The article misses the point. The point is not functionality. The point is
FREEDOM.
Freedom is the reason you should check out OpenOffice
I can see it now... Sun makes an advertisement to be shown at halftime of the Super Bowl.
Geeky Microsoft employees are crowded around an ornate desk as they scream for blood. Bill Gates stands over Scott McNealy, whose face is bright with blue war paint, strapped to a computer chair. He sits in front of a PC running Office XP.
As the fervor builds, Gates raises his hands to silence the crowd.
"The prisoner... wishes... to say... a word..."
The music crescendos, and McNealy bellows...
FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!
Everyone is shocked into silence.
And then someone lets a giggle slip loose, Gates beheads McNealy, and the crowd tears him to shreds.
Freedom's nice, but at the end of the day you need to be able to get shit done.
Well, I for one will not worry. I make my own choices. I take calculated risks. I am aware that it all ends in tears anyway: no-one lives over 110 years...
And a century ago, what was the average life span? 35? 40? Now it's what, 70? 80? One reason we're living longer now is because the general public has been made aware of what is "bad" for your body.
Granted, the media is overly negative, but that's what sells papers.
3G means more control of wireless by the telecom Oligopolies. Not a good thing.
Not a good thing, unless you're interested in being able to work from anywhere in the world with a laptop and a highspeed, wireless connection to the internet.
Re:So, McKinley isn't a properly designed system?
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You do realize McKinley is a PROCESSOR, not a SYSTEM, right?
Now, i can see switching to USB to improve compatibility, but to improve speed?! How fast can you really blast IR anyway? Is this mis-informed journalism, or bad marketing, or did i miss the memo about 12Mb IR tranceivers?
Well I'm not familiar with the Lego Minstorm kits, but if they were using 1.1 IrDA, they could have gotten 4000Mb/s, so in that case they were being slowed down by the serial connection of 115Kb/s. So USB would help in that case.
I don't mind registering, but the stupidity of constantly posting "registration required blah blah blah" with every single article, and then the people posting the link to archive.nytimes.com... it's just annoying.
The fact that Slashdot posts links to www.nytimes.com instead of archive.nytimes.com?
Or the fact that they always repeat the completely redundant "registration is required blah blah blah." Guess what? We know this already. And if you don't know it, you'll find out as soon as you click on the fucking link!
And what exactly is the point of not using the archive.nytimes.com link? It's not like you're doing NYTimes a favor, since one of the firsts +5 posts is ALWAYS someone giving the direct link to archive.nytimes.com!
You know with all the privacy advocates around here you would think someone would think this is an invation. I mean how long you are using the can for is a rather private thing. OK yes your dorm mates may know from time to time as they wait for you. But does the entire world need to know when and for how long you are using the bathroom.
And how exactly would the people looking at a webpage know it's YOU? All they know is SOMEONE is in the bathroom stall #1.
By the way, if you want privacy, don't use a PUBLIC FUCKING BATHROOM!
btw, the plural of viruses is... well, I just wrote it. Look at the latin root of "virus" and you'll understand. Or just google for "virii" (34k hits) vs "viruses" (1.4m hits). Nuff said.
I'm not going to argue whether or not you're correct, but the way in which you've proven your correctness is pretty lame. All you've shown is which form is more popular, not more correct.
There's this saying you might have heard, "The masses are asses."
What I would like to see is something that is wall mounted ala flat panel that I can talk and touch.
Hmmm. Why mount it to anything? I'd much rather have a webpad (touchscreen LCD, 802.11b), and 3 years down the road a newer one with voice recognition. And then 3 years further on, an IA with no LCD, but an option to beam the image into my retina so that it appears the screen floats in front of my face, and it only comes up when I tell it.
Most of this tech is here, but is rough and cost prohibitive.
But it is definitely NOT too early for a killer IA -- the webpad. CmdrTaco thinks laptops with wireless ethernet are cool. Well rip the keyboard off, add a touchscreen LCD, and a couple of USB ports for add-ons, and you've got a killer net appliance.
...we don't get to choose what company makes our cubicle. Therefore, 90% of the ideas that make his cubicle so "cool" are actually useless.
