Dell, from the get-go, was just a "assemble the cheapest parts we can find" shop. They've not "invented" a single significant thing, ever. All they've ever does was rebrand.
except for the fact that many of us can phase out emails and IM's, multi-task if you will, and not actually get distracted by them.
As was said above, it's the people that decide to show up in person to have a 20 minute conversation at (now with) you regarding something that could have been a 1-paragraph email...that's the distracting crap. Oh, and the constant meetings.
But IM's and emails? So long as they're short and sweet, no distraction. There's several generations that are growing up with this ability; the older workforce better watch out, cause we're networking;)
one of the things they're waiting for...is a platform. AMD is solid and at 64 bit, but Intel is MS's ol' buddy. Longhorn was already supposed to be out by now, but...Intel doesn't have a good enough 64bit platform to offer it. That's the wait.
I know this has been mentioned a few times already. I know this is just a parody, and it doesn't matter...
But the original death star could only fire it's main weapon once a day. The second version was able to fire it every few hours or so, can't remember off-hand, but the point being that if they blew up the planet, it would have been a while before they could have done anything to the moon:)
Tommy turns in his spelling test. Then, he tells his teacher "for $29.95, I'll give you this corrected test."
See, the security products are *seperate products*. If they found a mistake, they should just fix it in the *OS*, not release it as a seperate product.
I thought trolls were supposed to be modded down here? Isn't the best thing to do with an idiot like this to just...ignore him? Why is/. giving him attention?
Britney Spears, Bill Gates, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, Osama Bin Laden, Michael Jackson, Bill Clinton, Anna Kournikova, Paris Hilton, and Pamela Anderson.
And this implies that the overwhelming majority of such are openned by men, not women. So men can't joke about women being computer illiterate, eh?
It would be a rather interesting study to determine if men are more likely to infect themselves than women...
and then please read the follow-up post I make to being "called" on it.
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MSFT total equity, Q3 2005: $47.4B
GOOG Market Capitalization, 06/14/2005: $77.3B
It would be a really, REALLY difficult thing for MSFT to buy out GOOG. Esp since that wouldn't really give them ownership of the company, as the outstanding shares don't add up to 50% if I recall correctly.
z/OS = OS/390 = MVS. Not three seperate items. Also designed for specific hardware, and not all that relevant compared to OS/2 or such.
PC-DOS is...yeah. Ok. We've gotten past the 80's now, haven't we? Guess not, since you mention MVT, which is from the 60's. You do realize that this is 2005, right?
K42 is already open source (and is based largely off Linux), so is irrelevant in a discussion about what they should open-source in their commercial product line.
Not really going all that much out of my way to ignore these things in this convo, really....
OS/2 and AIX might only be a small portion of IBM's product line, but they're 100% of IBM's OS product line.
reputation gain...amoung people who are Free Software Advocates?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a very dedicated advocate myself...but I don't ask commercial companies to do things for me. I ask myself to.
"Big picture" be damned - IBM isn't the government, and in our capitalistic society, they can't be concerned with the Greater Good as their primary drive. That they contribute to the Greater Good at all is good enough for me (well, if we have to remain capitalistic...personally, I prefer communism, which at least makes me consistent when I advocate OSS).
oh, you mean like how they're releasing AFS next year?
Yeah, commercial companies have to go full-on to prove they're OSS friendly...none of this half-ass crap! I can't stand companies that only give a few hundred thousand in donations to charities, instead of giving 100% of their net profits. Those bastards!
actually, I hope he is holding his breath...he'll pass out, and get a much-needed nap.
The global economy would crash for decades if that occured. Even as someone who is anti-ip, and hell, anti-property in general, I think a global depression would be very non-beautiful.
that's a rather simplistic way of looking at things.
It doesn't matter if the freezer is jam-packed, or not. Actually, scratch that - if it's jam-packed, the coils (where the heat is being drawn to) will heat up the room that much faster, not allowing the heat to disipate through the rest of the house, which will make the coils less effective, which will make the freezer work harder, which will...so on, so forth. So actually, having the ice cream and chicken in there makes it worse.
But in an ideal situation (like, the coils are not in the same room as the freezer somehow), it doesn't matter what is in there with the ice water. There is X amount of heat that needs to be drawn out of the water, and X doesn't change regardless what else is in the freezer.
or going outside. Or meeting people. Or going to clubs. Or studying something to better yourself. Or...well, you get it. There are a few things between the "4 hours a day on xbox" and "drinking tea and taking interest in the weather."
