I'm sorry, but this is +4 Insightful despite your not giving any links to back it up? Until you give examples (google turns up comments/reviews/upgrades, no databases per se) your comment's quite possibly yet more trolling.
Right, cause we'll just ignore that Canada has none of the EU restrictive policies and none of the DMCA crap (not to mention the FBI's recent request for backdoors in all internet communication software).
Or were you just forgetting that Canada's not actually another slave state again? My bad for calling you on it.
[This is of course just the most blatant example, there are tons of other countries in the world]
"Expenses associated with our SCOsource division are anticipated to continue at approximately the current level as we continue to protect our UNIX intellectual property and aggressively pursue our legal claims through the court system."
Ohhhh boy. Better get comfortable people, there's going to be yet more SCO stories for a while.
Extensions, my friend. For example, there's a user agent switcher that you can customize. there's also a lot more on that page of course, and for the other stuff there's the about:config mentioned in another reply.
Okay, so it's ambiguous, but quickly browsing lower paragraphs shows they're scared by how easy it was to develop a virus, with a specific purpose/target to boot. As opposed to being scared because of the inefficiency of multinational research corps or whatever [that's more or less what I assumed at first as well].
The best legal download service? Way to not investigate all the options. I learned about allofmp3.com through another/. thread ( here ) and it works. Awesomely. Cheaper, good quality, just as legal judging by the lack of threats to their company..(hey, it's one way of measuring it)
Please do more research before you make so many declarative statements.
Also, the hell is this: "Even WINBLOWS users are stating that "opinion." Should be more like fact if you compare all the others."
You're posting on SLASHDOT, remember? Since when do geeks value the "common opinion", as it were. If you have to refer to numbers rather than features or hard facts, you really shouldn't be modded +5 insightful.
Shattered Galaxy does this, and it's old. 2001, I think? They've been offering the free download since it started, and recently apparently started offering a free play alternative (minor downsides). Mind you, the game may not be as popular as other titles, but I'd say it's simply due to lack of marketing.. Have yet to hear any complaints about the online distribution.
More or less exactly like in Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age, if memory serves me. Hackers hack into people's "matrices" or whatnot and place popups, on occasion leading to suicide.. Ahh, the joys of technology.
Of course, if we ever get to such a point, count me out. The day someone can directly damage my retina via hacking is the day I become a hermit.
Why put in the last two points? Your second I could see if you argue that "normal users" aren't going to be able to open a help file and/or read a support BBS and/or google, but 10 seconds longer? I'm sorry, since when did 10 seconds become an earth-shattering timeframe? Remember now, these are small companies, not companies whose CEOs make $10 in those 10 seconds.
I'll give you the finance one, but for a (very) small business that has only one accountant, this could mean simply one version of Excel versus 10 versions of the full Office suite. Still a considerable gain at that point.
But.. a) Unknown and unheard of company b) Physically quite a ways from most wired countries, as opposed to widespread google (Akamai?) servers c) Israeli only so far, vs. however many localizations (let alone simple translations) google/gmail has/will have. d) None of the advanced searching/sorting features that Gmail has been promising and actually do sound fairly nice.
Modded funny maybe, but that's actually quite a point./. as a DDOS attack... aren't we the ones who look down on all the zombie infected machines? What's the difference?
Politicians don't waste their time trolling on/.. Find a better way to make fun of *nix geeks if you feel the need, or just maybe actually go for this politician goal of yours. Of course, that'd involve effort and thoug- wait. Politics. Okay, so do it mindlessly.
But of course. They use you as a statistic to provide more lovely features - Look at/.'s site info on your linked page. They can have a bunch of popularity statistics on a thorough amount of websites, and also have the ever-fascinating "People who visit this page also visit: "
And the generic.a9 website has a very similar link redirection system, it's very hard to tell whether their statement is accurate/truthful - Information we gather on generic.a9.com will not be used in our data analysis
Would it kill them to simply give a straight link if there's no data analysis involved?
After downloading the survey and laughing a bit more, I noticed they only mention how to send it back to them by snail mail - no online file upload or even email address to collect them. Which implies to me that this is either a joke or something they expect at most a few hundred people to reply to [otherwise they'd have found a simpler and more effective response system].
PREVIOUSLY BY ROB ENDERLE: - Microsoft: Hated Because It's Misunderstood - Reasons To Shun Open Source-ry - Linux Is Not Ready For the Enterprise
If only they put these at the front of the article and spared my valuable minutes.
Not only that, but I bothered to check the links out and they're just plain rants. And this is labelled news? Even/. has more news than this, despite being in large part activists for something or other (i'm one too, no worries)
The power in Quebec never even went down, either. They had better failsafes and better redundancy, such that the power was never off there.
Perhaps more interesting in a different way, they had roughly 10,000 MW to spare and were waiting for Ontario to ask them for it, and guess what? Ontario didn't.
Simple. MSIs can be uninstalled with the Add/Remove programs options. Microsoft clearly doesn't want you to remove their patches, as shown by the fact that newer ones such as DirectX 9.0a cannot be uninstalled.
Why? Who knows?
For the actual/. effect, yes, since supposedly it only includes headline news stories. If, however, a very high interest thread has the top post with a link to a small website, then no. Note the small font at the bottom of every/. page: Comments are owned by the Poster. Therefore, legally, it IS/.'s and only/.'s responsibility for any links in the stories themselves.
