The vast majority of people on this world don't use English as a mother language. They don't even speak it, for the most part, regardless of whether it's the world's most widely spoken language or not. Do the names for various software applications mean the same thing to them as they do to you?
Is Ubuntu less offensive to a Corsican reading the newspaper "u ribombu" or a Zulu businessman using Linux to do his backoffice?
Does GIMP sound the same when read by a Frenchman, or by someone from China who doesn't even use the Latin alphabet?
I switched two people over last week, my system admin over three weeks ago, and my ex girlfriend last year. People, once they've used a Mac, they won't go back.
I am not surprised but still kind of irritated that almost all of the comments here revolve around either rationalising away the fact that no american team was at the top or being directly insulting of foreign universities.
You americans are a bunch of wet nappies. You take a fucking programming and problem solving contest personally even though none of you were actually there. Not only that but you take it personally on a national level, as if your patriotic pride were somehow damaged because of this.
America is a country that has lots of strengths, such as competitiveness, but also lots of weaknesses. such as an almost total inability to lose with grace.
Maybe it's a good thing that (you americans)(sic) lost this competition.
The way I see it, having huge laser cannons mounted in big jets (or even smaller tactical lasers mounted in big helicopters) will give the USA what it already has: a huge advantage in conventional warfare. The chinese might be able to make their own lasers or buy Russian laser technology from the cold war, but the USA is far head here.
But the USA is already far ahead. No other country could seriously take on the USA in a conventional (and with lasers, even a nuclear war). Given how the USA has been throwing its weight around since Bush and friends got into power, I don't think that's necessarily a good thing. Being able to threaten and use nuclear weapons on a country like Iran because there's no way the Iranians (or North Koreans) could fight back - conventionally, is only inviting some rabid fanatic to try and get one into the USA covertly after his country has been invaded or destroyed by the USA (again).
Maybe the USA has decided that holding an occupied country is not such a good idea after all and that they should rather try to terrify a country into a submission instead using their insanely expensive military. Good luck on that, because it will only work as long as it takes for the other side to invent their own lasers.
FTFA: If Apple wants a significant number of users to sample OS X, Boot Camp just won't cut it. Instead, it's going to have to get off the fence and start selling OS X to PC users, rather than restricting it to the Mac. I don't see any valid reason why Apple isn't doing this
I mean, when I read a statement like that from an permanent whiner here on slashdot, I can understand it, but when I read it from people who are paid to make insightful commentary, then it just blows my mind. I would love to listen to this clown explain why Apple should undercut its own hardware sales.
Over the last few years, and especially since Apple switched to x86 and even more since Boot Camp was released, I've watched the usual suspects here on Slashdot rip Apple for not selling OSX on generic PC hardware. To be very honest, I don't think those people would ever be happy, whatever one were to do for them, but it did occur to me that one way that Apple can really swing in extra cash is for Applw to make a generic grey box PC ITSELF! That's right, for Apple to make a bog standard cheapo PC with mutiple drive bays, numerous free PCI and PCIe slots, in a cheap as shit case from GuShangHoo or where ever in China and sell it along with OSX for all the motherfuckers who complain here constantly about not being able to get cheap hardware.
It would be an interesting experiment.
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Apple might very well testing the waters to see what the result of this Boot Camp experiment is. If it turns out that Windows users are turning to Apple's OS in droves, then Apple might be tempted to sell OSX to a number of selected partners, probably in select markets (using Lenovo as a sales partner in China and someone else in India for example, both markets where Apple's prices are usually too high for general adoption)
Get over yourself. The steaming piles of crap that MS spouts with respect to Linux, or innovation, or just about anything coming out of the mouth of Ballmer makes Apple looks like Benedictine monks.
If this project pans out technically (i.e. I don't know how difficult it is to implement) it has the potential of erasing one of the biggest hurdles to adoption of Linux on the Desktop as there will be no more need to worry about your KDE/GNOME app being integrated on the other's environment.
