Why do you think shuttle pilots always seem to hold an Air Force rank?
You want your JetBlue pilot landing the shuttle? The thing launches at 4 Gs and comes back in starting at over mach 20. Supersonic jet fighters are just a starting point for teaching someone to fly the shuttle.
Note the tense of the verb (bolded above). All the shuttle pilots hold military ranks. No former military pilots who got out and immediately became a "NASA shuttle pilot". The shuttle fleet is already the military's shuttle.
I can understand that Windows is vulnerable -- but if I've managed to run Windows for many years without any major problems, then I'm curious what they are doing during these 12 minutes to arrive to such a conclusion.
I've had my "NAS pr0n box" (an old Athlon 1600+ w/250GB worth of misc drives) running un-updated WinXP Pro (the "reset5" 30-day hack precludes updates) for over a year on the same static IP, open to the whole intarweb, and it hasn't picked up a single virus. I use it for torrents, eMule, kazaa-- basically all and sundry untrustworthy site scouring-- and still it works. I recently installed McAfee on it, just to see what viruses I'd "collected", and there's nothing! I think the biggest deciding factor in how fast your exposed windows machine gets "pwned!" is whether or not it's in the IP address range assigned to a large ISP that caters to the Unwashed Masses (e.g. Comcast). Using an ISP that markets to the bespectacled nerd crowd puts your IP address in a range that probably won't be tapped for a "zombie harvest".
I have s aneaky suspicion that he did it to make a point. Unfortunately, if he comes out and says or blatently acts like he did it only to make a point, it won't work anymore. So he files bogus, stupid lawsuits in an attempt to get the law changed.
Going after "stealthisemail.com" and actually taking it transcends point-making and firmly sits in the realm of asshole-ness. He may be making a point, but that's obviously not his goal.
I assume that such a system is probably innovative. And now they want to protect this system from being copied by others. It's as simple as that. Why should they be denied this protection?
Because it's simply taking a laborious task and assigning it to a computer. That's what computers are for. It's not particularly innovative.
Tell me if you like the fit of my tinfoil hat- but here goes:
Does anyone really belive that the US doesnt have a shuttle like craft? I am sure the military has some type of way to get up and work on sattelites without the shuttle.
Totally tinfoil hat. Why do you think shuttle pilots always seem to hold an Air Force rank? The military put all its manned-launch eggs in the shuttle basket (and GPS satellites are launche with unmanned Delta rockets). They might have conceivably developed such an orbital vehicle in secret, but there's no way they could build a suitable launch facility secretly, and not a chance in hell they could launch such a vehicle without people noticing. Orbital vehicle launches are audibly loud and visually obvious. Perhaps you've seen too many stupid TV shows that spew the absurd pseudo-military bullcrap with a straight face (cough)west wing(/cough).
anyone advocating replacing safety-rated components on the mains side with unrated "audiophile" grade parts deserves to be sued by the first idiot who burns his house to the ground.
No, any idiot who burns his house to the ground like that gets what's coming to him. There's no liability (nor should there be) in the sharing of stupid ideas. Liability lies with the implementation. Allow me to share my recipe for sewing needle salad:
1 cup shredded carrots
10 leaves iceberg lettuce, chopped
1 pound sewing needles (or thumbtacks, if needles are out of season)
That stuff is totally incomprehensible because it was a load of gibberish to begin with.
It's not meant to be coherent. It's a humorous illustration of the randomness of German language gender assignment. I posted it because it rebuts the OP's statement that the German language is totally logical.
Posting it without line breaks didn't help.
Talk to Mr. Clemens. The original had no line breaks either.
If you appreciate logic in a language, explore German sometime.
