A common way for a person to lose at chess is by assuming eminant victory and staying ones course without further thought. So it is entirely possible that Microsoft could now see themselves as above the law and grow more bold in their arrogant disregard of law, and on the consumer level by simply going about business as usual with windows while the world slowly starts to realize that having a computer doesn't mean constantly getting hit with a daily exploit.
Personally, if looking at their core product is any indicator, it looks like MS is already on the decline. I think in 2006 the public will be underwhelmed to license XP-redux and give a look at those 2ghz G4 iMacs running OS X Ocelot over at the Apple store...
When I was in 4th grade or so, I had one of those "Little Professor" calculators from Texas Instruments which I decided to abuse with a sottering iron one day for shits and giggles. After messing around for a little bit, I found by reconnecting the transistors I could get it to make different sounds controlled by the keys. Suffice to say, it was very limited, but fun to play with for about a week.
My fucking god what utter binary-filth! The only lower creature to spawn-camp on the face of this earth would have to be the single solitary idiot (yes we all know who you are) who downloaded and try to play this foul creation of meth-induced psychosis spun by a certain recent CS degree recipiant who has yet to get a job outside the burger flipping industry.
And to you who flips the burgers and mangles code in ones freetime: My god man, are you mad?
So I spawn, and then have to read three freakin paragraphs and then type in a hefty command to just try to kill something?
Look people, if you are a developer without any new ideas that others have expressed investment in, don't try to "innovate" from some elses innovation.... Shit, write a netcraft level for christ sakes or better yet, try to do the matrix jump simulation from the tallest structure you can access. But don't take a shit on a luverly FPS for cryin out loud.
[The Sharp Zaurus SL-6000L] is a true enterprise level device
Well yupee, I can sure dang near swear that you can hot swap 1800 of these guys into any sort of CPU-cluster config with full on NUMA and native SMP. It is a bona-fide grade A "enterprise level" enterprise level device after all, and damn since I only run the calendar, built in MP3 player and some basic email, think of all that spare CPU time I can fork over (no pun intended) to SETI@home! And with the SCSI RAID Flash drives with automatic fail over and load balancing, well, storage just ain't an issue. Yeap, yessserrreeee... SUN has done just bit the dust here 'cuz what we have here is one true enterprise level device that fits in the palm of your hand....or am I just reading a bit too much into "enterprise"? Maybe they meant tricorder or something.;)
" Ya know, I feel like a month after I buy the extended version, they'll release the super-trilogy version with more footage"
You got to catch them all!
Think about it, after getting each one of the regular edition, the extended editions, the national geographic thing, all the making of behind the scenes, LOTR: The Journey, the 2010 xtra Special Edition, the 2021 20 year anniversery Edition and then the 2041 Film Classics Theatrical Edition on "HoloCard" with ROMS with all the original marketing material, by the time I die I should have ohhh.... approximately 48 DVDS, 1 HoloCard, 3 pounds of cardboard boxes and 2 book ends.
Just read your comment and cracked open my new model 1.4ghz Panther Powerbook. I usually don't use it online from home because it was given to me by my client while I do their project....Source code purity and all, essentially a clean room.
But, yes... seems to work fine on Panther running Safari 1.2 However, my older 800mhz Jaguar Powerbook seems to be the problem. Funny that however, the javascript on the site is very basic and Safari 1.0= was W3C DOM compliant.
Anyway, good point, I really have no excuse not to upgrade my older machine at this point. Especially with the brand spankin new Apple store in SF opening up 2 blocks from my pad.
Was I the only one to read the parent as "mozilla works perfectly, at least more perfectly than any other windows app... it does not install on my machine..."
I find it ironic that the page does not work with Safari. What with all the gripping about cross platform browser standards and how web developers only make things for IE, and how MSN breaks other browsers CSS parsers or just plain ol' don't work. You'd think the Mozilla crew would have the courtesy of writing a little cross platform javascript...
But, perhaps they were worried Bill Gates would sneak a peak at their plans, I hear he uses a G5 at home.
What I don't get is why this story is posted under "Your Rights Online"
Last I checked, Yahoo was a Corporation and as such has the right to conduct it's business how it damn well chooses. Whether or not they charge for advertising placement does not effect my online rights nor any other rights. If you don't like Yahooo's approach, it's your right not to use Yahoo.
