They'll be taxing air, which we use to make noises that form phonetics, then words, then sentances, resulting in communication... I'm surprised we've gone this far with free air...
I don't care if they pushed the release back to November 2002, I'm still waiting on the GameCube. Nintendo is and will always be the best video game console company. N64 was screwed by the 3rd party support dropoff, GameCube will blow everyone else out of the water.
... and the worst thing that happened was you lost internet access for a little while. Just look at celebrities, inlcuding athletes, these days. If some 18 year old crackhead says that a pro football player gave her drugs and raped her, it goes to CNN, New York Times, ESPN, etc and he's kicked off the team, banned from pro sports, basically shunned from society... and that's before the first search or arrest warrant has been issued, nevermind even having a trial or impartial jury. I agree with the writers of this article that penalizing someone for breaking the law, even before they have been accused of it, is severly wrong and action needs to be taken. I'm sure a civil suit would be fruitful in this case, punitive damages can go a long way. Just be glad though that the only thing taken was some internet access, and not your entire life.
To hell with the drug companies. That's what Brazil said. You know why? They have figured out the drug companies' scheme. Whoever it is that makes these drugs, they're just like all the other companies that make drugs for all the other diseases: rather than make drugs that could cure or prevent HIV, they just make a drug that will let you live with the ailment. Think about it: how many times would you take a vaccine or a cure? Once? For a period of a few weeks? Now think about how many times you take medicine that lets you live another month... you take it all the time, for the rest of your life! So basically they're acting just like a bunch of drug dealers. How does a drug dealer make money? On the come-back.
So Brazil realized that like a bunch of heartless gangsters the drug companies' are selling these high priced HIV pills to dying people so that they can live to pay another drug bill. However in this case, it was Brazil that was footing the bill, so they said to hell with it, we're making our own damn drugs. Well, way to go Brazil! I hope other countries wake up and take similar action.
Send him a nice letter to say how nice the magazine was, and if you really want another, send some money. Apparently the editor really wants to make more issues, it's simply a funding problem.
Has anyone called these people? First of all, the phone call is something outrageous like $100, just to talk to one of these goonies. Then, when you actually do get someone to talk to, they are about as helpful solving the problem as a 5 lb hammer. I haven't called recently, but a while back I interned as an IT person and we called once because of a bug in the IIS we were running, and needless to say I'll never call again.
So let me post a question to all of you: do you really think apple has done it, they've presented Unix in a way that makes it pretty, nice, easy, and usable by the masses, including those who don't know where the "any" key is on a keyboard? If anybody could do it, it's apple. I miss 7.5.5 though, I really do. Maybe I'm just too old school.
Why don't we just build a giant statue-of-liberty-look-a-like spaceship with a vacuum and just suck up everything from the planet, then we'd know if it ever had life!
I agree with your statement about the money making scheme, it really is shameful. On the other hand, I take offense to that comment about DSL. I have DSL and I love it, but I used to have a 28.8 connection back at school, so you know what I did? Disabled java, used sites that weren't bloated, HAD PATIENCE. Stop whining and complaining just because your connection sucks.
Look, the reason people don't want to send audio/video streaming down to a 56K modem is that it's just a waste of time and bandwidth. First of all, just because you have a 56k modem doesn't mean you're really doing 56k. You're probably operating somewhere around 28k, and that's if you have a good ISP. Even if you were getting true 56k operation, it would still be too slow to get anything out of downloading a 480X600 streaming video. All you would accomplish is adding on extra traffic to the video server which would mean that someone with the proper connection would not be able to retrieve the movie. I am so sick and tired of servers being dragged down to the point where even with my 1.5Mbps connection I get skipping video. I wish more people would implement restrictions based on connection speed and download ability.
Well thanks for asking that because I'm a little confused about OS X myself. Is that Linux or Unix or some hybrid? If it's Linux, then maybe Macs will still have a chance in schools. Still, if a school can buy 10 PC's at $500 each and pop linux on there, they probably won't buy 10 comparable macs at $1000 each with OS X.
Uh oh, if schools take up Linux, Macintosh will lose a lot of customers... unless they put linux on a Mac box, but that would be rather expensive compared to the minimal cost of a low grade PC.
