Oh yes, but this is slashdot, the place where anything that is not strictly anti-MS IS flamebait. Oh well, I guess I can still hope for appropriate meta-moderation. It really is too bad that once your message gets mod'd down to 0, there is a very small chace that it will get mod'd back up.
Microsoft did not hold a gun up to Dell's head did they? I think not. Both parties (Dell and MS) willingly entered an agreeement. The only force invloved was the market force. If Dell had not put Windows on their machines, then they would have gone bankrupt (most likely).
Honestly, what has Microsoft done to deserve this. Sure, they have created a crappy OS, along with a bunch of crappy, bloated, buggy software. But, if its so crappy, why do people buy it? Its not like Microsoft has come into people's homes and forced them to buy software. Everyone has bought, or not bought, Microsoft stuff on their own free will.
Sure, they bundled IE with windows, but when I last bought Red Hat Linux, Mozilla came bundled with Linux. Is anyone prosecuting RedHat because of this? No.
The software market is realatively young. If those pesky politicians would just let the market be, then they would see that most of the problems would work themselves out, as they have done so in the past.
The article talked about the people from hotmail that always get a lot of pornographic solicitation. The reason for this is simple. Microsoft sells all of the e-mail addresses from hotmail. I do not say this simply because I dislike Microsoft, but from simple experience. I opened up a hotmail accout, and before I had even told anyone the address, I was getting Spam. The only people that could have told anyone was Microsoft, because they were the only ones that knew my e-mail address. After that, I got a free account from excite.com, and I havn't gotten any unsoliced e-mail (well, there are a few here and there, but I'm pretty sure that they are not excite's fault).
People who don't spend time with computers tend to (it seems) mystify them. Perhaps they think there's some profound skill in moving a mouse around.
You said it right there. This shows that kids should be exposed to computers. Sure, computers probably shouldn't be learning aids, but kids need to be exposed to computers or else they will "mystify them."
Just a random question... Please don't mod me offtopic.
Why did you capitalize and add the (TM) to Real Work(TM). I've also seen that kind of thing done to Good Thing(TM) and Bad Thing(TM). What do the caps and (TM) mean???
If your computer is plugged in, I sure wouldn't want it on wheels. Imagine standing up to grab a paper and accidentlly bumping your desk. "Damn! I unplugged my computer again!"
The New Scientist article was really short on details. Anyway though, I found the university's press release, which has much more details. It can be found here. This link also contains the actual puzzle in case anyone is so inclined to try to break it...
What do you mean? I'm pretty certain that Slashdot doesn't really give a care if we are taken seriously. It's not like we are running for some sort of political office. This is just a place where people read articles and talk about them, it is not meant to be some sort of official news database or anything like that.
Unfortunately, the first bug that you listed, 105395, is marked as wontfix. This bug is most annoying. On my windows machine, I have 0.9.6 installed, and it is almost impossible to read long discussions on/. As a result, I have been hesitant to upgrade Mozilla on my Linux box. I was hoping that with this new release, this bug would be fixed, but it appears it hasn't. Does anyone know of a good workaround to this bug? Also, does anyone know why they won't fix the bug? I looked through the discussion on the bug page, but I couldn't find a good reason why they wouldn't fix it.
No, I think that what he is trying to a say is that there should be less taxes in general so that we can spend/donate our money to what we think is actually useful. He is not trying to say that we should be forced to lobby our government reps to spend our money differently(slow, tedious and ineffective). It is much more efficient and effective to simply donate the money to charities/organizations ourselves. (This is not to mention the increased choice that we have in where our money goes.)
Money is money... Every penny that you can save helps you out. Would you willingly through away $1,000 just because you were buying a house on the same day, and $1,000 is only a small percentage of the house? I think not.
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The only reason that it would affect Windows's 98 or 98SE is if you actually installed and activated. Universal Plug and Play. It only affects ME if you activated Universal Plug and Play. From Microsoft's website:
Customers using Windows 98, 98SE or ME should apply the patch if the Universal Plug and Play service is installed and running.
Windows ME and XP include native UPnP services; Windows 98 and 98SE do not include a native UPnP service, but one can be installed via the Internet Connection Sharing client that ships with Windows XP.
