Nothing for you to see here. I don't know about that. If we're lucky, we can all see the fiery explosion that will be the downfall of M$.
Where do you guys come from with all this venom and FUD? God, complete with a $. Your type really seem to think so much alike that I'd swear every one of you are the same person. It's so ironic, it's sad.
sarcasm [sahr-kaz-uhm] -noun 1. harsh or bitter derision or irony. 2. a sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark: a review full of sarcasms. [Origin: 1570-80; < LL sarcasmus < Gk sarkasmós, deriv. of sarkázein to rend (flesh), sneer; see sarco-]
--Synonyms 1. sardonicism, bitterness, ridicule. See irony1. 2. jeer.
Pending? Its more like: pending, pending, hype, pending, shedding features.... pending, more hype, pending, shedding some more features...... but we know it's coming.... right???? pending, pending, even more hype, pending, shedding even more features.... any moment now!!!! pending, pending........
After the 2004 election, I have great faith in the voters' ability to ignore incompetence and corruption.
The scary thing is that US political weasels actually look set to dethrone their Italian colleagues in the competition for being the most incompetent, nepotistic and corrupt. Say what you will, when your competition is Berlusconi, that's not an easy thing to accomplish.
Yeah, I guess it sounds a lot better to put it that way than to say "A 0.5% reduction in electricity usage"
Gee... what a nice example of right wing political propaganda of the simplistic variety. Sure, if you consider the example of these CFL bulbs in isolation it doesn't look all that impressive. If you, however, also consider what effect it would have to improve the energy efficiency of most common household appliances, refrigerators, stoves, computers, stereos, TVs.... the list goes on...... and alluvasudden you realize what kind of a dent that would make in energy consumption. It's easy to focus on a small part of a big picture and condemn the whole principle of energy efficiency as complete crap based on that narrow minded approach but the ease with which it can be done doesn't make it any less foolish.
Mark January 30'th on your calendar, the date of the next internet Pandemic.
You are not very well informed. If you had invested in a interstellar subspace communicator and listened to the cosmic news channels every once in a while you would know that January 29th 2007 is be the day the Windows Vista development servers, all the backups along with the Vista development team it self and Steve Ballmer's entire collection of hand made throwing chairs is scheduled to be abducted by they grey aliens.
...typing pages of shell commands in an 80's throwback style really wont do in the 21st century...
Geee... I suppose that's also why Microsoft is overhauling their command-line shell, because it is so f**king useless. What looks like crap to the PHB isn't always crap to the guy who keeps that beautifully integrated Outlook/Exchange combo and all of those nifty organizational tools that management types like to play with working so deliciously smoothly.
The Nokia E60, E61 and E70 are capable of SIP calls over WiFi.
I'll hopefully be getting mine this week, in the UK.
Mostly they are cool phones. I have an E70, the VPN sucks because you can't configure it without a special software suite from Nokia and the display rotation is a bit slow the E70's the fold open QWERTY keyboard is brilliant though and it has backlit keys like a MacBook Pro. The Blackberry and Exchange clients mostly make up for the sucky VPN client. Some people also gripe about the lack of a front mounted camera for video calls but I can't say that I miss the feature. The E70 also has a really good LCD display.
Don't underestimate Israel's ability to do what they feel is neccessary to keep themselves safe.
Don't under estimate the ability of the Iranians to defend them selves. I'm no fan of the Iranian regime but don't assume that just because they are Islamic fundamentalists they must also be idiots. These people have managed to keep US made F-14 jets in full use with spare parts made in Iran (or procured from corrupt sources in the US military) for over 20 years. They have even upgraded and re-manufactured significant amount of the military gear they got from the Americans prior to the revolution (and let's not forget all the toys they got from President Reagan during the Iran-Contra scandal). The Iranian military leadership was trained US instructors some of whom also trained the Israelis. They have also forged some very cozy relationships with Russia and more importantly China who supplies them with high-tech weapons some of whom, ironically enough, incorporate technology that is Israeli in origin.
The real problem is that Iran is not letting international inspectors see their installations. Remember what happened to Iraq in a similar case?
