Yeah, maybe they should have chosen a different mail client to sync with, like, er... Oh, I can't think of any Linux ones, BECAUSE NO-ONE USES IT.
Also, newsflash, outlook gets hit by viruses because it can be scripted and allows the user to screw up their own system by running exe's. Neither of these things will screw a device that syncs with it. So there.
Oh yeah, outlook gets targetted by viruses primarily not because it's got craploads of holes in it, but because everyone uses it. Because everyone uses windows! READ IT AND WEEP!
But in my opinion, it's only "stuff that matters" if it has features that everyone, or at least I, am interested in. If the story post itself admits that the device has little to be desired, it doesn't strike me as news. To each his own.
By that logic, you're saying that anything slashdot don't review 'has little to be desired'. Therefore they would have to review EVERYTHING else otherwise you would think it bad. Get some coffee man, you're acting nuts!
Apart from 'funny' posts, you get most points on slashdot by posting things that agree with the general groupthink, anti-MS rants etc etc. If those people paid far less than those who posted alternate points of view (whose posts always get hammered as 'troll' or 'flamebait') then this site would become even more of an open source wankfest that it already is, which would be quite some achievement.
What you should do is put it as "What would Microsoft do". If you too microsoft's code and decompiled it and then changed a few names and recompiled it would they sue?
Would you company risk taking on Microsoft? If they would then tell them to go ahead and violate the GPL. If they wouldn't ask them why they feel they can get away with taking on someone smaller.
Er, this sounds wrong to me too. Why do you people have to drag MS into everything. And the fact is, YES, MS would kick their ass. But cos this is open-source code, their is no-one with the financial backing to sue their ass, plus they are unlikely to find out in the first place.
Er, more scary is how dumb it is people walking round with money on their wrists. Enough mobile phones are stolen at the moment, next its going to be watches. Parents who don't realise its FUCKING DUMB to strap $300 to their child and are then surprised when they get their face smashed in deserve everything they get.
Learning C as your first language, without any prior computer experience may not be the most clever thing to do. Programming C efficiently, correctly and clearly is best achieved by first understanding computer architecture and programming concepts.
A higher level language provides the abstractions necessary to accommodate "logical thinking" as opposed to a full understanding of say memory management and system I/O. Also, C is quite an orthogonal language in that it supports many awkward combinations of features and constructs. If you are not careful to make your source text clear and readable, debugging even your own code can be oh so cumbersome.
I would totally disagree. Learning a higher-level language, like Java, first, will mean you miss out on learning all the basic stuff you would pick up in C which will stand you in good stead if you ever need to pick up other languages quickly.
Cell phones are great for reading email on the go, and SMS is nice for incoming short messages, but it sometimes seems that morse code is more efficient than using your 12-digit keypad to send email. If I want to say "Hello Bob" I have to type
44#335555556660#22#66622
That's not very efficient - that's almost 250% the amount of keystrokes. Not to mention the fact that it's not always easy to remember where keys are on the phone. I'll keep my Palm VII for email on the go, thank you very much.
Or, if you got something like a Nokia phone, with the 'clever' typing thing, you would have to press only 9 times.
They take all of the power of Java and then throw in all of the security vulnerabilities of C/C++. It's only inevitable that C# is going to cuase all sorts of headaches for people like me (Security professionals).
If not ESR or RMS, then who ? The Free and Open Software movement needs someone to represent them. By your standards ESR and RMS may be a little "Out There", but they say what needs to be said and aren't affraid to take a little heat for it. Have you ever heard Michael Dell speak ?, Ballmer ? or even Jobs ? They rant just the same about how their way is the best way. I would even go so far as to say Ballmer is a spaz. nobody calls them zealots and don't fool yourself, they are. The only difference is they wear $1000 suits and live in $20 million dollar houses. The question is who would be better ?
Nah, the difference is that the corporates spout the bullshit to sell more stuff. The open source guys spout it because, er why? Because they're zealots.
