he plans to focus on (and fund) studies that 'will highlight Microsoft's advantages in areas such as security, feature-completeness and total cost of ownership.'
Well, 1 out of 3 ain't good. I mean bad. I mean... nevermind.
"I'm not sure that I agree that piracy is the reason for all of the music industry woes - I think creativity also has something to do with it,"
I have a different problem with this statement. It implies that creativity has something to do with the industry woes. Creativity isn't usually considered a bad thing. I'm pretty sure that "lack of creativity" is more in line with his intention. A little grammar check would be good considering the low frequency and word count of each post.
And, for the record, I agree with you. It sounds like a bunch of grandpas, "why back in my day...". Back in my day we had The Monkees and the Banana Splits, etc. Eminem is a genius compared to the Partridge Family.
They're all pretty spiffy except the one with the bright blue band which is cluttered and confusing. Therefore, I predict that Microsoft will pick that design.
It is through electrodynamism and these pockets of gas that the Martians would hurl their cylinders toward our Earth! We should be steadfast in our study of Mars, for surely they are studying us just as intently; Perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
American readers should keep in mind that SMS use here is nearly as ubiquitous as Starbucks stores in the states. We SMS all freakin' day long. Lots of US networks adopted digital late in the game, but down here there was no slow crawl from analog (it just is, I'm not making any commentary). So Aussies have been using services like this for a while and they've become a part of life. And now MMS and video phones is all the rage (if you believe the providers).
Walk around any mall here and you'll see lots of people thumbing messages to loved ones and friends. So, yes, spam pisses us off just as if it were email spam. It's annoying as hell.
Meanwhile Linux watchers everywhere are waiting for the inevitable splinter group to drop off and start its own 'better' version now that a second release has rolled out. Said one caffeine-addled nerd, "We're just too close to some sort of agreement on what works well within the user community. Can't have that."
I just wonder who is liable when a company sells a surplus laptop on eBay but gets their inventory control screwed up and reports it as stolen...
"company sells" "gets their inventory...screwed up" "reports... stolen". Isn't it obvious enough? The same people who'd be liable no matter how it was reported as stolen.
Or from an American viewpoint, I suppose, "whomever can successfully be sued".
Forcing the end user to eat the cost won't resolve anything, IMHO. Until someone whose voice will be heard, like ISPs, by the companies whose shoddy security help perpetuate things like these malicious virus steps up and says "you're hurting our bottom line" then nothing will get better.
And, yes, I'm looking towards Redmond... I mean... it's not my OSX box or your Linux box that's hammering people's dsl and cable modems...
I, unfortunately, am under Telstra's thumb in Australia and currently am experiencing mysterious usage spikes (some while I'm not even #@&*^ on line) so I may be biased. But I don't think making Joe Blow pay for this will do anything other than 'make Joe Blow pay for it', not solve anything.
What the hell are you talking about "Genius"? Nearly everything you said is wrong or mis-informed.
MMX? Ya mean SSE/iSSE? Well it's AltiVec in PPC and it produces higher Blast numbers than Intel's. Cost to clock cycle? PPC do more instructions pcc. How is this more $? Embedded? Go open up a Mac and look. The CPUs are not embedded. Servers? Have you looked at Xserve?
Christ on a moped! I used to work for Intel and I can't even defend anything you've said.
all they'd have to do is show a unit on Neighbours and it'd be all over. They'd sell like beer on a hot day. It's been predicted several times that Australia is the perfect market. I know I miss the hell out of Tivo. I had it when I was in the States and god knows my left thumb itches every time I miss something and want to 'rewind'.
Since members of the RIAA are obviously investing in this service, all the data they claim re: P2P is instantly invalidated. They have stuck their toes in and completely tainted the data pool. Any armchair lawyer could successfully argue this in a trial.
Shhh... if you listen carefully you can hear the death knell of many fat men with gold chains and big cigars... You can hear the rustling of the millions of dollars they've extorted from artists as they writhe in agony. They've lost control of the studios... now they're losing the marketing... how will they employ their nephews and nieces? Where will the faked-up jobs come from? Who will they scam points off of? What if... they lose distribution! Nooooo......!
