Won't work now. SCO is being counter-sued by IBM, and is facing lawsuits from other parties as well. They're in this for good, with or without Darl. SCO is a corporation, and as such has no choices to make at this point; they must hold position and keep the shareholders' stocks as high as possible. Anything else will result in massive legal action against Darl'N'Friends by the shareholders themselves. He's really backed himself into a corner, and he must get out by trying to plow through IBM... or at least go down fighting. Otherwise he, personally, will be held responsible...
If it's like most of Dell's school stuff, doing just about anything to it BESIDES reimaging voids the warranty. And the school can't afford that. While it's certainly possible that the school IT people don't know their ass from an open port, it may be that their hands are tied by the school as far as what they can do to repair a machine.
Not to continue a flamewar, but if you think the world is a big pile of shit, perhaps you should stop reading Slashdot for a few hours. God-created or not (and personally, I find "not" a great deal more impressive), there's some good stuff out there. The trick is looking away from the monitor for a bit. Once you've gotten the hang of that, go watch some birds, or go camping, or something.
Actually, that doesn't sound too different from the movie plot. Agent Smith obviously hadn't been patched because Neo exploited him immediately upon gaining Administrator access. And we learned that the Matrix must be "reloaded" periodically to fix the humans that "leak" from the main program...
Actually, most people asked a tech to disable it for them the first time the computer went into the shop for anything. I can't tell you how many times I've turned that thing off for people... along with changing their homepage (my internet is provided by Yahoo!), removing some bookmarks (but I've never BEEN to hotteenlesbians.com!), and "installing Google.com" (I can't use Google, I told you my internet is from Yahoo!).
I guarantee you these people and others like them have racked up plenty of hits for MSN's advertisers because they don't even know they're "allowed" to use another search engine!
Sure there is. What we need is an "open source" map. Have anyone who wants upload their GPS "track" data to a central site. A little data massaging will be able to use the average of plots to determine major roads/highways, and a few volunteers could add names and addressing schemes. Maybe the individual users could even supply those if they wanted, with another averaging system to determine the correct name of the street based on percentages...
It could work. Would be a major, major project, though.
from the do-not-jump-to-the-island-of-conclusions dept.
Wow, and here I was starting to think I was the only person in the world who read "The Phantom Tollbooth".
Nothing new except overkill
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From the article:
One last thing: anything can be mapped to a drive, and drives don't just have to be letters. (Ok, I lied - that was 2) The example I was shown was that the registry was mapped to a drive, and you could navigate it like any other drive, with the results being returned from the commandlet as.NET objects!
The user has been able to map a filesystem to a folder rather than a drive letter since at least Windows 2000, and I think it was possible even under NT4. Nothing new there.
The registry (along with many other things) can be mapped as part of the filesystem fairly easily, as demonstrated by this 264kB DLL file.
And as for returning search results as.NET objects? This seems rather like using a baseball bat to swat a fly...
[i] The unfortunate side effect of legalizing drugs is that we will be in effect giving up on the communities -- and they do exist -- that have managed to resist the drug epidemic of the last several decades.[/i]
This a very ignorant, poorly-informed article. I find it especially surprising in a magazine like Forbes, which (although I'm not a regular reader) I thought had a reputation for honest writing/reporting.
The author obviously has no idea what the GPL involves, and demonizes an organization who's concern is to enforce a simple set of rules. Does he think Linksys would get such leniency from the BSA, Microsoft's hitmen?
Actually, DNA desperately wanted the movie to happen. For once, it was everyone around him dropping the ball, over and over again, that kept it from happening. Read "A Salmon of Doubt".
I suggest we amend the 1st amendment: Access to information shall not be abridged.
Too broad. That would imply that I could look over, say, your savings account info, and it would be unconstitutional for you or any other party to try to keep me out of it. Or your medical records, right before I decide whether or not to insure you.
Ever watched a mob? Or even a simple protest? Okay. Bunch of people, acting like fools, right?
Now go out and join a protest. Protest something, anything, and do it with a lot of people. You won't feel like a fool. You'll feel powerful, different, and you'll tend to do things you don't normally do. I guarantee it. Then come back and tell me that a collection of humans is the same as a bunch of individual thinkers. The whole is not the same as the sum of the parts.
Individuals are smart. Groups of people are stupid. Every fireman, cop, EMT and politician in the world knows this. Nature defies logic. Science is counter-intuitive. And sometimes the truth is stupid.
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Won't work now. SCO is being counter-sued by IBM, and is facing lawsuits from other parties as well. They're in this for good, with or without Darl. SCO is a corporation, and as such has no choices to make at this point; they must hold position and keep the shareholders' stocks as high as possible. Anything else will result in massive legal action against Darl'N'Friends by the shareholders themselves. He's really backed himself into a corner, and he must get out by trying to plow through IBM... or at least go down fighting. Otherwise he, personally, will be held responsible...
I want to know whether the people writing this schlock actually believe it, or if they're just getting paid by the word.
Frankly, I'm not sure which is worse.
