The end goal is to identify criminals. First, of course, they will identify suspects. They will investigate the suspects, and see if there is enough proof to prove in a court of law that they are, in fact, criminals.
Again, if they denied a police order that was legally binding, and the pictures were taken after the warning, then every person you see there is a criminal, period.
You seem to be singling out Microsoft, which is an easy target on Slashdot. Do you mind if I ask what the motivation behind your timeline is? I believe that your list would be more complete if you compare their performance vs. the vapor practices of everyone else.
If you are interested in broadening your timeline to include other operating systems' promise/delay/delivery-not-meeting-expectations, there are plenty of other examples out there, notably OS-X (AKA Rhapsody) which is 3 years late and lacks CD-R(W), DVDRW, DVD play support, along with missing printer and SCSI drivers (without running in 9.1 emulation mode). I'm still waiting for a major x86 Linux distro with good enough USB support, lacking for over a year, to use my Visor that I don't have to manually upgrade the kernel (I know, short work for some of you kernel hackers, but too much of a PITA for me), preferrably Red Hat, but their 'next several weeks' continues to drag on.
I doubt the 'promises/delays/letdowns' are exclusive to Windows, but fairly standard practice for the industry as a whole. That doesn't make it right, just typical.
Even more puzzling to me is how these apparently industry standard release cycles contribute to fragmentation, especially from a single proprietary vendor who can control all the different flavors! Sure, if they want it to fragment, they could make it happen, but it would require them to make it happen (or perhaps a federal judge;).
...I see a bunch of people smiling not doing anything.
From the story you replied to:
"Those pictured on the Internet were among those who defied police orders to leave areas in which the destruction and vandalism were taking place."
If the police orders are legally binding, and they're still there, they're smiling and breaking the law. Busted.
The reason they are hoping employers and parents will see the pictures has nothing to do with blacklisting, it's to help identify the criminals in the pictures.
Sorry, but as an above poster noted, you have no expectation of privacy in a public area. I hope they catch the vandals. God forbid they should impinge on our absolute right to break public/other people's shit when we get pissed off over important things like losing a basketball game - this is Big Brother(TM) all the way, man. Fight the power!
Perhaps all the skins of the FPSs could be changed to well known commercial characters?
Not a lot of power savings in the computer itself
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Turn on the power management on the PCs, but there isn't a huge amount of savings to be had there, on the grander scale. I would concentrate much more on the HVAC system, and making sure the new lab is very well insulated. Fluorescent lights (as annoying as they can be) help a lot as well vs. incandescent lamps.
CRT monitors (as suggested above) also take up a lot of power, and so do laser printers - better ones typically have sleep modes as well.
"They could lay off 5,000 people, OR quit shelling out that much in MS licenses and pay salaries!"
Wow! Sounds great! Amazing!
Now that we've gotten our little anti-MS tirade/pro-open source plug out of the way, let's look at those numbers, shall we? If we assume everyone in the company is Using Win2K Pro/Office 2000 Pro, that's ~$250+$600. If we estimate an average salary of $40K for the 5000 laid-off employees, that's $200Mil (not including overhead and all), or over 235,000 copies of Windows and Office. So we've saved 2% of the workforce, and had to retrain a quarter of a million employees. Whoop-de-do.
Since when do those ignoramuses get to call the shots on trademarks?
They don't, but they can latch onto buzzwords. That's why SGI is fighting to keep control of things similar to OpenGL. They should have the right to protect their investment, within reason anyways, and these names are awfully close. I seriously doubt OpenBSD is in any trouble, but I wouldn't create a company/product called OpenZL or Silicone Graphics, for the same reason a soft drink called Pepci or Coak would be a bad idea. I'm not saying everyone would easily be tricked, but there is a decent chance, at least in the minds of their lawyers (and I tend to agree) that some people will mistake these names.
If there is any chance of confusing Wall Street, and in this case there is, they'll get right on it. Plus if they ever decide to expand into non-geek exclusive territory, it serves them well to protect their name(s).
Come on people, this is not Golliath trying to destroy any David that pops up, it's a well established Goliath(tm) trying to get Golieth to change his name. The SGI vs. everything 'Open' or 'GL' is purely speculative - they're going after Open[x]L to protect their OpenGL. Sorry, but the names are pretty darn close, and likely confusing to non-geeks.
Yeah, I know, Dunya's the root of all evil and all that, but this really has nothing to do with him, despite what Al Gore may tell you. Did you even read the decision or the article?
From Yahoo: Nationwide's retrieval of Fraser's e-mail from the Nationwide file server may in fact be ethically 'questionable'... but it is not legally actionable under the ECPA...
So it's some big evil Republican conspiracy to allow companies to use their logs of their employees use of their email system that they stored on their servers. How dare they. It's their damned system, their email, they own it, they own the messages, they have the liability for it... what's the problem, and how on earth does this have anything to do with Dubya? Oh yeah, this idiot was a 'whistleblower,' or someone who basically hated the company he worked for and used their assets to try and fight them and pass legislation to give him 'tenure.' What a noble cause.
