reminds me of the story where a man dies, goes to hell and discovers a mountain of marijuana and lots of people sitting on top of it rolling joints. He asks the person closest to him if he has a lighter to spark his joint, and he replies "If we had a lighter, this would be heaven"
"...Europeans are also studying whether Microsoft must disclose more information to competitors so they can develop software that interacts with Microsoft's server software, the central brains of computer networks. Microsoft worries that competitors such as Sun Microsystems Inc. would use that information to clone its servers."
Emphasis added.
Does anyone think this is the most hillarious thing ever, or what? I'm pretty sure Sun is dying to clone IIS or the.NET Server to replace the unstable Solaris for once and for all.
Apple gave top of the line notebooks to Hemos, Malda, Michael, and a couple other Slashdot "editors". The "editors" took the gift notebooks with one hand, and put on kneepads with the other.
Hey, don't give anyone ideas. Next thing you know, Microsoft will ship out 4 licenses for WindowsXP Home edition to the/. editors, and it'll all be over.
I'm really sick of this idiocy when a company announces a product and some broke nitpickers come out of the woodwork and say "But does it do XYZ?".
Jesus Christ, get a grip. Technology will finally catch up. If Sony or any other company for that matter, created a killer product that did everything in one small package, there wouldn't be much competition left, or companies wouldn't be able to make any money.
It's called steady progression. Suppy and demand. Simple case of Macroeconomics. Your opinion is utterly useless and insignificant in this case. If you're too eager to possess such a small toy with 802.11b AP built in, with 17Gigs of storage and have SSH, make one yourself and quit wasting slashdot's bandwidth with useless crap like feature suggestions only 0.001% of people would use.
Realisticly speaking, how many businesspeople do you personally know who have the slightest fucking clue about SSH? I would guess none. Simple authentication is enough. This is not geared towards companies like Lloyds of London or Dell R&D Division who have valuable company secrets. This is geared towards people in SOHO, and we all know what they use these types of gadgets for.
No self-respecting cracker would bother sniffing packets coming from a company who's annual budget is 10,000,000 or less.
Freedom to get music and videos for free?? If Kazaa charged a monthly subscription, people like you who coward behind 'freedom', would not even install it! You'll find some other scum comapny's software; a company with a business to make money without paying for content.
Freedom as in Fair Use, dipshit. I never claimed I used Kazaa or any other P2P.
I find it really hillarious how you call me a coward and post as an AC. You've got to see the irony there, chief.
That's a good theory, but unfortunately it doesn't work in the world of intellectual property.
There is a huge difference between stealing tangible goods like car parts, and stealing a program executable.
I'm not trying to start a 50+ reply chain where users would debate the morality of downloading a program vs. stealing a candy bar. Just pointing out how the model is flawed when comparing 2 different consumer goods.
Kazaa folks are not dumb
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Kazaa Fights Back
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This is not a college-project-turned-into-corporation deal, like Napster was. **AA can go fuck itself for all Sharman cares.
I mean, look her in the eyes. Does she look like someone who would lie down and take from multinational media pimps?
I'm not a Kazaa user, but I'm with them all the way. If the opportunity cost of getting our freedoms taken away is few more sales of Billboard top 40 albums, then I'm all for piracy.
I'm sure someone will figure a way to replace the internal drive with a larger one, as they did the first TiVo's.
Samsung is not a hacker-friendly corporation like TiVo. If anything you'd get slapped with DMCA suit if you "upgrade" the drive.
Also, I don't think this is a consumer-grade HDD. There is no mention of the type in the official press release, and arising out of the fact that none of the current HDD mfg's make anything near 1.5gb capacity drives, I'm willing to guess: this is a proprietary model.
I can see it now: Fiscal iBudget, Cute (but slow) Warplanes, State of the Union adress will attract more geeks and will spring rumor sites discussing possible announcements about lowering crime, spending more money on education, etc.
Nearly unlimited viewing area projected into thin air.
It might be science fiction today, but in a decade, I bet it's going to materialize finally, which in turn will effectively kill portable LCDs and it's counterparts.
Why is the parent modded as "Troll"? He has a valid argument.
Slackware forums don't have moderation to filter out crap like/. has. It's just asking for trouble. I'm pretty sure Slack users (such as myself) check the distro site on a weekly basis, and would eventually find out if the forum was up again.
Slashdot Mirror
yes. 30% more bloat.
reminds me of the story where a man dies, goes to hell and discovers a mountain of marijuana and lots of people sitting on top of it rolling joints. He asks the person closest to him if he has a lighter to spark his joint, and he replies "If we had a lighter, this would be heaven"
Emphasis added.
Does anyone think this is the most hillarious thing ever, or what? I'm pretty sure Sun is dying to clone IIS or the
Hey, don't give anyone ideas. Next thing you know, Microsoft will ship out 4 licenses for WindowsXP Home edition to the
Yeah. What about it?
