If people can buy a phone knowing that the price advertised is the price they're going to pay, surely they'll be a lot happier about buying it
Unfortunately with these companies if most people saw the real price and costs upfront and also the full t&c they would reconsider their purchase which is why these companies dont want you to see them. They want to get you bound to a contract asap so no matter what happens you are paying them service charges for the next 12 months at least.
I have to agree, although I did read to end out of morbid fascination. Most of the article is just cheerleading for Mozilla, I dont mind that, even if he is way off on some points, but I think it should be pointed out that while Mozilla is good it has taken an inordinate amount of time to get here and has not been a smooth ride. Mozilla is not the cure for cancer. It just lets me read pages on the web or send email, nothing groundbreaking there. I wont even start on the Betamax thing for delusional examples.
The author makes the usual MS are trying to take over the world but provides no proof or indication of how this will actually happen so I take it as (based on the article) a highly biased guess.
Lastly by harping on about current standards the author clearly shows he does not have the faintest idea about where the web and desktop applications are going.
He does inadvertently raise one interesting point though. A two tier web might not actually be a bad idea. A 'commercial' one tied into useful services with rich clients delivered by XUL/XAML and another 'information' (I think information is batter than his hippie description) type web where you can use the browser of your choice. But as for saying
the new browser war is a fight for the survival of the web itself
Borrow some of that so hard to stop spamming technology, organise some people and create thousands of virtual terrorist cells that 'plan' attacks on everything from national monuments to the McDonalds up the road from me. See how they cope with that.
I will wait now for the FBI to arrive for suggesting this.
They are (supposedly) elected representatives of the people, its in your power to sack them if you are unhappy with what they are doing. Start explaining vociferously to you CongressPerson/Senator what the issue is and act with your ballot.
That aside, I am surprised at how strongly I feel about the by passing of legal stewardship in these issues. Normally I dont have alot of time for them but they do have their uses in a checks and bounds system. Obviously secrecy is required to carry out these operations but whats so hard about going to a judge if you have a valid case ? I think the recent statements by Ashcroft are indicative though. After Sept 11 all Arabic young men were potential terrorists. Now this has been expanded to include all young/middle aged/fathers/European looking Arabic men. No doubt Europeans and Asians will soon be included based on this logic.
Its becoming a concern that the US its leaders and institutions are becoming more and more isolated from the people they are supposed to represent and serve.
Although this bug is severe, it is
recoverable and no data should be lost.
Just because there is some hacky workaround does not mitigate that fact that a major distro released a poorly tested product with a highly visible and data threatening bug. If this bug passed then the natural thought is 'what else is wrong with it'. When people see issues like this they will immediately be more sceptical of the quality.
You raise a good point. Executives are able to steal, lie and embezzle pretty much with impunity. They might just get a slap on the wrist if you get caught. I am still outraged over the CitiBank-Enron collusion that joe bloggs had to foot the bill for. Some of the high profile 'white collar' criminals need to spend a few years in a confined with large (in more ways than one) powerful gentlemen of ambivalent sexuality who are being fed tripple doses of viagra in their meals. It might not bring the money back but the revenge factor will be priceless.
1800 US is a big whack of change to pay for a vacuum cleaner. I dont mind vacuuming and it only takes 10 mins to do the house so I think I will stick with the manual version for the time being.
The words possible and conjecture appear above. Where does the definitive statement "There Are Infinitely Many Prime Twins" come into it? Have the the/. editors secretly managed to prove this theory before posting it ?
But then we would miss out on the really suave, trendy support people apple send round to fix things for us. They tell us the latest fashions and give us advise on colour, they let us listen to their iPods so we know which indie bands are cool, helping to avoid embarassing faux pas in music conversations. Plus they have this cultivated look of practised distain I am trying to get my developers to adopt when someone says something stupid like 'WinXP is really not that bad for the casual user'.
No without apple support people our lives would be so much poorer and so much more uncultured.
Hey didnt you read the memo? This is/. SCO and Microsoft are always the real villians behind everything. FYI if it not one its the other and if its particularly bad then they must be in cahoots on it.
