Any company that does not try to widen its clientele is a company that is not doing his work correctly.
It always amazes me the spite of/. commneters against the nontechnical user. It is an irrational hate that frankly is idiotic.
Of course MS realizing that they need to provide something simple to his users lowers the cost of entry for competitotrs, who can aim equally low (or lower) and have a change to compete.
Only in the derided mind of the/.er it is bad to try to cater to the needs of the non technical user.
Putting aside the fact that MAC spoofing is childs play (check the man page for ifconfig) all manufacturers of networking equipment have their own blocks of MAC addresses.
So you can try MAC addresses similar to well knwon routers and I suppose you would be in in no time.
The London Film Festival started last week, movies from all around the world are shown, and around the year we have the Spanish Film Festival, the Japanese, Brazilain, East Asian, Russian, German, Latin American and so on and so foth film festivals.
We have the PROMS (3 months of at least one classical music concert every day, with world class perfromers, tickets are as cheap as £5 or £6). And the LSO. And visiting orchestras an perfromers from all around the world.
We have 5 Premiership football teams ( and a myriad of professional teams in lower divisions).
We have 3 outstanding Opera companies, you can assist to concerts for as little as £10.
Food wise, what do you want? Chinese, Indian, Thai, Japanese, Italian, Mexican, Brazilian, Spanish, French? Have your pick.
And the parks, either Hyde Park, Regent's Parl or even Tooting Common in the less salubrious parts of town.
Argh, please don't tell me life in a small town is better. It is different, but better?
No joking, here in the UK Sky broadcast HD TV at a Premium.
And now they want to flog a sickly 3D horse?
The current TVs (pre HD, but capable of HD) with DVD content look perfectly mine to me.
And to top it all I actuall can do stuff with the contents of a DVD (rip it, archive it, use in more than one device) which can't be done with 3D TV.
So what exactly is the incentive to use 3D TV? A substandard movile like Avatar? (my faourite film critic gave 2/5 stars, he saw about all the hype and after having seen the movie I have to say he was right on the money).
"When I listen to music I stop doing everything, otherwise I don't pay attention to what I am doing and niether do to the music I am suppossed to be listeneing to" Rene Aviles Fabila, Mexican writer.
If you have a problem with concentrating don't extrapolate your issues to the wider population.
Many (most?) of us will interrupt a movie once or twice at most, otherwise what is the frigging point of sitting to watch?
Or maybe you watch rubbish movies only that do not make any intellectual demands on their audience.
Lets face it. Half of the US population are beyond redemption.
Tea Party, Sarah Palin, religious right, Murdoch's Fox. The list is endless.
If all these people would have been around when FDR started those projects they would have demanded his head in a silverplate for appeasing the forces of Communism (actually there were people that made those and similar claims back then, the Neocon movement has its roots in intellectuals that opossed many of the measures started during FDR's time in office).
You are getting the kind of action that the country is demanding, which is no action at all, because as soon as half of you vote for a progressive President like Obama, the other half will do everything on their power to make sure he gets nothing done.
Many of you will be manhandling Obama by delivering a Republican Congress, so don't blame him if he can't accomplish anything, you, the US people, are not giving him the political leverage he needs to move your country in the right direction.
It has to be provided by the government on the tax payer money.
"Socialism" in the parlance of the idiotic US right.
So it will be up to evil European Socialist governments (like the UK's Conservative lead one)and China (I will not use evil to describe them, I don't want a Nobel Peace Prize) to implement this technology.
The nuclear energy appologists conveniently forget many facts:
- Nuclear energy is expensive (it has to be heavily subsidized). - It is heavily polluting. - It is not a long term solution (you do know that radioactive materials are extremely rare, don't you?)
The only real, long term solution is using renewable energy. All the other methods are a pipe dream that was too good to last ofrever (if we ignore pollution and global climate change of course).
Yoo do know that extracting oil from tar sands is terribly uneconmic and highly polluting, right?
In other words that we need to consider such an option is proof that we are starting to defer to despearate measures to deal with our energy adiction.
The time for figuring out how we are going to provide for energy needs is now. Burning things is not an option (and here I include nuclear energy given how limited , dangerous and rare the materials involved are).
The only viable solution is energy derived from the Sun (solar, waves, wind, etc), from waste (all kind of biological waste could be used) or by natural events that release energy anyway (geotermal) and , most importantly, best energy efficiency.
Solaris, and by extension ZFS, runs in x86 hardware.
Oracle's Linux was a stop gap measure, now that they own a far more capable operating system (sorry Linux guys, I love Linux, but it can't touch Solaris) I see no reason why they should waste time and money in making Linux any better....
I went through many of the posts here, it was very interesting to see how in the denialist camp you see so many trying to frame understanding of global climate change as a matter of belief.
This is understandable, since they are so short of arguments they want to move the debate to their home turf, where they feel comfortable.
It is frankly mind boggling how any single adjustment of the main thesis is immediately proclaimed as proof that everything is a sham with a straight face.
