"...correlating Henslow's plant collections with the time of collection, the people involved, Darwin's published work and so on using a card index, was woefully inefficient. He designed a database to hold all the information available from Henslow's collections..."
This still looks like a basic, specialized database to me. Where's the great leap to "all your data are belong to us?"
"The researchers say the findings, published today in the journal Science, offer a counterargument to doubters of evolution who question..."
Can you believe it's 2006 and we still care about the near-high-school drop-outs who continue to question evolution?
I've found that most people who are ignorant of evolutionary processes lead sheltered lives. They are vaguely ignorant of where the beef on their table came from, they couldn't tell you how rainclouds form and they don't have a clue how much oil may be left in the ground. However, they darn sure know that men couldn't from monkeys.
"After five months of fruitless negotiation with a D-Link lawyer (who alternately tried to threaten and bribe him)..."
So, DLink tried to PAY for their use of the NTP server and the NTP server custodian got pissed? Was the offer too low, or was the custodian just offended by the concept of "trade"?
CEO of a two-person company? Whoopie. Seriously, I'd keep "C-level" titles off the business cards until there's enough people to fill up a conference room. In smaller companies, I've seen people split up into the "sales director" and "operations director" and get away with that.
Most expensive MP3 player = a Unisys Clearpath (that's a mainframe) running Windows Enterprise. That's something like $2 million to play your pirated tunes.
"Like spinning X as something great when there is a much better Y?"
Well...yes. That's kind of the whole point behind a specific pitch. Once you've decided to get X, you need to turn around and make an audience that may know a little something about both X and Y feel that X is clearly better. It's the very definition of spin...
"An excellent example of a cutting-edge open source effort is the netfilter project (www.netfilter.org), a Linux-based packet filter that features stateful firewalling, Network Address Translation (NAT), load balancing, and other kinds of packet mangling. The project was founded in 1999 in Australia and has now grown to more than 100,000 lines of code contributed by over 700 developers. There are currently about 300 active developers submitting about 1,400 postings a month to the development mailing lists. The core team consists of 4 members who winnow down the submissions to an average of 65 code improvements and fixes per month. "
"By Walter Schumann, VP Sales and Marketing, Astaro"
You Slashdotters may make fun of marketing people, but I think Walter just showed you how YOU need to make your pitch for your favorite open source project at your company.
I think I agree. I'd say Final Fantasy was one of the earlier "Eastern RPG" titles to make it big in the U.S., and that "game" just continued to suck more ass as it got older.
" 1) Has been debunked (by a PR guy, yeah i know, so who really knows)"
OK, I'm a smart-ass. Windows backwards compatibility has generally been OK through releases.
"2) Its just nicer that I can bust out some of my old faves on the 360. But the kicker is that the 360 can play Xbox 360 games"
Here's the problem, I think. The XBox games that are currently available are not enough of a draw by themselves. So, they have to keep retro-porting the good titles from the old platform. If that's a main part of the XBox 360's appeal, what's the point?
I understand M$'s desire to squash these guys. Every time some server custodian buys another Symantec/Trend/McAfee license, the thought in the back of that custodian's head has to be "I wonder how much less of Symantec/Trend/McAfee's shit I would have to deal with if we didn't have so many M$ platforms running around."
1) After M$'s latest Vista F-up, some of the XBox team is headed over to "help" with Vista. Kiss your backwards compatibility goodbye.
2) "Uh...well, you can buy this XBox 360 with the noisy fan and unreliable power supply here for $300 or the old XBox that just fucking works for $75 off eBay. Either one can play your favorite game."
Why is "ask.com" considered a competitor? After all, "ask.com" still serves Google Ads. (How do I know? My ads are served on ask.com and I know I only bought them through Google...)
"The issue came to head when AOPA learned that the Gaston County Police Department in North Carolina had bought a "CyberBUG" UAV from Cyber Defense Systems."
Every fucking time I turn around another police outfit from Bumblefuck, U.S.A. has bought itself a shiny new toy with my "homeland security" tax dollars. (Add your least favorite story about the new SWAT team in a county with three homocides a year, an armored car for a town of 50K people, etc.) And because there usually aren't any terrorists anywhere near them, these knuckledraggers end up figuring out a way to chase the usual crowd of inbred drunks around town with it.
"The freeplay option limits players to a "battle rank" of six, with higher ranks only available to those with a paying account..."
So, it's just a traditional demo version, right?
The books and PJ's movies were the only good ones
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LOTR has been done in the theater many times before, as an animated series, as various movies and even as video games. ("War in Middle Earth" - [shudder]) Since the original books, the ONLY attempt to repackage the story that hasn't completely sucked was Peter Jackson's movie trilogy. So...this isn't so much "Jumping the Shark" as it is SNAFU.
