The other day I asked a programmer to bring me some cofee on the spot. The next day I had a new screen saver in java.
You may learn from this experience.
You sound like my manager. I'm afraid the orange juice you demanded wasn't really, and HR is wondering why some of the random testing samples are short. You may learn from this experience.
My company recently started deleting our email after 90 days.
I'd suggest that's not so much data as random noise if it's anything like our company. There are many companies that produce/process/archive real data that has or will have historic significance and costs a good deal of money to generate.
Consider some of the digitizing work that is currently going on. There are historic documents, photographic plates, and film of course, that are cracking, fading, darkening, or otherwise deteriorating. Many of these are being saved by techniques that are beyond me, but the results are all digital. It makes little sense to store them in any other format. You aren't really going to trust the pictures you took with your digital camera to a single HP printout are you?
We do want the data to last forever, but currently, the best medium is still tape. It is necessary to transfer the data to new tapes every 10-15 years. Given that the archived data grows in a greater than linear fashion every year, the task becomes greater each time even though tape capacity continues to increase.
I would LOVE to see some average Joe off the street elected president. Someone intelligent for sure, but someone that hasn't made a career out of lying to everyone and could serve is four years and get out.
As you already noted, by definition, that person is unelectable in the US. The idea of part-time citizen representatives died when politicians learned they could vote wealth and power for themselves and their friends and seemingly reward their voters with pork.
What's particularly strange is that although this "kill the hooker in GTA" meme is now well known, it is only ever mentioned by people who don't actually play the game. Nobody who plays the game would ever do it because there's no point. You don't make any money, you don't complete a mission, so it's an entirely pointless thing to do.
I believe it's supposed to restore health. I can't swear to it, because I never actually tried it. I had already read about it before playing the game, and implied sex between hidden pixelated characters just didn't seem worth the time involved for a health pickup. I did accidentally run over a few hookers and other pedestrians though and felt a little bad about it, which may seem silly considering the game.
The changes to punish people who post funny posts are the most recent that I remember. At least it demonstrates what they think is most important.
As well it should. We don't any bandwidth-wasting humor to lighten up deadly serious topics like a professor arguing with Clippy about grammar or Hillary gunning for Tommy Vercetti. In this vein, we serious Slashbots expect absolutely no attempts at humor from the editors on Friday as has happened in previous years.
Since they are not a monopoly at all, such a conviction is not correct.
Since they are a convicted monopolist, by definition they hold a monopoly as confirmed by the courts. Your nonsensical statement is the same as saying a convicted felon is not a felon.
Since all they are "guilty" of is making a better browser than Netscape did, there is no injustice.
Didn't follow the trial too well did you? There was the little conspiracy thing about cutting off Netscape's "air supply." They rigged a demo about removing IE during the trial and got caught. They cut deals with computer makers who didn't install rival products. They talked about buyouts with smaller companies and then just stole their ideas. You'd know all this if you weren't a MS fanboy or employee in a state of denial.
Don't like Microsoft? Use something else.
I don't. I switched to Linux because of Microsoft's growing disregard for its customers and its nasty business habits. Don't like people bashing your monopolist, overpriced, marketroid, kindergarten OS? Tough. If you really had any convictions, you'd post using your account or get one - unlike MS products, a Slashdot account is free. Generally, when I get modded down, it's because of comments criticizing MS, so you've got a bunch of friends here. It doesn't stop me because the truth is way more important than Slashdot karma. Get some cojones, coward, or shut up.
If you ignore security, stability and some flexibility, IIS has some distinct advantages over Apache. For starters, it's far more user friendly with a nice mangement GUI.
Windows GUI administration beats security, stability, and flexibility - okay.
Any idiot can setup IIS.
That has been well-proven, but it still doesn't seem like a real advantage for the rest of the world.
People will always read what's put in front of them without checking sources, too. That fact is what Microsoft is after.
Well, actually, Microsoft is trying to build up a body of documents that it can use as sources, just like the one last year that said the same thing and was so easily rebutted. PHBs (and others) will follow the links on Microsoft's web site and believe whatever reinforces their preconceptions.
Yeah. When I hear about a study that raises Microsoft up above another product, I always find myself thinking, "Yeah, because they paid for it."