So can someone tell me how this effects any of my rights as defined by the US Constitution or Court of Law, or is this just another example of a./ ed not thinking before pulling the trigger?
Ok, the guy deserves to go to jail. He wrote malware, distributed it and got caught. Pretty straightforward.
But... this jackass wrote the thing to call 911. (Would he have been caught if he hadn't made the damn thing call the cops?) So all of a sudden this is terrorism. But wait... wait... wait... lil Johnny Dipshit in 12th grade and his hooligan friends all decide to start prank calling 911 after school one day from a friends house. Cops show up, no one's there, cops leave. Rinse and repeat, finally the cops take care of it and more than likely lil Johnny Dipshit and his friends will get a notice to appear in court. But would they be called "cyber-terrorists" for using telephone technology to "endanger the safety of the public"? I think not. There are already perfectly good criminal codes that deal with the misuse of 911 lines. There is no legitimate excuse to try this under any terrorism statue and only goes to show that the Patriot Act on it's face is overly broad and in itself a threat to public safety and our constitutional liberties. Threat to public safety you ask? Yeah... if it means I'll lose to years off my life to go live in an ass slammer for doing something that would have never drawn a charge or carried a much lesser sentencing requirement, I think that's unsafe as it damages unduly those effected by it.
You think they would have gotten further with their Mickey Mouse offer for Micky Mouse! I wonder if the board wore their Micky Mouse ears while carefully considering this "legitimate proposal".
As far as what they meant by "Legitimate Proposals" M-I-C: See you real soon!
Exactly. It's your short-sited and cynical thinking that's keeping us back.
With the advances we've made in materials science, don't you think we'd have some interesting polymeres to manufacture papers and inks out of? Hell... why can't we have anonymous cash cards?
Instead of getting a handfull of 20's at the ATM, we can get a magcard printed up for us and chunked out. No need to have any identifying features.
It's unfortunate that so many play into the backwater thinking of bankers rather than looking for ways to innovate.
The entire point of my post was that after 200 years, don't you think it's time someone took a new swing at the problem. Just because we've done something one way for 200 years doesn't mean we have to keep on doing it that way.
So instead of taking twigs mocking me, why not look around and ask, "What can be made better?" Who know... You might just invent something.
The paper bank note is 200 year old technology so why don't I hear ANYTHING about a replacement for the banknote? And while I think that the US has done some interesting things with anti-counterfeiting measures, strong arming corporations like Adobe et al into causing their products not to work as intended is not a real solution, does not directly address the problem and in the end only goes to make for more problems for people like you and me.
This mentality of "kick the people" has gone on for way to long. Are we not capable of outdoing Benjimam Franklin? He is the one who invented paper currency to begin with. Funny that all he did was put to use the printing press, an invention which has been around since 1440 to make these bank notes with. Sort of ironic that he made the money hmself with a press he owned... whooda thunk that people could counterfeit money with printing presses and printers?!?!? So now that printing capabilities a mere 200 years later are more advanced, do you think it's time we look for new ways to produce paper currency? Or should we just start walking backwards down the path of personal empowerment because the tech has gotten too powerful?
They would set up P2P servers and host their campaign ads from there. They could even be sneaky and give them catchy titles like: JLOPEZ_HOMEMADE_PORN_TEENIEBOPPER_ILLEGAL_WAREZ.wm v
The last PDA I bought was a,a href="http://shop.store.yahoo.com/letterfolders-of fice-equipment/palwitac.html">PalmVIIx in early 2001. I used it for maybe 6 months before it became too much of a hassle for me to deal with. It's been sitting in my closet collecting dust ever since August 2001.
While PDA's are handy, I'm not big on carrying around a whole bunch of gadgets. And besides, being a very mobile person who is often on foot (downtown SF), having to lug around a PDA on a sunny day can be a bit of a problem. And the Zaurus in the article looks gigantic! I already have a titanium powerbook, so some hybrid PDA/Palmtop has -5 appeal to me.
For those like me that are always looking for the smallest, most functional and utilitarian gadget to lighten the load with, check out the Kyocera 7100 series smartphone it's a Palm OS PDA with a color display, takes compact flash and is freakin tiny! Ohhh and yeah, it's a phone too.