That last sentence seems unclear - I don't mean to imply that over half of the.coms are not US sites, but that over half of the 60% (i.e. 38% of the total) are.coms, not all of which are US sites.
Really? It doesn't look like the US is disproportionately represented in this list. All of the 'generic' domains plus.us equals ~60%, and a significant number of.coms (over half of that 60%, BTW) are not US sites.
Why are so many people ready to sink a piece of software just because it's not GPL'd? I'd rather have decent closed software that I paid for than a bunch of 'free' crap. That isn't to say free=crap, but I notice a significant absence of quality apps in certain areas for Linux - that's why I'm still spending more time in Windows.
GPL is great, especially for OSs for security reasons, but I urge people to embrace closed, commercial Linux software - there's a lot of great stuff out there that will never be GPL'd. To be perfectly clear for the flame-proned, GPL is great, free software is great, Linux is great, but it would be EVEN BETTER with some of the additional breadth and quality of closed apps out there.
I think the howtos are great, but very bad for newbies. Virtually all of them assume a fair to vast amount of prior knowledge of Linux. Computer education is invaluable, but some people just need them for non-CS oriented things, and shouldn't need the equivalent of a CS education to use a computer!
People certainly can be self-taught, as I mostly am, but it's a whole lot easier (here come the flames) to use and a million times easier to maintain a Win box (or even a Mac) than a Linux box. It is getting easier, with the more automated update utilities that are coming of age, but it's still so much more complicated.
Many 3rd World residents are actually very time-crunched as well, working hard, long hours for not a lot. I do hope Linux will be able to help them, but it's far from being ready now. If it's for someone who's used Unix for a while, it's pretty manageable, but for newbies, it's a twisted mess. Trust me, I know.;) Again, I'm not saying Linux is bad, but it's pretty unmaintainable for the unexperienced.
How many residents of third-world countries can afford the time, let alone the money, to learn how to use a complex, complicated OS like Linux? It's really easy for you guys with a CS major and a few years at college. It's not difficult to use, if you have someone else to maintain it for you, but try keeping your own Linux box up and running without help from someone else (and the HOWTOs are virtually worthless to newbies) and little or no experience with it - it will quickly become a paperweight.
Don't get me wrong, I'm starting to like Linux, it's just not for the 'common' man, at least yet.
The end doesn't necessarily justify the means. Saving power is great - I use a lot of fluorescent lights and try to be conscienscious about power consumption, but in the grand scheme of things, 200W per computer is still chump change, with regard to the current manufactured power crunch in California.
Tell people to conserve, but don't make up faulty data to support your claim.
An extra 200W for every computer in the state isn't going to make any difference. Buying the distribution system? Well, that's going to solve everything, Mr. Davis. And spending $50mil on consultants to create commercials to cut residential use, so we save maybe 0.2%??? Priceless.
Many of the US's founding fathers were racists and even slave owners - shall we disown all that they accomplished?
As dispicable as those beliefs were, they were rather common for the day. This does not make it OK. But, we can honor the accomplishments of someone who advanced technology for those achievements and those achievements alone. We do not have to embrace all aspects of someone to appreciate what they have done.
Otherwise, I'm sure we could dig up some dirt on virtually anyone who's ever done anything of any importance, and never celebrate anything.
At least according to some. Funny, this data is about an order of magnitude more complete than anything I've ever seen supporting the theory of global warming.
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Again, if they denied a police order that was legally binding, and the pictures were taken after the warning, then every person you see there is a criminal, period.
If you are interested in broadening your timeline to include other operating systems' promise/delay/delivery-not-meeting-expectations, there are plenty of other examples out there, notably OS-X (AKA Rhapsody) which is 3 years late and lacks CD-R(W), DVDRW, DVD play support, along with missing printer and SCSI drivers (without running in 9.1 emulation mode). I'm still waiting for a major x86 Linux distro with good enough USB support, lacking for over a year, to use my Visor that I don't have to manually upgrade the kernel (I know, short work for some of you kernel hackers, but too much of a PITA for me), preferrably Red Hat, but their 'next several weeks' continues to drag on.
I doubt the 'promises/delays/letdowns' are exclusive to Windows, but fairly standard practice for the industry as a whole. That doesn't make it right, just typical.
Even more puzzling to me is how these apparently industry standard release cycles contribute to fragmentation, especially from a single proprietary vendor who can control all the different flavors! Sure, if they want it to fragment, they could make it happen, but it would require them to make it happen (or perhaps a federal judge ;).
From the story you replied to: "Those pictured on the Internet were among those who defied police orders to leave areas in which the destruction and vandalism were taking place."
If the police orders are legally binding, and they're still there, they're smiling and breaking the law. Busted.
The reason they are hoping employers and parents will see the pictures has nothing to do with blacklisting, it's to help identify the criminals in the pictures.
Sorry, but as an above poster noted, you have no expectation of privacy in a public area. I hope they catch the vandals. God forbid they should impinge on our absolute right to break public/other people's shit when we get pissed off over important things like losing a basketball game - this is Big Brother(TM) all the way, man. Fight the power!
