And MS, realizing if they try to get a book banned because it talks about their video game system, they'll face public backlash, they'll have the EFF go "holy shit this is the big one", and they'll lose after years in the supreme court after having being hurt more by the case than the PHD student... is not taking action.
M$ hurt more than the PhD student? Man are you naive. I'm surprised you think the PhD student could survive the legal battle, let alone come out on top. M$ has enough capital to bury the PhD student in a legal war. They can draw the trial out as long as they want, offering him a settlement to simply pull his case. The PhD student will have to have millions upon millions in his bank roll to survive such a battle, this is the kind of thing mega corps do all the time.
No, the more likely outcome is: Broke PhD student pulls out for small settlement, case is dropped, M$ reighs supreme.
Yes I noticed cpan.org, and thought it was extremely unprofessional, I guess those of us needing to work with Perl for a living who need to get things off of CPAN to do our job are just screwed.
The 'net is a place for the stores of knowledge of our society, and is essential to the way our world works, and thus professional sites should hold up to professional standards. It is a pity that they don't and feel the need to be "clever" with jokes.
Slashdot's I don't mind, it's an entertainment site anyway, but the stories on 4/1 always tend to get really old, really fast. Not to mention that it is done EVERY frickin year...
Wow, that would be nice, save some time burning, but wouldn't it cost more for the user? What does a DVD run for these days? I can get CD's for $0.60 each.
Many people were wondering at the choice of Jaguar and Panther for the latest Mac OS X names. Wanting to get to the bottom of this I asked the Apple heads, and this is what they told me:
"Well, we did want to name it yellow-tailed marmoset at first, but figured it was a little wimpy and obscure. Bitch was suggested too, until we remembered Microsoft had already taken that (albeit in their case it was the name they bestowed on users of Windows). What else choice did we have? Like an OS called Poodle would sell any copies..."
If you are so worried about signal loss as you run wire to the hub first remember that we are talking about 0.5 meters of wire, second just boost the signal at the antenna instead of putting the box right next to it...
You are assuming we are passing a large cable though, just build a mounting point in the ceiling and drill your hole, and you can get away with about a quarter of a meter (or less) of cable easily.
Wow... this is a phenominally bad idea for several reasons... I think they were just doing this for the coolness factor (ha ha ha).
First off, we're using wires to transmit our signals in the first place,so instead of immersing the whole fixture in oil, you ought to run wires up to the rooftops and have all of the computer equipment in the house, in a nice air conditioned room. That will solve the problem of the HDD and motherboard overheating. Just buy some nice fans, electric cooling units, or if you really are worried, water cool the sucker.
Second, yes oil makes a great cooling system, but NOT vegetable oil. They ought to have bought a non-biological version so that it won't spoil and grow things. Anaerobic microbes building up on a motherboard is not a good thing. Not to mention the oil will loose consistancy then, and develop pockets of non-oil byproducts of anaerobic respiration. Mineral oil would work much better, and is nearly as cheap. A gallon of the stuff ought only run $10 or so, compared to $5 for vegetable oil. 2x the price, but it would never have to be changed.
Thirdly, I wonder why they feel the need to use oil for cooling at all, if the attenna is the only thing exposed (as I suggested earlier), heat from the sun won't really effect performance to much, and if it does, build a shade. If it is water proofing you are worried about, that is a slightly different story, but you can easily encase it in transparent plastic (but be careful that it doesn't warp em radition passing through it, this has to be quality stuff.
The idea in general is cool, but not very practical.
Pretty soon everyone in Utah is going to be getting spammed with extra wives.
Well at least then the people in Utah will find a purpose for the "Add inches onto your member!" spam won't they?:)
Seriously though folks, this ruling can't be good for us, I hope the guy appeals, the last thing we need is precident for spammers.
The argument sounds a little on the weak side too, kind of like saying "You bought a car so you established a buisness relationship with Baskin Robins"... spam is not just spam people.
The big issue however is not clockspeed anymore, it's cache, and cache speed, so this bus increase will probably do more than a few extra clock cycles would anyway... depending on what the cache size is in the new chip set.
It's worth looking into, but I doubt it will hold a candle to Intel anyway. I used to have hope for AMD, but have never had a success personally, with them.
