I'm definitley in the LINUX/UNIX camp. People moan and groan about the windows registry, but since the "fanboy" cult of MySQL as continued to grow you can bet somebody would try and replace it by insisting that MySQL should be installed and ALL settings should be stored in a database.:(
I Like databases, but if I can't edit it with vi I don't want it!
You know, I've been thinking that greedy moves like this and others like Cell phone manufacturers charging you everytime you take a photo and want to save it, or making you pay an extra 200 bucks for the same cell phone WITH a stereo headphone jack should have an award.
We could call it the Ferengi award, after those lovable capatilists in the Star Trek universe.
What sony is doing is VERY Ferengi like.
Rules of Aquisition #202: The justification for profit is profit
What's stupid is I have money that'd I'd GLADLY give them to be able to get subscriptions of comic books that I enjoyed way back when I was younger. Comic fans understand (I think..but I could be wrong) that he continuation of their favorite series is based on SALES. Yes, you can download scanned comics off of bittorrent, but I'd gladly PAY to read those comics if I knew it influenced in some way the future publication of comics I want to read.
I'm out of the collector "phase", I don't need/want boxes of comics in my basement.
Exactly my point. As long as there is a bigger target for Viruses/Spyware which are being created more and more for PROFIT and not 12 year old angst ridden genious kids (there will always be that element) OS X will be safer (and that does NOT include the inherent better security design of OS X which is MUCH better than windows)
Quite frankly I don't want to see OS X have some huge marketshare. I'd prefer the platform to have enough marketshare that developers can make money and Apple to make a profit, but not big enough for Virus writers and spyware authors to care (the way it is now).
Why does OS X have to have an increasing marketshare to remain successful?
The problem is there are accusations throughout the article used to back up the premise of the article. You can argue each one ad-nauseum. If you are on the left or right, pick a SINGLE thing and back it up. Don't sandwich 15 things in one paragraph or use one debatable argument to back up another.
Do people ask themselves WHY they believe what they believe? For the most part no.
Fact of the matter is, nobody (who makes the purchasing recommendation) gets fired for choosing Microsoft if their products fail as a result of a design flaw that causes an application/OS crash or security hole that results in someobody taking control of systems you don't want. You can just say "it's windows...everybody runs it. Not my fault!".
If you go out on a limb and choose something different then your "risk" of getting the crap beat out of you if you fail is HIGH and the return is LOW.
Accountability for the people who choose MS products for their organizations will help. If your boss said "if a SINGLE desktop gets infected with a virus or spyware you are fired" would you choose Windows as your desktop/server OS?
When looking at the apps that are most used in Codeweavers and the ones with some problems.
Office 2003 Quicken Photoshop IE
All of these are available as Mac Native apps except IE 6. Now maybe thereis some small app I need to run, but why not just wait until the free version of Wine is ported to OS X?
The bottom line is that the FCC values helping the broadcasters make an inexpensive as possible move to digital over emergency communications.
If they really cared they make the change stand by it and let the broadcasters piss, moan and fork out the cash to upgrade.
You can bet if the FCC had backbone the broadcasters would upgrade. They'd complain, try to lobby congress, threaten, use scare tactics telling people their TV will die...wait a sec...don't they already do this?
Currently Bittorrent ONLY encrypts the headers not the data and it's with a specific type of low grade encryption that is easily detectable.
Eventually I predict that the Bittorrent clients will have to use SSL over port 443. When that happens it will look no different than any other encrypted web traffic.
It's not because I have anything against it, it's just that everytime I think about NetBSD I can't come up with a REASON for running it (other than for pure nerd exploration purposes).
If I want to be secure I run OpenBSD, if I like the "UNIX" model over the "LINUX" way of grokking things I'll run FreeBSD. In the past NetBSD's mantra was portability. I don't think that's a big enough selling point.
Differentiation is what sells (it seems). NetBSD needs to be something the others are not doing.
I hope it survives and hope that the people involved are mature enough not to let their EGO's get in the way.
In some ways they have a GOLDEN opportunity. NetBSD is far enough along that they don't have to start from scratch, but small enough (organization wise) to allow them to possibly do something that LINUX and FreeBSD are too big to handle.
I don't know what that is..but I hope it's something cool!
Is that people can't construct a argument that contains one and ONLY one subject for debate. The left AND the right tend to sandwitch every accusation that could be debated in one long continuious runon sentence.
I.E. The adulterer left wing communist Clinton blah blah blah
I.E. The illegal War waging lying dubya blah blah blah
I don't mind a good debate, but PULEESE onnly one point at a time! Pick something...illegal war, adulterer, lying, left wing and make your case. Don't use a debatable point to back up another debatable point. It's weak and does not convince ANYBODY.
At it's heart, all online role playing games try to hook the players (not all..but by my accounts most) by turning them into "tweak the numbers" players.