<rant> The real problem is that the USA has pissed off all its allies with the result that none of them will contribute to any US led invasion in the middle east or any place else. Perhaps after the next US presidential election but not as long as GWB sits in the white house. The US has also used up a great big chunk of it's resources on the war in Iraq, it has it's hands full containing the situation in Iraq. The US Govt. also doesn't have the public support at home for the kind of showdown with Iran that would be needed, i.e. massive air-strikes and deployment of large naval and ground assets which in turn would mean large losses of American troops since the Iranians are a much more formidable enemy that Iraq was. Then of course there is the effect that another major shooting war in the middle east would have on the world economy. Iran is playing for time by participating in the nuclear negotiations. As soon a Iran has 10-20 tactical nukes in the 5-15 kiloton range and does an underground test to prove it they will become de-facto untouchable. Barring any catastrophic melt-down of the Iranian regime, which doesn't seem likely, there is little apart from air-strikes that the US, Israel or anybody else can do to stop them from getting nukes. All they US can do is slow Iran down and Ahmadinejad knows it. </rant>
Dead wrong. GM foods can be grown in new places (where there is hunger) so it does indeed solve the distribution system.
Considering you have a '911 truth' sig, I doubt you let facts stand in the way of your opinions however.
Trolling are we? What is causing famine are problems like corruption, conflict and the resultant lack of effective government, unfair trade practices, agricultural dumping by the EU and the USA..... the list goes on. GM crops won't help your average third world farmer very much if his farming is continually disrupted by armies of AK-47 toting thugs regularly trekking through his particular patch of the planet raping looting and pillaging as they go. GM crops won't do squat to solve that problem, the only way you will get it out of the way is by strictly controlling the global small arms trade (Good luck on that one by the way, the USA can't even get it's own domestic small arms trade under control). In those places where conflict isn't the problem you could probably do more to solve famine problems right now with low tech development projects aimed simply at improving agricultural efficiency with traditional crop strains, teaching people to dig proper wells, make simple wind driven water pumps that any third-world blacksmith can understand and create in his workshop, construct simple aqueducts and irrigation systems and loaning poor farmers miniscule amounts of money to buy simple farming tools rather than locking them into a cycle of growing patented GM seeds spiked with GRM code.
Linux believers will have to reach out beyond self-absorbed geeks who learns Klingon and attends science fiction conventions in his spare time."
Let me get this straight... I am fluent in Klingon and go to sci-fi conventions?!? I didn't know that... time to visit a hypnotic therapist and dig up some suppressed memories.
Perhaps I was Elvis in my last incarnat... no wait... that can't be he's still alive.
On second thought, I think I'll just settle for guzzling down some beer and read "Advanced Programming in the UNIX(R) Environment (2nd Edition)" for the 19th time...
Spending less and transferring entire enterprises to new platforms are mutually exclusive. Face it: retraining 10,000 employees on alternative operating systems won't be nearly as cost effective as maintaining the existing Windows installs, so the desktops will remain Windows for the foreseeable future. You keep AD, but you can roll in Exchange and SQL Server alternatives, perhaps Office alternatives for specific departments where interacting with the outside world isn't necessarily a requirement.
Remember: it's a company, not a religion. Being anti-MS may be popular on slashdot, but it's not always the smartest (or cheapest) in real business.
For what it is worth AD is not a WIndows only feature, it is an MS implementation of LDAP directory services which has also been implemented for LINUX/UNIX/OS.X. You can have the same admin control that AD gives for Windows over an entire enterprise of LINUX/UNIX/OS.X desktop boxen and servers and you can even sync MS AS and another LDAP implementation if you want. For some reason LDAP simply isn't used all that much in many businesses LINUX/UNIX/OS.X environments, even where AD is happily used for the Windows half of the company IT infrastructure. The problem with corporations is usually not the lack of administration options for LINUX/UNIX/OS.X but rather that the people administering the LINUX/UNIX/OS.X are MCSE ninjas with little or no formal education who have no idea of how to manage anything that doesn't have an MS logo stamped on it and think that the *NIX world is still stuck in the days of local user management over telnet. Some 70% of the sysadmins I have met would have benefitted from reading a couple of "IT-Administration Best Practices" books one for Windows and one for *NIX. I included Windows in that last statement because even with an MCSE certificate a fair proportion of MCSE Ninjas still don't seem to know what MS AD is for.
Do they think they should be able to talk on the phone all day too? While they are "working". I'm a "digital native" and still think its up to the employers. If the employees don't want to work without internet then they should get the boot, screw letting them quit. Their job is to work, not surf.
The question is, how bad does the employment situation have to become before you start finding employees that will put up with that attitude and how quikly will you lose them to the competitor the moment the economy improves because they are tired of the tyranny. In the end you will have to live with having to give your employees a few 'perks' like these if you want to keep employee turnover at a reasonable rate.
Are you sure that is a good idea? There was a gear-head in Germany (IIRC) who reversed the superstructure on his WV Beetle so that the boot was at the front and he looked out what used to be the rear window while driving. He was eventually banned from driving the car due to the fact that the wierd way it looked caused so many accidents.