HAH! exactly what is logical about the semi-random assignment of gender to nouns (die-das-der)? The Tale of the Fishwife and its Sad Fate:(as literally translated into English)
"It is a bleak Day. Hear the Rain, how he pours, and the Hail, how he rattles; and see the Snow, how he drifts along, and of the Mud, how deep he is! Ah the poor Fishwife, it is stuck fast in the Mire; it has dropped its Basket of Fishes; and its Hands have been cut by the Scales as it seized some of the falling Creatures; and one Scale has even got into its Eye, and it cannot get her out. It opens its Mouth to cry for Help; but if any Sound comes out of him, alas he is drowned by the raging of the Storm. And now a Tomcat has got one of the Fishes and she will surely escape with him. No, she bites off a Fin, she holds her in her Mouth -- will she swallow her? No, the Fishwife's brave Mother-dog deserts his Puppies and rescues the Fin -- which he eats, himself, as his Reward. O, horror, the Lightning has struck the Fish-basket; he sets him on Fire; see the Flame, how she licks the doomed Utensil with her red and angry Tongue; now she attacks the helpless Fishwife's Foot -- she burns him up, all but the big Toe, and even she is partly consumed; and still she spreads, still she waves her fiery Tongues; she attacks the Fishwife's Leg and destroys it; she attacks its Hand and destroys her also; she attacks the Fishwife's Leg and destroys her also; she attacks its Body and consumes him; she wreathes herself about its Heart and it is consumed; next about its Breast, and in a Moment she is a Cinder; now she reaches its Neck -- he goes; now its Chin -- it goes; now its Nose -- she goes. In another Moment, except Help come, the Fishwife will be no more. Time presses -- is there none to succor and save? Yes! Joy, joy, with flying Feet the she-Englishwoman comes! But alas, the generous she-Female is too late: where now is the fated Fishwife? It has ceased from its Sufferings, it has gone to a better Land; all that is left of it for its loved Ones to lament over, is this poor smoldering Ash-heap. Ah, woeful, woeful Ash-heap! Let us take him up tenderly, reverently, upon the lowly Shovel, and bear him to his long Rest, with the Prayer that when he rises again it will be a Realm where he will have one good square responsible Sex, and have it all to himself, instead of having a mangy lot of assorted Sexes scattered all over him in Spots."
-Mark Twain
For the full laundry list of the difficulties of the German language see The Awful German Language, by Mark Twain
I'm sorry, for a person who speaks the English language, the phrase "operating system agnostic" makes sense.
Not really. Using the second variation in the second definition gives you "Operating System noncommittal", which gets you in the neighborhood, but it's still not right. Apps don't "commit"-- their original coders do when they compile them. Apps are OS dependent. All the definitions for "agnostic" mean "having a choice, but not making one". Apps don't make OS choices. Agnostic is the wrong word.
The GP poster clearly knew what Steve Jobs was getting at, but that his choice of words was incoherent-- and he's right.
Intel rep opens a brief case, full of $100 bills, with a P4 chip sitting on top of the bills.
Please. Jobs has a suitcase full of $100 bills next to his toilet for wiping his ass. People that high up aren't in it for money-- they already have that. They're in it for power.
My opinion of Microsoft would be raised somewhat if they bought Claria and publicly terminated all its employees. I'm imagining a live webcast of the employees being escorted out the door one by one, each carrying their box of perswonal stuff, culminating in CEO Jeff McFadden being physically thrown out the door by two beefy security guards, and his box of family pictures, gold pen and pecil sets, and executive decision makers flung into the street in front of him.
Well, maybe I don't know enough about pennies and light sockets, but wouldn't that have about a 10% chance of killing them, and about a 30% chance of permanent scarring that will impact their long term earning potential and ability to give you n-children?
No. A few really scary sparks pop out, and either the circuit breaker trips or the rivet holding the center tab pops loose. You see, the electricity wants to get from the metal tab at the center to the metal shell on the outside. It's very nearly impossible to place your body in such a way that going through you is a shorter path to ground. You clearly don't know enough about light sockets.
Grandparent poster said small businesses, where I reckon the majority won't be traded on the stock exchange.
GP poster cited small businesses as an example of who cheats their "profit" calculations, though not a particularly relevant one. We're talking about Hollywood production companies, none of which are, by any stretch of the imagination, small businesses. New Line Cinema is a unit of Time-fucking-Warner for god's sake.
5. "Selected" items should actually invert in the control device. This would allow the person to easily understand what (s)he has selected at the moment.
Braille consists of raised bumps. "Inverting" them, i.e. turning them into dents, renders them essentially unreadable.
No, competing is, by definition, competitive. Being anti-competitive is using methods that subvert the free market to reduce competion.
Everything you do is an attempt to convince the consumer to buy your product and not your competitors.