They don't care about role playing, or talking with friends (unless it's for the following reason). They care about tweaking their numbers and making their characters more efficient "systems" at doing things designed to to reward the "ahhh" pathway in the brain and start the cycle all over again.
Kill monster, get gold, buy armour, so you can kill bigger monster (or kill monster faster) so you can get better sword and better armour so you can kill bigger monster (or kill monster faster) so you can level up and kill bigger monster...etc..you get the picture.
Why do you think there are not very many online roleplaying games where you don't see numbers and stats? The companies KNOW this. They have VERY smart people who understand the psychology.
When it comes down to it, you are basically doing the same thing that addicts day traders. People have a natural tendency to want to improve mathematical systems.
The resistance to class based games is in part a reaction kinda like "Don't take my crack! I LIKE tweaking numbers, it makes me FEEL good!"
Yes..there ARE people who really role play and people who socialize. But it's the exception, not the rule (in my experience).
If a story on the front page of slashdot causes the "Slashdot effect", what is it called when something from the front page of CNN causes the same thing?
19+ inch CRT's are a bitch to move no matter how you slice it. On top of that you can't exactly carry it like a 50lb bag of mulch. If you drop it you can kiss your $$$ goodby.
Just having fiber is NOT enough. Both Verizon and the Cable Companies face the same problem. That no matter what type of infrastructure you have, in many cases the limiting factor is your Upstream connection to the level 2 or 1 ISP. Theoretically Docsis 1.0 cable modems can do 38 Mb/s downstream and 10Mb/s upstream and have been around for YEARS. I don't know of a single cable operator that sells those rates to their residential customers. The latest version of DOCIS allows for a theoretical 160mb/s down and 120mb/s up (except for some European companies).
Sure, in some heavily populated areas the shared coax along the road is satuated. In many others like mine we don't have this problem either because the cable company laid fiber to the pedestal at the bottom of the driveway or the density of cable modem users isn't there.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm definitley in the LINUX/UNIX camp. People moan and groan about the windows registry, but since the "fanboy" cult of MySQL as continued to grow you can bet somebody would try and replace it by insisting that MySQL should be installed and ALL settings should be stored in a database. :(
I Like databases, but if I can't edit it with vi I don't want it!
You know, I've been thinking that greedy moves like this and others like Cell phone manufacturers charging you everytime you take a photo and want to save it, or making you pay an extra 200 bucks for the same cell phone WITH a stereo headphone jack should have an award.
We could call it the Ferengi award, after those lovable capatilists in the Star Trek universe.
What sony is doing is VERY Ferengi like.
Rules of Aquisition #202: The justification for profit is profit
Oh how ye have little faith! Mmmm...cocoa puffs!
What's stupid is I have money that'd I'd GLADLY give them to be able to get subscriptions of comic books that I enjoyed way back when I was younger. Comic fans understand (I think..but I could be wrong) that he continuation of their favorite series is based on SALES. Yes, you can download scanned comics off of bittorrent, but I'd gladly PAY to read those comics if I knew it influenced in some way the future publication of comics I want to read.
I'm out of the collector "phase", I don't need/want boxes of comics in my basement.
The source is MacRUMORS.
Hence, it's not confirmed....a RUMOR!
Exactly my point. As long as there is a bigger target for Viruses/Spyware which are being created more and more for PROFIT and not 12 year old angst ridden genious kids (there will always be that element) OS X will be safer (and that does NOT include the inherent better security design of OS X which is MUCH better than windows)
Quite frankly I don't want to see OS X have some huge marketshare. I'd prefer the platform to have enough marketshare that developers can make money and Apple to make a profit, but not big enough for Virus writers and spyware authors to care (the way it is now).
Why does OS X have to have an increasing marketshare to remain successful?
Listen to the Audio version
Yea..but all those fully powered up PS3's (that would be turned off) are using electricity.....
----slams troll on head-----
Quite frankly. If it helps keep my brain from becoming a pile of useless jello I'm all for it!
The problem is there are accusations throughout the article used to back up the premise of the article. You can argue each one ad-nauseum. If you are on the left or right, pick a SINGLE thing and back it up. Don't sandwich 15 things in one paragraph or use one debatable argument to back up another.
Do people ask themselves WHY they believe what they believe? For the most part no.
True, that could happen. But they (the owners of the fork) could'nt call it "Linux" as Linus has that tradmarked.
Fact of the matter is, nobody (who makes the purchasing recommendation) gets fired for choosing Microsoft if their products fail as a result of a design flaw that causes an application/OS crash or security hole that results in someobody taking control of systems you don't want. You can just say "it's windows...everybody runs it. Not my fault!".
If you go out on a limb and choose something different then your "risk" of getting the crap beat out of you if you fail is HIGH and the return is LOW.
