Windows 1... New Proof of concept
Windows 2... Adding stuff pepole would need
Windows 3... Useful enough to be practical
Windows 4 (95)... New Interface popular but people have suffered
I've never met anyone who preferred Win 3.1 over Windows 95.
Look it is obvious, Oracle is putting a nail in anything having to do with Solaris. Get over it, move on and start migrating.
No, Oracle is putting a nail in OpenSolaris. They're quite interested in developing commercial Solaris.
They're interested in doing the minimum necessary to keep Solaris customers. Oracle loves Linux and that's where its future energies will be predominantly spent. Put another way...I suspect you'll see a robust Linux on SPARC before you'll see many more versions of Solaris.
I don't think old Larry is trying to destroy Solaris as much as he has a plan for it that I doubt includes OpenSolaris. My guess is right now old Larry is working the hell out of the Solaris developers to integrate Oracle DB as tightly as possible with Solaris OS and Sun hardware to make sure that Solaris+SPARC+Oracle equals the fastest implementation of Oracle DB you can possibly get.
Nope. Oracle is a huge Linux booster. Solaris they're keeping around because a lot of people still use it, but the Oracle internal mindshare is primarily Linux. New versions of Oracle are always released on Linux first, they run their internal stuff on Linux, their filesystem/volume manager (ASM) runs on Linux, they have their own Linux distro, etc.
Oracle doesn't care about you unless you're willing to spend a lot of money.
Correction: Oracle wants you to spend a lot of money, but they care about you as a potential paying customer. For instance, you can pick up a two-user license of Oracle Database for free and run a large production web site on it if you want.
Uh, you can? I thought Oracle Express Edition was free (1 cpu max, 1GB RAM max, 4GB DB size max), but anything past that cost money. And if you hook it up to the Internet, you're paying per-processor, not-per-user.
Now the Professional Version is obviously not "closed source" because it's a great sprawling PHP application so they have to give you the source. But that doesn't make it "Free Software".
FYI, once can distribute closed-source php apps. They have an encrypting scheme. Some template makers for Wordpress, etc. do this.
I've learned long ago that developing against standards that are not yet official is the road to pain. This is demonstrated even in the summary itself. So - I'm supposed to start implementing cutting edge changes for my production sites, when the browsers that support those changes are "soon to be released"? Soo... now I'm already having to code workarounds before the standard is even official? Again - thanks, no. I'll wait until it's ratified as a standard, and the first revision of major browsers offers compliance.
Well then you can enjoy the wait until 2022, because that's when it will reach W3C Recommendation, which is the current status of HTML4.
Of course, by that time the rest of us will all be enjoying HTML9.
The real standard is "what do 80% of browsers support?" Browser support for HTML5 will be added piecemeal, just like they did with HTML4.
The main reason 70s music is so widely listened to is that baby boomers are nostalgic geezers and are still alive. In 50 years when they're dead, it'll be as uncommon as Harry James records are today.
There's nothing magical about that time period. People wore long hair and did drugs. Big deal - they were doing that in the 1930s and they're doing it today. Only baby boomers who wasted their lives feel the need to trumpet the era of their youth as somehow novel, different, special, etc.
> "How do we empower top scientists working in industry to lead science-minded
> positive change within their organizations?
You don't. There are no top scientists working in industry. Anyone working in industry who is not a downtrodden oppressed worker is by definition a despicable tool of the esploiters. (except the executives. They're demons).
I like this new word "esploiters". I guess an "esploiter" is a Spanish tyrant. So what I take away from your post is that we need Zorro again. Awesome. I have my father's hate, which needs reblocking...
It would be like holding Wikipedia up as the definitive source of accurate information on everything and ignoring the genuine work of researchers and scientists.
Wikipedia is more accurate than the EB. Holding up the bad Wikipedia articles and claiming that they invalidate Wikipedia is yet another logical fallacy, I believe inductive but I still need to practice identification of fallacies more. However, I can smell one a mile away.
Nixon - the same guy responsible for getting away from sound money (gold standard), they same guy setting up minimum wage laws, while opening the job market to China, the same guy who destroyed the working health insurance for people by getting government subsidies into it and causing the insurance prices to skyrocket, this guy is also responsible for the deteriorating health of the humans in this world through consumption of fructose.
I think he was also the same guy who legalized run-on sentences.
One of apple's biggest blunders is not considering mobileme a loss leader.
Particularly since you can do everything it offers for free.
"Mail, Contacts, and Calendar. In sync on all your devices." My work and mail/contacts/calendar are already perfectly in sync. For contacts and calendar, I sync with Google (from my home, from my work Outlook, etc.) and then my iPhone syncs with that. Works just great. My mail has been accessible from all my computers and phone for a long time.
