Mark my words, one day there will be a study that will find the fact we already know to be true: On a national level, as caffeine consumption increases, so does happiness and productivity.
I completely agree with you. I've always voted for the exact person I wanted in office. Until now that is. This time I'm going into this with both eyes open. I'm doing everything I can to get Dean into office. Sure, he's not everything I want, but he's a hell of a lot closer than Bush is. It's too difficult to get a sharp change in politics. That's why I'm going Dean, he'll end this neocon tangent with a nice curve towards the prevailing of civil liberties. When his term is up, perhaps I can worry about making my anti-bipartisan ideas known again...
So you won't believe the ads are easy to remove unless someone "in the know" tells you they are. I'm going to assume you're not a contributor to Linux (in the source code sense). Thus, you should either buy retail version ( as low as $40 in some places ), or deal with their advertisements. That is, of course, as long as you support their development.
I don't know, I guess you might not support them but have to use them anyways. Does your work force Mandrake on you? Wanna trade jobs?
I figured you were a programmer. I mean who else would use themselves as a model for the rest of humanity, even when it's obviously a poor assumption?
Consider that, as you stated, you live in a country which has enacted law that enables you to "legally" breach "copyrights." In other words, you've no fear of being sued, and you have every reason to believe that the money you spend on blank media goes to support the artists of songs which you are recording on said blank media.
Now, isn't it within the realm of possibility that your lack of guilt regarding copyright infringement is the product of the laws your country has enacted? Isn't it reasonable to believe that occupants of other countries which have not taken such action might act differently? Is it smart to use yourself as a model for everyone else, *especially* when you occupy such an uncommon position?
No, it isn't.
And as a programmer you should know that it's bad form to assume your user knows what you know. It's a bad idea to believe they've the same experiences you do, and will thus operate software you construct the same way you would.
Dear Fellow Slashdotter, It has come to my understanding that you use your own knowledge, morals, and experience to represent the other six billion people on earth.
Please do not program, or pursue a career in programming.
Thank You, DeltaSigma
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Eh, you don't really want to keep a secure shell open anyways...
Well... one would imagine that when your body was pulverized to the dimensions of a basketball the darker pigments beneath your skin would mix with the lighter pigments above and you'd come out with a nice dark-red tint. Perhaps we should name this phenomenon. A "Jovian Tan."
Oy, now do I support a company that pisses off courtney love whilst screwing over customers and artists, or do I support a courtney love who pisses off a company and kills artists.
I could have gotten through the day without reading that.
I think I'll support neither though, just in case you're wondering.
I hope both of you are using RIOsitude ( http://www.drilsej.com/rio.html ). It's FAR better than that rioport crap.
In any event, I mirror your feelings. A lot of slashdotters seem to need a lot of music to get them through the day, but I find it a simple task to spice up my favorite portable playlist from time to time with some new songs. These things are solid, I don't have to worry about breaking them (and even if I do, the replacement for this once $400 player is only $65 today for a like-new condition). Their age and Rio branding makes them pretty well supported in modern OSes. I don't see a real reason to ditch this reliable little guy until I find a good ogg player...
You are aware they can get some pretty water-tight combat boots right?
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Q3 ended up being of much greater interest to modders than your average gamer. I admit Quake 3, the game, had numerous flaws and drawbacks. However, Quake 3, the engine, is being improved on a daily basis, we're making a lot of cool things happen.
It's sort of like in Q2 when you got bored of what it had to offer, you found some mods and started enjoying yourself again.
Q3 is like that, except you start out bored. You pretty much immediately have to find a mod.
That's just what the cow wants you to think. It doesn't want you to know that there's a few hundred accessories and upgrades it needs for it to even consider giving you milk... if it's in the mood...
This guy is right. I chose debian as my first distribution of Linux to try. Dropped by the IRC channel and loved every minute of it. I've never met a debian guru I didn't like.
I'm sorry if I sounded unreasonable. I tried to make myself clearer towards the end. You and I should continue as we have. Diligently patching our systems and preventing disasters. I just don't feel any need to oppose someone who's cleaning up everyone elses machine for them.
In the rush to get a post up though I neglected to mention a few details:
You know those companies that have to evaluate patches on isolated machines before they can deploy them on their network, even if that testing takes longer than it does for a hacker to write a worm exploiting the vulnerability? This anti-virus just violated procedure for them. Now all their machines that were STABLE + INFECTED are UNSTABLE + INFECTED.
