Even more fun is that the stories are news and facts.
So, tell someone it's sunny outside and follow the above process.
Here's an idea for sites, remove the links. Just type the URL in plain text, let the end user get a plugin that turns them into links (or simply copy and paste). Win! You didn't link to anyone, there is no argument to take down a link because there is no link, just some words.
2600 magazine did this with DeCSS and the court was happy. It's very difficult to have text removed, but easy to have links removed.
rect - if it runs in Wine, it'll run in FreeBSD (a supported platform).
And you can churn your own butter at home instead of going to that fancy supermarket. The original post should have read like this:
People don't care. They just want it to run their favorite game and accounting software simply and without having to undertake compatiblility testing or perform major settings changes. BSD doesn't do that.
So how about if Microsoft makes the OS itself inherently more secure? If they made something comparable to the Unix security system (even if its mechanisms are quite different) then you would not need all of these scanners to double-check every last action taken or file opened or e-mail viewed etc. That would neatly avoid any anti-trust issues that might be raised by the likes of McAfee or Symantec and would be a significant performance boost as well. Of course such cottage industries may complain for a different reason, in that a more secure Windows could put them out of business, but if they really are obsolete then this is what should happen.
1. While you are correct that cutting down on polluting the environment we live in is a good thing, accepting the AGW theory has immediate consequences in what we do. There is no free lunch. If we go all out to reduce CO2 emmissions that means we have fewer resources to expend reducing other things. And if we go cap and trade we put huge parts of teh economy under government control and the history of government is that short of a revolution it rarely releases power once acquired. So stopping cap and trade is, right now, the most important issue.
One flaw in your logic. The government already owns and runs the economy, it always has. It is usually lax about control, but make no mistake, corporations have always been grants from the people via the government. Corporations have no rights.
2. A through debunking of AGW would discredit the radical (mostly Marxist 'watermelons') enviromentalist 'green' movement, this could open up a once in a lifetime opportunity for sensible heads to prevail on steps that would actually help the environment instead of helping promote government control. Personally I'd favor an emergency program of building nuke plants to get the entire electrical grid off of fossil fuels. The only politically viable path to something like that is to reduce the current enviro lobby to impotence.
They never will, becuase the corporations only want profit at any cost to their surroundings. Most companies have to be forced to do things properly.
3. AGW has had a very corrosive effect on science. Rooting that out is a worthwhile goal.
Science can sort it's own problems out. That's why scientists have set methods to work through.
Clean energy for us,; not for the super rare 3 footed, red breasted, living in a 2 square foot environment, no one cares about Preebles jumping mouse that we have to build the highway 4 miles away from.
I know, they're not people, they don't deserve to live, they're not important enough.
The only important animals are people. The only important people are Americans. Especially the ones in your region. And especially the ones in your state. And especially the ones in your town. And especially the ones in your neighborhood. And especially the ones on your block. And especially the ones in your house. And especially you, the only important one.
How about not building yet another highway in the first place?
Maybe one day the global warming alarmists and hoaxsters will realize that change is a *natural* thing in this universe whether caused by inanimate or animate forces
How about this, lets all declare global warming a myth and then go and convert to clean energy anyway, because maybe, just maybe, we could stop polluting our streams, rivers and lakes.
Even if global warming is a complete and total fabrication, polluting our land and water IS NOT.
But Windows will still push the Java app out to the swap file, and load all the Microsoft apps installed on your system into memory, just in case you want them.
Honestly, it's because Sun sucks when it comes to writing Windows code. Java on Windows is better than it was, but it's still pretty crappy.
Since when? Disaster recovery should, in theory, be spread out over HDD, Tape and Optical. Long term storage should be mirrored between optical and HDD, with regular refreshes.
Here's a vote for #5 and how about not re-defining words or procedures just because some morons feel like it?
Now, Evolution is a law of nature, not a theory. Natural Selection is a theory. I have no problem with people coming up with theories that fit the scientific method, because THATS HOW YOU FUCKING PLAY THE GAME CALLED SCIENCE.
If someone wants to come up with their own words and rules and whatever, fine, go do it. If they call it science, I'm going to have a major problem with it and the people doing it.