"Create a beautiful web gallery of your photos and share them in just a few clicks. Store and share even large files online with iDisk. And access it all on the go with the MobileMe Gallery and iDisk apps." As if there weren't dozens of sites on which one could create a "beautiful web gallery". Store and share large files? Dropbox or SugarSync. $100/year gets me 20GB of files on iDisk, but actually less because my mail eats some of that up. On the other hand free gets me 2GB on either Dropbox or Sugar, and $10/month on Dropbox gets me 50GB. And I can access it on all the same places.
"Me.com. Your home base on the web." Just what I need - another email address. It's 2010 - email addresses are free with virtually unlimited storage. And of course, the more you use your me.com email address, the less iDisk space you have...
What Gandhi did was show the world that grassroots movements, passive movements at that, could actually make a difference--maybe not the exact desired difference--but a difference nonetheless.
He also showed the world that ONE man could be the seed of that movement, a lens for global empathy and understanding, and quite possibly one very cool dude.
Well, more of a bizarre nutjob, actually, though that's besides the point...
Ghandi proved that when faced by an opponent who nominally espouses ideals of fair play and is deeply concerned about its image in the world, nonviolence can work. "Doctor" MLK, Jr. demonstrated the same.
What neither proved is some kind of silly universal notion that "grassroots movements, passive movements at that, could actually make a difference". Gandhi would have been ground into hamburger if he'd been in 1930s Germany, or 2010 North Korea. How'd all that nonviolent protesting work out in Hungary in 1956? Prague in 1968? Has the Dalai Lama made any progress in the last 60 years?
On the other hand, the number of men who've proved that ruthlessly violent, bloody, murderous warfare is the surest path to changing the world is quite a big larger: the founding fathers, Lenin, Mae Tse Tung, Ho Chi Minh, and many, many etceteras.
For my money, if you want to change the world, pick up a gun. Singing kum bye yah in the street typically gets you killed.
I think that their point, regardless of its validity, is that when people go to Microsoft and say "I've found this vulnerability, here's the detail and PoC, please fix it", they often sit on it for weeks, months or sometimes years before they take any action.
...thereby delaying the security researcher's ability to cash in on his "I first discovered the BLAH.X vulnerability which Microsoft issued a HotFix for" credentials. That's what they're really angry about.
Holehunters are mostly about trying to look cool and make money. Sorry, but it's true - their work has value and perhaps stroking their egos is the price you pay for having people hack at your stuff for free, but their motivations are (1) ego, (2) looking cool as a hacker, (3) cashing in,..., (999) improving computer security.
"Hi, I'm a college student who thinks computers are cool but I don't really get into code or anything. I run Linux because it's L33T and strikes a blow against THE MAN! BTW, I can't get the latest version of Fedora to boot, but that's another question. Anyway, when I get to China I want to connect to some site outside China that the firewall blocks. I will then come back and tell my friends how cool I am! How I am cyberpunk and stuff! Striking a blow for FREEDOM! I mean, yeah, I'd just be doing a search for Falun Gong on Google, even though I'm not really sure who they are, but still, it'd be SO L33T! I know that I'm a dangerous underground revolutionary because I'm posting anonymously on Slashdot out of FEAR OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT! Angela Davis ain't got nothing on me. I mean, I'm not crazy - I wouldn't invest $10 for VPN service for this, and your talk of setting up my own VPN gateway is confusing (can I just apt-get that and connect from a kiosk in the Beijing airport?). OK, actually about 95% of the time I dual boot to Windows except when progressive chicks might be walking by my dorm room, and then I switch to Linux with a big tux wallpaper..."
Traditional methods, like letter campaigns, protests and such no longer work as well or at all.
They never worked. Only baby boomers who want to look back at their wasted lives and convince themselves that they "stopped the war" think marching, protesting, etc. is an effective form of change.
College is a mix of vocational training (particularly important for some professions) and personal growth in the "learn to be a good citizen" sense.
That is the most ridiculous thing I've read on Slashdot in some time, and that's pretty elite company. I got a 4-year degree from one of the biggest universities in the country and I must have missed the part where we learned to be good citizens. What I do remember was an environment rife with substance abuse, professors with lots of personal axes to grind, classes that were biased in favor of the professor's pet theories, and hours spent listened to my fellow uneducated students spout off in worthless discussion groups.
I'm not saying it wasn't a valuable experience or that I didn't learn anything or that I didn't enjoy it. But it certainly didn't make me "a good citizen". In fact, it's fair to say that college students - in the sense of violating the law, causing societal strain, and making nuisances of themselves - are among our worst citizens.
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Correct.
As further evidenced by the recommendations in the article:
I learned nothing new here today.
So you're saying CakePHP, symfony, CodeIgniter, etc. are actually "MVP" instead of "MVC"? Can you explain?
