I don't care about corporate fuck-all, could care less about business plans, stock price and strategy are completely irrelevant to me, but this sucks. Mandrake is the first distro that just worked for me. Super simple for my amatuer self, no problems, just simply worked the first time. i'm one of those y'all on slashdot are always talking about, a non-CS guy who used Windows until slowly being corrupted by Linux. Now, after trying 8.0, which was even easier to use than 7.2, I'm hooked on Mandrake as my distro of choice. I'm hatin' the fact that this will cause inevitable disruption and speculation about the direction of mandrake's future. Boo. I like their product, I hate to see them have trouble just as they're becoming a truly convenient alternative to Windows for the non super-technical crowd.
Thank you, sir. Slashdot truly needs more wrestling quotes and references (I'm not being sarcastic). It helps the lowbrows (like me) to relate, and pisses off those who take themselves too seriously.
Damn, all my comments are in reply to 0 rated posts, so browsing at 1 my comments make no sense whatsoever. Sorry all, browse at 0 or -1 to see what I mean:)
I would use someone else's, as I am completely unable to write my own. However, I wouldn't compile yours, thereby hiding the source behind the IP cloak, then sell the binary as my own work, as I believe the original poster is implying MS did w/ the tcp/ip stack.
"Open source, as advocated by Sun, IBM, etc., says that you bought the hardware... here's the software that comes with it."
Interesting point here. I had never really thought of it before(not being the stereotypical IT/Slashdot type), but it's true that open source is much more beneficial to hardware companies than software companies. Is this a good or bad thing? I'm not sure. As a reader of electrical engineering trade magazines, I note that many companies are starting to use open source models for ASIC designs and many hardware IP areas. I'm curious if open source cores gain a foothold over proprietary hardware design, will these hardware companies back off from their open source support?
As an electronics/avionics technician, let me give you a serious high-five. This is SO right. If I had access to schematics, I could fairly easily happily fix my gear on my own. I'm looking at my whammy pedal, which works for about ten minutes without freaking out. It's most likely a voltage requlator heating up. I should be able to fix it quite easily with a $2 part, but schematics are not available, there's no local service shop. I don't feel like paying insured twoway shipping and $50-75, plus parts cost for a $2 and ten minute fix! I'm not a CS major, so source code itself won't help me too much, but it's quite a good analogy: proper docs > proper training > things magically work w/o having to return it or spend 8 hours on the phone with tech support.
The actual monetary cost of the suits will indded be minimal, but that is not the only cost. Microsoft's bad publicity from a public trumpeting of their misdeeds may influence people to make other OS choices. I'm sure that public opinion and all those warm fuzzy feelings will be much more of a concern to them.
That's true, it's not synchronous, I believe I get 256K upload speed, but if I'm wrong, it's higher. Also, they didn't even try to sell me cable TV(maybe because I told them, truthfully, that I don't own a TV, and have no intention of buying one).
When it comes to running servers/services, I called and asked, and after I explained what they were to the lady, she told me they had NO policy regarding anything like that, so go ahead. She may not have had any idea what she was talking about, but she did tell me it was OK.
And lucky me, I live in a poor-ass neighborhood, I'm convinced I'm one of about three people that can afford broadband here.
Same here, the vast(90%+) majority of the time, my speed is limited much more by server speed than my connection speed. I found this out after bitterly complaining to MDM about dl speeds. They got back to me almost instantly, with a nice list of unaffiliated benchmark sites across the west coast that showed that my line speed was most definitely not the problem. I highly recommend MDM on the basis of near instant and dedicated customer service personnel. Price could be better(55$/month), but I'm not complainin'.
Hmmm, I've never been happier w/ my cable modem then immediately after reading this. I got upgraded to 1.5mbps a few weeks ago, from about 800kbps normally, and it's made a huge difference./. loads in about 2-3 seconds, and everything else is fast too.
I wonder if the disintegrating DSL market has anything to do with the fact that(at least in Seattle area) cable service is better, cheaper, and faster? I've been much happier w/ my cable(Millenium Digital Media) than any of my buddies w/ DSL. For that matter, can anyone help my clueless self with an idea why ppl would choose a DSL company(esp. one that has to go through another layer of ISP) over cable? Not trying to be inflammatory, if anyone cares, just curious.
I think that rather than having some sort or religious apoplexy, the/. readers are merely (and deservedly) mocking a silly and innocent mistake. Obviously, linux news is a rather common sight around here, and I think people are just pointing out a particularily silly error.
