Shows the results sorted by "date", while this perhaps be fixed, I find it interesting to see when the various news orginizations picked up an article.
If you change the sort to "relevance" it imediatly folds to a single article.
Most companies have at most 5 printer models, and all of them accept Postscript.
That point is really not valid at a corperation, though linux does have some drawbacks to other OS's, Windows only has the advantage of being "vaugly familar" (tell that to the gal who couldn't minimize windows I talked to earlier today..) with alot of driver support.
In a corperate setting, especially ones that run *alot* of CITRIX, other solutions are (or at least should be) always being considered.
To be quite honest, no one does anything except reghost a machine if it's more complex than "my printer is pointing to the wrong JetDirect box", so therefore the cost of support is how often does 1: the printer get redirected 2: how often do you need to reghost. There are no other costs for support client side (users are capable of handling prety much any windowing system with standard titlebars, so thats also fairly moot).
The real benifit of other OS's is you can cleanly stop users from saving anything locally, this is a major advantage when it comes time for the next reghost and someone dosen't loose 5 hours worth of work.
To be quite honest, everything from MS should run on a citrix box, everything else should run on apropriate X servs. Macs need local programs (to the best of my knowledge). That way you have no ties to the desktop OS at all, and you can jump to Xenizen (the imaginary OS I just made up) tomorow so long as it supports java (citrix client) and X.
There is no reason anyone except programmers should ever run a program locally. And all PC's should be a simple ghost that allows them to run citrix apps.
With pallidum installed, I will ebay all of my macs, and get a linux/alpha box.
I don't care if I have to live without my computer, DRM as it's currently setup is so 1984 it makes me sick.
Next thing you know, we can only listen to "Trusted News sources" because slashdot reposters are eating into NYT's market share. Or we can only say pro-establisment phrases, because acting against the goverment might cause unwanted change.
Actually I would argue that OS X is much futher removed from user intervention than XP/NT. Simplest example is uninstalling programs. At the same time it allows far more user intervention if the users want it.
It's the best of both worlds, and I think more people should check it out.
You like that nice cheap x86 hardware your using? You ever wonder how IBM ended up with competition in the market of making x86 machines that could run DOS.
Oh whats that? The bios got cracked. Oh no, you benifit from the fruits of a hacker, shame on you! You should go to jail.
Especially when I'm using the built in keyboard/trackpad it's easy to use the meta keys. The rest of the time it seems consistant to me, I always thought it just fed a certain meta-value to the mouse click and passed it to the app when you used a non-left button (I could be horribly wrong on that).
Heh, go to the store when you get some free time and say "I'm thinking about buying a mac, can you let me try yours out". Beat the OS to a pulp and see if you can break it (without doing something overly retarded that requires knowledge of it being bad to perform).
I've seen 4 people who were "mild" linux users switch in the past three months, and one "hardcore" gamer (he has consoles for gaming he finally realized).
One has to wonder with the constant growth of apples marketshare when they are going to hit critical mass again (and people will stop discounting them offhand before they get to see it in action). I know at least 10 people who are "eyeing" my iBook, and I wouldn't doubt with enough salesmanship all of them would seriously consider a purchase inside the next year. More people become impressed each day, and our IT department has gone from 0 to 4 Mac laptops in the past year alone.
If you liked Princess Mononoke...
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Watch Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind. (There is, of course, a page for it on nausicaa.net... but for obvious reasons, you're not going to be able to visit it for a few hours now.) It's only available as a fansub, but it's well worth it -- IMO, it's the best anime I've ever seen. (And many of the themes explored in it were carried directly over into Princess Mononoke.) Spirited Away was also an amazing movie, and I hope that it's showed in my area at some point... but Nausicaa was Miyazaki's best work.
Certs are a scam from an era long gone, sorry. Has there ever been another career where you could get a well paying job for 3 hours of testing? Has there ever been a market whos cost of entry was a few months of tinkering? It was great while the public didn't know better, but when your 10 year old can do 90% of what the guy making 35k/yr at the hospital does, and he dosen't have any formal training, you start to wonder exactly what went wrong.
A person with a BS in CS or a similar subject (even a pure math major would be good) has twice as much chance of getting any position above "the IT tech that fixes our damn windows boxen" than someone with 5000 certs.
This is the one thing I always try and impress upon people.
The snow effects you currently see on a big screen tv when watching 80$/month cable will turn into large blocks or black rectangles. The world isn't going to magically quadrouple thier bandwidth overnight, and most stations don't broadcast anything near a proper signal as it is.