And this is market competition. Anti-competitive practices tend to be things that limit the consumer's choice in the matter, rather than offering a better choice.
As for personal opinion I am pretty sure slashdot's party line is we hate MS because they are rich.
Nonsense! If MicroSoft was 2 billion in the red and falling fast, the party line would be exactly the same. If anything, they'd cheer louder as MS approached chapter 11. It's not about the money, it's about the saturation of the market with a buggy, inferior product.
If MS was about the size BeOS was then there would be much less MS bashing going on.
Wait, so is it the money, or is it the size? There are plenty of small companies with piles of money, and we all know about behemoth corps with no money (worldcom, adelphia, etc.). What, exactly, are you trying to say? You start of with dollars, then wander off into the vague neighborhood of "size"...
You assume that the shareholders are different from the people running the company. In the vast majority of businesses, they are one and the same.
While the "stock market" companies get all the press, most of the companies in the US are NOT public and don't answer to the public or the regulatory bodies (ie: SEC). It is very common, once again, for the shareholders = board = operators. They are all the same people.
You're creating a straw man argument by generalizing. We're talking about big media corps here, specifically New Line Cinema, genius. New Line Cinema is part of Time-Warner. Time-Warner is a publicly traded company, and the CEO/board of directors of New Line are certainly not the majority shareholders of Time-Warner.
And yes, my company does this.
Fascinating. I'll be sure to remember that next time a slashdot story comes up about Peter Jackson suing your company.
No negative consequences except lowering the profit margin for themselves as well.
However if part of the lowered profit margin is due to the gigantic pay raise they gave themselves are they really going to care?
Shareholders and (by extension) the board of directors that hired you will care. Particularly when you're juggling the books in such a way that exposes the company to liability if found out.
my point is that it's a bit of a stretch to call Intel a monopoly when their competition is quite strong and doing well.
"Monopoly" is the wrong word. It's actually "anti-competitive practices". The financial health of the plaintiff is irrelevant. You don't have to wait until all competitors are driven out of the market to file suit. Also, said practices don't even have to be effective to be illegal.
Isn't that pretty much the (internal) argument that a lot of/.'ers make in regards pirating Microsoft software? Bill Gates is filthy rich, what me worry?
No, where'd you come up with that crap? The internal argument is usually more like "fux0r MS, they've gotten rich selling garbage; I won't pay to perpetuate garbage" and/or "Copyright is a load of crap". I have never once seen anyone say "MS has enough money that it doesn't matter if I pirate". That would be an statement implying that, were MS poorer, it would deserve the financial support. Definitely not the/. party line.
Now, having said that, negotiating for a cut of the net profit is just a bad idea. For anything. By doing so, you give the payor the opportunity to let his costs get out of control without any negative consequences.
No negative consequences except lowering the profit margin for themselves as well.
Good point. On my Verizon service there is a noticable lag of almost one second (at times) within their network. So multiply that by send and recieve and add to that any delay in Skype, and you might have some bizarre conversations.
I tried to make a tech support call to SBC internet services over Skype once. Take the Skype delay, and add the.75 second delay for the signal to go to the call center in India, throw in the inevitable "clipping" effect, plus the irregular language and hint of an accent of an ESL tech support guy (yeah, sure your name is "Mike"), and you just can't get anything communicated. I can't wait to add this to the mix!
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You want your JetBlue pilot landing the shuttle? The thing launches at 4 Gs and comes back in starting at over mach 20. Supersonic jet fighters are just a starting point for teaching someone to fly the shuttle.
Note the tense of the verb (bolded above). All the shuttle pilots hold military ranks. No former military pilots who got out and immediately became a "NASA shuttle pilot". The shuttle fleet is already the military's shuttle.
I've had my "NAS pr0n box" (an old Athlon 1600+ w/250GB worth of misc drives) running un-updated WinXP Pro (the "reset5" 30-day hack precludes updates) for over a year on the same static IP, open to the whole intarweb, and it hasn't picked up a single virus. I use it for torrents, eMule, kazaa-- basically all and sundry untrustworthy site scouring-- and still it works. I recently installed McAfee on it, just to see what viruses I'd "collected", and there's nothing! I think the biggest deciding factor in how fast your exposed windows machine gets "pwned!" is whether or not it's in the IP address range assigned to a large ISP that caters to the Unwashed Masses (e.g. Comcast). Using an ISP that markets to the bespectacled nerd crowd puts your IP address in a range that probably won't be tapped for a "zombie harvest".