I could get first post even faster! Wow! Look what this will do to my slashdot career! I am off to buy me one of these bad ass mother fuckers right now.
Seriously folks does anyone care about this anymore? I still don't use all the power on my Celeron 500mHz.
I suppose maybe if you are some jerk off gamer: "D00d! I could like play Warcraft VIII even faster, D00d! Now all I have to do is clean all the semen out of my keyboard and mouse so the keys don't stick!"
Just download the boot ISO, and the file tree to a spare hard disk, then install over your own ftp link. I personally support SUSE's choice not release ISO's, it ensures the truly lazy will buy the distro and give them more money. I personally have used SUSE faithfully since 6.4, buying every major version to chip my wealth into the pot and help my favorite distro.
At least the updates are free, unlike other major distros.
Bottom line: It takes less time to just DL the tree and boot ISO than to DL a number of ISO's and burn them by hand. It's a good system, and a better distro than most.
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Ok, I get sick and tired of people giving this "It's not America, America is a continent" and other complaints from other countries because they find us calling the USA, America. I was in the Republic of South Africa, and was talking with a few college students. One of them asked me where I lived, I responded "America", he said "There is no such country," and proceeded to lecture me on that fact and how arrogant it was of us to say that was where we were from.
I then asked him where he was from, and he said "South Africa," so I proceeded to give him the same talk right back, as it is the RSA, and there are many countries in South Africa.
The fact is, this sort of abbreviation is common for countries who have their continient in their nations name. I am sure people of the Central African Republic refer to their country as Central Africa, or some such, just as we Americans and South Africans refer to our countries by a continents name.
Regardless of whether or not this is common practice, I am still from "The Americas" whether or not I am from the USA, and that is a fact of which I am proud, so the statement "I am an American" is no more false than a Frenchman or German stating that her or she is a "European".
Leave off it, yeah our country's foriegn policy sucks, but please take it out on our "elected" officials, and not our citizens.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least. A lot of government offices which work on sensitive information consider windows compromised the moment the box is opened. My wife works for the government and they work exclusively in Linux, using LaTeX for documents. The only thing they use MS formats for is when they are things for the HR department;) Or sometimes IT:)
Isn't it odd how sometimes the IT department can be the least tech savy of an entire workplace:)
Not really. Many coorporations offer products that compete with other products they sell, it allows them to capture a larger share of the market which might otherwise provide no revenue.
A good example of this can be made with beer. Most brewing companies produce several lines of beer, a cheap beer (also known as ass beer), a medium rate beer, and a high end. One would question why to offer the cheap beer at all. "You want to buy our newest high end beer? Nah why not buy this cheap one!" Wouldn't people just buy the expensive ones? When drinking with a few friends, people want the good stuff. But if they had to buy the good stuff for a party, they'd more likely make it BYOB, resulting in less beers at said party. Because cheap beer is available the companies can now sell to the party hosts and take up a piece of the market which otherwise would be lost.
Gateway can only offer computers, but then they wouldn't be able to make money off of Tiny Coorp, who doesn't have the funds for a computer but could afford to rent time on computers.
Do a bit of Math, say company X needs approximately 10 computers, each running a simulation constantly for two weeks. Do they shell out $1k for each computer, or rent them for the needed time for around $504 ($0.15 * (14 days * 24 hours) * 10 nodes)?
I don't know about hidden id's, but I do know that if they stick in all the redundancies for Undo, they are making a big mistake. Undo is something that should be in the application, not the document, just maintain a stack of most recent commands. Putting that in the document so that undo's span file accesses just seems silly.
I think the point of this is not to provide processing power to the coorporations with huge numbers of computers, but to the smaller ones which can't afford them, but quite possibly could afford to pay "rent" on existing computers. Perhaps all I want is the capability to run some simulations in the background, and don't want to slow down the computers my users are running in the office. Should I invest in a cluster? Or pay less to buy time from someone like Gateway, which, when I am done with the current project, doesn't just sit there and collect dust.
This would seem like a great idea for those who are looking to cut costs and may not have a user for the required equipment once the current project is done. Sure you can try to resell stuff, but there is no promise of a sale, and it takes time and money to get rid of old equipment.
While this might not be a good idea for the mega-coorporations. It could work for smaller groups (and even local governments).
