Can't people make health recommendations anymore?
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Have they told you yet that your kids should not stare into the sun? They told me that. Maybe that's just part of the post-Littleton paranoia that looking into the sun causes kids to become trenchcoat-wearing murderers. Or MAYBE it's because staring into the sun is JUST PLAIN BAD FOR YOU!
Why does Jon Katz have to turn everything that happens into more than it is? Somebody makes a horror film on a low budget, suddenly it's a revolution that is going to bring down the Hollywood establishment. This is the same. Physicians are saying that very small children should be kept away from TV. Has it occured to you that they might be acting in the best interests of health, and not as part of some right-wing conspiracy against original thought?
I'm not particularly scared by this. I'm sure the only way it can work is for your computer periodically to connect to the publisher's server and say "Here's what user X is doing! Hope that's okay!" If it's YOUR computer doing that, there must be some way to disable it, or make it lie. All it would take is keeping one computer off the Internet for as long as it took to reverse engineer the protocol the software used to talk to the host. Does this make sense?
Might it be time for a new installation manager? I mean, RPM and DPKG are really convenient in terms of putting the stuff on your HD and removing it, but then what? Apps written specifically for GNOME or KDE install themselves on the "Start menu" (I can't remember what they call it so I'll use the M$ name.) But others don't. So a newbie who downloads something from freshmeat won't know how to run it after installing it. Self-extracting executables that autodetect the GUI and make themselves a part of it would be oh so nice. But I'm just a whiner.
My company runs web frontend servers on Windows NT and backend servers that acquire various pieces of data on Solaris. They're all smart enough to agree that Linux would be a more reliable way to run the frontends than NT, (Solaris is prohibitively expensive for us) but Windows guarantees Y2K compliance, and if it turns out they are wrong, we CAN sue them. We couldn't sue Linus Torvalds. And that's the reason why we use inferior proprietary software - we need accountability.
Before Mp3's, people had no option but to buy CD's, which invariably include songs they didn't want as well as songs they did.
Hmmm. Isn't that how artists want it, though? The 60-75 minute album has become a staple of music in the last two decades. I'm not sure I WANT that much choice, to choose exactly the songs I get. I'm not alone when I say that most of my favorite songs are songs I never heard until I bought the album for another song. This kind of choice can kill any music that isn't completely catchy. Right?
Windows 3.1 apps that need WINSOCK.DLL to function don't work right under Windows 98. Windows 98 doesn't have enough conventional memory for most good DOS games, and there's no way to control a lot of the stuff that gets loaded. Backwards compatibility is a joke in M$-world.
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This doesn't make sense to me. It requires a Java interpreter, yet, they are saying that Mac and Unix have to wait until next week for their versions to come out. If it requires a Java interpreter, shouldn't it just be a bunch of Java bytecode that can be run anywhere? (Ack, maybe they used the now-illegal Microsoft Java builder.)
Just bring back Ivan Rietman (I'm probably spelling that very wrong) and put some darkness into it.
Yes, you are spelling that very wrong. Actually you're not, you're just talking about the director of Ghostbusters when you mean to be talking about Irvin Kershner, the director of The Empire Strikes Back. Regardless of how you spell it, you're absolutely right. I still have a lot of respect for Lucas as a filmmaker - he creates unbelievable scenes (boy do I love that pod race) and characters (Jar Jar would be cool if his voice and dialect were different). But he should leave the direction to someone else and focus on what he does best.
I think you might as well give up hope on that. If NT comes with a prepackaged, preconfigured web server, few people are going to go to the trouble of obtaining and installing apache. It's just like IE and Netscape. Or like when I installed Redhat 5.2, and all of a sudden I had apache running perfectly whenever I booted - I never considered another server.
and the library is free to decide what they get used for.
Wrong! That's exactly what this article is about. Liddy Dole wants to withhold funding from the libraries if they don't decide exactly what she tells them to decide.
I don't really suspect AOL of plotting against black America, but (although there's no way of proving this) it wouldn't surprise me if NSI took this woman a little less seriously because of her race. It's like what has been shown with 911 calls - the bias is subtle, but it's there.
