I can tell you that it's horrendous the way the navy treats IT. They are married to M$. Don't be fooled by any feelgood articles you might read, on the deckplate M$ is king. Granted, he's an old king since he's prolly only NT4! But when the navy looks for solutions, microsoft is the only place they look
Keep in mind that it has been my experience that things move extremely slow in the military. That's why when my shop did happen to have a printer, it was dot matrix (year = 2000). There was one laser printer for the entire division ( a collection of shops ~100 ppl)
Taiwan is not a member country of the UN, so having their flag listed is purely arbitrary. Plenty of companies do things we don't like, but that doesn't mean they're bowing to the ChiComs. Exactly why should Taiwan be listed?
For the record, I support Taiwan in what they do, and have always hated Reds. Red Hat's decision however is being attacked in the wrong way. Removing Taiwan's flag is a thing that sometimes Grownups have to do. Nixon had to do it (removing Taiwan's status as a recognized country), so what makes Red Hat any worse?
M: Agent 007, you've got stop 0x90! 007: Er, what's his name, Q? M: 0x90, the man is involved in all kinds of cracker activity 007: Um yes, just working on the pronunciation...
A Linux conversion is not for the faint-hearted. Companies must install new hardware and software on a large scale and prepare for bugs and hardware incompatibilities galore
What a crock, so as soon as you put GNU/Linux on a system it might explode?
This article is full of misinformation, the worst being the focus on "free"! How many times have we read here on Slashdot that PHB's don't want free (gratis)? You can't give anything away, you have to charge for it. Sun showed us that with Star Office. Am I happy Fortune did a write up on GNU/Linux? Sure, but I think articles like this do more injustice to us than anything. At least thanks to IBM (per the article) GNU/Linux didn't die a death of neglect!
Maybe he should have used the DMCA to to prevent this gross infringement of his intellectual rights! At least now he can be hired to work on DRM withouth anybody knowing what he's really up to.
described as the only conclusive case of scientific misconduct ever identified in the history of the prestigious laboratory
Um, wouldn't that have been Ritchie and Thompson with UNIX;-)
You hit the nail on the head. I mean, if Dookoo was working for the erstwhile Emporeror, why did he spill the entire plot to Obi-Wan? I mean, damn, he TOLD Obi-Wan exactly what and where the danger was, but being a proud Jedi Obi-Wan refused to even consider forsaking the hopelessly inept Jedi Council. What would be cool would be if Dookoo was doing a Triple Cross: working with Palpatine so he could defeat him, and leaving the Jedi's because they have clearly lost The Way
FWIW, when I started high school I failed 6 (yes, SIX!) straight quarters of algebra. That's a whole year, summer school, and another quarter until I pulled a D to pass the next quarter. Was it me or the teachers? A little of both, but I blamed myself mostly.
So then I got into college, got a great teacher, and immediately pulled A's in math. This guy was no joke, he TAUGHT the shit. Yeah, I blew stuff off in high school, but I'm old enough now to realize I'd been drowning in math since second grade. Where were the teachers? Smoking in the lounge, of course!
First off, I find it difficult to believe that anyone could see the 'Mozilla' name and logo, and not immediately associate it with Godzilla. I think they're right on that score. However, to make the next jump, and assume TOHO is putting out a web browser to beat MS is just too far for me to attempt. Isn't it good enough that when I think of Godzilla I get a good feeling and say, "Those TOHO guys sure were cool..." Apparently that is not the end result of what they want people to think about them. Lastly, who the HELL gave them rights to PART of a word? If AOL can't browbeat the GAIM guys down, how can TOHO? Oh yeah, $$
This reminds me how as a kid I could always tell which countries were communist or not. They always had "Democratic" or "People's Republic" in their name, when the truth was the exact opposite. And of course, let's not forget the Open Group in the Unix world, which was anything but.
Wait a second, I'm black, and what I want to know, is what the hell is Jesse Jackson doing about this? I want my piece of this pie!
You schmuck, Germany would have won the nuke race if they had kept their Jews, and Spain would have progressed faster for the same reason. History is replete with the damage societies do to themselves when shutting portions of their populations out.
Call ME crazy, but if I saw a story on slashdot that I felt was interesting, I would at least take the time to read it! SnoSoft notified Compaq about this a year ago, and nothing was done. True, Phased was acting independently of SnoSoft, but at least read the article before jumping to conclusions. It's not just you, it seems a lot of readers on slashdot just go for the executive summary.
CNN (I lost the direct link) is reporting that the real reason HP is pulling printers from Dell is because that lovable scamp, the "Dell Guy", reportedly grabbed Carly's ass at a recent "goodwill" meeting.
Carly was overheard to say "He'll never get his hands on my toner again!". The Dell Guy responded with "Dude, what a rude BITCH!"
Can someone without an actual job please find this link?
