Your definition of "winning battles" is too narrow. You are simply talking about body count and territory gained and lost. The real point of a war is to eliminate your opponents will to war. Both Von Clausewitz and Sun Tzu stated this. The Tet offensive while a victory in your narrow terms, was a complete psychological defeat for us. Why? The government essentially lied before stating the VC could not launch a major offensive and they were finished. The Tet offensive destroyed the government's credibility and the public's tenous will to fight. Not debating the political side of war is silly as war is politics by other means. We won most of the battles in Vietnam - but we lost the war. The NVC lost over 2 Mil men in the war. We lost 56,000 and our will to fight. Ho Chi Minh was once quoted as saying,"If you kill ten of us for every one of you will kill, it is you who will get tired." The quote may be off but that's the basics.
Actually there is a plugin to do this. You can manually set the referer or have it be the URL itself. I have used for awhile now. it's very useful. I have it running right now. Nevermind the bad english, the guy is french.
http://refspoof.mozdev.org
It's functional. To install it you just have to go to http://refspoof.mozdev.org and follow the Install link. (you must do that with Mozilla RC3+ as browser). it should install automatically.
Sorry but 100,000 units in the consumer electronics space is a big fat fucking failure. Given the cost of development, marketing, production and everything else, they lost money on that product. Only selling 100,000 units indicates to me a total lack of demand. Portable will play divx? It's called a laptop.
This reflects the flawed conventional thinking that consumers want a convergence device. That somehow combining the ability to play both video and MP3s will appeal to both market segments. What actaully happens that the device appeals to neither market segment.
You see this time and time again. Marketing people assume that if you give someone a "new improved digital media center" everyone will buy it. No one buys it because the product is a "Jack of All trades, master of none." People buy component stereos for the same reason. They want the best reciver coupled with the best amplifier and the best DVD player. They want the flexibility of adding components. They tend not to buy a single component that does a mediocre job on all three elements. Simply piling on features that are unrelated but don't bring additional value to each other is silly. Camera phones work because you can send pictures to your friends. In this case adding a digital camera enhances the phone experience. Adding a video player, and jacking the price point to an entry level laptop adds nothing to the experience. I predict big fucking failure for MS. I don't get why people still insist media convergence is the wave of the future. Media really hasn't converged before. I mean how many of us use Radio/Television combo devices? No one because who wants a machine that does a crappy job at two things instead of a good job at one.
HE's right on with this. Developed nations will be disintermediated and would not even notice. Previously you simply went to a new jurisdiction, like when the film industry came to California to avoid scrutiny by Edison's people and patents. Our current laws are really on a crash course with innovation. Innovators will simply route avoid them to countries where their IP laws allow them to innovate.
This reminds me of the concrete domes that you can build for a house. Basic dome form with poured concrete. As the structure is made with concrete, it will last a really long time. The Monolithic Domes are really cool. A simple inflatable form holds the concrete: You pour and BAM! 48 hours later you have a completed structure!
Clearly you have never run a larger scale software project. I would love LOVE MS to do that. Why? Because that project would be one enormous sink hole of MS resources and focus. You cannot throw 20,000 engineers at something and have it work. Read the Mythical Man Month for a great example of how throwing more resources at a project can cause it to run off track. . Keep in mind that would represent roughly 1/3 of MS's workforce. MS already has a server OS, it's called Windows XP. MS wants to have a single OS so that they don't have to support the multiple OSes they do now.
Sorry but "integrated security environments" are anything but secure. The variety of platform initiatives give Linux it's security. Any integrated platform will have the Microsoft Monoculture problem. Linus isn't interested in drone marketing speak, "integrated security environment" but actual engineering advances! That's why Linux is slow and steady...
A study that had no real statistical methodology and DISCOUNTED all viruses on the Windows platfom. Yeah that's a great study. Let's throw out all the MS breaches. Wow Linux is breached more than MS. Get a clue!
No - it's not a scam nor perpetual motion machine. A company has already built submarines on this principle that are being used as autonomous research drones. Here's announcment about the Slocum Glider. Here's a couple of action shots of it being deployed. My advice would be to talk a couple of college physics courses to undertand how BUOYANCY works. Granted it's more complicated in air (larger because air is so dilute when compared with water) however with advances in composite materials, it is certainly doable.
Sorry but Microsoft has already done this - currently searches in IE, bad domains, and failed DNS lookups go to Microsoft Search. The problem is the search experience is SO POOR that users still prefer Google. As far being stupid for a 10 Billion dollar offer, Google knows the public markets hold much more money for them. Bill was undoubtedly offering a stock swap deal, not a cash buyout. Investors will see much more money in an IPO. Keep this in mind, Google's revenue is well over 1 Billion annually. (According to my sources 1.2 or so.) The margin on search is quite high so they undoubtedly highly profitable. They have no need to go public other than to pay off their initial VC. As the article points out, going public has it's own pains. A Google IPO where they float 20% of the company is probably a 20 Billion dollar event. You do the math, still think they were stupid to turn down Gates. Nope.
