Why is it that comments negatively portraying a company are always modded up around here? There's two sides to every coin.
Look, comments being modded 'up' or 'down' are not a valid indication of their 'worth' to the subject matter. Stop thinking so linearly! Break the dialectic noose!
Slashdot comments work to 'categorize', not 'valuate' a posts' validity to the thread. "Negative" feedback on a company/product is typically not moderated because of its negativity, but because it is feedback.. just as many "glowing reports" will filter through the Mod system to "Interesting" or "Informative" as "negative slants"..
Of course they're going to take their time to publish the full results of the mis-hap. Since its millions of dollars of tax-payer money, the report must be complete, accurate, and fully account for the entire mis-hap.
Would you want to have to do such a report in a day? A week? I think a year is fine for this sort of event; assuming, of course, that in the meantime repair work was being done... anyone know what sort of repair is required, and what state the project is now in, a year later?
Besides that, the only reason they can't grow all the food they need is because the best farming land is reserved for opium, by mandate of the North Korean government.
Hey now, are you sure you're not getting your brainwashing about N. Korea mixed up with the brainwashing about Afghanistan?
Its handy, all this enemy-making placement in modern media publications. Makes people really seethingly detest each other, and we know how much cash that equals...
Hey, here's a thought. Y'know when the commie pinko scum call us honorable Westies "Running Dogs"?
Well.. THIS IS WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT! Yip, yip, yip!!
But how do I do that? Well, I write thousands and thousands of lines of C++, Objective-C and little bits of python. But do I conjure all that code from my ass? No, I make C++ "documents", type for a while, and let the compiler sort it all out.
a 'document' is just 'some kind of file' on a storage medium.
it could, just as easily, be called a 'recipe' and be 'in the fridge'.
whether you feel you 'need' to edit C++ documents to study AI, or move floaty bits of knobby flesh in a saline broth, is entirely up to you. you really think everyone is gonna be studying AI with their fridge?
look.. don't worry.. there'll still be 'vi' for guys like you, even on your watch... and pretty blinky 'laserkeyboards' too, while i'm at the tekoid kik... but don't miss my original, delicately placed point: design your apps for the embedded world, if you go linux..
and guess what.. its getting cheaper, and cheaper, to make those devices. won't be long before you won't buy a 'system' to run 'software' on, you'll just buy 'application object' to do whatever specific task it is you need, extremely well, extremely reliably..
So.. yeah.. your idea of 'computing' is essentially 'document creation', then, eh?
Look at a slightly larger picture. Companies don't -want- to have to spend thousands maintaining fleets and fleets of desktops, all the cubicle real-estate, all the HVAC, all the OSHA files, etc. So.. give your average cubicle-droid a cell-phone way of filing his TPS-reports, and you'll capture yourself a Fat Wad Of Cash.
Look, there is No Money To Be Made In Desktop commodity software. Microsoft blew it, the Pirates won! (MS came second-place, the 'software industry' is still running..)
Software on the Desktop right now is nearly 100% a pirates game, and unless you're Microsoft and can brute-force your software assets through the pirate networks and still find ways 'to profit', there's just no point in it any more, Desktop-software wise. Either bundle-a-dongle, or expect to lose most of your customers to the 'freebie' pile.
Hardware Is The New Paradigm.
M$ can't do the Trusted Computing thing fast enough for the Desktop, because the Desktop is nearly a total-loss market!!
In the meantime, however, hardware - commodity hardware especially - is getting cheaper, and cheaper, and cheaper to produce. Your average Small Startup Software Co. can now, realistically, ship its own silicon in the box; not just dongles, but real systems, tied directly to the software, which.. get this.. nobody pirates any more, because its already installed in the functioning computing system right in front of them!
(.. or in the fridge, or in the car, or in your pocket, or under the bed, or in the garage..)
M$ know all this, they know that their days as a 'profitable OS vendor' are dwindling, and they can see the Moores Law writing on the wall when it comes to 'ubiquitous computing' (we ain't there yet kids) and what its doing to mass-produced commodity, powerful computing processing.. so why else do you think they're using their formidable press-prowess (such that it is) to distract the Linux camp from the picture in front of them and 'throwing down the Desktop challenge'...
Hrm. I think it's got a few years left in it, my friend
I didn't say its going away. As far as 'app traction' goes, its dead right now; the Big Thing is Embedded. You know.. computers that don't need a fancy interface, but still nevertheless get a hell of a lot of work done..
