They're the ones who place their desire for fun ahead of everyone on earth's desire for peace and the right to privacy.
Damn, I've been hacking strictly for profit. Hours and hours on end of blackmailing small business owners, endless digging through corporate temp folders, sleepless nights coding new trojans... all to make a few bucks. I didn't know it could be fun as well!
In a NewsForge interview a couple of days ago de Raadt was asked about technical comparisons between Linux and BSD and replied, "I don't know. I have never run Linux."
Ah, and running a program gives you a lot of insight into what it does and how well it does it?
Why do we download source code? Because we want to look at the code and ensure that it's well written and there are no hidden calls there. We don't download compiled apps because, as well as they seem to run, we have no idea what they are doing under the hood. Maybe we're worried about bugs, maybe we're worried about spyware or trojans. That's the point of open source, so we can all look and see the actual code, because once a program is running, it's difficult to tell what it is doing or how efficiently it does it.
Since there is no way to press down on that panel, that means there is no middle click for us X users out there
Why not? Does the scroll wheel itself detect when it is depressed? No, the depression is detected by sensors built into the assembly holding the scroll wheel, not by the wheel itself. There would be no difference in putting in sensors to detect the depression of the entire panel assembly... not that you need to since the panel software, much like touchpads, is easily capable of discerning the difference between scrolls and double-taps.
In NYC, everyone has a huge stack of menus. The best thing about a paper menu is that you can write on it. When we want to try out a new restaurant, we'll try Menupages.com or do a google search to see if there's a menu online, but once we've ordered, we rely on the paper menu.
The paper menu allows you to write comments on the page; things like "slow delivery, order early", "ask for chopsticks", and "DO NOT ORDER FROM HERE!"; it's fine if you can remember everything, but it's useful for others looking through your menus trying to decide where to order from.
Another reason paper menus are better is you can put them in any order. Sometimes you only want menus for places that deliver 24x7; you can easily do this with multiple menus, one in the "all menus" folder, one in the folder sorted by type, and one in the folder sorted by hour.
If they did this online, allowed you make annotations on certain menus, allowed you to create your own sorting scheme, then it would be useful, but I doubt it would ever replace the NYC menu folder.
I don't want to sit in the living room, parked in front of the TV. I can't concentrate, and it isn't fair to my wife who may want to just relax and watch a Sex in the City DVD
Exactly! When I was a teen, I bought a C-64, but couldn't afford a monitor. I had it plugged into the TV for a while, and I could play quick games of Pac-Man, but sooner or later a sibling or a parent would want to watch TV and I'd get booted. When Ultima III was released, there was just no way I could tie up the TV for hours on end... thus I ended up buying a monitor and playing UIII in my own room.
The same goes for games now. I can play some console games on the TV for an hour and the GF won't mind too much. But if I want to hunker down and do some serious online RPG, RTS, or FPS gaming, I gotta sequester myself in front of my PC.
They don't think it's time to start making profit the primary motive for the operation?
Huh? Any shareholders who actually care about the company bailed a long time ago. The only ones holding stock now are day traders who hope to make a profit on the daily flucuations that come about every time the company makes the headlines.
How about creating some device that will let iPod users listen to their own music? Some sort of personal speaker system that pumps their music directly into their own ears, so no one else can hear it, so it bothers no one else, that allows them the flexibility to listen to their particular style of music? There *must* be some way to do this!
While I understand the point that Mr. Sheets is making, however, I disagree with his definition of safe.
I have Firefox on a computer, and it's 100% safe. I have IE loaded on that machine, heck it's unpatched Win2K, and even that's 100% safe. The reason it's "safe" is because the power supply died a few months ago and I haven't been able to turn it on.
So in this case, 100% safe = 0% usability. Which doesn't help me much, there has to be some acceptable level of "safe" that corresponds to a high level of usability, and that's where Firefox wins over IE.
You can think of $100,000 as 5 teachers, which is pretty damn good. That's what Microsoft costs the school.
That's a one time savings of $100,000. In four years, maybe they'll save another $100,000 when it's time to upgrade, or maybe they'd only save $50,000 since they purchased Software Assurance. So over 8 years, they've saved $150,000, or just over $18K a year.
That's nice, they can buy a handful more computers every year. But it's not going to pay for any more teachers.
I agree that this is the way to do it (making sure all the hardware works with Linux), however what happens when somone wants to do an upgrade down the road?
We're talking laptops, remember? You're not going to be throwing in a new NIC or Video card into a laptop. Well... video cards are upgradable, but nobody really sells them so the point is moot. Hard drives would require a reinstall anyway, memory upgrades don't require anything.
Sorry, but no fucking way am I reading a 10 page review for a keyboard and mouse.
