I hear that. Once things go to a committee, you are actaully better off explaining your project to a brain-dead hamster.
I suppose it should surprise me why so many idiots got into computer security, but since it is so complex and easy to bullshit, and only a qualified person can tell that they dont know what they are talking about, that it actually ISNT a surprise. And if they make sure nobody around them is competant, then nobody will even know they have been hacked.
well, if your useless website even has a peripheral relation to Linux, Apple, or a baseless complaint about Microsoft, that chance of being on/. (not./ as the poster put) goes up to about 90%...
1. the OEM is probably paying a bulk charge based on estimated number of machines sold: ie. they are paying MS so much for approximately 5000 machines, rather than 5031 machines. Its just easier to approximate than keep track.
So, in effect, your single copy of Windows doesnt cost Dell more or less either way. What DOES cost Dell is paying some Support person to sit on the phone with some whacko who has a hair up his butt about MS.
2. Since you are getting a faster computer with Windows for less money than a slower computer without, how do you figure you are paying a Microsoft tax? If anything, you are choosing to pay an Apple/Linux tax.
3. If you arent going to use the Windows license, just sell it on eBay. Or send it to me: just make sure you get XP Pro.
ya, it sounded like the final phone call from somebody who got dumped to me, too. He was just venting, and probably quit over some personal defeat regarding a strategy issue.
thats funny, have a whole big network that runs on nothing but MS products. It seems to me like it works... maybe Im imagining it?
Its like anything else. There are good network designs, and there are bad. I have seen good Netware networks, and realy bad ones. Just like NT. There are bad ones, and there are the ones I am involved in.
If you are on an NT network that functions poorly, your netadmins just suck.
I think its surprising that someone like this can be so fundamentally wrong about software, but when you are so close to the subject it is probably difficult to have any perspective.
To pick just one thing, however, I would have to object to him saying MS should start selling 'components', ie selling Word instead of Office, or a web server instead of Windows. Sorry, man, but that has been done before. That kind of thinking is exactly what made Windows and Office successful; rather than having to go out and purchase a hodge-podge of products to get things done, you could go and get the MS 'swiss army knife'.
For example, my company buys Office. Some people only use Word, some use Access, some use Excel a lot. But the beauty of it is that, with one product purchase, just about all our user's needs are covered.
It may be cheaper for Bobby the college student to just purchase Word since he will never use Access, but when you are a company that needs to provide an application for a thousand users, its nice to have a single purchase cover so much ground.
Likewise with servers. Maybe I will be setting up a server as a web server, or a file/print server, or whatever. But they are all built on a single platform, which makes it easier to come in and fix; if an IIS server is having connectivity issues, I troubleshoot it the same way I would any other NT Server.
Sadly, this guy just sounds like he is venting, and doesnt even have valid points. The vagueness of the whole thing just sounds like consultant-speak- i.e. I dont know how you are doing things, but you are doing them wrong.
Sure, somebody sending an email from their pc wouldnt be affected, but what about a corporate email server that sends out thousands of emails per day?
Also, what about the ISP's email server you are probably connecting to with your POP3 account?
Kudos to MS for trying to find a technological solution to stop spam. Its just a shame our asshole lawmakers couldnt do it, or even enforce already existing anti-junk fax laws (which should apply to email).
I could never figure out why instead of replacing the vote counting machines they didnt just replace the ballot booths with machines that punch the ballot for you.
it could have been really slick, too, with a touch-screen, pictures, and everything. Then, you just touch who you want to vote for and page down for the next selection.
At the end of balloting, it shows you a list of who you voted for and asks you to confirm. Once you hit [VOTE], it just prints out your ballot, you hand it to the vote judge, and thats it. No changes to the system required.
Probably too intelligent, tho. Good solutions dont make as much money as bad ones.
