"In all seriousness, comments like these tell me I should be taking my business elsewhere."
Comments like what? In the article Best Buy look to me like an organisation who has hired a consultant to look at ways to improve profitability. That will be good for their shareholders and also their customers. No where in the linked article does it say that Best Buy is going to dump customers.
To me the article is an advertorial promoting the services of the consultant.
Don't forget the cost of cabling the displays etc. A vga extenstion cable, mouse and keyboard extention cable is going to cost more than a bit of cat 9.
Not always. The IBM 3270 architecture (I think it had another name as well) could use graphics terminals with high resolution rendering, mouse etc. Quite a bit of local processing could be done.
Actually just a monitor, mouse and keyboard would have to rate as a dumb terminal. Even acsii terminals had some intelligence for cursor positioning etc.
Another difference is that Apache and Sendmail do not try and discredit their opposition at every opportunity. And heavily promote their products as the only credible choice.
I am in the middle of upgrading NS 4.7 to Mozilla and/or IE in a fairly large organisation (10,000 users). Managers ask "Why should we use Mozilla when IE will browse all sites "properly". I ask them to open MS explorer and stuff around with a few files. Then get them to type a url into the file box. Then I ask if they are happy to let a remote site manage their files. Most switch then.
The few that don't switch will soon when IE has been screwed down further, based on Microsoft's own recomendations.
" one of the things I always wondered about is why couldn't this be done over RF"
Well it could be done WITH RF. A wide angle microwave beam 1cm high and about 3 cm above the ground would do it. Oh and about 200 Kwatts.
Or overboost one of those circulating surveyors lasers, again about 3 cm over the ground. That would need less power, 200 watts should keep the grass down.
Hmmm, a bit over the top. One of the office workers here brings in her dog. It just sits under the desk and disturbs no one. Of course the dog's owner is blind.....
Supposedly the treaty intends to copyright the signal that is broadcast.
My understanding is that the signal is modulated electromagnetic radiation.
Before the signal even leaves the antenna it will be further modulated by signals from other sources of radiation, such as other broadcasting stations, noisy electrical equipment and mostly solar radiation.
"Not really. Once Longhorn is released and everything under the sun is running under managed code (even Linux apps via Mono), you'll see a difference."
Oh really?
How often before a major release do we see this sort of comment? I can certainly remember it ahead of NT 4, W2K and XP, not to mention bits like Outlook 2K, Outlook 2003 etc. etc.
I find that history is a very good indicator to the future, until such time as some sort of major event occurs. And don't call the Trusted Computing Initiative such an event, clearly it was not.
In my book, Microsoft just does not get security, which is a major problem for all of us.
I only use Star Office 7 (same as latest OO) to write documentation etc. for my clients. I send it as a Word 97 document and so far have found zero recipients who cannot understand it. OK some (a few) may comment that some formatting is not as it should be, but the objective of the document works.
- Walk into a branch, not a local one.
- Fill out a non-personalised withdrawal form for $2,500
- Hand it teller
- She looks at me and (apparently) sees a middle aged white male in a suit.
- Hands me the cash and wishes me a good day.
I leave and call the bank security to report the transaction. They were NOT happy.
I don't see the *BSD's as an assult on Linus, so why should Open Source Solaris be an assult on Linux? Linux and Solaris are quite different products to many if not most users.
Further, most users of Open Source products don't go beyond the binaries, particularly the users on Linux. Solaris is free (as in beer) now, so again how is Open Sourcing Solaris going to affect Linux?
I skimmed the article (I have read/. for a while so I know I should not have actually READ it) and saw the magic words "Pringles Can. Unfortunately 802.11 is yet to be enabled, apparently....
"What would really impress me is a washing machine that you could just through your clothes into and it would decide, based on the color and material of your clothing, what temperature and how much water to use as well as how long to run for and how much of what kind of soap to include"
Well this comes close.... http://www.fp.co.nz/Products/Laundry/Sm artDrive-Sy stem.html
"The real problems with nuclear energy, however, are that we can't get rid of the waste and the consequences of even minor mistakes are catastrophic."
Agreed, much the same as other sources of thermal energy such as coal, oil etc. However to date the evidence suggests that deaths, injury and illness associated with the use of other thermal sources is greater per kwh generated than for nuclear energy.
Even production of hydro enegy has caused more deaths, due to dam creation and failure, flooding etc. than nuclear.
OK, so the reason cell phones cannot be used on aircraft is because of FCC Reg 47 CFR Sec. 22.925. Nothing to do with the signal stuffing up on board systems or the cell phone network.....
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"In all seriousness, comments like these tell me I should be taking my business elsewhere."
Comments like what? In the article Best Buy look to me like an organisation who has hired a consultant to look at ways to improve profitability. That will be good for their shareholders and also their customers. No where in the linked article does it say that Best Buy is going to dump customers.
To me the article is an advertorial promoting the services of the consultant.
Well you could try counting sperm... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/28/mobile_bal l_rot/
"Carrying a mobile phone can reduce a man's sperm count by as much as 30 per cent, according to Hungarian scientists."
Fortunately us geeks have WiFi access to lots of porn so it should not be too difficult....
