I am very prone to hiccups. The only thing that works every time is to drink any soda real fast and (eeew!) burp real loud! I don't know what it does but the burping stops right there. Try it next time you have hiccups [but please, please, find the nearest restroom first -- nobody wants the cure to be worse than the disease:)]
Also, it's important to remember that there are a lot of "in-house" systems out there. These systems will usually run for years without upgrades or modifications, but corporate types feel very "edgy" when support is not available. Not having support is bad and upgrading without necessity on the other hand is a hassle.
We have HP/UX servers with >1500days uptime. That's 4 years! Only now HP is dropping support for HP/UX 10.20. I don't remember exactly when 10.20 was released, but I'd say some 5 years ago or so.
I believe it's hard for RedHat to keep a big support structure. If this is the case, a solution would be to make people pay more for legacy software support. This alternative would provide an incentive to upgrade for those who want to save some money while leaving options for those who can't.
They basically glide over some distance. But that's it! They do not fly like birds in the sense we know it. Have you even seen one of those fish? It's quite interesting.
First of all, let me state I'm no scientist. But some stuff just doesn't seem reasonable:
FLISH (for FLying fISH) - Does it make much sense that an animal that cannot generate its own heat would spend an enourmous amount of calories flying? Also, is there a fish that can fly like a bird these days or any indication in that sense? The contrary is pretty common (penguins, et al).
Giant Squid roaming the forests - Owhhh, C'mon! What possible advantage is there in it? They can get all the food they need, without the hassle of vertebrae, in the ocean.
Sharks with flashing colors - This one was just too bad! Why would a shark need flashing things on the side of their bodies? According to the program, to "guide the other sharks and hunt in packs". C'mon... We all know light gets filtered rather rapidly by water. Wouldn't sound be a better choice?
Chrome Spiders herding the last mammal on earth - Yes, you heard it right. BTW, what's the point in a animal being silver chrome in color? To shine the sunlight and attract the predators?
I also disliked the concept that most animals will get bigger. That seems contrary to what we've observed in the last million years. Animals like Sharks and Alligators have survived millenia without many changes. What makes one think the radical changes proposed in the program would occur?
Funny thing is that I had my nephew (11 years old) watching the program with me. He laughed most of the time and thought the ideas were mostly ludicrous. And see, he's 11...
Brazil is a good example of what happens when media corporations are allowed to do whatever they want.
Brazil's biggest media company is called "Rede Globo" (Globo Network). They own radios (both AM and FM), TV stations across the country and newspapers.
It's hard to describe the power of such corporations although the US is beginning to have a glimpse of what happens when media becomes a tycoon controlled business.
Rede Globo's ascent to power began in the mid 60's when they sided unilateraly with the military (Brazil was forcefully ruled by the military for 20 years starting in 1964, with lots of torture and deaths -- all with the consent of the US governement, but then it's a different story). Newscasts at that time use to portray any opposer as "subversive". The whole thing grew to be what it is today: A big conglomerate with tentacles in all sections of the society.
One interesting example is what happened to "Fernando Collor", a whacko that eventually got elected as the Brazilian President some years ago. Globo supported Collor fiercely, as the other candidate was Lula (the current Brazilian president). Corporations were very afraid that a left wing candidate would win and Globo used all their power in favor of Collor. Later, winds changed and Collor started to go really nuts. Result: Globo gave all attention (nationwide!) to anti-Collor movements across the country. Lots of dust under the rug came to light and he was eventually impeached.
And if this was not enough, consider this: In the US, when Britney Spears starts singing on the radio you just say a few bad words and change the station (OK, OK, it's going to be hard to find a good one). In Brazil, when Globo wants to impose a new fad, you'll see that on TV most of the time, you'll listen on a few radio stations and on the highest circulation newspapers. You cannot escape the annoyance. You just cannot.
In the future, when Palladium comes integrated in pretty much all Intel and AMD chips, and All your Base Are Belong to Microsoft, The "Dragon" chips might be our only hope of sustaining our freedom. Of course, this is a farfetched cry: Either Palladium or Dragon could go the way of the Dodo before Bill Gates consolidates his empire of Evil.
Funny thing a communist country might help the "Free World" citizens keep their freedom.:)
I wish them (the Chinese engineers) good luck, just in case Palladium comes to fruition.