I'm also using a Q6600, Vista x64 host and 4GB (soon to be 8) of RAM and a RAID 10 array. Quad Core is great for VMWare and the Q6600 is an inexpensive workhorse. Go with Quad processors for VMs (XEON for your workload), this is one case where the extra cores will be of use.
But the big draw of windows is the inertia of 1,000,000 one-off apps that businesses have written. Microsoft would be scared of people moving to another architecture just because if people were making a (painful) switch anyway, they might look at the alternatives.
Remember how.NET compiles? Microsoft started hedging their bets a while ago.
Comparing economics and politics to massive explosions and firestorms that kill millions of people instantly, yup, they're exactly the same. I can't see how I missed that.
Imagine what would have happened if the US did decide to get rid of the USSR when they had the chance. Then think about the stream of KGB sponsored bombs going off in NYC and DC. Most likely starting with the subway, wall street and public schools.
It would have been the same if the Soviets had a chance too, because no one is that stupid.
Probably the same reason that the most popular Office 2007 torrent on TPB has exactly two serials included with it, neither of which has been blacklisted by MS.
One can theorize as to why, but i personally suspect it's...
...because Office 2007 sp2 has not been released yet?
Microsoft only blacklists office serials during service packs.
I set my browser to delete all cookies every time I close down. I guess that means I'd have to go to that page every time I'm on the internet to opt out.
Why bother? You're deleting your cookies, they can't track you anyway.
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And governor Palin cries for a re-election for Steven's former senate seat, to address the wrongdoing.
Please stop degrading your office Gov Palin.
On the other hand, a fresh install of XP would regularly tell me to download a driver for my network card.
And Vista wouldn't either, since it wasn't released in 2001 like XP was.
Even more fun is that the stories are news and facts.
So, tell someone it's sunny outside and follow the above process.
Here's an idea for sites, remove the links. Just type the URL in plain text, let the end user get a plugin that turns them into links (or simply copy and paste). Win! You didn't link to anyone, there is no argument to take down a link because there is no link, just some words.
2600 magazine did this with DeCSS and the court was happy. It's very difficult to have text removed, but easy to have links removed.
rect - if it runs in Wine, it'll run in FreeBSD (a supported platform).
And you can churn your own butter at home instead of going to that fancy supermarket. The original post should have read like this:
People don't care. They just want it to run their favorite game and accounting software simply and without having to undertake compatiblility testing or perform major settings changes. BSD doesn't do that.
So how about if Microsoft makes the OS itself inherently more secure? If they made something comparable to the Unix security system (even if its mechanisms are quite different) then you would not need all of these scanners to double-check every last action taken or file opened or e-mail viewed etc. That would neatly avoid any anti-trust issues that might be raised by the likes of McAfee or Symantec and would be a significant performance boost as well. Of course such cottage industries may complain for a different reason, in that a more secure Windows could put them out of business, but if they really are obsolete then this is what should happen.
Like forcing the users to run under limited accounts and then prompting them when they need elevated privileges http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control. Or locking down the kernel http://www.toptechnews.com/news/Vista-Security-Still-Issue-for-McAfee-/story.xhtml?story_id=11300C1NIA8R
Good ideas, might get some complaints though.
1. While you are correct that cutting down on polluting the environment we live in is a good thing, accepting the AGW theory has immediate consequences in what we do. There is no free lunch. If we go all out to reduce CO2 emmissions that means we have fewer resources to expend reducing other things. And if we go cap and trade we put huge parts of teh economy under government control and the history of government is that short of a revolution it rarely releases power once acquired. So stopping cap and trade is, right now, the most important issue.
One flaw in your logic. The government already owns and runs the economy, it always has. It is usually lax about control, but make no mistake, corporations have always been grants from the people via the government. Corporations have no rights.
2. A through debunking of AGW would discredit the radical (mostly Marxist 'watermelons') enviromentalist 'green' movement, this could open up a once in a lifetime opportunity for sensible heads to prevail on steps that would actually help the environment instead of helping promote government control. Personally I'd favor an emergency program of building nuke plants to get the entire electrical grid off of fossil fuels. The only politically viable path to something like that is to reduce the current enviro lobby to impotence.
They never will, becuase the corporations only want profit at any cost to their surroundings. Most companies have to be forced to do things properly.
