Yeah funny how people can't get over ripping on the media even at a time like this huh.
Just find it so funny that they are willing to cry foul on the media when they don't even realize WHY "1 Isreali" is so important. And probably even more so as this event, which marked Sireals first citizen in space turned out to be so tragic.
(yes, the obvious joke is "boot speed doesn't matter when you don't have to reboot so often"... but I'm taking the high road)
OOOOOOH....Damn I forgot, you gotta reboot windows every other day right?
Hmmm let see, last time I rebooted my PC was....Oct. 28th 2002, because I had to take it to a LAN party. Before that it had been up a month before I upgraded the video drivers.
And I routinely do everything from browsing, to photoshop, to Maya Unlimited, to 3DSMAX, to Dreamweaver and more. Take the high road indeed.
Funny bit about the mention of being able to monitor things coming from WITHIN the clients network. You would think anyone intelligent/willing to commint electronic espionage would at least be smart enough to burn the data to a pocket CD-R and take it home and transferr it from there. And if the workstation isn't equipped with a CD-RW drive, they make some dang small portable drives (Plextor makes one the size of a discman that even comes in a very cd-player like case, wouldn't think that would be hard to sneak in), or click drives, or maybe even a floppy if your transferring something small enough (spanned over multiple disks even?).
The point is, anyone stupid enough to transmit company data from WITHIN the company's network deserves whatever they get.
The submitter writes that both car-repair and salon work could be a safety risk if the person is not trained. Then conveniently leaves out wtf that has to do with computer repair.
You are so terribly wrong there....monopolies are bad, PERIOD, there is no good monopoly. Monopolies cannot be easily governed to ensure that they aren't running amok, because you have no alternative, like the other reply says, most people, if they cannot find it on google, it doesn't exist for them, now whats to keepgoogle from censoring out their database on whatever grounds they choose? Too many things can go wrong with monopolies, and they are too hard to break.
No I didn't. This news byte looked more like the free as in cheaper TCO. Also saying Linnux is free implies there is no cost, saying the source if free, or open or whatever, implies that, even if there is cost, the source can be looked at without an NDA. Which is one of my pet peeves about this community, free doesn't mean 50 different things, say it right, and be clear, free can mean the source is "free" but thats kind of intentionally confusing people isnt it? When you could say it's open? Or freely available.
Oh no, I understand the ARTICLE just fine. All too well as a matter of fact, just the other day I spent the better part of the weekend finishing our XP rollout, to the shipping system and the accounting system, how fun was that? Both of them using pretty old software with poor installation methods in a goofball setup. Then I got to revamp the entire inventory program (basicly re-wrote it from scratch) so I know the feeling. My point, which is flambait if the losers want to call it that, was that "Life in the trenches: A sysadmin speaks" is more than just a little overdramatized. Is our job complicaed? Yeah, is it sometimes very thankless? Yeah. Is it THAT bad....hell no....you want life in the trenches go become a cop, or a fireman, for example. Talk about hard, frustrating (no matter hwo hard you work there will always be crime) and thankless, and usually pays worse too.
I'm just saying maybe the author needs to step back, calm done, and find a better title....
Yes, lets see, lose all the fetures and the picture quality of a PVR and go back to a VCR? I think not.
Besides, I don't have to remember to swap tapes when I want my favorite show recorded, or have to worry about swapping tapes, then in the interim someone decides to watch an old family movie and doesn't swap back, love that.
That is about the stupidest thing I have ever heard....seriously, you mean all you do is shoot and kill in UT???? No way?? I mean if you want to strip it back to its most basic elements and forget about everything else thats fine, inaccurate as hell, but fine. Mechassult you just walk in a line and blow stuff up when you get there? Might I suggest you NOT play on the easiest difficulty? Another question for you, have you ever played a mech game you enjoyed or would this be like me picking up the new Zelda when it ocmes out and saying it sucks because all you do is walk around pushing buttons and hacking at stuff?
Shocking and brilliant idea there buddy! Because NOBODY needs help in a store now do they? I mean because YOU know what you want means EVERYONE does, so nobody should ever approach anyone to see if they can be helped.
I don't quite understand the need for modding this as a troll exactly....but that's/. for you, if it's PERL/Linux related it's automatically God and the biased opinions and moderations come rolling henceforth.
