1) RHN would NOT store my machine configuration on their servers. I see no reason this can't be stored on my machine.
2) Red Hat would coordinate with Ximian so that their releases coincide. Let's say $9/mo for Red Carpet and RHN combined. This would cover all system and basic desktop updates; both RH and Ximian might want to keep a level or two of premium service beyond this basic service.
Maybe even offer different desktop subscriptions, so that $9 might get you RH+GNOME, or RH+KDE.
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and (BONUS) it doesn't force you to sit through the stupid FBI/Interpol warnings and Coca-Cola commercials.
You know, it's tidbits like this that make me thank the stars every day that I've escaped from the sheep farm.
How about setting up a bandwidth protest by saturating comcast's lines from your home? Get everyone on your network segment to download Red Hat ISO's 24/7.
But you haven't escaped from the gravity well. The second you turn off your engine the Earth's gravity WILL pull you back UNLESS you have moved far enough away that the escape velocity is under 10 mi/hr. I haven't done the math, but you would have to be a VERY far distance away, and then the Sun etc... would come into play also.
Thought experiment for you: take an object and start moving it upwards at 10 miles/hour (it can be a rocket with a large fuel supply, or you can supply energy from the ground, e.g., with a launching laser). Keep supplying enough force to keep the object moving away from earth at 10 miles/hour.
Question: what happens to this object?
Answer: it gets arbitrarily far away from earth. After a year, for example, it is about as far away as the moon.
What this demonstrates: you don't need to reach escape velocity to get out of a gravity well.
These thought experiments always work better after a session with the SpaceBong 4000.
if you subscribe to these upgrades, you kind of feel you will have to upgrade when something new comes along, even though you do not have to. That takes time, especially in larger offices/companies/megacorporations.
It also cripples the utility of MS work-alike software like SAMBA. If you have your desktops on mandatory upgrade, MS can break SAMBA connectivity at will. Thus using a non-MS implementation of the protocol becomes a LOT riskier. You can't just hold off on desktop upgrades until you (or the SAMBA team) figure out what to do.
"I must, and yet I cannot. How do you calculate that? Where do 'must' and 'cannot' meet on the graph?"
At the liquor store.
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Yay Microsoft! Of the thousands of software and hardware companies out there, in almost every market, there are probably only a few dozen which haven't been completely alienated by their predatory tactics. Hopefully game companies will quit coming out with XBOX games, but the desire for profit is so overpowering that most companies would cut their own wrists and throat to get some of the proverbial fat cash.
Hey, so would I. Here's an open offer to Microsoft: Set me up financially for life and I will forever spare you the awesome sting of my sarcasm and snide comments.
Sony is a bit player compared to Microsoft. It's one thing to have a hold on dumb consumer electronic devices; it's another to subvert information and communication standards and become a massive repository for the planet's vital information, with the intent of exploiting that information for economic (and doubtless political) gain.
And it will also be able to transform into a 15 foot robot that has the ability to walk into other's houses and actually destroy non-microsoft products. I'm skeptical about claims that seem like the 'new' xbox can do damn near anything.
Yeah, sure, right - like Microsoft would turn on a web server by default on a desktop operating system unbeknownst to the clueless owner. GET REAL, PEOPLE!
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Yeah, I know, I'm one of those people who puts their hand in front of the camera at the ATM...
Then Ballmer came back and said something to the effect of "what if we made the best damn video console ever?"
Isn't it amazing how having billions of dollars in the bank can make the most idiotically obvious statements sound like grand strategy?
"What if we made the best damn SUV ever??"
What if we made the best damn lawn mower ever??"
"What if we made the best damn nose-hair trimmer ever?"
Well, dumb-fuck, if you had the money to make the best whatever ever, and you had enough cash in the bank to sell your whatever at a loss until the competition is dead, then I guess you'd sell a lot of whatevers. What a fucking genius, you captain of industry - nay, colonel of industry - we are in awe of your vision and insight.
Here's a little homework for you, Ballmer - assume you didn't have that absolutely staggering amount of cash in the bank (proceeds from exploitation of your illegal monopoly). Assume you actually had to get financing for your earth-shattering brainstorm. Assume you had to convince financiers to back your losses for years until you crushed the competition with what is essentially dumping on the market. Would you get the loan with that business strategy?
Right now, I could really use the best damn margarita ever!
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Thanks for the correction. Is this new? I don't recall seeing this option the first (and last) time I tried RHN.
1) RHN would NOT store my machine configuration on their servers. I see no reason this can't be stored on my machine.