Just when you thought that your Mac life was too stable and incident free, Microsoft comes to the rescue with colourful new variations to your workflow.
Author of "Attack of the Clones", a.k.a "It's April 2 and I don't know what to write about, so I'll write one trashing the iPod and you can all listen to it on PODCAST which I advertise on the bottom of my page".
When Nokia and Motorola make a phone that's as easy to use as an iPod (have you seen mobile phone menus?), is as simple as an iPod (have you seen mobile phone navigation?), is as reliable as an iPod (my brand new Sony Ericsson crashes every 3 days, my previous Nokia would crash every two weeks or so), with the battery life of an iPod (how long does your phone last while playing sounds? mine lasts about 1 and half hours max), the capacity of an iPod (this one I belive will happen sooner than the rest) and the tight integration with iTunes, which is god's gift to music store software and jukeboxes, then I'll believe an article that an Australian hack in Melbourne wrote on the day of the Melbourne Formula one.
What will the fat freak do when his kids start rebelling and buying what they want to instead of what he wants them to? Will he throw a chair? Or will he just crap out and die of a heart attack?
Trust is good but control is better. Theo de Raadt trusting that developers will handover money out of the good of their hearts for the free work done by the OpenBSD crowd is naive at best and downright stupid at worst. One of the reasons that Apache/PHP/MySQL are so popular is that people don't have to pay for them. That's the way it goes. People/Companies, it doesn't matter.They all will always be looking for a bargain. Even IBM is not supporting Linux because it thinks Linux is so good. It's doing it because there's money to be made.
TdR needs to give companies an INCENTIVE to give him money to develop. Making childish threats is one way, sure, but probably not the most effective. Pointing out to the various companies that there will be no future ssh if OpenBSD goes under would probably help more.
FTA: How often do you visit other countries' web sites? How often do you e-mail people in other countries? Do you ever search in a language other than English, and if you do, how often does it turn up foreign vs domestic sites? What would foreigners lose by not being able to visit US-hosted sites, and how quickly would they be able to recreate what they lost? What other process that we are not normally aware of depend on a borderless internet? I find that although I often read in-depth news about other countries, the sites I get that news from are usually hosted in USA, and I only bother to read in English.
AFAIK around 50% of slashdot visitors are not from the US. A lot of us visit this place, despite the constant fighting and general stupidity because it gives us an outlet on the world, and a chance to use our English. I know Americans tend to be ignorant of the rest of the world (and no, that wasn't a troll, it was what the OP wrote above) but it would do Americans the world of good to realise just what is happening elsewhere and what REAL foreign people think about issues in general, not only American foreign policy (that is almost universally disliked in any case), and not the utter commercially distorted crap that passes for news in the US (our news is also often crap, but it's a tiny bit less plastic than *bc, cbs etc). Likewise it is good for us foreigners to see what moves you (or doesn't).
Isolation is only going to hurt yourselves, and if you do it out of some mistaken sense of hurt national pride ("them furriners don't like us controlling the internet"), you'll only be doubly surprised the next time some international wacko comes round to bite you in the ass.
In order to see the Aero Glass, users need a 3.4GHz PC, 1GB RAM and a 256MB DX10 Card??????? It's either going to push hardware sales enormously or be a huge flop.
Ouch, looking at the pics, I had two impressions: 1. Vista is looking better and better 2. Microsoft again copied a whole bunch of stuff from the Mac
The last point makes me wonder what the fuck is going on at Redmond if they are so incapable of making their own innovations that they have to steal every damn thing that they possibly can. A short list of Bill the wanker's "Innovations" 1. Glass effects - Yes, Bill, OSX had these all of 5 yeras ago 2. Windows Mail - Wow, Bill, you big pussy, are you so mentally stunted that Outlook had to go so that you could copy OSX Mail? Geez... 3. Gadgets - Geez, Bill, were you gettting a fisting session from Ballmer complaining about OSX' Dashboard widgets? 4. area screenshots - wowowowowow, I'm truly impressed. Really. Honestly.