I would not be too sure about that. I was a die hard netscape fan but versions 6-7 were just so bad, slow and unstable it put me off netscape completely.
Why not, its in the public domain so you have to take the critisim along with the plaudits.
After reading the posts so far its interesting to see the 'spin' being put on the article. The writing is criticised, the author is stupid, who ever configured the machine is a cretin etc.etc. If the article had said
awkward Microsoft-based operating system and sluggish response, the thing acts like it doesn't want to
it would be taken as gospel truth that MS systems are slow and bloated and should never be let near a desktop never mind an embedded system.
Its a fact of life that as Linux become more popular it will be subject to more criticism by its wider audience. This is not a bad thing. Deal with it.
I can confirm that the much of the data behind this pentagon report is false and has been provided by a penguin double agent acting for the Pentagon but mainly for a secret penguin organisation, The Brotherhood of Guin. Apprently it is a suble plan to induce the pentagon to eliminate polar bears, arch enemy and a major threat to the Brotherhood of Guin by tricking the pentagon into believing that polar bears were behind global warming.
Maybe not right this second but demand for bandwith is only going to grow, and probably more rapidly than currently, for the foreseeable future as the entire world becomes digitized and goes online
You can start with me. What exactly are they giving up by only being able to copy once? Seriously how many times do you want to copy the same program from tv ? You didn't create the content, you dont own it so what divine rights do you have to it?
Here was me thinking cool, God has seen fit to give us a new type of cocaine that will make me irrisistible to vamps and hot babes. But no, its about boring IDS's.
Is to first make an exact copy (by hand) of all the existing documents. Its vital to have a full backup in case anything goes wrong with the scanning process you can always restore the manilla folders to their original filled state.
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If people can buy a phone knowing that the price advertised is the price they're going to pay, surely they'll be a lot happier about buying it
Unfortunately with these companies if most people saw the real price and costs upfront and also the full t&c they would reconsider their purchase which is why these companies dont want you to see them. They want to get you bound to a contract asap so no matter what happens you are paying them service charges for the next 12 months at least.
I have to agree, although I did read to end out of morbid fascination. Most of the article is just cheerleading for Mozilla, I dont mind that, even if he is way off on some points, but I think it should be pointed out that while Mozilla is good it has taken an inordinate amount of time to get here and has not been a smooth ride. Mozilla is not the cure for cancer. It just lets me read pages on the web or send email, nothing groundbreaking there. I wont even start on the Betamax thing for delusional examples.
The author makes the usual MS are trying to take over the world but provides no proof or indication of how this will actually happen so I take it as (based on the article) a highly biased guess.
Lastly by harping on about current standards the author clearly shows he does not have the faintest idea about where the web and desktop applications are going.
He does inadvertently raise one interesting point though. A two tier web might not actually be a bad idea. A 'commercial' one tied into useful services with rich clients delivered by XUL/XAML and another 'information' (I think information is batter than his hippie description) type web where you can use the browser of your choice. But as for saying
the new browser war is a fight for the survival of the web itself
what a load of sensationalist bull.
Borrow some of that so hard to stop spamming technology, organise some people and create thousands of virtual terrorist cells that 'plan' attacks on everything from national monuments to the McDonalds up the road from me. See how they cope with that.
I will wait now for the FBI to arrive for suggesting this.
They are (supposedly) elected representatives of the people, its in your power to sack them if you are unhappy with what they are doing. Start explaining vociferously to you CongressPerson/Senator what the issue is and act with your ballot.
That aside, I am surprised at how strongly I feel about the by passing of legal stewardship in these issues. Normally I dont have alot of time for them but they do have their uses in a checks and bounds system. Obviously secrecy is required to carry out these operations but whats so hard about going to a judge if you have a valid case ? I think the recent statements by Ashcroft are indicative though. After Sept 11 all Arabic young men were potential terrorists. Now this has been expanded to include all young/middle aged/fathers/European looking Arabic men. No doubt Europeans and Asians will soon be included based on this logic.
Its becoming a concern that the US its leaders and institutions are becoming more and more isolated from the people they are supposed to represent and serve.
Really why do they call it severe then?
