Sun, Novell, SuSE, Red Hat, and several others are more than happy to have fingers pointed at them in exchange for letting people buy their Linux desktops
Probably. But then you are not "buying linux". You are "buying Sun, Novell, etc...".
I remember the original saying as "Nobody gets fired for choosing IBM". IBM re-sells Redhat.
Who ever says this is an idiot. If I ran a serious business starting today, I'd be using GNOME/KDE and OpenOffice, not Windows and MS Office. Why pay money in licensing when I don't have to? It's fallacy to claim people would be less productive on OpenOffice than MS Office in any degree to make up for the thousands of dollars in licensing savings. Yes, OO.org and MS Office are close enough for that.
You might be missing the point. WHoever said that didn't say that Free alternatives to MS are less productive. What they (he/she?) meant is that when something fail, they are likely to blame whoever chose the alternative. If MS product fails, they'll point the finger at MS. Not that it's going to do them any good. "Cover-your-own-ass".
On the other hand, you might have to pay for at least one license. Suppose your biggest client sends you required data in an MS format that doesn't fully translate to your alternatives. When you give them your reasons for not being able to access the doc, they might give you a blank stare. Worst case scenario: they'll take their business elsewhere and tell everybody you are too cheap to pay for MS Office (or whatever).
I'm not sorry to see it go. This series was a waste of talent (some of the actors are *way* underrated) on predictable plots and softcore scenes.
But the franchise really needs to rest for a while. Next Generation was great because it was sort of a revival. Maybe a few years from now somebody will come with a great idea for a Star Trek series that doesn't look like its milking the same tired cow.
Old comics book series have gotten big on the big screen. Battlestar Galactica surpassed my expectations. And for the fans, just because it's on hiatus it doesn't mean the franchise will die.
On the other hand, we need new series. Too bad Firefly wasn't better realized. It had great potential.
A Star Trek fan (Trekky? trekker?) telling Star Wars fan to go get a life.
Only on slashdot.
But you do have a point. Let's stop looking for role model in blockbusters or almost any movie in general.
Star Wars is entertainment. Cool coreographed battles. Lots of special effects. Plotlines that have been done many times over.
Let's watch and enjoy the movie. But don't go looking for the meaning of life on them (insert Monty Python joke here). Same goes for Star Trek, the Matrix and The Lord of the Rings.
That humans are a bunch of perverts? Or that perverts are the loudest of them all? Or that there are many loudmouths who take advantage of the fact that there are too many perverts to make a profit?
All it's missing is the "sideways L" cursor keys and "open-apple" and "solid-apple" function keys.
Re:Dosen't the internet scale?
on
The Next Net
·
· Score: 1
Have a few DNS servers go down (as we saw some months ago)
Whoa, did I miss something? What happened some months ago with the DNS?
Anyway, root servers are all over the world as far as I know, so there's plenty of redundancy there. Even TLD and cTLD have replicas all over the place.
And even if the whole DNS structure came down, "the internet" would be still up. Only the name resolution service would be down.
You would need a full scale DOS and take down most of the tier 1 providers (not unthinkable with all the zombies out there) or take advantage of router/switches vulnerabilities (some ISPs rely *far* too much on Cisco. Homogeinity breeds weakness).
Or you could poison the BGP routing table, but most ISPs filter those, anyway.
The next IP protocol needs to make harder IP spoofing. I think I read somewhere that IPv6 supported IP authentication or somesuch.
If you are doing business with people outside the US, make sure Paypal supports that country.
That's the only gripe I have with Paypal. Other than that, never had a problem with it.
I have, however, heard a lot of horror stories about people whose checking account is emptied or locked without due process, etc. All of it mght be exageration, but do your homework before comitting yourself.
Indeed. And I'll add, "their network, their rules".
But it can be challenged. Are you paying for net access? Is it included in the cost of whatever it is they charge you for your education?
Read their TOS. Find legal precedent where it says that p2p is not illegal. Collect signatures. Petition, campaign, etc.
Sounds like too much work? If you are not up to it then I advise you to get another ISP (and read the TOS before you sign).
If you decide to "walk around" their filters (tunneling, etc), don't complain later on if they somehow bust you. If you decide to simply ignore their warning and BT files anyway, notify them of your reasons for this. In writing. This way you get an air of legitimacy.