Though it is true that sensitive data couldn't be handled in this way.
The real problem with the.doc format is there is so much junk inside! Instead of being smart and making a clean file format for documents,.doc ends up including a lot of useless junk and redundancies. Not to mention some of the versions I have used of microsoft editors instead of removing old codes, insert new ones to to cancel out the old ones... bad programming. So I guess the problem is two fold, with a portion of it being that the primary editor is sooo bad. Personally I always used WordPerfect when I worked in a Windows environment. Now that I use only Linux, I stick it LaTeX.
This is the first time I hear of alcohol being used to launch a rocket to space.
Surprises me you've never heard of this before, it's actually quite common, I do it myself every now and again, and so do most of my friends, haven't you? See you simply drink and drink and drink and drink until the rocket launches itself...:)
That's just you..of course certain people (i.e. non nerds) will not see a big need for wireless connections. The poster above was generalising about _humans_ and wireless networking in general (not just WiFi), not just one person/technology.
Actually when you generalize about humans, I would argue his comments are more valid, because the majority of humans are not nerds, even the majority of humans in developed countries. Most people don't spend their time on the net in large quantities. I happen to be a computer professional and I spend little time on the net. My wife is a systems programmer, and she never uses the net at home. For us we like to keep our personal life real, as opposed to virtual. Under this circumstance wireless ethernets seem pretty useless on the whole. While I would love to be able to code in front of the TV some nights as opposed to coding in the office, it would also mean I would be more prone to working more often in those situations, something I don't really want to do, as I value my free time.
Going by his reasoning, a cordless phone is no more useful than one with a cord.
I have to really disagree with you there, as I think you are grossly blowing things out of proportion. A cordless phone is useful to almost everyone because it is easy to talk on the phone to a friend while cooking, cleaning, or other household activities, it is a way to get more for your time. I'd like to see you surf the web while cooking or cleaning. Wireless connections only change your geography, they don't let you work in parallel.
Then there is the price issue, looking at prices on the net it looks like the minimum you'd pay for a wireless ethernet card is ~$80, plus $100 per access point. I payed $20 for my NIC card and it looks like the current prices have dropped a few bucks. We got the hubs in our house for ~$15, and I currently can find them for around ~$20 looking briefly on-line. Given that each wireless ethernet card is approximatly the price of 4 NIC cards, and one wireless access point is about equal in price to 5 hubs, there is a substantial difference in price. Not to mention when you get around the $100 purchase mark, you are talking about a lot of savings going with the old fashioned method.
For a corded phone you'd pay $7-$20 for a base unit, a base cordless phone is anywhere from $17-$30. True that means in some cases the corded is 3x cheaper than the cordless, the savings is only ~$15 instead of ~$60.
And if you want to make the arguement for wireless phones, well they have an immense value as an emergency phone, the primary way my wife and I use them. They have saved us so many times when one of our cars has failed.
Maybe when wireless becomes cheaper to the user (the user mind you, not the coorporation wiring the area) they will become more popular, but I doubt the majority will ever see a real *need* for such technology, as all it does is allow you to surf in a different area (the living room rather than the office).
I have to *in general* agree with the statements he made. My lab has a wireless connection but I never really use it. If I am doing work that needs an internet connection, I am at a lab station anyway, if I am in a meeting, I actually see it as being a mistake to have Wi-Fi as a lot of people *seem* to be working but in actuality they are only surfing the web. The only real use for it I can see is so that I can work during my lunch break, and sorry but no thank you!
As far as the home issue is concerned, why should I have a Wi-Fi? I rarely surf the web at home, as I would rather spend quality time with my wife, or friends. I see Wi-Fi as a threat to my personal private time more than privacy, it just encourages one to stay glued to the screen for longer and longer hours, substituting the real world for the virtual one.
I do however see the advantage of having Wi-Fi in something like a Starbucks, so that you can easily grab a connection, but seeing as Wi-Fi cards are still more expensive than a regular NIC, and all the deli's, statbucks, and cafes in the area also have wired connections at the tables, I'll stick to the old fashioned connections for the moment.
I do think Wi-Fi has potential, but at the moment it is a "niche" market for me, and something that causes an increase in unproductivity amongst my collegues at work. So I guess I'm still waiting for the next version before I join the bandwagon.
