I for one do NOT welcome our new tasmanian mouse overlords.
On a more serious note, it would be fascinating if they could bring back a few recently extinct species. DNA degrades quite a bit over time though, so any hopes of a real life 'Jurassic Park' are probably going to remain science fiction forever.
It doesn't even come close to screaming antitrust. Now, if Comcast, Verizon, Time Warner, etc. all banded together and backed a single P2P solution while throttling any others, that would merit antitrust action.
What this screams is desperation. Comcast really hasn't a clue in this area and it's showing more and more every week.
Yes it is, in a sense, but at least in the case of a PC all one would need do is replace the BIOS physically. Not a very difficult fix for any tech savvy person.
True, one could set it up to give audible alerts and status messages. That wouldn't work for me since my servers are all far away from where I usually sit (they are in the basement, my office at home is on the two floors up from there). In my case I have alerts sent via the network so I am alerted if there is a problem somewhere.
I expect Twitter to come rushing out with one of his many sockpuppet accounts and attack you at any moment! How dare you cloud a perfectly good Vista bashing with a few facts! Shame on you!
Vista isn't great and was overhyped, but it's not nearly as bad as most people here seem to think. I'd hazard that the loudest critics haven't even used it.
I would question why someone would even leave the sound enabled at all if they are using one of these as a server. If one is concerned at all about sharing the PCI bus then just disable everything you don't need, and sound on a NAS box is certainly under the 'don't need' category.
I didn't find it to be all that slow from a screen refresh standpoint. I haven't tried any OpenGL stuff yet but that I mostly do on a native Linux box, not via virtualization.
I guess "Pick the right tool for the job" is what comes to mind.
A privately held company can live up to said motto. Once they went public they lost all ability to do so. Then again, some would call greed evil so one could argue that the very act of going public was 'evil'. I don't necessarily believe that, but I'm just sayin'...
It is hardly a false analogy. It's not even an analogy. I just pointed out that the naming convention touted as a 'bad business decision' by the OP, wasn't in fact such a bad way to name OS releases targeted at different segments. Also, it was in reference to one distribution; namely Red Hat, not the plethora of other distributions out there.
My next door neighbor owns a small contracting business. He himself is a carpenter by trade. He uses Excel and Autocad and surfs the web a little for news once in awhile, but he doesn't use email, or IM for that matter. The files he gets from his architect are very large to begin with and are usually delivered on a USB flashdrive. He has an email address that came with his cable Internet. He just doesn't use it and doesn't seem to need it.
I agree, hence the word should in my post. It should be illegal but it's not. This woman shouldn't be prosecuted, but new laws should address such behavior.
Perhaps it should be a criminal offense (although I have a hard time figuring out how you'd word a statute outlawing "being mean to people" in a way that didn't violate the First Amendment). But the fact is that there is no criminal law under which this woman can be prosecuted. This prosecution is relying on a completely unrelated statute, and they'll get slapped down by the judge.
Being mean to people shouldn't be a criminal offense, but creating a false identity specifically to cause emotional or mental harm SHOULD be.
You only find it boring because you live in it. It seems mundane to you. It's just like the kid who can't wait to get out of his hick town where nothing ever happens, only to return years later to settle back into his old hometown with a sigh of relief, finally realising that he couldn't see the forest for the trees.
Who have you been talking to? Stay right where you are. You obviously have breached Double Top Secret information and we would like to interr...talk to you. The helicopter is on it's way to pick you up and escort you to Git...a nice tropical island resort.
It is FAR more likely that they would target PC's outside of the US, to avoid possible legal action.
Also, for all of the inevitable "They'd never be able to pwn MY PC" post here, please stop thinking that typical/. users are typical PC users. Most people have no clue and would be readily infected. We are a very tiny minority of the PC userbase.
Oh I agree with that, but I'll also add that not all Windows applications have standardized on the Windows Installer yet either. Some still use custome Setup.EXE's or Winzip packages.
It's also not semantics. If you don't know the difference between a kernel and an application then you are probably on the wrong forum:-)
They already have XP Embedded which would fill the same niche. I would not be surprised to see it licensed to motherboard vendors in the near future.
To Microsoft: If for some reason you haven't thought of this idea and see this post, I will gladly sell you the rights to my idea for 1 MILLION dollars *puts pinky to the corner of his mouth*
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I for one do NOT welcome our new tasmanian mouse overlords.
On a more serious note, it would be fascinating if they could bring back a few recently extinct species. DNA degrades quite a bit over time though, so any hopes of a real life 'Jurassic Park' are probably going to remain science fiction forever.
It doesn't even come close to screaming antitrust. Now, if Comcast, Verizon, Time Warner, etc. all banded together and backed a single P2P solution while throttling any others, that would merit antitrust action.
What this screams is desperation. Comcast really hasn't a clue in this area and it's showing more and more every week.
