Okay, so you want me to go and read this huge advanced bash programming guide just to make sure that i don't get exploited via Bash? And if i don't, im ignorant and deserve to be hacked?
This is the worst arguement ever, and this is why I hate some arrogant linux users. Computers aren't MEANT to be hard to use. I shouldn't have to read 200 pages just to figure out how to turn it on, or install a driver, or boot into X11.
I'm sure not all linux users think like you, but the fact that so many does is really upsetting, and most certainly a contributing factor to the reason why linux is not a dominate force on the desktop.
did both. parties got boring, drugs lasted longer until i got into opiates, then called it quits. now i live with my gf and it's a better life, but it doesnt change the fact that through the whole phase i disliked uni, and i still dislike it.
Actually the program is quite good, and it's rated as such. The school is also recognized around the world along with some others in Ontario (UofT, waterloo, etc..).
Although my attendance is zero, i do indeed read the text book to pass a course. But the real reason i "know" it is due to experience in the field and just having computers as a hobby for so many years.
For instance, they have a course on C++. Well I learned that back when i was grade 7, so i didn't goto any of those classes or read the book.
We have other classes on things i didn't know, but reading the text book was sufficient to pass. What really peeves me is that i don't use _anything_ i've learned in the field. I'm not a sloppy coder either, so i don't see the point of my program.
I'm a fourth year comp sci student at McMaster university. I think it's a great idea. In my four years, the first 2 didn't even have that many comp sci course, a lot was electives. Sure electives are great for general knowledge and fun, but if you just want to get your comp sci degree and start working, then this is a much better option. Plus, if you really want to do electives you could do it after you start working.
Personally i'm sick of university, i was sick of it after the first year and I wish it was over. My attendance rate is near zero percent (literally), and i still manage As? Seems rather ridiculous and a waste of my money, considering everything i've learned about programming is at my current and previous development positions.
My 12" iBook averages 4.5/5 hours (with airport extreme enabled and in use) doing things like playing music, surfing the web, writing docs.
If i push it or it's hot then sometimes only 4 hours, but this is rare.
Watching a DVD will drop it to about 2.5-3 hours, which is still reasonable. Of course, this is a brand new one, and after a year I won't be getting this kind of battery time. But none the less, what kind of PC can deliver that? Not to mention this upgraded iBook after tax and shipping was under $1900 CDN.
Notice how "played" is in the past tense, as in, he "played" BEFORE. Yes, they were apparantly found guilty of operating as an illegal monopoly, but that was far later. You know, you have to build a monopoly, it doesn't just appear. To build it you have to sell a lot of your software. If you sold a lot of your software then it's either really good/easy to use, the best option, you marketed it really well, or more than one of the previous options. You can't say he did anything wrong by doing any of those, I think you're just mad that you don't know what daylight looks like and perhaps you lost your bus pass. If another OS solution was better, then they should have marketed it better. So fuck off, he obviously did the best job.
I realize the linux community hates the idea of actually making a profit off of something, so you can stick with your craptastic donations and feeble dreams that one day perhaps the world will come down and crush Bill Gates, even though as you read this, no doubt from IE6, you forget to realize that windows is quite simply a GOOD OS.
Move out of your parent's basement and take your fucking penguin t-shirt off, nobody cares that you like linux, especially your non-existant girlfriend.
Maybe you should format your computer, which is no doubt running some Microsoft varient, because as well as being fat you dont want to be called a hypocrit now do you?
Of making an intereface that looks like windows, when you can just use windows instead?
I mean, people use linux for whatever reason, but for most it's by choice and not necessity. So if it's not necessary to use it, but they still do, and then emulate the windows intereface, you might as well just choose to use windows instead of going through that whole hassle.
That blowing up cars, and killing people by various methods is a lot better done in a game, then oh.. I don't know, say in real life?
I'd rather see people get their frustrations out on a computer game than to literally run someone down. Of course, there's not even a correlation between the two, which really brings to question why the HELL people blame video games for real life violence.