I can say however that we will NEVER have Wi-Fi in my house! Family comes before slashdot, sorry guys;)
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And MS, realizing if they try to get a book banned because it talks about their video game system, they'll face public backlash, they'll have the EFF go "holy shit this is the big one", and they'll lose after years in the supreme court after having being hurt more by the case than the PHD student... is not taking action.
M$ hurt more than the PhD student? Man are you naive. I'm surprised you think the PhD student could survive the legal battle, let alone come out on top. M$ has enough capital to bury the PhD student in a legal war. They can draw the trial out as long as they want, offering him a settlement to simply pull his case. The PhD student will have to have millions upon millions in his bank roll to survive such a battle, this is the kind of thing mega corps do all the time.
No, the more likely outcome is: Broke PhD student pulls out for small settlement, case is dropped, M$ reighs supreme.
Our corrupt justice system at work folks.
Guiness is NOT a meal! A pint of Guiness has less calories than a pint of skim milk!
Yes I noticed cpan.org, and thought it was extremely unprofessional, I guess those of us needing to work with Perl for a living who need to get things off of CPAN to do our job are just screwed. The 'net is a place for the stores of knowledge of our society, and is essential to the way our world works, and thus professional sites should hold up to professional standards. It is a pity that they don't and feel the need to be "clever" with jokes. Slashdot's I don't mind, it's an entertainment site anyway, but the stories on 4/1 always tend to get really old, really fast. Not to mention that it is done EVERY frickin year...
Wow, that would be nice, save some time burning, but wouldn't it cost more for the user? What does a DVD run for these days? I can get CD's for $0.60 each.
Many people were wondering at the choice of Jaguar and Panther for the latest Mac OS X names. Wanting to get to the bottom of this I asked the Apple heads, and this is what they told me:
"Well, we did want to name it yellow-tailed marmoset at first, but figured it was a little wimpy and obscure. Bitch was suggested too, until we remembered Microsoft had already taken that (albeit in their case it was the name they bestowed on users of Windows). What else choice did we have? Like an OS called Poodle would sell any copies..."
And there you have it!
If you are so worried about signal loss as you run wire to the hub first remember that we are talking about 0.5 meters of wire, second just boost the signal at the antenna instead of putting the box right next to it...
You are assuming we are passing a large cable though, just build a mounting point in the ceiling and drill your hole, and you can get away with about a quarter of a meter (or less) of cable easily.
Wow... this is a phenominally bad idea for several reasons... I think they were just doing this for the coolness factor (ha ha ha).
First off, we're using wires to transmit our signals in the first place,so instead of immersing the whole fixture in oil, you ought to run wires up to the rooftops and have all of the computer equipment in the house, in a nice air conditioned room. That will solve the problem of the HDD and motherboard overheating. Just buy some nice fans, electric cooling units, or if you really are worried, water cool the sucker.
Second, yes oil makes a great cooling system, but NOT vegetable oil. They ought to have bought a non-biological version so that it won't spoil and grow things. Anaerobic microbes building up on a motherboard is not a good thing. Not to mention the oil will loose consistancy then, and develop pockets of non-oil byproducts of anaerobic respiration. Mineral oil would work much better, and is nearly as cheap. A gallon of the stuff ought only run $10 or so, compared to $5 for vegetable oil. 2x the price, but it would never have to be changed.
Thirdly, I wonder why they feel the need to use oil for cooling at all, if the attenna is the only thing exposed (as I suggested earlier), heat from the sun won't really effect performance to much, and if it does, build a shade. If it is water proofing you are worried about, that is a slightly different story, but you can easily encase it in transparent plastic (but be careful that it doesn't warp em radition passing through it, this has to be quality stuff.
The idea in general is cool, but not very practical.
Pretty soon everyone in Utah is going to be getting spammed with extra wives.
:)
Well at least then the people in Utah will find a purpose for the "Add inches onto your member!" spam won't they?
Seriously though folks, this ruling can't be good for us, I hope the guy appeals, the last thing we need is precident for spammers.
The argument sounds a little on the weak side too, kind of like saying "You bought a car so you established a buisness relationship with Baskin Robins"... spam is not just spam people.