*Forget* about Desktop, its a straw man! Nobody gives a shit about desktop computing any more; the days of cubicle-bound misery-computing are numbered!
The real realm for application prosperity, *especially since Linux has a lead above and beyond WIN32*, is Embedded.
Yes, thats right folks, give up the Desktop War of Straw. Computers getting smaller, and smaller, and smaller.. and you can do a hell of a lot of computing/real-work with such devices.
{If you've got the temerity for bold app design, I might posit, oh and some cheap host-hardware to throw in that $400 software/hardware combo you're selling to your customer..}
In short: Desktop is Dead. The New In is Embedded.
I make my own tunes, download tracks from musicians (on the Internet) I know personally, and I delete my iTunes archives every month or so and start fresh.
I haven't bothered with 'commercial' music in years, but I sure have heard some great, great tunes, from people I know directly, since I stopped 'commercial' purchases. There is more music out there, available guilt-free, easy and simple download, than there is music on the charts that I have any interest in.
Plus, with my own studio these days, I'm spending a lot of time just making my own tracks. My aging 5gig iPod gets new stuff put on it every week.
You can't call me a pirate. I just don't buy pre-canned music any more... pre-canned music is for sheep. Bring on the underground, long live the DIY'ers!
.. What part about "Aluminum Tubes", "Rocket Launcher", and "Uranium Centrifuge" isn't interesting to your typical nerd?
Also, news like this is BIG NEWS. IT FREAKIN' MATTERS THAT YOUR WHITE HOUSE LIED TO YOU!! News like this can affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of nerds everywhere, whose lives are irrevocably tied to the health and prosperity of the American Empire.
You're just tryin' to bait away from the subject. Your post isn't "Insightful".. its "Deliberately Off-Topic, Diversionary" to avoid the real issue: That the Republic Party is in big trouble, because its leaders are about to get bitchslapped (hopefully) by the American Legal System.
And if you're the type of guy who has demonstrated A) you have the willpower to use them when needed (vs. Kurds, Iranians), and B) you have the willpower to invade your neighbors to ensure your glorious future, then it's just quite possible that we might want to take you out.
BOTH of these excuses for warfare can be used by Terrorists^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFreedom Fighters combatting the United Coalition of American Imperialists, whom have demonstrated time and again that they are just as capable of proving point A and point B valid themselves, as anyone else..
Face it, Americans have been duped. America, 2004 == Germany, 1938.
What you should be saying you 'dont get' is how this White House Administration has its grips on so-called "American Free Media", and is suppressing all news about criminal investigations, currently ongoing, into the current Administration.. the answer is, of course, the FEMA Act.
The rev-A powerbooks (400mhz) had a bug on the Firewire implementation that results in less-than-stellar sustained i/o performance.. it got fixed, fast, in the upgrades that came out folling the first tiBook, but us fast-adopters definitely scored a lemon.
Just goes to show: never buy the first-generation "wow cool" product release... always wait for the point release.
I've replaced the case on my aging rev-a 400mhz (hacked to 500) tiBook.. you know, the one with the Firewire bug, heat problems, etc.
You 'new-skool' alBook (HATE that moniker, and the new PB case) don't know how good you got it.. replacing the case on the orginal tiBook without knowing what you're doing is like gutting a dolphin and expecting it to do backflips and beg for fish immediately post-op.. *not* for the faint of heart!
I keep 'wanting' to upgrade (as if I could afford it) to a new powerbook, but then I keep 'wanting' some x86-mfr to take the design bait and lure me back to cheap territory with even sexier case specs, too..
Slashdot Mirror
The point of the editorial page is to serve the community by allowing a rational discussion of opinion surrounding an issue.
So your newspaper is owned by the community?
I've got a penny-fountain thingy, a 3-digit UID, and a hot european girlfriend
So you're saying I can't have the same opinion as you?
I strongly disagree!!!
Why is it that comments negatively portraying a company are always modded up around here? There's two sides to every coin.
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Look, comments being modded 'up' or 'down' are not a valid indication of their 'worth' to the subject matter. Stop thinking so linearly! Break the dialectic noose!
