As much as the/. crowd complains about Microsoft products you would think they would realize buying version 1 of the 360 is like installing SP2 for Windows the day it comes out.
Scientists as of late have been focusing (more than usual) on panspermia as an explanation for life on Earth.
What few of them neglect to realize is that life still had to start someplace. All the facts point to it starting here, on Earth. Life on Earth is unlikely to have been seeded from elsewhere. It most likely began here.
Panspermia seems to be the "solve-all" when we can't explain the exact details of how life started. The problem is that it still leaves us with needing to explain how it started elsewhere...on another planet with an environment we know nothing about.
Life began and evolved here, on Earth.
Another issue is that two-weeks isn't long enough to get anywhere in our solar system. I'd like to see just how long the lichens would last. 9 months to Mars, 5 months to Venus. It's likely there is nothing living on either of those planets and it's light years to anything that might support life.
The real problem are the companies running these businesses, not the people "exploiting" a system that was built to be exploited.
180Solutions is trying to portray themselves as a legitimate business by making comments like "we have updated our adware so that the installation click-wrap notification process is presented from our own servers, instead of inside the code where it's vulnerable to tampering".
The consumer is the victim and 180Solutions is the criminal. They are nothing more than system, resource and privacy rapists and should be dealt with as exactly that.
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"will even let you photocopy any of the material you find there for only the cost of the copy machine!"
I think you could buy the book for less than it costs to buy a copy machine.
Could it be that people are also realizing there are better news sites than what they can get in a daily paper?
It might also be that people in this age are searching out factual news rather than the biased stories we tend to get from local and giant corporate rags.
In Minneapolis out only choices are between two liberal newspapers that tend to think that newsworthy items are those involving how smoking is bad for your health and how we need to dole out more welfare to the "impoverished" here.
I'm surprised no one has brought up the fact that many I.T. professionals are still living off of fatter salaries than most non-I.T. workers. Many of us have learned to live beyond our means because of bloated salary. Suddenly, we were thrown into reality.
I was laid off a couple years ago so I went back to consulting. I just took a permanent position again with a company. I took a salary cut of over 30% and I was told that raises are usually cost-of-living and that is it.
However, in return, the company covers our insurance 100%, gives us prepaid gas cards every month and pays for us to attend classes, purchase books, etc.
By the way, we are a transportation company and due to fuel costs going up we are making a return of less than 2%
Point being that if you aren't happy where you are at, there are PLENTY of companies out there that are willing to appreciate their employees but with the current economy (still improving) it can't always be in monetary terms.
My salary is more than enough for me to live off of very happily. More importantly, I have a feeling of worth at my company rather than feeling like a overpaid assembly line developer.
The satisfaction I get more than makes up for the difference in income.
"...because we do such a good job, WE, not THEY, because without us, they would not be rich, but without them, we couls still produce and sell the same product."
Then why don't you fund your own start-up, hire programmers, pay them while your product is in development (making no income yourself during that time), then market the product, paying for advertisement, support, QA, patch development, etc. and wait for the millions to roll in?
I can't believe the number of Pro-PHP developers on/.
You're all joking right? I mean, how can you rip the hell out of Windows being a security risk then turn around and talk about the beauty and wonderment of PHP?
Sure, apples and oranges, OS and Scripting language
But seriously, PHP? Talk about a buggy security risk.
And how about all the MAJOR changes between MINOR versions? If you develop something for PHP today it is unlikely it will work with the next version.
The list goes on.
The point being that the complaints all the Linux users make regarding Windows can apply to the main scripting language Linux users (I'm sure the majority of Websites developed with PHP are running on a Linux box compared to Windows) develop their web applications with.
"...really sucks when you can do something cool in HTML/CSS (example:hover) and IE doesn't support it...
Yes,:hover...thank goodness something finally came along to replace the much missed <blink> tag.
Put that together with <marquee> and you can finally rebuild that GeoCities site you missed so much.
We have also made the uninstall process easy for those who choose not to use 180solutions' products."
Does anyone know of someone that ever WILLFULLY decided to use their software? There shouldn't be a simple uninstall because there shouldn't have been an install in the first place.
Nothing says security like archiving all your sensitive corporate documents on a web system like Google's. I'm sure they won't index, archive and search any of the documents.
Even better...if Google builds it maybe Microsoft will use it and then Google can look through all of MS's documents.
And those are just a few reasons why it WON'T catch on. It's been done. It will be done again but it won't become something that is commonly used.
