Nothing new here for the/. group, but a good read for the non-technical.
Isn't that the group Balmer addressed in the first place? My guess whould be that Balmer perfectly knew that it would be a clear to the/. readers. But thats irrelevant. What is important for Microsoft is keeping the non-technical with them.
The crisis is not the lack of alcohol but the lack of "product" for the distributor (bars, etc.)! It doesn't matter if it was widgets...the point is businesses may have to close and lose money on account of a screw up at the supplier.
Worse yet, there is not even a change to drop the supplier and pick another one.
That software definitely is an in (ware)house development.
Sounds like a nice job for me, looks like they could need a good developer, will have to compete with the whole SlashDot crowd...
Pressing the shift key is not a violation of the DMCA. Telling someone to press the shift key is a violation of the DMCA.
Press the SHIFT key...
But, seriously, I disabled autorun on windows long before SunnComm came up with this thing, but since they did I cannot tell people how to do that anymore? The strange thing is that they seem to have turned a feature in windows that has been available for a long time now into a copy-protection scheme. If that's possible, what's next?
I really don't see anything fraudulent here. Unethical and slimy, yes, but not fraudulent. The CC company can give you a credit card; you don't have to accept it.
I'm not a lawyer nor do I know anything about the laws in the USA, but i seriously doubt this. How whould you accept or reject a creditcard send to you. If a CC company sended me a creditcard i didn't request I would use it and laugh in their face the moment they come to collect the money. How could they claim any money from you without a legally valid agreement.
I wish ISPs would charge, say, an extra $5/month for users that want no port blocking.... here in Indianapolis, all the cable companies do port blocking
Come to the Netherlands;-)
Here we have an ISP that charges Eur 1.95/mo for a PC Firewall. Main selling argument is protecting agains the Blaster virus.
IMHO, it would be dumb to charge extra for a fully open connection, just make it configurable on some web page, somewhere around the advanced setting. Together with a bit a technical talk to make sure people that don't understand it won't touch it.
Why, it think the users that want to run their own server are way less likely to cause problems than users that don't even know they are running servers.
I don't care what measures the ISP takes to make sure I'm not spamming my neighbors, just as long as they don't take away my basic capabilities. If they want to do relay tests on my machine once a day or limit my outgoing SMTP traffic, then fine. But I'd like to buy an *INTERNET CONNECTION*, and I like to do more than use my connection to look at advertisments.
I can only agree with you there. My current cable ISP forbids running your own server in the AUP, yet in practice they will only use it against people when they cause trouble. They know damned well i run my own smtp server, they even to an open relay check once in a while...
the "stanford bug checker" is a static source analysis program. this is something else entirely, and arguably more useful.
I think they both have their use. This system takes samples of the state of a running program and does a statistical to see wich state is likely to be the cause of a crash. Not really something that can't be done by a programmer using a debugger, but automatic and given sufficient input i might point you to exactly what condition causes a crash. The stanford bug checker try to prevent bug by code analysis to prevent bug in the first place. Both of them help to make programs better.
That is, technically speaking, neither of these system is able to find bug that just cause other things then the programmer intended, it might be interesting to add some kind of userfeedback to the system.
Correct, once there was a day when people said the wordprocessing war was over and WP won it and was going to stay forever... Word had a really small market share in those day's.
because there AREN'T ANY FUCKING JOBS TO BE FILLED, DON'T YOU?
Well, how about stopping people that do half a job but get paid for about 5000 jobs and how about stopping people from doing 1.5 job when they get paid for just one? Wouldn't that solve the problem?
And then watch the DBA break down and cry as the UPS fails during a blackout...
Geez...
Now what whould be the point of object prevalence?
Perhaps the idea is to make sure the objects prevail, no matter what happens. Perhaps you don't know what you are talking about?
The difference isn't in the publicity. mySql is the dumber database and therefore used by the people that don't understand things like transactions etc. Just like their are still people developing applications on top of access databases and most of them are feeling very smart and think they understand databases...
