Recently my parents gave me $100 as a birthday gift, and according with them I should use it to buy a new operating system for my computer. I have been living happily with Windows 98 for several years, but I don't feel like moving to XP or Vista or Linux. I have tried some expensive Linux distributions in the past, but they didn't work very well and I came back to my nice Windows 98 OS. My current setup boots in 3-5 minutes, which is better than Vista, afaik. I can surf the internet, play games, write emails and so on. But since my parents demand a new OS, I'm confused. Could the Slashdot crowd help me on this delicate matter? Thanks in advance.
Maureen O'Gara: The intellectual property roots of Linux are obviously flawed at a systemic level under the current model.
The Architect: While this answer functioned it was obviously fundamentally flawed thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo those that refused the program while a minority, if unchecked, would constitute an escalating probability of disaster.
Have you thought they may be thinking about the userland, not the kernel itself? In other words, they may create a linux/*bsd distribution to fit into their end-users needs.
And you clueless. There are some technologies that can dump the hd storage devices (no pun intended) and unify the whole memory speed hierarchy. If that happens, say goodbye to rdbms's and swallow something like object prevalence.
These awaful pieces of flawed technology will be obsolete and thought as one of the deformities of the malformed "information age" once things such as object prevalence get into mainstream, which will happen once the amount of main memory on computers become able to store the whole data in hand.
Isn't this RMS? http://www.gulms.org/fotos/SL_congresso/new_ DSC019 34.JPG
That makes sense. He's poisoned the poor brazilian congressman minds, and now they think micros~1 is evil.. I haven't seen any comments on cutting the licensing for Oracle, SAP, and the crap, anyway.
You should not be scared of Brazil on space dominance, you should realize that countries such as China and India, plus the european community are going to take it over soon. But if your "patriotic" statistics make you feel better, to the point of doing such bizarre comparisons on the number of deaths on the space programs between the US space program and the brazilian ones to justify how nice NASA is, go for them. BTW, isn't the parent supposed be be troll, or a flamebait, or the like, cracked moderators?
electronic voting has not been trialled on anything remotely this big. AFAIK no city/state/province has run an all-electronic election, let alone an entire country.
Brazil (160 million inhabitants) has been doing electronic voting for nearly 10 years, and the last election (2002) was "all electronic". The whole system used has been shown to be quite reliable and fast.
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Perl's ability to process text files don't make DOM or SAX any easier (or better) than any other implementation. It's plain dumb to say that since XML files are text files because perl is good at processing text files (sic) so perl is good for processing XML documents.
Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA30 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Interesting ports on www.wehavethewayout.com (130.94.214.143): (The 1158 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered)
21/tcp open ftp 25/tcp open smtp 80/tcp open http 110/tcp open pop-3 443/tcp open https 1433/tcp open ms-sql-s 2105/tcp open eklogin 3306/tcp open mysql 5900/tcp open vnc
Technically Gnunet is the most complete p2p kid on the block (even with the 1k filesize block thing). It seems its main problem is the lack of a pretty user interface, specially for windows. (it may hurt to say, but no p2p applications out there are likely to succeed without nice windows interfaces). Maybe a port to.net (mono?) could help it:)
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Recently my parents gave me $100 as a birthday gift, and according with them I should use it to buy a new operating system for my computer. I have been living happily with Windows 98 for several years, but I don't feel like moving to XP or Vista or Linux. I have tried some expensive Linux distributions in the past, but they didn't work very well and I came back to my nice Windows 98 OS. My current setup boots in 3-5 minutes, which is better than Vista, afaik. I can surf the internet, play games, write emails and so on. But since my parents demand a new OS, I'm confused. Could the Slashdot crowd help me on this delicate matter? Thanks in advance.
What an innovative plot, I can't wait to watch this wonderful masterpiece!
1. Catch Spammers
2. ???
3. Make their families pay for the bullets
Maureen O'Gara:
The intellectual property roots of Linux are obviously flawed at a systemic level under the current model.
The Architect:
While this answer functioned it was obviously fundamentally flawed thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo those that refused the program while a minority, if unchecked, would constitute an escalating probability of disaster.
Banning list-generation software seems a bit heavy-handed, doesn't it?
No.
Have you thought they may be thinking about the userland, not the kernel itself? In other words, they may create a linux/*bsd distribution to fit into their end-users needs.
And you clueless. There are some technologies that can dump the hd storage devices (no pun intended) and unify the whole memory speed hierarchy. If that happens, say goodbye to rdbms's and swallow something like object prevalence.
These awaful pieces of flawed technology will be obsolete and thought as one of the deformities of the malformed "information age" once things such as object prevalence get into mainstream, which will happen once the amount of main memory on computers become able to store the whole data in hand.
Wasn't the PS3 "Cell" chip made by IBM and Sony supposed to deliver 1 teraflop too?
Isn't this RMS?_ DSC019 34.JPG
http://www.gulms.org/fotos/SL_congresso/new
That makes sense. He's poisoned the poor brazilian congressman minds, and now they think micros~1 is evil.. I haven't seen any comments on cutting the licensing for Oracle, SAP, and the crap, anyway.
You should not be scared of Brazil on space dominance, you should realize that countries such as China and India, plus the european community are going to take it over soon. But if your "patriotic" statistics make you feel better, to the point of doing such bizarre comparisons on the number of deaths on the space programs between the US space program and the brazilian ones to justify how nice NASA is, go for them. BTW, isn't the parent supposed be be troll, or a flamebait, or the like, cracked moderators?
Move into the palestinian camps so that SCO cannot get you.
Is BeOS still under the wings of Palm? Why don't they use the thing, or simply open the source?
electronic voting has not been trialled on anything remotely this big. AFAIK no city/state/province has run an all-electronic election, let alone an entire country.
Brazil (160 million inhabitants) has been doing electronic voting for nearly 10 years, and the last election (2002) was "all electronic". The whole system used has been shown to be quite reliable and fast.
Perl's ability to process text files don't make DOM or SAX any easier (or better) than any other implementation. It's plain dumb to say that since XML files are text files because perl is good at processing text files (sic) so perl is good for processing XML documents.
Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA30 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Interesting ports on www.wehavethewayout.com (130.94.214.143):
(The 1158 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered)
21/tcp open ftp
25/tcp open smtp
80/tcp open http
110/tcp open pop-3
443/tcp open https
1433/tcp open ms-sql-s
2105/tcp open eklogin
3306/tcp open mysql
5900/tcp open vnc
mysql?
She likes cereals
X is not bad..
KDE is the problem
Probably faster than a Sun E10000 running this [much simpler] equivalent program in java:
:)");
class basic {
public static void main(string args[]) {
long x = 0;
try {
while (true) System.out.println(x++);
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("An exception ocurred
}
}
}
Technically Gnunet is the most complete p2p kid on the block (even with the 1k filesize block thing). It seems its main problem is the lack of a pretty user interface, specially for windows. (it may hurt to say, but no p2p applications out there are likely to succeed without nice windows interfaces). Maybe a port to .net (mono?) could help it :)
BTW, why the hell have you chosen these names?
I wonder if the BSD people will be allowed to be interviewed. Anyway, naming this as "GNU Friends" is at least bizarre.