boycott: an agreement usually among a particular segment of the population to reduce or stop the use and purchase of certain products or activities. (from here)
Question 1: How can you reduce or stop something that's non-existent?
Question 2: Agreement? Among journalists? Yeah, right.
I wonder why the slashdot category for this story says "Programming". Are the "Henry my brother-in-law needs some page hits" category slots already full?
"I've been looking to replace the McAfee anti-virus on my parent's XP machine."
A "parent's XP machine" has taken the same spot these days that "friend's sexual problem" used to hone back in the days of print magazine Agony Aunt columns.
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"For a technical lead, just knowing that something is possible and seeing clear examples of how to do it, is a huge relief."
If you're leading a good programming team, you don't need a book to know if something is doable. If the team isn't good enough, then the book won't help.
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.... by joining OSDL, are they going to "commit" some of their resources for research/development *online* only? What difference does it then make if the company is in China, or any other country then? The article focussed much on growth of Linux in China, rather than 'Red Flag', OSDL, and whatever they are planning to do.
"The court disagreed, saying that IBM had done over $20K in work to undo his handiwork."
TFA says something different. "BM billed Aventis for its investigators' time at $50 an hour, for a total cost of $20,350." - which is not the same as 'undoing' whatever he did.
I would also like to see another person sharing the guilty in this case -- the security/system administrators responsible for ensuring that every employee who leaves has his account access (via SecurID, or any other method) removed. For employees who get fired, this should be done *before* they're informed about the decision. If they don't do their job properly, they're effectively handling out daggers to ex-employees to come and stab the company anytime.
As another/.er pointed out, good front-end tools are necessary to make this use of Linux desktops viable. Here almost everybody associates "Media Center" to a Windows machine.
"With text games, you can sit there at the prompt, go make a sandwich, then come back and play more."
Not true. If you were playing L.O.R.D., getting that sandwich could mean you got slaughtered, or missed that opportunity to get laid by a (female) character.
isn't a software to be used at such a sensitive level supposed to be reviewed N number of times before it is deployed? This glitch sounds like it'd have been an easy one to get caught if reviewed by enough eyeballs.
Isn't the whole point of letting people find and discover books is for them to be able to buy what they find useful? (book piracy crowd apart, most people still *buy* real books from publishing houses.)
Business-wise, this will help publishing houses ultimately. They are going to lose some hypothetical control over who gets to see their books' indexes, and who all get to know what is inside a book without flipping it over a book store. But then, how does that matter if books still sell, and probably sell more because of this?
I'm curious here: Wouldn't there would be many instances where two employees complete for similar-themed side-projects? Or may be one employee plagiarising someone else's brilliant idea and implement it first (it would be fruitful for the company in the end -- but probably not for the employee with the original idea)?
How do companies like Google deal with above scenarios?
While I appreciate the passion in these cases, a little word of advice for the (and would be) enthusiasts: be cautious about becoming an obsessive fixer on any of the wikis (be it Wikipedia, or any similar website.) The obsessive fixers are PITA, specifically, the ones who turn a blind eye towards opinion of others. Many flame wars have errupted on these websites, not all of them being constructive for the content.
Be there. Contribute. But learn to read what others have to say. Let wikis evolve the way they are supposed to be. It's a website.
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Did the star make the movie a hit, or did the movie make the star?
For 'prediction' to be valuable, it has to work with citations that were linked *before* the paper got the Nobel.
boycott: an agreement usually among a particular segment of the population to reduce or stop the use and purchase of certain products or activities. (from here)
Question 1: How can you reduce or stop something that's non-existent?
Question 2: Agreement? Among journalists? Yeah, right.
And yes, I Googled for that definition.
I wonder why the slashdot category for this story says "Programming". Are the "Henry my brother-in-law needs some page hits" category slots already full?
Front-pager? Ofcourse.
"I've been looking to replace the McAfee anti-virus on my parent's XP machine."
A "parent's XP machine" has taken the same spot these days that "friend's sexual problem" used to hone back in the days of print magazine Agony Aunt columns.
Slashdot doesn't make a good agony aunt, boy.
"Here. Our new smart phone. Whaddya mean "Food & Clothes"? We'll see if we can add that in the next version..."
that it were the OS companies that were moving to "web as a platform"...
So, One small fish reported about the other?
"For a technical lead, just knowing that something is possible and seeing clear examples of how to do it, is a huge relief."
If you're leading a good programming team, you don't need a book to know if something is doable.