So Greenland is melting very fast, but twice as slow as previously thought, this is seen by the denialists as a get out of jail proof.
That people don't understand time scales is frankly astonishing: there are several people talking about 250 or 500 years being a long time, failing miserably to realize that this kind of natural events normally develop in a matter of thousands, tens or thousands normally, years. So if a glacier that has been in place for time immemorial melts in 5000 instead of 250 years it is still bad news.
The short term vision of some people is terrifying....
Political campaign spending is severely limited in most EU countries (in the UK political parties can't advertise in the media, which means parties are not in need of corruptive donations from corporations).
Why is it possible for companies to donate to political parties?
That is the source of most of the political corruption in the US.
The US has become a legalized oligarchy where the people doing the bidding on behalf of the oligarchs are elected by the general population.
In no few ocassions companies donate to both parties (it is quite convenient for corporations to have only 2 parties, that way the amount of contributions is minimized while maintain a modicum of democratic accountability in issues that don;t affect corporation's interests).
As long as the US populace don't dismantle this system of patronage they will alwys be recepients of legislation that is not on thei best interests when the interests of big conglomarates are affected.
Most likely the back office operations are using Java in one way or another.
That is just for starters.
People saying that Java is dead and then refer to what is happening on their home computer simply show a degree og ignorance that is short of embarrasing.
Many politicians are decent people and understand that they can't do what you are suggesting.
As for Mexicans causing the bloodbath, that is all well and good, but we didn't have drug dealers before USians decide to evade reality by intoxicating themselves in epic proportions (when your last three Presidents admit to have used drugs, what hope is there?)
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Me: I want to renew my contract.
Mobile company: no worries, you get a new phone in your £20/month tariff. It includes Internet, hundreds of SMSs, hundreds of air time talk minutes.
Me: give me one of the many Android phones you have.
Mobile company: no worries.
Or a variation of that. Who is buying phones like you suggest?
Any company that does not try to widen its clientele is a company that is not doing his work correctly.
It always amazes me the spite of /. commneters against the nontechnical user. It is an irrational hate that frankly is idiotic.
Of course MS realizing that they need to provide something simple to his users lowers the cost of entry for competitotrs, who can aim equally low (or lower) and have a change to compete.
Only in the derided mind of the /.er it is bad to try to cater to the needs of the non technical user.
I am happy with the bazaar.
Some of us can live happily with our principles.
Is the leasst you should do ...
Putting aside the fact that MAC spoofing is childs play (check the man page for ifconfig) all manufacturers of networking equipment have their own blocks of MAC addresses.
So you can try MAC addresses similar to well knwon routers and I suppose you would be in in no time.
The London Film Festival started last week, movies from all around the world are shown, and around the year we have the Spanish Film Festival, the Japanese, Brazilain, East Asian, Russian, German, Latin American and so on and so foth film festivals.
We have the PROMS (3 months of at least one classical music concert every day, with world class perfromers, tickets are as cheap as £5 or £6). And the LSO. And visiting orchestras an perfromers from all around the world.
We have 5 Premiership football teams ( and a myriad of professional teams in lower divisions).
We have 3 outstanding Opera companies, you can assist to concerts for as little as £10.
Food wise, what do you want? Chinese, Indian, Thai, Japanese, Italian, Mexican, Brazilian, Spanish, French? Have your pick.
And the parks, either Hyde Park, Regent's Parl or even Tooting Common in the less salubrious parts of town.
Argh, please don't tell me life in a small town is better. It is different, but better?
No joking, here in the UK Sky broadcast HD TV at a Premium.
And now they want to flog a sickly 3D horse?
The current TVs (pre HD, but capable of HD) with DVD content look perfectly mine to me.
And to top it all I actuall can do stuff with the contents of a DVD (rip it, archive it, use in more than one device) which can't be done with 3D TV.
So what exactly is the incentive to use 3D TV? A substandard movile like Avatar? (my faourite film critic gave 2/5 stars, he saw about all the hype and after having seen the movie I have to say he was right on the money).
"When I listen to music I stop doing everything, otherwise I don't pay attention to what I am doing and niether do to the music I am suppossed to be listeneing to" Rene Aviles Fabila, Mexican writer.
If you have a problem with concentrating don't extrapolate your issues to the wider population.
Many (most?) of us will interrupt a movie once or twice at most, otherwise what is the frigging point of sitting to watch?
Or maybe you watch rubbish movies only that do not make any intellectual demands on their audience.
Lets face it. Half of the US population are beyond redemption.
Tea Party, Sarah Palin, religious right, Murdoch's Fox. The list is endless.
If all these people would have been around when FDR started those projects they would have demanded his head in a silverplate for appeasing the forces of Communism (actually there were people that made those and similar claims back then, the Neocon movement has its roots in intellectuals that opossed many of the measures started during FDR's time in office).
You are getting the kind of action that the country is demanding, which is no action at all, because as soon as half of you vote for a progressive President like Obama, the other half will do everything on their power to make sure he gets nothing done.
