So what! Railroads were created in the UK. Perhaps you should go back to picking cotton and selling firewater to indians if you want control of anything to stay with the country that 'created it'. The Internet is international, if you don't like that why don't you go and create your own.
I just don't see how this competes with solid state, other than by confusion. Price it in the same bracket, give it a capacity that's not _too_ much better and most people will assume its the same technology as the 512mb flash card players. Once it starts skipping when they're out jogging its too late.
Maybe the market's priorities have changed, but the only reason I ever bought my mp3 player a few years back was because it was solid-state and therefore didn't skip - even if you banged it off the walls. I can accept the iPod as cool with a 20-40GB capacity, because it serves a different purpose, but to use the same tech to compete with the solid-state players is to me a little bit of a con.
What about mutual consent - you know real democracy? Not the crappy capitalist fuedalism called 'representational democracy'. What do we need a government for when communication is instant and distance is meaningless - the only point behind representational government (apart from keeping the plebs out of it) was because communication over distances was slow.
I have to agree. I think the Americans have a picture of some huge linked CCTV system that Tony Blair can sit and watch from his mountain headquarters, picking out dissidants at will. Let's get the facts straight, there might be 20,000 CCTV cameras (that's a random number used for example) but they are in 10,000 completely independant networks run by disparate groups like the local Police authority, the local council, the local residents association, charities, local chamber of commerce, local shopkeepers, etc, etc. There is no giant, nationwide, network of CCTV monitoring as seems to be the automatic assumption.
Except most users don't have this choice. They can only accept the choice of their ISP or find another, and if all ISPs use it then where is the choice.
Just because we all run our own sendmail servers over our DSL or cable lines doesn't mean its the norm.
Chain letters and urban legends are virii, not worms, surely. I'm not up with the hip talk these days but a worm is self-replicating, a virus doesn't have to be. I suspect this is what the grandparent was refering to. I guess worms are a subset of virii, but again I'm no expert on the lexicology of these things.
Surely the system would work better if people were better educated rather than less? Otherwise we could skip the whole thing and go straight for a benevolent dictatorship.
Its quite scary if things are so bad that people actually believe we should go backwards rather than the more difficult forward route.
I think many people don't realise that copyright and other IP laws are by their very definition not FREE-market tools. They are tools of control and market manipulation. A market cannot truly be free when the state grants monopolies on certain properties, no matter how short the terms of the grant.
Well we can all pick the defination of Socialism we prefer, in fact -
[Socialism] was first applied in England to Owen's theory of social reconstruction, and in France to those also of St. Simon and Fourier . . . The word, however, is used with a great variety of meaning, . . . even by economists and learned critics. The general tendency is to regard as socialistic any interference undertaken by society on behalf of the poor, . . . The tendency of the present socialism is more and more to ally itself with the most advanced democracy. --Encyc. Brit.
Capitalism and socialism are not digital - the presence of one does not forbid the presence of the other. All the countries I mentioned still have extensive social welfare systems.
Maybe you'd better explain that to Sweden, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, France and most of the rest of Europe because they don't appear to have noticed.
Or better yet, just keep quiet when the grown-ups are talking
I've never used RedHat so I can't comment with impunity but... surely if the distro makers won't keep up in the field of anti-spam you would grab the source and DIY.
Its anti-spam we're talking about, not photoshop or winamp, where the basic features (paint pictures or play music) is fixed. You need to stay current or you're wasting your time. Think of it like anti-virus. If you bought a year old XP disk and it came with anti-virus would you trust that to protect your machine?
If anything the fault lies with the redhat distro if there is no way to keep your apps up to date.
That's just the nature of OSS though, isn't it? The easiest way for me to upgrade is grab the new source and build it (well, portupgrade -r). The only difference with brighmail and their proprietary friends is they send you a binary patch which has much the same effect.
I seriously doubt that anyone with a license will be running the exact same verion of brightmail this time next year - whether they know it or not. Especially in the anti-spam field where you're talking about an ongoing battle from both sides.
But he didn't upgrade it. Would it be acceptable if he tested an anti-virus product he got with the PC he bought last year and he didn't update the virus defs? Or perhaps he should have used the release version of Brightmail from the time of the Windows XP launch?