Cynic. I'll bet you don't believe that commercial where all the people go sliding down the hall in a slow-motion cluster-hug because they used MS Office either. Well, I've got to go set a trap for the Easter Bunny - I hear he's got XP service packs this year.
However if the report's analysis does hold water, albeit for the limited scope of the report, surely this is something that we should be concerned about. It should be possible for an independent analysis based on the methodology in the report, and I would like to see criticisms of the methodology/analysis rather than the fact the report was funded by Microsoft.
This so-called report was already rebutted on Slashdot last week. The relevant points are that the unpatched Linux exploits are local and minor, while the unpatched MS exploit is remote and critical. The metrics used were chosen to provide results that are in total opposition to the true situation. IOW, the big lie.
But, hey folks, the 800 pound gorilla from Redmond
is not alone in these tactics. The pharmacutical
industry pulls the same kinds of tactics when it
comes to testing (and promoting) their drugs, and
they have (apparently) far more pull with the
government than MSFT does.
So this it the *everybody else does it* defense? Unless the appeal succeeds, Bernie Ebbers is going to jail, and Bill should be his cellmate. Microsoft is a convicted abusive monopolist and is held to higher standards than normal companies that have real competition. Funding a self-serving survey/study like that is a slap in the face to the DOJ, not to mention it being completely dishonest and opposed to the welfare of consumers. Any company that can be proven to be lying during a trial (perjury), as Microsoft was, and still get off without a penalty is far more powerful than any drug company.
How can a student respond to such an accusation in order to defend the validity of BitTorrent and continue to benefit from its legitimate uses?
Do what we did concerning a slightly different issue. Do a rabble-rousing call to action. Hold sit-ins (when you're comfortable and don't want to move, make it a political point), and block doorways (which you do normally anyway). Boycott classes (like you really need an excuse). Hold protests (sitting or marching optional) with lots of signs. Smoke 'em if you got 'em. Get shot at by the ROTC. It's all good if you survive and will give you tales to tell your (grand)children. Graduate. Get a job. Get married. Have child v.1.0 and 2.0. Get a new job with a major company that wants you to use your expertise to institute DRM to protect the company's so-called "IP". HTH.
The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate not because of some dark matter but because of the gravitational attraction of other universes in the local vicinity of our own.
Other universes? Did someone redefine "universe" while I was at dinner?
If that crop got out in the wild, though, it wouldn't last long at all. Most wild plants don't get sprayed with herbicides, so they'll be wasting energy. A pesticide producing crop very well could retain their special trait in the wild. Many plant already do produce pesticides.
That seems to be another reason why the internationally claimed fears of GE crops are misplaced.
The reason that farmers are forbidden from using their own crop for seed isn't genetic, it's corporate. If they did use their own seed, they effectively become a competitor with the people they bought the seed from to begin with.
Yes, that's the reason you'll get even from Monsanto, and I understand the monetary reason, being the cynic I am.:) My point was that because of the seed policies, there has been no (excuse the pun) field testing of the multi-generation trait inheritance of GE crops versus the RNA-based "memory" suggested in the article.
In any case, thanks to you and the others who responded. This has been one of the more interesting topics on Slashdot recently.
I think I followed most of that, but what about genetically engineered plants where the modification may include a survival trait, e.g., the "Roundup" resistant crops? The companies that produce the seeds forbid growers to use the resulting crops for seed. If the crops were used for seed, would the modification stick or eventually (after some generations) revert to the original, unmodified plant? If this is the case, most of the arguments against genetically engineered crops go out the window.
I want to chew your face, and I want to scoop out your eyes and I want to eat them and chew them and suck on them.
Shouldn't you suck on them prior to chewing them and subsequently eating them? It seems you have a scheduling and prioritization problem that could be solved easily using our Microsoft Project software. This easy-to-use software will schedule your face-chewing sessions professionally and make sure no warranted face goes unchewed. Remember, we stand in awe of you and your creativity, and you are the reason we are motivated to be the major supplier of software for face-chewers everywhere.
Ah, yes. Of course it JUST HAD TO BE a Microsoft product. You present no evidence, just hear-say and you get moderated up for bashing MS.