The # of people "in" the OSS community that meaningfully contribute to the community (beyond just the contribution of expanding the user base by 1 person) is smaller now. There's many more ways to contribute than just coding too, that's the sad part.
Patent reform needs the same thing many OSS projects need - leg work. There is a review period, where people can make public comments. The major patent reform is for the area of simply improving the public review process; if we let them know that public reviewers exist and are ready and willing, I'm sure they'd happily take suggestions for an improved review process. You know, one where someone can actually find what they're looking for.
So yes, write your congressmen and ask for that - it's a much more sane thing to do than asking to abolish IP (even if that is the ideal situation...heh)
we've got some LPARs here, which are these fancy boxes where processors, memory, network cards, hard drives...you name it...can all be swapped all around on running systems. It really neat, but entirely impractical for several reasons.
Anyway, to do this swapping around you need AIX5.2 or...yes...Linux. Cool, eh?
Anyway, to the point: I wonder when we'll see cell units one can just plug into each other for expandable "on the fly" machines? Ie, you have your cell stack, I walk over with mine and we attach them...but not on a network interface, but actually on a system bus level. If your laptop is using up too many watts, just unplug a few cells...and the docking station could have a cell or two as well, to handle various things. With processors that are designed with a different purpose than the do-everything "central" processing units we're used to, its hard for a lowly unix admin like me to predict.
I dunno. It can be really fun to imagine what the future might bring.
WHich really, though, opens up a better alternative - take a microscopic sample from the parchement, and then do a DNA-fingerprint of it. Put fingerprint in a database. Viola.
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ok, that was the first laugh I've had on slashdot in a year. Bravo.
Of course, my comment saying such will get mod'd -50: troll/offtopic/whatever, but meh.
Dell, from the get-go, was just a "assemble the cheapest parts we can find" shop. They've not "invented" a single significant thing, ever. All they've ever does was rebrand.
except for the fact that many of us can phase out emails and IM's, multi-task if you will, and not actually get distracted by them.
;)
As was said above, it's the people that decide to show up in person to have a 20 minute conversation at (now with) you regarding something that could have been a 1-paragraph email...that's the distracting crap. Oh, and the constant meetings.
But IM's and emails? So long as they're short and sweet, no distraction. There's several generations that are growing up with this ability; the older workforce better watch out, cause we're networking
one of the things they're waiting for...is a platform. AMD is solid and at 64 bit, but Intel is MS's ol' buddy. Longhorn was already supposed to be out by now, but...Intel doesn't have a good enough 64bit platform to offer it. That's the wait.
I know this has been mentioned a few times already. I know this is just a parody, and it doesn't matter...
:)
But the original death star could only fire it's main weapon once a day. The second version was able to fire it every few hours or so, can't remember off-hand, but the point being that if they blew up the planet, it would have been a while before they could have done anything to the moon
ok, I'll explain.
Tommy turns in his spelling test. Then, he tells his teacher "for $29.95, I'll give you this corrected test."
See, the security products are *seperate products*. If they found a mistake, they should just fix it in the *OS*, not release it as a seperate product.
Make more sense now?
it wouldn't be a time-sensitive thing where he needed to get his busniess back online within hours.
IE - if his house burned down, he'd go get a new tape drive when he got around to it. Might be a whole week!
Try a little bit of context with your breakfast - it tastes good!
I thought trolls were supposed to be modded down here? Isn't the best thing to do with an idiot like this to just...ignore him? Why is /. giving him attention?
Britney Spears, Bill Gates, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, Osama Bin Laden, Michael Jackson, Bill Clinton, Anna Kournikova, Paris Hilton, and Pamela Anderson.
And this implies that the overwhelming majority of such are openned by men, not women. So men can't joke about women being computer illiterate, eh?
It would be a rather interesting study to determine if men are more likely to infect themselves than women...
https://us.etrade.com/e/t/invest/financials?conten t=2&site=financials&sym=MSFT&ah_flag= claims MSFT has $16B in cash. I really don't think they could pull it off. Blowing all of one's cash and short-term investments is not generally safe in what is still an uncertain market.
;)
And yes, probably so. I'm only minimally interested in any of this, limited by the fact that I dislike capitalism
and then please read the follow-up post I make to being "called" on it.