Anybody using an old version of anti-virus or anti-spam software gets what they deserve (or get's the review their advertisers want). I use spamassassin and clamav with mimedefang on my corporate gateway and you have to upgrade spamassassin regularly or more and more spam starts slipping through - this is the nature of anti-spam and I'm sure is just as true of brightmail and the others.
A CEO has a legal responsibility to lead his company aggressively
This just isn't true and seems to have grown into another one of those self-replicating Slashdot myths. A CEO only has a responsibility to act in the best interests of the company. Whether that is aggresive or passively and frugaly is not a matter of law. Shareholders are welcome to vote out execs who's methods they don't agree with but they only have recourse to the law if the exec(s) act _against_ the interests of the company, whether to line their own pockets or those of another company. In other words they would generally have to act fraudulently to be legally culpible. Losing or making money, and the speed or agressiveness with which they do it is a matter purely between shareholders and execs.
I don't think SCO and their backers actually care. I'm sure I can't be the first to put two and two together on this. Sco are making claims that will ultimately destroy themselves, but the Canopy Group and SCO Execs will have removed all the money they want from SCO long before anybody can seek redress. SCO dies pennyless - those seeking redress get nothing - The Canopy Group sits in their giant vault swimming in their sea of gold coins.
I mean before this all they could look forward to was a small executives salary working for a dying company. Now they can make themselves a nice nest-egg from all the money people are throwing at a dancing corpse.
To think that problems won't be found in any large software project at some point is, I think niave. The point however is one of culture and scale
1) Microsoft's OS is ubiquitous.
2) Its a user-friendly desktop OS which people plug straight into the Internet
3) You have no choice but to wait for Windows Update to supply you with a patch for any holes
4) Everything is intigrated to such an extent that a hole in one part can lead to exploits system wide and patches can just as easily break one thing as they fix another
You are missing something. You can still buy the pieces individually under a 'regular' license.
Mr. Loiacono said Sun would continue to sell individual pieces of the server package, but that most companies would reap big savings from what he called the "happy meal" approach.
For once it _doesn't_ look like a cash cow inflation con.
I think the point is that a user messing with a wintel _desktop_ can screw up the _desktop machine_. This means desktop support and probably a reinstall.
On a Unix system, under best practices there is no desktop machine needing support, just a smart client - basically screens with network access and a big unix server(s) running everthing. User breaks things beyond repair? '#rmuser blah #adduser blah #copy dotfiles from[/blah/blah,no]:/blah/blah_' is the equivalent of a full install.
There is no private property without government - the whole concept of 'property' is a social construct. Without a government making laws you couldn't own anything, except by standing over it with a gun and hoping the next person along didn't have a bigger gun.
Slashdot Mirror
So what! Railroads were created in the UK. Perhaps you should go back to picking cotton and selling firewater to indians if you want control of anything to stay with the country that 'created it'. The Internet is international, if you don't like that why don't you go and create your own.
Duh! They have, its called the Internet.
20 minutes isn't bad, I'll grant you. And they do look good :)
Maybe the market's priorities have changed, but the only reason I ever bought my mp3 player a few years back was because it was solid-state and therefore didn't skip - even if you banged it off the walls. I can accept the iPod as cool with a 20-40GB capacity, because it serves a different purpose, but to use the same tech to compete with the solid-state players is to me a little bit of a con.
Personally I moved to xfce and I've never looked back. It looks good and loads in seconds - even on my old p166 with 64 mb of ram.
For a life without government why not start here
I have to agree. I think the Americans have a picture of some huge linked CCTV system that Tony Blair can sit and watch from his mountain headquarters, picking out dissidants at will.
Let's get the facts straight, there might be 20,000 CCTV cameras (that's a random number used for example) but they are in 10,000 completely independant networks run by disparate groups like the local Police authority, the local council, the local residents association, charities, local chamber of commerce, local shopkeepers, etc, etc.
There is no giant, nationwide, network of CCTV monitoring as seems to be the automatic assumption.
Just because we all run our own sendmail servers over our DSL or cable lines doesn't mean its the norm.
Chain letters and urban legends are virii, not worms, surely. I'm not up with the hip talk these days but a worm is self-replicating, a virus doesn't have to be. I suspect this is what the grandparent was refering to.
I guess worms are a subset of virii, but again I'm no expert on the lexicology of these things.
Its quite scary if things are so bad that people actually believe we should go backwards rather than the more difficult forward route.