That little winkie thing on the end of his comment indicates that it was likely a joke. It's still working hours on the west coast. Shouldn't you be trying to get tabbed browsing working in IE instead of surfing Slashdot?:)
Well, whatever. "A rose by any other name" and whatnot. Maybe fewer people will use a "Limited Edition" release, but then fewer people would upgrade to a minor version upgrade than Mdk 11, so I guess I just don't see the same significance in the change.
The problem appears to be that there will never be an "official" release, leaving all the work done for the scheduled release forever in beta.
But that's not really the point either. The thrust of my joke was that the real issue you have here is that the decision was made...not so much that it wasn't announced. Because it was announced, as witnessed by these complaints about the announcement.
Yes, the joke was noted and given all the hilarity it deserved, given the subject material you used as a source. Ha. Ha. And ha. Well done.
Agreed, this seemed to come out of nowhere when we were all beginning to believe that Mandrake was being really open about their operations. I can understand that there are business reasons to withold some things, but this transition seems odd, ill-timed, and out of sequence. If you have contributed to the distro, then as a Mandrake user, I'll just say thanks for your work.
Clearly the french company MandrakeSoft conspires against the Untied States for their actions in Iraq and is shipping them a crippled distro out of vengance.
Didn't take long for that to pop up. Troll Tuesday is tomorrow; try again then. This is Monday. Condoleeza Rice and the French are having a tryst. GW is buds with Chirac. If you want to expose a criminal, dangerous, and subversive OS, I suggest you look no farther than that axis of evil that extends from Redmond, WA to . . . er, Redmond, WA.
I know just what he means; nothing pisses me off like somebody telling me something, and not telling me about it.
I would imagine the complaint is about the unilateral way it was done. Since there will be a (somewhat unclear) release of the current 10.2 beta, why not just leave the 10.2 roadmap as planned? The Limited Edition moniker makes me wonder if the "official" release is being dropped (which would leave 10.2 in permanent beta, or Fedora mode:) and that is the problem. Mandrake should institute the new naming convention when the merged version is ready - not before. There is no need to add to the confusion.
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The other day I asked a programmer to bring me some cofee on the spot. The next day I had a new screen saver in java. You may learn from this experience.
You sound like my manager. I'm afraid the orange juice you demanded wasn't really, and HR is wondering why some of the random testing samples are short. You may learn from this experience.
My company recently started deleting our email after 90 days.
I'd suggest that's not so much data as random noise if it's anything like our company. There are many companies that produce/process/archive real data that has or will have historic significance and costs a good deal of money to generate.
Consider some of the digitizing work that is currently going on. There are historic documents, photographic plates, and film of course, that are cracking, fading, darkening, or otherwise deteriorating. Many of these are being saved by techniques that are beyond me, but the results are all digital. It makes little sense to store them in any other format. You aren't really going to trust the pictures you took with your digital camera to a single HP printout are you?
We do want the data to last forever, but currently, the best medium is still tape. It is necessary to transfer the data to new tapes every 10-15 years. Given that the archived data grows in a greater than linear fashion every year, the task becomes greater each time even though tape capacity continues to increase.
I would LOVE to see some average Joe off the street elected president. Someone intelligent for sure, but someone that hasn't made a career out of lying to everyone and could serve is four years and get out.
As you already noted, by definition, that person is unelectable in the US. The idea of part-time citizen representatives died when politicians learned they could vote wealth and power for themselves and their friends and seemingly reward their voters with pork.
What's particularly strange is that although this "kill the hooker in GTA" meme is now well known, it is only ever mentioned by people who don't actually play the game. Nobody who plays the game would ever do it because there's no point. You don't make any money, you don't complete a mission, so it's an entirely pointless thing to do.
I believe it's supposed to restore health. I can't swear to it, because I never actually tried it. I had already read about it before playing the game, and implied sex between hidden pixelated characters just didn't seem worth the time involved for a health pickup. I did accidentally run over a few hookers and other pedestrians though and felt a little bad about it, which may seem silly considering the game.
I am proud to be posting to this historical thread in which CmdrTaco busts a vessel.
Nothing new. Those Coast Guard fellows do that every day.
The changes to punish people who post funny posts are the most recent that I remember. At least it demonstrates what they think is most important.
As well it should. We don't any bandwidth-wasting humor to lighten up deadly serious topics like a professor arguing with Clippy about grammar or Hillary gunning for Tommy Vercetti. In this vein, we serious Slashbots expect absolutely no attempts at humor from the editors on Friday as has happened in previous years.
