That's just brilliant: Make it impossible for them to turn a profit on OEM sales. They'll stop selling OEM windows. Dell will be forced sell computers with no OS on them. While Free software advocates will be thrilled that they can avoid paying the "Windows Tax" (Something they could do anyway with a few calls to Dell, but now they don't have to do even that!), but 99% of consumers will be confused and upset at Dell that they now have to buy and install their own OS. They'll be even more upset that they can't get the reduced OEM price any more.
Yes, they should offer a version of windows that doesn't have IE and Media Player. Yes, OEMs should offer it, and yes, they should be able to charge whatever they want for it. If it costs them more money to remove Media Player from Windows, then they should be able to charge that extra money if they want to. It's called capitalism and the free market, and it's worked oh-so-well for the past few hundred years. There should be some controls (like forcing them to ship sans-media player and IE), but they shouldn't be communist level controls where you force the company to lose money on every sale just because you don't like them.
Also the only other reason I can imagine a windows machine to be running IIS in comparison to Linux with Apache is if you're a smaller company with only a few windows servers and cant really afford extra dedicated server hardware.
If they can't afford the extra hardware for a "Free" installation of Linux / Apache, what makes you think that they can afford the Windows Server + IIS license? Windows Server 2003 +IIS is almost as expensive as a cheap server
Terrorism is doing something to - get this - terrorize. Smashing a plane into the WTC is terrorism. Their aim was to terrorize, and they succeeded.
The Boston Tea Party was a bunch of colonists throwing tea into the Boston harbor. This is a form of protest. Had they lynched a bunch of Tories and said "We will purge our land of the imperial British bastards - leave now or we'll get you too", then that would be terrorism.
They do pay very well. They are hiring like crazy right now within the US (same citation as before, but that's 5k+ new US jobs in the past year), but US colleges just aren't turning out enough qualified employees that are willing to relocate to the north west.
As for Google: They have 7942 employees world wide and are located in California which has an abundance of local talent. Microsoft has 71,172, and there is a lot less local talent in the north west. It's a lot harder to fill and maintain 70,000 headcount than 8,000
Microsoft does not pay next to nothing. Microsoft pays very well. The problem is that they're running out of the number of people they can legally bring into the country. As a response, they're setting up shop in countries that don't have such tight-assed and retarded imigration policies.
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Given the pervalance of Diebold machines, I'd say just about anyone could win the next presidental election.
Seriously, people won't care about these crappy machines until either (1) some bat-shit-fucking insane neocon with a hard-on for starting WWIII is elected, or (2) Cowboy Neal is being sworn in.
Wait, one option already failed. Slashdotters, you know what you must do.
I hope they go to ancestory.com to get my DNA. Just grab a random bum of the street, pay him a fifth of scotch to give a small blood sample and say its yours, and submit. Next time you leave DNA at a crimescene, the FBI will get a warrant (secret or otherwise), compare your DNA to the bum's DNA, it won't hit and it will throw a wrench in thier investigation.
If the bum were to leave their DNA at a scene, you can clear your own name by giving a blood sample and just claiming that ancestory.com screwed up the samples.
You've gotten your engineering team to block their calls. This is about all you can do, sadly. The first time you get a call, kindly re-direct them to your HR recruiter. Second call, do the same and tell them that if they directly call someone that's not an HR recruiter, you'll blacklist their number and block it. After the third time, block it, and flat out refuse any candidates from that agency. Legitimate agencies will play by the rules, whereas the shady / spammings ones will find themselves blacklisted.
Installation was a headache from the live CD and DVD versions....
Ease of installation is not one of the drawing points of Gentoo. In fact, for some of us, an arcane installation procedure is the main draw...nothing teaches you more about linux than having to choose, configure, and compile every single piece of the OS.
I do realize that the "Accessories" link on a product's main page is the last place I'd ever expect to see accessories for a product, but can you please try to do some reasearch before you troll?