Going after "stealthisemail.com" and actually taking it transcends point-making and firmly sits in the realm of asshole-ness. He may be making a point, but that's obviously not his goal.
Because it's simply taking a laborious task and assigning it to a computer. That's what computers are for. It's not particularly innovative.
Totally tinfoil hat. Why do you think shuttle pilots always seem to hold an Air Force rank? The military put all its manned-launch eggs in the shuttle basket (and GPS satellites are launche with unmanned Delta rockets). They might have conceivably developed such an orbital vehicle in secret, but there's no way they could build a suitable launch facility secretly, and not a chance in hell they could launch such a vehicle without people noticing. Orbital vehicle launches are audibly loud and visually obvious. Perhaps you've seen too many stupid TV shows that spew the absurd pseudo-military bullcrap with a straight face (cough)west wing(/cough).
No, any idiot who burns his house to the ground like that gets what's coming to him. There's no liability (nor should there be) in the sharing of stupid ideas. Liability lies with the implementation. Allow me to share my recipe for sewing needle salad:
I eagerly await the first spurious lawsuit.It's not meant to be coherent. It's a humorous illustration of the randomness of German language gender assignment. I posted it because it rebuts the OP's statement that the German language is totally logical.
Posting it without line breaks didn't help.
Talk to Mr. Clemens. The original had no line breaks either.
HAH! exactly what is logical about the semi-random assignment of gender to nouns (die-das-der)?
The Tale of the Fishwife and its Sad Fate:(as literally translated into English)
"It is a bleak Day. Hear the Rain, how he pours, and the Hail, how he rattles; and see the Snow, how he drifts along, and of the Mud, how deep he is! Ah the poor Fishwife, it is stuck fast in the Mire; it has dropped its Basket of Fishes; and its Hands have been cut by the Scales as it seized some of the falling Creatures; and one Scale has even got into its Eye, and it cannot get her out. It opens its Mouth to cry for Help; but if any Sound comes out of him, alas he is drowned by the raging of the Storm. And now a Tomcat has got one of the Fishes and she will surely escape with him. No, she bites off a Fin, she holds her in her Mouth -- will she swallow her? No, the Fishwife's brave Mother-dog deserts his Puppies and rescues the Fin -- which he eats, himself, as his Reward. O, horror, the Lightning has struck the Fish-basket; he sets him on Fire; see the Flame, how she licks the doomed Utensil with her red and angry Tongue; now she attacks the helpless Fishwife's Foot -- she burns him up, all but the big Toe, and even she is partly consumed; and still she spreads, still she waves her fiery Tongues; she attacks the Fishwife's Leg and destroys it; she attacks its Hand and destroys her also; she attacks the Fishwife's Leg and destroys her also; she attacks its Body and consumes him; she wreathes herself about its Heart and it is consumed; next about its Breast, and in a Moment she is a Cinder; now she reaches its Neck -- he goes; now its Chin -- it goes; now its Nose -- she goes. In another Moment, except Help come, the Fishwife will be no more. Time presses -- is there none to succor and save? Yes! Joy, joy, with flying Feet the she-Englishwoman comes! But alas, the generous she-Female is too late: where now is the fated Fishwife? It has ceased from its Sufferings, it has gone to a better Land; all that is left of it for its loved Ones to lament over, is this poor smoldering Ash-heap. Ah, woeful, woeful Ash-heap! Let us take him up tenderly, reverently, upon the lowly Shovel, and bear him to his long Rest, with the Prayer that when he rises again it will be a Realm where he will have one good square responsible Sex, and have it all to himself, instead of having a mangy lot of assorted Sexes scattered all over him in Spots."
-Mark Twain
For the full laundry list of the difficulties of the German language see The Awful German Language, by Mark Twain
Not really. Using the second variation in the second definition gives you "Operating System noncommittal", which gets you in the neighborhood, but it's still not right. Apps don't "commit"-- their original coders do when they compile them. Apps are OS dependent. All the definitions for "agnostic" mean "having a choice, but not making one". Apps don't make OS choices. Agnostic is the wrong word.