There's actually 11 pages; and really all you have to read is the last page, because aside from the pictures, the previous 10 don't include any information not found in the summary on page 11.
We have the Polycom system over ISDN, and really, it hardly gets used. The novelty wore off after the first couple of meetings and now it sits unused; guess you really don't want the other side watching you twiddle your thumbs, roll your eyes, or whisper to each other.
Nowadays they just use Netmeeting and share the application. The best thing about this is that while some people may be in the conference rooms, those not fully participating but might need to see it (like techs) can just hook into the netmeeting from their desks. It's also good because it doesn't require you to reserve "the big room", you can have the decision makers in the room and all the auxiliary people connected from their desks.
Instead of using the voice capabilities of Netmeeting, use a standard phone conferencing. It allows your techs to dial in from their desks and listen in (muted of course). It also allows people to call in from home to listen in.
Ok, the final thing about the conference room; for the display, be it a projector or plasma, make sure the computer is located on the same side of the room! If the screen is on one wall, and the computer hidden in a cabinet on the other side of the room, then the wireless pointer and keyboard might not work when you're facing the screen and there's a bunch of people between you and the receiver.
"If studies like this aren't acted on... then instead of having a quarter of all the world's ISPs clustered here, around Reston, you'll have a quarter of the world's ISPs clustered around Tokyo or Beijing. I don't know if that's what the U.S. government really wants."
Hmm... moving AOL to Tokyo or Beijing might not be a bad idea. Would be much more expensive to send out all those CDs to people here...
I seriously doubt it. Right now, Intel is not really leading he pack in processor terms.
No, perhaps not. However, in terms of marketing, Intel is way ahead of all other processors. The masses have been told to buy computer with "Intel Inside", they remember the crazy men in blue, and the guys in the bunny suits. Of course, they don't really know what "Intel Inside" means, but it's easy to remember and ask for. Consumers feel empowered by saying they want a computer with "500 megapixels memory, 60 googlebites hard memory, and Intel Inside".
Would it increase Mac sales by having an "Intel Inside" sticker on it? Maybe not, but it would have a lot more consumer brand recognition.
American corporations let IT grow until it reached one half of all corporate capital spending by the year 2000
Remember, that small thing called Y2K? Yeah, companies spent a lot of money, but much of it was directed at fixing Y2K issues and ensuring that all systems were compliant. At least in my company. Maybe smaller companies were fiscally irresponsible, but I think most large corporations have so much bureaucracy that increasing spending for any reason is difficult.
In my IT department, we heard many people leaving and joining startups, buying aeron chairs and having foosball tables in their offices, but those of us who stuck around didn't see any increases in spending.
The latter is actually how it works. If there are two versions, Walmart will only stock the cleaner one. American Pie was an early example -- the "unrated" version is not available at walmart. That, of course, encourages movie publishers to push both to market.
Which brings up an interesting dilemma. People will rent via Wal-Mart the full versions of movies. They enjoy the movie, and buy a copy from Wal-Mart. When they watch said movie, they discover that many of the scenes are missing! It never happened before because they'd always rented the edited versions from Blockbuster and thus didn't know they were scenes cut in the first place.
So what's WM going to do when customers start trying to return videos because they're not unedited versions?
But back to the topic at hand: The industry would benefit more from having ONE SINGLE TRUE UNIFIED STANDARD as opposed to a couple of standards, which would confuse people.
Actually, it doesn't matter, as we've seen with the DVD +/- wars, because manufacturers stepped up and released burners capable of burning either medium. The only losers are the early adopters who are stuck with the losing format.
No, the problem is that many of us have, and want, separate accounts; the parent mentions MSN and MSDN, maybe the first is personal account and the second from work, and he doesn't want to mix the two. The problem is the cookies; when you hit the Passport sites it just recognizes the last used cookie, so you have to clear that user and log in as another.
Single Sign On sounds really cool, and maybe for the majority of people it's a Good Thing (TM). But for some of us, we have multiple accounts that we like to keep separate, maybe we have different accounts for various businesses we run, or just like to keep our work and personal accounts separate, SSO doesn't work and is unnecessary. So we can be *for* SSO in general, but that doesn't mean we want to use it.
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They're the ones who place their desire for fun ahead of everyone on earth's desire for peace and the right to privacy.
Damn, I've been hacking strictly for profit. Hours and hours on end of blackmailing small business owners, endless digging through corporate temp folders, sleepless nights coding new trojans... all to make a few bucks. I didn't know it could be fun as well!
In a NewsForge interview a couple of days ago de Raadt was asked about technical comparisons between Linux and BSD and replied, "I don't know. I have never run Linux."