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I just don't think that the GP has ever worked on a large piece of software, or has worked in a business environment. Linux has some of the best minds in the world working on it, and it still has holes. Vista could have used a few more months being polished, but I can only imagine the threats of "Release now or else" coming from the headquarters.
#3. "Third, the additional bugs that external hackers find are commonly found by examining the patches we apply to our software."
I had to post that verbatim. They're releasing new bugs in their patches.
Partially true. By doing a bindiff between the old binaries and new binaries, they can see things like "Interesting, they're now using strncmp instead of strcmp. Let's see what happens when I pass in a non-null terminated buffer..." or "they're now checking to make sure that parameter isn't null" or whatever.
The defects were there before, but the patches give hackers a pointer that basically says "Look here, this was a security hole". Since end-users are / were really bad about patching their systems in a sane time frame, this gives the hackers a window of opportunity to exploit an exploit before they all patch up.
So if Apple released the iPhone, will Sun, in keeping with their idiotic naming scheme for all things java, name it the jPhone? Will the next one run a KDE and be called the kPhone, or will they want to give it more character and name it the cPhone? Or will a Hungarian include a leather-strap handle and call it the hPhone?
Thanks, I'll be here all week. Try the veal, it's fantastic.
You have listed my fondest dream: To be part of an abusive monopoly that replaced the abusive monopoly that I hated when I was a young college student....*sigh*
This is why projects like MythTV are so critical. Eventually this will be expanded to "All cable operators must disable the fast forward when playing back videos of our stations on their DVRs". Sure, some cable operators might hold out, but there will be a user revolt when JimBob can't get his left-turning action on ESPN, and they will accept this limitation. MythTV can't be bullied as easily, and will gain in popularity.
While some phds do go on to high-paying jobs in research, a lot of them just wind up teaching for the rest of their lives and earning a modest income. Do you really think that there is a high demand for phds that specalized in French drama?
A better idea might be to either make tuition / room+board paid to a recognized university / college tax-deductable, or to just give any college student (make the requirements tight enough that you actually have to be a real college student, not someone enrolled for 3 credits at the 200 level) a flat out $40,000 tax deductable.
This is how China will become the star of the next century. Right now US schools are churing out corporate zombies that are discouraged from taking "uncool" and "too hard" classes like math and science. The Chineese and Indians are slowly surpassing Americans in talent and ability, while US schools are focusing on turing out MBAs.
Sooner or later, they will realize that they don't need the US to manage them, and will proceed to cut us out of the loop and leave us with a bunch of middle-manager types that don't produce anything besides TPS reports.
Note: I know that the article was about the UK, but things aren't any better over here in the colonies. Our school system needs reform, and I don't mean the "No Child Gets Ahead" act.
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Maybe the coder that wrote the 911 system was going through withdraw after the cops busted his dealer, and left the security hole in.
Yes, they should offer a version of windows that doesn't have IE and Media Player. Yes, OEMs should offer it, and yes, they should be able to charge whatever they want for it. If it costs them more money to remove Media Player from Windows, then they should be able to charge that extra money if they want to. It's called capitalism and the free market, and it's worked oh-so-well for the past few hundred years. There should be some controls (like forcing them to ship sans-media player and IE), but they shouldn't be communist level controls where you force the company to lose money on every sale just because you don't like them.
If they can't afford the extra hardware for a "Free" installation of Linux / Apache, what makes you think that they can afford the Windows Server + IIS license? Windows Server 2003 +IIS is almost as expensive as a cheap server
Terrorism is doing something to - get this - terrorize. Smashing a plane into the WTC is terrorism. Their aim was to terrorize, and they succeeded.
The Boston Tea Party was a bunch of colonists throwing tea into the Boston harbor. This is a form of protest. Had they lynched a bunch of Tories and said "We will purge our land of the imperial British bastards - leave now or we'll get you too", then that would be terrorism.