He's more concerned that they are STEALING his work without obeying the terms of the license under which they accpted the work. When you use a work, expect to follow the license, other wise don't use the work. Not releasing the code is a violation of the GPL and thus IP theft. They didn't have to use his code. They could have written their own or used a BSD equivalent.
Not only is Boilerplate a hoax, every single robot story in this post is a well known hoax. Steam Man, Electric Man and Automatic are hoaxes designed to look like a period piece. for more information Boilerplate Hoax
Sorry but Dell is doing a pretty good job of putting the white box manufacturers out of business on price alone. Given the efficiencies in the Dell supply chain why would you buy from a white box manufacturer when Dell is undercutting them $200? I am also quite certain that companies will spring up to offer these sorts of services for white box manufacturers as well. Just like you can use contract manufacturing right now.
I can't believe the litany of responses on slashdot.
"It will put the white box manufacturers out of business, that's why HP is doing it"
"doubt that companies that get their PC's manufactured in Taiwan will have to pay the fee."
If you guys had bothered to read the article you would have noticed that recent coveraage over HP's practices in China were one of the motivating factors in making this decision. And yes it's much easier to pass a cost on to a customer when it's law. Let's remember that computers are highly toxic Your average 19 inch moniter have 9 lbs of leaded glass to prevent radiation exposure. Here's my favorite quote
aws like this do nothing but raise costs for consumers. Does anyone in their right mind think HP, etc., will simply eat the cost of this? No. The only reason they're doing it is because it's in California (home base of American liberalism), and if they don't, they'll be totally demonized by militant environmentalists and human rights activists playing on your emotions rather than hard, scientific data.
I mean really to be conservative, means to conserve. Being a conservative means that you actually want to leave a cultural and environmental legacy to your children. When's the last time you were able to go fishing in Silicon Valley and eat the fish? Certainly not in the last 20 years due to the high heavy metal content of the fish. Every state in the union has health advisories on the heavy metal content in rivers. Take a look here at the US governments own studies >EPA Maryland for example. Notice that every ssingle pollutant is an industry pollutant. This even impacts the land of a Thousand Lakes (Minnesota)Fish Consumption
I love posters that can't think about the consquences of their actions. Once you have kids you begin wondering about the type of legacy you leave behind. I guess we can just tell our kids "Sorry the environment is toxic but some slashdotter wanted to save $35." Get real
Well from his perspectative anything in history could have been faked from the invention of the film camer on. Older events we have the word of historians such as Herodotus. This was also in Indiana in 1985 so I didn't have a lot of options.
These guys who believe we didn't go to the moon are everywhere. I had a 10th grade history teacher who was insistent that we didn't go to the moon. I spent half the semester avoiding discussing history before 1963 with him. After all it's only $15,000, why not? Perhaps NASA should spend the money producing a book on scientific method instead
Indeed this highlights a very common problem when purchasing closed source software. There is simply no way to effectively judge costs ten years out. Unless the vendor you are selecting has at least a twenty year operating history in the market (For search the only vendors even close to this are Oracle and Thunderstone.) So support costs from a company with a four year operating history are largely meaningless when taken in a ten year context.
Did you get a source code escrow agreement with the closed source vendors? Generally these agreements are for when companies go belly up. Source code escrow agreements also cost more than traditional vendor support. The only way to compare apples to apples is to ask each vendor to supply one.
Most support agreements must continuously in force along with having the current version of the application. With an open source application support can be ad hoc, when needed. If the application is properly vetted and tested before going live, why do you need support? If you build an open source ap - you had better build unit tests that make sure the application and its various APIS work will. With a closed source application you generally don't have a set of unit tests (Just stick the disk in and press "Go"), so you have no way of knowing if the application is performing to specifications after the upgrade other than the "Well it seems to be working test." I would suggest you check your methodology for costs and simply out-source application support to professional services house. There is no need to support the application internally when you can easily have professional services firm in India support it. On the other hand you can always buy IBM - They will provide support forever for enough money!
Ok I am the dork this time. I shutdown Javascript a while ago and forgot about it. My mistake.
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So thwarting democracy is a good thing? Sorry but I fail to see how poll taxes, Jim Crow laws etc are good things. I think you have a good point about process. Having respect for the process is important as well - BOTH are required in a functioning democracy. In CA where I live, direct ballot measures make it more of a democracy than the country as a whole. That's why we pass wacky things like medical mj
Even if it is true you aren't likely to win. IE is firmly now a component of the Windows operating system. Removing it will cause the seas to boil and the rivers to run red with blood. Anyone notice that Excite is not allowing Mozilla users? I get this Error message.
