A microshaft drone has enthralled our administration with his whiz-bang fancy flowery bs.
Trust me...our nerd community is already up in arms over this and probably will do something bout it.;)
I have Karma To Burn....
Let me tell you something.
This is the result of the political machinations of Alexander Clark
A yale microsoft drone.
Clark has been working for M$ for a long ass time.
Essentially, he made a website (yalestation.com^h^h^h.org when he realized people were on to him) in order to be powerful/whatever.
He bamboozled our administration into thinking this was a "good thing" (tm)
The real "nerd" (read: not m$ junkies) at our school were up in arms over this insanity.
There's a whole dramatic background story (thats about 4 pages typed) if you'd like to know....
This "hack" is the result of one boy's ego trip.
More info? reply to post and i'll email you the whole story.
Microsoft has done this because they are still the underdog.
Umm, MS msgr really is a horrible product....it is just a portal for Hailstorm/Passport usage.
MS leveraging their OS to spread their IM client.
Sorry, I am not an AOL fan, but AIM beats the pants off MS msgr.
Maybe AIM's become too crufty (or not feature filled enough for some of you trillian users) but MS messenger really just _sucks_.
The number of idiots in DC Screaming about DRM.
The number of idiots that RIAA is paying to screw P2P networks.
The denominator in the fraction that represents the number of well-informed and highly talented computer-literate folk who think either of the first two categories aren't total idiots.
Analysts have said Dell could aim to take a piece of the lucrative market for printer supplies or simply launch a price war in a bid to destabilize the most profitable unit of HP, which became the No. 1 PC seller by buying Compaq in May.
"Dell is trying to take a shot at HP's core business," said Bear Stearns analyst Andrew Neff.
Dell is taking a potshot at HPQ -- Dell is already beating compaq...but now that COMPAQ/HP are one, they can try to leverage their dominance in the PC market to reduce HP's profitability in printers.
Hello, where have we seen the "leverage dominance in one area".....yeah....microsoft.
All you trolls blasting HP -- read the freaking article first.
This is HP's response to dell's effort to become a horizontal monopoly. (Maybe dell's a bit jealous of hpq's computer/printer dominance? ironic considering dell was beating both hp and compaq......)
You didn't read my post.
The point is this is useful on sites where there is no login/password -- anything with personal preferences defeats the point.
This would be perfect for dynamic sites such a moviephone.com -- you don't have to login and just need a cookie storing your zip code. (if you have issues with them "knowing where you live..." i doubt you'd be logging in anyway...)
Haven't you all seen urls of obscene length at some point? Dynamic pages are generated by _static requests_ -- in a sense, you could generate ALL possible dynamic pages and store them, giving them all their unique url. This of course, is a "Bad Thing". However, some (older) cgi scripts let you see the url to the page you are reading. Take, for instance, a google search. A google search for "hax0red" yields....http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=IS O-8859-1&q=hax0red&btnG=Google+Search
Not for nothin, but I didn't need write access to google to get a dynamic page. As long as the user doesn't have to _ENTER_ any data that needs to be stored locally, this system works just fine.
This is _NOT_ a solution for ebanking, etrading, managing personal accounts and the like (where data needs to be WRITTEN back). For the majority of dynamic web pages, this works just fine.
(ok ok ok yes there is still the buffer overrun issue -- and yes your url's get messy...but at least they dont have actual _write_ access to the hard drive...as someone else already said...a quick reboot and any _possible_ -- not even probable -- damage is gone.)
This is the problem -- effectively, virtually every US entity and their mothers use SSN's as a unique identifier. For many students (myself included) it is our college id#. SSN's are used as our account number at various stores/puchase accounts, and more importantly, by most employers as a means of employee identification and by companies as a customer record.
SSN#'s are meant to be for social security....its pathetic that we have this de-facto government id number that is _so_ insecure.