Currently a television signal could be "crisp and clear", for example several of the "remember 9/11" shows had proper recording. In all cases I thought I was watching mid-res HDTV but in reality I was watching plain old TV. People don't care enough to require this (nor do they feel they have the ability to modify the market), and I strongly doubt they will in the future either.
Greetings, Earth being! I am an energy-based life form. I have transformed myself into this message so that I might communicate with you. Right now, I am having fun with your eyeballs. I know you are enjoying it because you are smiling!
Please moderate me to a +5 so that I may have fun with as many Slashdotters as possible.
Just a friendly public service reminder for those of you in the USA: When your bank or brokerage sends you a copy of its privacy policy, full of ambiguous language, and saying "Since we protect your privacy, there's no need for you to opt out of our information sharing among our family of companies", do two things:
1) Opt-out. Yes, it means writing a letter and putting a stamp on it. Deal with it.
2) In your letter, mention that you're opting-out because it's your only option available under the law, but that you're doing so under protest - and that you consider anything less than opt-in a violation of your privacy rights. Congratulate the bank on coming up with a wording ("information sharing") that sounds so harmless that most consumers are unlikely to realize what it really means.
3) Print out a second copy and send it to your Representative and Senator. Use proper "Cc:" snail-mail etiquette -- you want your bank to know you're telling your Congresscritter, and you want your Congresscritter to know that your bank knows.
Thank the critter (especially if he or she voted for it) for the new privacy law that's forced banks to do this very small ("opt-out") notification. Tell them that you realize the bank (or more accurately, the DMA, on request of its members) to use a low response rate to this "you have an opportunity to opt-out" mailing campaign as "evidence" that the consumers really do like to eat their spam, "or they'd opt-out, but since 0.00001% actually bothered to opt-out, the other 99.99999% must like receiving special offers through the mail and telephone and email!".
Tell your congresscritters that silence does not imply assent.
You know the argument's bogus. But the DMA, with millions of dollars in lobby funds, is gonna try to make it. And they'll succeed, unless you - yes, you there, behind the keyboard - get off your ass and do something.
Silence does not imply assent. But the DMA is going to try very hard to convince your congresscritter that it does.
The logical response is to deny the DMA the silence it needs to pull off the scam.
These guys don't have any real proof nor even claim a likelihood that there were rings. They just say it could have happened. It's one of many possible explainations for what might have caused some of Earth's atmospheric changes.
You don't have to do high end stuff for adults, I'd much rather fake props and mid-level sound mastering and interesting/exciting content over the MTV music awards.
Hmm, now we'll have the TV industry wake up to the same threat the music industry is facing now. Not that the concept is not obvious (after all, at a low level everything is just a stream of 0s and 1s), but this must be a red flag in their face.
Much as we needed the recording industry over the past 50 years to press those damn CDs/Records and distribute them, we're currently relying on the TV studios and networks to make/distribute their products. Also witness the current TV climate: much as the recording industry creates their own hypes and ignores non-conventional artists, the TV (and movie) industry is falling victim of their own success. Their desire to standardize everything and make it 'safe' for (their) ideal targe audience (families with kids, etc) results in a product which excells in conformity and blandness.
Given this, advances in technology which make it possible to distribute (and eventually produce) decent quality TV programs at low costs, will lead to the proliferation of 'independant' studios. With their monopoly on creation/distribution of movies vanishing in internet time, the TV studios will eventually face the same tide the music industry is facing now: We don't really like them, we don't really need them anymore; let's move to a medium we can control and just ignore the studios. Looking at the sad state of the (currently +- 30) TV stations I get via cable, this may just be good... if nothing else, this means that as an independant producer you will be able to distribute your films to anyone who's on the internet. Wether anyone will care to watch your stuff is of course an entirely different matter.
As I understand it, one of the ways to get a higher rating with Google is to have lots of links to your site. If the Chinese population get busy producing their own websites, the amount of cross-linkage they could do would ensure their entries coming at the top of every search. Eventually, the Chinese government wouldn't have to worry about their people finding western sites, because they'll be so far down the list that the users will get bored of going through them.
Slashdot Mirror
Shows the results sorted by "date", while this perhaps be fixed, I find it interesting to see when the various news orginizations picked up an article.
If you change the sort to "relevance" it imediatly folds to a single article.
Heh, wana know the funniest part?
Your amazing "competitive" x86 hardware would be illegal today, thanks DMCA.