Imagine if EVERYONE in your office had that nifty fold-out chair that rings your phone. Gee, I wonder if your co-workers and boss would catch on to that trick?
I can see it now. Co-worker sits down in fold-out chair. It's set to ring your phone in 5 minutes. At 4:59 on the clock, your wife calls. "Honey, would you like to go out to dinner tonight? I can hire a sitter."
Your co-worker laughs at this lame attempt to kick him out of the cube, grabs the phone out of your hand, and yells "Fuck you, I ain't going nowhere!" into the phone, and hangs it up for you.
Hey, that would make a great Dilbert cartoon. Almost.
No, it shouldn't read that way because there are no journalists working on Slashdot.
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What will be next? Will I be arrested because I point out a security hole in Microsoft's hotmail site? No, but if I start selling a product that will allow it's user's to read other's email, I can and I should be arrested.
Why should you be arrested even then? It's good that you can see how wrong it is for Skylarov to be indicted for a speech, but you've still let the government brainwash you a bit.
You should be arrested if you break in to a computer with malice of forethought and read other people's email. You should not be arrested if you: talk about how to break in, create a tool to break in, distribute a tool capable of breaking in. All of those things are protected by free speech, whether the government currently realizes it or not.
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Franklin, that is.
They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
No, you're way wrong
I am? Try wearing a shirt with a swastika in Germany, or otherwise try to promote Nazism. Germany does not have guaranteed freedom of speech.
There is a saying that fits the U.S. quite well. "I do not agree with what you are saying, but I will fight for your right to say it."
No matter how distasteful it is, you are free to say it, as long as it does not infringe on others rights to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
Will the makers of Outlook go to court for actively helping the spread of the worm by deliberately insecure handling of attachments?
Yes, but only if we also take God to court, for making people so stupid.
Here in Germany (I'm a Canadian by the way) privacy is a constitutionally guaranteed right. Too bad it isn't in the U.S.
And too bad freedom of speech isn't protected in Germany. I'll take our problems over there's any day of the week.
I personally won't be targetting Middle Easterns in my mind, but rather, whichever religion is at the base of these attacks.
If your God says it's OK to kill people, your God is fucked up.
The article misses the point. The point is not functionality. The point is
FREEDOM.
Freedom is the reason you should check out OpenOffice
I can see it now... Sun makes an advertisement to be shown at halftime of the Super Bowl.
Geeky Microsoft employees are crowded around an ornate desk as they scream for blood. Bill Gates stands over Scott McNealy, whose face is bright with blue war paint, strapped to a computer chair. He sits in front of a PC running Office XP.
As the fervor builds, Gates raises his hands to silence the crowd.
"The prisoner... wishes... to say... a word..."
The music crescendos, and McNealy bellows...
FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!
Everyone is shocked into silence.
And then someone lets a giggle slip loose, Gates beheads McNealy, and the crowd tears him to shreds.
Freedom's nice, but at the end of the day you need to be able to get shit done.
Just ask William Wallace.
Well, I for one will not worry. I make my own choices. I take calculated risks. I am aware that it all ends in tears anyway: no-one lives over 110 years...
And a century ago, what was the average life span? 35? 40? Now it's what, 70? 80? One reason we're living longer now is because the general public has been made aware of what is "bad" for your body.
Granted, the media is overly negative, but that's what sells papers.
3G means more control of wireless by the telecom Oligopolies. Not a good thing.
Not a good thing, unless you're interested in being able to work from anywhere in the world with a laptop and a highspeed, wireless connection to the internet.
You do realize McKinley is a PROCESSOR, not a SYSTEM, right?
4000Mb/s
Errr I meant 4000Kb/s (aka 4Mb/s)... doh... but the point still remains.
Now, i can see switching to USB to improve compatibility, but to improve speed?! How fast can you really blast IR anyway? Is this mis-informed journalism, or bad marketing, or did i miss the memo about 12Mb IR tranceivers?
Well I'm not familiar with the Lego Minstorm kits, but if they were using 1.1 IrDA, they could have gotten 4000Mb/s, so in that case they were being slowed down by the serial connection of 115Kb/s. So USB would help in that case.
I don't mind registering, but the stupidity of constantly posting "registration required blah blah blah" with every single article, and then the people posting the link to archive.nytimes.com... it's just annoying.