Therefore, Win 98 and ME are not affected unless you have done something to your computer. Since Win XP runs UPnP by default, it is affected if you don't do anything.
It's kinda ironic that the subject of the post is "All work and no play...". If anyone remembers the end of that saying, its "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy". In other words, people need some time to play, or else they become dull. The funny thing is, the poster rambles on about how much more could have been done for the world if people didn't play. But would the world be worth living in if everyone was dull?
You said in your post that you believe that it is unethical to "steal" (actually copy) music when you don't like the artist's compensation. You said that you believe instead that you would simnply not buy the music. In order to explain your point, you made an analogy to how you would not steal gold just because you disagree with the worker's compensation.
Your analogy is fundamentally flawed though. If you take gold from someone else, then you are putting someone else out. They lose their gold, and you gain it. With copying music. No one loses anything. The total enjoyment is actually increased. If you are not going to buy the music anyways, then what difference does it make if you copy the music from someone else and listen to it? The Music Industry does not actually lose any money, you was not going to pay for the music anyway.
Actually, I think that your story is really evidence that we should oppose the drug war. Although I agree that if the government starts using satellites to spy on its own people, it will be a sad sad day. I don't see a problem with individuals using the satellite images though, although when satellite images become more mainstream, the world will be a much different place.
My condolences to your cousin though. He is perfect evidence of someone that could be a productive citizen, but instead is actually a drain on society through no fault of his own. The government keeps pulling this kind of crap, then they wonder why so many people are on welfare.
Actually, we'll probably always have to deal with the blimps, unless the stadium is on the equator. The only satellites that can be geosynchronous (stay at the same point over earth all the time, ie 1 orbit = 24 hrs.) have to be at the equator. So, if we wanted to get rid of the blimps, then we couldn't have a satellite over the stadium at all times. But hey, maybe someday there will be so many satellites in orbit that there always will be one over the stadium...
Are you sure about these numbers? Specifically, is the T1 1.54 Mb/s or 1.54 MB/s? Why I'm curious is that my cable modem gets about 200 KB/s, which is about the same as 1.6 Mb/s, I never thought that a cable modem was faster than a T1 line.
Seriously, if you want to network your house using the existing wires in your house, pnoneline networking is the way to go. It is fast - right now it has a limit of 10 mbps, but they are working on 100 mbps - the power line gets 14mbps, not too much faster (and anyway, unless you have a T1, 10mbps is plenty fast). Also, it is secure, there is no need to encrypt your data as it travels on your own private network. Also, there is no risk of power spikes damaging your hardware. And finally (and most importantly I might add), there are Linux drivers for phonline NICs (at least for the card I use, the Linksys HPN200, you can find the drivers here.)
Well, you either could force the person to be connected to the internet to play single player, or you could split the game up, having a single player option that stores the saves locally and a multi-player option that stores the saves remotely. I think that this would be the best of both worlds.
Well, I've never actually played PSO, so ignore me if I'm completely wrong. The way Diablo II evades client side hacks is by actually storing the character information on the server, not the clients computer. You can also play single player Diablo II, but you can't bring this unsecure character onto the secure servers. This prevents people from simply editing the save, or hacking their character to level 99. The only downside to this is that it does require the servers to store a lot of information.
Maybe a better explanation for the un-accounted for gravity is not dark matter, but actually that the gravity is greater per unit of mass for these far away systems. It is kind of like Kurt Vonnegut's Slapstick. He claims that gravity is actually a varying force, and that is why the egyptians were able to build the pyramids so easily. We only think that gravity is constant because it has not changed in the past few thousand years.
I'm not saying that Vonnegut is correct, I'm just trying to keep everyone's mind open.
Being a student that needs to occasionally create a powerpoint presentation for school, one of the primary things that is keeping windows software on my computer (other than games) is powerpoint. It seems that almost every other office-type program has at least one equal for Linux. So, are there any programs out there for Linux that can create powerpoint compatible files (ie a.ppt file that will be able to be displayed on a windows machine)?
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Oh yes, but this is slashdot, the place where anything that is not strictly anti-MS IS flamebait. Oh well, I guess I can still hope for appropriate meta-moderation. It really is too bad that once your message gets mod'd down to 0, there is a very small chace that it will get mod'd back up.