As if swiping a credit card and pinning your ID in was too hard, most local grocery stores out here (MO) have begun rolling out automated checkout lanes, even quicker, and most of those also have one of those speedpass style devices where you just wave it and go. Which seems to me like a hell of alot better method than fingerprints!!!!
Whats most shocking to me is the apparently overwhelming eagerness of the poster to see this wide spread....what the hell is wrong with you? combine this with something like TIA and then, you can't even buy cereal without the government being able to know. What about advertisers? A 100% accurate method of tracing INDIVIDUAL purchases, I can lend my roomate my CC, or my g/f or a family member to go to the store but I cannot lend themmy fingerprints, so they KNOW it's me, they absolutely KNOW I purchased item x, I purchase it x amount of times, etc. etc. HORRIBLE idea, through and through, and I love the tone of "I know some/.'ers will have problems with this" um, yeah, duh, if its a stupid retarded idea which doesn't save you any real time but risks your identity and privacy, yeah I would assume most people here would have a problem with it.
Reason being is that fingerprints are so fine and so hard to manipulate that, for exmple the latex glove they used in GI60sec the oils in your fingers would wear through the gloves enough so that your own prints would probably show through. There are various other attempts made in the past by people trying, and failing, to mimic other peoples fingerprints, all of them failed due to one reason or another (perceptable changes in the prints due to the small nature of them is a big factor).
I think you are missing the point. The benefit of having interfaces that mimic XP is that, if you want people to move over, give them a path with less resistance. This is SO true in business as well. If a Linux rollout means re-training already less than adept users in a new environment, then wether or not that interface is "better" or not is moot because these users are used to a different interface, right or wrong, for better or for worse, the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know. Oh and btw, I f'ing hate Aqua, not just it's color schemes, but everything, EVERYTHING about it.
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Oh if ever the IANAL disclaimer should have be used it would be by the above poster....good lord sir.
Yeah funny how people can't get over ripping on the media even at a time like this huh.
Just find it so funny that they are willing to cry foul on the media when they don't even realize WHY "1 Isreali" is so important. And probably even more so as this event, which marked Sireals first citizen in space turned out to be so tragic.
....I invented the question mark.
(yes, the obvious joke is "boot speed doesn't matter when you don't have to reboot so often" ... but I'm taking the high road)
OOOOOOH....Damn I forgot, you gotta reboot windows every other day right?
Hmmm let see, last time I rebooted my PC was....Oct. 28th 2002, because I had to take it to a LAN party. Before that it had been up a month before I upgraded the video drivers. And I routinely do everything from browsing, to photoshop, to Maya Unlimited, to 3DSMAX, to Dreamweaver and more. Take the high road indeed.
....you could have told me would be avaiable to me in the future ten years ago, a speak and spell I WANT, would blow my mind the most....
Anytime you feel like stepping into the late '90's just feel free ok....no seriously....lets go buy a sega Master System....
I cannot believe I even heard you say that shit....
Just out of curiosity when was it the "political system" that prosecutes people????
Funny bit about the mention of being able to monitor things coming from WITHIN the clients network. You would think anyone intelligent/willing to commint electronic espionage would at least be smart enough to burn the data to a pocket CD-R and take it home and transferr it from there. And if the workstation isn't equipped with a CD-RW drive, they make some dang small portable drives (Plextor makes one the size of a discman that even comes in a very cd-player like case, wouldn't think that would be hard to sneak in), or click drives, or maybe even a floppy if your transferring something small enough (spanned over multiple disks even?).
The point is, anyone stupid enough to transmit company data from WITHIN the company's network deserves whatever they get.
The submitter writes that both car-repair and salon work could be a safety risk if the person is not trained. Then conveniently leaves out wtf that has to do with computer repair.
What a tard.
You are so terribly wrong there....monopolies are bad, PERIOD, there is no good monopoly. Monopolies cannot be easily governed to ensure that they aren't running amok, because you have no alternative, like the other reply says, most people, if they cannot find it on google, it doesn't exist for them, now whats to keepgoogle from censoring out their database on whatever grounds they choose? Too many things can go wrong with monopolies, and they are too hard to break.
No I didn't. This news byte looked more like the free as in cheaper TCO. Also saying Linnux is free implies there is no cost, saying the source if free, or open or whatever, implies that, even if there is cost, the source can be looked at without an NDA. Which is one of my pet peeves about this community, free doesn't mean 50 different things, say it right, and be clear, free can mean the source is "free" but thats kind of intentionally confusing people isnt it? When you could say it's open? Or freely available.