- Find yourself a brick, a big one.
- Stand back.
- Trhow it agains the box as hard as you can
- Watch the sparks, hope for a good fire.
- If neccecery 'help' the fire a little.
- Watch it grow for a while.
- Go back to your manager, tell him the building is on fire and ask him if a call to 911 fits in the budget.
For me it comes down to to the freedom of speech issue -- I've always been told that if you can't handle free speech you don't agree with you obviously can't handle free speech -- and I suppose just because something irritates me doesn't mean that the greater good would be served by silencing that something.
Ammazing how people keep confusing free speech with 'YOU HAVE GOT TO LISTEN TO ME'. Yes, any spammer is free to say what he/she wants, on his/her own website. I'll check it when i want to listen.
Do you read at -1?
I'd doubt that. You might be right, but going for the refund is far more costly for MS (or the reseller?!). You will also likely get a $199 refund, where the reseller likely paid less for it, making you system cheaper in the end...
But most importantly it's way more satisfying to get money back this way. *grin*
Nice example of how ridicules this can be. Check the box and click approve to let the server know you will accept the cookies, yet let your browser refuse the cookies, you won't get past the web page...
But sweden needs some further improvement. I suggest a law that mandates website to ask clients permission to use their ip-adres even before asking about cookies...
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Nothing new here for the /. group, but a good read for the non-technical.
/. readers. But thats irrelevant. What is important for Microsoft is keeping the non-technical with them.
Isn't that the group Balmer addressed in the first place? My guess whould be that Balmer perfectly knew that it would be a clear to the
The crisis is not the lack of alcohol but the lack of "product" for the distributor (bars, etc.)! It doesn't matter if it was widgets...the point is businesses may have to close and lose money on account of a screw up at the supplier.
Worse yet, there is not even a change to drop the supplier and pick another one.
Lets be flamebait here:
Haven't you ever read about the Whiskey Rebellion, you eurofag freak?!!
Just did, so what's the point. EU countries tax liquour to.
In some regions, the state wants to control liquour sales in order to ensure that they get their cut in taxes.
Translation: In some regions, the state wants to control.
Sound socialist to me.
That software definitely is an in (ware)house development.
Sounds like a nice job for me, looks like they could need a good developer, will have to compete with the whole SlashDot crowd...
I wonder if DHCP will work in 9.2 I found that with 9.0 & 9.1, while my network cards worked fine
I can't help but think it's some kind of net or config problem. DHCP works out of the box for me on 9.2 as it did on 9.0 and 9.1.
Pressing the shift key is not a violation of the DMCA. Telling someone to press the shift key is a violation of the DMCA.
Press the SHIFT key...
But, seriously, I disabled autorun on windows long before SunnComm came up with this thing, but since they did I cannot tell people how to do that anymore? The strange thing is that they seem to have turned a feature in windows that has been available for a long time now into a copy-protection scheme. If that's possible, what's next?
I really don't see anything fraudulent here. Unethical and slimy, yes, but not fraudulent. The CC company can give you a credit card; you don't have to accept it.
I'm not a lawyer nor do I know anything about the laws in the USA, but i seriously doubt this. How whould you accept or reject a creditcard send to you. If a CC company sended me a creditcard i didn't request I would use it and laugh in their face the moment they come to collect the money. How could they claim any money from you without a legally valid agreement.
I was afraid that whould be to long ago for the 'slashdot memory' to remember. Thanks for proving me wrong. ;)
I wish ISPs would charge, say, an extra $5/month for users that want no port blocking. ... here in Indianapolis, all the cable companies do port blocking
;-)
Come to the Netherlands
Here we have an ISP that charges Eur 1.95/mo for a PC Firewall. Main selling argument is protecting agains the Blaster virus.
IMHO, it would be dumb to charge extra for a fully open connection, just make it configurable on some web page, somewhere around the advanced setting. Together with a bit a technical talk to make sure people that don't understand it won't touch it.