If this virus wasn't written very well, there's potential problems. For instance, if it doesn't clean itself up after patching the vulnerability, and still actively searches the web for new hosts, our net savings of bandwidth is effectively zero. This new virus will end up taking up the same amount of bandwidth as the original did, and just like code red, server admins will be feeling the ping from this anti-virus for years to come.
There's other dilemma's but I need to go take a break now.
I doubt it in simple recognition of the trend: Microsoft always innovates last.
However, in spite of this, if you agreed to Microsoft's EULA they're the only ones that have the legal right to do this. And they do have the legal right to do this mind you...
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...if someone else keeps fixing the problem it will never be fixed."
That doesn't even work! If someone else keeps fixing the problem then the problem keeps getting fixed! This might not be the most desirable method, I'm sure we'd all rather have people patching and updating so such actions wouldn't be necessary, but the fact remains. If there was an anti-virus deployed shortly after every virus was deployed in the wild, the end result would be the same.
Hell, this method even has its advantages. As long as this virus remains in the wild, we should eventually see RPC DCOM vulnerabilities isolated to a few spread out machines across the globe. There will naturally be some machines that never get patched due to the anti-virus's self defeating nature, however the bulk of them (a number significant enough to influence flow of network traffic) should be taken care of.
I'm not advocating that you just wait around for an anti-virus. Naturally if you're interested in security you want to prevent intrusions before they happen. But I don't have a problem with some happy hacker taking it upon himself to clean up user-land and free up that bit of wasted bandwidth once more...
I'm no mac owner, but what would you reccomend? Should apple play the MHz game too? It would be pretty easy for them to say "equivalent to a Pentium 4 2.7 GHz" or something to that effect. Maybe it's not true, but we know marketing departments aren't confined by limits such as "truth" and "honesty."
No, I'd rather them slowly take marketshare while saying "This is a 2GHz chip, we think it will still impress you when set side-by-side to a 3GHz x86."
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So is this subliminal advertising or what?
Mark my words, one day there will be a study that will find the fact we already know to be true: On a national level, as caffeine consumption increases, so does happiness and productivity.
It's plenty beneficial.
Oh my god! Which ones the intelligent one?! Which one's questioning open source!? Who's the troll?! I need an adult!
I completely agree with you. I've always voted for the exact person I wanted in office. Until now that is. This time I'm going into this with both eyes open. I'm doing everything I can to get Dean into office. Sure, he's not everything I want, but he's a hell of a lot closer than Bush is. It's too difficult to get a sharp change in politics. That's why I'm going Dean, he'll end this neocon tangent with a nice curve towards the prevailing of civil liberties. When his term is up, perhaps I can worry about making my anti-bipartisan ideas known again...
So you won't believe the ads are easy to remove unless someone "in the know" tells you they are. I'm going to assume you're not a contributor to Linux (in the source code sense). Thus, you should either buy retail version ( as low as $40 in some places ), or deal with their advertisements. That is, of course, as long as you support their development.
I don't know, I guess you might not support them but have to use them anyways. Does your work force Mandrake on you? Wanna trade jobs?
I figured you were a programmer. I mean who else would use themselves as a model for the rest of humanity, even when it's obviously a poor assumption?
Consider that, as you stated, you live in a country which has enacted law that enables you to "legally" breach "copyrights." In other words, you've no fear of being sued, and you have every reason to believe that the money you spend on blank media goes to support the artists of songs which you are recording on said blank media.
Now, isn't it within the realm of possibility that your lack of guilt regarding copyright infringement is the product of the laws your country has enacted? Isn't it reasonable to believe that occupants of other countries which have not taken such action might act differently? Is it smart to use yourself as a model for everyone else, *especially* when you occupy such an uncommon position?
No, it isn't.
And as a programmer you should know that it's bad form to assume your user knows what you know. It's a bad idea to believe they've the same experiences you do, and will thus operate software you construct the same way you would.
It's the same thing here, that's my point.
Dear Fellow Slashdotter,
It has come to my understanding that you use your own knowledge, morals, and experience to represent the other six billion people on earth.
Please do not program, or pursue a career in programming.