That works out to $454.54 per week per musician. I can assure you that these guys aren't living a rockstar life. Perhaps the musicians will feel rewarded by the irony of the situation?
This is flamebait because people have been crying wolf about Macintosh OS's going x86 for years, much longer than the cries about "BSD is dying" and typically, people will post about Macintosh going to x86 to intice a flamewar from Mac enthusiasts and PC users alike.
In fact, I already posted in this thread and in my post I was going to note that it would be interesting to see what the stats would be for x86 OSX desktop installs if such an option were available to the consumer. But wisely I decided to skirt that issue for the very reason you see in your parent post.
Actually, this should not be surprising nor alarming. On the face of it this is a very misleading statistic and/. post. What would be more relevent would be to compare Linux penetration across hardware architectures seperately. Saying Linux has more installs than OSX is rather slanted and not all that informative since there are many more x86 compatable PC's on the market than PPC compatables. Linux is not hardware, Microsoft does not make PC's. OSX is a desktop yes, but tied to the hardware needed to run it. So let's see the percentile of Linux installs on x86 PC's vs Linux installs (Yellow Dog et al) on PPC architectures. That would give a better overall view of the marketplace and usage trends. For I'd suspect the migration to Linux from OSX would be microscopic at best while the real breakaway would those migrating from Windows.
Wow, if the article is right on and the tech is solid, this is something that will revolutionize the way we live.
With a 3-10ghz range wireless reader, these would be the most feasible types of tags to use as a security device. When entering a secured facility, you could get a unique card printed up and be allowed or denied access to rooms/areas via installed card readers. I'd much rather have a throw away card over biometrtics any day. And this such much more reliable over all.
And what about home security? These could act as keyless entry, and also allow you to tag your belongings so that if they were detected as leaving your premesis, the authorities could be contacted.
There are plenty of 1984ish applications such as embedding these into ID cards/Drivers Licenses, which could in the future be a very effective way to monitor peoples comings and goings. But, I'm sure there are hundred of tinfoil cap wearing slashbts who could delve into those areas for me.
As a web developer who makes much use of XML/XSLT, I feel directly attacked by the actions of Microsoft.
Their actions I take as a direct threat to my source of income and ability to succesfully negotiate contracts with my clients, for as a 3rd party developer most if not all all my client/developer contracts stipulate that "I shall not knowingly provide my clients with any solution or product that is known by me to infringe on any other parties intellectual property"
I know Microsofts patent to be baseless, meritless and on the face hiostile to all people such as myself and on the goodfaith of the W3C working group in providing us with the Open XML Standard.
Right now I want to know what remedy I have to relieve myself of this attack Microsoft is making upon my livelyhood. I'm sure other developers are thinking the same thing because this action is pure and utter bullshit, and personally I think Microsoft can go fuck itself.
So this sounds good.. "Consumers will be able to plug their modems directly into the wall sockets just as they do with any garden variety appliance"
ohhh yeah! Hackers thine evil bits shall meet the wrath of my toaster oven!!
Will my floor lamp blink when my imClone stocks fall to $60 a share??
Will I have to worry about a backdoor being installed covertly on my fridge and making my milk curdle?
Will my George Foreman Grill become an open spam relay peddling viagra to all the braun shaver users worldwide?
MY GOD MAN, HAVE WE NOT LEARNED ANYTHING FROM MICROSOFT PRODUCTS?????...ohhh that's right... the spammers ARE the advertising companies looking for a new place to spam in the best interests of the consumer.
So just how well should I trust the "secured" network interface of my BlendOmatic-2006XS 5-in-1 blender-oven?
So I read the headline and thought "So is the FCC putting out a declaration that GW Bush 'discovered' the internet?" What with it being an election year and all...
Slashdot Mirror
A common way for a person to lose at chess is by assuming eminant victory and staying ones course without further thought. So it is entirely possible that Microsoft could now see themselves as above the law and grow more bold in their arrogant disregard of law, and on the consumer level by simply going about business as usual with windows while the world slowly starts to realize that having a computer doesn't mean constantly getting hit with a daily exploit.