But the value of anything - a "tool" included - is greater if it has other aesthetic qualities; fun, style, feels-like-someone-cared-about-designing-it
sounds like you are looking for some kind of warm, fuzzy feeling from your computer. Me, I go for quality parts in my computers; thats why I build them myself. Apple gives you no such control over your hardware, having driven every third-party Apple-compatible vendor away with their monopolistic practices.
And they still are: http://news.com.com/2100-1040-983350.html
However , my Dell laptop is the best laptop Ive ever owned, and I have had many. I would say that whoever designs for Dell really cares about what they are doing; so your statement just sounds uninformed.it reflects someone's passion for creating
Huh? Oh, I see. The superflous hundreds of dollars charged over the cost of a PC is because Apple is making ART, not computers. Ok, I get it... ?
Anyway, I've had the same computer case for about 4 years, because I just replace the guts. I could care less about the aestetics of it (although it is a nice case). Overpaying for underpowered equipment is a luxury for people making much more money than me, I suppose.
Watch your language. Make sure you mean what you say./rant.
Sorry man, I didnt mean to disparage your lifestyle. Theres nothing wrong with being gay; I have a few homosexual friends, but they arent into being as politically correct as you are, or hypersensitive about it. I guess I should have said effeminate instead of gay.
however, since Mac IS the prefered computer of the gay community, that comment shouldn't have caused such a big reaction. And that isnt a flip comment, I used to work in a store that sold PCs and Macs, and was located in a community with a high percentage of gay people.
Yeah? Ever suggest to them that they might trade in for a Honda? See what you get. In some circles you'd better duck fast, friends notwithstanding.
I dont think you know too many people with Harleys. In fact, they were talking about some of the new bikes coming out. Honda makes some really nice bikes, but I think you are thinking about 'crotch rockets' rather than cruisers. No, I dont think they would want to go full time on a sport bike, but you can hardly ride a few thousand miles on one of those. Now a Honda Valkyrie Rune, however... thats a nice bike; I dont think anyone would be mind riding one of those!
You obviously cannot see that m$ could have a responsible policy on using GPL'd software without banning it, can you?
what kind of policy can they possibly have that will work, brainiac? That sounds like the baseless logic of a habitual complainer to me.
Imagine this: you have a company with thousands of programmers, making millions of lines of code a day. In this company, you will NOT allow the code they are writing (and you are paying for) outside of the company.
Enter, if you will, into this scenario a group of products with a code base that, if you use it, you are legally bound to release your code (which you dont want to do).
Now, how do you assure that these thousands of programmers do not, through either laziness or thinking it will be better, or forced deadlines, or whatever, are not tempted to use any of the code that you dont want them to?
If you can solve this problem, you can apply that anser to millions of other things, because getting people to do what you tell them to is a problem that plagues every large group of people.
but ya, I see your point. T-W has a long line of fuck ups. However, just because you buy a ticket on the Titanic doesnt mean you made the ship sink.
I said long ago AOL was going down- it should be blatantly obvious to anyone. AOL is primarily based on modems (being an ISP actually came into their business rather late). But being just a content provider on the internet isnt very lucrative; ask Yahoo, or the tons of other supposed 'portals'.
Needing a portal to the internet is like needing a doorway to the Sahara.
But, the main reason AOL is finally failing is because instead of trying to move into faster connections, like cable or dsl, they stuck with modems. Hell, I still get a few nice DVD cases per week from them, trying to get me to buy into AOL.
Of course, its not entirely their fault that they couldnt move into the faster connections, since both the cable companies and the baby bells have vast experience in anti-competitive tactics. They are really more like the dinosaurs; they are to big and slow to adapt to changing circumstances, and are dying off to make room for something else.
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I suppose it should surprise me why so many idiots got into computer security, but since it is so complex and easy to bullshit, and only a qualified person can tell that they dont know what they are talking about, that it actually ISNT a surprise. And if they make sure nobody around them is competant, then nobody will even know they have been hacked.
well, if your useless website even has a peripheral relation to Linux, Apple, or a baseless complaint about Microsoft, that chance of being on /. (not ./ as the poster put) goes up to about 90%...