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I'm sorry, but this is +4 Insightful despite your not giving any links to back it up? Until you give examples (google turns up comments/reviews/upgrades, no databases per se) your comment's quite possibly yet more trolling.
Right, cause we'll just ignore that Canada has none of the EU restrictive policies and none of the DMCA crap (not to mention the FBI's recent request for backdoors in all internet communication software).
Or were you just forgetting that Canada's not actually another slave state again? My bad for calling you on it.
[This is of course just the most blatant example, there are tons of other countries in the world]
"Expenses associated with our SCOsource division are anticipated to continue at approximately the current level as we continue to protect our UNIX intellectual property and aggressively pursue our legal claims through the court system."
Ohhhh boy. Better get comfortable people, there's going to be yet more SCO stories for a while.
Extensions, my friend. For example, there's a user agent switcher that you can customize. there's also a lot more on that page of course, and for the other stuff there's the about:config mentioned in another reply.
Okay, so it's ambiguous, but quickly browsing lower paragraphs shows they're scared by how easy it was to develop a virus, with a specific purpose/target to boot. As opposed to being scared because of the inefficiency of multinational research corps or whatever [that's more or less what I assumed at first as well].
The best legal download service? Way to not investigate all the options. I learned about allofmp3.com through another /. thread ( here ) and it works. Awesomely. Cheaper, good quality, just as legal judging by the lack of threats to their company..(hey, it's one way of measuring it)
Please do more research before you make so many declarative statements.
Also, the hell is this: "Even WINBLOWS users are stating that "opinion." Should be more like fact if you compare all the others."
You're posting on SLASHDOT, remember? Since when do geeks value the "common opinion", as it were. If you have to refer to numbers rather than features or hard facts, you really shouldn't be modded +5 insightful.
and heldheld users through a web server
HaHa!
Shattered Galaxy does this, and it's old. 2001, I think? They've been offering the free download since it started, and recently apparently started offering a free play alternative (minor downsides). Mind you, the game may not be as popular as other titles, but I'd say it's simply due to lack of marketing.. Have yet to hear any complaints about the online distribution.
More or less exactly like in Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age, if memory serves me. Hackers hack into people's "matrices" or whatnot and place popups, on occasion leading to suicide.. Ahh, the joys of technology. Of course, if we ever get to such a point, count me out. The day someone can directly damage my retina via hacking is the day I become a hermit.
Why put in the last two points? Your second I could see if you argue that "normal users" aren't going to be able to open a help file and/or read a support BBS and/or google, but 10 seconds longer? I'm sorry, since when did 10 seconds become an earth-shattering timeframe? Remember now, these are small companies, not companies whose CEOs make $10 in those 10 seconds. I'll give you the finance one, but for a (very) small business that has only one accountant, this could mean simply one version of Excel versus 10 versions of the full Office suite. Still a considerable gain at that point.
But..
a) Unknown and unheard of company
b) Physically quite a ways from most wired countries, as opposed to widespread google (Akamai?) servers
c) Israeli only so far, vs. however many localizations (let alone simple translations) google/gmail has/will have.
d) None of the advanced searching/sorting features that Gmail has been promising and actually do sound fairly nice.
Modded funny maybe, but that's actually quite a point. /. as a DDOS attack... aren't we the ones who look down on all the zombie infected machines? What's the difference?
Politicians don't waste their time trolling on /.. Find a better way to make fun of *nix geeks if you feel the need, or just maybe actually go for this politician goal of yours. Of course, that'd involve effort and thoug- wait. Politics. Okay, so do it mindlessly.
But of course. They use you as a statistic to provide more lovely features - Look at /.'s site info on your linked page. They can have a bunch of popularity statistics on a thorough amount of websites, and also have the ever-fascinating
"People who visit this page also visit: "
And the generic.a9 website has a very similar link redirection system, it's very hard to tell whether their statement is accurate/truthful -
Information we gather on generic.a9.com will not be used in our data analysis
Would it kill them to simply give a straight link if there's no data analysis involved?
After downloading the survey and laughing a bit more, I noticed they only mention how to send it back to them by snail mail - no online file upload or even email address to collect them. Which implies to me that this is either a joke or something they expect at most a few hundred people to reply to [otherwise they'd have found a simpler and more effective response system].
PREVIOUSLY BY ROB ENDERLE:
/. has more news than this, despite being in large part activists for something or other (i'm one too, no worries)
- Microsoft: Hated Because It's Misunderstood
- Reasons To Shun Open Source-ry
- Linux Is Not Ready For the Enterprise
If only they put these at the front of the article and spared my valuable minutes.
Not only that, but I bothered to check the links out and they're just plain rants.
And this is labelled news? Even
The power in Quebec never even went down, either. They had better failsafes and better redundancy, such that the power was never off there.
Perhaps more interesting in a different way, they had roughly 10,000 MW to spare and were waiting for Ontario to ask them for it, and guess what? Ontario didn't.
Pride makes the world go round.
Simple. MSIs can be uninstalled with the Add/Remove programs options. Microsoft clearly doesn't want you to remove their patches, as shown by the fact that newer ones such as DirectX 9.0a cannot be uninstalled. Why? Who knows?
For the actual /. effect, yes, since supposedly it only includes headline news stories. If, however, a very high interest thread has the top post with a link to a small website, then no. Note the small font at the bottom of every /. page: Comments are owned by the Poster. /.'s and only /.'s responsibility for any links in the stories themselves.
Therefore, legally, it IS