"...you would do well to see if there is a Fry's or Micro Center store in your area. Go down there and support their efforts to flirt with FOSS!"
Um...yeah, I'll get right on that.
The author seems to miss the point that half the FOSS solution is the "F" part, and that "F" doesn't involve paying a premium to pick up the crappy computers shilled by your local big box.
1) Got brand new MiniMac
2) Accidentally ran some cheesy flying dinosaur game
3) When I tried to exit the program, the computer froze hard
4) None of the magic key combos worked, so I hard booted
5) When the computer restarted, it literally blue-screened after the sign on screen tried to draw
6) After surfing the forums, one of the recommendations to get past the MiniMac blue screen of death was to reset some memory cache - that's the "reset memory" I'm talking about.
"kill hung programs with opt-cmd-esc, not any harder than the Windows ctrl-alt-delete is it?"
It's a little harder. Under Windows, you can pop up the task manager from the bottom bar using a right-click; you don't need to use CTRL-ALT-DELETE anymore to kill program. I thought it was significant because my last Mac (with a previous cut of OS X) and its programs were so stable that I nearly forgot about opt-cmd-esc and friends.
First, try to buy software that logs this for you. That makes it easier to just point the auditors to the logs when they come sniffing around, and keeps your operators and system custodians from wasting time double-entering notes about what they did on some other third-party system.
"Analysts estimate that Microsoft`s delays in releasing the next generation of its operating system, known as Vista, have cost it about $500 million."
This number seems low considering that another major Vista delay will cause qualified employees to seek employment elsewhere, cause major customers to have more time to consider and switch to alternative technologies, sap the XBox team and reduce everyone's confidence in Microsoft. I'd take Microsoft's total revenue and dock at least 5%...
"Apple's new operating system is stable, reliable and easy to use."
Obviously the owner doesn't use a MiniMac. I keep a paper list of the three- and four-key magic keypresses you need to reset memory, kill hung programs (especially anything with Java) and force a shutdown taped to mine.
"Each loop consists of about 8 minutes, half of which is advertising."
Uh...if they do it right, the whole thing will be advertising. 8 minutes might be traditional 30-second spots, but the rest of the content will be either infomercial (Today-show-ish) or pure product placement.
"My wife and I have about 3,500 books. We can't find anything. All the books are in random order."
Have a couple of kids and you'll find that trivial stuff like this will be the least of your concerns - most of your possessions will be in random places.
"We want to find a solution for organizing our books. I also want the data in an open format. "
Dewey decimal system? Maybe one of you should pick up a degree in library science.
"We have a barcode scanner, but I'm not sure the best way to use it.
Aim the red light (the "la-ser") at the "zebra stripes" and wait until you hear a beep.
"What software do other people use to organize their home libraries?"
Hell, I read books to get a break from computers. I think if I had that many books I'd donate most of them to the local library. I know I don't have time to reread 3,500 books - there's millions more out there I haven't read yet!
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This still looks like a basic, specialized database to me. Where's the great leap to "all your data are belong to us?"
Can you believe it's 2006 and we still care about the near-high-school drop-outs who continue to question evolution?
I've found that most people who are ignorant of evolutionary processes lead sheltered lives. They are vaguely ignorant of where the beef on their table came from, they couldn't tell you how rainclouds form and they don't have a clue how much oil may be left in the ground. However, they darn sure know that men couldn't from monkeys.
So, DLink tried to PAY for their use of the NTP server and the NTP server custodian got pissed? Was the offer too low, or was the custodian just offended by the concept of "trade"?
CEO of a two-person company? Whoopie. Seriously, I'd keep "C-level" titles off the business cards until there's enough people to fill up a conference room. In smaller companies, I've seen people split up into the "sales director" and "operations director" and get away with that.
Most expensive MP3 player = a Unisys Clearpath (that's a mainframe) running Windows Enterprise. That's something like $2 million to play your pirated tunes.
Download the PDFs of the books instead...they're out there if you know where to look.
Well...yes. That's kind of the whole point behind a specific pitch. Once you've decided to get X, you need to turn around and make an audience that may know a little something about both X and Y feel that X is clearly better. It's the very definition of spin...
"By Walter Schumann, VP Sales and Marketing, Astaro"
You Slashdotters may make fun of marketing people, but I think Walter just showed you how YOU need to make your pitch for your favorite open source project at your company.
I think I agree. I'd say Final Fantasy was one of the earlier "Eastern RPG" titles to make it big in the U.S., and that "game" just continued to suck more ass as it got older.