Many of you will be manhandling Obama by delivering a Republican Congress, so don't blame him if he can't accomplish anything, you, the US people, are not giving him the political leverage he needs to move your country in the right direction.
Nuclear energy is not economically viable.
It has to be provided by the government on the tax payer money.
"Socialism" in the parlance of the idiotic US right.
So it will be up to evil European Socialist governments (like the UK's Conservative lead one)and China (I will not use evil to describe them, I don't want a Nobel Peace Prize) to implement this technology.
The nuclear energy appologists conveniently forget many facts:
- Nuclear energy is expensive (it has to be heavily subsidized).
- It is heavily polluting.
- It is not a long term solution (you do know that radioactive materials are extremely rare, don't you?)
The only real, long term solution is using renewable energy. All the other methods are a pipe dream that was too good to last ofrever (if we ignore pollution and global climate change of course).
Yoo do know that extracting oil from tar sands is terribly uneconmic and highly polluting, right?
In other words that we need to consider such an option is proof that we are starting to defer to despearate measures to deal with our energy adiction.
The time for figuring out how we are going to provide for energy needs is now. Burning things is not an option (and here I include nuclear energy given how limited , dangerous and rare the materials involved are).
The only viable solution is energy derived from the Sun (solar, waves, wind, etc), from waste (all kind of biological waste could be used) or by natural events that release energy anyway (geotermal) and , most importantly, best energy efficiency.
Anything else is just thinkering in the edges.
You can drown in a swimming pool that is being emptied.
I hope the allegory is not too much for you to grasp.
Solaris, and by extension ZFS, runs in x86 hardware.
Oracle's Linux was a stop gap measure, now that they own a far more capable operating system (sorry Linux guys, I love Linux, but it can't touch Solaris) I see no reason why they should waste time and money in making Linux any better....
Oracle sues Google.
Netapp sues Sun,
Apple sues Nokia.
Nokia sues Apple.
SCO sues IBM, Novell, my aunt and your granny.
And lets not forget Amazon's "one click"....
and that is only IT for starters.
Almost daily we have news about frivolous lawsuits related to patents (software patents!) and copyright.
You may want to say whatever you want about this guy, but please don't tell me he does not have a point to make .....
"Is that really too much to ask of a nation that has been touted as the best on Earth?"
Touted by who?
You really need to get out of your country more.
"Why should give them the benefit of our trade when they do not behave in a fair manner?"
Because they have you by the curly short ones.
China holds tons of US treasury debt.
CHina does lots of the manufacturing of products the US uses.
China is subsidizing US consumerism with their savings.
That is why you will not do anything.
I went through many of the posts here, it was very interesting to see how in the denialist camp you see so many trying to frame understanding of global climate change as a matter of belief.
This is understandable, since they are so short of arguments they want to move the debate to their home turf, where they feel comfortable.
It is frankly mind boggling how any single adjustment of the main thesis is immediately proclaimed as proof that everything is a sham with a straight face.
So Greenland is melting very fast, but twice as slow as previously thought, this is seen by the denialists as a get out of jail proof.
That people don't understand time scales is frankly astonishing: there are several people talking about 250 or 500 years being a long time, failing miserably to realize that this kind of natural events normally develop in a matter of thousands, tens or thousands normally, years. So if a glacier that has been in place for time immemorial melts in 5000 instead of 250 years it is still bad news.
The short term vision of some people is terrifying....
Political campaign spending is severely limited in most EU countries (in the UK political parties can't advertise in the media, which means parties are not in need of corruptive donations from corporations).
Look at a map and read an history book...
Why is it possible for companies to donate to political parties?
That is the source of most of the political corruption in the US.
The US has become a legalized oligarchy where the people doing the bidding on behalf of the oligarchs are elected by the general population.
In no few ocassions companies donate to both parties (it is quite convenient for corporations to have only 2 parties, that way the amount of contributions is minimized while maintain a modicum of democratic accountability in issues that don;t affect corporation's interests).
As long as the US populace don't dismantle this system of patronage they will alwys be recepients of legislation that is not on thei best interests when the interests of big conglomarates are affected.
Do you have a bank account?
Most likely the back office operations are using Java in one way or another.
That is just for starters.
People saying that Java is dead and then refer to what is happening on their home computer simply show a degree og ignorance that is short of embarrasing.
Mexicans acquired the legal right to possess weapons for self defense last term of Congress.
That is not solving much, is it? (if anything most likely is making matters worse since now more weapons can find their way into the black market).
The Fascist fantasises of some of you are quite amusing.
Many politicians are decent people and understand that they can't do what you are suggesting.
As for Mexicans causing the bloodbath, that is all well and good, but we didn't have drug dealers before USians decide to evade reality by intoxicating themselves in epic proportions (when your last three Presidents admit to have used drugs, what hope is there?)
Use a gun instead of a good lock and door.
that is the difference in mentality between people that don't have a fetishist attachment to weapons and other people that do.