Most companies have at most 5 printer models, and all of them accept Postscript.
That point is really not valid at a corperation, though linux does have some drawbacks to other OS's, Windows only has the advantage of being "vaugly familar" (tell that to the gal who couldn't minimize windows I talked to earlier today..) with alot of driver support.
In a corperate setting, especially ones that run *alot* of CITRIX, other solutions are (or at least should be) always being considered.
To be quite honest, no one does anything except reghost a machine if it's more complex than "my printer is pointing to the wrong JetDirect box", so therefore the cost of support is how often does 1: the printer get redirected 2: how often do you need to reghost. There are no other costs for support client side (users are capable of handling prety much any windowing system with standard titlebars, so thats also fairly moot).
The real benifit of other OS's is you can cleanly stop users from saving anything locally, this is a major advantage when it comes time for the next reghost and someone dosen't loose 5 hours worth of work.
To be quite honest, everything from MS should run on a citrix box, everything else should run on apropriate X servs. Macs need local programs (to the best of my knowledge). That way you have no ties to the desktop OS at all, and you can jump to Xenizen (the imaginary OS I just made up) tomorow so long as it supports java (citrix client) and X.
There is no reason anyone except programmers should ever run a program locally. And all PC's should be a simple ghost that allows them to run citrix apps.
I'll pay for shipping on either if your domestic.
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Send an email to sfritz@.@postmaster.co.uk.com removing
On slashdot, everything is a slipery slope
(joke!! - sorta)
With pallidum installed, I will ebay all of my macs, and get a linux/alpha box.
I don't care if I have to live without my computer, DRM as it's currently setup is so 1984 it makes me sick.
Next thing you know, we can only listen to "Trusted News sources" because slashdot reposters are eating into NYT's market share. Or we can only say pro-establisment phrases, because acting against the goverment might cause unwanted change.
~On slashdot everything is a slipery slope
Actually I would argue that OS X is much futher removed from user intervention than XP/NT. Simplest example is uninstalling programs. At the same time it allows far more user intervention if the users want it.
It's the best of both worlds, and I think more people should check it out.
You like that nice cheap x86 hardware your using? You ever wonder how IBM ended up with competition in the market of making x86 machines that could run DOS.
Oh whats that? The bios got cracked. Oh no, you benifit from the fruits of a hacker, shame on you! You should go to jail.
Some people...
Google is a way to find information
This just provides me another way to find information
google.com is still a page with a few very small images and a input field, this jsut allows me to use do more if it will be usefull.
I honestly haven't noticed
Especially when I'm using the built in keyboard/trackpad it's easy to use the meta keys. The rest of the time it seems consistant to me, I always thought it just fed a certain meta-value to the mouse click and passed it to the app when you used a non-left button (I could be horribly wrong on that).
Heh, go to the store when you get some free time and say "I'm thinking about buying a mac, can you let me try yours out". Beat the OS to a pulp and see if you can break it (without doing something overly retarded that requires knowledge of it being bad to perform).
I've seen 4 people who were "mild" linux users switch in the past three months, and one "hardcore" gamer (he has consoles for gaming he finally realized).
One has to wonder with the constant growth of apples marketshare when they are going to hit critical mass again (and people will stop discounting them offhand before they get to see it in action). I know at least 10 people who are "eyeing" my iBook, and I wouldn't doubt with enough salesmanship all of them would seriously consider a purchase inside the next year. More people become impressed each day, and our IT department has gone from 0 to 4 Mac laptops in the past year alone.
Watch Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind. (There is, of course, a page for it on nausicaa.net ... but for obvious reasons, you're not going to be able to visit it for a few hours now.) It's only available as a fansub, but it's well worth it -- IMO, it's the best anime I've ever seen. (And many of the themes explored in it were carried directly over into Princess Mononoke.) Spirited Away was also an amazing movie, and I hope that it's showed in my area at some point ... but Nausicaa was Miyazaki's best work.
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Certs are a scam from an era long gone, sorry. Has there ever been another career where you could get a well paying job for 3 hours of testing? Has there ever been a market whos cost of entry was a few months of tinkering? It was great while the public didn't know better, but when your 10 year old can do 90% of what the guy making 35k/yr at the hospital does, and he dosen't have any formal training, you start to wonder exactly what went wrong.
A person with a BS in CS or a similar subject (even a pure math major would be good) has twice as much chance of getting any position above "the IT tech that fixes our damn windows boxen" than someone with 5000 certs.
This is the one thing I always try and impress upon people.