MSFT total equity, Q3 2005: $47.4B
GOOG Market Capitalization, 06/14/2005: $77.3B
It would be a really, REALLY difficult thing for MSFT to buy out GOOG. Esp since that wouldn't really give them ownership of the company, as the outstanding shares don't add up to 50% if I recall correctly.
oh yeah, I am the troll..
z/OS = OS/390 = MVS. Not three seperate items. Also designed for specific hardware, and not all that relevant compared to OS/2 or such.
PC-DOS is...yeah. Ok. We've gotten past the 80's now, haven't we? Guess not, since you mention MVT, which is from the 60's. You do realize that this is 2005, right?
K42 is already open source (and is based largely off Linux), so is irrelevant in a discussion about what they should open-source in their commercial product line.
Not really going all that much out of my way to ignore these things in this convo, really....
btw, what was I misrepresenting (since it was "blatant" and all, should be easy to point out)?
AFS is indeed whispered to be a primary open-source candidate for next year.
OS/2 and AIX might only be a small portion of IBM's product line, but they're 100% of IBM's OS product line.
reputation gain...amoung people who are Free Software Advocates?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a very dedicated advocate myself...but I don't ask commercial companies to do things for me. I ask myself to.
"Big picture" be damned - IBM isn't the government, and in our capitalistic society, they can't be concerned with the Greater Good as their primary drive. That they contribute to the Greater Good at all is good enough for me (well, if we have to remain capitalistic...personally, I prefer communism, which at least makes me consistent when I advocate OSS).
oh, you mean like how they're releasing AFS next year?
Yeah, commercial companies have to go full-on to prove they're OSS friendly...none of this half-ass crap! I can't stand companies that only give a few hundred thousand in donations to charities, instead of giving 100% of their net profits. Those bastards!
actually, I hope he is holding his breath...he'll pass out, and get a much-needed nap.
The global economy would crash for decades if that occured. Even as someone who is anti-ip, and hell, anti-property in general, I think a global depression would be very non-beautiful.
that's a rather simplistic way of looking at things.
It doesn't matter if the freezer is jam-packed, or not. Actually, scratch that - if it's jam-packed, the coils (where the heat is being drawn to) will heat up the room that much faster, not allowing the heat to disipate through the rest of the house, which will make the coils less effective, which will make the freezer work harder, which will...so on, so forth. So actually, having the ice cream and chicken in there makes it worse.
But in an ideal situation (like, the coils are not in the same room as the freezer somehow), it doesn't matter what is in there with the ice water. There is X amount of heat that needs to be drawn out of the water, and X doesn't change regardless what else is in the freezer.
or going outside. Or meeting people. Or going to clubs. Or studying something to better yourself. Or...well, you get it. There are a few things between the "4 hours a day on xbox" and "drinking tea and taking interest in the weather."
The # of people "in" the OSS community that meaningfully contribute to the community (beyond just the contribution of expanding the user base by 1 person) is smaller now. There's many more ways to contribute than just coding too, that's the sad part.
Patent reform needs the same thing many OSS projects need - leg work. There is a review period, where people can make public comments. The major patent reform is for the area of simply improving the public review process; if we let them know that public reviewers exist and are ready and willing, I'm sure they'd happily take suggestions for an improved review process. You know, one where someone can actually find what they're looking for.
So yes, write your congressmen and ask for that - it's a much more sane thing to do than asking to abolish IP (even if that is the ideal situation...heh)
"Microsoft are"...Borg?
2 out of 3 sentences use "apparently" at the start of every day...shouldn't you?
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why is it always unattractive fat girls that do the topless thing for free?
maybe he just didn't allow attachments ;)
that, or maybe all his users had unix workstations?
we've got some LPARs here, which are these fancy boxes where processors, memory, network cards, hard drives...you name it...can all be swapped all around on running systems. It really neat, but entirely impractical for several reasons.
Anyway, to do this swapping around you need AIX5.2 or...yes...Linux. Cool, eh?
Anyway, to the point: I wonder when we'll see cell units one can just plug into each other for expandable "on the fly" machines? Ie, you have your cell stack, I walk over with mine and we attach them...but not on a network interface, but actually on a system bus level. If your laptop is using up too many watts, just unplug a few cells...and the docking station could have a cell or two as well, to handle various things. With processors that are designed with a different purpose than the do-everything "central" processing units we're used to, its hard for a lowly unix admin like me to predict.
I dunno. It can be really fun to imagine what the future might bring.
its not paper, its the skin from a kosher animal.
WHich really, though, opens up a better alternative - take a microscopic sample from the parchement, and then do a DNA-fingerprint of it. Put fingerprint in a database. Viola.