*A big FO to Tommy Mottola. I hope you go down first. Grab Clive Davis on your way down, would ya?*
He's the maintainer. When he says "I meant" he means what he wrote in the readme. He's not the asshat troll that posted that first pile of crap/fud (that should be mod'd down, for god's sake).
So this is what's up with redundant posts on/. !!! They're looking for errors! After analysing the data from this experiment, the error is clearly apparent; Timothy.
Thank you, thank you, you've been a great audience. I'm here all week!
People in the industry read/. and they trust it to accurately reflect its claims. You guys act like news editors (it says "news" in your logo!) yet you do not abide by the same rules as other news organisations are held to. Accountability? Whatever...
Stories like this can only harm companies like Apple. When ondustry people see it and say "Slashdot says..." others take it as truth. It would appear that Slashdot editors are starting to suffer from the same syndrome much of its readership does; not reading and checking facts and accepting the blurb as containing the facts. This is exactly how this came to my attention. Someone in the industry wrote to inform me that the 17" iMacs were dead (and were therefore not a viable investment).
I've come to expect this sort of thing from Timothy, but I was shocked that Hemos posted this one. I think you owe it to your readers, the industry and Apple to correct this story, if not pull it altogether.
Tell your CS people they're living in a dream world. Linux has made great leaps and bounds inside corporate IT. If they only want their graduates working for small-time ISPs then carry on. It's nice to see they have Solaris, but that's probably only because of their mis-guided (and out-dated) view that Solaris==The Web.
I just left Intel where my department (an IT group) supported _thousands upon thousands_ of Linux boxes both in the server room and on the desktop. Take a look at the length of this server room: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=158 4&p =10 A good 3/4 is filled with machines running Linux.
It's sad when consumer mentality leaks into the professional level. But that's what happens with America's backwards management ideas (if something makes sense and works, it probably needs more managers and those managers don't necessarily need to understand the 'product'...). Anyway... good luck to your school's CS curriculum. They need it.
It is making ground in IT courses because Linux is both easy to lock-down, easy to pull apart and offers simple licensing for distribution to students.
Please stop fixating on the whole locking down bit! Timothy craftily negelected to list anything but the potentially inflammatory and sensational 'lock down' phrase. It's EASIER for them to use Linux (and makes more sense and it's CHEAPER), not "they can't lock down Windows". These are newbies who DO know how to fuck up a Window machine pronto. They'll have to do some learning before they can pull a good cock up of their Linux box. And since this is a Uni, students learning is kind of high on their list of 'things we want to happen'.
And please take note this is not the whole Uni. My girlfriend works there and she (and her whole department) uses Macs. But it is a step, IMHO, in the right direction for UOW.
... to take business advice from a bunch of goobs who can't spell or cobble together a proper sentence.
Seriously... all those replies from what appear to be either adolescents or illiterates stating categorically how bad an idea this is and how they'll lose money! Yeah, I'm sure there's heaps of business experience and acumen behind each "sence" and "their" [they're] and "are" [our]. One poster even mis-spelled his own god#&^%$ name for fsck's sake!
I'll play. And I'll play safe in the knowledge that the worst of the whiners will be off on their pouting protest of what's probably the most anticipated (and probably, eventually, most profitable) MMORPG ever and not getting in way of my enjoyment.
No shit! I mean... for fuck's sake this site goes on and on about Ogg compression and blah blah blah barf barf and we get these _huge_ JPEGs of Malda's wedding??? And don't be crying about loss, they're already grainy even at ludicrous size!
What're ya thinkin man!;)
(but errrr I'm done bitching so 'congrats rob and kathleen!')
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he plans to focus on (and fund) studies that 'will highlight Microsoft's advantages in areas such as security, feature-completeness and total cost of ownership.'
Well, 1 out of 3 ain't good. I mean bad. I mean... nevermind.
"I'm not sure that I agree that piracy is the reason for all of the music industry woes - I think creativity also has something to do with it,"
I have a different problem with this statement. It implies that creativity has something to do with the industry woes. Creativity isn't usually considered a bad thing. I'm pretty sure that "lack of creativity" is more in line with his intention. A little grammar check would be good considering the low frequency and word count of each post.