This sounds like a great opportunity for the Linux world. I know there has been motivation and drive all along to make the product better, but now that a big company like IBM is issuing a challenge things will probably improve a bit faster. If IBM does start selling business machines running Linux, maybe we'll start to see prices drop on some information services. Well I guess that's thinking a little too positively, but still, this seems like a good step in the growth of Linux.
Can anyone say Windows 95? Sure there were differences, but seriously folks, from the end user's perspective, it was basically a copy of Mac OS 6. Trash can = Recycle bin, start menu = apple menu, folder browser = apple standard file browser. Windows didn't get everything right, they still didn't have a true desktop. Their control panel wasn't as easy to use as apple's, but they had stuff apple didn't have, like an MS DOS prompt (even if MS DOS sucked completely) for the geeks to enjoy.
Then of course you could talk about the education system and how pretty much any 20-something who works on computers started out with an Apple II or some similar model in their 1st grade "technology" class. Most coders I've ever talked to could still spit out a BASIC program in a couple of minutes that could ask you for your name then put it in a sentance. Anyway that's just my opinion, you guys probably won't agree.
OK, so obvoisly its not a good idea to give hackers all the information about a bug in your system. The problem as I see it is that the people who released the information had too much confidence in the ability of users to fix the security problem before it could be exploited again. I think discretion should be used in these information releases and even though a fix is available, it should not be assumed that everyone on the planet has already installed it. Such assumptions cause problems, as we have seen in this case.
Any time we think we know all there is to know about something, nature proves us wrong. Here we go again. "It's impossible to fly" - wrong. "Humans can't go faster than sound" - wrong. "The speed of light is unreachable" - wrong. This discovery about changing constants is just one more example of how educated people should keep an open mind and not take certain facts as concrete, unchanging law just because a certain person or group presented them.
"Clones" are not always exactly alike the object that is being cloned. If they are the same exact things, then who cares if AMD stops making them, just buy from intel
OK, so answer me this: could intel get their hands on the specs for the chips AMD is halting and make their own versions which might not be exactly the same, but provide the same minimal amount of operations with the same interface? They could probably pick up some cash that way...
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Good one, someone mod up, please!
Or however you spell that. Huked on foniks wurked 4 me.
They'll be taxing air, which we use to make noises that form phonetics, then words, then sentances, resulting in communication... I'm surprised we've gone this far with free air...
I don't care if they pushed the release back to November 2002, I'm still waiting on the GameCube. Nintendo is and will always be the best video game console company. N64 was screwed by the 3rd party support dropoff, GameCube will blow everyone else out of the water.
... and the worst thing that happened was you lost internet access for a little while. Just look at celebrities, inlcuding athletes, these days. If some 18 year old crackhead says that a pro football player gave her drugs and raped her, it goes to CNN, New York Times, ESPN, etc and he's kicked off the team, banned from pro sports, basically shunned from society... and that's before the first search or arrest warrant has been issued, nevermind even having a trial or impartial jury. I agree with the writers of this article that penalizing someone for breaking the law, even before they have been accused of it, is severly wrong and action needs to be taken. I'm sure a civil suit would be fruitful in this case, punitive damages can go a long way. Just be glad though that the only thing taken was some internet access, and not your entire life.
To hell with the drug companies. That's what Brazil said. You know why? They have figured out the drug companies' scheme. Whoever it is that makes these drugs, they're just like all the other companies that make drugs for all the other diseases: rather than make drugs that could cure or prevent HIV, they just make a drug that will let you live with the ailment. Think about it: how many times would you take a vaccine or a cure? Once? For a period of a few weeks? Now think about how many times you take medicine that lets you live another month... you take it all the time, for the rest of your life! So basically they're acting just like a bunch of drug dealers. How does a drug dealer make money? On the come-back.
So Brazil realized that like a bunch of heartless gangsters the drug companies' are selling these high priced HIV pills to dying people so that they can live to pay another drug bill. However in this case, it was Brazil that was footing the bill, so they said to hell with it, we're making our own damn drugs. Well, way to go Brazil! I hope other countries wake up and take similar action.
Send him a nice letter to say how nice the magazine was, and if you really want another, send some money. Apparently the editor really wants to make more issues, it's simply a funding problem.
Has anyone called these people? First of all, the phone call is something outrageous like $100, just to talk to one of these goonies. Then, when you actually do get someone to talk to, they are about as helpful solving the problem as a 5 lb hammer. I haven't called recently, but a while back I interned as an IT person and we called once because of a bug in the IIS we were running, and needless to say I'll never call again.