If MS loses anywhere soon, it will be in their constant upgrade/upgrade/upgrade parade for Office and related products. Individuals and companies will continue to upgrade Windows (since it comes with that new PC they just HAVE to get), but most people are perfectly happy with old Office '97. MS pushing the upgrades and dropping support for older versions is a MUCH bigger turn-off than buying a new PC with a flashy OS desktop on it.
Newsflash - MS makes its money from businesses. Home users all pirate the bloody stuff.
Is it just me, or are the artivel and the comment opposing viewpoints?
Eric Raymond reckons Windows will be obsolete because people won't be able to afford it soon." Owning the OS gives MS too great of an advantage. They'd sell the client for 5 bucks if it meant that they could still control Office, the server market, and the zillions of other markets that their OS monopoly lets them crush.
As such I'm currently making the same salary as each of my parents who have been in thier jobs for 25+ years each. And I'm only 24.
I've seen others who were the sports players and jocks working the counter at the local mini-mart. They are still single and still acting like they are in high school. I'm married with my first kid on it's way.
All that time *not* playing sports with other kids as a child means that you didn't realise that saying things like this makes you sound like a pompous prick.
'N64 killed my son' Web posted on 25/2/02 A Louisiana woman is suing Nintendo, after claiming her 30yr old son had seizures after playing on his N64 for 8 hours a day.
Gaming is addictive, and sitting too close to the screen can cause permanent damage, as can playing games for too long without a break. Nintendo are being sued for wrongful death, after a 30yr old Louisiana man suffered seizures after playing on his N64 console, even though they display clear warnings on game instructions that players should take a break every 15 minutes. The lawsuit, which was filed in a federal court last year, says the man died after hitting his head and mouth on a table during a seizure, apparently brought on by over-exposure to his favourite console.
The man's mother claims her son never once suffered a seizure before he bought the console, but she did admit that he played the N64 for 8 hours a day, 6 days a week. His mother is seeking unspecified damages for the loss of her son, which are thought to include funeral and medical expenses, plus her son's lost future earnings. Quite how much someone can earn playing games 8 hours a day, 6 days a week remains to be seen, but that's the crazyness of the judicial system.
Most people seem to be missing two important distinctions here. You pay for commercial software, but not for free software. yadda yadda yadda lame-ass taxi example
Er, if you take a friend for a drive, without charging, and you crash through an illness which meant you shouldn't be driving, bad driving, bad maintenance on your car, whatever, they can sue you or your insurance companies ASS. So your entire point is bullshit. aaaah thankyou.
Why should Torvalds or FSF be made responsible for the damages caused by the Nimada attacks? Did we have a similar incident that caused such a damage on Linux or FreeBSD platforms?
Er, no. And do you fucking know why? BECAUSE NO-ONE FUCKING USES LINUX. So wanker hackers can't be arsed to target it, less kudos eh? You dick. If you believe Linux has no security holes you're even stupider that I already think you are.
In other words, I understand that that spammer THINKS his spam is reaching endusers, when, in actuality, it is not. But I don't understand how that discourages or harms the spammer in any way.
Uh, spammers send out spam to get orders, sales etc.. If their mails don't get through, they sell less and get discouraged. Like, duh!
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Yeah, jeez, I hope they haven't targetted the operating systems which have the vast majority of desktop installations!!!
Yeah, maybe they should have chosen a different mail client to sync with, like, er... Oh, I can't think of any Linux ones, BECAUSE NO-ONE USES IT.
Also, newsflash, outlook gets hit by viruses because it can be scripted and allows the user to screw up their own system by running exe's. Neither of these things will screw a device that syncs with it. So there.
Oh yeah, outlook gets targetted by viruses primarily not because it's got craploads of holes in it, but because everyone uses it. Because everyone uses windows! READ IT AND WEEP!