Ah, and running a program gives you a lot of insight into what it does and how well it does it?
Why do we download source code? Because we want to look at the code and ensure that it's well written and there are no hidden calls there. We don't download compiled apps because, as well as they seem to run, we have no idea what they are doing under the hood. Maybe we're worried about bugs, maybe we're worried about spyware or trojans. That's the point of open source, so we can all look and see the actual code, because once a program is running, it's difficult to tell what it is doing or how efficiently it does it.
Since there is no way to press down on that panel, that means there is no middle click for us X users out there
Why not? Does the scroll wheel itself detect when it is depressed? No, the depression is detected by sensors built into the assembly holding the scroll wheel, not by the wheel itself. There would be no difference in putting in sensors to detect the depression of the entire panel assembly... not that you need to since the panel software, much like touchpads, is easily capable of discerning the difference between scrolls and double-taps.
In NYC, everyone has a huge stack of menus. The best thing about a paper menu is that you can write on it. When we want to try out a new restaurant, we'll try Menupages.com or do a google search to see if there's a menu online, but once we've ordered, we rely on the paper menu.
The paper menu allows you to write comments on the page; things like "slow delivery, order early", "ask for chopsticks", and "DO NOT ORDER FROM HERE!"; it's fine if you can remember everything, but it's useful for others looking through your menus trying to decide where to order from.
Another reason paper menus are better is you can put them in any order. Sometimes you only want menus for places that deliver 24x7; you can easily do this with multiple menus, one in the "all menus" folder, one in the folder sorted by type, and one in the folder sorted by hour.
If they did this online, allowed you make annotations on certain menus, allowed you to create your own sorting scheme, then it would be useful, but I doubt it would ever replace the NYC menu folder.
Wait, does this mean that we're supposed to... like... AOL?
But we can still hate AOL users right?
I don't want to sit in the living room, parked in front of the TV. I can't concentrate, and it isn't fair to my wife who may want to just relax and watch a Sex in the City DVD
Exactly! When I was a teen, I bought a C-64, but couldn't afford a monitor. I had it plugged into the TV for a while, and I could play quick games of Pac-Man, but sooner or later a sibling or a parent would want to watch TV and I'd get booted. When Ultima III was released, there was just no way I could tie up the TV for hours on end... thus I ended up buying a monitor and playing UIII in my own room.
The same goes for games now. I can play some console games on the TV for an hour and the GF won't mind too much. But if I want to hunker down and do some serious online RPG, RTS, or FPS gaming, I gotta sequester myself in front of my PC.
They don't think it's time to start making profit the primary motive for the operation?
Huh? Any shareholders who actually care about the company bailed a long time ago. The only ones holding stock now are day traders who hope to make a profit on the daily flucuations that come about every time the company makes the headlines.
All it involves is a straw...
The straw??? Now you tell me! I've been lifting up one corner flap and chewing it off to get to the juice...
How about creating some device that will let iPod users listen to their own music? Some sort of personal speaker system that pumps their music directly into their own ears, so no one else can hear it, so it bothers no one else, that allows them the flexibility to listen to their particular style of music? There *must* be some way to do this!
Now, if they would release albums worthy of being copied as a whole...
While I understand the point that Mr. Sheets is making, however, I disagree with his definition of safe.
I have Firefox on a computer, and it's 100% safe. I have IE loaded on that machine, heck it's unpatched Win2K, and even that's 100% safe. The reason it's "safe" is because the power supply died a few months ago and I haven't been able to turn it on.
So in this case, 100% safe = 0% usability. Which doesn't help me much, there has to be some acceptable level of "safe" that corresponds to a high level of usability, and that's where Firefox wins over IE.
You can think of $100,000 as 5 teachers, which is pretty damn good. That's what Microsoft costs the school.
That's a one time savings of $100,000. In four years, maybe they'll save another $100,000 when it's time to upgrade, or maybe they'd only save $50,000 since they purchased Software Assurance. So over 8 years, they've saved $150,000, or just over $18K a year.
That's nice, they can buy a handful more computers every year. But it's not going to pay for any more teachers.
Well, that got /. pretty quickly.
BTW, there's another set of pictures, copy and paste the *other* profile name into the link.
Ok, I wouldn't bother, they're not very good pics, they're pictures of a picture on a monitor.
I agree that this is the way to do it (making sure all the hardware works with Linux), however what happens when somone wants to do an upgrade down the road?
We're talking laptops, remember? You're not going to be throwing in a new NIC or Video card into a laptop. Well... video cards are upgradable, but nobody really sells them so the point is moot. Hard drives would require a reinstall anyway, memory upgrades don't require anything.
So no, upgrades aren't an issue in this case.