Personally, if looking at their core product is any indicator, it looks like MS is already on the decline. I think in 2006 the public will be underwhelmed to license XP-redux and give a look at those 2ghz G4 iMacs running OS X Ocelot over at the Apple store...
When I was in 4th grade or so, I had one of those "Little Professor" calculators from Texas Instruments which I decided to abuse with a sottering iron one day for shits and giggles. After messing around for a little bit, I found by reconnecting the transistors I could get it to make different sounds controlled by the keys. Suffice to say, it was very limited, but fun to play with for about a week.
Funny how this is suddenly a fad.
Join in the chant: "Kill! Kill! Kill!"
My fucking god what utter binary-filth!
The only lower creature to spawn-camp on the face of this earth would have to be the single solitary idiot (yes we all know who you are) who downloaded and try to play this foul creation of meth-induced psychosis spun by a certain recent CS degree recipiant who has yet to get a job outside the burger flipping industry.
And to you who flips the burgers and mangles code in ones freetime: My god man, are you mad?
So I spawn, and then have to read three freakin paragraphs and then type in a hefty command to just try to kill something?
Look people, if you are a developer without any new ideas that others have expressed investment in, don't try to "innovate" from some elses innovation.... Shit, write a netcraft level for christ sakes or better yet, try to do the matrix jump simulation from the tallest structure you can access. But don't take a shit on a luverly FPS for cryin out loud.
[The Sharp Zaurus SL-6000L] is a true enterprise level device
Well yupee, I can sure dang near swear that you can hot swap 1800 of these guys into any sort of CPU-cluster config with full on NUMA and native SMP. It is a bona-fide grade A "enterprise level" enterprise level device after all, and damn since I only run the calendar, built in MP3 player and some basic email, think of all that spare CPU time I can fork over (no pun intended) to SETI@home! And with the SCSI RAID Flash drives with automatic fail over and load balancing, well, storage just ain't an issue.
Yeap, yessserrreeee... SUN has done just bit the dust here 'cuz what we have here is one true enterprise level device that fits in the palm of your hand.
Maybe they meant tricorder or something.
"gaaaaackkkk... Get this thing off of me!!!"
"... that number is temporarily out of service."
......grrrrrrrrrrrrrr......
......grrrrrrrrrrrrrr......
"Look you F&*%#$ chihuaha!! I'm sorry I took your chalupa! I'm sorry god damnit!!!"
"Please check the number and try your call again again."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!"
"If you need assistance please call your operator."
*gurrrgle*
*click*
"Coffee is a health drink" my ass.
I eat my coffee with a fork.
" Ya know, I feel like a month after I buy the extended version, they'll release the super-trilogy version with more footage"
You got to catch them all!
Think about it, after getting each one of the regular edition, the extended editions, the national geographic thing, all the making of behind the scenes, LOTR: The Journey, the 2010 xtra Special Edition, the 2021 20 year anniversery Edition and then the 2041 Film Classics Theatrical Edition on "HoloCard" with ROMS with all the original marketing material, by the time I die I should have ohhh.... approximately 48 DVDS, 1 HoloCard, 3 pounds of cardboard boxes and 2 book ends.
And I'll still be wanting more.
Just read your comment and cracked open my new model 1.4ghz Panther Powerbook. I usually don't use it online from home because it was given to me by my client while I do their project. ...Source code purity and all, essentially a clean room.
But, yes... seems to work fine on Panther running Safari 1.2
However, my older 800mhz Jaguar Powerbook seems to be the problem. Funny that however, the javascript on the site is very basic and Safari 1.0= was W3C DOM compliant.
Anyway, good point, I really have no excuse not to upgrade my older machine at this point. Especially with the brand spankin new Apple store in SF opening up 2 blocks from my pad.
Was I the only one to read the parent as
"mozilla works perfectly, at least more perfectly than any other windows app... it does not install on my machine..."
And it actually made perfect sense.
I find it ironic that the page does not work with Safari.
What with all the gripping about cross platform browser standards and how web developers only make things for IE,
and how MSN breaks other browsers CSS parsers or just plain ol' don't work. You'd think the Mozilla crew would have the courtesy of writing a little cross platform javascript...
But, perhaps they were worried Bill Gates would sneak a peak at their plans, I hear he uses a G5 at home.
