Hence, it is essential that software to be used in schools are made available under a license which incorporates freedom of use.
I'll be filing this one away for my next M$ argument. I can't think of a way this could be put more clearly.
It is therefore a prerequisite of free and unhindered computerised communication between humans that computers understand languages 'spoken' by each other.
As an American, proud our legacy of freedom, this point and the conclusions the author draws in following discussion carries a chilling judgement of what we are becoming. If electronic communication is as important to free speech as the document suggests, then the DMCA puts us well ahead of the Victorian British Empire in having corrupted our history of liberty.
Actually, according to the link you mentioned, and the page you referenced, Microsoft made 2.4 billion on their client segment in the 3 months ended Sept. 30, 2002, accounting for 59.2 percent of their total operating income for that quarter.
Maybe Mom & Pop don't need to upgrade, but they also don't use the computer for the tool it was designed to be.
Which brings up another point. I have played the computer toy chase game for years now, and I've gotten sick of it. I am tired of forking over the $2000 every 2 years that it takes to play the latest games. I've therefore decided that Half-Life and Starcraft are as far as I care to go, and will probably go console if I ever want more than that.
You make a brilliant point. The primary way M$ makes its money is through the M$ tax on new computer purchases. Little wonder they were trying to put all their business customers on a forced upgrade schedule a few years back.
Bullets leave a bigger hole on the way out because they're (usually) made of lead, which is soft, and they get mushed and expand as they travel through the object.
The expansion effect certainly adds to cavitation, but it doesn't necessarily cause it. Military ammunition (FMJ) is designed specifically not to expand because of the terms of the Geneva Convention, but a 7.62mm FMJ will still make quite a mess out of you.
I don't know the math on the effects of overpressure waves created by cell-sized projectiles, but being blown inside out by a bullet weighing as much as a car deeply disturbs me (no pun intended).
To me spammers are as disruptive to internet growth and society as virus\trojan etc creators.
Actually, according to the article, I don't see much distinction:
Ralsky has other ways to monitor the success of his campaigns. Buried in every e-mail he sends is a hidden code that sends back a message every time the e-mail is opened.
And then later:
"You don't have to be on a Web site at all. You can just have your computer on, connected to the Internet, reading e-mail or just idling and, bam, this program detects your presence and up pops the message on your screen, past firewalls, past anti-spam programs, past anything.
So, let me get this straight. This guy sends a trojan to 250 million people per day, is actively working on intruding onto protected computer systems, and he lives in a $750,000 house? People who do those things out of intellectual curiousity get incarcerated, but this guy lives it up!? WTF? Between this guy, MS, Cisco, et. al., I am beginning to wonder if it's even possible to make an honest living in this world anymore!
Ah yes, well, see, we're going to throttle the network, so that the virus spreads more slowly.
Throttle what? bandwidth? That wouldn't have much of an effect on virus activity, but it certainly would affect everything else. Connections per second would probably slow down a virus, but would basically shut down SMB and DNS as well.
You better make sure Ridge doesn't hear about this, or we'll be required by law to wear 20 lb. lead shoes everywhere we go, to make it easier to catch running terrorists.
Not one analysis I have ever read had such a ridiculous analogy in it.
This report was not written by a marketing department, it was written by someone familiar with the project (probably an engineer). It is quite common for reports written by technical people for a technical audience to include such "ridiculous" statements due to the lack of wordsmithing acumen on the part of people who actually work for a living, as opposed to those who talk (and write) about it. As someone who spends a great deal of my professional time reading and writing such documents, I indeed use this characteristic to determine how close the material is to "where the goats graze":).
If I'm writing that document, and I know that everyone reading it will understand "eating one's own dog food", I am not going to take the time to translate that to:
Further, due to the visibility of Hotmail, there existed a marketing concern with regard to using Microsoft server solutions following the acquisition, in that Microsoft's credibility in selling those solutions depended on actually using them.
but I think Microsoft is doing the right thing here.
A good faith effort to fix a problem is one thing. Microsoft's behavior, viewed as a whole, is another. It's hard for me to be sympathetic to a company who is saying this out of one side of their mouth, and then trying to wrest control of my computer from me via Palladium with the other. This hypocrisy screams to be addressed, and I think it is valid to do so.
When will companies learn that most people don't give a rats ass whether something costs $29.97 or $29.99?
Well, those are just the end codes. Something that would be 29.97 might go on in-store special for 19.94. But this in no way invalidates your point.
People are stupid. The decision to buy something is completely emotional and subject to bizarre and arbitrary conditions such as where the product is placed, what color the label is, etc.
Believe it or not, people actually percieve a price of 29.94 as significantly less than 20.00. No, I did not mistype. I used to think the.99 thing was sort of like the gas price which includes 99% of a cent at the end of its prices, but this is not the case. Numbers behave in very funny ways inside a retail customer's mind.
It's just a matter of time before someone like Walmart sues anyone whose prices end in.99.