Is it just me or is this not the best reccomendation for a company attempting to sell data? I know it's a simple mistake for most to make, but these guys are purveyors of supposedly correct info for christ's sake. Not good to reveal complete(or at least significant) ignorance about your main selling point.
Cool. Games are basically the only reason to still use Windoze. If new users could bring their favorite games to Linux, it would remove the main reason peeps are scared. I'm looking forward to not having to have dual-boot to get my gaming on.
I will give this exactly the same heed I give every other software license: none at all(though I do have a soft spot for GPL and it's like). If it is within my means, I will refuse to recognize any arbitrary attempt to keep me from knowing something. I extend this principle to all media. While I do have moral objections to plagiarizing or profiteering from others work, I have none whatsoever to reading, using, or learning it freely.
Just out of curiousity, I'd like to know what scale of size are these transistors? If the semiconductor properties can actually be used as transistors, what scale of integration would be possible? If it were just a few hundred or a few thousand it would be cool, but if you could get VLSI or better, the applications could be amazing. Self contained HUD's would be totally possible. Anyways, if anyone knows what size the transistors are, could you post a link?
And independent artists who are not beneficiaries of RIAA and MPAA payouts are penalized because their sole distribution method (pre-mp3, that is) has been blank cassettes and CD's.
Heh, that's an interesting point that I hadn't thought of. Artist's having to pay an art tax on media to make art. Ooohhhh... the irony is killing me. Tsk, Tsk, the RIAA has found a way to enrich itself not only at the expense of the pirates, traders, and everyone else that uses blank media for any purpose whatsoever, but also in one fell swoop has added an additional hurdle to any competition from independent artists or labels. That's just sweet.
"Adding a small fee to products in order to compensate artists is a small price to pay for the freedom to be able to listen to, look at and share the content we want to. "
I would be much less opposed to this sort of payment model for the arts if I thought more of the money would actually end up in artist's pockets. As it stands, it seems that publishers/recording industry types own the artistic rights to much of the available works. Any ideas on how these taxes are distributed in Germany, France, US, etc.? That would go a long way towards determining whether this is fair for consumer, artist, and citizen.
Actually, with a bit of knowledge, you would see that it is indeed possible to achieve a file size compression without an increase in sound quality. Sound fidelity could easily have a maximum value apart from the file size.
"#1: How does the new broadband modem really change this? Yeah I know now the IP is no longer changing a la dialup, but still dreamcasts are online as before, I don't see
why DoS attacks would be different."
It seems to me that the NetBSD port makes this(or something like this) a much more likely prospect to be hacked out by somebody. It could be a significant tool to make that possible.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't care about corporate fuck-all, could care less about business plans, stock price and strategy are completely irrelevant to me, but this sucks. Mandrake is the first distro that just worked for me. Super simple for my amatuer self, no problems, just simply worked the first time. i'm one of those y'all on slashdot are always talking about, a non-CS guy who used Windows until slowly being corrupted by Linux. Now, after trying 8.0, which was even easier to use than 7.2, I'm hooked on Mandrake as my distro of choice. I'm hatin' the fact that this will cause inevitable disruption and speculation about the direction of mandrake's future. Boo. I like their product, I hate to see them have trouble just as they're becoming a truly convenient alternative to Windows for the non super-technical crowd.
This is cool rant
Thank you, sir. Slashdot truly needs more wrestling quotes and references (I'm not being sarcastic). It helps the lowbrows (like me) to relate, and pisses off those who take themselves too seriously.
Damn, all my comments are in reply to 0 rated posts, so browsing at 1 my comments make no sense whatsoever. Sorry all, browse at 0 or -1 to see what I mean :)
I would use someone else's, as I am completely unable to write my own. However, I wouldn't compile yours, thereby hiding the source behind the IP cloak, then sell the binary as my own work, as I believe the original poster is implying MS did w/ the tcp/ip stack.
Interesting point here. I had never really thought of it before(not being the stereotypical IT/Slashdot type), but it's true that open source is much more beneficial to hardware companies than software companies. Is this a good or bad thing? I'm not sure. As a reader of electrical engineering trade magazines, I note that many companies are starting to use open source models for ASIC designs and many hardware IP areas. I'm curious if open source cores gain a foothold over proprietary hardware design, will these hardware companies back off from their open source support?
Do you have any reason to believe they could have done better, but didn't feel like it?