Whoa, you're right. How did I miss it when the army of uber chickens stopped generating my page? Layoffs at Slashdot?
Since they are not a monopoly at all, such a conviction is not correct.
Since they are a convicted monopolist, by definition they hold a monopoly as confirmed by the courts. Your nonsensical statement is the same as saying a convicted felon is not a felon.
Since all they are "guilty" of is making a better browser than Netscape did, there is no injustice.
Didn't follow the trial too well did you? There was the little conspiracy thing about cutting off Netscape's "air supply." They rigged a demo about removing IE during the trial and got caught. They cut deals with computer makers who didn't install rival products. They talked about buyouts with smaller companies and then just stole their ideas. You'd know all this if you weren't a MS fanboy or employee in a state of denial.
Don't like Microsoft? Use something else.
I don't. I switched to Linux because of Microsoft's growing disregard for its customers and its nasty business habits. Don't like people bashing your monopolist, overpriced, marketroid, kindergarten OS? Tough. If you really had any convictions, you'd post using your account or get one - unlike MS products, a Slashdot account is free. Generally, when I get modded down, it's because of comments criticizing MS, so you've got a bunch of friends here. It doesn't stop me because the truth is way more important than Slashdot karma. Get some cojones, coward, or shut up.
If you ignore security, stability and some flexibility, IIS has some distinct advantages over Apache. For starters, it's far more user friendly with a nice mangement GUI.
Windows GUI administration beats security, stability, and flexibility - okay.
Any idiot can setup IIS.
That has been well-proven, but it still doesn't seem like a real advantage for the rest of the world.
People will always read what's put in front of them without checking sources, too. That fact is what Microsoft is after.
Well, actually, Microsoft is trying to build up a body of documents that it can use as sources, just like the one last year that said the same thing and was so easily rebutted. PHBs (and others) will follow the links on Microsoft's web site and believe whatever reinforces their preconceptions.
Yeah. When I hear about a study that raises Microsoft up above another product, I always find myself thinking, "Yeah, because they paid for it."
Cynic. I'll bet you don't believe that commercial where all the people go sliding down the hall in a slow-motion cluster-hug because they used MS Office either. Well, I've got to go set a trap for the Easter Bunny - I hear he's got XP service packs this year.
However if the report's analysis does hold water, albeit for the limited scope of the report, surely this is something that we should be concerned about. It should be possible for an independent analysis based on the methodology in the report, and I would like to see criticisms of the methodology/analysis rather than the fact the report was funded by Microsoft.
This so-called report was already rebutted on Slashdot last week. The relevant points are that the unpatched Linux exploits are local and minor, while the unpatched MS exploit is remote and critical. The metrics used were chosen to provide results that are in total opposition to the true situation. IOW, the big lie.
But, hey folks, the 800 pound gorilla from Redmond is not alone in these tactics. The pharmacutical industry pulls the same kinds of tactics when it comes to testing (and promoting) their drugs, and they have (apparently) far more pull with the government than MSFT does.
So this it the *everybody else does it* defense? Unless the appeal succeeds, Bernie Ebbers is going to jail, and Bill should be his cellmate. Microsoft is a convicted abusive monopolist and is held to higher standards than normal companies that have real competition. Funding a self-serving survey/study like that is a slap in the face to the DOJ, not to mention it being completely dishonest and opposed to the welfare of consumers. Any company that can be proven to be lying during a trial (perjury), as Microsoft was, and still get off without a penalty is far more powerful than any drug company.
How can a student respond to such an accusation in order to defend the validity of BitTorrent and continue to benefit from its legitimate uses?
Do what we did concerning a slightly different issue. Do a rabble-rousing call to action. Hold sit-ins (when you're comfortable and don't want to move, make it a political point), and block doorways (which you do normally anyway). Boycott classes (like you really need an excuse). Hold protests (sitting or marching optional) with lots of signs. Smoke 'em if you got 'em. Get shot at by the ROTC. It's all good if you survive and will give you tales to tell your (grand)children. Graduate. Get a job. Get married. Have child v.1.0 and 2.0. Get a new job with a major company that wants you to use your expertise to institute DRM to protect the company's so-called "IP". HTH.