The GP poster clearly knew what Steve Jobs was getting at, but that his choice of words was incoherent-- and he's right.
Please. Jobs has a suitcase full of $100 bills next to his toilet for wiping his ass. People that high up aren't in it for money-- they already have that. They're in it for power.
My opinion of Microsoft would be raised somewhat if they bought Claria and publicly terminated all its employees. I'm imagining a live webcast of the employees being escorted out the door one by one, each carrying their box of perswonal stuff, culminating in CEO Jeff McFadden being physically thrown out the door by two beefy security guards, and his box of family pictures, gold pen and pecil sets, and executive decision makers flung into the street in front of him.
No. A few really scary sparks pop out, and either the circuit breaker trips or the rivet holding the center tab pops loose. You see, the electricity wants to get from the metal tab at the center to the metal shell on the outside. It's very nearly impossible to place your body in such a way that going through you is a shorter path to ground. You clearly don't know enough about light sockets.
Honestly, it's only electricity, not black magic.
GP poster cited small businesses as an example of who cheats their "profit" calculations, though not a particularly relevant one. We're talking about Hollywood production companies, none of which are, by any stretch of the imagination, small businesses. New Line Cinema is a unit of Time-fucking-Warner for god's sake.
Braille consists of raised bumps. "Inverting" them, i.e. turning them into dents, renders them essentially unreadable.
I am sorry for your skepticism. It's in the jargon file and also the OED.
No, competing is, by definition, competitive. Being anti-competitive is using methods that subvert the free market to reduce competion.
Everything you do is an attempt to convince the consumer to buy your product and not your competitors.
And this is market competition. Anti-competitive practices tend to be things that limit the consumer's choice in the matter, rather than offering a better choice.
Nonsense! If MicroSoft was 2 billion in the red and falling fast, the party line would be exactly the same. If anything, they'd cheer louder as MS approached chapter 11. It's not about the money, it's about the saturation of the market with a buggy, inferior product.
If MS was about the size BeOS was then there would be much less MS bashing going on.
Wait, so is it the money, or is it the size? There are plenty of small companies with piles of money, and we all know about behemoth corps with no money (worldcom, adelphia, etc.). What, exactly, are you trying to say? You start of with dollars, then wander off into the vague neighborhood of "size"...
Not to imply slashdotters ever make sense
indeed.
While the "stock market" companies get all the press, most of the companies in the US are NOT public and don't answer to the public or the regulatory bodies (ie: SEC). It is very common, once again, for the shareholders = board = operators. They are all the same people.
You're creating a straw man argument by generalizing. We're talking about big media corps here, specifically New Line Cinema, genius. New Line Cinema is part of Time-Warner. Time-Warner is a publicly traded company, and the CEO/board of directors of New Line are certainly not the majority shareholders of Time-Warner.
And yes, my company does this.
Fascinating. I'll be sure to remember that next time a slashdot story comes up about Peter Jackson suing your company.
However if part of the lowered profit margin is due to the gigantic pay raise they gave themselves are they really going to care?
Shareholders and (by extension) the board of directors that hired you will care. Particularly when you're juggling the books in such a way that exposes the company to liability if found out.
"Monopoly" is the wrong word. It's actually "anti-competitive practices". The financial health of the plaintiff is irrelevant. You don't have to wait until all competitors are driven out of the market to file suit. Also, said practices don't even have to be effective to be illegal.
I believe the correct word is "pessimize".
No, where'd you come up with that crap? The internal argument is usually more like "fux0r MS, they've gotten rich selling garbage; I won't pay to perpetuate garbage" and/or "Copyright is a load of crap". I have never once seen anyone say "MS has enough money that it doesn't matter if I pirate". That would be an statement implying that, were MS poorer, it would deserve the financial support. Definitely not the /. party line.
No negative consequences except lowering the profit margin for themselves as well.
I don't think talk like that ought to be allowed, mister
I tried to make a tech support call to SBC internet services over Skype once. Take the Skype delay, and add the .75 second delay for the signal to go to the call center in India, throw in the inevitable "clipping" effect, plus the irregular language and hint of an accent of an ESL tech support guy (yeah, sure your name is "Mike"), and you just can't get anything communicated. I can't wait to add this to the mix!