Slashdot Mirror
Your definition of "winning battles" is too narrow. You are simply talking about body count and territory gained and lost. The real point of a war is to eliminate your opponents will to war. Both Von Clausewitz and Sun Tzu stated this. The Tet offensive while a victory in your narrow terms, was a complete psychological defeat for us. Why? The government essentially lied before stating the VC could not launch a major offensive and they were finished. The Tet offensive destroyed the government's credibility and the public's tenous will to fight. Not debating the political side of war is silly as war is politics by other means. We won most of the battles in Vietnam - but we lost the war. The NVC lost over 2 Mil men in the war. We lost 56,000 and our will to fight. Ho Chi Minh was once quoted as saying,"If you kill ten of us for every one of you will kill, it is you who will get tired." The quote may be off but that's the basics.
Dude - I assume you have a similar rant about George "I am too high on coke to finish my National guard service" Bush.
Actually there is a plugin to do this. You can manually set the referer or have it be the URL itself. I have used for awhile now. it's very useful. I have it running right now. Nevermind the bad english, the guy is french.
http://refspoof.mozdev.org
It's functional. To install it you just have to go to http://refspoof.mozdev.org and follow the Install link. (you must do that with Mozilla RC3+ as browser). it should install automatically.
Sorry but 100,000 units in the consumer electronics space is a big fat fucking failure. Given the cost of development, marketing, production and everything else, they lost money on that product. Only selling 100,000 units indicates to me a total lack of demand. Portable will play divx? It's called a laptop.
And an alarm. Well that's one example. . . But all it really did was make the alarm clock cooler.
This reflects the flawed conventional thinking that consumers want a convergence device. That somehow combining the ability to play both video and MP3s will appeal to both market segments. What actaully happens that the device appeals to neither market segment.
You see this time and time again. Marketing people assume that if you give someone a "new improved digital media center" everyone will buy it. No one buys it because the product is a "Jack of All trades, master of none." People buy component stereos for the same reason. They want the best reciver coupled with the best amplifier and the best DVD player. They want the flexibility of adding components. They tend not to buy a single component that does a mediocre job on all three elements. Simply piling on features that are unrelated but don't bring additional value to each other is silly. Camera phones work because you can send pictures to your friends. In this case adding a digital camera enhances the phone experience. Adding a video player, and jacking the price point to an entry level laptop adds nothing to the experience. I predict big fucking failure for MS. I don't get why people still insist media convergence is the wave of the future. Media really hasn't converged before. I mean how many of us use Radio/Television combo devices? No one because who wants a machine that does a crappy job at two things instead of a good job at one.
HE's right on with this. Developed nations will be disintermediated and would not even notice. Previously you simply went to a new jurisdiction, like when the film industry came to California to avoid scrutiny by Edison's people and patents. Our current laws are really on a crash course with innovation. Innovators will simply route avoid them to countries where their IP laws allow them to innovate.
This reminds me of the concrete domes that you can build for a house. Basic dome form with poured concrete. As the structure is made with concrete, it will last a really long time. The Monolithic Domes are really cool. A simple inflatable form holds the concrete: You pour and BAM! 48 hours later you have a completed structure!
Paul's actually dead tho. Heart attack
Obit here
Clearly you have never run a larger scale software project. I would love LOVE MS to do that. Why? Because that project would be one enormous sink hole of MS resources and focus. You cannot throw 20,000 engineers at something and have it work. Read the Mythical Man Month for a great example of how throwing more resources at a project can cause it to run off track. . Keep in mind that would represent roughly 1/3 of MS's workforce. MS already has a server OS, it's called Windows XP. MS wants to have a single OS so that they don't have to support the multiple OSes they do now.
Sorry but "integrated security environments" are anything but secure. The variety of platform initiatives give Linux it's security. Any integrated platform will have the Microsoft Monoculture problem. Linus isn't interested in drone marketing speak, "integrated security environment" but actual engineering advances! That's why Linux is slow and steady...
A study that had no real statistical methodology and DISCOUNTED all viruses on the Windows platfom. Yeah that's a great study. Let's throw out all the MS breaches. Wow Linux is breached more than MS. Get a clue!
No - it's not a scam nor perpetual motion machine. A company has already built submarines on this principle that are being used as autonomous research drones. Here's announcment about the Slocum Glider. Here's a couple of action shots of it being deployed. My advice would be to talk a couple of college physics courses to undertand how BUOYANCY works.
Granted it's more complicated in air (larger because air is so dilute when compared with water) however with advances in composite materials, it is certainly doable.