Slashdot comments work to 'categorize', not 'valuate' a posts' validity to the thread. "Negative" feedback on a company/product is typically not moderated because of its negativity, but because it is feedback.. just as many "glowing reports" will filter through the Mod system to "Interesting" or "Informative" as "negative slants"
In short, its feedback, stupid!!
Its a multi-million dollar project.
... anyone know what sort of repair is required, and what state the project is now in, a year later?
Of course they're going to take their time to publish the full results of the mis-hap. Since its millions of dollars of tax-payer money, the report must be complete, accurate, and fully account for the entire mis-hap.
Would you want to have to do such a report in a day? A week? I think a year is fine for this sort of event; assuming, of course, that in the meantime repair work was being done
Besides that, the only reason they can't grow all the food they need is because the best farming land is reserved for opium, by mandate of the North Korean government.
Hey now, are you sure you're not getting your brainwashing about N. Korea mixed up with the brainwashing about Afghanistan?
Maybe WESTERN MEDIA is using this as a FUD tool?
.. THIS IS WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT! Yip, yip, yip!!
Ever thought of that, eh? Have you? HAVE YOU?!!
Its handy, all this enemy-making placement in modern media publications. Makes people really seethingly detest each other, and we know how much cash that equals...
Hey, here's a thought. Y'know when the commie pinko scum call us honorable Westies "Running Dogs"?
Well
Whatever. You know *nothing* about North Korea that your trusty media hasn't relayed to you.
..
"Leverage in talks", eh? What talks would those be, and what are they over, specifically?
Lets just ask this question: whats the difference between "600 'lite crackers of the Motherland" and "15,000 CISCO-School graduates"? Not much.
Nice fall though, for the propaganda I mean
The world really is starting to feel like a bad Stephenson novel, day by day.
What next? GPS-based border-patrols from the local KFC Syndicate?
Define small?
..
And anyway, its better than what we've got now, which is practically nada
But how do I do that? Well, I write thousands and thousands of lines of C++, Objective-C and little bits of python. But do I conjure all that code from my ass? No, I make C++ "documents", type for a while, and let the compiler sort it all out.
.. don't worry .. there'll still be 'vi' for guys like you, even on your watch ... and pretty blinky 'laserkeyboards' too, while i'm at the tekoid kik ... but don't miss my original, delicately placed point: design your apps for the embedded world, if you go linux..
a 'document' is just 'some kind of file' on a storage medium.
it could, just as easily, be called a 'recipe' and be 'in the fridge'.
whether you feel you 'need' to edit C++ documents to study AI, or move floaty bits of knobby flesh in a saline broth, is entirely up to you. you really think everyone is gonna be studying AI with their fridge?
look
and guess what .. its getting cheaper, and cheaper, to make those devices. won't be long before you won't buy a 'system' to run 'software' on, you'll just buy 'application object' to do whatever specific task it is you need, extremely well, extremely reliably ..
So .. yeah .. your idea of 'computing' is essentially 'document creation', then, eh?
.. give your average cubicle-droid a cell-phone way of filing his TPS-reports, and you'll capture yourself a Fat Wad Of Cash.
.. get this .. nobody pirates any more, because its already installed in the functioning computing system right in front of them!
..)
.. so why else do you think they're using their formidable press-prowess (such that it is) to distract the Linux camp from the picture in front of them and 'throwing down the Desktop challenge'...
Look at a slightly larger picture. Companies don't -want- to have to spend thousands maintaining fleets and fleets of desktops, all the cubicle real-estate, all the HVAC, all the OSHA files, etc. So
Look, there is No Money To Be Made In Desktop commodity software. Microsoft blew it, the Pirates won! (MS came second-place, the 'software industry' is still running..)
Software on the Desktop right now is nearly 100% a pirates game, and unless you're Microsoft and can brute-force your software assets through the pirate networks and still find ways 'to profit', there's just no point in it any more, Desktop-software wise. Either bundle-a-dongle, or expect to lose most of your customers to the 'freebie' pile.
Hardware Is The New Paradigm.
M$ can't do the Trusted Computing thing fast enough for the Desktop, because the Desktop is nearly a total-loss market!!
