I don't know. My Fujitsu Lifebook p1120 seems to have one:-). Whether you can get the mobo plus chip sans the rest of the computer is still an open question. That being said, this little machine is great (in no small part due to the low power consumption of the Crusoe) - built-in wi-fi, runs for 6 hours on its extra-life battery, and I put on Linux as a dual boot. The only downside is that I still can't find a touchscreen driver for the Fujitsu-made touchscreen...
Apple Macintoshes, on the other hand, achieve their coolness by actually being exclusive.
Wow! Then we who use Linux must be really, really special! Now all we need to do is to get Tux looking cooler! Somebody get the penguin some XTreme-looking RayBans stat!
Ladies and gentlemen, we now have proof of the existance of the Anti-Christ, here on Earth! First, the user name "illuminata" is too Luciferian to be denied. Next, note the Slash UID 668963 containing "the Number of the Beast". Finally, we have the demonic message itself!
Prepare for the Apocalypse, for it is surely at hand! Slashdot has spoken!
I would not want MS destroyed, period. That would end up being a total utter disaster for the world.
Really? Why? Granted, there might be a few minor economic and (possibly, though highly unlikely) some technological impacts, I see absolutely nothing to suggest that it would be a global disaster.
Global deflation is a disaster. A meteor hitting earth is a disaster. A tidal wave wiping out a village is a disaster (for significant size value of village:-). But some company going tits up? Well, sucks to be them (and their stockholders, I guess). It's all part of the beauty of Capitalism. At least that's what all the Libertarians around here keep telling me. And they can't be wrong, huh?
The guilty managers will get promoted, their budgets will be increased,
RTFA. 9 of the 11 managers have been reassigned or left the agency. You don't get promoted after an outcome like this. I wouldn't doubt that the others are just waiting for retirement.
the bothersome engineers will get shuffled off into a dark and dusty corner
Possibly. And that would be a shame.
The real question in all of this is not whether the individuals get punished/rewarded, but whether the system is changed so that this sort of accident doesn't happen again. Given that NASA is, at this time, our only functioning national space program, I siincerely hope so.
It is without a doubt one of the most beautiful made and crushingly boring movies of all time.
Somewhat on the mark, but methinks he didn't rent Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" which is actually, without a doubt, the most beautiful made and crushingly boring movies of all time.
Are you suggesting,... that big business is ultra-left wing and ultra-totalitarian?
No. Actually it's ultra-right wing and ultra-totalitarian. The only difference is that employees of this totalitarian system have the possibility of disengaging. Remember that Henry Ford was an early economic advisor to the Bolsheviks and businesses are still run in much the same way as in his day - the tools may have changed, but in the final analysis, it's still all about command and control.
If you believe that IBM is sharing code from some sort of sense of civic good will, you're mistaken...
Why?
Corporations do lots of things all of the time to make themselves look less like the greedy, blood-sucking, economic parasites they are:-) - Just kidding.
Actually, corporations are run by people, some of whom like to think that they do more than provide a value neutral link in the economic chain. It makes them more productive and likely to join the company in the first place if they think that an organization is doing things out of a "sense of civic good will". In addition, all companies products are purchased by people, some of whom like to think that they do more than provide a value neutral link in the economic chain. It makes them more likely to buy from the company in the first place if they think that an organization is doing things out of a "sense of civic good will". Corporations are among our country's largest charitable givers. They wouldn't be donating this money if they did not see a benefit. This "sense of civic good will" may not come from the company itself (corporations are, of course, artificial entities), but I do believe that there are people within these companies that support and provide resources in the name of "civic good will".
To suggest that this type of support does not flow to technical communities, as well, would be quite improper - elsewise how do you explain corporate support of organizations like the ACM and IEEE? In the end, the company and its employees do get rewards from their "sense of civic good will". And this is why the company does it.
Of course, that it also plants a boot in the face of Microsoft doesn't hurt either:-)...
Microsoft Office - the DRM'ed data transfer tool of choice for the discriminating pedophile!
