I don't really care either, but stop and think for a moment about how amazing it is that one of the most profitable businesses in history has no, and I'm talking no, track record of innovation. First lets get the moneymakers out of the way:
DOS. Helloooo Q-DOS.
Windows. Continually evolving ripoff of MacOS and, formerly, OS/2.
Office. WordStar did Word first, Lotus did Outlook and Excel first, all the rest is fluff and was mostly acquired anyways.
XBox. Duh.
Almost to a one, all of its perennial "initiatives" or supposed killer apps have beene flops. Microsof Bob? The talking paper clip? The Smart Personal Objects Technology Initiative, remember that one? (No.) And if you want to get into the things that were merely blatant ripoffs that didn't succeed (the difference between MS and Google), we could talk all night. MS Live? Microsoft Reader, with its cutting edge ClearType technology pioneered by the Woz himself 30 years ago? I guess.Net is showing some signs of life--mainly because C# finally gives Windows developers a Java-like platform to write native apps on.
There are entire websites that do nothing but try to sniff out one single innovation Microsoft has made to the world of software design in its 30 years of existence. They are instructive.
Just curious, what sort of number-theoretic problems are you tackling that would warrant using Java?! Talk about a memory hog. Most of the programs of this kind that I have seen are computationally intensive but easily expressed in 100 lines of C. In fact, most of the oustanding problems themselves can be written in one or two sentences (the Riemann hypothesis comes to mind).
Thanks, I was going to ask the same question but couldn't figure out if it was too dumb. How do we know there aren't certain forms of life for which -220C is like a warm, hunky-dory bath? Other than our intuition (which seems pretty worthless at answering the questions posed by space exploration), is there some biochemical reason why -220 is considered unable to support life of any kind?
Well, I didn't know it. Maybe that's because I wasn't at MacWorld 13 days ago. Pull your head out of your ass.
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does the USA still have free local calls?
Haha... we have free long-distance calls nowadays. I would much rather live in Europe for a lot of reasons, but I will say this: telecom be cheeeaaaap in this country.
Yes, to track a tor session from server to end-user is theoretically possible. Guess what? So is time travel. The confluence of circumstance and technology needed to make either one actually happen make them practically impossible. I don't know tor all that well, but I'd be damn surprised if they did any sort of connection logging whatsoever. So, your quest ends at hop one unless you've managed to root that box. I don't know tor all that well, but I'd be damn surprised if they were bouncing each conn off < N boxes, where N is probably greater than 5. So you'd need to root say 5 boxes. I don't know tor all that well, but I'd be damn surprised if the routes were not randomized from connection to connection. So, you'd need actually need to root pretty much the entire network, or some large subset of it.
I don't know what your personal odds of pulling that off are, maybe you are more 31337 than I, but I'm estimating that the probability is, say, Planck's constant (scalarized, of course.) For the government, we'll give them about 15 orders of magnitude greater... inverse of Avogadro's number, perhaps. Or maybe the Hartree energy constant, if I'm feeling really generous.
Whuh? Where did you get RIAA out of this? Do you have a single piece of fucking evidence to support that? Stop being so... slashdotty. RIAA has a long and illustrious history of attempting to stifle innovation--after the fact. From the Diamond Rio onwards, it's been release first, get sued by RIAA second. RIAA is not known for proactively hunting out budding technologies and demanding people not make them. I don't think they're smart enough; all the creative, "idea" people are off working at Apple et al. To say nothing of Steve Job's own long and illustrious history of bending the record companies to his will...
If there's not a bluetooth-enabled player on the market, there's probably a good reason for that--one that has nothing to do with getting sued. Like, say, technological limitations. Bluetooth simply doesn't have the bandwidth to pull off what you're talking about. And existing battery technology doesn't have the juice to sustain all that RF transmitting anyways, while still fitting in a svelte iPod-sized case.
Bottom line, lawsuits and laws in general are highly ineffective at standing between a good idea and some guy selling it for profits. Look at the war on drugs. If you can dream up something that has killer app potential but shows no signs of being built, space elevator comes to mind, it's probably because we just don't know how to build it yet.