I think many people don't realise that copyright and other IP laws are by their very definition not FREE-market tools. They are tools of control and market manipulation.
A market cannot truly be free when the state grants monopolies on certain properties, no matter how short the terms of the grant.
[Socialism] was first applied in England to Owen's theory of social reconstruction, and in France to those also of St. Simon and Fourier . . . The word, however, is used with a great variety of meaning, . . . even by economists and learned critics. The general tendency is to regard as socialistic any interference undertaken by society on behalf of the poor, . . . The tendency of the present socialism is more and more to ally itself with the most advanced democracy. --Encyc. Brit.
Capitalism and socialism are not digital - the presence of one does not forbid the presence of the other. All the countries I mentioned still have extensive social welfare systems.
Maybe you'd better explain that to Sweden, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, France and most of the rest of Europe because they don't appear to have noticed.
Or better yet, just keep quiet when the grown-ups are talking
Its anti-spam we're talking about, not photoshop or winamp, where the basic features (paint pictures or play music) is fixed. You need to stay current or you're wasting your time. Think of it like anti-virus. If you bought a year old XP disk and it came with anti-virus would you trust that to protect your machine?
If anything the fault lies with the redhat distro if there is no way to keep your apps up to date.
I seriously doubt that anyone with a license will be running the exact same verion of brightmail this time next year - whether they know it or not. Especially in the anti-spam field where you're talking about an ongoing battle from both sides.
But he didn't upgrade it. Would it be acceptable if he tested an anti-virus product he got with the PC he bought last year and he didn't update the virus defs? Or perhaps he should have used the release version of Brightmail from the time of the Windows XP launch?
Anybody using an old version of anti-virus or anti-spam software gets what they deserve (or get's the review their advertisers want). I use spamassassin and clamav with mimedefang on my corporate gateway and you have to upgrade spamassassin regularly or more and more spam starts slipping through - this is the nature of anti-spam and I'm sure is just as true of brightmail and the others.
This just isn't true and seems to have grown into another one of those self-replicating Slashdot myths. A CEO only has a responsibility to act in the best interests of the company. Whether that is aggresive or passively and frugaly is not a matter of law. Shareholders are welcome to vote out execs who's methods they don't agree with but they only have recourse to the law if the exec(s) act _against_ the interests of the company, whether to line their own pockets or those of another company. In other words they would generally have to act fraudulently to be legally culpible. Losing or making money, and the speed or agressiveness with which they do it is a matter purely between shareholders and execs.
"Hello, www.slashdot.org? I've got a Mr 145.154.34.222 on the line"
"Hello, DNS Services, how may I help you" "Yes, I'd like a number for www.tightbuts.com" "The number you are looking for is 1...2...4...dot...etc"
I'm sorry, but like it or not, I'm going to have steal this - its too good to abandon on slashdot.
I mean before this all they could look forward to was a small executives salary working for a dying company. Now they can make themselves a nice nest-egg from all the money people are throwing at a dancing corpse.
Winners - SCO : Losers - investors
To think that problems won't be found in any large software project at some point is, I think niave. The point however is one of culture and scale
1) Microsoft's OS is ubiquitous.
2) Its a user-friendly desktop OS which people plug straight into the Internet
3) You have no choice but to wait for Windows Update to supply you with a patch for any holes
4) Everything is intigrated to such an extent that a hole in one part can lead to exploits system wide and patches can just as easily break one thing as they fix another
Woah! Take a chill pill. You can still buy the seperate parts under the old licensing scheme. RTFA
Mr. Loiacono said Sun would continue to sell individual pieces of the server package, but that most companies would reap big savings from what he called the "happy meal" approach.
For once it _doesn't_ look like a cash cow inflation con.
On a Unix system, under best practices there is no desktop machine needing support, just a smart client - basically screens with network access and a big unix server(s) running everthing. User breaks things beyond repair?
'#rmuser blah
#adduser blah
#copy dotfiles from[/blah/blah,no]:/blah/blah_'
is the equivalent of a full install.
I also like chocolate, but I don't think accumlating it to the exlusion of everything else would make a sound basis for society.
I always find it ironic that its the people living in the countries at the top of the global capitalism pile that are always telling us that it works.
There is no private property without government - the whole concept of 'property' is a social construct. Without a government making laws you couldn't own anything, except by standing over it with a gun and hoping the next person along didn't have a bigger gun.