Serious? Well, not much. But companies like Microsoft have to realize that DRM (like any privacy technology) is a double-edged sword. I can't wait for the lawsuit that occurs when it's found out that DRM hid accounting shenanigans from the SEC (of course, this suit will not be brought by the Feds, but by the shareholders bilked). Can you say deep pockets? Not that this suit would necessarily succeed, but it would be fun to watch.
And for those of you who think I'm Microsoft bashing - I'm not. The same thing could be said about various Linux tools, as well. The real danger is when corporations get a pass for using these technologies "for sound business reasons" while individuals using it are seen as "having something to hide". I just think there's a deeper issue here that Microsoft, by providing tools to businesses, but not to individuals, is on the wrong side of.
You are always going to have a bell curve distribution of wealth. You can't get around it.
Well, no. In fact, the only way to have this outcome is to model the economy on some pretty idealistic assumptions - things like low friction transactions, some small delta away from reasonable information flows, lack of monopolies (to maintain positive eigenvalues in the demand-supply equations), at least a reasonable need for labor, all of which seem to be disappearing under the control of the new gov-corp hegemony. In fact, there are (and have been) several economies where income did not approach a bell curve - several third-world counties , now, feudal societies in the Middle Ages, etc.
In fact, the only thing a functioning economy guarantees is a good chance of boom-bust cycles.
Welcome to globalization. Hope you're ready to change professions...
Welcome to poverty. Hope you're ready for an economy of deflation and permanent unemployment. Because that's where this economy is going. Show me where the job creation is happening in this country. Can't, huh? It's hard to keep any economy going without jobs. And, yes, I did complain when the clothing workers jobs were outsourced to the Carribean and Aisian shores. And when the auto workers' jobs went to Japan (and later Mexico) I complained then. I also got quite irritated about NAFTA. None of this did any good.
A falling tide sinks all boats. Eventually, someone is going to get tres mad at the bozos who pulled the plug out of the drain. So keep spouting your Libertarian Social Darwinist bullshit as the mobs come to burn down your house. Unless you want to wake up, smell the smoke of a society burning, and get your head on straight, that's what we're headed for.
It's in a small (30-50MB or less) partition on the hard drive that is toggled bootable...
30-50 MB!?!?! What the fuck for!?!
Wow! If it takes them 30MB to boot enough to display a simple Y/N screen, accept the input, unmark the partition as bootable, mark another partition as bootable, and reboot, I'd hate to see what the rest of their software looks like. Maybe 2G to read in a serial number? 15G to fill in a customer support form?
There then is an argument that this could lower the price that Symantec needs to (and does) charge the legitimate users.
I can see one of us must have just fell off the turnip truck (and I don't think it's me).
As a former employee and stockholder of this company, I don't think lowering the consumer's price for these products is in its business plan. You can argue your argument about lower prices until you're blue in the face, which is what color my face would be if I held my breath waiting for a price drop.
P.S. I am not a disgruntled former employee either. I would still recommend Symantec's AV as a great product (even with the activation) and the company as a good place to work. I just don't believe in fairies, pixie dust, and cost cuts for Symantec AV due to licensing.
And it's not schadenfeude, it's "schadenfreude". Freuden=joy, schaden=sadness, thus joy about sadness or schadenfreude. Although the orginal is probably a typo, anyway. And I do admit, it's an ueber-cool (although a bit 80's in a pre- post-modern way) term to use.
Wow, taken to the extreme, the exploitation of their systems could have caused a train collision and injury or death to hundreds of Maryland and Virginia commuters.
Wow! I bet Microsoft is happy that they hold no responsibility due to their lawyers' talent of writing a great EULA! Too bad their software developers can't have the same talent in software engineering...
His company should consider starting up a subsidiary that switches business over to free software. He's got the expertise, he should leverage it.
Nope. He should stick to his knitting. We folks who play guitar need those strings. His are really good. I don't want him distracted (and possibly going out of business) because he's trying to start up a business that's outside his current company's core competency.