(name addy and ssn ==> credi cards...loans...many a story exists of people with bad credit/delays/problems due to identity theft/minor credit hacking due to a stolen ssn)
Umm, just because you read the same info twice doesn't mean that Slashdot == Linux Central. While yes, there is an overabundance of Linux articles on slashdot right now, the fact of the matter is that slashdot is "News For Nerds" not "News for Linux Nerds". I'm sure the *Bsd crowd is not too happy with the comparison. Ditto for OS x'ers.
Can't we all just get along?;)
NIST CERTIFICATION!
Government contracting ETC. must comply with GOVERNMENT STANDARDS in order to get GOVERNMENT MONEY. (I'm working at a Nuclear Research Lab that makes radiation detection -- PROTECTION EQUIPMENT -- that the US customs are using in the new port monitoring operations -- and we have to comply with nist standards) If you want a government paycheck, obey government rules.
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Will not replace HTML is simply put: The old era of _BLINKING_ text and hideous flash intros (should be) is dead. Many a "net savvy" site has reverted to the early days of the web -- white backgrounds and simple fast loading text. Layers are dead -- tables are back and frames are less overbearing.
Thank god.
Umm...Goran Dearie...
"If I buy your product you're making money from the sale. If I then mod that same product in a way that's cool and I show it off to my friends, chances are they too will buy your product and again you'll make money."
Except that M$ _LOSES_ money on each x-box. It is part of their "marketing strategy." (Read: Gain market share THEN jack up price, or, Overcharge for software)
THAT is why ms is so quick to crack down....
I think, perhaps, the biggest problem with Clear Channels strangle hold over the airwaves is how many of us *gulp please spare me the flames* actually _enjoy_ stations like WKTU. Ok, so I may be a stereotypical 20-year-old-college-student-who-goes-to-way-too-ma ny-nightclubs BUT...I do enjoy the music they play. The recognizeable problem is that rather than allowing niche markets, Clear Channel obviously goes for the big profitable demographic groups, such as the one in which I freely admit I fall. (At the same time, I _LOVE_ Finlandia by Sibelius, along with many of his contemporaries, and there is no way I'd ever hear songs like that on a Clear Channel station)
If Longhorn really does turn out to be a Super Windows--a big if--it will handle so many functions of computing that Oracle, Sun, AOL Time Warner, and Sony may find themselves with less to do.
Translation: By using our position as the OS supplier, we will integrate your functionality into our structure and therefore make our software more valuable and drive you out of existence.
While there has been accusation of Apple usurping middle and third party ware.......Microsoft most certainly takes the cake.
Wasn't less supposed to be MORE in an OS?
I could be wrong, but don't we need a discussion about cooling somewhere? I thought one of the key points to the Transmeta Carusoe chips was the "lower power consumption and therefore lower temperatures and therefore less power needed for cooling so therefore longer battery life." While the whole "fan" issue is a moot point, dont they have to make serious considerations about heat dissipation in handheld devices? Why isn't it dealt with in the article....
I love how the article draws the line between embedded and _deeply embedded_ real-time systems. [Note the sarcasm: It's vague and left as a one shot deal] Many of the roll-your-own type systems are naturally highly specific, and so the general case fails to apply (or needs serious hacking). This was the reason why Windows XP embedded didn't get nearly as much hype for anything as it did for the concept of a stripped down windows os; A generalized OS isn't really what you need in these type of devices. How often do mission-critical _real time_ systems have extensive virtual memory systems? More often, they try to have enough memory that VM isn't intensive or only used by non-critical processes. http://www.ddj.com/topics/realtime/ for a great series of discussions. (Heavily java oriented, albeit)
STILL, saying that _RedHat_ has effectively won out the "embedded linux market" wasn't saying a whole lot; the real market is for stripped down _exceedingly_ generic systems that are designed for extreme platform-specific customization and optimization.