What I don't get is why this story is posted under "Your Rights Online"
./ ed not thinking before pulling the trigger?
Last I checked, Yahoo was a Corporation and as such has the right to conduct it's business how it damn well chooses.
Whether or not they charge for advertising placement does not effect my online rights nor any other rights. If you don't like Yahooo's approach, it's your right not to use Yahoo.
So can someone tell me how this effects any of my rights as defined by the US Constitution or Court of Law, or is this just another example of a
... and everything looks like a nail.
Ok, the guy deserves to go to jail.
He wrote malware, distributed it and got caught.
Pretty straightforward.
But... this jackass wrote the thing to call 911.
(Would he have been caught if he hadn't made the damn thing call the cops?) So all of a sudden this is terrorism.
But wait... wait... wait... lil Johnny Dipshit in 12th grade and his hooligan friends all decide to start prank calling 911 after school one day from a friends house. Cops show up, no one's there, cops leave. Rinse and repeat, finally the cops take care of it and more than likely lil Johnny Dipshit and his friends will get a notice to appear in court. But would they be called "cyber-terrorists" for using telephone technology to "endanger the safety of the public"? I think not. There are already perfectly good criminal codes that deal with the misuse of 911 lines. There is no legitimate excuse to try this under any terrorism statue and only goes to show that the Patriot Act on it's face is overly broad and in itself a threat to public safety and our constitutional liberties. Threat to public safety you ask? Yeah... if it means I'll lose to years off my life to go live in an ass slammer for doing something that would have never drawn a charge or carried a much lesser sentencing requirement, I think that's unsafe as it damages unduly those effected by it.
Stay tuned for the explosive shockumentary, where we demonstrate how two tin cans and a piece of string make for a handy alternative to VoIP.
You think they would have gotten further with their Mickey Mouse offer for Micky Mouse! I wonder if the board wore their Micky Mouse ears while carefully considering this "legitimate proposal".
As far as what they meant by "Legitimate Proposals"
M-I-C: See you real soon!
Exactly. It's your short-sited and cynical thinking that's keeping us back.
With the advances we've made in materials science, don't you think we'd have some interesting polymeres to manufacture papers and inks out of? Hell... why can't we have anonymous cash cards?
Instead of getting a handfull of 20's at the ATM, we can get a magcard printed up for us and chunked out. No need to have any identifying features.
It's unfortunate that so many play into the backwater thinking of bankers rather than looking for ways to innovate.
The entire point of my post was that after 200 years, don't you think it's time someone took a new swing at the problem. Just because we've done something one way for 200 years doesn't mean we have to keep on doing it that way.
So instead of taking twigs mocking me, why not look around and ask, "What can be made better?"
Who know... You might just invent something.
The paper bank note is 200 year old technology so why don't I hear ANYTHING about a replacement for the banknote? And while I think that the US has done some interesting things with anti-counterfeiting measures, strong arming corporations like Adobe et al into causing their products not to work as intended is not a real solution, does not directly address the problem and in the end only goes to make for more problems for people like you and me.
This mentality of "kick the people" has gone on for way to long. Are we not capable of outdoing Benjimam Franklin? He is the one who invented paper currency to begin with.
Funny that all he did was put to use the printing press, an invention which has been around since 1440 to make these bank notes with. Sort of ironic that he made the money hmself with a press he owned... whooda thunk that people could counterfeit money with printing presses and printers?!?!? So now that printing capabilities a mere 200 years later are more advanced, do you think it's time we look for new ways to produce paper currency? Or should we just start walking backwards down the path of personal empowerment because the tech has gotten too powerful?
They would set up P2P servers and host their campaign ads from there. They could even be sneaky and give them catchy titles like: JLOPEZ_HOMEMADE_PORN_TEENIEBOPPER_ILLEGAL_WAREZ.wm v
The last PDA I bought was a ,a href="http://shop.store.yahoo.com/letterfolders-of fice-equipment/palwitac.html">PalmVIIx in early 2001. I used it for maybe 6 months before it became too much of a hassle for me to deal with. It's been sitting in my closet collecting dust ever since August 2001.
While PDA's are handy, I'm not big on carrying around a whole bunch of gadgets. And besides, being a very mobile person who is often on foot (downtown SF), having to lug around a PDA on a sunny day can be a bit of a problem. And the Zaurus in the article looks gigantic! I already have a titanium powerbook, so some hybrid PDA/Palmtop has -5 appeal to me.