Now, if one or two of his IT guys could find competent replacements and start "their own" company, they might have good luck.
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Hey! In this house, sonny, you pay for all the Kevin you get!
Many thanks!
I don't know. My Fujitsu Lifebook p1120 seems to have one :-). Whether you can get the mobo plus chip sans the rest of the computer is still an open question. That being said, this little machine is great (in no small part due to the low power consumption of the Crusoe) - built-in wi-fi, runs for 6 hours on its extra-life battery, and I put on Linux as a dual boot. The only downside is that I still can't find a touchscreen driver for the Fujitsu-made touchscreen...
Wow! Then we who use Linux must be really, really special! Now all we need to do is to get Tux looking cooler! Somebody get the penguin some XTreme-looking RayBans stat!
Yes! I see it now!
And the voiceover at the end can proclaim, "Ask your IT specialist if Windows RX is right for you!"
Ladies and gentlemen, we now have proof of the existance of the Anti-Christ, here on Earth! First, the user name "illuminata" is too Luciferian to be denied. Next, note the Slash UID 668963 containing "the Number of the Beast". Finally, we have the demonic message itself!
Prepare for the Apocalypse, for it is surely at hand! Slashdot has spoken!
Really? Why? Granted, there might be a few minor economic and (possibly, though highly unlikely) some technological impacts, I see absolutely nothing to suggest that it would be a global disaster.
Global deflation is a disaster. A meteor hitting earth is a disaster. A tidal wave wiping out a village is a disaster (for significant size value of village :-). But some company going tits up? Well, sucks to be them (and their stockholders, I guess). It's all part of the beauty of Capitalism. At least that's what all the Libertarians around here keep telling me. And they can't be wrong, huh?
RTFA. 9 of the 11 managers have been reassigned or left the agency. You don't get promoted after an outcome like this. I wouldn't doubt that the others are just waiting for retirement.
the bothersome engineers will get shuffled off into a dark and dusty corner
Possibly. And that would be a shame.
The real question in all of this is not whether the individuals get punished/rewarded, but whether the system is changed so that this sort of accident doesn't happen again. Given that NASA is, at this time, our only functioning national space program, I siincerely hope so.
It is without a doubt one of the most beautiful made and crushingly boring movies of all time.
Somewhat on the mark, but methinks he didn't rent Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" which is actually, without a doubt, the most beautiful made and crushingly boring movies of all time.
No. Actually it's ultra-right wing and ultra-totalitarian. The only difference is that employees of this totalitarian system have the possibility of disengaging. Remember that Henry Ford was an early economic advisor to the Bolsheviks and businesses are still run in much the same way as in his day - the tools may have changed, but in the final analysis, it's still all about command and control.
The setup should have been:
the fan configuration will make it extrordinarily loud
and the punch line (which I did get right) is:
On the plus side, the aeronautics department can use it simultaneously for a wind tunnel!
But who knows! Maybe the incorrect one works, too!
On the plus side, the aeronautics department can use it simultaneously for a wind tunnel!
Yeah, I know - just like with Enron and WorldCom :-).
Why?
Corporations do lots of things all of the time to make themselves look less like the greedy, blood-sucking, economic parasites they are :-) - Just kidding.
Actually, corporations are run by people, some of whom like to think that they do more than provide a value neutral link in the economic chain. It makes them more productive and likely to join the company in the first place if they think that an organization is doing things out of a "sense of civic good will". In addition, all companies products are purchased by people, some of whom like to think that they do more than provide a value neutral link in the economic chain. It makes them more likely to buy from the company in the first place if they think that an organization is doing things out of a "sense of civic good will". Corporations are among our country's largest charitable givers. They wouldn't be donating this money if they did not see a benefit. This "sense of civic good will" may not come from the company itself (corporations are, of course, artificial entities), but I do believe that there are people within these companies that support and provide resources in the name of "civic good will".
To suggest that this type of support does not flow to technical communities, as well, would be quite improper - elsewise how do you explain corporate support of organizations like the ACM and IEEE? In the end, the company and its employees do get rewards from their "sense of civic good will". And this is why the company does it.
