Imagine if *humans* didn't have standard docking ports.
"Hey babe, you in the mood?" "Yes, but you have a TR-71 and I have a OML 3.0. We'll need to go to HumanShack and get a converter first." "Eh... never mind, let's just watch TV instead."
That's ridiculous. We all know that Ballmer would be perfectly happy to dance around a giant empty building while clapping and shouting "Developers, developers, developers, developers."
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We had a few lazy sysadmins who basically did nothing, and let the aging Windows machines get bogged down with all kind of crapware.
Switching to FOSS would have saved an enormous amount of time -- not to mention money -- because most assignments and projects required a *nix environment. Why? Because that's what the faculty and graders used for compiling and testing student work. Automating the compilation, deployment, etc. was just too complex on Windows machine to even be considered.
So there were three choices for students using the Windows boxes: 1. Telnet to our Solaris machine and work there, or 2. Use Cygwin, or 3. Develop on Visual Studio, then port to *nix and finish there.
Now you could argue that Windows was better for our lazy sysadmins, but for students? There's no question that installing Windows had been a mistake.
But the baffling thing here is that this isn't some big company demanding a political ad be removed; it's a tiny film studio. And the film in question is free on the internet.
It just seems like there has to be a missing piece to this story.
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Imagine if *humans* didn't have standard docking ports.
"Hey babe, you in the mood?"
"Yes, but you have a TR-71 and I have a OML 3.0. We'll need to go to HumanShack and get a converter first."
"Eh... never mind, let's just watch TV instead."
...there's no "cover up" here at all, and the big media companies send takedown notices to just about every video on YouTube.
No, it just means that it doesn't work on leap years.
That's ridiculous. We all know that Ballmer would be perfectly happy to dance around a giant empty building while clapping and shouting "Developers, developers, developers, developers."
Yeah, they should have used ActiveX, right?
Just wait until you hear the news that Larry Ellison is buying Linus Torvalds.
The one question this article doesn't really clarify is pretty important: How are these exploits being loaded onto the user's computer?
Are we talking applets, Java web start, or some other mechanism?
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They'd better keep the train's parts lubricated.
Gotthard? Hadron?
Who the hell is coming up with these names? Are they trying to sell Viagra?
We had a few lazy sysadmins who basically did nothing, and let the aging Windows machines get bogged down with all kind of crapware.
Switching to FOSS would have saved an enormous amount of time -- not to mention money -- because most assignments and projects required a *nix environment. Why? Because that's what the faculty and graders used for compiling and testing student work. Automating the compilation, deployment, etc. was just too complex on Windows machine to even be considered.
So there were three choices for students using the Windows boxes:
1. Telnet to our Solaris machine and work there, or
2. Use Cygwin, or
3. Develop on Visual Studio, then port to *nix and finish there.
Now you could argue that Windows was better for our lazy sysadmins, but for students? There's no question that installing Windows had been a mistake.
Savage gave us Rockstar Energy Drink. Sure, it tastes like oranges mixed with pee, but it does provide caffeine.
I once asked Richard Stallman how to convince my school to go with FOSS instead of Windows, since most of our CS lab was on Windows.
His reply: "Defenestration! Throw Windows out of the computer, or throw the computer out the window!"
...in COLOR!
...oh wait. :(
It's turtles all the way down!
If the Roomba could empty itself and clean its brush off, I would gladly pay twice as much for one.
Not sure what that has to do with anything. Are you saying that because you're a socialist?
Java is the new Caldera Linux; buy it and you'll end up being sued by the very same people who sold it to you.
Because getting a hearing aid to fit in a cat's ear would be rather difficult.
But the baffling thing here is that this isn't some big company demanding a political ad be removed; it's a tiny film studio. And the film in question is free on the internet.
It just seems like there has to be a missing piece to this story.
If I show a short clip from a film just to prove that someone is an actor, how could this possibly NOT be fair use?
It seems like smartphones are making voice calls obsolete. GOOG-411 is a victim of http://www.google.com/
So if everyone died except for a bunch of frozen rapists, that would better than if all humans were wiped out?
Somehow I don't think we're talking about the same movie here...