WARNING: The above is not legal advice and I'm not a lawyer. Talk to a lawyer and be prepared to walk into whatever situation you choose with your eyes wide open. You might not be doing anything illegal, but that's never stopped anybody from suing anyway.
Unfortunately moving to Canada will invalidate you from recieving your free Mac Mini...
You can have a valid shipping address in the US without living there. I do and the longest I've been in the US is 3 weeks (it makes online buying a snap).
There are plenty of commercial mail forwarding agencies, and if you have a family, they can do the forwarding for you.
Now, if the conditions say that you must be a *resident*, then it might complicate the poster's mac mini scam... er, scheme.
Although it added that certain risk factor that delivered some excitement, on the whole I hated it.
I can't say that I hated it, but I wasn't entirely hapy with the system. Being the only game in town, I didn't know any different.
I couldn't stop playing it anyway. It was like Christopher Walken playing russian roulette in "The Deer Hunter".
At least WoW never made me throw my hands up in disgust promising to quit once and for all.
I never liked Everquest and DAOC was only so so (bored me after the first month). But WoW is so much fun I keep staying up way past my self imposed bed time.
If I sell you a car, would you accept that I say a condition of sale is that you cannot drive it for your purposes except on your own property, and must still drive me to and from work on weekdays with it?
If I didn't like those terms, I wouldn't buy your car. I'm pretty sure there are less restrictive dealerships out there. But if I agreed to your terms and bought the car, then I damn well should be expected to abide by them.
Geez, we should really stop using computer - cars comparisons.
Anybody remembers UO in the begining? There was no such thing as non-PvP server (shard). Once you stepped outside the protection of the town guards it was no-man's-land. Anybody could kill you. Anybody could loot your corpse (wether they killed you or not) and anybody could loot your kills.
And if you carried too much money, suddenly you couldn't move because it was too heavy.
God, I miss those days... not. Ok, so I do a little. Maybe I'll reactivate my account for nostalgia's sake.
"We are currently evaluating making the WinFS storage subsystem available on this platform and [We, at Microsoft] will make the decision based on what is best for customers." a Microsoft spokesperson told BetaNews."
They are not telling you to adopt it or not, but wether it will be available for xp. Heck, you can probably still use FAT with XP as far as I know (haven't tried it).
If I spend hundred hours writing software which I then publish under GPL, I would be quite willing to sell you a non-exclusive proprietary license for 100 hours times 40 GBP = 4000 GBP. If you steal it, the damage to me is 4000 GBP. I bet it took more than 100 hours to write that emulator.
And this is the same argument that piracy apologists like: "I wasn't going to pay you, so you haven't lost anything... and you still have your code, so nothing was stolen".
(I'm not saying that you support piracy, only that IP is not the evil concept so many people like to think it is)
Sometimes I wonder why bigshot CEOs and other execs get such substantial packages after leaving a company in disgrace.
Then I think that maybe they are simply being bought out to act as scapegoat for somebody else or a group of somebody elses. As CEO, they are perhaps the most visible person in a company and they are natural lightning rods for company's bigger blunders.
This is not to say that Ms Fiorina is not responsible for HP's woes, but maybe, like in Douglas Adams' book, the job of the president is to draw attention away from those who wield the real power.
(I almost typed "draw aggro". Curse you, Warcraft!)
Slashdot Mirror
Sun, Novell, SuSE, Red Hat, and several others are more than happy to have fingers pointed at them in exchange for letting people buy their Linux desktops
Probably. But then you are not "buying linux". You are "buying Sun, Novell, etc...".
I remember the original saying as "Nobody gets fired for choosing IBM". IBM re-sells Redhat.
Also, "Nobody gets fired for choosing Cisco".
Who ever says this is an idiot. If I ran a serious business starting today, I'd be using GNOME/KDE and OpenOffice, not Windows and MS Office. Why pay money in licensing when I don't have to? It's fallacy to claim people would be less productive on OpenOffice than MS Office in any degree to make up for the thousands of dollars in licensing savings. Yes, OO.org and MS Office are close enough for that.
You might be missing the point. WHoever said that didn't say that Free alternatives to MS are less productive. What they (he/she?) meant is that when something fail, they are likely to blame whoever chose the alternative. If MS product fails, they'll point the finger at MS. Not that it's going to do them any good. "Cover-your-own-ass".
