I'm betting no more than four weeks. Two months at the outside.
Does not matter how long it takes. Companies who may implement DRM know there is an inconvenience factor involved. How many times will the average public patch/hack/config something to make it work outside the "law"? My guess is the die-hard geeks will do it as much as it takes but johnny-lunchbox is going to get pretty tired real quick. This has to do with America's lazy attitude toward everything. It has to work right now and without any thought on the users' part.
Backwards compatibility is a joke and should not be apart of a new consoles features. This is the reason we still have sub par franchise games out there that have graphics based on outdated game engines and controllers that mimic PSOne controllers. They are good for the consoles they were entended for but the current gen of consoles are so much better. When I purchase the next gen console I want the latest and greatest technology not something that is hindered by some old piece of crap game that is 4 years old and plays like a dog. If I want to play these games i'll play it on the console it was intended for.
3. It makes the Linux community look like a bunch of school yard bullies. They don't like something happening to Linux so they hijack clueless users computers to cause trouble to a company they hate. This is one of the many reasons companies probably won't move over to Linux when the community uses gorilla warfare tactics. It only takes a few bad seeds to ruin it for all of us and this is what they are doing.
Man would have to be the worst invention out there. Nothing good has come from man. Ask yourself this would this planet be better off with or without man?
The lander actually crashed and NASA does not want to admit to another failure. The pictures are done by some graphic artist who is taking pictures of his sons sandbox and doctoring them up with Photoshop. The rocks are actually cat turds and the rover in the pictures are some beaten up tonka toys.
Another *Year in Review* or *Predictions* article about something open source. If I want a year in review I'll read the change log otherwise it's all fluff and as for predictions it's mostly all hype for the corporate marketing machine. If more than 10% of the predictions come true I'd be surprised at best.
This if people actually save their documents, email, pictures, etc., etc. to one location. Most of my friend's computers that I go over to fix save their files all over the place so making backups is more of a chore. MS tries it's best to create a "default" location but it amazes me how many people don't actually use it or how many third party software vendors don't follow MS's lead. Everything I do is saved in My Documents and is backed up locally and then copied to my server where a backup tape runs nightly. Anal? Yes but at least I know I have a backup if needed.
Are you whacked? Microsoft has made the biggest contribution to the community, the expansion of the internet. Lets face it how many people would be using the internet it wasn't graphical? I can just see my grandmother using PINE and Lynx. And as for Linux it wouldn't be even a common word if it wasn't for the internet. So looking back at all this Linux users have MS to congratulate. I know this won't be popular with the majority of readers but hey the truth sometimes hurts.
Microsoft is doing this to kill FAT? Let's face it if they could have done this to kill off 16 bit legacy support they probably would have charged something for that too. Killing off FAT also would force technology users to use maybe FAT32 or something newer?
Or they are testing the waters to see if they can charge for FAT32, NTFS, etc. Or do they own patents on those technologies as well?
I wouldn't be surprised if there were dozens of exploits out there for alot of OS's that most people in the security biz don't know about. This is the difference between and average hacker and an exceptional hacker. Most often have undisclosed exploits that they may have found and keep in their toolboxes. Exceptional hackers are not bound by ego and blabbing to friends about their endeavors and how they do it.
You'll be lucky to see this version in a distro before 2005. With the problems they had with 2.4.0 right out of the gates things will be very slow. It will probably be something like 2.6.4 or something that will be the final kernel most of them go with.
That is why there are at least three very large books available from Microsoft Press on the subject and there are dozens of third party books that cover Exchange 2000.
I think that this has more to do with the department in charge of all things Exchange. Take a look at the SQL Server BOL (Books OnLine). You will never find a better resource than this and it comes with SQL Server.
These flares were a precursor to the sun actually burning it's self out? I mean really. How do we know when and how the fiery ball at the center of our solar system will die out for real? It's not like we have ever seen something like this happen before up close and personal. Maybe the science of today is totally wrong when it comes to stuff like this. We just don't know...
I think that we shall see more of this as the SCO claims get closer to court. All these companies (Novell, IBM, etc..) are going to be snatching up the various Linux distro companies. On the slim chance that SCO actually gets to court and even in the slightest chance that the GPL is ruled invalid. These purchasing companies now have pretty impressive software and it's all free to do what they want with it. Call this post flaimbait or trolling. The one thing that I have learned is that allmost all big businesses are evil and have one thing in mind. Make lots of money on the backs of others and Open Source is just waiting to be picked dry.
Why not! In an earlier Slashdot article Michigan state is planning on purchasing 130,000 wireless laptops for 6th graders. Seems these US schools and academic types seem to think that giving away hundreds of thousands of dollars of technology to students will help them enjoy their learning experience. Maybe even make the students smarter.
Teacher: Ok little Johnny what's the square root of 144? Little Johnny: Do you happen to have a cell phone on you I left mine in my locker and I have to call my mom and ask her.
It would have to burrow into the asteroid before exploding. We would certainly have some space debris, but as long as it was somewhat spread out, most wouldn't do much damage if the pieces that broke off weren't too big.
