While I do think/. needs a place to discuss slashdot-related issues, this statement is just wrong:
This site depends on its users. I'm a user. You're supposed to listen to me.
The owners of a web site can ignore their users. This isn't a public service. Taco isn't your elected representative. You're not entitled to anything. If you don't like it, don't whine about it. Just leave.
Mentioning digg here isn't trolling or flamebait. But you could have provided a constructive comparison of/.'s new bookmarks to digg. Example:
* Digg links gain popularity through votes. It seems/.'s links are like del.icio.us. The more people add a link the more popular it'll be. * Digg's whole site is based on link popularity. Slashdot has article posts still moderated by humans. The bookmarks are simply another source of information. * Slashdot has a community of people who flag each other as friends and foes, read each others' journals, etc. Digg is full of only random meaningless comments.
It seems the primary benefit is to help slashdot find good articles to post about. For bookmark management and sharing there are plenty of other places to go. However many here do read each others journals, so maybe this will turn more into a community of bookmarks instead of delicious' million random links. I guess I'm saying it has the potential to be a more social system since/. has such a large community.
Considering the Windows Help system was exploitable for 7 years I'd say they're improving, although they still are usually too slow. Today there's no way to know how long they're aware of any bug. They may know about an exploit for years and just never publicly notify anyone. Or they may not know until a few days before they acknowledge it. Being a closed system that they work under (both software and business) we'll never really know.
If you're biggest destributor isn't going to sell one of your products you're going to care. Welcome to capitalism.
Of course the morals of how Wal-Mart became such a big distributor are debatable. But this outcome is quite obvious. If this article is a surprise your head's in the sand.
Communications protocols. MS claims it's their IP and they don't have to share it (as in publicly document it). But they also claim they interoperate. They think no one is smart enough to see the contradiction.
Forget about RTFA, you need to RTFP! Scroll up and you'll see "[the company] had designed its Windows server operating systems from the outset to interoperate with non-Microsoft server operating systems". If they make that claim they must disclose documentation.
And this one should be obvious: if you hate/. then don't post here.
You're still way behind on the facts. They have linux maintenance contracts with governments. That's a cash cow. Novell isn't all about selling software. They didn't buy a linux distro for the green logo.
I have their annual report on my desk here. Thanks for the useless comment with a total lack of any information to back it up.
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That's very insightful (sorry, no mod points at the moment:) Taking it a step further we thought back then that Yahoo had the potential to be amazing, but chose not to do anything really interesting. Today we see Google's potential. We'll just have to wait and see if they disappoint as well.
Dying because of Active Directory? What is this, 1992? You need to read their business plans and marketing strategies. Directory services are only one drop in a big bucket.
I know you're trolling but you're obviously not very knowledgeable in business. It doesn't have to be the year of Linux for Novell to make millions. And guess what? We still haven't had "the year of Linux" and Novell is making millions! In the last year they've signed with a few governments. That alone is enough to drive the company for years. They have plenty of customers. In the last years they've had bigger problems with management than linux, IMO.
Evidence, please? As an investor in their stock I've looked at their financial statements and I have their annual report on my desk here. Yet I only see them lowering sales of software for Windows.
Also, why are a few thousand desktops needed to develop and test Windows software for a primarily Linux company? They would only need a small subset of that.
There's nothing special about physical embodiments of control systems that should make them patentable, and the software equivalent not.
Physical resources are a limited quantity. There's a strict limit to how many of these physical control systems can be produced. If I have a physical resource that means someone else doesn't. So if I manufacture my invention it limits others' ability to do so.
Software is an unlimited resource. We can copy it without taking the original away. Software isn't manufactured. It's written. And that writing is already protected by copyright. People are allowed to profit from coming up with the same literary ideas as others (e.g. The Da Vinci Code).
The other problem is that genuinely new ideas are hard to come by. Out of all of the software developers in the world many think of the things are now patented. If only the truely innovative ideas were patented there would be so few software patents we probably wouldn't care as much.
For many the term science refers to the organized body of knowledge concerning the physical world, both animate and inanimate, but a proper definition would also have to include the attitudes and methods through which this body of knowledge is formed; thus, a science is both a particular kind of activity and also the results of that activity.
So I'd say it does deal with truths (as in known facts).
Partly because one of those near-high-school drop-outs is our president. And some others sit in Congress. And while I believe the federal government should have no say at all in local education the fact is they currently do. If they wanted to drop a school's federal funding because they teach evolution they can do it.
Let's be fair here. Isn't a D-minus really an F? Let's not split hairs, people. If I got a C-minus my scholarship would have been dropped. Can't we drop them from the government for not even grading an average C?
They may have underachieved, but they've had a significant influence. They've had offices raided by armed marshals and who knows how many disgruntled employees report their employers. They've put millions of dollars into advertising campaigns. The BSA has an office in Washington, D.C. I'm sure it's not just to be near the famous attractions. There's definitely a lot going on. You just don't hear much about it.
The only virus I ever had to deal with infested the MBR on NT. I think it was called the monkey virus and got passed around via floppies at my office. I got rid of it by booting to a DOS disk and overwriting the MBR (or whatever they called it back then). Full wipes are definitely the only guarantee viruses are gone.
That's very good. I've been tainted by dealing with bad system administrators for 10 years. I wish there were many more like you who think these things through and go through the trouble of trying it. I seem to only run across the lazy or dumb sys admins.
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While I do think /. needs a place to discuss slashdot-related issues, this statement is just wrong:
This site depends on its users. I'm a user. You're supposed to listen to me.