You can also have fun with Windows Workstations which people often leave unattended for extended periods of time without logging out. Favorites include:
Take a screenshot of the desktop, set it as the background, move all icons off the desktop, minimize all windows and hide the taskbar.
Exchange selected commonly heard system sounds for moans, farting sounds etc.
Exchange the regular Windows cursor for one that shows a hand making a rude sign involving the middle finger every time the system is busy.
Fire up the e-mail client and send a mail to everybody in the Workstation Users address book inviting them to a tupperware party at his/her house.
Remember, these guys _did_ claim that a Macintosh with built-in wireless adapter was vulnerable, and they didn't demonstrate that because of pressure from Apple! I didn't believe it then, nobody should have ever believed it without evidence, and now they have been caught with their lies.
I have done enough debugging work to know that there is always a chance somebody screws up and screws up badly... That goes for Apple just like anybody else (I'm one of their customers by the way). Just because these hackers may have slipped up (at the moment I only have your word for it) and explicitly claimed that built in Apple Wifi cards were vulnerable without checking on it first (which incidentally violates one of the golden rules of professional bug-hunting: Never claim a vulnerability must exist on operating system A because it has been demonstrated on operating system B. Create tests and prove it!) So don't get to carried away in your 'Schadenfreude' Apple is no more incapable of fucking up any more than IBM/Lenovo,HP or any other high end PC manufacturer.
So, hippies use apples... and... terroists use dells?
That can't be generally applicable. Slime-sucking corporate weasels use Dells by preference so that would make them terrorists under your definition. Now that just can't be since I don't see US politicians launching 'decapitation attacks' to zap their own source of campaign contributions with 125lb Paveway bombs and Hellfire missiles. Thus you should perhaps consider limiting your definition of 'terrorist' to the subset of Dell users who run Linux? Perhaps you can even launch an online petition to Dell that they install an IFF device in their laptops that only works if you don't have Linux installed?
When I switched to Linux I have noticed an instant productivity gain. Not because it is better, more secure, faster or anything, but because of the lack of Counterstrike et al. This effect should not be underestimated, especially in schools.
Unfortunately this effect only lasts until your Linux users discover Cedega.
What the pluton is going on here? Since when are moons and asteroids without names included in the list of planets?
Back in the olden days we used to call these 'planetoids' which I feel is as good a term as 'dwarf planet' even if it is less formal. Both of them are, however, preferable to 'pluton' which sounds like it is some sort of a subatomic particle. I suppose 'planetoid' smelled to much of computer games, marvel comics and sci-fi novels to pass muster.
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sarcasm [sahr-kaz-uhm]
-noun
1. harsh or bitter derision or irony.
2. a sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark: a review full of sarcasms.
[Origin: 1570-80; < LL sarcasmus < Gk sarkasmós, deriv. of sarkázein to rend (flesh), sneer; see sarco-]
--Synonyms 1. sardonicism, bitterness, ridicule. See irony1. 2. jeer.
Do you see it now?
Pending? Its more like: pending, pending, hype, pending, shedding features.... pending, more hype, pending, shedding some more features...... but we know it's coming.... right???? pending, pending, even more hype, pending, shedding even more features.... any moment now!!!! pending, pending........
Dormant Gamers have gone into hibernation waiting for the time the galactic economy is capable of sustaining their exhorbant needs.
Until that time, they pass the time playing SimEarth...
Pesky little buggers aren't they? My cat caught one this morning and ate it. I suppose Africa won't have any fjords the next time around.
The scary thing is that US political weasels actually look set to dethrone their Italian colleagues in the competition for being the most incompetent, nepotistic and corrupt. Say what you will, when your competition is Berlusconi, that's not an easy thing to accomplish.
It's still more Open Source than Windows.
On the server?
On the destkop?
Care to elaborate?
Links perhaps?
Really?!?! Based on all the facts you provided I suppose we will have to believe you!
Yeah, I guess it sounds a lot better to put it that way than to say "A 0.5% reduction in electricity usage"
Gee... what a nice example of right wing political propaganda of the simplistic variety. Sure, if you consider the example of these CFL bulbs in isolation it doesn't look all that impressive. If you, however, also consider what effect it would have to improve the energy efficiency of most common household appliances, refrigerators, stoves, computers, stereos, TVs.... the list goes on...... and alluvasudden you realize what kind of a dent that would make in energy consumption. It's easy to focus on a small part of a big picture and condemn the whole principle of energy efficiency as complete crap based on that narrow minded approach but the ease with which it can be done doesn't make it any less foolish.