Granted: Most of us don't directly look at the banners at all. But you always take a quick glance at them. Why not use the same idea to find missing children?
SPAM does not distinguish between personal and corporate email accounts. What happens here is that most people use the corporate accounts strictly for business related matters and corporate mail, while their personal emails are used for everything else (where the exposure to harvesters is most likely to happen).
I have lots of friends who post messages on the Usenet using their corporate email accounts. Guess the result? Lots and lots of SPAM.
Although I despise the current ISP mentality (let the customers burn to hell -- it's worse than getting sued), I partially understand their position.
The main problem is that some people just do not have the correct "attitude" and a disgruntled employee (rightfully or not) might cause severe damage to the "corporate" image.
OK, OK. You must be thinking now: "But not helping also damages their reputation!". And I couldn't agree more. I think they should "pre-screen" the employees that can do that, or employ some similar process.
I speak from past experience. In a previous job, we were in charge of fixing a broken Oracle Database (poor backup schemes and a disk failure -- you get the idea). The development team sent a programmer to "help us out". The management team on the branch office where the problem happened was already demanding answers (who? why? How can we avoid it?). We were kindly explaining everything to calm them down (a new backup policy, redundant hardware and all). Everything was going in the right direction.
Later on that day, in the middle of a big meeting to discuss the problem (with the aforementioned managers), Mr. Programmer does some quick queries to an yet to be fully restored database and says "Well, I say that this database is completely messed up -- I don't trust this data anymore...".
Needless to say we had to counter his false and invalid arguments with some facts. Took us some good hours and a lot of paperwork.
That is the danger of having someone without any tact representing the company or a group in a "delicate" situation.
Don't forget. Vivendi is also doing bad. They're going to break next. I think the service will have to change name do PressStop instead of PressPlay.:)
I'm the ruler of Andromeda-3, an M Class Planet in the constellation of Andromeda. My father, the fifth ruler in the Pfthoskkkrkfhhdfkfk dinasty has been robbed. If you could lend me your intergalactic bank account so I can transfer my funds to Alpha Centauri...:)
Who didn't predict that robots would eventually take over art as well as everything else? Next thing you know there'll be street robots doing oil paintings for cash.
I've seen a lot of word documents that OpenOffice cannot swallow. Granted, they're complex beyond necessity, but that's just a sample of what's out there in the wild.
People won't move to OpenOffice for as long as they cannot open all Word documents without any flaws/artifacts. And as you know Microsoft moves purposedly so fast that it even creates incompatibilities with former versions of Word...
You have sent a file to me in a format I can't read. Since the extension is (xls|doc|whatever), I assume this is a Microsoft office file. You can save this file in a format that is more useable to me and others by opening the file, using the File->SaveAs menus and selecting (text|RichTextFormat|HTML|whatever) and saving. Please send me the file that results. (...)
That's an elegant solution IMHO, but has two problems:
People are SO used to Microsoft that they do not understand how someone cannot read a MS WORD file!
In the corporate environment, that might not be a possible solution
It's a completely different style of game. SC2 is a 2D Space/Adventure game where you have to solve a puzzle.
The graphics are not all that if compared to today's graphics, but the Aliens (yes, you have to interact with all kinds of whacked up aliens) are incredibly fun. I remember laughing out really hard in the middle of the night playing this game.
It's hard to describe. You got to play to understand.
This is by far one of the funnies games I've ever played. It's funny that even today I was talking to a friend about it and how cool it would be if it became GPL.
Oh, he normally sends his ever vigilant watchdog: Ballmer.
A friend of mine works in the public sector in Brazil (an office related to the Ministry of Health). His Boss asked him about some ideas on how Linux could be used to cut costs to the taxpayer.
After careful study, he produced a report proving that is was possible to replace most (if not all) MS servers with Linux servers.
When word got out about this possibility, Steve Ballmer paid the country a visit and mysteriously, the project was put on the shelf in favor of Microsoft... Of course, the licensing method chosen was very unfavorable to the taxpayer.
I believe the dreaded office format is what keeps the dependency on windows strong. Most people didn't realize yet that they can communicate perfectly using text in their emails. If that fails, they can always save their files in Rich Text format.
Unfortunately, MS Office is like a virus: You might do the right thing(tm) but chances are your neighbor won't...