If the team isn't good enough, then the book won't help.
Over 40 channels of non-stop information overload!
Streaming straight for your listening pleasure:
* Goooooogle: Listen to live search terms entered by millions of users around the world. [18 years and above]
* Geeeemail: Your own personalized channel. In lieu of viewing ad-free pages in your mail account, listen to advertisements targetted at you based upon your recently received mail. [May contain adult and disturbing content. Not advised listening in front of your family, and fiancee.]
* Boooooks: Call Google Radio and tell them which books you're interested in previewing. Selected excerpts will be read on this channel free of cost. [For legal reasons, this radio will be broadcasted from a station in far-away islands.]
* Orkuuuut: The Invite-only friends channel. You can get featured on this channel for free and get overwhelmed with 'radio scraps', but only via an invite from existing members. This channel is ad-free for now, until Google Radio comes up with a strategy to make money out of it.
.... by joining OSDL, are they going to "commit" some of their resources for research/development *online* only? What difference does it then make if the company is in China, or any other country then? The article focussed much on growth of Linux in China, rather than 'Red Flag', OSDL, and whatever they are planning to do.
They would have had reasons for putting ".nyud.net:8090/" in the URL. Not 'target'.
http://www.patternlanguage.com.nyud.net:8090/
... in the article (just posted) is incorrect.
The correct link is http://www.patternlanguage.com/
"The court disagreed, saying that IBM had done over $20K in work to undo his handiwork."
TFA says something different. "BM billed Aventis for its investigators' time at $50 an hour, for a total cost of $20,350." - which is not the same as 'undoing' whatever he did.
I would also like to see another person sharing the guilty in this case -- the security/system administrators responsible for ensuring that every employee who leaves has his account access (via SecurID, or any other method) removed. For employees who get fired, this should be done *before* they're informed about the decision.
If they don't do their job properly, they're effectively handling out daggers to ex-employees to come and stab the company anytime.
As another /.er pointed out, good front-end tools are necessary to make this use of Linux desktops viable.
Here almost everybody associates "Media Center" to a Windows machine.
From the page..
"If the virus can't be removed from the file, you won't be able to download it"
All that talk about false positive and important (project/contract saving) mails sounds so important suddenly...
"With text games, you can sit there at the prompt, go make a sandwich, then come back and play more."
Not true. If you were playing L.O.R.D., getting that sandwich could mean you got slaughtered, or missed that opportunity to get laid by a (female) character.
isn't a software to be used at such a sensitive level supposed to be reviewed N number of times before it is deployed? This glitch sounds like it'd have been an easy one to get caught if reviewed by enough eyeballs.
Oh... what's the mantra for opensource again?
Isn't the whole point of letting people find and discover books is for them to be able to buy what they find useful? (book piracy crowd apart, most people still *buy* real books from publishing houses.)
Business-wise, this will help publishing houses ultimately. They are going to lose some hypothetical control over who gets to see their books' indexes, and who all get to know what is inside a book without flipping it over a book store. But then, how does that matter if books still sell, and probably sell more because of this?
Alert: The fourth, fifth, and sixth dimensions were slashdotted today due to uncontrollable inflow of nerds, geeks, and other creatures.
To keep the traffic flow normal, mirrors have been provided on the seventh, eighth, and ninth dimensions for the earthlings...
this company to at least wait till the new software's name becomes popular among the common folk?
Here's the mirrordot link for the "picture" page in the story.
The actual page has started showing signs of fatigue due to slashdot effect, so use the above link.
I still say that using one's spouse's name as the password is best.
If you think it's a weak policy for your organization, then your employees aren't changing their spouses fast enough....
Start drilling from the other side NOW...
Would be fun to enjoy the world's largest magnetic seasaw.
I'm curious here: Wouldn't there would be many instances where two employees complete for similar-themed side-projects? Or may be one employee plagiarising someone else's brilliant idea and implement it first (it would be fruitful for the company in the end -- but probably not for the employee with the original idea)?
How do companies like Google deal with above scenarios?
While I appreciate the passion in these cases, a little word of advice for the (and would be) enthusiasts: be cautious about becoming an obsessive fixer on any of the wikis (be it Wikipedia, or any similar website.) The obsessive fixers are PITA, specifically, the ones who turn a blind eye towards opinion of others. Many flame wars have errupted on these websites, not all of them being constructive for the content.
Be there. Contribute. But learn to read what others have to say. Let wikis evolve the way they are supposed to be. It's a website.