I know the general Slashdot response is going to be how we are being oppressed, and that's my first reaction also. There is another side however. What these supposedly democratic countries are facing is the ugly truth about all such governments: they play by a set of rules while the other side is completely unfettered. With Western Europe's recent history of terrorist groups such as Action Direct and the Red Brigade, I think it's clear that they have serious obstacles to face when dealing with the current technologically adept terrorists. The fact is, since they are hindered by the "rights" that they do let us keep, we have to expect them to try something to protect us. We can be outraged, but do we have another method they can use? Creating a repository of keys is to me a desperate act, not just a simple power grab. The real question is how far behind the curve are these intelligence types when dealing with Internet enabled terrorists? All I'm saying is that I think this sucks, but it isn't necessarily a power grab to create a society based on "1984".
Um, when you get your Minesweeper Champion Solitaire Expert certification, and can visit the official MCSE website, you can buy MCSE action figures, so I guess Microsoft has "prior art" on you!
Ok troll, it's a boring day at work, so I'll bite. Have you ever heard of.. let's say, HP, or IBM, or maybe Red Hat? They'd all be glad to take the call. Do you think Microsoft fielded those calls before? Er, no. See your OEM. Thanks for playing, back to your cave.
I can't speak to language support, but DVD playback? It's for government contracts, who needs to watch "The Matrix" when they're supposed to be filling forms out in triplicate? Linux IS ready for the desktop, for me it's been ready since RH 6.0.
Ok, I've got to get this off my chest. I'm sick of hearing how Linux is unready for the desktop. I know everyone has different experiences, but I can't be that much out into left field. I've used Linux as my home workstation since RH 6.2, and am completely satisfied (the only hole being the Sorenson codecs). My last installs were Mandrake 8.2 for a laptop, and RH 7.2 for my workstation, and everything was fine. RH even detected and configured my CD-RW, and my DVD player just works. When I bought my TV card (back in dual boot days), guess which OS the card worked in fastest? Linux. When I set up a dual monitor configuration, how much blood did I shed? None. I'm no programmer either, and I didn't start using Linux in the "dark old days", but nowadays there's no reason for much bitching about using Linux on the desktop, it just works!
The real question is, like we asked before, why does Joe Sixpack get a pass on reading documentation? No problem I've run into on Linux couldn't be solved by a little RTFM. Sure, bitch about point, click it works, but then don't turn around when the latest virus has you by the balls cuz you pointed and clicked!
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I can tell you that it's horrendous the way the navy treats IT. They are married to M$. Don't be fooled by any feelgood articles you might read, on the deckplate M$ is king. Granted, he's an old king since he's prolly only NT4! But when the navy looks for solutions, microsoft is the only place they look
Keep in mind that it has been my experience that things move extremely slow in the military. That's why when my shop did happen to have a printer, it was dot matrix (year = 2000). There was one laser printer for the entire division ( a collection of shops ~100 ppl)
Taiwan is not a member country of the UN, so having their flag listed is purely arbitrary. Plenty of companies do things we don't like, but that doesn't mean they're bowing to the ChiComs. Exactly why should Taiwan be listed?
For the record, I support Taiwan in what they do, and have always hated Reds. Red Hat's decision however is being attacked in the wrong way. Removing Taiwan's flag is a thing that sometimes Grownups have to do. Nixon had to do it (removing Taiwan's status as a recognized country), so what makes Red Hat any worse?
M: Agent 007, you've got stop 0x90!
007: Er, what's his name, Q?
M: 0x90, the man is involved in all kinds of cracker activity
007: Um yes, just working on the pronunciation...
A Linux conversion is not for the faint-hearted. Companies must install new hardware and software on a large scale and prepare for bugs and hardware incompatibilities galore
What a crock, so as soon as you put GNU/Linux on a system it might explode?
This article is full of misinformation, the worst being the focus on "free"! How many times have we read here on Slashdot that PHB's don't want free (gratis)? You can't give anything away, you have to charge for it. Sun showed us that with Star Office. Am I happy Fortune did a write up on GNU/Linux? Sure, but I think articles like this do more injustice to us than anything. At least thanks to IBM (per the article) GNU/Linux didn't die a death of neglect!
By the way, is granolaed a word?
Maybe he should have used the DMCA to to prevent this gross infringement of his intellectual rights! At least now he can be hired to work on DRM withouth anybody knowing what he's really up to.
;-)
described as the only conclusive case of scientific misconduct ever identified in the history of the prestigious laboratory
Um, wouldn't that have been Ritchie and Thompson with UNIX
You hit the nail on the head. I mean, if Dookoo was working for the erstwhile Emporeror, why did he spill the entire plot to Obi-Wan? I mean, damn, he TOLD Obi-Wan exactly what and where the danger was, but being a proud Jedi Obi-Wan refused to even consider forsaking the hopelessly inept Jedi Council. What would be cool would be if Dookoo was doing a Triple Cross: working with Palpatine so he could defeat him, and leaving the Jedi's because they have clearly lost The Way
FWIW, when I started high school I failed 6 (yes, SIX!) straight quarters of algebra. That's a whole year, summer school, and another quarter until I pulled a D to pass the next quarter. Was it me or the teachers? A little of both, but I blamed myself mostly.