Slashdot Mirror
I don't care for the kitchen sink. Could you please include a car washer instead?
I am very prone to hiccups. The only thing that works every time is to drink any soda real fast and (eeew!) burp real loud! I don't know what it does but the burping stops right there. Try it next time you have hiccups [but please, please, find the nearest restroom first -- nobody wants the cure to be worse than the disease :)]
I agree completely.
Also, it's important to remember that there are a lot of "in-house" systems out there. These systems will usually run for years without upgrades or modifications, but corporate types feel very "edgy" when support is not available. Not having support is bad and upgrading without necessity on the other hand is a hassle.
We have HP/UX servers with >1500days uptime. That's 4 years! Only now HP is dropping support for HP/UX 10.20. I don't remember exactly when 10.20 was released, but I'd say some 5 years ago or so.
I believe it's hard for RedHat to keep a big support structure. If this is the case, a solution would be to make people pay more for legacy software support. This alternative would provide an incentive to upgrade for those who want to save some money while leaving options for those who can't.
Oh I know about the "Flying Fish" of today.
They basically glide over some distance. But that's it! They do not fly like birds in the sense we know it. Have you even seen one of those fish? It's quite interesting.
In the program, they fly like birds! And dive!
I also disliked the concept that most animals will get bigger. That seems contrary to what we've observed in the last million years. Animals like Sharks and Alligators have survived millenia without many changes. What makes one think the radical changes proposed in the program would occur?
Funny thing is that I had my nephew (11 years old) watching the program with me. He laughed most of the time and thought the ideas were mostly ludicrous. And see, he's 11...
Brazil is a good example of what happens when media corporations are allowed to do whatever they want.
Brazil's biggest media company is called "Rede Globo" (Globo Network). They own radios (both AM and FM), TV stations across the country and newspapers.
It's hard to describe the power of such corporations although the US is beginning to have a glimpse of what happens when media becomes a tycoon controlled business.
Rede Globo's ascent to power began in the mid 60's when they sided unilateraly with the military (Brazil was forcefully ruled by the military for 20 years starting in 1964, with lots of torture and deaths -- all with the consent of the US governement, but then it's a different story). Newscasts at that time use to portray any opposer as "subversive". The whole thing grew to be what it is today: A big conglomerate with tentacles in all sections of the society.
One interesting example is what happened to "Fernando Collor", a whacko that eventually got elected as the Brazilian President some years ago. Globo supported Collor fiercely, as the other candidate was Lula (the current Brazilian president). Corporations were very afraid that a left wing candidate would win and Globo used all their power in favor of Collor. Later, winds changed and Collor started to go really nuts. Result: Globo gave all attention (nationwide!) to anti-Collor movements across the country. Lots of dust under the rug came to light and he was eventually impeached.
And if this was not enough, consider this: In the US, when Britney Spears starts singing on the radio you just say a few bad words and change the station (OK, OK, it's going to be hard to find a good one). In Brazil, when Globo wants to impose a new fad, you'll see that on TV most of the time, you'll listen on a few radio stations and on the highest circulation newspapers. You cannot escape the annoyance. You just cannot.
Are they being hosted by that webserver-on-a-gameboy" guy, or what?
Probably a Win2K box with your typical MCSE SysAdmin. At least, with the gameboy, you can get some fun.
(...)feral young children and pre-teenage gamers
What's a "feral young child"? A child raised in a home and released back to the wild?
In the future, when Palladium comes integrated in pretty much all Intel and AMD chips, and All your Base Are Belong to Microsoft, The "Dragon" chips might be our only hope of sustaining our freedom. Of course, this is a farfetched cry: Either Palladium or Dragon could go the way of the Dodo before Bill Gates consolidates his empire of Evil.
:)
Funny thing a communist country might help the "Free World" citizens keep their freedom.
I wish them (the Chinese engineers) good luck, just in case Palladium comes to fruition.
Tina Turner??
:)
Come think about it. She did spare Mel Gibson's life in MadMax didn't she?
Granted: Most of us don't directly look at the banners at all. But you always take a quick glance at them. Why not use the same idea to find missing children?
SPAM does not distinguish between personal and corporate email accounts. What happens here is that most people use the corporate accounts strictly for business related matters and corporate mail, while their personal emails are used for everything else (where the exposure to harvesters is most likely to happen).