OK, I'm a smart-ass. Windows backwards compatibility has generally been OK through releases.
"2) Its just nicer that I can bust out some of my old faves on the 360. But the kicker is that the 360 can play Xbox 360 games"
Here's the problem, I think. The XBox games that are currently available are not enough of a draw by themselves. So, they have to keep retro-porting the good titles from the old platform. If that's a main part of the XBox 360's appeal, what's the point?
I understand M$'s desire to squash these guys. Every time some server custodian buys another Symantec/Trend/McAfee license, the thought in the back of that custodian's head has to be "I wonder how much less of Symantec/Trend/McAfee's shit I would have to deal with if we didn't have so many M$ platforms running around."
1) After M$'s latest Vista F-up, some of the XBox team is headed over to "help" with Vista. Kiss your backwards compatibility goodbye.
2) "Uh...well, you can buy this XBox 360 with the noisy fan and unreliable power supply here for $300 or the old XBox that just fucking works for $75 off eBay. Either one can play your favorite game."
I thought women already had access to such vibrating devices when they got bored, although I'm not sure their use was automatic...
Why is "ask.com" considered a competitor? After all, "ask.com" still serves Google Ads. (How do I know? My ads are served on ask.com and I know I only bought them through Google...)
Of course, you're omitting training, storage and repair costs and the time lost putting a cop in front of a TV screen instead of out on the streets.
Every fucking time I turn around another police outfit from Bumblefuck, U.S.A. has bought itself a shiny new toy with my "homeland security" tax dollars. (Add your least favorite story about the new SWAT team in a county with three homocides a year, an armored car for a town of 50K people, etc.) And because there usually aren't any terrorists anywhere near them, these knuckledraggers end up figuring out a way to chase the usual crowd of inbred drunks around town with it.
So, it's just a traditional demo version, right?
LOTR has been done in the theater many times before, as an animated series, as various movies and even as video games. ("War in Middle Earth" - [shudder]) Since the original books, the ONLY attempt to repackage the story that hasn't completely sucked was Peter Jackson's movie trilogy. So...this isn't so much "Jumping the Shark" as it is SNAFU.
Um...yeah, I'll get right on that.
The author seems to miss the point that half the FOSS solution is the "F" part, and that "F" doesn't involve paying a premium to pick up the crappy computers shilled by your local big box.
"reset memory? what are you talking about?"
1) Got brand new MiniMac
2) Accidentally ran some cheesy flying dinosaur game
3) When I tried to exit the program, the computer froze hard
4) None of the magic key combos worked, so I hard booted
5) When the computer restarted, it literally blue-screened after the sign on screen tried to draw
6) After surfing the forums, one of the recommendations to get past the MiniMac blue screen of death was to reset some memory cache - that's the "reset memory" I'm talking about.
"kill hung programs with opt-cmd-esc, not any harder than the Windows ctrl-alt-delete is it?"
It's a little harder. Under Windows, you can pop up the task manager from the bottom bar using a right-click; you don't need to use CTRL-ALT-DELETE anymore to kill program. I thought it was significant because my last Mac (with a previous cut of OS X) and its programs were so stable that I nearly forgot about opt-cmd-esc and friends.
First, try to buy software that logs this for you. That makes it easier to just point the auditors to the logs when they come sniffing around, and keeps your operators and system custodians from wasting time double-entering notes about what they did on some other third-party system.
This number seems low considering that another major Vista delay will cause qualified employees to seek employment elsewhere, cause major customers to have more time to consider and switch to alternative technologies, sap the XBox team and reduce everyone's confidence in Microsoft. I'd take Microsoft's total revenue and dock at least 5%...
Obviously the owner doesn't use a MiniMac. I keep a paper list of the three- and four-key magic keypresses you need to reset memory, kill hung programs (especially anything with Java) and force a shutdown taped to mine.
Uh...if they do it right, the whole thing will be advertising. 8 minutes might be traditional 30-second spots, but the rest of the content will be either infomercial (Today-show-ish) or pure product placement.
Have a couple of kids and you'll find that trivial stuff like this will be the least of your concerns - most of your possessions will be in random places.
"We want to find a solution for organizing our books. I also want the data in an open format. "
Dewey decimal system? Maybe one of you should pick up a degree in library science.
"We have a barcode scanner, but I'm not sure the best way to use it.
Aim the red light (the "la-ser") at the "zebra stripes" and wait until you hear a beep.
"What software do other people use to organize their home libraries?"
Hell, I read books to get a break from computers. I think if I had that many books I'd donate most of them to the local library. I know I don't have time to reread 3,500 books - there's millions more out there I haven't read yet!
Anything else I can help you with today?