As an electronics/avionics technician, let me give you a serious high-five. This is SO right. If I had access to schematics, I could fairly easily happily fix my gear on my own. I'm looking at my whammy pedal, which works for about ten minutes without freaking out. It's most likely a voltage requlator heating up. I should be able to fix it quite easily with a $2 part, but schematics are not available, there's no local service shop. I don't feel like paying insured twoway shipping and $50-75, plus parts cost for a $2 and ten minute fix! I'm not a CS major, so source code itself won't help me too much, but it's quite a good analogy: proper docs > proper training > things magically work w/o having to return it or spend 8 hours on the phone with tech support.
The actual monetary cost of the suits will indded be minimal, but that is not the only cost. Microsoft's bad publicity from a public trumpeting of their misdeeds may influence people to make other OS choices. I'm sure that public opinion and all those warm fuzzy feelings will be much more of a concern to them.
When it comes to running servers/services, I called and asked, and after I explained what they were to the lady, she told me they had NO policy regarding anything like that, so go ahead. She may not have had any idea what she was talking about, but she did tell me it was OK.
And lucky me, I live in a poor-ass neighborhood, I'm convinced I'm one of about three people that can afford broadband here.
Same here, the vast(90%+) majority of the time, my speed is limited much more by server speed than my connection speed. I found this out after bitterly complaining to MDM about dl speeds. They got back to me almost instantly, with a nice list of unaffiliated benchmark sites across the west coast that showed that my line speed was most definitely not the problem. I highly recommend MDM on the basis of near instant and dedicated customer service personnel. Price could be better(55$/month), but I'm not complainin'.
I wonder if the disintegrating DSL market has anything to do with the fact that(at least in Seattle area) cable service is better, cheaper, and faster? I've been much happier w/ my cable(Millenium Digital Media) than any of my buddies w/ DSL. For that matter, can anyone help my clueless self with an idea why ppl would choose a DSL company(esp. one that has to go through another layer of ISP) over cable? Not trying to be inflammatory, if anyone cares, just curious.
This brings up the unsettling possibility of /. actually being used for something useful. It makes me shudder.
I think that rather than having some sort or religious apoplexy, the /. readers are merely (and deservedly) mocking a silly and innocent mistake. Obviously, linux news is a rather common sight around here, and I think people are just pointing out a particularily silly error.
recommendation. Oh, that's what the preview button is for.
Is it just me or is this not the best reccomendation for a company attempting to sell data? I know it's a simple mistake for most to make, but these guys are purveyors of supposedly correct info for christ's sake. Not good to reveal complete(or at least significant) ignorance about your main selling point.
Cool. Games are basically the only reason to still use Windoze. If new users could bring their favorite games to Linux, it would remove the main reason peeps are scared. I'm looking forward to not having to have dual-boot to get my gaming on.
I will give this exactly the same heed I give every other software license: none at all(though I do have a soft spot for GPL and it's like). If it is within my means, I will refuse to recognize any arbitrary attempt to keep me from knowing something. I extend this principle to all media. While I do have moral objections to plagiarizing or profiteering from others work, I have none whatsoever to reading, using, or learning it freely.
Just out of curiousity, I'd like to know what scale of size are these transistors? If the semiconductor properties can actually be used as transistors, what scale of integration would be possible? If it were just a few hundred or a few thousand it would be cool, but if you could get VLSI or better, the applications could be amazing. Self contained HUD's would be totally possible. Anyways, if anyone knows what size the transistors are, could you post a link?
Heh, that's an interesting point that I hadn't thought of. Artist's having to pay an art tax on media to make art. Ooohhhh... the irony is killing me. Tsk, Tsk, the RIAA has found a way to enrich itself not only at the expense of the pirates, traders, and everyone else that uses blank media for any purpose whatsoever, but also in one fell swoop has added an additional hurdle to any competition from independent artists or labels. That's just sweet.
I would be much less opposed to this sort of payment model for the arts if I thought more of the money would actually end up in artist's pockets. As it stands, it seems that publishers/recording industry types own the artistic rights to much of the available works. Any ideas on how these taxes are distributed in Germany, France, US, etc.? That would go a long way towards determining whether this is fair for consumer, artist, and citizen.
Actually, with a bit of knowledge, you would see that it is indeed possible to achieve a file size compression without an increase in sound quality. Sound fidelity could easily have a maximum value apart from the file size.
"#1: How does the new broadband modem really change this? Yeah I know now the IP is no longer changing a la dialup, but still dreamcasts are online as before, I don't see why DoS attacks would be different." It seems to me that the NetBSD port makes this(or something like this) a much more likely prospect to be hacked out by somebody. It could be a significant tool to make that possible.
Maybe Iraq will start buying them up????