Like anyone can afford the new MS development environments. Nobody can. And who's going to program on linux languages? There's a hell of a lot more money in development for windows, simply because more people use it, and more people need "simplistic" front ends that do complex things.
Companies like Microsoft don't even turn a profit really off of home users anyways, it's the businesses and client licenses where the money is at, so paying for a peice of software at the client level is just ridiculous.
Furthermore, Why not give out the key? It's not like it's hard to find anyways, at least it saves you a few minutes of search time. Geez, you should perhaps be happy that he's actually helping you save time.
But what about the areas that Microsoft did break the law.
Tell me what areas these are. DOJ ruled they didn't break the law with IE, and that was pretty much the only "questionable" thing they've done, which in my opinion doesn't even matter -- it's their operating system, they can stick whatever they want in it.
They havn't done anything wrong. Honostly, what can you say that they've done wrong? They monopolized a market? Hah. Their product was just BETTER than everything else out there, not to mention they ADVERTISED it so much better. Hmm, when you get market share, you do well. It's not rocket science.
What I meant by "nice" was that they were fast in their business practices, they quickly made a good product, and marketed it ruthelessly. Is this against the law? Absolutely not.
That as soon as a company begins to become successful, every ally yells out slander.
I'm not flaming or anything, but Microsoft is quite successful, whether their business practices are "nice" or not is irrelevant. Now Redhat has begun to fall into the same success, for reasons I havn't really looked into, but I would assume better advertising because many people I know know of Redhat even when they aren't real "techies".
I think if they become successful they will still most certainly stand by open source (as they claimed), so perhaps the open source community should be supporting their success rather than making allegations.
I'm more of a Microsoft supporter myself (that doesn't mean I dislike open source -- I love it), but I would like to see some competition to them. A monopoly is never good.
In all my years of using Microsoft products I've only got 1 virus and 1 trojan, both i realized before i ran them and removed them.
I think you make Microsoft products out to be worse than they are, but of course, that's to be expected - this is slashdot. Windows 2000 drivers can all be obtained from windows update, along with all the security fixes. I understand how in some respects linux installations are fast, but you're also not getting a lot of things (ie. DirectX, GeForce4 support, etc..) whereas with Windows 2000 I'm almost guaranteed it'll work (not well mind you) even without updating drivers.
Actually the publishers and film makers still get money, because the stores don't just make new copies, they still have to pay for original copies and then modify them themselves. I think the real issue is that the publishers and such don't want the companies to be able to change their works of art from the original form.
Off! I'll just bring my laptop to the great outdoors... with a wireless net connection you could download different types of repellent too, maybe ones for bees and annoying campers who won't leave you alone.
Is it just me or are these internet companies' names getting more cheesy everyday? Soon we'll have CutCo, EdgeCom, and the ever waiting CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet joining the leagues of crap companies im sure.
Maybe spam companies will finally realize that spamming isn't as effective as they thought. If there's not as many new users as they thought, then perhaps they'll realize most of their bloody e-mails are just being deleted:-)
Traffic lights, pacemakers, appliances -- all subject to outages and interruptions because in the future they're controlled via Internet
Why would these things be controlled via the internet? We already segregate certain high security systems from the internet to avoid even the chance of them being "hacked". I don't think a pacemaker would -EVER- be hooked up to the internet -- not only is there no point, but it's just extra risk for something to go wrong.
On the note about how to stop the rhetoric, it's simple. We need people who are educated in technology to report to the government with the TRUTH, not these fictional facts being spread to merely cause a slight fear which will (in all likely hood) raise the sales in the technology industry to "buy more secure products".
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Okay, so you want me to go and read this huge advanced bash programming guide just to make sure that i don't get exploited via Bash? And if i don't, im ignorant and deserve to be hacked?
This is the worst arguement ever, and this is why I hate some arrogant linux users. Computers aren't MEANT to be hard to use. I shouldn't have to read 200 pages just to figure out how to turn it on, or install a driver, or boot into X11.