Why, it think the users that want to run their own server are way less likely to cause problems than users that don't even know they are running servers.
I don't care what measures the ISP takes to make sure I'm not spamming my neighbors, just as long as they don't take away my basic capabilities. If they want to do relay tests on my machine once a day or limit my outgoing SMTP traffic, then fine. But I'd like to buy an *INTERNET CONNECTION*, and I like to do more than use my connection to look at advertisments.
I can only agree with you there. My current cable ISP forbids running your own server in the AUP, yet in practice they will only use it against people when they cause trouble. They know damned well i run my own smtp server, they even to an open relay check once in a while...
the "stanford bug checker" is a static source analysis program. this is something else entirely, and arguably more useful.
I think they both have their use. This system takes samples of the state of a running program and does a statistical to see wich state is likely to be the cause of a crash. Not really something that can't be done by a programmer using a debugger, but automatic and given sufficient input i might point you to exactly what condition causes a crash. The stanford bug checker try to prevent bug by code analysis to prevent bug in the first place. Both of them help to make programs better.
That is, technically speaking, neither of these system is able to find bug that just cause other things then the programmer intended, it might be interesting to add some kind of userfeedback to the system.
Correct, once there was a day when people said the wordprocessing war was over and WP won it and was going to stay forever... Word had a really small market share in those day's.
Mine doesn't but i sure mailed him the links in the story!
geez, now try warez.xs4all.nl, i'm sure you'll find loads of the latest apps, gamez and movies there!
So i'm not the only one then...
because there AREN'T ANY FUCKING JOBS TO BE FILLED, DON'T YOU?
Well, how about stopping people that do half a job but get paid for about 5000 jobs and how about stopping people from doing 1.5 job when they get paid for just one? Wouldn't that solve the problem?
What do you do if you have a nice big data set that won't fit in memory?
Did you ever tried to calculate how much memory you can get for the price of an Oracle database?
And then watch the DBA break down and cry as the UPS fails during a blackout...
Geez... Now what whould be the point of object prevalence? Perhaps the idea is to make sure the objects prevail, no matter what happens. Perhaps you don't know what you are talking about?
The difference isn't in the publicity. mySql is the dumber database and therefore used by the people that don't understand things like transactions etc. Just like their are still people developing applications on top of access databases and most of them are feeling very smart and think they understand databases...
If you are the unlucky person that has to fix it,
- Find yourself a brick, a big one. - Stand back. - Trhow it agains the box as hard as you can - Watch the sparks, hope for a good fire. - If neccecery 'help' the fire a little. - Watch it grow for a while. - Go back to your manager, tell him the building is on fire and ask him if a call to 911 fits in the budget.
What "well known" company offers penis pumps? Has Gates been up to more no good?
Yeah, that's his other company, BigHard...
For me it comes down to to the freedom of speech issue -- I've always been told that if you can't handle free speech you don't agree with you obviously can't handle free speech -- and I suppose just because something irritates me doesn't mean that the greater good would be served by silencing that something.
Ammazing how people keep confusing free speech with 'YOU HAVE GOT TO LISTEN TO ME'. Yes, any spammer is free to say what he/she wants, on his/her own website. I'll check it when i want to listen.
Do you read at -1?
...and that's a pity, because, again, that's the side were the money is made.
My bet is this is why they bought Ximian. The Ximian guys have the knowlege to write an Exchange replacement.
Can you spell groupwise?
Or Exchange replacement?
I'd doubt that. You might be right, but going for the refund is far more costly for MS (or the reseller?!). You will also likely get a $199 refund, where the reseller likely paid less for it, making you system cheaper in the end...
But most importantly it's way more satisfying to get money back this way. *grin*
Nice example of how ridicules this can be. Check the box and click approve to let the server know you will accept the cookies, yet let your browser refuse the cookies, you won't get past the web page...
But sweden needs some further improvement. I suggest a law that mandates website to ask clients permission to use their ip-adres even before asking about cookies...