Windows 1... New Proof of concept Windows 2... Adding stuff pepole would need Windows 3... Useful enough to be practical Windows 4 (95)... New Interface popular but people have suffered
I've never met anyone who preferred Win 3.1 over Windows 95.
Look it is obvious, Oracle is putting a nail in anything having to do with Solaris. Get over it, move on and start migrating.
No, Oracle is putting a nail in OpenSolaris. They're quite interested in developing commercial Solaris.
They're interested in doing the minimum necessary to keep Solaris customers. Oracle loves Linux and that's where its future energies will be predominantly spent. Put another way...I suspect you'll see a robust Linux on SPARC before you'll see many more versions of Solaris.
I don't think old Larry is trying to destroy Solaris as much as he has a plan for it that I doubt includes OpenSolaris. My guess is right now old Larry is working the hell out of the Solaris developers to integrate Oracle DB as tightly as possible with Solaris OS and Sun hardware to make sure that Solaris+SPARC+Oracle equals the fastest implementation of Oracle DB you can possibly get.
Nope. Oracle is a huge Linux booster. Solaris they're keeping around because a lot of people still use it, but the Oracle internal mindshare is primarily Linux. New versions of Oracle are always released on Linux first, they run their internal stuff on Linux, their filesystem/volume manager (ASM) runs on Linux, they have their own Linux distro, etc.
Correction: Oracle wants you to spend a lot of money, but they care about you as a potential paying customer. For instance, you can pick up a two-user license of Oracle Database for free and run a large production web site on it if you want.
Uh, you can? I thought Oracle Express Edition was free (1 cpu max, 1GB RAM max, 4GB DB size max), but anything past that cost money. And if you hook it up to the Internet, you're paying per-processor, not-per-user.
Now the Professional Version is obviously not "closed source" because it's a great sprawling PHP application so they have to give you the source. But that doesn't make it "Free Software".
FYI, once can distribute closed-source php apps. They have an encrypting scheme. Some template makers for Wordpress, etc. do this.
It is quite simple and always error free! Ideal for blogs and flash pages where content is not paramount.
Yeah, for most blogs I've seen, "content is not paramount" is an understatement...
I've learned long ago that developing against standards that are not yet official is the road to pain. This is demonstrated even in the summary itself. So - I'm supposed to start implementing cutting edge changes for my production sites, when the browsers that support those changes are "soon to be released"? Soo... now I'm already having to code workarounds before the standard is even official? Again - thanks, no. I'll wait until it's ratified as a standard, and the first revision of major browsers offers compliance.
Well then you can enjoy the wait until 2022, because that's when it will reach W3C Recommendation, which is the current status of HTML4.
Of course, by that time the rest of us will all be enjoying HTML9.
The real standard is "what do 80% of browsers support?" Browser support for HTML5 will be added piecemeal, just like they did with HTML4.
People do lose sales from piracy. Other posters have covered this ground, typically videogames.
The ONLY time that piracy results in lost sales is when the pirated product is superior to the purchased product.
As it is with every pirated movie. Allows the viewer to skip the studio ads, anti-piracy ads, FBI warnings, etc.
The main reason 70s music is so widely listened to is that baby boomers are nostalgic geezers and are still alive. In 50 years when they're dead, it'll be as uncommon as Harry James records are today. There's nothing magical about that time period. People wore long hair and did drugs. Big deal - they were doing that in the 1930s and they're doing it today. Only baby boomers who wasted their lives feel the need to trumpet the era of their youth as somehow novel, different, special, etc.
ZFS has a lot of promise, but does not have nearly the performance that WAFL does
WTF? A 7310, the low end Open Storage appliance, will TOAST a 3170. A 3170 can't even touch it.
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Welcome to Slashdot. Please don't confuse it with Wikipedia. We're discussing, not documenting here.
> "How do we empower top scientists working in industry to lead science-minded > positive change within their organizations?
You don't. There are no top scientists working in industry. Anyone working in industry who is not a downtrodden oppressed worker is by definition a despicable tool of the esploiters. (except the executives. They're demons).
I like this new word "esploiters". I guess an "esploiter" is a Spanish tyrant. So what I take away from your post is that we need Zorro again. Awesome. I have my father's hate, which needs reblocking...
It would be like holding Wikipedia up as the definitive source of accurate information on everything and ignoring the genuine work of researchers and scientists.
Wikipedia is more accurate than the EB. Holding up the bad Wikipedia articles and claiming that they invalidate Wikipedia is yet another logical fallacy, I believe inductive but I still need to practice identification of fallacies more. However, I can smell one a mile away.
Who said anything about EB?
Nixon - the same guy responsible for getting away from sound money (gold standard), they same guy setting up minimum wage laws, while opening the job market to China, the same guy who destroyed the working health insurance for people by getting government subsidies into it and causing the insurance prices to skyrocket, this guy is also responsible for the deteriorating health of the humans in this world through consumption of fructose.