I moved from my own server (which we ran for almost 9 years) to gmail recently, and couldn't be happier -- I wouldn't doubt that my tiny company is saving thousands per year of maintenance and upgrades, and having our own domain name isn't a big deal anymore. It also offers transportability if one of my employees moves on or if we bring someone on for a contract gig.
The domain name thing is big for a lot of people. My prediction for 2006 is that Gmail will start hosting vanity domains, i.e. allowing you specify gmail as your primary MX and letting you send and receive mail from your own domain instead of gmail.com. Seems like a simple moneymaker that a lot of people would pay for.
Yeah.. no shit.. I get the supply and demand thing.
Actually, I'm not sure you do. You make the loyal fans happy by raising the price. The serious, dyed-in-wool gamers I know are the guys who would e.g. curtail food expenditures for the month to come up with the extra $400 needed to buy a $700 XBox. In fact, I can't think of a better measure gamer loyalty than willingness-to-pay for a hot new console. (A lot of it is the cachet of having something no one else does.) Most of them are pissed right now because they'd be willing to pay more but can't because they're having to compete with all the casual gamers / their parents, who are more than willing to try their luck at Best Buy for $300 but would say Aww-fuck-it at $700.
Their solution is to go on eBay, which is exactly what the parent poster and TFA were suggesting.
Slashdot Mirror
Now I have to switch my webmail, mapping site, news site, aggregator, financial site ...
You don't earn your fanboy wings for nothin.
The conflict I am experiencing right now between moderating you down for be a completely humorless fucking moron and just calling you one, is immense.
Guess I chose B.
Mark Zuckerberg is 23 and will probably have be worth >$300 million by the end of the year.
What have you done with your life?
Here's the post itself, for that pleasurable little twinge of authenticity.
I don't really care either, but stop and think for a moment about how amazing it is that one of the most profitable businesses in history has no, and I'm talking no, track record of innovation. First lets get the moneymakers out of the way:
- DOS. Helloooo Q-DOS.
- Windows. Continually evolving ripoff of MacOS and, formerly, OS/2.
- Office. WordStar did Word first, Lotus did Outlook and Excel first, all the rest is fluff and was mostly acquired anyways.
- XBox. Duh.
Almost to a one, all of its perennial "initiatives" or supposed killer apps have beene flops. Microsof Bob? The talking paper clip? The Smart Personal Objects Technology Initiative, remember that one? (No.) And if you want to get into the things that were merely blatant ripoffs that didn't succeed (the difference between MS and Google), we could talk all night. MS Live? Microsoft Reader, with its cutting edge ClearType technology pioneered by the Woz himself 30 years ago? I guessThere are entire web sites that do nothing but try to sniff out one single innovation Microsoft has made to the world of software design in its 30 years of existence. They are instructive.
Just curious, what sort of number-theoretic problems are you tackling that would warrant using Java?! Talk about a memory hog. Most of the programs of this kind that I have seen are computationally intensive but easily expressed in 100 lines of C. In fact, most of the oustanding problems themselves can be written in one or two sentences (the Riemann hypothesis comes to mind).
John C. Dvorak, fancy seeing you here!
Just FYI, Sun doesn't make its CPUs. Texas Instruments does. Sun is what you call a "fabless semiconductor company" (I just learned this term this morning.)
If you want to advertise here, fucking pay for it.
Why wait? Sun already makes processors with 8 cores. For realz.
Looks like donating your time isn't a thankless job anymore.
Yeah, now it pays about $5 an hour.
I am praying to God for some mod points right now. Thank you for saying what needed to be said.
That just brought to mind an as-yet non-existent The Onion headline:
"Google Announces Middle-East Peace Plan"
Thanks, I was going to ask the same question but couldn't figure out if it was too dumb. How do we know there aren't certain forms of life for which -220C is like a warm, hunky-dory bath? Other than our intuition (which seems pretty worthless at answering the questions posed by space exploration), is there some biochemical reason why -220 is considered unable to support life of any kind?