Yes it is, in a sense, but at least in the case of a PC all one would need do is replace the BIOS physically. Not a very difficult fix for any tech savvy person.
True, one could set it up to give audible alerts and status messages. That wouldn't work for me since my servers are all far away from where I usually sit (they are in the basement, my office at home is on the two floors up from there). In my case I have alerts sent via the network so I am alerted if there is a problem somewhere.
Tsar Putin would tend to disagree as well, at least if he were being candid about the regression of freedom in Russia.
I expect Twitter to come rushing out with one of his many sockpuppet accounts and attack you at any moment! How dare you cloud a perfectly good Vista bashing with a few facts! Shame on you!
Vista isn't great and was overhyped, but it's not nearly as bad as most people here seem to think. I'd hazard that the loudest critics haven't even used it.
I would question why someone would even leave the sound enabled at all if they are using one of these as a server. If one is concerned at all about sharing the PCI bus then just disable everything you don't need, and sound on a NAS box is certainly under the 'don't need' category.
I didn't find it to be all that slow from a screen refresh standpoint. I haven't tried any OpenGL stuff yet but that I mostly do on a native Linux box, not via virtualization.
I guess "Pick the right tool for the job" is what comes to mind.
A privately held company can live up to said motto. Once they went public they lost all ability to do so. Then again, some would call greed evil so one could argue that the very act of going public was 'evil'. I don't necessarily believe that, but I'm just sayin'...
It is hardly a false analogy. It's not even an analogy. I just pointed out that the naming convention touted as a 'bad business decision' by the OP, wasn't in fact such a bad way to name OS releases targeted at different segments. Also, it was in reference to one distribution; namely Red Hat, not the plethora of other distributions out there.
...82% of the population could care less.
Film at 11.
It's not a good business decision to have two similarly labelled products out
;-)
Seems to have worked for Microsoft (Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows 98, etc.)
Doesn't seem to bother Apple much either (OS X, OS X Server).
It's probably not a good business decision to take business advice from Slashdot, too
My next door neighbor owns a small contracting business. He himself is a carpenter by trade. He uses Excel and Autocad and surfs the web a little for news once in awhile, but he doesn't use email, or IM for that matter. The files he gets from his architect are very large to begin with and are usually delivered on a USB flashdrive. He has an email address that came with his cable Internet. He just doesn't use it and doesn't seem to need it.
I agree, hence the word should in my post. It should be illegal but it's not. This woman shouldn't be prosecuted, but new laws should address such behavior.
Perhaps it should be a criminal offense (although I have a hard time figuring out how you'd word a statute outlawing "being mean to people" in a way that didn't violate the First Amendment). But the fact is that there is no criminal law under which this woman can be prosecuted. This prosecution is relying on a completely unrelated statute, and they'll get slapped down by the judge.
Being mean to people shouldn't be a criminal offense, but creating a false identity specifically to cause emotional or mental harm SHOULD be.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of old laptops!
That would suffice. I reserve the world 'evil' for Evil with a Capital E. Unethical !=evil
None of that is evil. Deplorable, yes. Despicable, yes. Devoid of ethics, yes. Evil, no.
You only find it boring because you live in it. It seems mundane to you. It's just like the kid who can't wait to get out of his hick town where nothing ever happens, only to return years later to settle back into his old hometown with a sigh of relief, finally realising that he couldn't see the forest for the trees.
read minds, teleport, and find Carmen Sandiego.
Who have you been talking to? Stay right where you are. You obviously have breached Double Top Secret information and we would like to interr...talk to you. The helicopter is on it's way to pick you up and escort you to Git...a nice tropical island resort.
I can see it now "Download this EXTRA PATRIOTIC SCREENSAVER and help SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM EVIL TERRORISTS"
It is FAR more likely that they would target PC's outside of the US, to avoid possible legal action.
/. users are typical PC users. Most people have no clue and would be readily infected. We are a very tiny minority of the PC userbase.
Also, for all of the inevitable "They'd never be able to pwn MY PC" post here, please stop thinking that typical
I mean seriously, a few minutes of quality time spent with Google shows many, many low cost server options.
I tend to agree with a lot of the posters here though who ask "Why rackmount?" I see no logical reason for it other than the 'cool/geek' factor.
Oh I agree with that, but I'll also add that not all Windows applications have standardized on the Windows Installer yet either. Some still use custome Setup.EXE's or Winzip packages.
:-)
It's also not semantics. If you don't know the difference between a kernel and an application then you are probably on the wrong forum
They already have XP Embedded which would fill the same niche. I would not be surprised to see it licensed to motherboard vendors in the near future.
To Microsoft: If for some reason you haven't thought of this idea and see this post, I will gladly sell you the rights to my idea for 1 MILLION dollars *puts pinky to the corner of his mouth*