Sorry but Microsoft has already done this - currently searches in IE, bad domains, and failed DNS lookups go to Microsoft Search. The problem is the search experience is SO POOR that users still prefer Google. As far being stupid for a 10 Billion dollar offer, Google knows the public markets hold much more money for them. Bill was undoubtedly offering a stock swap deal, not a cash buyout. Investors will see much more money in an IPO. Keep this in mind, Google's revenue is well over 1 Billion annually. (According to my sources 1.2 or so.) The margin on search is quite high so they undoubtedly highly profitable. They have no need to go public other than to pay off their initial VC. As the article points out, going public has it's own pains. A Google IPO where they float 20% of the company is probably a 20 Billion dollar event. You do the math, still think they were stupid to turn down Gates. Nope.
It's a thing that every geek will love. (assuming your geek is guy which is likely the case).
He's more concerned that they are STEALING his work without obeying the terms of the license under which they accpted the work. When you use a work, expect to follow the license, other wise don't use the work. Not releasing the code is a violation of the GPL and thus IP theft. They didn't have to use his code. They could have written their own or used a BSD equivalent.
Not only is Boilerplate a hoax, every single robot story in this post is a well known hoax. Steam Man, Electric Man and Automatic are hoaxes designed to look like a period piece.
for more information
Boilerplate Hoax
Sorry but Dell is doing a pretty good job of putting the white box manufacturers out of business on price alone. Given the efficiencies in the Dell supply chain why would you buy from a white box manufacturer when Dell is undercutting them $200? I am also quite certain that companies will spring up to offer these sorts of services for white box manufacturers as well. Just like you can use contract manufacturing right now.
If you guys had bothered to read the article you would have noticed that recent coveraage over HP's practices in China were one of the motivating factors in making this decision. And yes it's much easier to pass a cost on to a customer when it's law. Let's remember that computers are highly toxic Your average 19 inch moniter have 9 lbs of leaded glass to prevent radiation exposure. Here's my favorite quote
Hard scientific data?Here you go
Here
I mean really to be conservative, means to conserve. Being a conservative means that you actually want to leave a cultural and environmental legacy to your children. When's the last time you were able to go fishing in Silicon Valley and eat the fish? Certainly not in the last 20 years due to the high heavy metal content of the fish. Every state in the union has health advisories on the heavy metal content in rivers. Take a look here at the US governments own studies
>EPA Maryland for example. Notice that every ssingle pollutant is an industry pollutant. This even impacts the land of a Thousand Lakes (Minnesota)Fish Consumption
I love posters that can't think about the consquences of their actions. Once you have kids you begin wondering about the type of legacy you leave behind. I guess we can just tell our kids "Sorry the environment is toxic but some slashdotter wanted to save $35." Get real
Well from his perspectative anything in history could have been faked from the invention of the film camer on. Older events we have the word of historians such as Herodotus. This was also in Indiana in 1985 so I didn't have a lot of options.
These guys who believe we didn't go to the moon are everywhere. I had a 10th grade history teacher who was insistent that we didn't go to the moon. I spent half the semester avoiding discussing history before 1963 with him. After all it's only $15,000, why not? Perhaps NASA should spend the money producing a book on scientific method instead
Did you get a source code escrow agreement with the closed source vendors? Generally these agreements are for when companies go belly up. Source code escrow agreements also cost more than traditional vendor support. The only way to compare apples to apples is to ask each vendor to supply one.
Most support agreements must continuously in force along with having the current version of the application. With an open source application support can be ad hoc, when needed. If the application is properly vetted and tested before going live, why do you need support? If you build an open source ap - you had better build unit tests that make sure the application and its various APIS work will. With a closed source application you generally don't have a set of unit tests (Just stick the disk in and press "Go"), so you have no way of knowing if the application is performing to specifications after the upgrade other than the "Well it seems to be working test." I would suggest you check your methodology for costs and simply out-source application support to professional services house. There is no need to support the application internally when you can easily have professional services firm in India support it. On the other hand you can always buy IBM - They will provide support forever for enough money!
Ok I am the dork this time. I shutdown Javascript a while ago and forgot about it. My mistake.
BSD
So thwarting democracy is a good thing? Sorry but I fail to see how poll taxes, Jim Crow laws etc are good things. I think you have a good point about process. Having respect for the process is important as well - BOTH are required in a functioning democracy. In CA where I live, direct ballot measures make it more of a democracy than the country as a whole. That's why we pass wacky things like medical mj
Even if it is true you aren't likely to win. IE is firmly now a component of the Windows operating system. Removing it will cause the seas to boil and the rivers to run red with blood. Anyone notice that Excite is not allowing Mozilla users? I get this Error message.
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