Linux's stability, affordability, and customizability are being recognised! This is a good thing.
Yes! We see a lot of articles out there that have the usual crap about how "More and more businesses are switching to Linux. Why? Um, cuz they think it's, like, better?" I prefer to read stories that talk about 1) a well-known company, 2) exactly what they intend to use Linux for, and 3) exactly what was lacking from Windows that made them switch. On the other hand, Home Depot hasn't switched to Linux, they're just considering it. But I'll be watching.
I don't believe that Metcalfe had any purpose in this article other than to piss off Linux users. I'm not a Linux fanatic, sometimes I frackin' hate the thing, but his comments were one step away from childish insults. Linus Torvalds smells like peepee. You want to talk about back-to-the-earth idealism? Read about Xerox PARC in the 70's. This guy was right at the center of that.
Sorry, I'm a diehard Breakfast Club fan, and whatever crappy films Anthony Michael Hall may have made since then, he has the capacity to be funny and believable at the same time. I think he'll make a perfect BG.
M$ doesn't resent Sun's dominance in the Java world. They resent the threat it presents to Windows' dominance in the OS world. Java can break the cycle of "it's not profitable enough for software companies to port their software to Macintosh, so there's less available software for the Macintosh, so the Macintosh is less popular, so people buy less Macintosh software, so it's not profitable enough for software companies to port their software to Macintosh...." that keeps Windows on top. And that scares Billy G. What if he only made $5 billion a year?! He'd starve!
When I saw the post I said to myself, "COMPAQ?! The company that sold me this computer for a song, without telling me the modem was INDEED a WinModem, the printer was a Windows-only Lexmark (which takes 3 minutes per page black & white in Windows ANYWAY), and the sound card.... forget about the sound card! Could THEY be opening the door to Linux?!" Wait, nope. Just on server machines. Presarios will continue to provide flawless mule-excrement emulation.
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Have they told you yet that your kids should not stare into the sun? They told me that. Maybe that's just part of the post-Littleton paranoia that looking into the sun causes kids to become trenchcoat-wearing murderers. Or MAYBE it's because staring into the sun is JUST PLAIN BAD FOR YOU!
Why does Jon Katz have to turn everything that happens into more than it is? Somebody makes a horror film on a low budget, suddenly it's a revolution that is going to bring down the Hollywood establishment. This is the same. Physicians are saying that very small children should be kept away from TV. Has it occured to you that they might be acting in the best interests of health, and not as part of some right-wing conspiracy against original thought?
Some English. When they asked me for my name and "titel", I decided maybe I should find a site with a slightly more professional look.
I'm not particularly scared by this. I'm sure the only way it can work is for your computer periodically to connect to the publisher's server and say "Here's what user X is doing! Hope that's okay!" If it's YOUR computer doing that, there must be some way to disable it, or make it lie. All it would take is keeping one computer off the Internet for as long as it took to reverse engineer the protocol the software used to talk to the host. Does this make sense?
Might it be time for a new installation manager? I mean, RPM and DPKG are really convenient in terms of putting the stuff on your HD and removing it, but then what? Apps written specifically for GNOME or KDE install themselves on the "Start menu" (I can't remember what they call it so I'll use the M$ name.) But others don't. So a newbie who downloads something from freshmeat won't know how to run it after installing it. Self-extracting executables that autodetect the GUI and make themselves a part of it would be oh so nice. But I'm just a whiner.
My company runs web frontend servers on Windows NT and backend servers that acquire various pieces of data on Solaris. They're all smart enough to agree that Linux would be a more reliable way to run the frontends than NT, (Solaris is prohibitively expensive for us) but Windows guarantees Y2K compliance, and if it turns out they are wrong, we CAN sue them. We couldn't sue Linus Torvalds. And that's the reason why we use inferior proprietary software - we need accountability.
You want to go to bed at 12? No problem. At 11, you need only type "shutdown -h 60". That'll teach you to stay up past your bedtime.
Hmmm. Isn't that how artists want it, though? The 60-75 minute album has become a staple of music in the last two decades. I'm not sure I WANT that much choice, to choose exactly the songs I get. I'm not alone when I say that most of my favorite songs are songs I never heard until I bought the album for another song. This kind of choice can kill any music that isn't completely catchy. Right?