Bill Gates, or Steve Ballmer, or one of your morons reading this: Seeing that you've just delayed your new toys once a-fucking-gain, why don't you just drop the effort and just ask Apple if you can't sell their OS? Even though you fuckers put the word "innovation" in every press release, and every mail to your brainwashed idiots who would actually works for you, the truth is that you wouldn't know actual innovation if it walked up to you, slit your throats and laughed at you while you bled to death, you poor desperate fools.
The article wasn't a very good one; it did cover a topic not often covered - scientific method itself - but it didn't really say anything that wouldn't be fairly obvious to anyone who half way understands what he was talking about. It is obvious that current systems and practices will get better and more universal (his so called hyperdata where more powerful systems simply can correlate more data). What is not obvious is that the next 50 years will be one glorious boom of improvement. Although the world has managed to avoid a nuclear war in the last 50 years, there is no saying that there will not be one in the next 50 years, say between China and the US over Taiwan. Yugoslavia showed that it doesn't take much to turn neighbours into mass murderers.
A big economic meltdown could do it too. Or a major bird flu epidemic. Or plain simple glabl warming with major storms, flooding, and droughts. The challenges haven't gotten smaller.
He didn't mention the dark ages, where there wasn't much in the way of development for over 500 years from 500AD onwards after the fall of Rome. It could happen again.
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no, most newer printer include this technology which means it can be used to find printers in your local network at home.
The vast majority of people on this world don't use English as a mother language. They don't even speak it, for the most part, regardless of whether it's the world's most widely spoken language or not. Do the names for various software applications mean the same thing to them as they do to you?
Is Ubuntu less offensive to a Corsican reading the newspaper "u ribombu" or a Zulu businessman using Linux to do his backoffice?
Does GIMP sound the same when read by a Frenchman, or by someone from China who doesn't even use the Latin alphabet?
Until he said this: "No one ever says "Hey, let's go ruin company P" or other things that could be construed as "evil.""
He must have missed the news about Steve B, chairs and Google.
I switched two people over last week, my system admin over three weeks ago, and my ex girlfriend last year. People, once they've used a Mac, they won't go back.
Ahmen. Thanks, that was the best to the point post about this whole business that I've seen on this board.
I am not surprised but still kind of irritated that almost all of the comments here revolve around either rationalising away the fact that no american team was at the top or being directly insulting of foreign universities.
You americans are a bunch of wet nappies. You take a fucking programming and problem solving contest personally even though none of you were actually there. Not only that but you take it personally on a national level, as if your patriotic pride were somehow damaged because of this.
America is a country that has lots of strengths, such as competitiveness, but also lots of weaknesses. such as an almost total inability to lose with grace.
Maybe it's a good thing that (you americans)(sic) lost this competition.
The way I see it, having huge laser cannons mounted in big jets (or even smaller tactical lasers mounted in big helicopters) will give the USA what it already has: a huge advantage in conventional warfare. The chinese might be able to make their own lasers or buy Russian laser technology from the cold war, but the USA is far head here.
But the USA is already far ahead. No other country could seriously take on the USA in a conventional (and with lasers, even a nuclear war). Given how the USA has been throwing its weight around since Bush and friends got into power, I don't think that's necessarily a good thing. Being able to threaten and use nuclear weapons on a country like Iran because there's no way the Iranians (or North Koreans) could fight back - conventionally, is only inviting some rabid fanatic to try and get one into the USA covertly after his country has been invaded or destroyed by the USA (again).
Maybe the USA has decided that holding an occupied country is not such a good idea after all and that they should rather try to terrify a country into a submission instead using their insanely expensive military. Good luck on that, because it will only work as long as it takes for the other side to invent their own lasers.