As for Google: They have 7942 employees world wide and are located in California which has an abundance of local talent. Microsoft has 71,172, and there is a lot less local talent in the north west. It's a lot harder to fill and maintain 70,000 headcount than 8,000
Microsoft does not pay next to nothing. Microsoft pays very well. The problem is that they're running out of the number of people they can legally bring into the country. As a response, they're setting up shop in countries that don't have such tight-assed and retarded imigration policies.
Thanks, I'll be here all night. Tip your waitress and try the Veal.
So they can regex DNA now. Sweet.
Seriously, people won't care about these crappy machines until either (1) some bat-shit-fucking insane neocon with a hard-on for starting WWIII is elected, or (2) Cowboy Neal is being sworn in.
Wait, one option already failed. Slashdotters, you know what you must do.
For those of us that are required to run IE7 at work it is...now I have to go to fark or *shudder* digg to slack off.
If the bum were to leave their DNA at a scene, you can clear your own name by giving a blood sample and just claiming that ancestory.com screwed up the samples.
You've gotten your engineering team to block their calls. This is about all you can do, sadly. The first time you get a call, kindly re-direct them to your HR recruiter. Second call, do the same and tell them that if they directly call someone that's not an HR recruiter, you'll blacklist their number and block it. After the third time, block it, and flat out refuse any candidates from that agency. Legitimate agencies will play by the rules, whereas the shady / spammings ones will find themselves blacklisted.
Ease of installation is not one of the drawing points of Gentoo. In fact, for some of us, an arcane installation procedure is the main draw...nothing teaches you more about linux than having to choose, configure, and compile every single piece of the OS.
And here for the car kit.
I do realize that the "Accessories" link on a product's main page is the last place I'd ever expect to see accessories for a product, but can you please try to do some reasearch before you troll?
We, the people of EARTH LIBERATION FRONT UBER ALLES, in order to form a more perfect How cud tehy vote 4 Jordin!!!11, establish justice, Haha, spamming you....
I just don't think that the GP has ever worked on a large piece of software, or has worked in a business environment. Linux has some of the best minds in the world working on it, and it still has holes. Vista could have used a few more months being polished, but I can only imagine the threats of "Release now or else" coming from the headquarters.
I had to post that verbatim. They're releasing new bugs in their patches.
Partially true. By doing a bindiff between the old binaries and new binaries, they can see things like "Interesting, they're now using strncmp instead of strcmp. Let's see what happens when I pass in a non-null terminated buffer..." or "they're now checking to make sure that parameter isn't null" or whatever.
The defects were there before, but the patches give hackers a pointer that basically says "Look here, this was a security hole". Since end-users are / were really bad about patching their systems in a sane time frame, this gives the hackers a window of opportunity to exploit an exploit before they all patch up.
Thanks, I'll be here all week. Try the veal, it's fantastic.
You have listed my fondest dream: To be part of an abusive monopoly that replaced the abusive monopoly that I hated when I was a young college student....*sigh*
This is why projects like MythTV are so critical. Eventually this will be expanded to "All cable operators must disable the fast forward when playing back videos of our stations on their DVRs". Sure, some cable operators might hold out, but there will be a user revolt when JimBob can't get his left-turning action on ESPN, and they will accept this limitation. MythTV can't be bullied as easily, and will gain in popularity.
A better idea might be to either make tuition / room+board paid to a recognized university / college tax-deductable, or to just give any college student (make the requirements tight enough that you actually have to be a real college student, not someone enrolled for 3 credits at the 200 level) a flat out $40,000 tax deductable.
Sooner or later, they will realize that they don't need the US to manage them, and will proceed to cut us out of the loop and leave us with a bunch of middle-manager types that don't produce anything besides TPS reports.
Note: I know that the article was about the UK, but things aren't any better over here in the colonies. Our school system needs reform, and I don't mean the "No Child Gets Ahead" act.
I signed up to serve as a Networking Troubleshooter, but when they handed me an M-16, I realized that they had a different definition of "Troubleshooter" than I was used to.
I think you can broaden your question to be "Has ANYTHING not taken flak from green groups?"
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