My other friend (yes, I have two!) put it best I think, when he said "I hope the guy got a major payout from Microsoft, because such a public display of incompetence makes him unemployable.".
It stands to reason that Defenders Of Linux (pronounced k-rad elite kiddies) are unable to reason.
The numbers say he's saved his company money and made their systems more reliable. That usually makes you *more* employable, not less - at least with the people who actually do the hiring that don't care about Operating System holy wars, at any rate.
Great response, DrSmithy. Sadly, thre truth of the matter is that the majority of the Linux backers aren't willing to read the whole article. They are just looking for the quick bash on anyone Pro-Windows and Anti-Linux.
Oh No! Netscape is making MONEY off of a product that, regardless of being open source, THEY OWN?
You mean they aren't distributing source and running threads and running servers and paying bills and implementing code for free? HOW DARE THEY!
You little pissy babies need to grow up. And when you do, you are going to realize that advances don't happen for free or just come out of mommy and daddy's pockets. Someone has to pay for this. And like banner ads are going to kill you. No one forces you to click on them. It's called BUISINESS...or for you krad kiddies that are complaining, BIDNESS.
Hey Slashdot! I'm really pissed. I hopped on the site today, saw TONS of submittals by users and then I looked up and saw you were running BANNER ADS on your site. I'm offended. You are making money off of your readers submissions.YOU CORPORATE BASTARDS!!! =)
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As much as the /. crowd complains about Microsoft products you would think they would realize buying version 1 of the 360 is like installing SP2 for Windows the day it comes out.
Aren't these kids in third world countries underpriveleged enough? Now we are going to stick them with a crappy OS to top it off?
Scientists as of late have been focusing (more than usual) on panspermia as an explanation for life on Earth.
What few of them neglect to realize is that life still had to start someplace. All the facts point to it starting here, on Earth. Life on Earth is unlikely to have been seeded from elsewhere. It most likely began here.
Panspermia seems to be the "solve-all" when we can't explain the exact details of how life started. The problem is that it still leaves us with needing to explain how it started elsewhere...on another planet with an environment we know nothing about.
Life began and evolved here, on Earth.
Another issue is that two-weeks isn't long enough to get anywhere in our solar system. I'd like to see just how long the lichens would last. 9 months to Mars, 5 months to Venus. It's likely there is nothing living on either of those planets and it's light years to anything that might support life.
Lastly, we still have the issue with re-entry.
Apparently you have never used it.
Your argument is lacking to say the least. You base your comments on the assumption that Microsoft Spyware works ONLY with spyware installed via I.E.
That is an incorrect assumption. It also alerts to spyware/adware that is installed unknowingly to the user when they install software.
The Feds shouldn't be bothering with this kid.
The real problem are the companies running these businesses, not the people "exploiting" a system that was built to be exploited.
180Solutions is trying to portray themselves as a legitimate business by making comments like "we have updated our adware so that the installation click-wrap notification process is presented from our own servers, instead of inside the code where it's vulnerable to tampering".
The consumer is the victim and 180Solutions is the criminal. They are nothing more than system, resource and privacy rapists and should be dealt with as exactly that.
"will even let you photocopy any of the material you find there for only the cost of the copy machine!"
I think you could buy the book for less than it costs to buy a copy machine.
Could it be that people are also realizing there are better news sites than what they can get in a daily paper?
It might also be that people in this age are searching out factual news rather than the biased stories we tend to get from local and giant corporate rags.
In Minneapolis out only choices are between two liberal newspapers that tend to think that newsworthy items are those involving how smoking is bad for your health and how we need to dole out more welfare to the "impoverished" here.
A real human is wearing a shroud of anonymity and handing out the bitchslap to a total stranger.
Run outside and punch a cop...they won't hide behind a shroud of anonymity when they bitchslap you.
Aside from telling them to take down their blogs he also asked that they take down their pants.
IIS passes 5 Trillion crashes mark.
I'm surprised no one has brought up the fact that many I.T. professionals are still living off of fatter salaries than most non-I.T. workers. Many of us have learned to live beyond our means because of bloated salary. Suddenly, we were thrown into reality.
I was laid off a couple years ago so I went back to consulting. I just took a permanent position again with a company. I took a salary cut of over 30% and I was told that raises are usually cost-of-living and that is it.
However, in return, the company covers our insurance 100%, gives us prepaid gas cards every month and pays for us to attend classes, purchase books, etc.