3. AGW has had a very corrosive effect on science. Rooting that out is a worthwhile goal.
Science can sort it's own problems out. That's why scientists have set methods to work through.
Clean energy for us,; not for the super rare 3 footed, red breasted, living in a 2 square foot environment, no one cares about Preebles jumping mouse that we have to build the highway 4 miles away from.
I know, they're not people, they don't deserve to live, they're not important enough.
The only important animals are people. The only important people are Americans. Especially the ones in your region. And especially the ones in your state. And especially the ones in your town. And especially the ones in your neighborhood. And especially the ones on your block. And especially the ones in your house. And especially you, the only important one.
How about not building yet another highway in the first place?
Maybe one day the global warming alarmists and hoaxsters will realize that change is a *natural* thing in this universe whether caused by inanimate or animate forces
How about this, lets all declare global warming a myth and then go and convert to clean energy anyway, because maybe, just maybe, we could stop polluting our streams, rivers and lakes.
Even if global warming is a complete and total fabrication, polluting our land and water IS NOT.
Pink slashdot hurt my brain. No, really.
So, is this place a MMOBBS now?
Bonding plant, horrible trap. That should never have been written into a Zork game.
True, but he did die a fairly wealthy man.
Torrents are only needed if your distribution network sucks. You can do so much more with multicast & caching servers if you set it up right.
That was before Windows 7 became essentially a point release.
But Windows will still push the Java app out to the swap file, and load all the Microsoft apps installed on your system into memory, just in case you want them.
Honestly, it's because Sun sucks when it comes to writing Windows code. Java on Windows is better than it was, but it's still pretty crappy.
HDs are NOT backup media
Since when? Disaster recovery should, in theory, be spread out over HDD, Tape and Optical. Long term storage should be mirrored between optical and HDD, with regular refreshes.
I'm going with the most basic definition of
'a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature'.
Things evolve.
Here's a vote for #5 and how about not re-defining words or procedures just because some morons feel like it?
Now, Evolution is a law of nature, not a theory. Natural Selection is a theory. I have no problem with people coming up with theories that fit the scientific method, because THATS HOW YOU FUCKING PLAY THE GAME CALLED SCIENCE.
If someone wants to come up with their own words and rules and whatever, fine, go do it. If they call it science, I'm going to have a major problem with it and the people doing it.
I'm also using a Q6600, Vista x64 host and 4GB (soon to be 8) of RAM and a RAID 10 array. Quad Core is great for VMWare and the Q6600 is an inexpensive workhorse. Go with Quad processors for VMs (XEON for your workload), this is one case where the extra cores will be of use.
I think you're analyzing it too much
Over analyzing on SLASHDOT? You're kidding.
(What we need is a roast)
Now, all of the 300 or so Linux users should get together to celebrate this anniversary of a rewrite of a clone of a rewrite of Multics.
Happy anniversary Linux, thank you for bringing much needed over complexity to mainstream computing!
But the big draw of windows is the inertia of 1,000,000 one-off apps that businesses have written. Microsoft would be scared of people moving to another architecture just because if people were making a (painful) switch anyway, they might look at the alternatives.
Remember how .NET compiles? Microsoft started hedging their bets a while ago.
Comparing economics and politics to massive explosions and firestorms that kill millions of people instantly, yup, they're exactly the same. I can't see how I missed that.
Imagine what would have happened if the US did decide to get rid of the USSR when they had the chance. Then think about the stream of KGB sponsored bombs going off in NYC and DC. Most likely starting with the subway, wall street and public schools.
It would have been the same if the Soviets had a chance too, because no one is that stupid.
Sony bringing fun and entertainment to Vanguard would have been a BETTER FUCKING TITLE.
HELLO SOE?! Games are not meant to be frustration-fests.
Idiots raised Station Access to $30 a month and everyone I know took off. What were they thinking?
Probably the same reason that the most popular Office 2007 torrent on TPB has exactly two serials included with it, neither of which has been blacklisted by MS.
One can theorize as to why, but i personally suspect it's...
...because Office 2007 sp2 has not been released yet?
Microsoft only blacklists office serials during service packs.
I set my browser to delete all cookies every time I close down. I guess that means I'd have to go to that page every time I'm on the internet to opt out.
Why bother? You're deleting your cookies, they can't track you anyway.