How many times have you had a beloved old pair of Nikes that eventually wore down to sharp plastic bits digging into your heel? Nikes are poorly made shoes, with poorly paid workers, whith fantastic marketing.
Heh i get that anyway what ever make of sneaker i buy, but then again i do wait 5 or 6 years between new shoes:)
Define "sweatshop". What may be a pittence in pay and hard working conditions for westerners may be good working conditions and a fair wage for those who live in poverty. Or would you rather take the chance on whether 3rd world countries economies could take the strain if Nike and other companies payed them the same wage as western workers? I wouldnt want to jsut drop that on them for one. YEs, putting money into a country and workers pockets is a good thing, but then again too much money can be a bad thing as well. I for one wont be stopping wearing Nike items any time soon.
Ill go for that comment:) Not to start a flamewar, but counting my machines: Windows disk failures 6 : Linux 0. And I'm mostly deploying linux servers with multiple hard drives.
I guess you must be having good luck then, as my failures are the other way around, 4 failures for linux, and only 1 for windows. and ive never had a windows partition trashed, where as ext2 aint exactly "stable" to crashes.
Now if you ask me, all this "linux on this and linux on that" is getting very old very fast. I have been all through this with the Amiga, and looked what happened with that! Windows based pc magazines and sites seem to have stopped saying "oooh look what it can run on" and are saying "oooh look what YOU can do with it" which is infinatly better from my point of view because i dont want to be left salivating over systems i cant have (well maybe in this case its a bit different). What i DO want to be left doing is thinking "hmmm thats actually useful to me, now how do i get my bosses to actually think along the same lines as me?". Im sorry for venting all this on you, but from where im standing, Linux is marketing itself to the end user much like the Amiga did, and showing niche cases of what it can do for a subselect of humanity rather than the actual userbase.
I think you're missing the people that think about the consequences of those decisions
Hmmm i see your point, but no, we arent missing the people that think about the consequences, since we are also the peoplethat have to deal with network security and such.
- you know, things like "does running a service over port 80 magically make it secure?" and "hmmmm, so if we're going to do everything over port 80, what was the point of our firewall again?
Im more talking about webservices to internal users, our own internal employees and those on VPNs. Yes, you are right, jsut switching the port doesnt magically secure a service, but then are all services on that port goingto be used as a secure transmission method? no. any service that we run, we code in the appropriate level of security.
And firewalls can be made to do a lot more than control access in or out of the network based solely on port number or services type:)
Since us implementors are exactly those persons who have identified the problem, researched the solution and implemented a version of that solution, and we have direct longterm access to the end users and the results that our applications are having on that end user, then i dont think we are in a tight spot at all.
Where i work, the only thing that the end user has on their desktop apart from the standard tools for the job, is IE (no, we dont permit anyone to install Mozilla, basically because theres no point and we wont support it). SO the more things we can pump over the standard http protocol to the end user the better. It gives the end user a standard portal to all the services we provide them, and also its easier to apply a template. And we dont have PHBs here, all these decisions are made by the people that have to implement them, and the people that use them.
I think thats more aimed at the fact thats its good for other people for you to have insurance, not you yourself because having insurance doesnt in any way mean that damage to your car gets fixed by the insurance company. Also if you kill someone, then their family can be recompensed by the insurance company. If you die because of your idiocy then i doubt whether the insurance would pay out for your family.
What Telecom fails to recognise is that these people are pushing the envelope of what the Internet can do, and will drive the technology economy in years to come.
Sooo, when did p2p apps take over that torch from porn?:)
riiiighhht. and im going to get so much traffic from these people! (before you flame, i help to run a irc network dedicated to amigans, so i know what percentage of people use it as their primary machine).
With IE having a good (80% last time i looked into it) market slice, id rather code for a browser that i at least have a chance of getting hit by, rather than other browsers that have no reasonable everyday use these days.
People who "insist" that every browser should be catered for are fools who have probably never coded in anger, if im coding my companies site, i will stick to standards used by the majority of the browsers, and if there are browsers out there that dont use these standards then they have my pity but not my sympathy
God, dare i say it? Oh hell here goes, imagine a beo..... oh no wrong one, ahh here it is, Dont u ever back up? Back up back up back up back up. Restoring from a backup is so much easier than trying to get your system to the point where u destroyed it.
Not according to the Trademark Dilution Act (in the U.S.). The article states that "the Trademark Dilution Act adopted by Congress in 1995 is specifically intended to protect the famous brands of major U.S. corporations. The law seeks to safeguard well-established brands from upstarts even in unrelated industries."
Theres two things you can get from that statement.
1. major U.S. corporations Looks like big businesses are the only businesses supposed to benifit from these sorts of laws. What happens if a minor US corporation wanted its trademark protected?
