.
Good Lord - I've heard about this - cat juggling! Stop! Stop! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Good. Father, could there be a god that would let this happen?
For a business, a $600 license for Photoshop is practically a bargain.
Bullshit. It's a major issue here for us to buy one additional Mac, considering that the hardware costs about 50% more, and the software pretty much doubles the cost of the system.
A new G5 costs us about $4000 once all the software licenses are aquired.
A new Windows PC we could throw together in a day or two, for about $700 including Win2k OEM licensing, Office, etc.
A new Linux server we can put in for $400-500.
Software licensing is a major issue for businesses, it's a huge cost.
He'd like to believe that the pricing follows that nice bell curve, and that would be true if there weren't a monopoly skewing the graph to nearly a flat line. MS can charge whatever they want up to a point, their demand is inelastic due to their monopoly.
The supreme court has already ruled on the first sale doctine. This allows you for example, to go to russia, buy a bunch of russian CDs, bring them to the US, and sell them all you want, you own them.
The RIAA would like this not to be so, but they abide by the same supreme court rulings as anyone else.
Why would there need to be any open network ports?
AFAIK all these worms use listening ports to infect. A windows machine really should never have any listening ports, much less when it's in setup downloading patches.
As far as other times when a listening port might be allowable, maybe if you were hosting a LAN game or something, otherwise there's absolutely no reason for a Windows machine to ever have an open port.
Heh yeah, my wife is the head computer tech at a small computer shop. She told me a story where a man came in and kept insisting that he talk to a tech, I guess assuming she was a secretary or something.
Oh well... I mean shit happens, and there are a lot of dicks out there, but I really don't think it's anything we should concern ourselves with trying to force. Change will come, just as people are more used to seeing female doctors these days, they will eventually get used to seeing women in computers.
That wasn't his argument at all. Pay attention. He said that few japs would care about being called japs, any more than I would care about being called a wop. It's just not offensive.
Does anyone really do anything other than just blindly hit "yes" when presented with a new host identification string?
Even with strict checking on, most of us are used to blowing records out of known hosts files when they don't match, due to system upgrades causing the old records to be invalid all the time.
Burning stuff doesn't usually produce nasty stuff... as long as your burn it completely. Most of the problems result when you burn something and it doesn't burn well. Partial combustion is a big cause of a lot of emissions.
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Pantone to the rescue?
What a bold move, predicting the end of Moore's law.
Yawn.
Any good security policy
We are talking about Microsoft here, the company with a long proven lack of care about security in any regard.
That's not funny, it's correct.
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There's nothing wrong with an OS/application that only geeks can use. Just don't try to market it to non-geeks, and there's no problem whatsoever.
I personally don't want my OS and applications dumbed down to the level of other OSs. The lack of control and options in metacity, for example, is shocking. It's almost getting to the point where you have to swallow default configs if you want the "user-friendly" distros to even work right at all.. For example, I can't turn off Nautilus unless I don't care that my background doesn't get properly set to my root window, something that should not depend on nautilus at all. (and doesn't, I can go manually reset each time I restart X, without starting nautilus).
I won't even get into the hassles if, god forbid, you want to run a second X session on
If anything, the lame attempts of programmers to second guess what the end-users want, locking them into defaults, and not testing non-default configs, is a horrible trend in general.
Good Lord - I've heard about this - cat juggling! Stop! Stop! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Good. Father, could there be a god that would let this happen?
It is really hard to make a living when you give away everything you make.
Another shill exposed.
What about someone trained in martial arts? I bet someone well trained with their hands is 100 times worse than an arab with a boxcutter.
He posts on fucking MSDN, and he bashes open source. You honestly believe he isn't a Microsoft shill?
For a business, a $600 license for Photoshop is practically a bargain.
Bullshit. It's a major issue here for us to buy one additional Mac, considering that the hardware costs about 50% more, and the software pretty much doubles the cost of the system.
A new G5 costs us about $4000 once all the software licenses are aquired.
A new Windows PC we could throw together in a day or two, for about $700 including Win2k OEM licensing, Office, etc.
A new Linux server we can put in for $400-500.
Software licensing is a major issue for businesses, it's a huge cost.
If you reload, you can rate it again. ;)
He'd like to believe that the pricing follows that nice bell curve, and that would be true if there weren't a monopoly skewing the graph to nearly a flat line. MS can charge whatever they want up to a point, their demand is inelastic due to their monopoly.
The supreme court has already ruled on the first sale doctine. This allows you for example, to go to russia, buy a bunch of russian CDs, bring them to the US, and sell them all you want, you own them.
The RIAA would like this not to be so, but they abide by the same supreme court rulings as anyone else.
Why would there need to be any open network ports?
AFAIK all these worms use listening ports to infect. A windows machine really should never have any listening ports, much less when it's in setup downloading patches.
As far as other times when a listening port might be allowable, maybe if you were hosting a LAN game or something, otherwise there's absolutely no reason for a Windows machine to ever have an open port.
Bah, that's bunk, I can clearly see on my screen that everything outside the triangle is the same color!
CIE is foisting this myth of "bigger gamuts" upon the public so people will use their proprietary and patented L*a*b system!!!
Heh yeah, my wife is the head computer tech at a small computer shop. She told me a story where a man came in and kept insisting that he talk to a tech, I guess assuming she was a secretary or something.
Oh well... I mean shit happens, and there are a lot of dicks out there, but I really don't think it's anything we should concern ourselves with trying to force. Change will come, just as people are more used to seeing female doctors these days, they will eventually get used to seeing women in computers.
What is it with all the people advertising Go on Slashdot?
Do they pay you guys or something?
Maybe I should start a club of people that plugs Monopoly every time a board game or chess story comes up.
You sorta destroy your credibility to comment on such matters when you can't even differentiate between copyrights and trademarks.
BTW- Slashdot has reported on Jerry's crusade to trademark his name in the past. He even sent people overseas to lobby WIPO.
I'd say more Libertarians come from the right than the left.
That wasn't his argument at all. Pay attention. He said that few japs would care about being called japs, any more than I would care about being called a wop. It's just not offensive.
Does anyone really do anything other than just blindly hit "yes" when presented with a new host identification string?
Even with strict checking on, most of us are used to blowing records out of known hosts files when they don't match, due to system upgrades causing the old records to be invalid all the time.
Burning stuff doesn't usually produce nasty stuff... as long as your burn it completely. Most of the problems result when you burn something and it doesn't burn well. Partial combustion is a big cause of a lot of emissions.
There's prior art on that joke, it's come up in every patent story for the last 3 years on slashdot. It's really worn out.
If they don't want people using their image, they shouldn't put it on the web.
People who think like you have a complete lack of understanding of what hypertext is all about.
Virus hobbiest?
Is that like a cannibal dilettante?
Or maybe a murder enthusiast?
Because changing your global settings before visiting a site is obviously a rational thing to do, rather than running a secure browser to start with.