What happened in the 80's? Are you referring to the fall of the USSR's communist government in 1991?
Windows 3.1 apps that need WINSOCK.DLL to function don't work right under Windows 98. Windows 98 doesn't have enough conventional memory for most good DOS games, and there's no way to control a lot of the stuff that gets loaded. Backwards compatibility is a joke in M$-world.
This doesn't make sense to me. It requires a Java interpreter, yet, they are saying that Mac and Unix have to wait until next week for their versions to come out. If it requires a Java interpreter, shouldn't it just be a bunch of Java bytecode that can be run anywhere? (Ack, maybe they used the now-illegal Microsoft Java builder.)
...is for Compaq to do the same!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my, that's funny......
God just announced that He is going to open-source the DNA of the trees that were cut down to produce the book.
Can we put a lid on the elitism at least when we're answering Ask Slashdots?
Yes, you are spelling that very wrong. Actually you're not, you're just talking about the director of Ghostbusters when you mean to be talking about Irvin Kershner, the director of The Empire Strikes Back. Regardless of how you spell it, you're absolutely right. I still have a lot of respect for Lucas as a filmmaker - he creates unbelievable scenes (boy do I love that pod race) and characters (Jar Jar would be cool if his voice and dialect were different). But he should leave the direction to someone else and focus on what he does best.
I think you might as well give up hope on that. If NT comes with a prepackaged, preconfigured web server, few people are going to go to the trouble of obtaining and installing apache. It's just like IE and Netscape. Or like when I installed Redhat 5.2, and all of a sudden I had apache running perfectly whenever I booted - I never considered another server.
Sorry for the wasted post, but I just wanna wish you good luck, and I promise not to be an asshole and accuse you of selling out. :)
Wrong! That's exactly what this article is about. Liddy Dole wants to withhold funding from the libraries if they don't decide exactly what she tells them to decide.
I don't really suspect AOL of plotting against black America, but (although there's no way of proving this) it wouldn't surprise me if NSI took this woman a little less seriously because of her race. It's like what has been shown with 911 calls - the bias is subtle, but it's there.
Yes! We see a lot of articles out there that have the usual crap about how "More and more businesses are switching to Linux. Why? Um, cuz they think it's, like, better?" I prefer to read stories that talk about 1) a well-known company, 2) exactly what they intend to use Linux for, and 3) exactly what was lacking from Windows that made them switch. On the other hand, Home Depot hasn't switched to Linux, they're just considering it. But I'll be watching.
For anyone who's ever hated insects... these things could probably be used maliciously, no?
I don't believe that Metcalfe had any purpose in this article other than to piss off Linux users. I'm not a Linux fanatic, sometimes I frackin' hate the thing, but his comments were one step away from childish insults. Linus Torvalds smells like peepee. You want to talk about back-to-the-earth idealism? Read about Xerox PARC in the 70's. This guy was right at the center of that.
Sorry, I'm a diehard Breakfast Club fan, and whatever crappy films Anthony Michael Hall may have made since then, he has the capacity to be funny and believable at the same time. I think he'll make a perfect BG.
M$ doesn't resent Sun's dominance in the Java world. They resent the threat it presents to Windows' dominance in the OS world. Java can break the cycle of "it's not profitable enough for software companies to port their software to Macintosh, so there's less available software for the Macintosh, so the Macintosh is less popular, so people buy less Macintosh software, so it's not profitable enough for software companies to port their software to Macintosh...." that keeps Windows on top. And that scares Billy G. What if he only made $5 billion a year?! He'd starve!
Blackdown just finished porting Java 1.2 to Linux. Now we get the momentous news that we have 1.1.6 from IBM?
When I saw the post I said to myself, "COMPAQ?! The company that sold me this computer for a song, without telling me the modem was INDEED a WinModem, the printer was a Windows-only Lexmark (which takes 3 minutes per page black & white in Windows ANYWAY), and the sound card.... forget about the sound card! Could THEY be opening the door to Linux?!" Wait, nope. Just on server machines. Presarios will continue to provide flawless mule-excrement emulation.