For those like me that are always looking for the smallest, most functional and utilitarian gadget to lighten the load with, check out the Kyocera 7100 series smartphone it's a Palm OS PDA with a color display, takes compact flash and is freakin tiny! Ohhh and yeah, it's a phone too.
"to replace 11 musicians saving 5,000 GBP ($9,450 US) per week."
That works out to $454.54 per week per musician.
I can assure you that these guys aren't living a rockstar life.
Perhaps the musicians will feel rewarded by the irony of the situation?
This is flamebait because people have been crying wolf about Macintosh OS's going x86 for years, much longer than the cries about "BSD is dying" and typically, people will post about Macintosh going to x86 to intice a flamewar from Mac enthusiasts and PC users alike.
In fact, I already posted in this thread and in my post I was going to note that it would be interesting to see what the stats would be for x86 OSX desktop installs if such an option were available to the consumer. But wisely I decided to skirt that issue for the very reason you see in your parent post.
Actually, this should not be surprising nor alarming. /. post. What would be more relevent would be to compare Linux penetration across hardware architectures seperately. Saying Linux has more installs than OSX is rather slanted and not all that informative since there are many more x86 compatable PC's on the market than PPC compatables. Linux is not hardware, Microsoft does not make PC's. OSX is a desktop yes, but tied to the hardware needed to run it.
On the face of it this is a very misleading statistic and
So let's see the percentile of Linux installs on x86 PC's vs Linux installs (Yellow Dog et al) on PPC architectures.
That would give a better overall view of the marketplace and usage trends. For I'd suspect the migration to Linux from OSX would be microscopic at best while the real breakaway would those migrating from Windows.
Wow, if the article is right on and the tech is solid, this is something that will revolutionize the way we live.
With a 3-10ghz range wireless reader, these would be the most feasible types of tags to use as a security device.
When entering a secured facility, you could get a unique card printed up and be allowed or denied access to rooms/areas via installed card readers. I'd much rather have a throw away card over biometrtics any day. And this such much more reliable over all.
And what about home security?
These could act as keyless entry, and also allow you to tag your belongings so that if they were detected as leaving your premesis, the authorities could be contacted.
There are plenty of 1984ish applications such as embedding these into ID cards/Drivers Licenses, which could in the future be a very effective way to monitor peoples comings and goings. But, I'm sure there are hundred of tinfoil cap wearing slashbts who could delve into those areas for me.
As a web developer who makes much use of XML/XSLT, I feel directly attacked by the actions of Microsoft.
Their actions I take as a direct threat to my source of income and ability to succesfully negotiate contracts with my clients, for as a 3rd party developer most if not all all my client/developer contracts stipulate that "I shall not knowingly provide my clients with any solution or product that is known by me to infringe on any other parties intellectual property"
I know Microsofts patent to be baseless, meritless and on the face hiostile to all people such as myself and on the goodfaith of the W3C working group in providing us with the Open XML Standard.
Right now I want to know what remedy I have to relieve myself of this attack Microsoft is making upon my livelyhood. I'm sure other developers are thinking the same thing because this action is pure and utter bullshit, and personally I think Microsoft can go fuck itself.
So this sounds good..
...ohhh that's right... the spammers ARE the advertising companies looking for a new place to spam in the best interests of the consumer.
"Consumers will be able to plug their modems directly into the wall sockets just as they do with any garden variety appliance"
ohhh yeah! Hackers thine evil bits shall meet the wrath of my toaster oven!!
Will my floor lamp blink when my imClone stocks fall to $60 a share??
Will I have to worry about a backdoor being installed covertly on my fridge and making my milk curdle?
Will my George Foreman Grill become an open spam relay peddling viagra to all the braun shaver users worldwide?
MY GOD MAN, HAVE WE NOT LEARNED ANYTHING FROM MICROSOFT PRODUCTS?????
So just how well should I trust the "secured" network interface of my BlendOmatic-2006XS 5-in-1 blender-oven?
So I read the headline and thought "So is the FCC putting out a declaration that GW Bush 'discovered' the internet?"
What with it being an election year and all...