And, for the record, I agree with you. It sounds like a bunch of grandpas, "why back in my day...". Back in my day we had The Monkees and the Banana Splits, etc. Eminem is a genius compared to the Partridge Family.
ding ding ding!
You win the magic cookie!
They're all pretty spiffy except the one with the bright blue band which is cluttered and confusing. Therefore, I predict that Microsoft will pick that design.
It is through electrodynamism and these pockets of gas that the Martians would hurl their cylinders toward our Earth! We should be steadfast in our study of Mars, for surely they are studying us just as intently; Perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
American readers should keep in mind that SMS use here is nearly as ubiquitous as Starbucks stores in the states. We SMS all freakin' day long. Lots of US networks adopted digital late in the game, but down here there was no slow crawl from analog (it just is, I'm not making any commentary). So Aussies have been using services like this for a while and they've become a part of life. And now MMS and video phones is all the rage (if you believe the providers).
Walk around any mall here and you'll see lots of people thumbing messages to loved ones and friends. So, yes, spam pisses us off just as if it were email spam. It's annoying as hell.
Meanwhile Linux watchers everywhere are waiting for the inevitable splinter group to drop off and start its own 'better' version now that a second release has rolled out. Said one caffeine-addled nerd, "We're just too close to some sort of agreement on what works well within the user community. Can't have that."
I just wonder who is liable when a company sells a surplus laptop on eBay but gets their inventory control screwed up and reports it as stolen...
... stolen". Isn't it obvious enough? The same people who'd be liable no matter how it was reported as stolen.
"company sells" "gets their inventory...screwed up" "reports
Or from an American viewpoint, I suppose, "whomever can successfully be sued".
of a time when you'd find cigarette companies giving out free cigarettes all over thee place.
Yes, but $40 million, the sum cited in the post, divided by 400 is 100,000.
Now go stand in the corner for one hour or write "I will read the post before remarking." 100 times on the blackboard.
Forcing the end user to eat the cost won't resolve anything, IMHO. Until someone whose voice will be heard, like ISPs, by the companies whose shoddy security help perpetuate things like these malicious virus steps up and says "you're hurting our bottom line" then nothing will get better.
And, yes, I'm looking towards Redmond... I mean... it's not my OSX box or your Linux box that's hammering people's dsl and cable modems...
I, unfortunately, am under Telstra's thumb in Australia and currently am experiencing mysterious usage spikes (some while I'm not even #@&*^ on line) so I may be biased. But I don't think making Joe Blow pay for this will do anything other than 'make Joe Blow pay for it', not solve anything.
What the hell are you talking about "Genius"?
Nearly everything you said is wrong or mis-informed.
MMX? Ya mean SSE/iSSE? Well it's AltiVec in PPC and it produces higher Blast numbers than Intel's.
Cost to clock cycle? PPC do more instructions pcc. How is this more $?
Embedded? Go open up a Mac and look. The CPUs are not embedded.
Servers? Have you looked at Xserve?
Christ on a moped! I used to work for Intel and I can't even defend anything you've said.
all they'd have to do is show a unit on Neighbours and it'd be all over. They'd sell like beer on a hot day. It's been predicted several times that Australia is the perfect market. I know I miss the hell out of Tivo. I had it when I was in the States and god knows my left thumb itches every time I miss something and want to 'rewind'.
...or I am anyway...
Hurry Tivo! We're ready!
Since members of the RIAA are obviously investing in this service, all the data they claim re: P2P is instantly invalidated. They have stuck their toes in and completely tainted the data pool. Any armchair lawyer could successfully argue this in a trial.
Shhh... if you listen carefully you can hear the death knell of many fat men with gold chains and big cigars... You can hear the rustling of the millions of dollars they've extorted from artists as they writhe in agony. They've lost control of the studios... now they're losing the marketing... how will they employ their nephews and nieces? Where will the faked-up jobs come from? Who will they scam points off of? What if... they lose distribution! Nooooo......!