Consumer routers that do NAT are being marketted, for some reason, as firewalls.
Its a good thing their NICs are good, otherwise they would have gotten 100 points at fuckedcompany.com a long time ago.
welcome to slashdot
1. the OEM is probably paying a bulk charge based on estimated number of machines sold: ie. they are paying MS so much for approximately 5000 machines, rather than 5031 machines. Its just easier to approximate than keep track. So, in effect, your single copy of Windows doesnt cost Dell more or less either way. What DOES cost Dell is paying some Support person to sit on the phone with some whacko who has a hair up his butt about MS. 2. Since you are getting a faster computer with Windows for less money than a slower computer without, how do you figure you are paying a Microsoft tax? If anything, you are choosing to pay an Apple/Linux tax. 3. If you arent going to use the Windows license, just sell it on eBay. Or send it to me: just make sure you get XP Pro.
just because it is generally held to be so doesnt mean it is. Fair Use is not covered by common law, and is open to interpretation.
The DMCA, however, forbids reverse engineering for the purpose of circumventing digitally protected media.
Morally, I agree with what this guy did. However, by posting this he is getting himself into a world of sh*t.
I thought they were talking about "The Gimp" from Pulp Fiction.
things that NDIIP catalogues from the distant past will one day be reported as 'news' on slashdot.
the auction on eBay claims that Slashdot is an "important and popular online community". When did anything said here become important?
You can read Knowledge Base article 299942, HOW TO: Enable Telnet Server in Windows 2000 Server, at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=299942
for more details.
...as if 99% of what is posted as 'news' here isnt...
ya, it sounded like the final phone call from somebody who got dumped to me, too. He was just venting, and probably quit over some personal defeat regarding a strategy issue.
Its like anything else. There are good network designs, and there are bad. I have seen good Netware networks, and realy bad ones. Just like NT. There are bad ones, and there are the ones I am involved in.
If you are on an NT network that functions poorly, your netadmins just suck.
hey, nothing wrong with that. Why let a good idea go to waste just because the person with the idea can't capitalize on it?
To pick just one thing, however, I would have to object to him saying MS should start selling 'components', ie selling Word instead of Office, or a web server instead of Windows. Sorry, man, but that has been done before. That kind of thinking is exactly what made Windows and Office successful; rather than having to go out and purchase a hodge-podge of products to get things done, you could go and get the MS 'swiss army knife'.
For example, my company buys Office. Some people only use Word, some use Access, some use Excel a lot. But the beauty of it is that, with one product purchase, just about all our user's needs are covered.
It may be cheaper for Bobby the college student to just purchase Word since he will never use Access, but when you are a company that needs to provide an application for a thousand users, its nice to have a single purchase cover so much ground.
Likewise with servers. Maybe I will be setting up a server as a web server, or a file/print server, or whatever. But they are all built on a single platform, which makes it easier to come in and fix; if an IIS server is having connectivity issues, I troubleshoot it the same way I would any other NT Server.
Sadly, this guy just sounds like he is venting, and doesnt even have valid points. The vagueness of the whole thing just sounds like consultant-speak- i.e. I dont know how you are doing things, but you are doing them wrong.
Also, what about the ISP's email server you are probably connecting to with your POP3 account?
Kudos to MS for trying to find a technological solution to stop spam. Its just a shame our asshole lawmakers couldnt do it, or even enforce already existing anti-junk fax laws (which should apply to email).
well, I dont think watching bricks dry is going to captivate me. I dont watch the grass grow on my lawn, either.
I guess we'll just have to make our green-house effect the old fashioned way. Can we send Texas to Mars?
it could have been really slick, too, with a touch-screen, pictures, and everything. Then, you just touch who you want to vote for and page down for the next selection.