But hey, at least we know they wont BSOD. =)
To anyone who is/was/used to be a mudder, that means that at the end of the three months, you're hoarding every purple shard, excalibur, Hand of Glory, ball of wisdom, soul slasher, holy grail and every other piece of limited eq in the game, have 10 months of rent, have Calaron, Keogh, Shasta, Coastie and a slew of other wizzies/arches pissed at you and have been accused of scripting approximately 200 times. =)
Ahh. I see. Well, I hate to adopt the "adapt, migrate or die" approach, but it looks like in that case, the solution is: 1) Shut up, go elsewhere and cope. If your typical buyers are as frustrated as you are, they'll follow you. OR 2) Explain your situation to ebay and ask them to create a special "one of a kind" forum on ebay. (I'm sure the "Art" and "Collectible" groupings on ebay are already swamped....) OR 3) Persist on ebay and get slightly lower final bids? (not really an acceptable solution...)
Trying to eliminate? I don't see how they are trying to _eliminate_ you. They haven't made your life any harder; they just have made life a bit easier for the folk that bring them a significant amount of revenue.
Explain to me how this makes life _harder_ for the small folk? Just because it got easier for someone else doesn't mean ebay is trying to shut out small sellers.
I think we're seeing the eventual effects of the web that were severely disturbed by the dot-boom(bomb) phenomenon. Ebay is unquestionably _the_ online auction website and its full time merchants generate a significant amount of revenue for ebay. This further increases the incentive for many of these "marginal" merchants to go full time -- they can drop the job that they may have "just for the benefits" and furthermore, it may make dealing with some of Ebay's idiosyncracies a bit more palateable.
About time!
Hopefully, ebay will set a nice precedent for the rest of the industry.
The problem with currency changes is that you have old currency in circulation. I went to Ray's Pizza in Lower Manhattan and the man behind the counter had recently come here and had not seen the "OLD" 20's -- and thought my bill (gotten from an ATM that morning) was faked. In any situation where new currency is issued, the gov. needs to assure a "waiting period" in which you can freely trade in old bills for new ones and get the old ones off the streets. The whole point of the "new" bills is to prevent fakes -- as of right now, you can still get an old fake, rough it up, and use it on the street. Plus, old greek men will think you're trying to cheat them, even when you arent. (No greeks were harmed in the writing of this post)
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Bulldogs....bulldogs, bow-wow-wow. (We should have Cole porter shot) What year/college? ;)
A microshaft drone has enthralled our administration with his whiz-bang fancy flowery bs. Trust me...our nerd community is already up in arms over this and probably will do something bout it. ;)
Uninformed princetonian. Online admissions is being driven by a microsoft drone. That is why.
I have Karma To Burn.... Let me tell you something. This is the result of the political machinations of Alexander Clark A yale microsoft drone. Clark has been working for M$ for a long ass time. Essentially, he made a website (yalestation.com^h^h^h.org when he realized people were on to him) in order to be powerful/whatever. He bamboozled our administration into thinking this was a "good thing" (tm) The real "nerd" (read: not m$ junkies) at our school were up in arms over this insanity. There's a whole dramatic background story (thats about 4 pages typed) if you'd like to know.... This "hack" is the result of one boy's ego trip. More info? reply to post and i'll email you the whole story.
Microsoft has done this because they are still the underdog. Umm, MS msgr really is a horrible product....it is just a portal for Hailstorm/Passport usage. MS leveraging their OS to spread their IM client. Sorry, I am not an AOL fan, but AIM beats the pants off MS msgr. Maybe AIM's become too crufty (or not feature filled enough for some of you trillian users) but MS messenger really just _sucks_.
The number of idiots in DC Screaming about DRM. The number of idiots that RIAA is paying to screw P2P networks. The denominator in the fraction that represents the number of well-informed and highly talented computer-literate folk who think either of the first two categories aren't total idiots.
Analysts have said Dell could aim to take a piece of the lucrative market for printer supplies or simply launch a price war in a bid to destabilize the most profitable unit of HP, which became the No. 1 PC seller by buying Compaq in May.
.....yeah....microsoft.
"Dell is trying to take a shot at HP's core business," said Bear Stearns analyst Andrew Neff.