I'm sure not all linux users think like you, but the fact that so many does is really upsetting, and most certainly a contributing factor to the reason why linux is not a dominate force on the desktop.
That in the RSS feeds demonstration for Safari, the site they use is Slashdot?
Just thought that was interesting..
did both. parties got boring, drugs lasted longer until i got into opiates, then called it quits. now i live with my gf and it's a better life, but it doesnt change the fact that through the whole phase i disliked uni, and i still dislike it.
Actually the program is quite good, and it's rated as such. The school is also recognized around the world along with some others in Ontario (UofT, waterloo, etc..).
Although my attendance is zero, i do indeed read the text book to pass a course. But the real reason i "know" it is due to experience in the field and just having computers as a hobby for so many years.
For instance, they have a course on C++. Well I learned that back when i was grade 7, so i didn't goto any of those classes or read the book.
We have other classes on things i didn't know, but reading the text book was sufficient to pass. What really peeves me is that i don't use _anything_ i've learned in the field. I'm not a sloppy coder either, so i don't see the point of my program.
I'm a fourth year comp sci student at McMaster university. I think it's a great idea. In my four years, the first 2 didn't even have that many comp sci course, a lot was electives. Sure electives are great for general knowledge and fun, but if you just want to get your comp sci degree and start working, then this is a much better option. Plus, if you really want to do electives you could do it after you start working.
Personally i'm sick of university, i was sick of it after the first year and I wish it was over. My attendance rate is near zero percent (literally), and i still manage As? Seems rather ridiculous and a waste of my money, considering everything i've learned about programming is at my current and previous development positions.
My 12" iBook averages 4.5/5 hours (with airport extreme enabled and in use) doing things like playing music, surfing the web, writing docs.
If i push it or it's hot then sometimes only 4 hours, but this is rare.
Watching a DVD will drop it to about 2.5-3 hours, which is still reasonable. Of course, this is a brand new one, and after a year I won't be getting this kind of battery time. But none the less, what kind of PC can deliver that? Not to mention this upgraded iBook after tax and shipping was under $1900 CDN.
I'd be making snide remarks to the owner of the machine i was deliciously invading, such as "nice windows".
You sir, are a fucking moron.
Notice how "played" is in the past tense, as in, he "played" BEFORE. Yes, they were apparantly found guilty of operating as an illegal monopoly, but that was far later. You know, you have to build a monopoly, it doesn't just appear. To build it you have to sell a lot of your software. If you sold a lot of your software then it's either really good/easy to use, the best option, you marketed it really well, or more than one of the previous options. You can't say he did anything wrong by doing any of those, I think you're just mad that you don't know what daylight looks like and perhaps you lost your bus pass. If another OS solution was better, then they should have marketed it better. So fuck off, he obviously did the best job.
I realize the linux community hates the idea of actually making a profit off of something, so you can stick with your craptastic donations and feeble dreams that one day perhaps the world will come down and crush Bill Gates, even though as you read this, no doubt from IE6, you forget to realize that windows is quite simply a GOOD OS.
Move out of your parent's basement and take your fucking penguin t-shirt off, nobody cares that you like linux, especially your non-existant girlfriend.
Maybe you should format your computer, which is no doubt running some Microsoft varient, because as well as being fat you dont want to be called a hypocrit now do you?
Of making an intereface that looks like windows, when you can just use windows instead?
I mean, people use linux for whatever reason, but for most it's by choice and not necessity. So if it's not necessary to use it, but they still do, and then emulate the windows intereface, you might as well just choose to use windows instead of going through that whole hassle.
That blowing up cars, and killing people by various methods is a lot better done in a game, then oh.. I don't know, say in real life?
I'd rather see people get their frustrations out on a computer game than to literally run someone down. Of course, there's not even a correlation between the two, which really brings to question why the HELL people blame video games for real life violence.
Like anyone can afford the new MS development environments. Nobody can. And who's going to program on linux languages? There's a hell of a lot more money in development for windows, simply because more people use it, and more people need "simplistic" front ends that do complex things.