Actually I was logged on already... time for morning slashdot
The big issue however is not clockspeed anymore, it's cache, and cache speed, so this bus increase will probably do more than a few extra clock cycles would anyway... depending on what the cache size is in the new chip set.
It's worth looking into, but I doubt it will hold a candle to Intel anyway. I used to have hope for AMD, but have never had a success personally, with them.
Ummm I didn't post this... *goes to change password*, could someone mod the parent down? Who the hell stole my password?
I could get first post even faster! Wow! Look what this will do to my slashdot career! I am off to buy me one of these bad ass mother fuckers right now.
Seriously folks does anyone care about this anymore? I still don't use all the power on my Celeron 500mHz.
I suppose maybe if you are some jerk off gamer: "D00d! I could like play Warcraft VIII even faster, D00d! Now all I have to do is clean all the semen out of my keyboard and mouse so the keys don't stick!"
Just download the boot ISO, and the file tree to a spare hard disk, then install over your own ftp link. I personally support SUSE's choice not release ISO's, it ensures the truly lazy will buy the distro and give them more money. I personally have used SUSE faithfully since 6.4, buying every major version to chip my wealth into the pot and help my favorite distro.
At least the updates are free, unlike other major distros.
Bottom line: It takes less time to just DL the tree and boot ISO than to DL a number of ISO's and burn them by hand. It's a good system, and a better distro than most.
Ok, I get sick and tired of people giving this "It's not America, America is a continent" and other complaints from other countries because they find us calling the USA, America. I was in the Republic of South Africa, and was talking with a few college students. One of them asked me where I lived, I responded "America", he said "There is no such country," and proceeded to lecture me on that fact and how arrogant it was of us to say that was where we were from.
I then asked him where he was from, and he said "South Africa," so I proceeded to give him the same talk right back, as it is the RSA, and there are many countries in South Africa.
The fact is, this sort of abbreviation is common for countries who have their continient in their nations name. I am sure people of the Central African Republic refer to their country as Central Africa, or some such, just as we Americans and South Africans refer to our countries by a continents name.
Regardless of whether or not this is common practice, I am still from "The Americas" whether or not I am from the USA, and that is a fact of which I am proud, so the statement "I am an American" is no more false than a Frenchman or German stating that her or she is a "European".
Leave off it, yeah our country's foriegn policy sucks, but please take it out on our "elected" officials, and not our citizens.
Isn't it odd how sometimes the IT department can be the least tech savy of an entire workplace :)
A good example of this can be made with beer. Most brewing companies produce several lines of beer, a cheap beer (also known as ass beer), a medium rate beer, and a high end. One would question why to offer the cheap beer at all. "You want to buy our newest high end beer? Nah why not buy this cheap one!" Wouldn't people just buy the expensive ones? When drinking with a few friends, people want the good stuff. But if they had to buy the good stuff for a party, they'd more likely make it BYOB, resulting in less beers at said party. Because cheap beer is available the companies can now sell to the party hosts and take up a piece of the market which otherwise would be lost.
Gateway can only offer computers, but then they wouldn't be able to make money off of Tiny Coorp, who doesn't have the funds for a computer but could afford to rent time on computers.
Do a bit of Math, say company X needs approximately 10 computers, each running a simulation constantly for two weeks. Do they shell out $1k for each computer, or rent them for the needed time for around $504 ($0.15 * (14 days * 24 hours) * 10 nodes)?
I don't know about hidden id's, but I do know that if they stick in all the redundancies for Undo, they are making a big mistake. Undo is something that should be in the application, not the document, just maintain a stack of most recent commands. Putting that in the document so that undo's span file accesses just seems silly.
This would seem like a great idea for those who are looking to cut costs and may not have a user for the required equipment once the current project is done. Sure you can try to resell stuff, but there is no promise of a sale, and it takes time and money to get rid of old equipment.
While this might not be a good idea for the mega-coorporations. It could work for smaller groups (and even local governments).
Though it is true that sensitive data couldn't be handled in this way.
The real problem with the .doc format is there is so much junk inside! Instead of being smart and making a clean file format for documents, .doc ends up including a lot of useless junk and redundancies. Not to mention some of the versions I have used of microsoft editors instead of removing old codes, insert new ones to to cancel out the old ones... bad programming. So I guess the problem is two fold, with a portion of it being that the primary editor is sooo bad. Personally I always used WordPerfect when I worked in a Windows environment. Now that I use only Linux, I stick it LaTeX.