Perhaps all the skins of the FPSs could be changed to well known commercial characters?
CRT monitors (as suggested above) also take up a lot of power, and so do laser printers - better ones typically have sleep modes as well.
Wow! Sounds great! Amazing!
Now that we've gotten our little anti-MS tirade/pro-open source plug out of the way, let's look at those numbers, shall we? If we assume everyone in the company is Using Win2K Pro/Office 2000 Pro, that's ~$250+$600. If we estimate an average salary of $40K for the 5000 laid-off employees, that's $200Mil (not including overhead and all), or over 235,000 copies of Windows and Office. So we've saved 2% of the workforce, and had to retrain a quarter of a million employees. Whoop-de-do.
They don't, but they can latch onto buzzwords. That's why SGI is fighting to keep control of things similar to OpenGL. They should have the right to protect their investment, within reason anyways, and these names are awfully close. I seriously doubt OpenBSD is in any trouble, but I wouldn't create a company/product called OpenZL or Silicone Graphics, for the same reason a soft drink called Pepci or Coak would be a bad idea. I'm not saying everyone would easily be tricked, but there is a decent chance, at least in the minds of their lawyers (and I tend to agree) that some people will mistake these names.
If there is any chance of confusing Wall Street, and in this case there is, they'll get right on it. Plus if they ever decide to expand into non-geek exclusive territory, it serves them well to protect their name(s).
Come on people, this is not Golliath trying to destroy any David that pops up, it's a well established Goliath(tm) trying to get Golieth to change his name. The SGI vs. everything 'Open' or 'GL' is purely speculative - they're going after Open[x]L to protect their OpenGL. Sorry, but the names are pretty darn close, and likely confusing to non-geeks.
Manuals pop up all the time. Also try a local (older) library - I've found some good, old out-of-print SAMS manuals.
Wow. I am sitting waaaaaaaaaaay too close to my monitor. I might need to upgrade to 21" to boot....
From Yahoo: Nationwide's retrieval of Fraser's e-mail from the Nationwide file server may in fact be ethically 'questionable' ... but it is not legally actionable under the ECPA...
So it's some big evil Republican conspiracy to allow companies to use their logs of their employees use of their email system that they stored on their servers. How dare they. It's their damned system, their email, they own it, they own the messages, they have the liability for it... what's the problem, and how on earth does this have anything to do with Dubya? Oh yeah, this idiot was a 'whistleblower,' or someone who basically hated the company he worked for and used their assets to try and fight them and pass legislation to give him 'tenure.' What a noble cause.
Yes, why do you ask? To me, it looks like roughly 50% of the cracks are in the US, which is roughly the share of websites. YMMV.
That last sentence seems unclear - I don't mean to imply that over half of the .coms are not US sites, but that over half of the 60% (i.e. 38% of the total) are .coms, not all of which are US sites.
Really? It doesn't look like the US is disproportionately represented in this list. All of the 'generic' domains plus .us equals ~60%, and a significant number of .coms (over half of that 60%, BTW) are not US sites.
GPL is great, especially for OSs for security reasons, but I urge people to embrace closed, commercial Linux software - there's a lot of great stuff out there that will never be GPL'd. To be perfectly clear for the flame-proned, GPL is great, free software is great, Linux is great, but it would be EVEN BETTER with some of the additional breadth and quality of closed apps out there.
People certainly can be self-taught, as I mostly am, but it's a whole lot easier (here come the flames) to use and a million times easier to maintain a Win box (or even a Mac) than a Linux box. It is getting easier, with the more automated update utilities that are coming of age, but it's still so much more complicated.
Many 3rd World residents are actually very time-crunched as well, working hard, long hours for not a lot. I do hope Linux will be able to help them, but it's far from being ready now. If it's for someone who's used Unix for a while, it's pretty manageable, but for newbies, it's a twisted mess. Trust me, I know. ;) Again, I'm not saying Linux is bad, but it's pretty unmaintainable for the unexperienced.
Don't get me wrong, I'm starting to like Linux, it's just not for the 'common' man, at least yet.
Whew! I can't tell you how much that relieves me.
Tell people to conserve, but don't make up faulty data to support your claim.
An extra 200W for every computer in the state isn't going to make any difference. Buying the distribution system? Well, that's going to solve everything, Mr. Davis. And spending $50mil on consultants to create commercials to cut residential use, so we save maybe 0.2%??? Priceless.
I feel so violated. Get out the tin foil hats....
Perhaps we should clean it all up by outlawing all criticism of our government? Would that make it all better?
As dispicable as those beliefs were, they were rather common for the day. This does not make it OK. But, we can honor the accomplishments of someone who advanced technology for those achievements and those achievements alone. We do not have to embrace all aspects of someone to appreciate what they have done. Otherwise, I'm sure we could dig up some dirt on virtually anyone who's ever done anything of any importance, and never celebrate anything.
At least according to some. Funny, this data is about an order of magnitude more complete than anything I've ever seen supporting the theory of global warming.