At the end of balloting, it shows you a list of who you voted for and asks you to confirm. Once you hit [VOTE], it just prints out your ballot, you hand it to the vote judge, and thats it. No changes to the system required.
Probably too intelligent, tho. Good solutions dont make as much money as bad ones.
sounds like you are looking for some kind of warm, fuzzy feeling from your computer. Me, I go for quality parts in my computers; thats why I build them myself. Apple gives you no such control over your hardware, having driven every third-party Apple-compatible vendor away with their monopolistic practices.
And they still are: http://news.com.com/2100-1040-983350.html
However , my Dell laptop is the best laptop Ive ever owned, and I have had many. I would say that whoever designs for Dell really cares about what they are doing; so your statement just sounds uninformed. it reflects someone's passion for creating
Huh? Oh, I see. The superflous hundreds of dollars charged over the cost of a PC is because Apple is making ART, not computers. Ok, I get it... ?
Anyway, I've had the same computer case for about 4 years, because I just replace the guts. I could care less about the aestetics of it (although it is a nice case). Overpaying for underpowered equipment is a luxury for people making much more money than me, I suppose.
Watch your language. Make sure you mean what you say. /rant.
Sorry man, I didnt mean to disparage your lifestyle. Theres nothing wrong with being gay; I have a few homosexual friends, but they arent into being as politically correct as you are, or hypersensitive about it. I guess I should have said effeminate instead of gay.
however, since Mac IS the prefered computer of the gay community, that comment shouldn't have caused such a big reaction. And that isnt a flip comment, I used to work in a store that sold PCs and Macs, and was located in a community with a high percentage of gay people.
Yeah? Ever suggest to them that they might trade in for a Honda? See what you get. In some circles you'd better duck fast, friends notwithstanding.
I dont think you know too many people with Harleys. In fact, they were talking about some of the new bikes coming out. Honda makes some really nice bikes, but I think you are thinking about 'crotch rockets' rather than cruisers. No, I dont think they would want to go full time on a sport bike, but you can hardly ride a few thousand miles on one of those. Now a Honda Valkyrie Rune, however... thats a nice bike; I dont think anyone would be mind riding one of those!
what kind of policy can they possibly have that will work, brainiac? That sounds like the baseless logic of a habitual complainer to me.
Imagine this: you have a company with thousands of programmers, making millions of lines of code a day. In this company, you will NOT allow the code they are writing (and you are paying for) outside of the company.
Enter, if you will, into this scenario a group of products with a code base that, if you use it, you are legally bound to release your code (which you dont want to do).
Now, how do you assure that these thousands of programmers do not, through either laziness or thinking it will be better, or forced deadlines, or whatever, are not tempted to use any of the code that you dont want them to?
If you can solve this problem, you can apply that anser to millions of other things, because getting people to do what you tell them to is a problem that plagues every large group of people.
Gets a definite lock on "Most Boring Game of 2003". Wow, its only February and we have a winner!
Both will go out of business quickly
slow down there. Atari was hosed LONG before T-W.
but ya, I see your point. T-W has a long line of fuck ups. However, just because you buy a ticket on the Titanic doesnt mean you made the ship sink.
I said long ago AOL was going down- it should be blatantly obvious to anyone. AOL is primarily based on modems (being an ISP actually came into their business rather late). But being just a content provider on the internet isnt very lucrative; ask Yahoo, or the tons of other supposed 'portals'.
Needing a portal to the internet is like needing a doorway to the Sahara.
But, the main reason AOL is finally failing is because instead of trying to move into faster connections, like cable or dsl, they stuck with modems. Hell, I still get a few nice DVD cases per week from them, trying to get me to buy into AOL.
Of course, its not entirely their fault that they couldnt move into the faster connections, since both the cable companies and the baby bells have vast experience in anti-competitive tactics. They are really more like the dinosaurs; they are to big and slow to adapt to changing circumstances, and are dying off to make room for something else.