Microsoft did not hold a gun up to Dell's head did they? I think not. Both parties (Dell and MS) willingly entered an agreeement. The only force invloved was the market force. If Dell had not put Windows on their machines, then they would have gone bankrupt (most likely).
Honestly, what has Microsoft done to deserve this. Sure, they have created a crappy OS, along with a bunch of crappy, bloated, buggy software. But, if its so crappy, why do people buy it? Its not like Microsoft has come into people's homes and forced them to buy software. Everyone has bought, or not bought, Microsoft stuff on their own free will.
Sure, they bundled IE with windows, but when I last bought Red Hat Linux, Mozilla came bundled with Linux. Is anyone prosecuting RedHat because of this? No.
The software market is realatively young. If those pesky politicians would just let the market be, then they would see that most of the problems would work themselves out, as they have done so in the past.
The article talked about the people from hotmail that always get a lot of pornographic solicitation. The reason for this is simple. Microsoft sells all of the e-mail addresses from hotmail. I do not say this simply because I dislike Microsoft, but from simple experience. I opened up a hotmail accout, and before I had even told anyone the address, I was getting Spam. The only people that could have told anyone was Microsoft, because they were the only ones that knew my e-mail address. After that, I got a free account from excite.com, and I havn't gotten any unsoliced e-mail (well, there are a few here and there, but I'm pretty sure that they are not excite's fault).
People who don't spend time with computers tend to (it seems) mystify them. Perhaps they think there's some profound skill in moving a mouse around.
You said it right there. This shows that kids should be exposed to computers. Sure, computers probably shouldn't be learning aids, but kids need to be exposed to computers or else they will "mystify them."
Just a random question... Please don't mod me offtopic.
Why did you capitalize and add the (TM) to Real Work(TM). I've also seen that kind of thing done to Good Thing(TM) and Bad Thing(TM). What do the caps and (TM) mean???
Anyone know why the hell it has wheels???
If your computer is plugged in, I sure wouldn't want it on wheels. Imagine standing up to grab a paper and accidentlly bumping your desk. "Damn! I unplugged my computer again!"
The New Scientist article was really short on details. Anyway though, I found the university's press release, which has much more details. It can be found here. This link also contains the actual puzzle in case anyone is so inclined to try to break it...
Hey hey, there's no need to bash Timothy. Kallahar is the one that said you'd get thrown into jail. Timothy just posted Kallahar's submission.
If Slashdot ever wants to be taken seriously
What do you mean? I'm pretty certain that Slashdot doesn't really give a care if we are taken seriously. It's not like we are running for some sort of political office. This is just a place where people read articles and talk about them, it is not meant to be some sort of official news database or anything like that.
Well, that is fine using actual numbers, until you actually want to talk about it...
"Well, I think that it is time to upgrade and add 128 10E9's of RAM to my computer"
No, I don't think that anyone is going to go around saying that unless they WANT everyone to make fun of them.
Unfortunately, the first bug that you listed, 105395, is marked as wontfix. This bug is most annoying. On my windows machine, I have 0.9.6 installed, and it is almost impossible to read long discussions on /. As a result, I have been hesitant to upgrade Mozilla on my Linux box. I was hoping that with this new release, this bug would be fixed, but it appears it hasn't. Does anyone know of a good workaround to this bug? Also, does anyone know why they won't fix the bug? I looked through the discussion on the bug page, but I couldn't find a good reason why they wouldn't fix it.
No, I think that what he is trying to a say is that there should be less taxes in general so that we can spend/donate our money to what we think is actually useful. He is not trying to say that we should be forced to lobby our government reps to spend our money differently(slow, tedious and ineffective). It is much more efficient and effective to simply donate the money to charities/organizations ourselves. (This is not to mention the increased choice that we have in where our money goes.)
Money is money... Every penny that you can save helps you out. Would you willingly through away $1,000 just because you were buying a house on the same day, and $1,000 is only a small percentage of the house? I think not.
The only reason that it would affect Windows's 98 or 98SE is if you actually installed and activated. Universal Plug and Play. It only affects ME if you activated Universal Plug and Play. From Microsoft's website:
Customers using Windows 98, 98SE or ME should apply the patch if the Universal Plug and Play service is installed and running.