But in my opinion, it's only "stuff that matters" if it has features that everyone, or at least I, am interested in. If the story post itself admits that the device has little to be desired, it doesn't strike me as news. To each his own.
By that logic, you're saying that anything slashdot don't review 'has little to be desired'. Therefore they would have to review EVERYTHING else otherwise you would think it bad. Get some coffee man, you're acting nuts!
Hmmm, define 'quality'.
Apart from 'funny' posts, you get most points on slashdot by posting things that agree with the general groupthink, anti-MS rants etc etc. If those people paid far less than those who posted alternate points of view (whose posts always get hammered as 'troll' or 'flamebait') then this site would become even more of an open source wankfest that it already is, which would be quite some achievement.
What you should do is put it as "What would Microsoft do". If you too microsoft's code and decompiled it and then changed a few names and recompiled it would they sue?
Would you company risk taking on Microsoft? If they would then tell them to go ahead and violate the GPL. If they wouldn't ask them why they feel they can get away with taking on someone smaller.
Er, this sounds wrong to me too. Why do you people have to drag MS into everything. And the fact is, YES, MS would kick their ass. But cos this is open-source code, their is no-one with the financial backing to sue their ass, plus they are unlikely to find out in the first place.
Er, more scary is how dumb it is people walking round with money on their wrists. Enough mobile phones are stolen at the moment, next its going to be watches. Parents who don't realise its FUCKING DUMB to strap $300 to their child and are then surprised when they get their face smashed in deserve everything they get.
Learning C as your first language, without any prior computer experience may not be the most clever thing to do. Programming C efficiently, correctly and clearly is best achieved by first understanding computer architecture and programming concepts.
A higher level language provides the abstractions necessary to accommodate "logical thinking" as opposed to a full understanding of say memory management and system I/O. Also, C is quite an orthogonal language in that it supports many awkward combinations of features and constructs. If you are not careful to make your source text clear and readable, debugging even your own code can be oh so cumbersome.
I would totally disagree. Learning a higher-level language, like Java, first, will mean you miss out on learning all the basic stuff you would pick up in C which will stand you in good stead if you ever need to pick up other languages quickly.
Oh, wait, it's being used on a cool device. Guess it doesn't suck so bad now, huh?
My word, you're right! This one device negates any past criticism of Java!
Cell phones are great for reading email on the go, and SMS is nice for incoming short messages, but it sometimes seems that morse code is more efficient than using your 12-digit keypad to send email. If I want to say "Hello Bob" I have to type
44#335555556660#22#66622
That's not very efficient - that's almost 250% the amount of keystrokes. Not to mention the fact that it's not always easy to remember where keys are on the phone. I'll keep my Palm VII for email on the go, thank you very much.
Or, if you got something like a Nokia phone, with the 'clever' typing thing, you would have to press only 9 times.
I'm glad I don't have a cellphone in my RIM.
so you'd be shaking it every 15 minutes.
I think most slashdot users are shaking it wayyyyy more often than every 15 minutes.
EVERY man wanted her on our uni IRC server.
Wow, lucky girl. 'Oh, all the guys who use this erver want me.' ha ha HA.
Imagine, if you will, a computer language, somewhere, that somehow, could not be used to write this virus.
Er, is that a computer language that can't do anything at all then? Useful.
They take all of the power of Java and then throw in all of the security vulnerabilities of C/C++. It's only inevitable that C# is going to cuase all sorts of headaches for people like me (Security professionals).
Er, that's why get paid so much isn't it?
If not ESR or RMS, then who ? The Free and Open Software movement needs someone to represent them. By your standards ESR and RMS may be a little "Out There", but they say what needs to be said and aren't affraid to take a little heat for it. Have you ever heard Michael Dell speak ?, Ballmer ? or even Jobs ? They rant just the same about how their way is the best way. I would even go so far as to say Ballmer is a spaz. nobody calls them zealots and don't fool yourself, they are. The only difference is they wear $1000 suits and live in $20 million dollar houses. The question is who would be better ?