Actually the original poster is correct, Sun has done it before.
....
Solaris went..
2.0
2.1
2.6
7
I realise the underlying SunOS continues the consistent numbering. But Solaris did officially skip several numbers.
Don't forget the cost of cabling the displays etc. A vga extenstion cable, mouse and keyboard extention cable is going to cost more than a bit of cat 9.
" Mainframes used dumb terminals"
Not always. The IBM 3270 architecture (I think it had another name as well) could use graphics terminals with high resolution rendering, mouse etc. Quite a bit of local processing could be done.
Actually just a monitor, mouse and keyboard would have to rate as a dumb terminal. Even acsii terminals had some intelligence for cursor positioning etc.
Another difference is that Apache and Sendmail do not try and discredit their opposition at every opportunity. And heavily promote their products as the only credible choice.
"Ye who speeds, cuts people off, and winds through traffic, is the first to reach the red light"
Or gets to the green before it turns red!
"Microsoft remains a security dissaster."
I am in the middle of upgrading NS 4.7 to Mozilla and/or IE in a fairly large organisation (10,000 users). Managers ask "Why should we use Mozilla when IE will browse all sites "properly". I ask them to open MS explorer and stuff around with a few files. Then get them to type a url into the file box. Then I ask if they are happy to let a remote site manage their files. Most switch then.
The few that don't switch will soon when IE has been screwed down further, based on Microsoft's own recomendations.
" one of the things I always wondered about is why couldn't this be done over RF"
Well it could be done WITH RF. A wide angle microwave beam 1cm high and about 3 cm above the ground would do it. Oh and about 200 Kwatts.
Or overboost one of those circulating surveyors lasers, again about 3 cm over the ground. That would need less power, 200 watts should keep the grass down.
I thought openoffice.org was already doing that.
Hmmm, a bit over the top. One of the office workers here brings in her dog. It just sits under the desk and disturbs no one. Of course the dog's owner is blind.....
Supposedly the treaty intends to copyright the signal that is broadcast.
My understanding is that the signal is modulated electromagnetic radiation.
Before the signal even leaves the antenna it will be further modulated by signals from other sources of radiation, such as other broadcasting stations, noisy electrical equipment and mostly solar radiation.
So what now becomes copyright?
"Not really. Once Longhorn is released and everything under the sun is running under managed code (even Linux apps via Mono), you'll see a difference."
Oh really?
How often before a major release do we see this sort of comment? I can certainly remember it ahead of NT 4, W2K and XP, not to mention bits like Outlook 2K, Outlook 2003 etc. etc.
I find that history is a very good indicator to the future, until such time as some sort of major event occurs. And don't call the Trusted Computing Initiative such an event, clearly it was not.
In my book, Microsoft just does not get security, which is a major problem for all of us.
Sorry, but I do not grok this posting.
I only use Star Office 7 (same as latest OO) to write documentation etc. for my clients. I send it as a Word 97 document and so far have found zero recipients who cannot understand it. OK some (a few) may comment that some formatting is not as it should be, but the objective of the document works.
The filters are there, and they work for me....
Not quite as alarming as my experience.
- Walk into a branch, not a local one.
- Fill out a non-personalised withdrawal form for $2,500
- Hand it teller
- She looks at me and (apparently) sees a middle aged white male in a suit.
- Hands me the cash and wishes me a good day.
I leave and call the bank security to report the transaction. They were NOT happy.
I don't see the *BSD's as an assult on Linus, so why should Open Source Solaris be an assult on Linux? Linux and Solaris are quite different products to many if not most users.
Further, most users of Open Source products don't go beyond the binaries, particularly the users on Linux. Solaris is free (as in beer) now, so again how is Open Sourcing Solaris going to affect Linux?
Good. I enjoy a carefully crafted and thoughtfull response to a question.
Is this a slow /. news da?. Sorry, but I just don't see how this justifies a story.
Try here...
http://www.scamorama.com/bankscam.html
I skimmed the article (I have read /. for a while so I know I should not have actually READ it) and saw the magic words "Pringles Can. Unfortunately 802.11 is yet to be enabled, apparently....
"What would really impress me is a washing machine that you could just through your clothes into and it would decide, based on the color and material of your clothing, what temperature and how much water to use as well as how long to run for and how much of what kind of soap to include"
m artDrive-Sy stem.html
Well this comes close....
http://www.fp.co.nz/Products/Laundry/S
"The real problems with nuclear energy, however, are that we can't get rid of the waste and the consequences of even minor mistakes are catastrophic."
Agreed, much the same as other sources of thermal energy such as coal, oil etc. However to date the evidence suggests that deaths, injury and illness associated with the use of other thermal sources is greater per kwh generated than for nuclear energy.
Even production of hydro enegy has caused more deaths, due to dam creation and failure, flooding etc. than nuclear.
OK, so the reason cell phones cannot be used on aircraft is because of FCC Reg 47 CFR Sec. 22.925. Nothing to do with the signal stuffing up on board systems or the cell phone network.....
Most likely they have determined that 802.11 technology can never meet the bandwith required to keep the patches up to longhorn.
Tinfoil, I suspect...