The fact that Slashdot posts links to www.nytimes.com instead of archive.nytimes.com?
Or the fact that they always repeat the completely redundant "registration is required blah blah blah." Guess what? We know this already. And if you don't know it, you'll find out as soon as you click on the fucking link!
And what exactly is the point of not using the archive.nytimes.com link? It's not like you're doing NYTimes a favor, since one of the firsts +5 posts is ALWAYS someone giving the direct link to archive.nytimes.com!
Give us a frigging break!
HERE WE GO AGAIN!
You know with all the privacy advocates around here you would think someone would think this is an invation. I mean how long you are using the can for is a rather private thing. OK yes your dorm mates may know from time to time as they wait for you. But does the entire world need to know when and for how long you are using the bathroom.
And how exactly would the people looking at a webpage know it's YOU? All they know is SOMEONE is in the bathroom stall #1.
By the way, if you want privacy, don't use a PUBLIC FUCKING BATHROOM!
iPaq just got new gracious looks. QNX microkernel and the gracious Photon micro GUI did wonders to iPaq.
Hmmmm all this graciousness from an anonymous coward. Any chance they work for QNX?
btw, the plural of viruses is... well, I just wrote it. Look at the latin root of "virus" and you'll understand. Or just google for "virii" (34k hits) vs "viruses" (1.4m hits). Nuff said.
I'm not going to argue whether or not you're correct, but the way in which you've proven your correctness is pretty lame. All you've shown is which form is more popular, not more correct.
There's this saying you might have heard, "The masses are asses."
They are not FILTERING anything. They are just not offering some high-resource-using binary newsgroups any more.
If they were really filtering alt.binaries.* newsgroups, you would not be able to access them from other 3rd party usenet providers.
What I would like to see is something that is wall mounted ala flat panel that I can talk and touch.
Hmmm. Why mount it to anything? I'd much rather have a webpad (touchscreen LCD, 802.11b), and 3 years down the road a newer one with voice recognition. And then 3 years further on, an IA with no LCD, but an option to beam the image into my retina so that it appears the screen floats in front of my face, and it only comes up when I tell it.
Most of this tech is here, but is rough and cost prohibitive.
But it is definitely NOT too early for a killer IA -- the webpad. CmdrTaco thinks laptops with wireless ethernet are cool. Well rip the keyboard off, add a touchscreen LCD, and a couple of USB ports for add-ons, and you've got a killer net appliance.
You left out an important factor -- what resolution was your "scientific image data"? These people are claiming full screen video!
...we don't get to choose what company makes our cubicle. Therefore, 90% of the ideas that make his cubicle so "cool" are actually useless.
Imagine if EVERYONE in your office had that nifty fold-out chair that rings your phone. Gee, I wonder if your co-workers and boss would catch on to that trick?
I can see it now. Co-worker sits down in fold-out chair. It's set to ring your phone in 5 minutes. At 4:59 on the clock, your wife calls. "Honey, would you like to go out to dinner tonight? I can hire a sitter."
Your co-worker laughs at this lame attempt to kick him out of the cube, grabs the phone out of your hand, and yells "Fuck you, I ain't going nowhere!" into the phone, and hangs it up for you.
Hey, that would make a great Dilbert cartoon. Almost.
Shouldn't it read ... "Slashdot journalists..."
No, it shouldn't read that way because there are no journalists working on Slashdot.
What will be next? Will I be arrested because I point out a security hole in Microsoft's hotmail site? No, but if I start selling a product that will allow it's user's to read other's email, I can and I should be arrested.
Why should you be arrested even then? It's good that you can see how wrong it is for Skylarov to be indicted for a speech, but you've still let the government brainwash you a bit.
You should be arrested if you break in to a computer with malice of forethought and read other people's email. You should not be arrested if you: talk about how to break in, create a tool to break in, distribute a tool capable of breaking in. All of those things are protected by free speech, whether the government currently realizes it or not.
640 kB should be enough for everybody
Bill Gates never said this. Its an urban legend.
Timothy, you pushover!
sometimes i would like to have a sec more to press the delete button to get into the bios and change a few settings.
This is going to blow your mind, but you don't actually have to wait until you see the text to press DEL!
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