Of course, that it also plants a boot in the face of Microsoft doesn't hurt either :-)...
And we know why it isn't here.
Serious? Well, not much. But companies like Microsoft have to realize that DRM (like any privacy technology) is a double-edged sword. I can't wait for the lawsuit that occurs when it's found out that DRM hid accounting shenanigans from the SEC (of course, this suit will not be brought by the Feds, but by the shareholders bilked). Can you say deep pockets? Not that this suit would necessarily succeed, but it would be fun to watch.
And for those of you who think I'm Microsoft bashing - I'm not. The same thing could be said about various Linux tools, as well. The real danger is when corporations get a pass for using these technologies "for sound business reasons" while individuals using it are seen as "having something to hide". I just think there's a deeper issue here that Microsoft, by providing tools to businesses, but not to individuals, is on the wrong side of.
Well, no. In fact, the only way to have this outcome is to model the economy on some pretty idealistic assumptions - things like low friction transactions, some small delta away from reasonable information flows, lack of monopolies (to maintain positive eigenvalues in the demand-supply equations), at least a reasonable need for labor, all of which seem to be disappearing under the control of the new gov-corp hegemony. In fact, there are (and have been) several economies where income did not approach a bell curve - several third-world counties , now, feudal societies in the Middle Ages, etc.
In fact, the only thing a functioning economy guarantees is a good chance of boom-bust cycles.
That explains why the Army Corp of Engineers needs to dredge in the Sound so often!
Welcome to poverty. Hope you're ready for an economy of deflation and permanent unemployment. Because that's where this economy is going. Show me where the job creation is happening in this country. Can't, huh? It's hard to keep any economy going without jobs. And, yes, I did complain when the clothing workers jobs were outsourced to the Carribean and Aisian shores. And when the auto workers' jobs went to Japan (and later Mexico) I complained then. I also got quite irritated about NAFTA. None of this did any good.
A falling tide sinks all boats. Eventually, someone is going to get tres mad at the bozos who pulled the plug out of the drain. So keep spouting your Libertarian Social Darwinist bullshit as the mobs come to burn down your house. Unless you want to wake up, smell the smoke of a society burning, and get your head on straight, that's what we're headed for.
30-50 MB!?!?! What the fuck for!?!
Wow! If it takes them 30MB to boot enough to display a simple Y/N screen, accept the input, unmark the partition as bootable, mark another partition as bootable, and reboot, I'd hate to see what the rest of their software looks like. Maybe 2G to read in a serial number? 15G to fill in a customer support form?
Sheesh. And I thought I wrote shitty code!
I can see one of us must have just fell off the turnip truck (and I don't think it's me).
As a former employee and stockholder of this company, I don't think lowering the consumer's price for these products is in its business plan. You can argue your argument about lower prices until you're blue in the face, which is what color my face would be if I held my breath waiting for a price drop.
P.S. I am not a disgruntled former employee either. I would still recommend Symantec's AV as a great product (even with the activation) and the company as a good place to work. I just don't believe in fairies, pixie dust, and cost cuts for Symantec AV due to licensing.
And it's not schadenfeude, it's "schadenfreude". Freuden=joy, schaden=sadness, thus joy about sadness or schadenfreude. Although the orginal is probably a typo, anyway. And I do admit, it's an ueber-cool (although a bit 80's in a pre- post-modern way) term to use.
... you should do everyone a favor and shoot yourself before you spread your |\/|/-\|) 4RT sKillZ any further.
Wow! I bet Microsoft is happy that they hold no responsibility due to their lawyers' talent of writing a great EULA! Too bad their software developers can't have the same talent in software engineering...
Nope. He should stick to his knitting. We folks who play guitar need those strings. His are really good. I don't want him distracted (and possibly going out of business) because he's trying to start up a business that's outside his current company's core competency.
Now, if one or two of his IT guys could find competent replacements and start "their own" company, they might have good luck.