2. U.S. corporations So what about other countries businesses trademarks? THe US likes forcing its laws and rulings on other countries but doesnt like it when another country rules against US laws (Kazaa being one example)
IBM starts making commercials full of BSoD's and says explicitly: "You will never see a blue screen of death with Unix".
Nah mine are all white text on a black background with "kernel oops" outputted to the screen. Still the same amount of unintelligable crap on the screen tho in both cases.
Quote the poster: People don't exist to give companies a level, competitive playing field. Rather, companies exist in order to satisfy the needs of people.
No. No. No. Companies dont exist to satisfy the needs of people. Companies exist to make money for their owners. Government bodies exist to satisfy the needs of people. If people arent satisfied with companies, the companies rarely do anything about it. The only thing they understand is when the money stops rolling in. Government bodies on the other hand can be influenced (theoretically) by the people and there for unsatisfied people mean changes.
Doesnt matter if they dont read it, its still there. Or are you in the habit of not reading every letter from your bank, credit card company or loan company? If you are, like you suggest that other users are (in not reading important documents) then ure a fool:)
How do they target ads? simple, they dont. we all share a common interest, we are all interested in tech, so they jsut use tech ads:)
And to those who block advertising urls, theres a better way to do it which also ensures that the website doesnt have to rely on advertising, and that is to pay for content. I do. (not subbed to/. yet, waiting for the end of the month and the obvious bugs to be found and written out:))
Logging
Logging occurs when information is sent from the Player to a streaming media server. Logging informs the server of various pieces of information so that services can be improved. The information includes such details as: connection time, Internet protocol (IP) address of the computer that connected to the server, Player version, Player identification (ID) number, date, protocol, and so on. Most information is neither unique, nor traceable to your machine.
Sooooo, isnt most of this info logged when you visit any webpage? All except unique wmp id, which i dont see as a threat because there are literally millions of copies of wmp out there, is MS or anyone going to go to the trouble of hunting down 1 single person? Stop maoning people:)
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How many times have you had a beloved old pair of Nikes that eventually wore down to sharp plastic bits digging into your heel? Nikes are poorly made shoes, with poorly paid workers, whith fantastic marketing.
:)
Heh i get that anyway what ever make of sneaker i buy, but then again i do wait 5 or 6 years between new shoes
Define "sweatshop". What may be a pittence in pay and hard working conditions for westerners may be good working conditions and a fair wage for those who live in poverty. Or would you rather take the chance on whether 3rd world countries economies could take the strain if Nike and other companies payed them the same wage as western workers? I wouldnt want to jsut drop that on them for one. YEs, putting money into a country and workers pockets is a good thing, but then again too much money can be a bad thing as well. I for one wont be stopping wearing Nike items any time soon.
Ill go for that comment :)
Not to start a flamewar, but counting my machines: Windows disk failures 6 : Linux 0. And I'm mostly deploying linux servers with multiple hard drives.
I guess you must be having good luck then, as my failures are the other way around, 4 failures for linux, and only 1 for windows. and ive never had a windows partition trashed, where as ext2 aint exactly "stable" to crashes.
This would be a nice way of hiding stolen traffic control pcs :)
Now if you ask me, all this "linux on this and linux on that" is getting very old very fast. I have been all through this with the Amiga, and looked what happened with that! Windows based pc magazines and sites seem to have stopped saying "oooh look what it can run on" and are saying "oooh look what YOU can do with it" which is infinatly better from my point of view because i dont want to be left salivating over systems i cant have (well maybe in this case its a bit different). What i DO want to be left doing is thinking "hmmm thats actually useful to me, now how do i get my bosses to actually think along the same lines as me?". Im sorry for venting all this on you, but from where im standing, Linux is marketing itself to the end user much like the Amiga did, and showing niche cases of what it can do for a subselect of humanity rather than the actual userbase.
I think you're missing the people that think about the consequences of those decisions
:)
Since us implementors are exactly those persons who have identified the problem, researched the solution and implemented a version of that solution, and we have direct longterm access to the end users and the results that our applications are having on that end user, then i dont think we are in a tight spot at all.
Hmmm i see your point, but no, we arent missing the people that think about the consequences, since we are also the peoplethat have to deal with network security and such.
- you know, things like "does running a service over port 80 magically make it secure?" and "hmmmm, so if we're going to do everything over port 80, what was the point of our firewall again?