Get a life, Nerd!
I'm really sick of this idiocy when a company announces a product and some broke nitpickers come out of the woodwork and say "But does it do XYZ?".
Jesus Christ, get a grip. Technology will finally catch up. If Sony or any other company for that matter, created a killer product that did everything in one small package, there wouldn't be much competition left, or companies wouldn't be able to make any money.
It's called steady progression. Suppy and demand. Simple case of Macroeconomics. Your opinion is utterly useless and insignificant in this case. If you're too eager to possess such a small toy with 802.11b AP built in, with 17Gigs of storage and have SSH, make one yourself and quit wasting slashdot's bandwidth with useless crap like feature suggestions only 0.001% of people would use.
Realisticly speaking, how many businesspeople do you personally know who have the slightest fucking clue about SSH? I would guess none. Simple authentication is enough. This is not geared towards companies like Lloyds of London or Dell R&D Division who have valuable company secrets. This is geared towards people in SOHO, and we all know what they use these types of gadgets for.
No self-respecting cracker would bother sniffing packets coming from a company who's annual budget is 10,000,000 or less.
You're a poser.
Hey man, if it makes you feel any better, I'll put you on my Friend list and assign you a +6 modifier, as a cancellation.
Mitnick wishes he was on that list!
Ogg vorbis support via Tremor decoder, for one.
Or you can install apache on it and serve webpages. It'll still be more stable than IIS.
Oh yeah. IRC is the first place I think of when I want to download shareware!
bwahahahaha. I can't stop laughing. If you take the personal pain and the iPod wreckage, it's pretty damn funny. Was it "You Trip me Up" by JMC?
That's a funny story, good sir.
Hey dude, might want to check out the "be_a_geek.html" page on your site.
It went berzerk in Phoenix 0.5 and kept telling me there was no disc in drive A:\ up until the point when all the form fields appeared.
Works fine under IE though. Just heads up.
Freedom as in Fair Use, dipshit. I never claimed I used Kazaa or any other P2P.
I find it really hillarious how you call me a coward and post as an AC. You've got to see the irony there, chief.
That's a good theory, but unfortunately it doesn't work in the world of intellectual property.
There is a huge difference between stealing tangible goods like car parts, and stealing a program executable.
I'm not trying to start a 50+ reply chain where users would debate the morality of downloading a program vs. stealing a candy bar. Just pointing out how the model is flawed when comparing 2 different consumer goods.
This is not a college-project-turned-into-corporation deal, like Napster was. **AA can go fuck itself for all Sharman cares.
I mean, look her in the eyes. Does she look like someone who would lie down and take from multinational media pimps?
I'm not a Kazaa user, but I'm with them all the way. If the opportunity cost of getting our freedoms taken away is few more sales of Billboard top 40 albums, then I'm all for piracy.
AICN nerds make Slashdot nerds look like Puff Daddy.
Samsung is not a hacker-friendly corporation like TiVo. If anything you'd get slapped with DMCA suit if you "upgrade" the drive.
Also, I don't think this is a consumer-grade HDD. There is no mention of the type in the official press release, and arising out of the fact that none of the current HDD mfg's make anything near 1.5gb capacity drives, I'm willing to guess: this is a proprietary model.
The Link Speaks for Itself
Linux World Expo must have been a cool party.
Does anyone ever check the dates on articles? Or the content?
April 1st.
HEY!
Don't give Michael Robertson any ideas.
xVid simply surpasses any DivX codec out there. Small size, superior quality, Open Source, the works.
;)
OT: For those of you unfamiliar with xVid codec, have a look.
You know what I compare her resignation to?
End of LOTR: The Two Towers.
The scene where Saruman watches his factory get flooded. Hillary Rosen is Saruman.
(and CmdrTaco is Frodo)
it's not what he has done. It's what he will do.
I can see it now: Fiscal iBudget, Cute (but slow) Warplanes, State of the Union adress will attract more geeks and will spring rumor sites discussing possible announcements about lowering crime, spending more money on education, etc.
The answer you seek is in Holographic screens.
Nearly unlimited viewing area projected into thin air.
It might be science fiction today, but in a decade, I bet it's going to materialize finally, which in turn will effectively kill portable LCDs and it's counterparts.
Why is the parent modded as "Troll"? He has a valid argument.
/. has. It's just asking for trouble. I'm pretty sure Slack users (such as myself) check the distro site on a weekly basis, and would eventually find out if the forum was up again.
Slackware forums don't have moderation to filter out crap like
Just my opinion.
I laughed.
Funny stuff.
I believe it hasn't taken place yet. It's going to be live on TechTV Screensavers Tomorrow. Check your TV schedule.