I think he was also the same guy who legalized run-on sentences.
One of apple's biggest blunders is not considering mobileme a loss leader.
Particularly since you can do everything it offers for free.
MobileMe is a ridiculous ripoff.
"Gandhi did not win. India did not win."
The entire world won.
What Gandhi did was show the world that grassroots movements, passive movements at that, could actually make a difference--maybe not the exact desired difference--but a difference nonetheless.
He also showed the world that ONE man could be the seed of that movement, a lens for global empathy and understanding, and quite possibly one very cool dude.
Well, more of a bizarre nutjob, actually, though that's besides the point...
Ghandi proved that when faced by an opponent who nominally espouses ideals of fair play and is deeply concerned about its image in the world, nonviolence can work. "Doctor" MLK, Jr. demonstrated the same.
What neither proved is some kind of silly universal notion that "grassroots movements, passive movements at that, could actually make a difference". Gandhi would have been ground into hamburger if he'd been in 1930s Germany, or 2010 North Korea. How'd all that nonviolent protesting work out in Hungary in 1956? Prague in 1968? Has the Dalai Lama made any progress in the last 60 years?
On the other hand, the number of men who've proved that ruthlessly violent, bloody, murderous warfare is the surest path to changing the world is quite a big larger: the founding fathers, Lenin, Mae Tse Tung, Ho Chi Minh, and many, many etceteras.
For my money, if you want to change the world, pick up a gun. Singing kum bye yah in the street typically gets you killed.
We're the same scientists who didn't think lead paint or asbestos were a problem, and discovered germ theory only a short time ago.
There's no reason to come on here and insult everyone by calling us scientists. Sheesh.
I think that their point, regardless of its validity, is that when people go to Microsoft and say "I've found this vulnerability, here's the detail and PoC, please fix it", they often sit on it for weeks, months or sometimes years before they take any action.
...thereby delaying the security researcher's ability to cash in on his "I first discovered the BLAH.X vulnerability which Microsoft issued a HotFix for" credentials. That's what they're really angry about.
Holehunters are mostly about trying to look cool and make money. Sorry, but it's true - their work has value and perhaps stroking their egos is the price you pay for having people hack at your stuff for free, but their motivations are (1) ego, (2) looking cool as a hacker, (3) cashing in, ..., (999) improving computer security.
Rights are established by governments
Epic misunderstanding...on the Fourth of July no less.
Why not colors?.
Why not puffy pink clouds with dancing rainbow-striped unicorns?
"Hi, I'm a college student who thinks computers are cool but I don't really get into code or anything. I run Linux because it's L33T and strikes a blow against THE MAN! BTW, I can't get the latest version of Fedora to boot, but that's another question. Anyway, when I get to China I want to connect to some site outside China that the firewall blocks. I will then come back and tell my friends how cool I am! How I am cyberpunk and stuff! Striking a blow for FREEDOM! I mean, yeah, I'd just be doing a search for Falun Gong on Google, even though I'm not really sure who they are, but still, it'd be SO L33T! I know that I'm a dangerous underground revolutionary because I'm posting anonymously on Slashdot out of FEAR OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT! Angela Davis ain't got nothing on me. I mean, I'm not crazy - I wouldn't invest $10 for VPN service for this, and your talk of setting up my own VPN gateway is confusing (can I just apt-get that and connect from a kiosk in the Beijing airport?). OK, actually about 95% of the time I dual boot to Windows except when progressive chicks might be walking by my dorm room, and then I switch to Linux with a big tux wallpaper..."
Traditional methods, like letter campaigns, protests and such no longer work as well or at all.
They never worked. Only baby boomers who want to look back at their wasted lives and convince themselves that they "stopped the war" think marching, protesting, etc. is an effective form of change.
And other information that the People deserve to know.
Anyone who talks about "the People" is kind of creepy, in a Symbionese Liberation Army sort of way.
College is a mix of vocational training (particularly important for some professions) and personal growth in the "learn to be a good citizen" sense.
That is the most ridiculous thing I've read on Slashdot in some time, and that's pretty elite company. I got a 4-year degree from one of the biggest universities in the country and I must have missed the part where we learned to be good citizens. What I do remember was an environment rife with substance abuse, professors with lots of personal axes to grind, classes that were biased in favor of the professor's pet theories, and hours spent listened to my fellow uneducated students spout off in worthless discussion groups.
I'm not saying it wasn't a valuable experience or that I didn't learn anything or that I didn't enjoy it. But it certainly didn't make me "a good citizen". In fact, it's fair to say that college students - in the sense of violating the law, causing societal strain, and making nuisances of themselves - are among our worst citizens.