Nah, the difference is that the corporates spout the bullshit to sell more stuff. The open source guys spout it because, er why? Because they're zealots.
If MS loses anywhere soon, it will be in their constant upgrade/upgrade/upgrade parade for Office and related products. Individuals and companies will continue to upgrade Windows (since it comes with that new PC they just HAVE to get), but most people are perfectly happy with old Office '97. MS pushing the upgrades and dropping support for older versions is a MUCH bigger turn-off than buying a new PC with a flashy OS desktop on it.
Newsflash - MS makes its money from businesses. Home users all pirate the bloody stuff.
Is it just me, or are the artivel and the comment opposing viewpoints?
Eric Raymond reckons Windows will be obsolete because people won't be able to afford it soon." Owning the OS gives MS too great of an advantage. They'd sell the client for 5 bucks if it meant that they could still control Office, the server market, and the zillions of other markets that their OS monopoly lets them crush.
As such I'm currently making the same salary as each of my parents who have been in thier jobs for 25+ years each. And I'm only 24.
I've seen others who were the sports players and jocks working the counter at the local mini-mart. They are still single and still acting like they are in high school. I'm married with my first kid on it's way.
All that time *not* playing sports with other kids as a child means that you didn't realise that saying things like this makes you sound like a pompous prick.
I fully agree man. Check out this link to see what can happen to these kids when they 'grow up'...
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'N64 killed my son'
Web posted on 25/2/02 A Louisiana woman is suing Nintendo, after claiming her 30yr old son had seizures after playing on his N64 for 8 hours a day.
Gaming is addictive, and sitting too close to the screen can cause permanent damage, as can playing games for too long without a break. Nintendo are being sued for wrongful death, after a 30yr old Louisiana man suffered seizures after playing on his N64 console, even though they display clear warnings on game instructions that players should take a break every 15 minutes. The lawsuit, which was filed in a federal court last year, says the man died after hitting his head and mouth on a table during a seizure, apparently brought on by over-exposure to his favourite console.
The man's mother claims her son never once suffered a seizure before he bought the console, but she did admit that he played the N64 for 8 hours a day, 6 days a week. His mother is seeking unspecified damages for the loss of her son, which are thought to include funeral and medical expenses, plus her son's lost future earnings. Quite how much someone can earn playing games 8 hours a day, 6 days a week remains to be seen, but that's the crazyness of the judicial system.
I guess there is something about blinking lights, flashing colors, and tinny sound effects that just appeals to the soul."
Pah, if this was true, we'd all be hanging around with our friends in dark places with blinking lights and beepy music, and eating pills.
Most people seem to be missing two important distinctions here. You pay for commercial software, but not for free software. yadda yadda yadda lame-ass taxi example
Er, if you take a friend for a drive, without charging, and you crash through an illness which meant you shouldn't be driving, bad driving, bad maintenance on your car, whatever, they can sue you or your insurance companies ASS. So your entire point is bullshit. aaaah thankyou.
Why should Torvalds or FSF be made responsible for the damages caused by the Nimada attacks?
Did we have a similar incident that caused such a damage on Linux or FreeBSD platforms?
Er, no. And do you fucking know why? BECAUSE NO-ONE FUCKING USES LINUX. So wanker hackers can't be arsed to target it, less kudos eh? You dick. If you believe Linux has no security holes you're even stupider that I already think you are.
In other words, I understand that that spammer THINKS his spam is reaching endusers, when, in actuality, it is not. But I don't understand how that discourages or harms the spammer in any way.
Uh, spammers send out spam to get orders, sales etc.. If their mails don't get through, they sell less and get discouraged. Like, duh!
Gotta love people making money off something free.
Think you're missing the point mate. Linux=free. Support for Linux != free. No-one has ever disputed this.
I reckon they'd probably be willing to pay wayyy more than $1000 for porn footage of a 14-year old anyway...