Mark January 30'th on your calendar, the date of the next internet Pandemic.
You are not very well informed. If you had invested in a interstellar subspace communicator and listened to the cosmic news channels every once in a while you would know that January 29th 2007 is be the day the Windows Vista development servers, all the backups along with the Vista development team it self and Steve Ballmer's entire collection of hand made throwing chairs is scheduled to be abducted by they grey aliens.
...typing pages of shell commands in an 80's throwback style really wont do in the 21st century...
Geee... I suppose that's also why Microsoft is overhauling their command-line shell, because it is so f**king useless. What looks like crap to the PHB isn't always crap to the guy who keeps that beautifully integrated Outlook/Exchange combo and all of those nifty organizational tools that management types like to play with working so deliciously smoothly.
The Nokia E60, E61 and E70 are capable of SIP calls over WiFi.
I'll hopefully be getting mine this week, in the UK.
Mostly they are cool phones. I have an E70, the VPN sucks because you can't configure it without a special software suite from Nokia and the display rotation is a bit slow the E70's the fold open QWERTY keyboard is brilliant though and it has backlit keys like a MacBook Pro. The Blackberry and Exchange clients mostly make up for the sucky VPN client. Some people also gripe about the lack of a front mounted camera for video calls but I can't say that I miss the feature. The E70 also has a really good LCD display.
Don't underestimate Israel's ability to do what they feel is neccessary to keep themselves safe.
Don't under estimate the ability of the Iranians to defend them selves. I'm no fan of the Iranian regime but don't assume that just because they are Islamic fundamentalists they must also be idiots. These people have managed to keep US made F-14 jets in full use with spare parts made in Iran (or procured from corrupt sources in the US military) for over 20 years. They have even upgraded and re-manufactured significant amount of the military gear they got from the Americans prior to the revolution (and let's not forget all the toys they got from President Reagan during the Iran-Contra scandal). The Iranian military leadership was trained US instructors some of whom also trained the Israelis. They have also forged some very cozy relationships with Russia and more importantly China who supplies them with high-tech weapons some of whom, ironically enough, incorporate technology that is Israeli in origin.
The real problem is that Iran is not letting international inspectors see their installations. Remember what happened to Iraq in a similar case?
<rant>
The real problem is that the USA has pissed off all its allies with the result that none of them will contribute to any US led invasion in the middle east or any place else. Perhaps after the next US presidential election but not as long as GWB sits in the white house. The US has also used up a great big chunk of it's resources on the war in Iraq, it has it's hands full containing the situation in Iraq. The US Govt. also doesn't have the public support at home for the kind of showdown with Iran that would be needed, i.e. massive air-strikes and deployment of large naval and ground assets which in turn would mean large losses of American troops since the Iranians are a much more formidable enemy that Iraq was. Then of course there is the effect that another major shooting war in the middle east would have on the world economy. Iran is playing for time by participating in the nuclear negotiations. As soon a Iran has 10-20 tactical nukes in the 5-15 kiloton range and does an underground test to prove it they will become de-facto untouchable. Barring any catastrophic melt-down of the Iranian regime, which doesn't seem likely, there is little apart from air-strikes that the US, Israel or anybody else can do to stop them from getting nukes. All they US can do is slow Iran down and Ahmadinejad knows it.
</rant>
Dead wrong. GM foods can be grown in new places (where there is hunger) so it does indeed solve the distribution system.
Considering you have a '911 truth' sig, I doubt you let facts stand in the way of your opinions however.
Trolling are we? What is causing famine are problems like corruption, conflict and the resultant lack of effective government, unfair trade practices, agricultural dumping by the EU and the USA..... the list goes on. GM crops won't help your average third world farmer very much if his farming is continually disrupted by armies of AK-47 toting thugs regularly trekking through his particular patch of the planet raping looting and pillaging as they go. GM crops won't do squat to solve that problem, the only way you will get it out of the way is by strictly controlling the global small arms trade (Good luck on that one by the way, the USA can't even get it's own domestic small arms trade under control). In those places where conflict isn't the problem you could probably do more to solve famine problems right now with low tech development projects aimed simply at improving agricultural efficiency with traditional crop strains, teaching people to dig proper wells, make simple wind driven water pumps that any third-world blacksmith can understand and create in his workshop, construct simple aqueducts and irrigation systems and loaning poor farmers miniscule amounts of money to buy simple farming tools rather than locking them into a cycle of growing patented GM seeds spiked with GRM code.
Please don't feed the trolls.
Thank you.
Let me get this straight... I am fluent in Klingon and go to sci-fi conventions?!? I didn't know that... time to visit a hypnotic therapist and dig up some suppressed memories.