The snow effects you currently see on a big screen tv when watching 80$/month cable will turn into large blocks or black rectangles. The world isn't going to magically quadrouple thier bandwidth overnight, and most stations don't broadcast anything near a proper signal as it is.
Currently a television signal could be "crisp and clear", for example several of the "remember 9/11" shows had proper recording. In all cases I thought I was watching mid-res HDTV but in reality I was watching plain old TV. People don't care enough to require this (nor do they feel they have the ability to modify the market), and I strongly doubt they will in the future either.
I don't actually know latin, someone emailed me this quote.
Is it supposed to be "In Googlum non est, erat non est"?
Greetings, Earth being! I am an energy-based life form. I have transformed myself into this message so that I might communicate with you. Right now, I am having fun with your eyeballs. I know you are enjoying it because you are smiling!
Please moderate me to a +5 so that I may have fun with as many Slashdotters as possible.
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Just a friendly public service reminder for those of you in the USA:
When your bank or brokerage sends you a copy of its privacy policy, full of ambiguous language, and saying "Since we protect your privacy, there's no need for you to opt out of our information sharing among our family of companies", do two things:
1) Opt-out. Yes, it means writing a letter and putting a stamp on it. Deal with it.
2) In your letter, mention that you're opting-out because it's your only option available under the law, but that you're doing so under protest - and that you consider anything less than opt-in a violation of your privacy rights. Congratulate the bank on coming up with a wording ("information sharing") that sounds so harmless that most consumers are unlikely to realize what it really means.
3) Print out a second copy and send it to your Representative and Senator. Use proper "Cc:" snail-mail etiquette -- you want your bank to know you're telling your Congresscritter, and you want your Congresscritter to know that your bank knows.
Thank the critter (especially if he or she voted for it) for the new privacy law that's forced banks to do this very small ("opt-out") notification. Tell them that you realize the bank (or more accurately, the DMA, on request of its members) to use a low response rate to this "you have an opportunity to opt-out" mailing campaign as "evidence" that the consumers really do like to eat their spam, "or they'd opt-out, but since 0.00001% actually bothered to opt-out, the other 99.99999% must like receiving special offers through the mail and telephone and email!".
Tell your congresscritters that silence does not imply assent.
You know the argument's bogus. But the DMA, with millions of dollars in lobby funds, is gonna try to make it. And they'll succeed, unless you - yes, you there, behind the keyboard - get off your ass and do something.
Silence does not imply assent. But the DMA is going to try very hard to convince your congresscritter that it does.
The logical response is to deny the DMA the silence it needs to pull off the scam.
These guys don't have any real proof nor even claim a likelihood that there were rings. They just say it could have happened. It's one of many possible explainations for what might have caused some of Earth's atmospheric changes.
I guess that's one way to get published.
Whats even worse, the second link is relevant to BOFH.
I'm going to make a karma whore account, I really find miself disinterested quite often anymore, sorry.
~ealar
You don't have to do high end stuff for adults, I'd much rather fake props and mid-level sound mastering and interesting/exciting content over the MTV music awards.
Hmm, now we'll have the TV industry wake up to the same threat the music industry is facing now. Not that the concept is not obvious (after all, at a low level everything is just a stream of 0s and 1s), but this must be a red flag in their face.
Much as we needed the recording industry over the past 50 years to press those damn CDs/Records and distribute them, we're currently relying on the TV studios and networks to make/distribute their products. Also witness the current TV climate: much as the recording industry creates their own hypes and ignores non-conventional artists, the TV (and movie) industry is falling victim of their own success. Their desire to standardize everything and make it 'safe' for (their) ideal targe audience (families with kids, etc) results in a product which excells in conformity and blandness.
Given this, advances in technology which make it possible to distribute (and eventually produce) decent quality TV programs at low costs, will lead to the proliferation of 'independant' studios. With their monopoly on creation/distribution of movies vanishing in internet time, the TV studios will eventually face the same tide the music industry is facing now: We don't really like them, we don't really need them anymore; let's move to a medium we can control and just ignore the studios. Looking at the sad state of the (currently +- 30) TV stations I get via cable, this may just be good
As I understand it, one of the ways to get a higher rating with Google is to have lots of links to your site. If the Chinese population get busy producing their own websites, the amount of cross-linkage they could do would ensure their entries coming at the top of every search. Eventually, the Chinese government wouldn't have to worry about their people finding western sites, because they'll be so far down the list that the users will get bored of going through them.