*A big FO to Tommy Mottola. I hope you go down first. Grab Clive Davis on your way down, would ya?*
Don't jump to the wrong conclusion here, Cowards!
He's the maintainer. When he says "I meant" he means what he wrote in the readme. He's not the asshat troll that posted that first pile of crap/fud (that should be mod'd down, for god's sake).
Using Redundancies to Find Errors
/. !!!
So this is what's up with redundant posts on
They're looking for errors!
After analysing the data from this experiment, the error is clearly apparent; Timothy.
Thank you, thank you, you've been a great audience. I'm here all week!
http://images.slashdot.org/banner/devc0017en.gif?1 041572708346
How fitting.
People in the industry read /. and they trust it to accurately reflect its claims. You guys act like news editors (it says "news" in your logo!) yet you do not abide by the same rules as other news organisations are held to. Accountability? Whatever...
Stories like this can only harm companies like Apple. When ondustry people see it and say "Slashdot says..." others take it as truth. It would appear that Slashdot editors are starting to suffer from the same syndrome much of its readership does; not reading and checking facts and accepting the blurb as containing the facts. This is exactly how this came to my attention. Someone in the industry wrote to inform me that the 17" iMacs were dead (and were therefore not a viable investment).
I've come to expect this sort of thing from Timothy, but I was shocked that Hemos posted this one. I think you owe it to your readers, the industry and Apple to correct this story, if not pull it altogether.
This is bullshit. Own up.
Tell your CS people they're living in a dream world. Linux has made great leaps and bounds inside corporate IT. If they only want their graduates working for small-time ISPs then carry on. It's nice to see they have Solaris, but that's probably only because of their mis-guided (and out-dated) view that Solaris==The Web.
8 4&p =10
I just left Intel where my department (an IT group) supported _thousands upon thousands_ of Linux boxes both in the server room and on the desktop.
Take a look at the length of this server room:
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=15
A good 3/4 is filled with machines running Linux.
It's sad when consumer mentality leaks into the professional level. But that's what happens with America's backwards management ideas (if something makes sense and works, it probably needs more managers and those managers don't necessarily need to understand the 'product'...). Anyway... good luck to your school's CS curriculum. They need it.
Answer: They only click through to look at pictures of Lego, Linux handhelds and case mods. ;)
It is making ground in IT courses because Linux is both easy to lock-down, easy to pull apart and offers simple licensing for distribution to students.
Please stop fixating on the whole locking down bit!
Timothy craftily negelected to list anything but the potentially inflammatory and sensational 'lock down' phrase. It's EASIER for them to use Linux (and makes more sense and it's CHEAPER), not "they can't lock down Windows". These are newbies who DO know how to fuck up a Window machine pronto. They'll have to do some learning before they can pull a good cock up of their Linux box. And since this is a Uni, students learning is kind of high on their list of 'things we want to happen'.
And please take note this is not the whole Uni. My girlfriend works there and she (and her whole department) uses Macs. But it is a step, IMHO, in the right direction for UOW.
And it was interesting 9 days ago, too... after we started it. Here... on Slashdot... you know Slashdot?
Congrats on your marriage. Now, could you get caught up on previous posts before putting anything else up?
Nuff said!
... to take business advice from a bunch of goobs who can't spell or cobble together a proper sentence.
Seriously... all those replies from what appear to be either adolescents or illiterates stating categorically how bad an idea this is and how they'll lose money! Yeah, I'm sure there's heaps of business experience and acumen behind each "sence" and "their" [they're] and "are" [our]. One poster even mis-spelled his own god#&^%$ name for fsck's sake!
I'll play. And I'll play safe in the knowledge that the worst of the whiners will be off on their pouting protest of what's probably the most anticipated (and probably, eventually, most profitable) MMORPG ever and not getting in way of my enjoyment.
No shit!
;)
I mean... for fuck's sake this site goes on and on about Ogg compression and blah blah blah barf barf and we get these _huge_ JPEGs of Malda's wedding??? And don't be crying about loss, they're already grainy even at ludicrous size!
What're ya thinkin man!
(but errrr I'm done bitching so 'congrats rob and kathleen!')