Perhaps I was Elvis in my last incarnat... no wait... that can't be he's still alive.
On second thought, I think I'll just settle for guzzling down some beer and read "Advanced Programming in the UNIX(R) Environment (2nd Edition)" for the 19th time
Spending less and transferring entire enterprises to new platforms are mutually exclusive. Face it: retraining 10,000 employees on alternative operating systems won't be nearly as cost effective as maintaining the existing Windows installs, so the desktops will remain Windows for the foreseeable future. You keep AD, but you can roll in Exchange and SQL Server alternatives, perhaps Office alternatives for specific departments where interacting with the outside world isn't necessarily a requirement.
Remember: it's a company, not a religion. Being anti-MS may be popular on slashdot, but it's not always the smartest (or cheapest) in real business.
For what it is worth AD is not a WIndows only feature, it is an MS implementation of LDAP directory services which has also been implemented for LINUX/UNIX/OS.X. You can have the same admin control that AD gives for Windows over an entire enterprise of LINUX/UNIX/OS.X desktop boxen and servers and you can even sync MS AS and another LDAP implementation if you want. For some reason LDAP simply isn't used all that much in many businesses LINUX/UNIX/OS.X environments, even where AD is happily used for the Windows half of the company IT infrastructure. The problem with corporations is usually not the lack of administration options for LINUX/UNIX/OS.X but rather that the people administering the LINUX/UNIX/OS.X are MCSE ninjas with little or no formal education who have no idea of how to manage anything that doesn't have an MS logo stamped on it and think that the *NIX world is still stuck in the days of local user management over telnet. Some 70% of the sysadmins I have met would have benefitted from reading a couple of "IT-Administration Best Practices" books one for Windows and one for *NIX. I included Windows in that last statement because even with an MCSE certificate a fair proportion of MCSE Ninjas still don't seem to know what MS AD is for.
Do they think they should be able to talk on the phone all day too? While they are "working". I'm a "digital native" and still think its up to the employers. If the employees don't want to work without internet then they should get the boot, screw letting them quit. Their job is to work, not surf.
The question is, how bad does the employment situation have to become before you start finding employees that will put up with that attitude and how quikly will you lose them to the competitor the moment the economy improves because they are tired of the tyranny. In the end you will have to live with having to give your employees a few 'perks' like these if you want to keep employee turnover at a reasonable rate.
Then smart kids will drive backwards.
Are you sure that is a good idea? There was a gear-head in Germany (IIRC) who reversed the superstructure on his WV Beetle so that the boot was at the front and he looked out what used to be the rear window while driving. He was eventually banned from driving the car due to the fact that the wierd way it looked caused so many accidents.
What are we talking about, again?
Pesident Regan?!?!? You speak to us from the beyond!!
I have done enough debugging work to know that there is always a chance somebody screws up and screws up badly... That goes for Apple just like anybody else (I'm one of their customers by the way). Just because these hackers may have slipped up (at the moment I only have your word for it) and explicitly claimed that built in Apple Wifi cards were vulnerable without checking on it first (which incidentally violates one of the golden rules of professional bug-hunting: Never claim a vulnerability must exist on operating system A because it has been demonstrated on operating system B. Create tests and prove it!) So don't get to carried away in your 'Schadenfreude' Apple is no more incapable of fucking up any more than IBM/Lenovo,HP or any other high end PC manufacturer.
RMS? Hello?
... RMS is a deity, not a mere prophet.
So, hippies use apples... and... terroists use dells?
That can't be generally applicable. Slime-sucking corporate weasels use Dells by preference so that would make them terrorists under your definition. Now that just can't be since I don't see US politicians launching 'decapitation attacks' to zap their own source of campaign contributions with 125lb Paveway bombs and Hellfire missiles. Thus you should perhaps consider limiting your definition of 'terrorist' to the subset of Dell users who run Linux? Perhaps you can even launch an online petition to Dell that they install an IFF device in their laptops that only works if you don't have Linux installed?
When I switched to Linux I have noticed an instant productivity gain. Not because it is better, more secure, faster or anything, but because of the lack of Counterstrike et al. This effect should not be underestimated, especially in schools.
Unfortunately this effect only lasts until your Linux users discover Cedega.
Back in the olden days we used to call these 'planetoids' which I feel is as good a term as 'dwarf planet' even if it is less formal. Both of them are, however, preferable to 'pluton' which sounds like it is some sort of a subatomic particle. I suppose 'planetoid' smelled to much of computer games, marvel comics and sci-fi novels to pass muster.