More and more often I keep hearing about things like this.
"Doctors say more than 4 cups is bad for you!"
then, 2 months later... "Doctors say more than 4 cups is good for you!"
One month you hear too much fiber is bad for you, then cholesterol is good for you.
I think as long as everyone comsumes food/drinks moderately and not go over board most people have nothing to worry about. Although, with obesity in the United States the way it is today, I would say it's already too late.
I have been reading alot on quantum mechanics (or at least trying to read it I should state).
This is interesting because it gives us a large leap in attaining more knowledge, and in turn will get us much further to unlocking the full potential of the universe as a whole.
is everyone ready? now the part comes where we attain the ultimate question, or destory ourselves in the process. hang onto your hats!
Assuming (which if I understand the Muslim religion right this is correct) that these people didn't agree to the photo, and also have a prohibition of being seen nude
Having lived in a muslim country for two years when I was 12, I learned that some muslims actually believe that if you take a picture of them that you take their soul as well, thus they disapprove strongly
you both have very good arguments and as being a linux user and windows programmer, I must admit that you have much better arguments than most people.
I admit that I have never really dealt with large deployments of linux software as with windows sofware. The one thing that I can argue as far as the deployment situation of software with windows is in my current workplace of ~4000 win xp/ win2k boxes, almost ALL of the deployment problems have to do with poorly written software and not with the deployment procedures (msi) that windows has built.
Unfortunately in my workplace, the OS decisions do lay in the IT managers hands and not upper managements hands as I work for a state funded company. We are slowly getting some linux boxes in there though! I think we now have 2 linux servers out of a total of 40 servers or somewhere in that range. Just 50 more years and we can switch it all over:)
Probably blow my good karma with this, but oh well
I agree with everyone that Linux has become more usable and more security oriented(depending on the admin), but the bottom line is that as far as corporations and windows in the workplace goes, I doubt linux will grab a significant user base because of some basic reasons:
1. Alot of corporations will cling to windows because 99.9% of their userbase is on windows right now. They realize that there is cheaper alternatives out there (linux) but they rather stay with what they are using because it will cause less headaches for the IT dept. and operations as a whole will run smoother without messing with the OS that they are using.
2. Users in the workplace are comfortable with windows because it is what they know. Applications are not quite as cryptic and windows is truly a morons operating system which is what the vast majority of users in the workplace are.
3. The cost of hiring systems administrators is pretty close of linux vs. windows, but the cost of deploying software and the simplification that microsoft has deployed in this area is still untouched.
again, my argument is staged more to linux in the workplace and not in the end users hands which is probably where linux has more potential to grow.
prepare to see this posting get modded all over the place:)
In this day and age with the nations confidence in our government dropping lower than ever before, how can the FBI do something like this?
I mean obviously they were trying to cater to their customers and the FBI at the same time, but the FBI were impatient bastards and instead of working with the company, they've decided to ruin the companies business.
I would have loved to been one of the hosting customers that got their sites yanked as I would be all over the FBI like a fat kid on a cupcake.
As someone said in an earlier post, I'm now getting used to this kind of thing. After many people surrending our rights in the name of anti-war and anti-terrorist activities, this kind of thing is becoming a more common sight.
With Microsoft basically failing trying to influence independent countries to not use OSS, it seems that have gone further down to the root of the tree. I imagine their planning is to try to infect from the bottom up, they figure that maybe someday in the future more and more countries will look to the UN for technology advice/guidance and wouldn't it be just peachy for the UN to push MS's products and services?
Looks like they now have the UN as technology peons as well. surprise surprise
I knew I had been getting progressively dumber, although I was trying to forget certain things anyways, like my exwife.
I often wondered about damage from electronic devices, although like a previous poster said, would the electric waves really be able to travel through the skull?
This reminds me of Johnny Nemonic, where they had a whole disease (Beleive it was called NRS) that would effect peoples nervous systems. I really wouldnt be that suprised if we saw something like that in the future.
Next we'll have logo's saying terrorism is illegal.
In what shape or form does this help the problem at all? It does absolutely nothing but cost marketing money. Nothing more than my hard earned tax dollars going to waste.
Considering all the snafu surrounding the Diebold screwups, I think it's a good thing that the pentagon is finally listening to common sense instead of possibly covering up another voting screwup.
I'm from florida and the whole previous presidential election never sat well with me because of the morons we have down in south florida and the fact that we never really knew the truth about the actual voting results.
7 astronauts agreed to those risks and sadly paid the price.
I agree with you here.
In order to make progress we must expect and honor sacrifice.
That is why I consider this event a tradegy, as you said in your reply, they knew the risks and they paid the price of their lives. Therefore, they gave their lives in the name of progress and sacrifice.
The day after the tragedy I went out and bought a newspaper to save.
Everytime a major tradegy happens I try to save an editorial peice or something of the likes so my grandchildren/great grandchildren can remember the errors of the past
As they say: "Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it"
Hopefully in future generations, they will take this into account to assure the same error does not happen twice.
