try the students and teachers edition. if you have anyone in your household in school, you qualify. you can setup on upto three machines. that brings down the cost to about $50/pc if you have three pcs.
thanks for the great idea!
i'll get myself a 2.4ghz cordless phone from all phone manufacturers and sue all of them for failing to properly displaying the possible health risks. i can quit my job!
Their connection speed is also ridiculous. It's not uncommon to find 7Mb-down/1Mb-up ADSL connection in their homes. No wonder their TV stations already have video on-demand for anyone who don't fit the stations' schedules.
They do not share common fonts. China in the old days was the dominant force in the region, and Korea and Japan had to study Chinese just like they are studying English now as their second language. Few Chinese characters that Korea and Japan incorporate into their publications have different pronunciations in each country, and are completely unintelligible to each other. Average Koreans and Japanese will recognize enough Chinese characters to play video games, but I assume they'll have to still rely on the Unicode standard if they want to get anywhere with the OS.
I don't have the link, but a few years ago, the former chinese prime miniter's jet was ordered from Boeing, and they were greatly upset to discover bugs in the plane to spy on them. Their aversion to foreign technology products is resulting from incidents as such.
If someone happens to find an architectural design flaw that kinda leads you directly to the oval office from the outside of the whitehouse, and that person publishes the data on the net, is he guilty?
That's the approach they seem to be taking with software too right now. You can't make the software absolutely perfectly secure, so if you find flaws, keep confidential and report only to the effected parties.
Will MS marketing use this study to convince upgrades to XP for marginally better security?
Will PC sales be helped by forcing upgrades machines capable of running XP?
It maybe inferior technologically, but people actually DO need walkie-talkie feature without committing themselves fully to a phone conversation sessions. Full phone conversation sessions come with so much overhead and commitment of your attention. It wasn't Nextel's marketing. It's a feature that some consumers actually prefer.
open source people are getting too caught up with market share.
open source software is about hobbyists expressing and implementing passion for the software development technology; many technical innovations happening as a result of not being bounded by management and deadlines.
money adulterates our cause.
keep our cause pure and noble; keep money out of open-source software!
that the technologies mentioned above WON'T be the next killer app!
Predicting such thing is like lotteries: virtually nobody guesses them right; and none of the people you know personally win.
'It is not possible for Linux to rapidly reach UNIX performance standards for complete enterprise functionality without the misappropriation of UNIX code, methods or concepts to achieve such performance, and coordination by a larger developer, such as IBM.'
SCO group is acknowledging that Linux is as good as its Unix if anything through this lawsuit. It's like SCO telling its customers that Linux has competant enterprise functionality. This sounds like a great news for Linux to me.
Slashdot Mirror
here in nyc, i don't think anybody thought those buttons worked for at least last 20 years. and that's about as far as my memory goes.
I have a voice recorder. That way, I don't even need to turn the light on to scramble things onto a piece of paper.
Score: -1 100% Flamebait
Score: 5 Funny
They're working to relieve their population problem by colonizing the moon. It's not money misspent.
X10 filed bankruptsy.. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5095260.html?tag= zdfd.newsfeed
good point! makes viruses and hackers' job more difficult when the system isn't up and running continiously.
try the students and teachers edition. if you have anyone in your household in school, you qualify. you can setup on upto three machines. that brings down the cost to about $50/pc if you have three pcs.
thanks for the great idea! i'll get myself a 2.4ghz cordless phone from all phone manufacturers and sue all of them for failing to properly displaying the possible health risks. i can quit my job!
you must be a cracker..
I think better way would be to have a check box in the call list indicating you would be willing to accept calls from charities and pollsters.
ah~ good thing they're at least feeling the pain of american spammers clogging their bandwidth. maybe now they'll do something about it.
why is this post modded as funny? it's all true.
Their connection speed is also ridiculous. It's not uncommon to find 7Mb-down /1Mb-up ADSL connection in their homes. No wonder their TV stations already have video on-demand for anyone who don't fit the stations' schedules.
They do not share common fonts. China in the old days was the dominant force in the region, and Korea and Japan had to study Chinese just like they are studying English now as their second language. Few Chinese characters that Korea and Japan incorporate into their publications have different pronunciations in each country, and are completely unintelligible to each other. Average Koreans and Japanese will recognize enough Chinese characters to play video games, but I assume they'll have to still rely on the Unicode standard if they want to get anywhere with the OS.
so how are we supposed to know whether it's the worm or the update constantly shutting down your computer?
I don't have the link, but a few years ago, the former chinese prime miniter's jet was ordered from Boeing, and they were greatly upset to discover bugs in the plane to spy on them. Their aversion to foreign technology products is resulting from incidents as such.
If someone happens to find an architectural design flaw that kinda leads you directly to the oval office from the outside of the whitehouse, and that person publishes the data on the net, is he guilty? That's the approach they seem to be taking with software too right now. You can't make the software absolutely perfectly secure, so if you find flaws, keep confidential and report only to the effected parties.
And you MUST activate your updates or ELSE!!! If you change hardware, you must reactivate your OS AND also your updates or they'll rollback!
I agree whole-heartedly with this poster, and this was one of the best slashdot posts of all time!!!
Will MS marketing use this study to convince upgrades to XP for marginally better security? Will PC sales be helped by forcing upgrades machines capable of running XP?
Blue screen of ... "DEATH" is gonna take on a whole new meaning...
It maybe inferior technologically, but people actually DO need walkie-talkie feature without committing themselves fully to a phone conversation sessions. Full phone conversation sessions come with so much overhead and commitment of your attention. It wasn't Nextel's marketing. It's a feature that some consumers actually prefer.
open source people are getting too caught up with market share. open source software is about hobbyists expressing and implementing passion for the software development technology; many technical innovations happening as a result of not being bounded by management and deadlines. money adulterates our cause. keep our cause pure and noble; keep money out of open-source software!
that the technologies mentioned above WON'T be the next killer app! Predicting such thing is like lotteries: virtually nobody guesses them right; and none of the people you know personally win.
SCO group is acknowledging that Linux is as good as its Unix if anything through this lawsuit. It's like SCO telling its customers that Linux has competant enterprise functionality. This sounds like a great news for Linux to me.