If it's like most of Dell's school stuff, doing just about anything to it BESIDES reimaging voids the warranty. And the school can't afford that. While it's certainly possible that the school IT people don't know their ass from an open port, it may be that their hands are tied by the school as far as what they can do to repair a machine.
But $699 * the number of machines Google uses is.
I believe the number is somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000 machines, most of which are running Linux. You do the math.
Not to continue a flamewar, but if you think the world is a big pile of shit, perhaps you should stop reading Slashdot for a few hours. God-created or not (and personally, I find "not" a great deal more impressive), there's some good stuff out there. The trick is looking away from the monitor for a bit. Once you've gotten the hang of that, go watch some birds, or go camping, or something.
Extremophile bacteria at molten sulfur vents is one thing, but hitchiking in a blob of ablating steel?
I don't know, these guys seemed to do okay... and they're probably a lot more delicate than some bacteria.
Or God could solve the problem by ripping the source code for Darl and SCO right out of Creation...
Actually, that doesn't sound too different from the movie plot. Agent Smith obviously hadn't been patched because Neo exploited him immediately upon gaining Administrator access. And we learned that the Matrix must be "reloaded" periodically to fix the humans that "leak" from the main program...
Actually, most people asked a tech to disable it for them the first time the computer went into the shop for anything. I can't tell you how many times I've turned that thing off for people... along with changing their homepage (my internet is provided by Yahoo!), removing some bookmarks (but I've never BEEN to hotteenlesbians.com!), and "installing Google.com" (I can't use Google, I told you my internet is from Yahoo!).
I guarantee you these people and others like them have racked up plenty of hits for MSN's advertisers because they don't even know they're "allowed" to use another search engine!
The turtle doesn't need to rest upon anything at all.
Turtles swim. Read your Pratchett.
$8,000,000 according to the 8-K. And another large sum sometime prior to that.
Sure there is. What we need is an "open source" map. Have anyone who wants upload their GPS "track" data to a central site. A little data massaging will be able to use the average of plots to determine major roads/highways, and a few volunteers could add names and addressing schemes. Maybe the individual users could even supply those if they wanted, with another averaging system to determine the correct name of the street based on percentages...
It could work. Would be a major, major project, though.
from the do-not-jump-to-the-island-of-conclusions dept.
Wow, and here I was starting to think I was the only person in the world who read "The Phantom Tollbooth".
From the article:
.NET objects!
.NET objects? This seems rather like using a baseball bat to swat a fly...
One last thing: anything can be mapped to a drive, and drives don't just have to be letters. (Ok, I lied - that was 2) The example I was shown was that the registry was mapped to a drive, and you could navigate it like any other drive, with the results being returned from the commandlet as
The user has been able to map a filesystem to a folder rather than a drive letter since at least Windows 2000, and I think it was possible even under NT4. Nothing new there.
The registry (along with many other things) can be mapped as part of the filesystem fairly easily, as demonstrated by this 264kB DLL file.
And as for returning search results as
Monks. For the big robe-like shape-concealing garments they wore among strangers.
[i] The unfortunate side effect of legalizing drugs is that we will be in effect giving up on the communities -- and they do exist -- that have managed to resist the drug epidemic of the last several decades.[/i]
Name two.
Nah, it won't matter. After the IPO, Google will become just as faceless, soulless, and useless as MSN/Yahoo/Lycos.
No company can go through an IPO and survive with their image intact for more than a year or two.
You forgot to express it in terms of VW Beetles, and you made no mention of Natalie Portman, hot grits, OR the Goatse man.
And to think, you've been here longer than I have. Walk home in shame!
This a very ignorant, poorly-informed article. I find it especially surprising in a magazine like Forbes, which (although I'm not a regular reader) I thought had a reputation for honest writing/reporting.
The author obviously has no idea what the GPL involves, and demonizes an organization who's concern is to enforce a simple set of rules. Does he think Linksys would get such leniency from the BSA, Microsoft's hitmen?
Sorry, you blew it. A true AOL'r wouldn't know that AOL has a aol.com site, or that you can get to it from AOL, much less why you would want to...
Actually, DNA desperately wanted the movie to happen. For once, it was everyone around him dropping the ball, over and over again, that kept it from happening. Read "A Salmon of Doubt".
I suggest we amend the 1st amendment:
Access to information shall not be abridged.
Too broad. That would imply that I could look over, say, your savings account info, and it would be unconstitutional for you or any other party to try to keep me out of it. Or your medical records, right before I decide whether or not to insure you.
Ever watched a mob? Or even a simple protest? Okay. Bunch of people, acting like fools, right?
Now go out and join a protest. Protest something, anything, and do it with a lot of people. You won't feel like a fool. You'll feel powerful, different, and you'll tend to do things you don't normally do. I guarantee it. Then come back and tell me that a collection of humans is the same as a bunch of individual thinkers. The whole is not the same as the sum of the parts.
Individuals are smart. Groups of people are stupid. Every fireman, cop, EMT and politician in the world knows this. Nature defies logic. Science is counter-intuitive. And sometimes the truth is stupid.
Clearly darkness travels faster than light; whenever light finds something new, darkness is there before it...
I think this was supposed to be a troll and/or funny, but that would be kind of cool...