Considering Sage, I think even Microsoft would have done a better job, than the giant pieces of crap that they deliver.
I remember one year that felt like 3, where we had to repair the database twice a day, because that thing could not handle more than 5 clients at the same time. I also remember building external extension tools. A Sage guy even offered me a job at the CeBit (for a joke of a pay), as a developer, because of those tools. I declined.
Try that with someone posting trough an anonymizing non-logging proxy that self-destroys as soon as its surrounding force fields change even a bit.:P (Ok, in reality someone switching it off, removing/addingg hardware or logging in (honeypot anyway), is enough. But even my little linux server here can do this.)
The "Internal Revenue Service" Is in the cinema. Watching Hanna Montana, the movie. We tried to send him to hell, but God told us we should not be that cruel on the devil. (Who already had installed his first break-in protection system, when he heard about it. He also was the one, who recommended the movie. It's nice to see Satan still being able to be that cruel, after all those years and the broken marriage with Saddam.
I am forever prejudiced, because of Al Bundy's "red pest" wife. I have nothing against someone, because of his hair color. But I could not marry a red head. It sits too deep... I don't know if I should thank or damn you, Al Bundy!
Oh well, A true Bundy does not want to marry anyway.
There is no point in enforcing JavaScript on this site. I read my RSS feeds in Thunderbird. Slashdot is one of them. And you can't expect JavaScript in an RSS reader.
But you gave me an idea. I will block the images with AdBlock Plus... which exists for Thunderbird too.:P
I wonder why the/. web developers are such losers, when they should be total tech geeks?
This is a very old argument, that sometimes is backed up by false arguments, but is mostly just parroted around.
Insert CD/DVD, click, what, twice?, and done. Including all apps that you would have to add later under windows.
Microsoft on the other hand, is throwing huge sums of money at computer shops, software companies and the government, so you have to install Linux, while doing nothing to keep windows. To be forced to buy it anyway. And to keep companies like Adobe from making it compatible, by making it extra-hard.
I feared that Linux would get hard to use here. But it turned out to be such a charm, that I could not go back. I'd feel seriously crippled. (I heard the same things from Apple users too.)
Aah, now I get where your POV comes from. And I agree totally to the unix philosophy.
But there is not a single desktop environment on this planet, who actually does this. For this, the buttons in an application for example, would have to be separate programs.
But just removing functions, while still going completely in the opposite direction than the UNIX philosophy, is even worse than putting them all in large monolithic apps.
Besides: The KDE core apps are not that monolithic at all. Hell, even the "K-Menu" is a different app from the task bar. And Plasma is specifically made to go in the direction of the UNIX philosophy. People just don't get it, because of horrible marketing. and developers think they can just fit their old apps into the new thing, and be done. Instead of splitting them up.
About the options: Options are equivalent to freedom and individuality. If you call that "cluttered crap", then no wonder totalitarian "one law to rule them all" governments are on the rise. The point that apparently nobody gets, is that you offer as much options as possible but you set sensible defaults. So if you just imagine there is no "Settings" menu option, you got your Gnome. and if you use it, then you got you KDE. Or everything else in between. I also recommend profiles. Even hierarchical cross-application profiles, that you can download from a site like kde-profiles.org or something like that.
You mean apart from the nano-scale bucky balls and particles of them themselves?
I don't think anyone has (or could) ever really test(ed) the effects of that stuff on your body and genetics. In the end, we will do what we always do. We will try it out on the people. And if it fails, someone will continue... Monsanto style.
Do you really think that the government doesn't know about other DNS servers?
Yes, after some TV magazine report, I know that they don't think that far. Blocking people from getting there is not the point. Intimidation, and getting the people used to this kind of government, is the real point.
Besides: Who stops you from using another port, and encrypting the data trough a VPN? Hell, my router can do that. Trough a simple web-interface. I don't need to change anything on my pc. It's done in 5 minutes. Now if you offer me an offshore DNS server with a VPN, a good connection, and just the price of keeping it running, you will have a client. (Those free ones are too slow, and the others that you buy are way too expensive, because they want to profit big time from it.)
I smell a nice non-profit business model here. Especially since half the world can be your clients.
As long as they don't go to war against our small island full of servers, and as long as they do still allow data into the net, we can circumvent their censorship. And offer the whole world to do so too, in one click (insert USB stick, run autostart, click OK, done).
I wonder how one could protect those servers better, even in case of attacks? Hey, I know it: Infect the censorship servers *themselves*!:D
Who wants to apply for a well-payed job in this emerging censorship-server-market? If we storm them, all of us will pretty much be moles. Meaning we can perfectly disable the censorship proxies/routers for users with our special client patch.:)
My god, and they thought they could stop *us all*. They can't even stop me alone.