By the way, we are a transportation company and due to fuel costs going up we are making a return of less than 2%
Point being that if you aren't happy where you are at, there are PLENTY of companies out there that are willing to appreciate their employees but with the current economy (still improving) it can't always be in monetary terms.
My salary is more than enough for me to live off of very happily. More importantly, I have a feeling of worth at my company rather than feeling like a overpaid assembly line developer.
The satisfaction I get more than makes up for the difference in income.
"...because we do such a good job, WE, not THEY, because without us, they would not be rich, but without them, we couls still produce and sell the same product."
Then why don't you fund your own start-up, hire programmers, pay them while your product is in development (making no income yourself during that time), then market the product, paying for advertisement, support, QA, patch development, etc. and wait for the millions to roll in?
The blame is on the "developers" in this case: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/1 0/21/1240258&from=rss
I can't believe the number of Pro-PHP developers on /.
You're all joking right? I mean, how can you rip the hell out of Windows being a security risk then turn around and talk about the beauty and wonderment of PHP?
Sure, apples and oranges, OS and Scripting language
But seriously, PHP? Talk about a buggy security risk.
And how about all the MAJOR changes between MINOR versions? If you develop something for PHP today it is unlikely it will work with the next version.
The list goes on.
The point being that the complaints all the Linux users make regarding Windows can apply to the main scripting language Linux users (I'm sure the majority of Websites developed with PHP are running on a Linux box compared to Windows) develop their web applications with.
Ironic. Pot, kettle, stfu.
Do the math. 1km/week loss. 340km at present.
The claim is that the rate of loss is increasing as the orbit decays but also states that, if nothing else, the shuttle will be there in 9 weeks.
It's not an emergency.
"...really sucks when you can do something cool in HTML/CSS (example :hover) and IE doesn't support it...
:hover...thank goodness something finally came along to replace the much missed <blink> tag.
Put that together with <marquee> and you can finally rebuild that GeoCities site you missed so much.
Yes,
Wow, aquachannel must be pretty slow to posting news. There isn't a single new car added since over a week ago.
I wonder why the Prius hasn't been added yet?
We have also made the uninstall process easy for those who choose not to use 180solutions' products."
Does anyone know of someone that ever WILLFULLY decided to use their software? There shouldn't be a simple uninstall because there shouldn't have been an install in the first place.
They decided to "cut back".
That's like a serial killer deciding to only kill 1 or 2 people a year rather than the usual 4.
Any company that uses 180 as a marketing firm should be boycotted.
Google Search, Google Earth, Google Moon, GMail, now GOffice....
and in the works in San Francisco.....wi-fi.
When searching for Wi-Fi hotspots, nerds will finally be able to truthfully say "I can find the G-Spot"
Nothing says security like archiving all your sensitive corporate documents on a web system like Google's. I'm sure they won't index, archive and search any of the documents.
Even better...if Google builds it maybe Microsoft will use it and then Google can look through all of MS's documents.
And those are just a few reasons why it WON'T catch on. It's been done. It will be done again but it won't become something that is commonly used.
A shopping cart, shotgun and plenty of shells.
My other friend (yes, I have two!) put it best I think, when he said "I hope the guy got a major payout from Microsoft, because such a public display of incompetence makes him unemployable.".
It stands to reason that Defenders Of Linux (pronounced k-rad elite kiddies) are unable to reason.
The numbers say he's saved his company money and made their systems more reliable. That usually makes you *more* employable, not less - at least with the people who actually do the hiring that don't care about Operating System holy wars, at any rate.
Great response, DrSmithy. Sadly, thre truth of the matter is that the majority of the Linux backers aren't willing to read the whole article. They are just looking for the quick bash on anyone Pro-Windows and Anti-Linux.
So what does that say about all the FREE Linux Distros?
Oh No! Netscape is making MONEY off of a product that, regardless of being open source, THEY OWN?
You mean they aren't distributing source and running threads and running servers and paying bills and implementing code for free? HOW DARE THEY!
You little pissy babies need to grow up. And when you do, you are going to realize that advances don't happen for free or just come out of mommy and daddy's pockets. Someone has to pay for this. And like banner ads are going to kill you. No one forces you to click on them. It's called BUISINESS...or for you krad kiddies that are complaining, BIDNESS.
Hey Slashdot! I'm really pissed. I hopped on the site today, saw TONS of submittals by users and then I looked up and saw you were running BANNER ADS on your site. I'm offended. You are making money off of your readers submissions. YOU CORPORATE BASTARDS!!! =)
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