My thoughts would be to have the weapon(s) sit on the surface of the object in close proximity to each other and explode at the closest possible point where the axis of the detonation point was most inline with the earth. That way the object's particle trajectories would be outward from the blast point (directly inline with earth). Thus "most" of the particles would be sent around the earth. That is if they were not seduced by either the moons or earths gravity. Another factor would be if the object broke apart cleanly. At any point the odds of NASA or any other worldly organization doing this is pretty much moot.
As for me, if there is enough warning turn on the tube, kick back with a few brews and enjoy the fireworks it's going to be one glorious sight.
Not to mention that this kid is living in public housing.. The RIA is not only extorting 2,000.. it's $2000 they probably desperately need.
Of the 5 people I know that live in public housing they can't afford to purchase a computer little alone the cost of dialup internet. These people may be actually doing well for themselves since they can afford both of these luxuries. Add the fact they are probably using Cable/DSL internet access. It would be interesting to see the public housing authority investigate this family only to find out they are cheating them as well. Which is totaly possible with all the press these people are getting.
Downloaded another album from one of many private ftp sites I know of.
Laughed at the fools who use p2p as a primary souce of music/movies/software/etc/etc.
Not that I don't think that the RIAA will never come after other forms of gathering music but mainstream p2p does offer little in the way of protecting the user from prying eyes. As the case in point.
This is a loaded question so I'll bite. What success? I mean seriously the definition of success to each person is different. To a business it's the ability to generate capital/profit from something. I hardly see GNU/Linux busting the business model open in this area.
Another thing I see is all these companies are just waiting in the wings with this until someone violates the GPL, goes to court and actually wins. Say good bye to all these companies support of the Open Source movement. Everything they are working with will be come closed and cost dearly for since there will be a dependency on it. Just because it's Open Source does not mean these companies have an ulterior motive up their sleeves. These companies are all in the business to make money and will do it anyway possible and crush those who stand in their way. Criticize me if you want but this is the way big business is done in America.
You can't just download MSDE and be on your way without paying Microsoft for some other product.
Actually if you are building an ASP.NET application using Web Matrix and it's for a local intranet you can download MSDE and use it. And since Web Matrix is free as well.....
Personally I would place a bet on SCO. Why? Cuz if in fact they actually win I could end up purchasing my small island in the pacific and laugh at all you guys/ladies. Not that I think that SCO should/would win just the spread would make it worth it.
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I'm betting no more than four weeks. Two months at the outside.
Does not matter how long it takes. Companies who may implement DRM know there is an inconvenience factor involved. How many times will the average public patch/hack/config something to make it work outside the "law"? My guess is the die-hard geeks will do it as much as it takes but johnny-lunchbox is going to get pretty tired real quick. This has to do with America's lazy attitude toward everything. It has to work right now and without any thought on the users' part.
Backwards compatibility is a joke and should not be apart of a new consoles features. This is the reason we still have sub par franchise games out there that have graphics based on outdated game engines and controllers that mimic PSOne controllers. They are good for the consoles they were entended for but the current gen of consoles are so much better. When I purchase the next gen console I want the latest and greatest technology not something that is hindered by some old piece of crap game that is 4 years old and plays like a dog. If I want to play these games i'll play it on the console it was intended for.
3. It makes the Linux community look like a bunch of school yard bullies. They don't like something happening to Linux so they hijack clueless users computers to cause trouble to a company they hate. This is one of the many reasons companies probably won't move over to Linux when the community uses gorilla warfare tactics. It only takes a few bad seeds to ruin it for all of us and this is what they are doing.
Man would have to be the worst invention out there. Nothing good has come from man. Ask yourself this would this planet be better off with or without man?
How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it.
-- Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting
The lander actually crashed and NASA does not want to admit to another failure. The pictures are done by some graphic artist who is taking pictures of his sons sandbox and doctoring them up with Photoshop. The rocks are actually cat turds and the rover in the pictures are some beaten up tonka toys.
Another *Year in Review* or *Predictions* article about something open source. If I want a year in review I'll read the change log otherwise it's all fluff and as for predictions it's mostly all hype for the corporate marketing machine. If more than 10% of the predictions come true I'd be surprised at best.
This if people actually save their documents, email, pictures, etc., etc. to one location. Most of my friend's computers that I go over to fix save their files all over the place so making backups is more of a chore. MS tries it's best to create a "default" location but it amazes me how many people don't actually use it or how many third party software vendors don't follow MS's lead. Everything I do is saved in My Documents and is backed up locally and then copied to my server where a backup tape runs nightly. Anal? Yes but at least I know I have a backup if needed.
This is over a month old already. Oddly enough I thought that I read it on slashpot in the first place. But maybe here.
Are you whacked? Microsoft has made the biggest contribution to the community, the expansion of the internet. Lets face it how many people would be using the internet it wasn't graphical? I can just see my grandmother using PINE and Lynx. And as for Linux it wouldn't be even a common word if it wasn't for the internet. So looking back at all this Linux users have MS to congratulate. I know this won't be popular with the majority of readers but hey the truth sometimes hurts.