What "lot" of iPhones are you talking about? Here in Germany, the iPhone is one of the rarest phones on the market. Because it's double the price of the best Nokia, and has only half the features. And I bet this will be the case for most of the world.
If you want to get a virus going, make it run on Symbian. Or with some luck, you can use J2ME, which pretty much every phone supports, but which is a bit hard to get to do something useful (because of the additional VM/Sandbox).
Who do you think edits Wikipedia? THOSE THAT HAVE NO LIFE!
If they knew anything about the subject, they would already be occupied with actually doing something in that area!
This, and the fact that there is never ONE SINGLE TRUTH(TM), (because we do no know truth but only our most secured theories), are the reasons that Wikipedia could never really work, except in some fairy-tale hippie land.
So your argument is... that freedom (of choice) is wrong? No wonder you only have two parties, who additionally are exactly the same. (They just talk differently.)
In case you did not know it: Average click-rates of ads on the Internet are even below the number of random clicks that people do in error. I know, because I worked at a large company, and my colleagues studied exactly that. 0.1% click rate is something, that ad companies will open bottles of champagne about. Usually it's much less. Which can mean both, that ad-blockers are used more and more, and that people subconsciously click less on ads, even when they did not want to click there. In my eyes, all ad clicks on the net are such unwanted clicks, (and company-own-bots making some cash, ) and the whole industry is fake. The biggest joke is, that as those prices, they could also bill the user trough a micropayment. Because if I remember it correctly, 1000 clicks costed roughly 50 €. At 0.05% click rate, this is:
50 € / 1000 clicks * 0.0005 (click rate) = 0.000025 € / page-view = 400 page views per cent that you pay. Now that is a price that we all can live with, isn't it? Hell, I would pay ten times that, and still be ok with it. All we need, is some micropayment system that can track all our page views, across all servers... Oh, wait!
That's the "nice" thing about this system. You can have a dictatory government, and nobody knows it. You just play the lobby, and regularly let the people choose, which group of your strawmen they like the most.
People, become lobbyists! I recommend destroying Monsanto from the inside. Feed them their own toxines.;)
And it was totally obvious that this happened. Monsanto hat huge revolving doors with the government. Seriously. Microsoft, the oil industry, the pharma industry, the media industry... in terms of the chance to fuck us all up, they are all complete jokes, compared to that company.
Well... they already killed themselves with their naming scheme changes. Re-labeling things so that you are pretty much guaranteed to feel ripped off when buying one of their cards, because it is just the same old shit with a new name, does not essentially make them trustworthy, or me wanting to buy anything from them.
Unfortunately, ATi's current generation is completely incompatible with Linux, (Not compatible to current kernel interfaces [>=2.6.29], massive tons of things that make it crash, composite and xinerama blocking each other, needs band-aids here, and helper tools there, to just get it working for a short time, extremely crappy video rendering [imagine HDR going wild]) so they are the only real choice.:/
Are you saying they will come bundled with Doom 4? Better hope they integrate all eight at the same time. Or you might end up with the set of your keyboard LEDs having a higher resolution (and being brighter anyway).
No, it's not. It's a wonderfully feature-less chip, with everything possible off-loaded into the northbridge. Which is why the NB looks like the real CPU, when you look at the board.
If you want wonderful efficiency, look at those new smartbooks that were show in a recent/. article. They take 1-2 watts, and play full-hd and hardware accelerated flash. I rather stack 10 of those, than buying one Atom chip (with the same power usage).
I just wish someone would offer bare-bones ARM modules that you could take as much as you wanted of, and stick them together to form a desktop computer. maybe even have a special module that you could take out as a smartbook. Throw in some GPUs, and maybe an SPU (sound), or whatever you like. Of course Windows would -- as usual -- just choke and die, but Windows and Smartbooks do not fit anyway (yet). It's all Linux in its many forms (including Android).
I for one, would love to have a desktop system, that is essentially a more tightly integrated blade rack with a fast backbone bus.
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Considering Sage, I think even Microsoft would have done a better job, than the giant pieces of crap that they deliver.
I remember one year that felt like 3, where we had to repair the database twice a day, because that thing could not handle more than 5 clients at the same time.
I also remember building external extension tools. A Sage guy even offered me a job at the CeBit (for a joke of a pay), as a developer, because of those tools. I declined.
I haven't heard of it at all. And, being a Linux user, I also see no point in checking it out. :)
If they want to find you, they will;
Try that with someone posting trough an anonymizing non-logging proxy that self-destroys as soon as its surrounding force fields change even a bit. :P
(Ok, in reality someone switching it off, removing/addingg hardware or logging in (honeypot anyway), is enough. But even my little linux server here can do this.)