Im more talking about webservices to internal users, our own internal employees and those on VPNs. Yes, you are right, jsut switching the port doesnt magically secure a service, but then are all services on that port goingto be used as a secure transmission method? no. any service that we run, we code in the appropriate level of security. And firewalls can be made to do a lot more than control access in or out of the network based solely on port number or services type
Where i work, the only thing that the end user has on their desktop apart from the standard tools for the job, is IE (no, we dont permit anyone to install Mozilla, basically because theres no point and we wont support it). SO the more things we can pump over the standard http protocol to the end user the better. It gives the end user a standard portal to all the services we provide them, and also its easier to apply a template. And we dont have PHBs here, all these decisions are made by the people that have to implement them, and the people that use them.
I think thats more aimed at the fact thats its good for other people for you to have insurance, not you yourself because having insurance doesnt in any way mean that damage to your car gets fixed by the insurance company. Also if you kill someone, then their family can be recompensed by the insurance company. If you die because of your idiocy then i doubt whether the insurance would pay out for your family.
thats still an agreement. sheesh, what the hell do u do when u get married, jsut mumble through the ceremony, saying yes when prompted?
Maybe they were trying to get corroborative data to pitch against ascii whites test?
What Telecom fails to recognise is that these people are pushing the envelope of what the Internet can do, and will drive the technology economy in years to come.
:)
Sooo, when did p2p apps take over that torch from porn?
riiiighhht. and im going to get so much traffic from these people! (before you flame, i help to run a irc network dedicated to amigans, so i know what percentage of people use it as their primary machine).
With IE having a good (80% last time i looked into it) market slice, id rather code for a browser that i at least have a chance of getting hit by, rather than other browsers that have no reasonable everyday use these days.
People who "insist" that every browser should be catered for are fools who have probably never coded in anger, if im coding my companies site, i will stick to standards used by the majority of the browsers, and if there are browsers out there that dont use these standards then they have my pity but not my sympathy
the limits to how much longer we can take this story loop. Im quite pushed at the moment :)
U have debian on a LAPTOP?!?!?!?! Do u like whips and chains as well? :)
to see a better breakdown of the packages into the functionality they provide.
:) not that i ever use it cause its soooo user unfriendly....... which brings me to another point...........
Dselect
God, dare i say it? Oh hell here goes, imagine a beo..... oh no wrong one, ahh here it is, Dont u ever back up? Back up back up back up back up. Restoring from a backup is so much easier than trying to get your system to the point where u destroyed it.
... or we will see the first military action by Perl coders in a while.
Not according to the Trademark Dilution Act (in the U.S.). The article states that "the Trademark Dilution Act adopted by Congress in 1995 is specifically intended to protect the famous brands of major U.S. corporations. The law seeks to safeguard well-established brands from upstarts even in unrelated industries."
Theres two things you can get from that statement.
1. major U.S. corporations Looks like big businesses are the only businesses supposed to benifit from these sorts of laws. What happens if a minor US corporation wanted its trademark protected?
2. U.S. corporations So what about other countries businesses trademarks? THe US likes forcing its laws and rulings on other countries but doesnt like it when another country rules against US laws (Kazaa being one example)
IBM starts making commercials full of BSoD's and says explicitly: "You will never see a blue screen of death with Unix".
Nah mine are all white text on a black background with "kernel oops" outputted to the screen. Still the same amount of unintelligable crap on the screen tho in both cases.
Quote the poster: People don't exist to give companies a level, competitive playing field. Rather, companies exist in order to satisfy the needs of people.
No. No. No. Companies dont exist to satisfy the needs of people. Companies exist to make money for their owners. Government bodies exist to satisfy the needs of people. If people arent satisfied with companies, the companies rarely do anything about it. The only thing they understand is when the money stops rolling in. Government bodies on the other hand can be influenced (theoretically) by the people and there for unsatisfied people mean changes.
geek ;)
... this could be one use for USAs nuclear plans. Just EMP everyone to get rid of any potential damaging emails :)
Doesnt matter if they dont read it, its still there. Or are you in the habit of not reading every letter from your bank, credit card company or loan company? If you are, like you suggest that other users are (in not reading important documents) then ure a fool :)
How do they target ads? simple, they dont. we all share a common interest, we are all interested in tech, so they jsut use tech ads :)
And to those who block advertising urls, theres a better way to do it which also ensures that the website doesnt have to rely on advertising, and that is to pay for content. I do. (not subbed to /. yet, waiting for the end of the month and the obvious bugs to be found and written out :))
Logging
:)
Logging occurs when information is sent from the Player to a streaming media server. Logging informs the server of various pieces of information so that services can be improved. The information includes such details as: connection time, Internet protocol (IP) address of the computer that connected to the server, Player version, Player identification (ID) number, date, protocol, and so on. Most information is neither unique, nor traceable to your machine.
Sooooo, isnt most of this info logged when you visit any webpage? All except unique wmp id, which i dont see as a threat because there are literally millions of copies of wmp out there, is MS or anyone going to go to the trouble of hunting down 1 single person? Stop maoning people