After you hit the $1 billion mark, isn't it in your interest to do Pretty Much Whatever The Fuck You Want?
"Run company well" and/or "don't be evil" about but two choices on a very large menu.
Um, how on earth is this news?
Well, I didn't know it. Maybe that's because I wasn't at MacWorld 13 days ago. Pull your head out of your ass.
does the USA still have free local calls?
Haha... we have free long-distance calls nowadays. I would much rather live in Europe for a lot of reasons, but I will say this: telecom be cheeeaaaap in this country.
Real men use /var/secure /vmlinux
# chroot
Yes, to track a tor session from server to end-user is theoretically possible. Guess what? So is time travel. The confluence of circumstance and technology needed to make either one actually happen make them practically impossible. I don't know tor all that well, but I'd be damn surprised if they did any sort of connection logging whatsoever. So, your quest ends at hop one unless you've managed to root that box. I don't know tor all that well, but I'd be damn surprised if they were bouncing each conn off < N boxes, where N is probably greater than 5. So you'd need to root say 5 boxes. I don't know tor all that well, but I'd be damn surprised if the routes were not randomized from connection to connection. So, you'd need actually need to root pretty much the entire network, or some large subset of it.
I don't know what your personal odds of pulling that off are, maybe you are more 31337 than I, but I'm estimating that the probability is, say, Planck's constant (scalarized, of course.) For the government, we'll give them about 15 orders of magnitude greater... inverse of Avogadro's number, perhaps. Or maybe the Hartree energy constant, if I'm feeling really generous.
Whuh? Where did you get RIAA out of this? Do you have a single piece of fucking evidence to support that? Stop being so ... slashdotty. RIAA has a long and illustrious history of attempting to stifle innovation--after the fact. From the Diamond Rio onwards, it's been release first, get sued by RIAA second. RIAA is not known for proactively hunting out budding technologies and demanding people not make them. I don't think they're smart enough; all the creative, "idea" people are off working at Apple et al. To say nothing of Steve Job's own long and illustrious history of bending the record companies to his will...
If there's not a bluetooth-enabled player on the market, there's probably a good reason for that--one that has nothing to do with getting sued. Like, say, technological limitations. Bluetooth simply doesn't have the bandwidth to pull off what you're talking about. And existing battery technology doesn't have the juice to sustain all that RF transmitting anyways, while still fitting in a svelte iPod-sized case.
Bottom line, lawsuits and laws in general are highly ineffective at standing between a good idea and some guy selling it for profits. Look at the war on drugs. If you can dream up something that has killer app potential but shows no signs of being built, space elevator comes to mind, it's probably because we just don't know how to build it yet.
Enlighten me.
Well, the site is /.'d to all hell and back, soooo... maybe not.
I moved from my own server (which we ran for almost 9 years) to gmail recently, and couldn't be happier -- I wouldn't doubt that my tiny company is saving thousands per year of maintenance and upgrades, and having our own domain name isn't a big deal anymore. It also offers transportability if one of my employees moves on or if we bring someone on for a contract gig.
The domain name thing is big for a lot of people. My prediction for 2006 is that Gmail will start hosting vanity domains, i.e. allowing you specify gmail as your primary MX and letting you send and receive mail from your own domain instead of gmail.com. Seems like a simple moneymaker that a lot of people would pay for.
Yeah.. no shit.. I get the supply and demand thing.
Actually, I'm not sure you do. You make the loyal fans happy by raising the price. The serious, dyed-in-wool gamers I know are the guys who would e.g. curtail food expenditures for the month to come up with the extra $400 needed to buy a $700 XBox. In fact, I can't think of a better measure gamer loyalty than willingness-to-pay for a hot new console. (A lot of it is the cachet of having something no one else does.) Most of them are pissed right now because they'd be willing to pay more but can't because they're having to compete with all the casual gamers / their parents, who are more than willing to try their luck at Best Buy for $300 but would say Aww-fuck-it at $700.
Their solution is to go on eBay, which is exactly what the parent poster and TFA were suggesting.