I have lots of friends who post messages on the Usenet using their corporate email accounts. Guess the result? Lots and lots of SPAM.
Well, not everybody. Blind people, for instance, do not.
Although I despise the current ISP mentality (let the customers burn to hell -- it's worse than getting sued), I partially understand their position.
The main problem is that some people just do not have the correct "attitude" and a disgruntled employee (rightfully or not) might cause severe damage to the "corporate" image.
OK, OK. You must be thinking now: "But not helping also damages their reputation!". And I couldn't agree more. I think they should "pre-screen" the employees that can do that, or employ some similar process.
I speak from past experience. In a previous job, we were in charge of fixing a broken Oracle Database (poor backup schemes and a disk failure -- you get the idea). The development team sent a programmer to "help us out". The management team on the branch office where the problem happened was already demanding answers (who? why? How can we avoid it?). We were kindly explaining everything to calm them down (a new backup policy, redundant hardware and all). Everything was going in the right direction.
Later on that day, in the middle of a big meeting to discuss the problem (with the aforementioned managers), Mr. Programmer does some quick queries to an yet to be fully restored database and says "Well, I say that this database is completely messed up -- I don't trust this data anymore...".
Needless to say we had to counter his false and invalid arguments with some facts. Took us some good hours and a lot of paperwork.
That is the danger of having someone without any tact representing the company or a group in a "delicate" situation.
Don't forget. Vivendi is also doing bad. They're going to break next. I think the service will have to change name do PressStop instead of PressPlay. :)
Dear Sir/Madam/Globunsk/Srhamel/Goot:
:)
I'm the ruler of Andromeda-3, an M Class Planet in the constellation of Andromeda. My father, the fifth ruler in the Pfthoskkkrkfhhdfkfk dinasty has been robbed. If you could lend me your intergalactic bank account so I can transfer my funds to Alpha Centauri...
Who didn't predict that robots would eventually take over art as well as everything else? Next thing you know there'll be street robots doing oil paintings for cash.
Or rather, doing oil paintings for oil.
I've seen a lot of word documents that OpenOffice cannot swallow. Granted, they're complex beyond necessity, but that's just a sample of what's out there in the wild.
People won't move to OpenOffice for as long as they cannot open all Word documents without any flaws/artifacts. And as you know Microsoft moves purposedly so fast that it even creates incompatibilities with former versions of Word...
Dear Sir or Madam:
You have sent a file to me in a format I can't read. Since the extension is (xls|doc|whatever), I assume this is a Microsoft office file. You can save this file in a format that is more useable to me and others by opening the file, using the File->SaveAs menus and selecting (text|RichTextFormat|HTML|whatever) and saving. Please send me the file that results.
(...)
That's an elegant solution IMHO, but has two problems:
Don't you mean bulldog?
Whatever.
You know, that guy who's always high on drugs and screams his lungs off on seminars. Yes, that one.
It's a completely different style of game. SC2 is a 2D Space/Adventure game where you have to solve a puzzle.
The graphics are not all that if compared to today's graphics, but the Aliens (yes, you have to interact with all kinds of whacked up aliens) are incredibly fun. I remember laughing out really hard in the middle of the night playing this game.
It's hard to describe. You got to play to understand.
This is by far one of the funnies games I've ever played. It's funny that even today I was talking to a friend about it and how cool it would be if it became GPL.
:)
And some say dreams don't come true!
Oh, he normally sends his ever vigilant watchdog: Ballmer.
A friend of mine works in the public sector in Brazil (an office related to the Ministry of Health). His Boss asked him about some ideas on how Linux could be used to cut costs to the taxpayer.
After careful study, he produced a report proving that is was possible to replace most (if not all) MS servers with Linux servers.
When word got out about this possibility, Steve Ballmer paid the country a visit and mysteriously, the project was put on the shelf in favor of Microsoft... Of course, the licensing method chosen was very unfavorable to the taxpayer.
We all know what happens here...
I believe the dreaded office format is what keeps the dependency on windows strong. Most people didn't realize yet that they can communicate perfectly using text in their emails. If that fails, they can always save their files in Rich Text format.
Unfortunately, MS Office is like a virus: You might do the right thing(tm) but chances are your neighbor won't...
There's more people in your so called "third world" than in the "industrialized nations" or whatever you might want to call them... :)