The owners of a web site can ignore their users. This isn't a public service. Taco isn't your elected representative. You're not entitled to anything. If you don't like it, don't whine about it. Just leave.
Mentioning digg here isn't trolling or flamebait. But you could have provided a constructive comparison of /.'s new bookmarks to digg. Example:
/.'s links are like del.icio.us. The more people add a link the more popular it'll be.
* Digg links gain popularity through votes. It seems
* Digg's whole site is based on link popularity. Slashdot has article posts still moderated by humans. The bookmarks are simply another source of information.
* Slashdot has a community of people who flag each other as friends and foes, read each others' journals, etc. Digg is full of only random meaningless comments.
Grammar Nazi added I do want. Schnell!!!
It seems the primary benefit is to help slashdot find good articles to post about. For bookmark management and sharing there are plenty of other places to go. However many here do read each others journals, so maybe this will turn more into a community of bookmarks instead of delicious' million random links. I guess I'm saying it has the potential to be a more social system since /. has such a large community.
We better all prey Slashdot sigs don't count! Otherwise we're all going to have a lot of problems.
Considering the Windows Help system was exploitable for 7 years I'd say they're improving, although they still are usually too slow. Today there's no way to know how long they're aware of any bug. They may know about an exploit for years and just never publicly notify anyone. Or they may not know until a few days before they acknowledge it. Being a closed system that they work under (both software and business) we'll never really know.
If you're biggest destributor isn't going to sell one of your products you're going to care. Welcome to capitalism.
Of course the morals of how Wal-Mart became such a big distributor are debatable. But this outcome is quite obvious. If this article is a surprise your head's in the sand.
Communications protocols. MS claims it's their IP and they don't have to share it (as in publicly document it). But they also claim they interoperate. They think no one is smart enough to see the contradiction.
Forget about RTFA, you need to RTFP! Scroll up and you'll see "[the company] had designed its Windows server operating systems from the outset to interoperate with non-Microsoft server operating systems". If they make that claim they must disclose documentation.
/. then don't post here.
And this one should be obvious: if you hate
Sure, they were designed to interoperate. They just weren't documented. Or not documented well.
Anything can interoperate with any other as long as the protocols are documented and those documents are made available.
You're still way behind on the facts. They have linux maintenance contracts with governments. That's a cash cow. Novell isn't all about selling software. They didn't buy a linux distro for the green logo.
I have their annual report on my desk here. Thanks for the useless comment with a total lack of any information to back it up.
That's very insightful (sorry, no mod points at the moment :) Taking it a step further we thought back then that Yahoo had the potential to be amazing, but chose not to do anything really interesting. Today we see Google's potential. We'll just have to wait and see if they disappoint as well.
Dying because of Active Directory? What is this, 1992? You need to read their business plans and marketing strategies. Directory services are only one drop in a big bucket.
I know you're trolling but you're obviously not very knowledgeable in business. It doesn't have to be the year of Linux for Novell to make millions. And guess what? We still haven't had "the year of Linux" and Novell is making millions! In the last year they've signed with a few governments. That alone is enough to drive the company for years. They have plenty of customers. In the last years they've had bigger problems with management than linux, IMO.
Evidence, please? As an investor in their stock I've looked at their financial statements and I have their annual report on my desk here. Yet I only see them lowering sales of software for Windows.
Also, why are a few thousand desktops needed to develop and test Windows software for a primarily Linux company? They would only need a small subset of that.
Here's the basis of where he's wrong:
There's nothing special about physical embodiments of control systems that should make them patentable, and the software equivalent not.
Physical resources are a limited quantity. There's a strict limit to how many of these physical control systems can be produced. If I have a physical resource that means someone else doesn't. So if I manufacture my invention it limits others' ability to do so.
Software is an unlimited resource. We can copy it without taking the original away. Software isn't manufactured. It's written. And that writing is already protected by copyright. People are allowed to profit from coming up with the same literary ideas as others (e.g. The Da Vinci Code).
The other problem is that genuinely new ideas are hard to come by. Out of all of the software developers in the world many think of the things are now patented. If only the truely innovative ideas were patented there would be so few software patents we probably wouldn't care as much.
From Columbia University's electronic encyclopedia:
So I'd say it does deal with truths (as in known facts).
Partly because one of those near-high-school drop-outs is our president. And some others sit in Congress. And while I believe the federal government should have no say at all in local education the fact is they currently do. If they wanted to drop a school's federal funding because they teach evolution they can do it.
Let's be fair here. Isn't a D-minus really an F? Let's not split hairs, people. If I got a C-minus my scholarship would have been dropped. Can't we drop them from the government for not even grading an average C?
They may have underachieved, but they've had a significant influence. They've had offices raided by armed marshals and who knows how many disgruntled employees report their employers. They've put millions of dollars into advertising campaigns. The BSA has an office in Washington, D.C. I'm sure it's not just to be near the famous attractions. There's definitely a lot going on. You just don't hear much about it.
Does this give anyone else the Heebie Jeebies?
No, I'm used to this sorta news by now.
cockroach decision-making follows a predictable pattern
/. for validating what I knew all along.
So some of my past managers really were dumber than cockroaches? I knew it! Thank you
The only virus I ever had to deal with infested the MBR on NT. I think it was called the monkey virus and got passed around via floppies at my office. I got rid of it by booting to a DOS disk and overwriting the MBR (or whatever they called it back then). Full wipes are definitely the only guarantee viruses are gone.
That's very good. I've been tainted by dealing with bad system administrators for 10 years. I wish there were many more like you who think these things through and go through the trouble of trying it. I seem to only run across the lazy or dumb sys admins.