Accountability for the people who choose MS products for their organizations will help. If your boss said "if a SINGLE desktop gets infected with a virus or spyware you are fired" would you choose Windows as your desktop/server OS?
I don't know who ripped off who, but both sites seem to be the same thing....
And you like the Windows version of Outlook BETTER than the Mac version of Entourage?
When looking at the apps that are most used in Codeweavers and the ones with some problems.
Office 2003
Quicken
Photoshop
IE
All of these are available as Mac Native apps except IE 6. Now maybe thereis some small app I need to run, but why not just wait until the free version of Wine is ported to OS X?
The bottom line is that the FCC values helping the broadcasters make an inexpensive as possible move to digital over emergency communications.
If they really cared they make the change stand by it and let the broadcasters piss, moan and fork out the cash to upgrade.
You can bet if the FCC had backbone the broadcasters would upgrade. They'd complain, try to lobby congress, threaten, use scare tactics telling people their TV will die...wait a sec...don't they already do this?
Currently Bittorrent ONLY encrypts the headers not the data and it's with a specific type of low grade encryption that is easily detectable.
Eventually I predict that the Bittorrent clients will have to use SSL over port 443. When that happens it will look no different than any other encrypted web traffic.
It's not because I have anything against it, it's just that everytime I think about NetBSD I can't come up with a REASON for running it (other than for pure nerd exploration purposes).
If I want to be secure I run OpenBSD, if I like the "UNIX" model over the "LINUX" way of grokking things I'll run FreeBSD. In the past NetBSD's mantra was portability. I don't think that's a big enough selling point.
Differentiation is what sells (it seems). NetBSD needs to be something the others are not doing.
I hope it survives and hope that the people involved are mature enough not to let their EGO's get in the way.
In some ways they have a GOLDEN opportunity. NetBSD is far enough along that they don't have to start from scratch, but small enough (organization wise) to allow them to possibly do something that LINUX and FreeBSD are too big to handle.
I don't know what that is..but I hope it's something cool!
Is that people can't construct a argument that contains one and ONLY one subject for debate. The left AND the right tend to sandwitch every accusation that could be debated in one long continuious runon sentence.
I.E. The adulterer left wing communist Clinton blah blah blah
I.E. The illegal War waging lying dubya blah blah blah
I don't mind a good debate, but PULEESE onnly one point at a time! Pick something...illegal war, adulterer, lying, left wing and make your case. Don't use a debatable point to back up another debatable point. It's weak and does not convince ANYBODY.
At it's heart, all online role playing games try to hook the players (not all..but by my accounts most) by turning them into "tweak the numbers" players.
They don't care about role playing, or talking with friends (unless it's for the following reason). They care about tweaking their numbers and making their characters more efficient "systems" at doing things designed to to reward the "ahhh" pathway in the brain and start the cycle all over again.
Kill monster, get gold, buy armour, so you can kill bigger monster (or kill monster faster) so you can get better sword and better armour so you can kill bigger monster (or kill monster faster) so you can level up and kill bigger monster...etc..you get the picture.
Why do you think there are not very many online roleplaying games where you don't see numbers and stats? The companies KNOW this. They have VERY smart people who understand the psychology.
When it comes down to it, you are basically doing the same thing that addicts day traders. People have a natural tendency to want to improve mathematical systems.
The resistance to class based games is in part a reaction kinda like "Don't take my crack! I LIKE tweaking numbers, it makes me FEEL good!"
Yes..there ARE people who really role play and people who socialize. But it's the exception, not the rule (in my experience).
If a story on the front page of slashdot causes the "Slashdot effect", what is it called when something from the front page of CNN causes the same thing?
It's not just the size, it's the shape as well.
19+ inch CRT's are a bitch to move no matter how you slice it. On top of that you can't exactly carry it like a 50lb bag of mulch. If you drop it you can kiss your $$$ goodby.
Sure, CRT's are cheap and great, but have you ever tried to move a large CRT? You need a crane! or 4 beefy guys from the gym.
Being a scrawny nerd with no muscle tone makes moving CRT's a problem. It's primary reason I dumped my nice 19 inch CRT monitor for an LCD.
Yea, and if it's even a moderate sized LCD it probably takes a forklift to move.
Just having fiber is NOT enough. Both Verizon and the Cable Companies face the same problem. That no matter what type of infrastructure you have, in many cases the limiting factor is your Upstream connection to the level 2 or 1 ISP. Theoretically Docsis 1.0 cable modems can do 38 Mb/s downstream and 10Mb/s upstream and have been around for YEARS. I don't know of a single cable operator that sells those rates to their residential customers. The latest version of DOCIS allows for a theoretical 160mb/s down and 120mb/s up (except for some European companies).
Sure, in some heavily populated areas the shared coax along the road is satuated. In many others like mine we don't have this problem either because the cable company laid fiber to the pedestal at the bottom of the driveway or the density of cable modem users isn't there.