Microsoft is doing this to kill FAT? Let's face it if they could have done this to kill off 16 bit legacy support they probably would have charged something for that too. Killing off FAT also would force technology users to use maybe FAT32 or something newer?
Or they are testing the waters to see if they can charge for FAT32, NTFS, etc. Or do they own patents on those technologies as well?
I wouldn't be surprised if there were dozens of exploits out there for alot of OS's that most people in the security biz don't know about. This is the difference between and average hacker and an exceptional hacker. Most often have undisclosed exploits that they may have found and keep in their toolboxes. Exceptional hackers are not bound by ego and blabbing to friends about their endeavors and how they do it.
You'll be lucky to see this version in a distro before 2005. With the problems they had with 2.4.0 right out of the gates things will be very slow. It will probably be something like 2.6.4 or something that will be the final kernel most of them go with.
That is why there are at least three very large books available from Microsoft Press on the subject and there are dozens of third party books that cover Exchange 2000.
I think that this has more to do with the department in charge of all things Exchange. Take a look at the SQL Server BOL (Books OnLine). You will never find a better resource than this and it comes with SQL Server.
These flares were a precursor to the sun actually burning it's self out? I mean really. How do we know when and how the fiery ball at the center of our solar system will die out for real? It's not like we have ever seen something like this happen before up close and personal. Maybe the science of today is totally wrong when it comes to stuff like this. We just don't know...
I think that we shall see more of this as the SCO claims get closer to court. All these companies (Novell, IBM, etc..) are going to be snatching up the various Linux distro companies. On the slim chance that SCO actually gets to court and even in the slightest chance that the GPL is ruled invalid. These purchasing companies now have pretty impressive software and it's all free to do what they want with it. Call this post flaimbait or trolling. The one thing that I have learned is that allmost all big businesses are evil and have one thing in mind. Make lots of money on the backs of others and Open Source is just waiting to be picked dry.
It would be a sad day if this came to be true....
hence the term ./ing.
Dot-Slashing?
It does not support polymorphism, inheritence, etc.
You must mean it does not support implementation inheritance right?
Why not! In an earlier Slashdot article Michigan state is planning on purchasing 130,000 wireless laptops for 6th graders. Seems these US schools and academic types seem to think that giving away hundreds of thousands of dollars of technology to students will help them enjoy their learning experience. Maybe even make the students smarter.
Teacher: Ok little Johnny what's the square root of 144?
Little Johnny: Do you happen to have a cell phone on you I left mine in my locker and I have to call my mom and ask her.
It would have to burrow into the asteroid before exploding. We would certainly have some space debris, but as long as it was somewhat spread out, most wouldn't do much damage if the pieces that broke off weren't too big.
My thoughts would be to have the weapon(s) sit on the surface of the object in close proximity to each other and explode at the closest possible point where the axis of the detonation point was most inline with the earth. That way the object's particle trajectories would be outward from the blast point (directly inline with earth). Thus "most" of the particles would be sent around the earth. That is if they were not seduced by either the moons or earths gravity. Another factor would be if the object broke apart cleanly. At any point the odds of NASA or any other worldly organization doing this is pretty much moot.
As for me, if there is enough warning turn on the tube, kick back with a few brews and enjoy the fireworks it's going to be one glorious sight.
I would support a government mandate that tech companies have to use binary SI prefixes on labels.
And I would support a government mandate that made it open hunting season on idiots who brought dumb claims like this before the justice system.
Only in America. The Land of the Free and Home of the Lawsuit.
Not to mention that this kid is living in public housing.. The RIA is not only extorting 2,000.. it's $2000 they probably desperately need.
Of the 5 people I know that live in public housing they can't afford to purchase a computer little alone the cost of dialup internet. These people may be actually doing well for themselves since they can afford both of these luxuries. Add the fact they are probably using Cable/DSL internet access. It would be interesting to see the public housing authority investigate this family only to find out they are cheating them as well. Which is totaly possible with all the press these people are getting.
Not that I don't think that the RIAA will never come after other forms of gathering music but mainstream p2p does offer little in the way of protecting the user from prying eyes. As the case in point.
Are they all wanting the success of GNU/Linux
This is a loaded question so I'll bite. What success? I mean seriously the definition of success to each person is different. To a business it's the ability to generate capital/profit from something. I hardly see GNU/Linux busting the business model open in this area.
Another thing I see is all these companies are just waiting in the wings with this until someone violates the GPL, goes to court and actually wins. Say good bye to all these companies support of the Open Source movement. Everything they are working with will be come closed and cost dearly for since there will be a dependency on it. Just because it's Open Source does not mean these companies have an ulterior motive up their sleeves. These companies are all in the business to make money and will do it anyway possible and crush those who stand in their way. Criticize me if you want but this is the way big business is done in America.
You can't just download MSDE and be on your way without paying Microsoft for some other product.
Actually if you are building an ASP.NET application using Web Matrix and it's for a local intranet you can download MSDE and use it. And since Web Matrix is free as well.....
Personally I would place a bet on SCO. Why? Cuz if in fact they actually win I could end up purchasing my small island in the pacific and laugh at all you guys/ladies. Not that I think that SCO should/would win just the spread would make it worth it.