Actually they are already planning it, but you have to remember, all true believers begin counting at 0 :)
Two is a VERY large number, when compared with say .00001!
This is the first time I hear of alcohol being used to launch a rocket to space.
:)
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Surprises me you've never heard of this before, it's actually quite common, I do it myself every now and again, and so do most of my friends, haven't you? See you simply drink and drink and drink and drink until the rocket launches itself...
I recommend Guinness for fuel personally.
That's just you..of course certain people (i.e. non nerds) will not see a big need for wireless connections. The poster above was generalising about _humans_ and wireless networking in general (not just WiFi), not just one person/technology.
Actually when you generalize about humans, I would argue his comments are more valid, because the majority of humans are not nerds, even the majority of humans in developed countries. Most people don't spend their time on the net in large quantities. I happen to be a computer professional and I spend little time on the net. My wife is a systems programmer, and she never uses the net at home. For us we like to keep our personal life real, as opposed to virtual. Under this circumstance wireless ethernets seem pretty useless on the whole. While I would love to be able to code in front of the TV some nights as opposed to coding in the office, it would also mean I would be more prone to working more often in those situations, something I don't really want to do, as I value my free time.
Going by his reasoning, a cordless phone is no more useful than one with a cord.
I have to really disagree with you there, as I think you are grossly blowing things out of proportion. A cordless phone is useful to almost everyone because it is easy to talk on the phone to a friend while cooking, cleaning, or other household activities, it is a way to get more for your time. I'd like to see you surf the web while cooking or cleaning. Wireless connections only change your geography, they don't let you work in parallel.
Then there is the price issue, looking at prices on the net it looks like the minimum you'd pay for a wireless ethernet card is ~$80, plus $100 per access point. I payed $20 for my NIC card and it looks like the current prices have dropped a few bucks. We got the hubs in our house for ~$15, and I currently can find them for around ~$20 looking briefly on-line. Given that each wireless ethernet card is approximatly the price of 4 NIC cards, and one wireless access point is about equal in price to 5 hubs, there is a substantial difference in price. Not to mention when you get around the $100 purchase mark, you are talking about a lot of savings going with the old fashioned method.
For a corded phone you'd pay $7-$20 for a base unit, a base cordless phone is anywhere from $17-$30. True that means in some cases the corded is 3x cheaper than the cordless, the savings is only ~$15 instead of ~$60.
And if you want to make the arguement for wireless phones, well they have an immense value as an emergency phone, the primary way my wife and I use them. They have saved us so many times when one of our cars has failed.
Maybe when wireless becomes cheaper to the user (the user mind you, not the coorporation wiring the area) they will become more popular, but I doubt the majority will ever see a real *need* for such technology, as all it does is allow you to surf in a different area (the living room rather than the office).
I have to *in general* agree with the statements he made. My lab has a wireless connection but I never really use it. If I am doing work that needs an internet connection, I am at a lab station anyway, if I am in a meeting, I actually see it as being a mistake to have Wi-Fi as a lot of people *seem* to be working but in actuality they are only surfing the web. The only real use for it I can see is so that I can work during my lunch break, and sorry but no thank you!
;)
As far as the home issue is concerned, why should I have a Wi-Fi? I rarely surf the web at home, as I would rather spend quality time with my wife, or friends. I see Wi-Fi as a threat to my personal private time more than privacy, it just encourages one to stay glued to the screen for longer and longer hours, substituting the real world for the virtual one.
I do however see the advantage of having Wi-Fi in something like a Starbucks, so that you can easily grab a connection, but seeing as Wi-Fi cards are still more expensive than a regular NIC, and all the deli's, statbucks, and cafes in the area also have wired connections at the tables, I'll stick to the old fashioned connections for the moment.
I do think Wi-Fi has potential, but at the moment it is a "niche" market for me, and something that causes an increase in unproductivity amongst my collegues at work. So I guess I'm still waiting for the next version before I join the bandwagon.
I can say however that we will NEVER have Wi-Fi in my house! Family comes before slashdot, sorry guys