A classic case of lack of imagination. ;)
We are your Imaginary Rescue Squad.
The "Internal Revenue Service" Is in the cinema. Watching Hanna Montana, the movie. We tried to send him to hell, but God told us we should not be that cruel on the devil. (Who already had installed his first break-in protection system, when he heard about it. He also was the one, who recommended the movie. It's nice to see Satan still being able to be that cruel, after all those years and the broken marriage with Saddam.
Maybe Linux was born for him? To fill the hole, so to speak. *ducks* ;)
I am forever prejudiced, because of Al Bundy's "red pest" wife. I have nothing against someone, because of his hair color. But I could not marry a red head. It sits too deep...
I don't know if I should thank or damn you, Al Bundy!
Oh well, A true Bundy does not want to marry anyway.
<falling frequency>Ooooohhh, Bundy...!</falling frequency>
Yes. I had to make that my sig right now. :D
No. But having sex with Vista makes you a pervert. She is obviously a large fat two-year-old girl in colorful plastic semi-transparent fetish clothes.
There is no point in enforcing JavaScript on this site. I read my RSS feeds in Thunderbird. Slashdot is one of them. And you can't expect JavaScript in an RSS reader.
But you gave me an idea. I will block the images with AdBlock Plus... which exists for Thunderbird too. :P
I wonder why the /. web developers are such losers, when they should be total tech geeks?
This is a very old argument, that sometimes is backed up by false arguments, but is mostly just parroted around.
Insert CD/DVD, click, what, twice?, and done. Including all apps that you would have to add later under windows.
Microsoft on the other hand, is throwing huge sums of money at computer shops, software companies and the government, so you have to install Linux, while doing nothing to keep windows. To be forced to buy it anyway. And to keep companies like Adobe from making it compatible, by making it extra-hard.
I feared that Linux would get hard to use here. But it turned out to be such a charm, that I could not go back. I'd feel seriously crippled. (I heard the same things from Apple users too.)
Aah, now I get where your POV comes from. And I agree totally to the unix philosophy.
But there is not a single desktop environment on this planet, who actually does this. For this, the buttons in an application for example, would have to be separate programs.
But just removing functions, while still going completely in the opposite direction than the UNIX philosophy, is even worse than putting them all in large monolithic apps.
Besides: The KDE core apps are not that monolithic at all. Hell, even the "K-Menu" is a different app from the task bar. And Plasma is specifically made to go in the direction of the UNIX philosophy. People just don't get it, because of horrible marketing. and developers think they can just fit their old apps into the new thing, and be done. Instead of splitting them up.
About the options: Options are equivalent to freedom and individuality. If you call that "cluttered crap", then no wonder totalitarian "one law to rule them all" governments are on the rise.
The point that apparently nobody gets, is that you offer as much options as possible but you set sensible defaults. So if you just imagine there is no "Settings" menu option, you got your Gnome. and if you use it, then you got you KDE. Or everything else in between.
I also recommend profiles. Even hierarchical cross-application profiles, that you can download from a site like kde-profiles.org or something like that.
You mean apart from the nano-scale bucky balls and particles of them themselves?
I don't think anyone has (or could) ever really test(ed) the effects of that stuff on your body and genetics.
In the end, we will do what we always do. We will try it out on the people. And if it fails, someone will continue... Monsanto style.
Who says you can't catch anything with it? A shark? A small whale? Your mom maybe? Including some diseases... :P
That's what VPNs are for.
And offshore servers.
And I bet the administrators of those censorship servers read Slashdot too, so we can work with them.
Hahahaa... Seriously. This government is such a joke.
If we only had some weapon against the real reason for this all: The intimidation and getting used to this.
Do you really think that the government doesn't know about other DNS servers?
Yes, after some TV magazine report, I know that they don't think that far.
Blocking people from getting there is not the point. Intimidation, and getting the people used to this kind of government, is the real point.
Besides: Who stops you from using another port, and encrypting the data trough a VPN? Hell, my router can do that. Trough a simple web-interface. I don't need to change anything on my pc. It's done in 5 minutes. Now if you offer me an offshore DNS server with a VPN, a good connection, and just the price of keeping it running, you will have a client. (Those free ones are too slow, and the others that you buy are way too expensive, because they want to profit big time from it.)
I smell a nice non-profit business model here. Especially since half the world can be your clients.
As long as they don't go to war against our small island full of servers, and as long as they do still allow data into the net, we can circumvent their censorship. And offer the whole world to do so too, in one click (insert USB stick, run autostart, click OK, done).
I wonder how one could protect those servers better, even in case of attacks? :D
Hey, I know it: Infect the censorship servers *themselves*!