FTFA: If Apple wants a significant number of users to sample OS X, Boot Camp just won't cut it. Instead, it's going to have to get off the fence and start selling OS X to PC users, rather than restricting it to the Mac. I don't see any valid reason why Apple isn't doing this
I mean, when I read a statement like that from an permanent whiner here on slashdot, I can understand it, but when I read it from people who are paid to make insightful commentary, then it just blows my mind. I would love to listen to this clown explain why Apple should undercut its own hardware sales.
Over the last few years, and especially since Apple switched to x86 and even more since Boot Camp was released, I've watched the usual suspects here on Slashdot rip Apple for not selling OSX on generic PC hardware. To be very honest, I don't think those people would ever be happy, whatever one were to do for them, but it did occur to me that one way that Apple can really swing in extra cash is for Applw to make a generic grey box PC ITSELF! That's right, for Apple to make a bog standard cheapo PC with mutiple drive bays, numerous free PCI and PCIe slots, in a cheap as shit case from GuShangHoo or where ever in China and sell it along with OSX for all the motherfuckers who complain here constantly about not being able to get cheap hardware.
It would be an interesting experiment.
Apple might very well testing the waters to see what the result of this Boot Camp experiment is. If it turns out that Windows users are turning to Apple's OS in droves, then Apple might be tempted to sell OSX to a number of selected partners, probably in select markets (using Lenovo as a sales partner in China and someone else in India for example, both markets where Apple's prices are usually too high for general adoption)
Get over yourself. The steaming piles of crap that MS spouts with respect to Linux, or innovation, or just about anything coming out of the mouth of Ballmer makes Apple looks like Benedictine monks.
But you have to friggin download it first, and how many are going to stumble across it by chance?
That is as much a BS argument as the Mac guy who doesn't know that IIS comes with XP Pro.
If this project pans out technically (i.e. I don't know how difficult it is to implement) it has the potential of erasing one of the biggest hurdles to adoption of Linux on the Desktop as there will be no more need to worry about your KDE/GNOME app being integrated on the other's environment.
Just when you thought that your Mac life was too stable and incident free, Microsoft comes to the rescue with colourful new variations to your workflow.
Are you willing to put money on that bet, with a contract? I'll take you on if you are.
Author of "Attack of the Clones", a.k.a "It's April 2 and I don't know what to write about, so I'll write one trashing the iPod and you can all listen to it on PODCAST which I advertise on the bottom of my page".
When Nokia and Motorola make a phone that's as easy to use as an iPod (have you seen mobile phone menus?), is as simple as an iPod (have you seen mobile phone navigation?), is as reliable as an iPod (my brand new Sony Ericsson crashes every 3 days, my previous Nokia would crash every two weeks or so), with the battery life of an iPod (how long does your phone last while playing sounds? mine lasts about 1 and half hours max), the capacity of an iPod (this one I belive will happen sooner than the rest) and the tight integration with iTunes, which is god's gift to music store software and jukeboxes, then I'll believe an article that an Australian hack in Melbourne wrote on the day of the Melbourne Formula one.
I think you touched on a sore spot there, for which a whole load of people will flame you, but well done for saying it! It's about time.
What will the fat freak do when his kids start rebelling and buying what they want to instead of what he wants them to? Will he throw a chair? Or will he just crap out and die of a heart attack?
This whole Slashdot anti-Theo movement is lame
I agree wholeheartedly.
-Theo
Trust is good but control is better. Theo de Raadt trusting that developers will handover money out of the good of their hearts for the free work done by the OpenBSD crowd is naive at best and downright stupid at worst. One of the reasons that Apache/PHP/MySQL are so popular is that people don't have to pay for them. That's the way it goes. People/Companies, it doesn't matter.They all will always be looking for a bargain. Even IBM is not supporting Linux because it thinks Linux is so good. It's doing it because there's money to be made.