On the other hand, you might have to pay for at least one license. Suppose your biggest client sends you required data in an MS format that doesn't fully translate to your alternatives. When you give them your reasons for not being able to access the doc, they might give you a blank stare. Worst case scenario: they'll take their business elsewhere and tell everybody you are too cheap to pay for MS Office (or whatever).
I'm not sorry to see it go. This series was a waste of talent (some of the actors are *way* underrated) on predictable plots and softcore scenes.
But the franchise really needs to rest for a while. Next Generation was great because it was sort of a revival. Maybe a few years from now somebody will come with a great idea for a Star Trek series that doesn't look like its milking the same tired cow.
Old comics book series have gotten big on the big screen. Battlestar Galactica surpassed my expectations. And for the fans, just because it's on hiatus it doesn't mean the franchise will die.
On the other hand, we need new series. Too bad Firefly wasn't better realized. It had great potential.
Battlestar Galactica in HD
Pfft. Big deal. I've had Battlestar Galactica in my HD for quite a while now.
If there were something like a "stable" apt repository for windows users
We'd still be using Windows NT 4.0, but it would be a *really* stable version of NT 4.0, and nobody would be sure of the release date of Windows 2000.
Jokes aside, I'm currently using Kubuntu and couldn't be happier.
A Star Trek fan (Trekky? trekker?) telling Star Wars fan to go get a life.
Only on slashdot.
But you do have a point. Let's stop looking for role model in blockbusters or almost any movie in general.
Star Wars is entertainment. Cool coreographed battles. Lots of special effects. Plotlines that have been done many times over.
Let's watch and enjoy the movie. But don't go looking for the meaning of life on them (insert Monty Python joke here). Same goes for Star Trek, the Matrix and The Lord of the Rings.
Everyone who uses this hackneyed phrase is from now on deemed 'das clichemeister' and as punishment must spend 21 days on Fark* and Fark alone.
IT'S A TRAP!
Since AO got some pretty good reviews, and since it's being offered for the low, low price of free, I'm certainly going to give this one a try.
Go ahead and give it a try. It will only cost you the download time. But if you were to ask for my opinion, I'd advise against it.
I tried it the first time they offered free play (a month free) and couldn't stand it. Buggy, laggy and gameplay sucked.
I tried it against last week. At least it's not laggy. And the char animation is slightly above south park quality.
So, what does that says about us as a collective?
That humans are a bunch of perverts? Or that perverts are the loudest of them all? Or that there are many loudmouths who take advantage of the fact that there are too many perverts to make a profit?
America's Army doesn't show blood nor boobs, so in their eyes its pretty much G rated.
borderless form-fitting keyboard (IIgs!)
All it's missing is the "sideways L" cursor keys and "open-apple" and "solid-apple" function keys.
Have a few DNS servers go down (as we saw some months ago)
Whoa, did I miss something? What happened some months ago with the DNS?
Anyway, root servers are all over the world as far as I know, so there's plenty of redundancy there. Even TLD and cTLD have replicas all over the place.
And even if the whole DNS structure came down, "the internet" would be still up. Only the name resolution service would be down.
You would need a full scale DOS and take down most of the tier 1 providers (not unthinkable with all the zombies out there) or take advantage of router/switches vulnerabilities (some ISPs rely *far* too much on Cisco. Homogeinity breeds weakness).
Or you could poison the BGP routing table, but most ISPs filter those, anyway.
The next IP protocol needs to make harder IP spoofing. I think I read somewhere that IPv6 supported IP authentication or somesuch.
If you are doing business with people outside the US, make sure Paypal supports that country.
That's the only gripe I have with Paypal. Other than that, never had a problem with it.
I have, however, heard a lot of horror stories about people whose checking account is emptied or locked without due process, etc. All of it mght be exageration, but do your homework before comitting yourself.
Indeed. And I'll add, "their network, their rules".
But it can be challenged. Are you paying for net access? Is it included in the cost of whatever it is they charge you for your education?
Read their TOS. Find legal precedent where it says that p2p is not illegal. Collect signatures. Petition, campaign, etc.