You keep using that word, and I don't think it means what you think it does.
Inconceivable! Are we talking about a buttercup or a buckwheat flower?
Sorry, but no fucking way am I reading a 10 page review for a keyboard and mouse.
There's actually 11 pages; and really all you have to read is the last page, because aside from the pictures, the previous 10 don't include any information not found in the summary on page 11.
We have the Polycom system over ISDN, and really, it hardly gets used. The novelty wore off after the first couple of meetings and now it sits unused; guess you really don't want the other side watching you twiddle your thumbs, roll your eyes, or whisper to each other.
Nowadays they just use Netmeeting and share the application. The best thing about this is that while some people may be in the conference rooms, those not fully participating but might need to see it (like techs) can just hook into the netmeeting from their desks. It's also good because it doesn't require you to reserve "the big room", you can have the decision makers in the room and all the auxiliary people connected from their desks.
Instead of using the voice capabilities of Netmeeting, use a standard phone conferencing. It allows your techs to dial in from their desks and listen in (muted of course). It also allows people to call in from home to listen in.
Ok, the final thing about the conference room; for the display, be it a projector or plasma, make sure the computer is located on the same side of the room! If the screen is on one wall, and the computer hidden in a cabinet on the other side of the room, then the wireless pointer and keyboard might not work when you're facing the screen and there's a bunch of people between you and the receiver.
"If studies like this aren't acted on ... then instead of having a quarter of all the world's ISPs clustered here, around Reston, you'll have a quarter of the world's ISPs clustered around Tokyo or Beijing. I don't know if that's what the U.S. government really wants."
Hmm... moving AOL to Tokyo or Beijing might not be a bad idea. Would be much more expensive to send out all those CDs to people here...
Olympic gymnastic and figure skating judges, especially back during the cold war when there was no doubt you had blocks of voters.
I wonder though, is Britain more "European" because larger immigrant blocks vote for their home countrymen?
So does that mean nerdy, podcasting geeks will get hot babes?
I seriously doubt it. Right now, Intel is not really leading he pack in processor terms.
No, perhaps not. However, in terms of marketing, Intel is way ahead of all other processors. The masses have been told to buy computer with "Intel Inside", they remember the crazy men in blue, and the guys in the bunny suits. Of course, they don't really know what "Intel Inside" means, but it's easy to remember and ask for. Consumers feel empowered by saying they want a computer with "500 megapixels memory, 60 googlebites hard memory, and Intel Inside".
Would it increase Mac sales by having an "Intel Inside" sticker on it? Maybe not, but it would have a lot more consumer brand recognition.
American corporations let IT grow until it reached one half of all corporate capital spending by the year 2000
Remember, that small thing called Y2K? Yeah, companies spent a lot of money, but much of it was directed at fixing Y2K issues and ensuring that all systems were compliant. At least in my company. Maybe smaller companies were fiscally irresponsible, but I think most large corporations have so much bureaucracy that increasing spending for any reason is difficult.
In my IT department, we heard many people leaving and joining startups, buying aeron chairs and having foosball tables in their offices, but those of us who stuck around didn't see any increases in spending.
The latter is actually how it works. If there are two versions, Walmart will only stock the cleaner one. American Pie was an early example -- the "unrated" version is not available at walmart. That, of course, encourages movie publishers to push both to market.
Which brings up an interesting dilemma. People will rent via Wal-Mart the full versions of movies. They enjoy the movie, and buy a copy from Wal-Mart. When they watch said movie, they discover that many of the scenes are missing! It never happened before because they'd always rented the edited versions from Blockbuster and thus didn't know they were scenes cut in the first place.
So what's WM going to do when customers start trying to return videos because they're not unedited versions?
But back to the topic at hand: The industry would benefit more from having ONE SINGLE TRUE UNIFIED STANDARD as opposed to a couple of standards, which would confuse people.
Actually, it doesn't matter, as we've seen with the DVD +/- wars, because manufacturers stepped up and released burners capable of burning either medium. The only losers are the early adopters who are stuck with the losing format.
No, the problem is that many of us have, and want, separate accounts; the parent mentions MSN and MSDN, maybe the first is personal account and the second from work, and he doesn't want to mix the two. The problem is the cookies; when you hit the Passport sites it just recognizes the last used cookie, so you have to clear that user and log in as another.
Single Sign On sounds really cool, and maybe for the majority of people it's a Good Thing (TM). But for some of us, we have multiple accounts that we like to keep separate, maybe we have different accounts for various businesses we run, or just like to keep our work and personal accounts separate, SSO doesn't work and is unnecessary. So we can be *for* SSO in general, but that doesn't mean we want to use it.