A friend of mine plays Star Wars galaxies online with his wife.
They have a club setup where she can dance for visitors and he usually listens to the band playing. They have full conversations/arguments online in front of other people visiting their club.
It's the most interaction between people I have seen in an online game before.
Although you have to pay the monthly gaming fee which I think is in the range of $15/month.
I think it would be interesting to employ some form moderation system that is currently in use on/. The citizens could vote on which sites are offensive and the appropriate sites would be blocked.
Although a conflict of opinion would surely surface as it seems to be already
But this would essentially take control of the internet out of the hands of the government and put it in the hands of the citizens which is an oxymoron for communism.
In September, retail chain Urban Outfitters begins peddling Ghettopoly, a Monopoly knockoff. The top hat, shoe, and car are replaced with a machine gun, marijuana leaf, basketball, and rock of crack cocaine. Reacting to protests, Urban Outfitters pulls the game from its stores.
I for one that the game was hilarious. Now I can't buy a copy for my grandmother!
Disney: Hey i have a great idea. Let's develop a dvd that costs more than average, and then make it self-destruct so their unusable after a certain time period!! I think it will really catch on!
I think it's ironic that whenever NASA gets something working correctly, they choose not to continue servicing a peice of equipment that has brought back some amazing images.
One of my most favorite hobbies is looking at images brought back from the hubble on a friday night since I have no life outside of/.!
I was never really a fan of lindows mainly due to the fact that when it was originally starting to surface, Michael said that it would support the whole microsoft office suite as well as run ANY microsoft program
It seems like he used those comments just to generate publicity. Once again it seems like he has generated publicity.
On the flip side, It would be really interesting if there was a way that you could obtain how many searches on ebay were performed for misspelt words. I wouldn't be suprised if just as many people search for 'earings' as 'earrings'. therefore, you could possibly get more business on misspelt searches, depending on how close the spelling is to the actual word of course.
ok guys,
whoever created the worm went about it all wrong...what we really need is to just subscribe every e-mail address at SCO to every pr0n newsletter known to man.
I know that would piss me off more than any virus.
Slashdot Mirror
More and more often I keep hearing about things like this.
"Doctors say more than 4 cups is bad for you!"
then, 2 months later... "Doctors say more than 4 cups is good for you!"
One month you hear too much fiber is bad for you, then cholesterol is good for you.
I think as long as everyone comsumes food/drinks moderately and not go over board most people have nothing to worry about. Although, with obesity in the United States the way it is today, I would say it's already too late.
I have been reading alot on quantum mechanics (or at least trying to read it I should state).
This is interesting because it gives us a large leap in attaining more knowledge, and in turn will get us much further to unlocking the full potential of the universe as a whole.
is everyone ready? now the part comes where we attain the ultimate question, or destory ourselves in the process. hang onto your hats!
Slashdot effect!
Assuming (which if I understand the Muslim religion right this is correct) that these people didn't agree to the photo, and also have a prohibition of being seen nude
Having lived in a muslim country for two years when I was 12, I learned that some muslims actually believe that if you take a picture of them that you take their soul as well, thus they disapprove strongly
offtopic i know!
you both have very good arguments and as being a linux user and windows programmer, I must admit that you have much better arguments than most people.
:)
I admit that I have never really dealt with large deployments of linux software as with windows sofware. The one thing that I can argue as far as the deployment situation of software with windows is in my current workplace of ~4000 win xp/ win2k boxes, almost ALL of the deployment problems have to do with poorly written software and not with the deployment procedures (msi) that windows has built.
Unfortunately in my workplace, the OS decisions do lay in the IT managers hands and not upper managements hands as I work for a state funded company. We are slowly getting some linux boxes in there though! I think we now have 2 linux servers out of a total of 40 servers or somewhere in that range. Just 50 more years and we can switch it all over
Probably blow my good karma with this, but oh well
:)
I agree with everyone that Linux has become more usable and more security oriented(depending on the admin), but the bottom line is that as far as corporations and windows in the workplace goes, I doubt linux will grab a significant user base because of some basic reasons:
1. Alot of corporations will cling to windows because 99.9% of their userbase is on windows right now. They realize that there is cheaper alternatives out there (linux) but they rather stay with what they are using because it will cause less headaches for the IT dept. and operations as a whole will run smoother without messing with the OS that they are using.
2. Users in the workplace are comfortable with windows because it is what they know. Applications are not quite as cryptic and windows is truly a morons operating system which is what the vast majority of users in the workplace are.
3. The cost of hiring systems administrators is pretty close of linux vs. windows, but the cost of deploying software and the simplification that microsoft has deployed in this area is still untouched.
again, my argument is staged more to linux in the workplace and not in the end users hands which is probably where linux has more potential to grow.
prepare to see this posting get modded all over the place
That's peachy
In this day and age with the nations confidence in our government dropping lower than ever before, how can the FBI do something like this?