2) Red Hat would coordinate with Ximian so that their releases coincide. Let's say $9/mo for Red Carpet and RHN combined. This would cover all system and basic desktop updates; both RH and Ximian might want to keep a level or two of premium service beyond this basic service.
Maybe even offer different desktop subscriptions, so that $9 might get you RH+GNOME, or RH+KDE.
You know, it's tidbits like this that make me thank the stars every day that I've escaped from the sheep farm.
How about setting up a bandwidth protest by saturating comcast's lines from your home? Get everyone on your network segment to download Red Hat ISO's 24/7.
Sure they do. They just want the core personnel to be independent of consumer-oriented behemoths like AOL.
Whoa, dude! That is totally intense my man!
Now, pass the SpaceBong 4000 this way, hombre.
Question: what happens to this object?
Answer: it gets arbitrarily far away from earth. After a year, for example, it is about as far away as the moon.
What this demonstrates: you don't need to reach escape velocity to get out of a gravity well.
These thought experiments always work better after a session with the SpaceBong 4000.
It's probably more effective to bug Xiang's 767 than it is to bug several million flip-flops.
So they can hear Xiang sob over his tiny, tiny Chinese penis.
It also cripples the utility of MS work-alike software like SAMBA. If you have your desktops on mandatory upgrade, MS can break SAMBA connectivity at will. Thus using a non-MS implementation of the protocol becomes a LOT riskier. You can't just hold off on desktop upgrades until you (or the SAMBA team) figure out what to do.
Vendors will have to use Passport in order to get a "Microsoft Trustworthy Computing" seal on their website (have they trademarked that fucker yet?).
Users attempting to access Commerce sites without Passport integration will be warned with a big "THIS SITE NOT MS-TRUSTWORTHY-CERTIFIED!" messages.
After all, every consumer knows you need a big, familiar, feel-good corporation like MS to ensure your Internet security and privacy...
Can doctors' offices send stool samples to labs through the mail?
- Wipe your ass with the letter.
- Seal it in an air-tight plastic bag.
- Mail it back to the BSA.
If it makes you feel better, mark out any text on the letter that identifies you individually.For extra credit, do the same with a photocopy and send to MS. (helpful hint: photocopy BEFORE wiping your ass.)
It might send a message to the BSA. At the very least it will cripple their operations by making it impossible to hire mailroom staff.
That has got to be the most hideous piece of shit I've ever laid eyes on.
It shouldn't "send" a single fucking thing to Microsoft against the will of the user.
[cue MS apologist:]
"Well, if the user doesn't like it, they shouldn't use Windows"
Exactamundo, Cunningham - we're working on it.
And you, sir, are clearly a professional Microsoft apologist.
Will the netbeans IDE ever start in under 70 seconds on my machine?
"Developers! Developers! Developers!"
God, stop saying that! It gives me bad dreams of Ballmer as Kong demanding his next course in an endless banquet.
His Palo Alto, Calif.-based company is also announcing a name change, to Moxi Digital Inc. from Rearden Steel Technologies.
Looks like an Ayn Rand fan.
"I must, and yet I cannot. How do you calculate that? Where do 'must' and 'cannot' meet on the graph?"
At the liquor store.
Hey, so would I. Here's an open offer to Microsoft: Set me up financially for life and I will forever spare you the awesome sting of my sarcasm and snide comments.
Sony is a bit player compared to Microsoft. It's one thing to have a hold on dumb consumer electronic devices; it's another to subvert information and communication standards and become a massive repository for the planet's vital information, with the intent of exploiting that information for economic (and doubtless political) gain.
Yeah, sure, right - like Microsoft would turn on a web server by default on a desktop operating system unbeknownst to the clueless owner. GET REAL, PEOPLE!
EXCELLENT! Now they have your fingerprints!
Isn't it amazing how having billions of dollars in the bank can make the most idiotically obvious statements sound like grand strategy?
"What if we made the best damn SUV ever??"
What if we made the best damn lawn mower ever??"
"What if we made the best damn nose-hair trimmer ever?"
Well, dumb-fuck, if you had the money to make the best whatever ever, and you had enough cash in the bank to sell your whatever at a loss until the competition is dead, then I guess you'd sell a lot of whatevers. What a fucking genius, you captain of industry - nay, colonel of industry - we are in awe of your vision and insight.
Here's a little homework for you, Ballmer - assume you didn't have that absolutely staggering amount of cash in the bank (proceeds from exploitation of your illegal monopoly). Assume you actually had to get financing for your earth-shattering brainstorm. Assume you had to convince financiers to back your losses for years until you crushed the competition with what is essentially dumping on the market. Would you get the loan with that business strategy?
Right now, I could really use the best damn margarita ever!