Political Fraud? Come on now, that's like a crooked gangster, a dorky programmer, a bug-filled MS application...
So let me post a question to all of you: do you really think apple has done it, they've presented Unix in a way that makes it pretty, nice, easy, and usable by the masses, including those who don't know where the "any" key is on a keyboard? If anybody could do it, it's apple. I miss 7.5.5 though, I really do. Maybe I'm just too old school.
... a beowolf cluster of these?
Why don't we just build a giant statue-of-liberty-look-a-like spaceship with a vacuum and just suck up everything from the planet, then we'd know if it ever had life!
I agree with your statement about the money making scheme, it really is shameful. On the other hand, I take offense to that comment about DSL. I have DSL and I love it, but I used to have a 28.8 connection back at school, so you know what I did? Disabled java, used sites that weren't bloated, HAD PATIENCE. Stop whining and complaining just because your connection sucks.
Look, the reason people don't want to send audio/video streaming down to a 56K modem is that it's just a waste of time and bandwidth. First of all, just because you have a 56k modem doesn't mean you're really doing 56k. You're probably operating somewhere around 28k, and that's if you have a good ISP. Even if you were getting true 56k operation, it would still be too slow to get anything out of downloading a 480X600 streaming video. All you would accomplish is adding on extra traffic to the video server which would mean that someone with the proper connection would not be able to retrieve the movie. I am so sick and tired of servers being dragged down to the point where even with my 1.5Mbps connection I get skipping video. I wish more people would implement restrictions based on connection speed and download ability.
Well thanks for asking that because I'm a little confused about OS X myself. Is that Linux or Unix or some hybrid? If it's Linux, then maybe Macs will still have a chance in schools. Still, if a school can buy 10 PC's at $500 each and pop linux on there, they probably won't buy 10 comparable macs at $1000 each with OS X.
Uh oh, if schools take up Linux, Macintosh will lose a lot of customers... unless they put linux on a Mac box, but that would be rather expensive compared to the minimal cost of a low grade PC.
This sounds like a great opportunity for the Linux world. I know there has been motivation and drive all along to make the product better, but now that a big company like IBM is issuing a challenge things will probably improve a bit faster. If IBM does start selling business machines running Linux, maybe we'll start to see prices drop on some information services. Well I guess that's thinking a little too positively, but still, this seems like a good step in the growth of Linux.
Can anyone say Windows 95? Sure there were differences, but seriously folks, from the end user's perspective, it was basically a copy of Mac OS 6. Trash can = Recycle bin, start menu = apple menu, folder browser = apple standard file browser. Windows didn't get everything right, they still didn't have a true desktop. Their control panel wasn't as easy to use as apple's, but they had stuff apple didn't have, like an MS DOS prompt (even if MS DOS sucked completely) for the geeks to enjoy.
Then of course you could talk about the education system and how pretty much any 20-something who works on computers started out with an Apple II or some similar model in their 1st grade "technology" class. Most coders I've ever talked to could still spit out a BASIC program in a couple of minutes that could ask you for your name then put it in a sentance. Anyway that's just my opinion, you guys probably won't agree.
Yup, I can't get to it either, the slashdotters slashdotted slashdot. Yay.
OK, so obvoisly its not a good idea to give hackers all the information about a bug in your system. The problem as I see it is that the people who released the information had too much confidence in the ability of users to fix the security problem before it could be exploited again. I think discretion should be used in these information releases and even though a fix is available, it should not be assumed that everyone on the planet has already installed it. Such assumptions cause problems, as we have seen in this case.
Any time we think we know all there is to know about something, nature proves us wrong. Here we go again. "It's impossible to fly" - wrong. "Humans can't go faster than sound" - wrong. "The speed of light is unreachable" - wrong. This discovery about changing constants is just one more example of how educated people should keep an open mind and not take certain facts as concrete, unchanging law just because a certain person or group presented them.
Good eye, someone mark this funny
"Clones" are not always exactly alike the object that is being cloned. If they are the same exact things, then who cares if AMD stops making them, just buy from intel
OK, so answer me this: could intel get their hands on the specs for the chips AMD is halting and make their own versions which might not be exactly the same, but provide the same minimal amount of operations with the same interface? They could probably pick up some cash that way...
I mean I can't count the number of times I've been in battle and needed to slice through falling silk in mid air... geesh, I wish I had one of those