The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate not because of some dark matter but because of the gravitational attraction of other universes in the local vicinity of our own.
Other universes? Did someone redefine "universe" while I was at dinner?
"Apparently, ripples from inflation in the early universe may account for the observed expansion rate of the universe."
Would you all please just shut up about that? Do you realize what Greenspan is going to do when he hears about this?
I see a Congress Critter, Carly Fiorina, or Bernie Ebbers finally got mod points after two weeks. Have at it, low-life. :)
If that crop got out in the wild, though, it wouldn't last long at all. Most wild plants don't get sprayed with herbicides, so they'll be wasting energy. A pesticide producing crop very well could retain their special trait in the wild. Many plant already do produce pesticides.
That seems to be another reason why the internationally claimed fears of GE crops are misplaced.
The reason that farmers are forbidden from using their own crop for seed isn't genetic, it's corporate. If they did use their own seed, they effectively become a competitor with the people they bought the seed from to begin with.
Yes, that's the reason you'll get even from Monsanto, and I understand the monetary reason, being the cynic I am. :) My point was that because of the seed policies, there has been no (excuse the pun) field testing of the multi-generation trait inheritance of GE crops versus the RNA-based "memory" suggested in the article.
In any case, thanks to you and the others who responded. This has been one of the more interesting topics on Slashdot recently.
I think I followed most of that, but what about genetically engineered plants where the modification may include a survival trait, e.g., the "Roundup" resistant crops? The companies that produce the seeds forbid growers to use the resulting crops for seed. If the crops were used for seed, would the modification stick or eventually (after some generations) revert to the original, unmodified plant? If this is the case, most of the arguments against genetically engineered crops go out the window.
I want to chew your face, and I want to scoop out your eyes and I want to eat them and chew them and suck on them.
Shouldn't you suck on them prior to chewing them and subsequently eating them? It seems you have a scheduling and prioritization problem that could be solved easily using our Microsoft Project software. This easy-to-use software will schedule your face-chewing sessions professionally and make sure no warranted face goes unchewed. Remember, we stand in awe of you and your creativity, and you are the reason we are motivated to be the major supplier of software for face-chewers everywhere.
Ah, yes. Of course it JUST HAD TO BE a Microsoft product. You present no evidence, just hear-say and you get moderated up for bashing MS.
That little winkie thing on the end of his comment indicates that it was likely a joke. It's still working hours on the west coast. Shouldn't you be trying to get tabbed browsing working in IE instead of surfing Slashdot? :)
Well, whatever. "A rose by any other name" and whatnot. Maybe fewer people will use a "Limited Edition" release, but then fewer people would upgrade to a minor version upgrade than Mdk 11, so I guess I just don't see the same significance in the change.
The problem appears to be that there will never be an "official" release, leaving all the work done for the scheduled release forever in beta.
But that's not really the point either. The thrust of my joke was that the real issue you have here is that the decision was made...not so much that it wasn't announced. Because it was announced, as witnessed by these complaints about the announcement.
Yes, the joke was noted and given all the hilarity it deserved, given the subject material you used as a source. Ha. Ha. And ha. Well done.
Agreed, this seemed to come out of nowhere when we were all beginning to believe that Mandrake was being really open about their operations. I can understand that there are business reasons to withold some things, but this transition seems odd, ill-timed, and out of sequence. If you have contributed to the distro, then as a Mandrake user, I'll just say thanks for your work.
Didn't take long for that to pop up. Troll Tuesday is tomorrow; try again then. This is Monday. Condoleeza Rice and the French are having a tryst. GW is buds with Chirac. If you want to expose a criminal, dangerous, and subversive OS, I suggest you look no farther than that axis of evil that extends from Redmond, WA to . . . er, Redmond, WA.
I know just what he means; nothing pisses me off like somebody telling me something, and not telling me about it.
I would imagine the complaint is about the unilateral way it was done. Since there will be a (somewhat unclear) release of the current 10.2 beta, why not just leave the 10.2 roadmap as planned? The Limited Edition moniker makes me wonder if the "official" release is being dropped (which would leave 10.2 in permanent beta, or Fedora mode :) and that is the problem. Mandrake should institute the new naming convention when the merged version is ready - not before. There is no need to add to the confusion.