Although this bug is severe, it is recoverable and no data should be lost.
Just because there is some hacky workaround does not mitigate that fact that a major distro released a poorly tested product with a highly visible and data threatening bug. If this bug passed then the natural thought is 'what else is wrong with it'. When people see issues like this they will immediately be more sceptical of the quality.
black holes were all in "active" galaxies, meaning they were actively consuming large quantities of galactic matter.
Black Holes are the first intergalactic corporation.
You raise a good point. Executives are able to steal, lie and embezzle pretty much with impunity. They might just get a slap on the wrist if you get caught. I am still outraged over the CitiBank-Enron collusion that joe bloggs had to foot the bill for. Some of the high profile 'white collar' criminals need to spend a few years in a confined with large (in more ways than one) powerful gentlemen of ambivalent sexuality who are being fed tripple doses of viagra in their meals. It might not bring the money back but the revenge factor will be priceless.
1800 US is a big whack of change to pay for a vacuum cleaner. I dont mind vacuuming and it only takes 10 mins to do the house so I think I will stick with the manual version for the time being.
They wasted their time then. There are only 6 people in the world capable of programming it to do what they want.
possible proof of the twin-prime conjecture
/. editors secretly managed to prove this theory before posting it ?
The words possible and conjecture appear above. Where does the definitive statement "There Are Infinitely Many Prime Twins" come into it? Have the the
But then we would miss out on the really suave, trendy support people apple send round to fix things for us. They tell us the latest fashions and give us advise on colour, they let us listen to their iPods so we know which indie bands are cool, helping to avoid embarassing faux pas in music conversations. Plus they have this cultivated look of practised distain I am trying to get my developers to adopt when someone says something stupid like 'WinXP is really not that bad for the casual user'.
No without apple support people our lives would be so much poorer and so much more uncultured.
Sounds like someone needs bigger iron or to turn off the SETI client.
Any further ideas?
/. SCO and Microsoft are always the real villians behind everything. FYI if it not one its the other and if its particularly bad then they must be in cahoots on it.
Hey didnt you read the memo? This is
I would not be too sure about that. I was a die hard netscape fan but versions 6-7 were just so bad, slow and unstable it put me off netscape completely.
If they promise to confiscate my windows box and all my MS CD's
For impersonating a buffalo
Why not, its in the public domain so you have to take the critisim along with the plaudits.
After reading the posts so far its interesting to see the 'spin' being put on the article. The writing is criticised, the author is stupid, who ever configured the machine is a cretin etc.etc. If the article had said
awkward Microsoft-based operating system and sluggish response, the thing acts like it doesn't want to
it would be taken as gospel truth that MS systems are slow and bloated and should never be let near a desktop never mind an embedded system.
Its a fact of life that as Linux become more popular it will be subject to more criticism by its wider audience. This is not a bad thing. Deal with it.
What never fails to amaze me is how many Slashdotters-- ostensibly a group of relatively intelligent people
Dachshund you need to stop browsing at +5.
I can confirm that the much of the data behind this pentagon report is false and has been provided by a penguin double agent acting for the Pentagon but mainly for a secret penguin organisation, The Brotherhood of Guin. Apprently it is a suble plan to induce the pentagon to eliminate polar bears, arch enemy and a major threat to the Brotherhood of Guin by tricking the pentagon into believing that polar bears were behind global warming.
Oracle did not migrate from MS though. They previously used SUN workstations for development.
Can we really use 10,000 of these things
Maybe not right this second but demand for bandwith is only going to grow, and probably more rapidly than currently, for the foreseeable future as the entire world becomes digitized and goes online
You can start with me. What exactly are they giving up by only being able to copy once? Seriously how many times do you want to copy the same program from tv ? You didn't create the content, you dont own it so what divine rights do you have to it?
Here was me thinking cool, God has seen fit to give us a new type of cocaine that will make me irrisistible to vamps and hot babes. But no, its about boring IDS's.
Patches submitted as AC will no longer be included in the Linux kernel
Is to first make an exact copy (by hand) of all the existing documents. Its vital to have a full backup in case anything goes wrong with the scanning process you can always restore the manilla folders to their original filled state.