Dell is taking a potshot at HPQ -- Dell is already beating compaq...but now that COMPAQ/HP are one, they can try to leverage their dominance in the PC market to reduce HP's profitability in printers.
Hello, where have we seen the "leverage dominance in one area"
All you trolls blasting HP -- read the freaking article first.
This is HP's response to dell's effort to become a horizontal monopoly. (Maybe dell's a bit jealous of hpq's computer/printer dominance? ironic considering dell was beating both hp and compaq......)
Again....please re-read both of my posts. What the hell data are you stealing from sites like moviephone.com? ;)
You didn't read my post. The point is this is useful on sites where there is no login/password -- anything with personal preferences defeats the point. This would be perfect for dynamic sites such a moviephone.com -- you don't have to login and just need a cookie storing your zip code. (if you have issues with them "knowing where you live..." i doubt you'd be logging in anyway...)
Haven't you all seen urls of obscene length at some point? Dynamic pages are generated by _static requests_ -- in a sense, you could generate ALL possible dynamic pages and store them, giving them all their unique url. This of course, is a "Bad Thing". However, some (older) cgi scripts let you see the url to the page you are reading. Take, for instance, a google search. A google search for "hax0red" yields....http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=IS O-8859-1&q=hax0red&btnG=Google+Search
Not for nothin, but I didn't need write access to google to get a dynamic page. As long as the user doesn't have to _ENTER_ any data that needs to be stored locally, this system works just fine.
This is _NOT_ a solution for ebanking, etrading, managing personal accounts and the like (where data needs to be WRITTEN back). For the majority of dynamic web pages, this works just fine.
(ok ok ok yes there is still the buffer overrun issue -- and yes your url's get messy...but at least they dont have actual _write_ access to the hard drive...as someone else already said...a quick reboot and any _possible_ -- not even probable -- damage is gone.)
This is the problem -- effectively, virtually every US entity and their mothers use SSN's as a unique identifier. For many students (myself included) it is our college id#. SSN's are used as our account number at various stores/puchase accounts, and more importantly, by most employers as a means of employee identification and by companies as a customer record.
SSN#'s are meant to be for social security....its pathetic that we have this de-facto government id number that is _so_ insecure.
(name addy and ssn ==> credi cards...loans...many a story exists of people with bad credit/delays/problems due to identity theft/minor credit hacking due to a stolen ssn)
Umm, just because you read the same info twice doesn't mean that Slashdot == Linux Central. While yes, there is an overabundance of Linux articles on slashdot right now, the fact of the matter is that slashdot is "News For Nerds" not "News for Linux Nerds". I'm sure the *Bsd crowd is not too happy with the comparison. Ditto for OS x'ers. Can't we all just get along? ;)
NIST CERTIFICATION! Government contracting ETC. must comply with GOVERNMENT STANDARDS in order to get GOVERNMENT MONEY. (I'm working at a Nuclear Research Lab that makes radiation detection -- PROTECTION EQUIPMENT -- that the US customs are using in the new port monitoring operations -- and we have to comply with nist standards) If you want a government paycheck, obey government rules.
Will not replace HTML is simply put: The old era of _BLINKING_ text and hideous flash intros (should be) is dead. Many a "net savvy" site has reverted to the early days of the web -- white backgrounds and simple fast loading text. Layers are dead -- tables are back and frames are less overbearing. Thank god.
Umm...Goran Dearie... "If I buy your product you're making money from the sale. If I then mod that same product in a way that's cool and I show it off to my friends, chances are they too will buy your product and again you'll make money." Except that M$ _LOSES_ money on each x-box. It is part of their "marketing strategy." (Read: Gain market share THEN jack up price, or, Overcharge for software) THAT is why ms is so quick to crack down....