....your time is worth nothing. :)
It's only funny because it's true....
If ever anyone deserved +5 it is most certainly you! Gets a little old with this crap.
Seriously, this is nothing new, the technology isn't exactly ground breaking....why is this even worthy of a post?
Oh no, I understand the ARTICLE just fine. All too well as a matter of fact, just the other day I spent the better part of the weekend finishing our XP rollout, to the shipping system and the accounting system, how fun was that? Both of them using pretty old software with poor installation methods in a goofball setup. Then I got to revamp the entire inventory program (basicly re-wrote it from scratch) so I know the feeling. My point, which is flambait if the losers want to call it that, was that "Life in the trenches: A sysadmin speaks" is more than just a little overdramatized. Is our job complicaed? Yeah, is it sometimes very thankless? Yeah. Is it THAT bad....hell no....you want life in the trenches go become a cop, or a fireman, for example. Talk about hard, frustrating (no matter hwo hard you work there will always be crime) and thankless, and usually pays worse too.
I'm just saying maybe the author needs to step back, calm done, and find a better title....
Oh good God, I expect this kind of over dramatization from the popular press, but if /. starts it to.... "a sysadmin speaks"? wtf????
Yes, lets see, lose all the fetures and the picture quality of a PVR and go back to a VCR? I think not. Besides, I don't have to remember to swap tapes when I want my favorite show recorded, or have to worry about swapping tapes, then in the interim someone decides to watch an old family movie and doesn't swap back, love that.
That is about the stupidest thing I have ever heard....seriously, you mean all you do is shoot and kill in UT???? No way?? I mean if you want to strip it back to its most basic elements and forget about everything else thats fine, inaccurate as hell, but fine. Mechassult you just walk in a line and blow stuff up when you get there? Might I suggest you NOT play on the easiest difficulty? Another question for you, have you ever played a mech game you enjoyed or would this be like me picking up the new Zelda when it ocmes out and saying it sucks because all you do is walk around pushing buttons and hacking at stuff?
Shocking and brilliant idea there buddy! Because NOBODY needs help in a store now do they? I mean because YOU know what you want means EVERYONE does, so nobody should ever approach anyone to see if they can be helped.
Again with the common sense? When will you people learn this is slashdot! Where people are smarter than just "whats in the news"! *sigh*
I don't quite understand the need for modding this as a troll exactly....but that's /. for you, if it's PERL/Linux related it's automatically God and the biased opinions and moderations come rolling henceforth.
As if swiping a credit card and pinning your ID in was too hard, most local grocery stores out here (MO) have begun rolling out automated checkout lanes, even quicker, and most of those also have one of those speedpass style devices where you just wave it and go. Which seems to me like a hell of alot better method than fingerprints!!!!
/.'ers will have problems with this" um, yeah, duh, if its a stupid retarded idea which doesn't save you any real time but risks your identity and privacy, yeah I would assume most people here would have a problem with it.
Whats most shocking to me is the apparently overwhelming eagerness of the poster to see this wide spread....what the hell is wrong with you? combine this with something like TIA and then, you can't even buy cereal without the government being able to know. What about advertisers? A 100% accurate method of tracing INDIVIDUAL purchases, I can lend my roomate my CC, or my g/f or a family member to go to the store but I cannot lend themmy fingerprints, so they KNOW it's me, they absolutely KNOW I purchased item x, I purchase it x amount of times, etc. etc. HORRIBLE idea, through and through, and I love the tone of "I know some
Reason being is that fingerprints are so fine and so hard to manipulate that, for exmple the latex glove they used in GI60sec the oils in your fingers would wear through the gloves enough so that your own prints would probably show through. There are various other attempts made in the past by people trying, and failing, to mimic other peoples fingerprints, all of them failed due to one reason or another (perceptable changes in the prints due to the small nature of them is a big factor).
I think you are missing the point. The benefit of having interfaces that mimic XP is that, if you want people to move over, give them a path with less resistance. This is SO true in business as well. If a Linux rollout means re-training already less than adept users in a new environment, then wether or not that interface is "better" or not is moot because these users are used to a different interface, right or wrong, for better or for worse, the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know. Oh and btw, I f'ing hate Aqua, not just it's color schemes, but everything, EVERYTHING about it.
I'm assuming your just retarded and not actually serious....for the gene pools sake I hope not.