Former Wal-Mart department manager - Actually, no prices in a Wal-Mart should ever end in.99. The default ending for a price is.97. If the item is on in-store sale, it should end in.94. Clearance is fair game, but these usually wind up being even dollar figures.
The reason they are doing this is to prevent each other from knowing the prices they use in their ads until the last minute. Retailers are very cutthroat about their Black Friday deals, and want to keep each other off balance. As demonstrated, however, they don't want to go TOO low to accomplish this. Therefore, this is an issue of price fixing as well as free speech.
I assure you that old games should not be able to crash Windows XP.
I've never seen a statement on/. that is more precipitously arrogant in its attempted scope. Are you actually prepared to stand behind it?
If you are using the default Windows XP drivers then it's almost certainly hardware related in which case Linux would be just as unstable.
Right out of the MCSE training materials. Of course, this statement, while not the single most clearly erroneous I have ever seen on/., certainly warrants honorable mention. Are you honestly suggesting that no one among the/. readership has seen a machine consistently fail while running Windows, no matter whose drivers are in use, and later run Linux problem free on that same hardware?
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It's pretty strange to see Kirk's "talking a computer into suicide" technique actually demonstrated.
This is effective Linux advocacy. You get to clean up the mess of software licensing without being the asshole.
One thing, tho - what's the multimedia problem with RH8? The mp3 issue? That's because players now have to pay licenses to the outfit that just changed their mp3 license. Red Hat is too big to ignore that restriction. You can easily add an mp3 player from freshrpms.net. If it's something other that what I mentioned, I'm quite interested to know what it is.
Actually, that is precisely the reason I switched to RH8 on both my home and office desktops. I find it impossible as a professional IT person to use Windows without having warez of some kind. Since I can't afford to run clean and green with Windows, I am switching to Linux.
Do you think of Highlander when you hear any Scottish name?
I'm descended from Highlanders. Clan MacDonald at Glencoe to be precise. I'm personally offended that you think that the Scottish Highlanders are of the same sort of spineless, sniveling, whining douchebags whose culture of victim worship obviously inspired your post.
You may rest very comfortably assured that if anyone actually says anything which remotely offends us, we'll have thrown a telephone pole at him long before you come along in our defense.
What the anti-Cassini radiophobes have to say about all of this. If I throw my nuclear laptop on the couch, will they protest because the perigee passes dangerously close to Earth?
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Hence, it is essential that software to be used in schools are made available under a license which incorporates freedom of use.
I'll be filing this one away for my next M$ argument. I can't think of a way this could be put more clearly.
It is therefore a prerequisite of free and unhindered computerised communication between humans that computers understand languages 'spoken' by each other.
As an American, proud our legacy of freedom, this point and the conclusions the author draws in following discussion carries a chilling judgement of what we are becoming. If electronic communication is as important to free speech as the document suggests, then the DMCA puts us well ahead of the Victorian British Empire in having corrupted our history of liberty.
I would have laughed myself out of my chair if you had said "do not trust content from the BBC"
Actually, according to the link you mentioned, and the page you referenced, Microsoft made 2.4 billion on their client segment in the 3 months ended Sept. 30, 2002, accounting for 59.2 percent of their total operating income for that quarter.
Maybe Mom & Pop don't need to upgrade, but they also don't use the computer for the tool it was designed to be.
Which brings up another point. I have played the computer toy chase game for years now, and I've gotten sick of it. I am tired of forking over the $2000 every 2 years that it takes to play the latest games. I've therefore decided that Half-Life and Starcraft are as far as I care to go, and will probably go console if I ever want more than that.
You make a brilliant point. The primary way M$ makes its money is through the M$ tax on new computer purchases. Little wonder they were trying to put all their business customers on a forced upgrade schedule a few years back.
Sheesh, did I just stick up for microsoft AND refer to them as a crack dealer in the same post?
Yes. And you suggested that the need for dealing with Microsoft is comparable to one's need for crack cocaine.
I'll stay clean, thanks.
Bullets leave a bigger hole on the way out because they're (usually) made of lead, which is soft, and they get mushed and expand as they travel through the object.
The expansion effect certainly adds to cavitation, but it doesn't necessarily cause it. Military ammunition (FMJ) is designed specifically not to expand because of the terms of the Geneva Convention, but a 7.62mm FMJ will still make quite a mess out of you.
I don't know the math on the effects of overpressure waves created by cell-sized projectiles, but being blown inside out by a bullet weighing as much as a car deeply disturbs me (no pun intended).
To me spammers are as disruptive to internet growth and society as virus\trojan etc creators.
Actually, according to the article, I don't see much distinction:
And then later:
So, let me get this straight. This guy sends a trojan to 250 million people per day, is actively working on intruding onto protected computer systems, and he lives in a $750,000 house? People who do those things out of intellectual curiousity get incarcerated, but this guy lives it up!? WTF? Between this guy, MS, Cisco, et. al., I am beginning to wonder if it's even possible to make an honest living in this world anymore!
Ah yes, well, see, we're going to throttle the network, so that the virus spreads more slowly.