I think, perhaps, the biggest problem with Clear Channels strangle hold over the airwaves is how many of us *gulp please spare me the flames* actually _enjoy_ stations like WKTU. Ok, so I may be a stereotypical 20-year-old-college-student-who-goes-to-way-too-ma ny-nightclubs BUT...I do enjoy the music they play. The recognizeable problem is that rather than allowing niche markets, Clear Channel obviously goes for the big profitable demographic groups, such as the one in which I freely admit I fall. (At the same time, I _LOVE_ Finlandia by Sibelius, along with many of his contemporaries, and there is no way I'd ever hear songs like that on a Clear Channel station)
I could be wrong, but don't we need a discussion about cooling somewhere? I thought one of the key points to the Transmeta Carusoe chips was the "lower power consumption and therefore lower temperatures and therefore less power needed for cooling so therefore longer battery life." While the whole "fan" issue is a moot point, dont they have to make serious considerations about heat dissipation in handheld devices? Why isn't it dealt with in the article....
1) Where did you mud 2) Did you ever pkill me? ;)
I love how the article draws the line between embedded and _deeply embedded_ real-time systems. [Note the sarcasm: It's vague and left as a one shot deal] Many of the roll-your-own type systems are naturally highly specific, and so the general case fails to apply (or needs serious hacking). This was the reason why Windows XP embedded didn't get nearly as much hype for anything as it did for the concept of a stripped down windows os; A generalized OS isn't really what you need in these type of devices. How often do mission-critical _real time_ systems have extensive virtual memory systems? More often, they try to have enough memory that VM isn't intensive or only used by non-critical processes. http://www.ddj.com/topics/realtime/ for a great series of discussions. (Heavily java oriented, albeit) STILL, saying that _RedHat_ has effectively won out the "embedded linux market" wasn't saying a whole lot; the real market is for stripped down _exceedingly_ generic systems that are designed for extreme platform-specific customization and optimization. But hey, at least we know they wont BSOD. =)
To anyone who is/was/used to be a mudder, that means that at the end of the three months, you're hoarding every purple shard, excalibur, Hand of Glory, ball of wisdom, soul slasher, holy grail and every other piece of limited eq in the game, have 10 months of rent, have Calaron, Keogh, Shasta, Coastie and a slew of other wizzies/arches pissed at you and have been accused of scripting approximately 200 times. =)
Ahh. I see. Well, I hate to adopt the "adapt, migrate or die" approach, but it looks like in that case, the solution is: 1) Shut up, go elsewhere and cope. If your typical buyers are as frustrated as you are, they'll follow you. OR 2) Explain your situation to ebay and ask them to create a special "one of a kind" forum on ebay. (I'm sure the "Art" and "Collectible" groupings on ebay are already swamped....) OR 3) Persist on ebay and get slightly lower final bids? (not really an acceptable solution...)
Trying to eliminate? I don't see how they are trying to _eliminate_ you. They haven't made your life any harder; they just have made life a bit easier for the folk that bring them a significant amount of revenue. Explain to me how this makes life _harder_ for the small folk? Just because it got easier for someone else doesn't mean ebay is trying to shut out small sellers.
I think we're seeing the eventual effects of the web that were severely disturbed by the dot-boom(bomb) phenomenon. Ebay is unquestionably _the_ online auction website and its full time merchants generate a significant amount of revenue for ebay. This further increases the incentive for many of these "marginal" merchants to go full time -- they can drop the job that they may have "just for the benefits" and furthermore, it may make dealing with some of Ebay's idiosyncracies a bit more palateable. About time! Hopefully, ebay will set a nice precedent for the rest of the industry.
The problem with currency changes is that you have old currency in circulation. I went to Ray's Pizza in Lower Manhattan and the man behind the counter had recently come here and had not seen the "OLD" 20's -- and thought my bill (gotten from an ATM that morning) was faked. In any situation where new currency is issued, the gov. needs to assure a "waiting period" in which you can freely trade in old bills for new ones and get the old ones off the streets. The whole point of the "new" bills is to prevent fakes -- as of right now, you can still get an old fake, rough it up, and use it on the street. Plus, old greek men will think you're trying to cheat them, even when you arent. (No greeks were harmed in the writing of this post)