Thank You,
DeltaSigma
Eh, you don't really want to keep a secure shell open anyways...
Naturally, all these GPG signatures we see all over the place are generated by windows users...
Well... one would imagine that when your body was pulverized to the dimensions of a basketball the darker pigments beneath your skin would mix with the lighter pigments above and you'd come out with a nice dark-red tint. Perhaps we should name this phenomenon. A "Jovian Tan."
I like what you've got going on here. If you succeeded, would you move over to a real server?
So the only reason you would consider a desktop operating system, is if it was tuned to be a server?
Does your work give you Xeons or what?
They could be hired...
Oy, now do I support a company that pisses off courtney love whilst screwing over customers and artists, or do I support a courtney love who pisses off a company and kills artists.
I could have gotten through the day without reading that.
I think I'll support neither though, just in case you're wondering.
Fellow 500 owner here.
I hope both of you are using RIOsitude ( http://www.drilsej.com/rio.html ). It's FAR better than that rioport crap.
In any event, I mirror your feelings. A lot of slashdotters seem to need a lot of music to get them through the day, but I find it a simple task to spice up my favorite portable playlist from time to time with some new songs. These things are solid, I don't have to worry about breaking them (and even if I do, the replacement for this once $400 player is only $65 today for a like-new condition). Their age and Rio branding makes them pretty well supported in modern OSes. I don't see a real reason to ditch this reliable little guy until I find a good ogg player...
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That's the sound of a thousand
What'chya gonna do boys?! Ask to see a pick of Uranus from the Mars orbitor?!
You are aware they can get some pretty water-tight combat boots right?
Q3 ended up being of much greater interest to modders than your average gamer. I admit Quake 3, the game, had numerous flaws and drawbacks. However, Quake 3, the engine, is being improved on a daily basis, we're making a lot of cool things happen.
It's sort of like in Q2 when you got bored of what it had to offer, you found some mods and started enjoying yourself again.
Q3 is like that, except you start out bored. You pretty much immediately have to find a mod.
I thought it was a natural progression. First we kill servers, now we kill users...
I think, perhaps, CowboyNeal is a misanthrope.
That's just what the cow wants you to think. It doesn't want you to know that there's a few hundred accessories and upgrades it needs for it to even consider giving you milk... if it's in the mood...
This guy is right. I chose debian as my first distribution of Linux to try. Dropped by the IRC channel and loved every minute of it. I've never met a debian guru I didn't like.
I'm sorry if I sounded unreasonable. I tried to make myself clearer towards the end. You and I should continue as we have. Diligently patching our systems and preventing disasters. I just don't feel any need to oppose someone who's cleaning up everyone elses machine for them.
In the rush to get a post up though I neglected to mention a few details:
There's other dilemma's but I need to go take a break now.
I doubt it in simple recognition of the trend: Microsoft always innovates last. However, in spite of this, if you agreed to Microsoft's EULA they're the only ones that have the legal right to do this. And they do have the legal right to do this mind you...
That doesn't even work! If someone else keeps fixing the problem then the problem keeps getting fixed! This might not be the most desirable method, I'm sure we'd all rather have people patching and updating so such actions wouldn't be necessary, but the fact remains. If there was an anti-virus deployed shortly after every virus was deployed in the wild, the end result would be the same.
Hell, this method even has its advantages. As long as this virus remains in the wild, we should eventually see RPC DCOM vulnerabilities isolated to a few spread out machines across the globe. There will naturally be some machines that never get patched due to the anti-virus's self defeating nature, however the bulk of them (a number significant enough to influence flow of network traffic) should be taken care of.
I'm not advocating that you just wait around for an anti-virus. Naturally if you're interested in security you want to prevent intrusions before they happen. But I don't have a problem with some happy hacker taking it upon himself to clean up user-land and free up that bit of wasted bandwidth once more...
I'm no mac owner, but what would you reccomend? Should apple play the MHz game too? It would be pretty easy for them to say "equivalent to a Pentium 4 2.7 GHz" or something to that effect. Maybe it's not true, but we know marketing departments aren't confined by limits such as "truth" and "honesty."
No, I'd rather them slowly take marketshare while saying "This is a 2GHz chip, we think it will still impress you when set side-by-side to a 3GHz x86."