So then I got into college, got a great teacher, and immediately pulled A's in math. This guy was no joke, he TAUGHT the shit.
Yeah, I blew stuff off in high school, but I'm old enough now to realize I'd been drowning in math since second grade. Where were the teachers?
Smoking in the lounge, of course!
First off, I find it difficult to believe that anyone could see the 'Mozilla' name and logo, and not immediately associate it with Godzilla. I think they're right on that score. However, to make the next jump, and assume TOHO is putting out a web browser to beat MS is just too far for me to attempt. Isn't it good enough that when I think of Godzilla I get a good feeling and say, "Those TOHO guys sure were cool..." Apparently that is not the end result of what they want people to think about them. Lastly, who the HELL gave them rights to PART of a word? If AOL can't browbeat the GAIM guys down, how can TOHO?
Oh yeah, $$
This reminds me how as a kid I could always tell which countries were communist or not. They always had "Democratic" or "People's Republic" in their name, when the truth was the exact opposite. And of course, let's not forget the Open Group in the Unix world, which was anything but.
Wait a second, I'm black, and what I want to know, is what the hell is Jesse Jackson doing about this? I want my piece of this pie!
You schmuck, Germany would have won the nuke race if they had kept their Jews, and Spain would have progressed faster for the same reason. History is replete with the damage societies do to themselves when shutting portions of their populations out.
No shit, I am black!
is lack of sex, especially when my wife wants to know why I'm "playing on the computer"!
Call ME crazy, but if I saw a story on slashdot that I felt was interesting, I would at least take the time to read it! SnoSoft notified Compaq about this a year ago, and nothing was done. True, Phased was acting independently of SnoSoft, but at least read the article before jumping to conclusions. It's not just you, it seems a lot of readers on slashdot just go for the executive summary.
reason HP is pulling printers from Dell is because that
lovable scamp, the "Dell Guy", reportedly grabbed Carly's
ass at a recent "goodwill" meeting.
Carly was overheard to say "He'll never get his hands
on my toner again!". The Dell Guy responded with "Dude,
what a rude BITCH!"
Can someone without an actual job please find this link?
I know the general Slashdot response is going to be how we are being oppressed, and that's my first reaction also. There is another side however. What these supposedly democratic countries are facing is the ugly truth about all such governments: they play by a set of rules while the other side is completely unfettered. With Western Europe's recent history of terrorist groups such as Action Direct and the Red Brigade, I think it's clear that they have serious obstacles to face when dealing with the current technologically adept terrorists. The fact is, since they are hindered by the "rights" that they do let us keep, we have to expect them to try something to protect us. We can be outraged, but do we have another method they can use? Creating a repository of keys is to me a desperate act, not just a simple power grab. The real question is how far behind the curve are these intelligence types when dealing with Internet enabled terrorists? All I'm saying is that I think this sucks, but it isn't necessarily a power grab to create a society based on "1984".
Um, when you get your Minesweeper Champion Solitaire Expert certification, and can visit the official MCSE website, you can buy MCSE action figures, so I guess Microsoft has "prior art" on you!
Ok troll, it's a boring day at work, so I'll bite. Have you ever heard of.. let's say, HP, or IBM, or maybe Red Hat? They'd all be glad to take the call. Do you think Microsoft fielded those calls before? Er, no. See your OEM. Thanks for playing, back to your cave.
I can't speak to language support, but DVD playback? It's for government contracts, who needs to watch "The Matrix" when they're supposed to be filling forms out in triplicate? Linux IS ready for the desktop, for me it's been ready since RH 6.0.
Ok, I've got to get this off my chest. I'm sick of hearing how Linux is unready for the desktop. I know everyone has different experiences, but I can't be that much out into left field. I've used Linux as my home workstation since RH 6.2, and am completely satisfied (the only hole being the Sorenson codecs). My last installs were Mandrake 8.2 for a laptop, and RH 7.2 for my workstation, and everything was fine. RH even detected and configured my CD-RW, and my DVD player just works. When I bought my TV card (back in dual boot days), guess which OS the card worked in fastest? Linux. When I set up a dual monitor configuration, how much blood did I shed? None. I'm no programmer either, and I didn't start using Linux in the "dark old days", but nowadays there's no reason for much bitching about using Linux on the desktop, it just works!
The real question is, like we asked before, why does Joe Sixpack get a pass on reading documentation? No problem I've run into on Linux couldn't be solved by a little RTFM. Sure, bitch about point, click it works, but then don't turn around when the latest virus has you by the balls cuz you pointed and clicked!
Peace out, happy hacking
Further proof that brain activity is diminished when playing games.