Throttle what? bandwidth? That wouldn't have much of an effect on virus activity, but it certainly would affect everything else. Connections per second would probably slow down a virus, but would basically shut down SMB and DNS as well.
You better make sure Ridge doesn't hear about this, or we'll be required by law to wear 20 lb. lead shoes everywhere we go, to make it easier to catch running terrorists.
Not one analysis I have ever read had such a ridiculous analogy in it.
This report was not written by a marketing department, it was written by someone familiar with the project (probably an engineer). It is quite common for reports written by technical people for a technical audience to include such "ridiculous" statements due to the lack of wordsmithing acumen on the part of people who actually work for a living, as opposed to those who talk (and write) about it. As someone who spends a great deal of my professional time reading and writing such documents, I indeed use this characteristic to determine how close the material is to "where the goats graze":).
If I'm writing that document, and I know that everyone reading it will understand "eating one's own dog food", I am not going to take the time to translate that to:
but I think Microsoft is doing the right thing here.
A good faith effort to fix a problem is one thing. Microsoft's behavior, viewed as a whole, is another. It's hard for me to be sympathetic to a company who is saying this out of one side of their mouth, and then trying to wrest control of my computer from me via Palladium with the other. This hypocrisy screams to be addressed, and I think it is valid to do so.
Damn. Succinct, on point, and devastating. That may be the best /. comment I've seen this year.
When will companies learn that most people don't give a rats ass whether something costs $29.97 or $29.99?
Well, those are just the end codes. Something that would be 29.97 might go on in-store special for 19.94. But this in no way invalidates your point.
People are stupid. The decision to buy something is completely emotional and subject to bizarre and arbitrary conditions such as where the product is placed, what color the label is, etc.
Believe it or not, people actually percieve a price of 29.94 as significantly less than 20.00. No, I did not mistype. I used to think the .99 thing was sort of like the gas price which includes 99% of a cent at the end of its prices, but this is not the case. Numbers behave in very funny ways inside a retail customer's mind.
It's just a matter of time before someone like Walmart sues anyone whose prices end in .99.
Former Wal-Mart department manager - Actually, no prices in a Wal-Mart should ever end in .99. The default ending for a price is .97. If the item is on in-store sale, it should end in .94. Clearance is fair game, but these usually wind up being even dollar figures.
The reason they are doing this is to prevent each other from knowing the prices they use in their ads until the last minute. Retailers are very cutthroat about their Black Friday deals, and want to keep each other off balance. As demonstrated, however, they don't want to go TOO low to accomplish this. Therefore, this is an issue of price fixing as well as free speech.
Yay Capitalism!
I assure you that old games should not be able to crash Windows XP.
I've never seen a statement on /. that is more precipitously arrogant in its attempted scope. Are you actually prepared to stand behind it?
If you are using the default Windows XP drivers then it's almost certainly hardware related in which case Linux would be just as unstable.
Right out of the MCSE training materials. Of course, this statement, while not the single most clearly erroneous I have ever seen on /., certainly warrants honorable mention. Are you honestly suggesting that no one among the /. readership has seen a machine consistently fail while running Windows, no matter whose drivers are in use, and later run Linux problem free on that same hardware?
It's pretty strange to see Kirk's "talking a computer into suicide" technique actually demonstrated.
Jesus. Did y'all save this topic to test out the new server farm?
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This is effective Linux advocacy. You get to clean up the mess of software licensing without being the asshole.
One thing, tho - what's the multimedia problem with RH8? The mp3 issue? That's because players now have to pay licenses to the outfit that just changed their mp3 license. Red Hat is too big to ignore that restriction. You can easily add an mp3 player from freshrpms.net. If it's something other that what I mentioned, I'm quite interested to know what it is.
And what a beautiful part of the world that is
I heartily agree. I hope to see it in person one day.
or in any way implies that they might be english!
Amen to that!
Support the end of warez, use free s/w!
Actually, that is precisely the reason I switched to RH8 on both my home and office desktops. I find it impossible as a professional IT person to use Windows without having warez of some kind. Since I can't afford to run clean and green with Windows, I am switching to Linux.
Hear that, Bill?
Do you think of Highlander when you hear any Scottish name?
I'm descended from Highlanders. Clan MacDonald at Glencoe to be precise. I'm personally offended that you think that the Scottish Highlanders are of the same sort of spineless, sniveling, whining douchebags whose culture of victim worship obviously inspired your post.
You may rest very comfortably assured that if anyone actually says anything which remotely offends us, we'll have thrown a telephone pole at him long before you come along in our defense.
Agreed, but when you're making a joke, you have to throw the mods a bone. Woe be unto whosever maketh a joke the moderators don't geteth.
Reminds me of paintings I did as a kid."
You painted pictures of 404 errors as a kid? Wow. We slashdotted the sun.
What the anti-Cassini radiophobes have to say about all of this. If I throw my nuclear laptop on the couch, will they protest because the perigee passes dangerously close to Earth?
Well, yeah. You'd be nice and toasty warm.