Windows ME and XP include native UPnP services; Windows 98 and 98SE do not include a native UPnP service, but one can be installed via the Internet Connection Sharing client that ships with Windows XP.
Therefore, Win 98 and ME are not affected unless you have done something to your computer. Since Win XP runs UPnP by default, it is affected if you don't do anything.
It's kinda ironic that the subject of the post is "All work and no play...". If anyone remembers the end of that saying, its "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy". In other words, people need some time to play, or else they become dull. The funny thing is, the poster rambles on about how much more could have been done for the world if people didn't play. But would the world be worth living in if everyone was dull?
You said in your post that you believe that it is unethical to "steal" (actually copy) music when you don't like the artist's compensation. You said that you believe instead that you would simnply not buy the music. In order to explain your point, you made an analogy to how you would not steal gold just because you disagree with the worker's compensation.
Your analogy is fundamentally flawed though. If you take gold from someone else, then you are putting someone else out. They lose their gold, and you gain it. With copying music. No one loses anything. The total enjoyment is actually increased. If you are not going to buy the music anyways, then what difference does it make if you copy the music from someone else and listen to it? The Music Industry does not actually lose any money, you was not going to pay for the music anyway.
Actually, I think that your story is really evidence that we should oppose the drug war. Although I agree that if the government starts using satellites to spy on its own people, it will be a sad sad day. I don't see a problem with individuals using the satellite images though, although when satellite images become more mainstream, the world will be a much different place.
My condolences to your cousin though. He is perfect evidence of someone that could be a productive citizen, but instead is actually a drain on society through no fault of his own. The government keeps pulling this kind of crap, then they wonder why so many people are on welfare.
Actually, we'll probably always have to deal with the blimps, unless the stadium is on the equator. The only satellites that can be geosynchronous (stay at the same point over earth all the time, ie 1 orbit = 24 hrs.) have to be at the equator. So, if we wanted to get rid of the blimps, then we couldn't have a satellite over the stadium at all times. But hey, maybe someday there will be so many satellites in orbit that there always will be one over the stadium...
Are you sure about these numbers? Specifically, is the T1 1.54 Mb/s or 1.54 MB/s? Why I'm curious is that my cable modem gets about 200 KB/s, which is about the same as 1.6 Mb/s, I never thought that a cable modem was faster than a T1 line.
Seriously, if you want to network your house using the existing wires in your house, pnoneline networking is the way to go. It is fast - right now it has a limit of 10 mbps, but they are working on 100 mbps - the power line gets 14mbps, not too much faster (and anyway, unless you have a T1, 10mbps is plenty fast). Also, it is secure, there is no need to encrypt your data as it travels on your own private network. Also, there is no risk of power spikes damaging your hardware. And finally (and most importantly I might add), there are Linux drivers for phonline NICs (at least for the card I use, the Linksys HPN200, you can find the drivers here.)
For more more information go to www.homepna.org
Well, you either could force the person to be connected to the internet to play single player, or you could split the game up, having a single player option that stores the saves locally and a multi-player option that stores the saves remotely. I think that this would be the best of both worlds.
Well, I've never actually played PSO, so ignore me if I'm completely wrong. The way Diablo II evades client side hacks is by actually storing the character information on the server, not the clients computer. You can also play single player Diablo II, but you can't bring this unsecure character onto the secure servers. This prevents people from simply editing the save, or hacking their character to level 99. The only downside to this is that it does require the servers to store a lot of information.
Maybe a better explanation for the un-accounted for gravity is not dark matter, but actually that the gravity is greater per unit of mass for these far away systems. It is kind of like Kurt Vonnegut's Slapstick. He claims that gravity is actually a varying force, and that is why the egyptians were able to build the pyramids so easily. We only think that gravity is constant because it has not changed in the past few thousand years.
I'm not saying that Vonnegut is correct, I'm just trying to keep everyone's mind open.
Being a student that needs to occasionally create a powerpoint presentation for school, one of the primary things that is keeping windows software on my computer (other than games) is powerpoint. It seems that almost every other office-type program has at least one equal for Linux. So, are there any programs out there for Linux that can create powerpoint compatible files (ie a .ppt file that will be able to be displayed on a windows machine)?