In the meantime, however, hardware - commodity hardware especially - is getting cheaper, and cheaper, and cheaper to produce. Your average Small Startup Software Co. can now, realistically, ship its own silicon in the box; not just dongles, but real systems, tied directly to the software, which
(.. or in the fridge, or in the car, or in your pocket, or under the bed, or in the garage
M$ know all this, they know that their days as a 'profitable OS vendor' are dwindling, and they can see the Moores Law writing on the wall when it comes to 'ubiquitous computing' (we ain't there yet kids) and what its doing to mass-produced commodity, powerful computing processing
But yeah. Wait and See.
Hrm. I think it's got a few years left in it, my friend
.. computers that don't need a fancy interface, but still nevertheless get a hell of a lot of work done ..
I didn't say its going away. As far as 'app traction' goes, its dead right now; the Big Thing is Embedded. You know
*Forget* about Desktop, its a straw man! Nobody gives a shit about desktop computing any more; the days of cubicle-bound misery-computing are numbered!
.. and you can do a hell of a lot of computing/real-work with such devices.
..}
The real realm for application prosperity, *especially since Linux has a lead above and beyond WIN32*, is Embedded.
Yes, thats right folks, give up the Desktop War of Straw. Computers getting smaller, and smaller, and smaller
{If you've got the temerity for bold app design, I might posit, oh and some cheap host-hardware to throw in that $400 software/hardware combo you're selling to your customer
In short: Desktop is Dead. The New In is Embedded.
I make my own tunes, download tracks from musicians (on the Internet) I know personally, and I delete my iTunes archives every month or so and start fresh.
I haven't bothered with 'commercial' music in years, but I sure have heard some great, great tunes, from people I know directly, since I stopped 'commercial' purchases. There is more music out there, available guilt-free, easy and simple download, than there is music on the charts that I have any interest in.
Plus, with my own studio these days, I'm spending a lot of time just making my own tracks. My aging 5gig iPod gets new stuff put on it every week.
You can't call me a pirate. I just don't buy pre-canned music any more
neither does 'off of'. the correct way to say it is 'based on'.
.. What part about "Aluminum Tubes", "Rocket Launcher", and "Uranium Centrifuge" isn't interesting to your typical nerd?
.. its "Deliberately Off-Topic, Diversionary" to avoid the real issue: That the Republic Party is in big trouble, because its leaders are about to get bitchslapped (hopefully) by the American Legal System.
Also, news like this is BIG NEWS. IT FREAKIN' MATTERS THAT YOUR WHITE HOUSE LIED TO YOU!! News like this can affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of nerds everywhere, whose lives are irrevocably tied to the health and prosperity of the American Empire.
You're just tryin' to bait away from the subject. Your post isn't "Insightful"
And if you're the type of guy who has demonstrated A) you have the willpower to use them when needed (vs. Kurds, Iranians), and B) you have the willpower to invade your neighbors to ensure your glorious future, then it's just quite possible that we might want to take you out.
..
BOTH of these excuses for warfare can be used by Terrorists^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFreedom Fighters combatting the United Coalition of American Imperialists, whom have demonstrated time and again that they are just as capable of proving point A and point B valid themselves, as anyone else
Face it, Americans have been duped. America, 2004 == Germany, 1938.
I just checked and it seems that second link is a bit of a dud, so there's this one instead..
Like THIS for example ... and how about THIS as well..
.. the answer is, of course, the FEMA Act.
What you should be saying you 'dont get' is how this White House Administration has its grips on so-called "American Free Media", and is suppressing all news about criminal investigations, currently ongoing, into the current Administration
The rev-A powerbooks (400mhz) had a bug on the Firewire implementation that results in less-than-stellar sustained i/o performance .. it got fixed, fast, in the upgrades that came out folling the first tiBook, but us fast-adopters definitely scored a lemon.
... always wait for the point release.
Just goes to show: never buy the first-generation "wow cool" product release
I've replaced the case on my aging rev-a 400mhz (hacked to 500) tiBook
You 'new-skool' alBook (HATE that moniker, and the new PB case) don't know how good you got it
I keep 'wanting' to upgrade (as if I could afford it) to a new powerbook, but then I keep 'wanting' some x86-mfr to take the design bait and lure me back to cheap territory with even sexier case specs, too
Live for a while in a place with both plastic and paper notes and you'll see what I'm talking about.
I'm Australian. We used to have paper money. We had both paper and plastic while we changed to plastic. Plastic is far superior.
.. which also doubles as my Squid proxy/cache and DNS machine ..
...
Gotta say, I love the bootCD firewall solutions. Pretty darn hard to beat