I mean obviously they were trying to cater to their customers and the FBI at the same time, but the FBI were impatient bastards and instead of working with the company, they've decided to ruin the companies business.
I would have loved to been one of the hosting customers that got their sites yanked as I would be all over the FBI like a fat kid on a cupcake.
As someone said in an earlier post, I'm now getting used to this kind of thing. After many people surrending our rights in the name of anti-war and anti-terrorist activities, this kind of thing is becoming a more common sight.
With Microsoft basically failing trying to influence independent countries to not use OSS, it seems that have gone further down to the root of the tree. I imagine their planning is to try to infect from the bottom up, they figure that maybe someday in the future more and more countries will look to the UN for technology advice/guidance and wouldn't it be just peachy for the UN to push MS's products and services?
Looks like they now have the UN as technology peons as well. surprise surprise
I KNEW IT
I knew I had been getting progressively dumber, although I was trying to forget certain things anyways, like my exwife.
I often wondered about damage from electronic devices, although like a previous poster said, would the electric waves really be able to travel through the skull?
This reminds me of Johnny Nemonic, where they had a whole disease (Beleive it was called NRS) that would effect peoples nervous systems. I really wouldnt be that suprised if we saw something like that in the future.
oh dang!
Next we'll have logo's saying terrorism is illegal.
In what shape or form does this help the problem at all? It does absolutely nothing but cost marketing money. Nothing more than my hard earned tax dollars going to waste.
well i never thought I would see this happen.
Considering all the snafu surrounding the Diebold screwups, I think it's a good thing that the pentagon is finally listening to common sense instead of possibly covering up another voting screwup.
I'm from florida and the whole previous presidential election never sat well with me because of the morons we have down in south florida and the fact that we never really knew the truth about the actual voting results.
7 astronauts agreed to those risks and sadly paid the price.
I agree with you here.
In order to make progress we must expect and honor sacrifice.
That is why I consider this event a tradegy, as you said in your reply, they knew the risks and they paid the price of their lives. Therefore, they gave their lives in the name of progress and sacrifice.
The day after the tragedy I went out and bought a newspaper to save.
Everytime a major tradegy happens I try to save an editorial peice or something of the likes so my grandchildren/great grandchildren can remember the errors of the past
As they say: "Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it"
Hopefully in future generations, they will take this into account to assure the same error does not happen twice.
A friend of mine plays Star Wars galaxies online with his wife. They have a club setup where she can dance for visitors and he usually listens to the band playing. They have full conversations/arguments online in front of other people visiting their club.
It's the most interaction between people I have seen in an online game before.
Although you have to pay the monthly gaming fee which I think is in the range of $15/month.
I think it would be interesting to employ some form moderation system that is currently in use on /.
The citizens could vote on which sites are offensive and the appropriate sites would be blocked.
Although a conflict of opinion would surely surface as it seems to be already
But this would essentially take control of the internet out of the hands of the government and put it in the hands of the citizens which is an oxymoron for communism.
That's very interesting. I am a regular reader of TheRegister and I was unaware that they had a content sharing agreement.
In September, retail chain Urban Outfitters begins peddling Ghettopoly, a Monopoly knockoff. The top hat, shoe, and car are replaced with a machine gun, marijuana leaf, basketball, and rock of crack cocaine. Reacting to protests, Urban Outfitters pulls the game from its stores.
I for one that the game was hilarious. Now I can't buy a copy for my grandmother!
Disney: Hey i have a great idea. Let's develop a dvd that costs more than average, and then make it self-destruct so their unusable after a certain time period!! I think it will really catch on!
I think it's ironic that whenever NASA gets something working correctly, they choose not to continue servicing a peice of equipment that has brought back some amazing images.
/.!
One of my most favorite hobbies is looking at images brought back from the hubble on a friday night since I have no life outside of
I was never really a fan of lindows mainly due to the fact that when it was originally starting to surface, Michael said that it would support the whole microsoft office suite as well as run ANY microsoft program
It seems like he used those comments just to generate publicity. Once again it seems like he has generated publicity.
Oh well...hand me my Debian cd.
the register was running this story yesterday here:
http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/35175.html
On the flip side, It would be really interesting if there was a way that you could obtain how many searches on ebay were performed for misspelt words. I wouldn't be suprised if just as many people search for 'earings' as 'earrings'. therefore, you could possibly get more business on misspelt searches, depending on how close the spelling is to the actual word of course.
ok guys, whoever created the worm went about it all wrong...what we really need is to just subscribe every e-mail address at SCO to every pr0n newsletter known to man.
I know that would piss me off more than any virus.
I think i will patent letters of the alphabet next, therefore every website on the internet is infringing on my patent and I want 10 billion dollars.
who wants to be my lawyer, i may have to beat them off with a stick
jerpkel onfa dongle doopie!