Sounds like too much work? If you are not up to it then I advise you to get another ISP (and read the TOS before you sign).
If you decide to "walk around" their filters (tunneling, etc), don't complain later on if they somehow bust you. If you decide to simply ignore their warning and BT files anyway, notify them of your reasons for this. In writing. This way you get an air of legitimacy.
WARNING: The above is not legal advice and I'm not a lawyer. Talk to a lawyer and be prepared to walk into whatever situation you choose with your eyes wide open. You might not be doing anything illegal, but that's never stopped anybody from suing anyway.
Unfortunately moving to Canada will invalidate you from recieving your free Mac Mini...
You can have a valid shipping address in the US without living there. I do and the longest I've been in the US is 3 weeks (it makes online buying a snap).
There are plenty of commercial mail forwarding agencies, and if you have a family, they can do the forwarding for you.
Now, if the conditions say that you must be a *resident*, then it might complicate the poster's mac mini scam... er, scheme.
Fermilab Reports Dark Energy Not Needed
Well, thank god! I was going crazy trying to find some.
Although it added that certain risk factor that delivered some excitement, on the whole I hated it.
I can't say that I hated it, but I wasn't entirely hapy with the system. Being the only game in town, I didn't know any different.
I couldn't stop playing it anyway. It was like Christopher Walken playing russian roulette in "The Deer Hunter".
At least WoW never made me throw my hands up in disgust promising to quit once and for all.
I never liked Everquest and DAOC was only so so (bored me after the first month). But WoW is so much fun I keep staying up way past my self imposed bed time.
If I sell you a car, would you accept that I say a condition of sale is that you cannot drive it for your purposes except on your own property, and must still drive me to and from work on weekdays with it?
If I didn't like those terms, I wouldn't buy your car. I'm pretty sure there are less restrictive dealerships out there. But if I agreed to your terms and bought the car, then I damn well should be expected to abide by them.
Geez, we should really stop using computer - cars comparisons.
generally jackassery on the PvP servers
Anybody remembers UO in the begining? There was no such thing as non-PvP server (shard). Once you stepped outside the protection of the town guards it was no-man's-land. Anybody could kill you. Anybody could loot your corpse (wether they killed you or not) and anybody could loot your kills.
And if you carried too much money, suddenly you couldn't move because it was too heavy.
God, I miss those days... not. Ok, so I do a little. Maybe I'll reactivate my account for nostalgia's sake.
we hiked six miles through the trees and snow and mud to our mailbox, and we were grateful!
You forgot: "uphill both ways"
Are you joking? The GC controller has the best layout I've seen in a game console. Simple and not riddled with unnecesary buttons.
Color and size coding make it easy to use in no time. Unlike the playstation, whose controller had enough buttons to fly a jumbo jet.
From your post, my emphasis:
"We are currently evaluating making the WinFS storage subsystem available on this platform and [We, at Microsoft] will make the decision based on what is best for customers." a Microsoft spokesperson told BetaNews."
They are not telling you to adopt it or not, but wether it will be available for xp. Heck, you can probably still use FAT with XP as far as I know (haven't tried it).
Movie? Wasn't ir a real case where a woman claimed that a dingo had eaten her baby? Later on she was accused and jailed for murder of said baby.
More info here and here.
If I spend hundred hours writing software which I then publish under GPL, I would be quite willing to sell you a non-exclusive proprietary license for 100 hours times 40 GBP = 4000 GBP. If you steal it, the damage to me is 4000 GBP. I bet it took more than 100 hours to write that emulator.
And this is the same argument that piracy apologists like: "I wasn't going to pay you, so you haven't lost anything... and you still have your code, so nothing was stolen".
(I'm not saying that you support piracy, only that IP is not the evil concept so many people like to think it is)
Sometimes I wonder why bigshot CEOs and other execs get such substantial packages after leaving a company in disgrace.
Then I think that maybe they are simply being bought out to act as scapegoat for somebody else or a group of somebody elses. As CEO, they are perhaps the most visible person in a company and they are natural lightning rods for company's bigger blunders.
This is not to say that Ms Fiorina is not responsible for HP's woes, but maybe, like in Douglas Adams' book, the job of the president is to draw attention away from those who wield the real power.
(I almost typed "draw aggro". Curse you, Warcraft!)