Companies like Microsoft don't even turn a profit really off of home users anyways, it's the businesses and client licenses where the money is at, so paying for a peice of software at the client level is just ridiculous.
Furthermore, Why not give out the key? It's not like it's hard to find anyways, at least it saves you a few minutes of search time. Geez, you should perhaps be happy that he's actually helping you save time.
But what about the areas that Microsoft did break the law.
Tell me what areas these are. DOJ ruled they didn't break the law with IE, and that was pretty much the only "questionable" thing they've done, which in my opinion doesn't even matter -- it's their operating system, they can stick whatever they want in it.
They havn't done anything wrong. Honostly, what can you say that they've done wrong? They monopolized a market? Hah. Their product was just BETTER than everything else out there, not to mention they ADVERTISED it so much better. Hmm, when you get market share, you do well. It's not rocket science.
What I meant by "nice" was that they were fast in their business practices, they quickly made a good product, and marketed it ruthelessly. Is this against the law? Absolutely not.
That as soon as a company begins to become successful, every ally yells out slander.
I'm not flaming or anything, but Microsoft is quite successful, whether their business practices are "nice" or not is irrelevant. Now Redhat has begun to fall into the same success, for reasons I havn't really looked into, but I would assume better advertising because many people I know know of Redhat even when they aren't real "techies".
I think if they become successful they will still most certainly stand by open source (as they claimed), so perhaps the open source community should be supporting their success rather than making allegations.
I'm more of a Microsoft supporter myself (that doesn't mean I dislike open source -- I love it), but I would like to see some competition to them. A monopoly is never good.
Where can I get a night vision enhancement module for this with HUD and distance finder?
.. uhh .. nevermind ;-)
Forget that, where can I get an x-ray enhancement? Nothing like seeing through
In all my years of using Microsoft products I've only got 1 virus and 1 trojan, both i realized before i ran them and removed them.
I think you make Microsoft products out to be worse than they are, but of course, that's to be expected - this is slashdot. Windows 2000 drivers can all be obtained from windows update, along with all the security fixes. I understand how in some respects linux installations are fast, but you're also not getting a lot of things (ie. DirectX, GeForce4 support, etc..) whereas with Windows 2000 I'm almost guaranteed it'll work (not well mind you) even without updating drivers.
Actually the publishers and film makers still get money, because the stores don't just make new copies, they still have to pay for original copies and then modify them themselves. I think the real issue is that the publishers and such don't want the companies to be able to change their works of art from the original form.
that tactile, phsyical interfaces will be the next evolution in how we interact with machines.
:-)
what, like the abacus?
Off! I'll just bring my laptop to the great outdoors... with a wireless net connection you could download different types of repellent too, maybe ones for bees and annoying campers who won't leave you alone.
AMD has 32-bit backward compatability and intel's does not, I believe AMD is the better choice anyways. Who would not want to have that option?
didn't we already know this?
Verisign partners such as Interland
Is it just me or are these internet companies' names getting more cheesy everyday?
Soon we'll have CutCo, EdgeCom, and the ever waiting CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet joining the leagues of crap companies im sure.
WorldCom's role in starting the myth
:-)
Maybe spam companies will finally realize that spamming isn't as effective as they thought. If there's not as many new users as they thought, then perhaps they'll realize most of their bloody e-mails are just being deleted
Traffic lights, pacemakers, appliances -- all subject to outages and interruptions because in the future they're controlled via Internet
Why would these things be controlled via the internet? We already segregate certain high security systems from the internet to avoid even the chance of them being "hacked". I don't think a pacemaker would -EVER- be hooked up to the internet -- not only is there no point, but it's just extra risk for something to go wrong.
On the note about how to stop the rhetoric, it's simple. We need people who are educated in technology to report to the government with the TRUTH, not these fictional facts being spread to merely cause a slight fear which will (in all likely hood) raise the sales in the technology industry to "buy more secure products".