TdR needs to give companies an INCENTIVE to give him money to develop. Making childish threats is one way, sure, but probably not the most effective. Pointing out to the various companies that there will be no future ssh if OpenBSD goes under would probably help more.
FTA: How often do you visit other countries' web sites? How often do you e-mail people in other countries? Do you ever search in a language other than English, and if you do, how often does it turn up foreign vs domestic sites? What would foreigners lose by not being able to visit US-hosted sites, and how quickly would they be able to recreate what they lost? What other process that we are not normally aware of depend on a borderless internet? I find that although I often read in-depth news about other countries, the sites I get that news from are usually hosted in USA, and I only bother to read in English.
AFAIK around 50% of slashdot visitors are not from the US. A lot of us visit this place, despite the constant fighting and general stupidity because it gives us an outlet on the world, and a chance to use our English. I know Americans tend to be ignorant of the rest of the world (and no, that wasn't a troll, it was what the OP wrote above) but it would do Americans the world of good to realise just what is happening elsewhere and what REAL foreign people think about issues in general, not only American foreign policy (that is almost universally disliked in any case), and not the utter commercially distorted crap that passes for news in the US (our news is also often crap, but it's a tiny bit less plastic than *bc, cbs etc). Likewise it is good for us foreigners to see what moves you (or doesn't).
Isolation is only going to hurt yourselves, and if you do it out of some mistaken sense of hurt national pride ("them furriners don't like us controlling the internet"), you'll only be doubly surprised the next time some international wacko comes round to bite you in the ass.
Bestechung im Amt gehört mit dem Tod bestraft zu werden.
Corruption in Office deserves to be punishable by death.
No one can tell me that these politicians weren't paid to make this law or that they receive no kick backs for it.
In order to see the Aero Glass, users need a 3.4GHz PC, 1GB RAM and a 256MB DX10 Card??????? It's either going to push hardware sales enormously or be a huge flop.
Ouch, looking at the pics, I had two impressions:
1. Vista is looking better and better
2. Microsoft again copied a whole bunch of stuff from the Mac
The last point makes me wonder what the fuck is going on at Redmond if they are so incapable of making their own innovations that they have to steal every damn thing that they possibly can. A short list of Bill the wanker's "Innovations"
1. Glass effects - Yes, Bill, OSX had these all of 5 yeras ago
2. Windows Mail - Wow, Bill, you big pussy, are you so mentally stunted that Outlook had to go so that you could copy OSX Mail? Geez...
3. Gadgets - Geez, Bill, were you gettting a fisting session from Ballmer complaining about OSX' Dashboard widgets?
4. area screenshots - wowowowowow, I'm truly impressed. Really. Honestly.
Bill Gates, or Steve Ballmer, or one of your morons reading this: Seeing that you've just delayed your new toys once a-fucking-gain, why don't you just drop the effort and just ask Apple if you can't sell their OS? Even though you fuckers put the word "innovation" in every press release, and every mail to your brainwashed idiots who would actually works for you, the truth is that you wouldn't know actual innovation if it walked up to you, slit your throats and laughed at you while you bled to death, you poor desperate fools.
The article wasn't a very good one; it did cover a topic not often covered - scientific method itself - but it didn't really say anything that wouldn't be fairly obvious to anyone who half way understands what he was talking about. It is obvious that current systems and practices will get better and more universal (his so called hyperdata where more powerful systems simply can correlate more data). What is not obvious is that the next 50 years will be one glorious boom of improvement. Although the world has managed to avoid a nuclear war in the last 50 years, there is no saying that there will not be one in the next 50 years, say between China and the US over Taiwan. Yugoslavia showed that it doesn't take much to turn neighbours into mass murderers.
A big economic meltdown could do it too. Or a major bird flu epidemic. Or plain simple glabl warming with major storms, flooding, and droughts. The challenges haven't gotten smaller.
He didn't mention the dark ages, where there wasn't much in the way of development for over 500 years from 500AD onwards after the fall of Rome. It could happen again.