Who wants to apply for a well-payed job in this emerging censorship-server-market? :)
If we storm them, all of us will pretty much be moles. Meaning we can perfectly disable the censorship proxies/routers for users with our special client patch.
My god, and they thought they could stop *us all*. They can't even stop me alone.
What "lot" of iPhones are you talking about? Here in Germany, the iPhone is one of the rarest phones on the market. Because it's double the price of the best Nokia, and has only half the features. And I bet this will be the case for most of the world.
If you want to get a virus going, make it run on Symbian. Or with some luck, you can use J2ME, which pretty much every phone supports, but which is a bit hard to get to do something useful (because of the additional VM/Sandbox).
What do you expect?
Who do you think edits Wikipedia? THOSE THAT HAVE NO LIFE!
If they knew anything about the subject, they would already be occupied with actually doing something in that area!
This, and the fact that there is never ONE SINGLE TRUTH(TM), (because we do no know truth but only our most secured theories), are the reasons that Wikipedia could never really work, except in some fairy-tale hippie land.
There's a disapprove button? Where is it? *oooh* *oooh* Where? *oooh* *oooh* *aaah* *aaah* *aaah* *PUNCH* *PUSH* *BOUNCE*
So your argument is... that freedom (of choice) is wrong?
No wonder you only have two parties, who additionally are exactly the same. (They just talk differently.)
In case you did not know it: Average click-rates of ads on the Internet are even below the number of random clicks that people do in error. I know, because I worked at a large company, and my colleagues studied exactly that.
0.1% click rate is something, that ad companies will open bottles of champagne about. Usually it's much less.
Which can mean both, that ad-blockers are used more and more, and that people subconsciously click less on ads, even when they did not want to click there.
In my eyes, all ad clicks on the net are such unwanted clicks, (and company-own-bots making some cash, ) and the whole industry is fake.
The biggest joke is, that as those prices, they could also bill the user trough a micropayment. Because if I remember it correctly, 1000 clicks costed roughly 50 €. At 0.05% click rate, this is:
50 € / 1000 clicks * 0.0005 (click rate) = 0.000025 € / page-view = 400 page views per cent that you pay.
Now that is a price that we all can live with, isn't it? Hell, I would pay ten times that, and still be ok with it.
All we need, is some micropayment system that can track all our page views, across all servers... Oh, wait!
Because they are only marionettes?
That's the "nice" thing about this system. You can have a dictatory government, and nobody knows it. You just play the lobby, and regularly let the people choose, which group of your strawmen they like the most.
People, become lobbyists! I recommend destroying Monsanto from the inside. Feed them their own toxines. ;)
And it was totally obvious that this happened. Monsanto hat huge revolving doors with the government.
Seriously. Microsoft, the oil industry, the pharma industry, the media industry... in terms of the chance to fuck us all up, they are all complete jokes, compared to that company.
There was a very well-made reportage on the French-German TV channel arte, looking behind it in a serious manner:
English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_OJcPKEYDE
German: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7781121501979693623
French: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8723985684378254371
Also available via BitTorrent.
Well... they already killed themselves with their naming scheme changes. Re-labeling things so that you are pretty much guaranteed to feel ripped off when buying one of their cards, because it is just the same old shit with a new name, does not essentially make them trustworthy, or me wanting to buy anything from them.
Unfortunately, ATi's current generation is completely incompatible with Linux, (Not compatible to current kernel interfaces [>=2.6.29], massive tons of things that make it crash, composite and xinerama blocking each other, needs band-aids here, and helper tools there, to just get it working for a short time, extremely crappy video rendering [imagine HDR going wild]) so they are the only real choice. :/
and in the darkness bind them
Are you saying they will come bundled with Doom 4?
Better hope they integrate all eight at the same time. Or you might end up with the set of your keyboard LEDs having a higher resolution (and being brighter anyway).
The Atom is a wonderfully efficient chip
No, it's not. It's a wonderfully feature-less chip, with everything possible off-loaded into the northbridge. Which is why the NB looks like the real CPU, when you look at the board.
If you want wonderful efficiency, look at those new smartbooks that were show in a recent /. article. They take 1-2 watts, and play full-hd and hardware accelerated flash.
I rather stack 10 of those, than buying one Atom chip (with the same power usage).
I just wish someone would offer bare-bones ARM modules that you could take as much as you wanted of, and stick them together to form a desktop computer. maybe even have a special module that you could take out as a smartbook. Throw in some GPUs, and maybe an SPU (sound), or whatever you like.
Of course Windows would -- as usual -- just choke and die, but Windows and Smartbooks do not fit anyway (yet). It's all Linux in its many forms (including Android).
I for one, would love to have a desktop system, that is essentially a more tightly integrated blade rack with a fast backbone bus.