I can't think of the last time I used "reply" over "reply all" when it was an email with multiple people. If it's a shitty broadcast email, delete. If it's a conversation with multiple people, I want to email them all. Just pay attention to who is in the to and cc fields if you are so sensitive.
Apple MacBook Pro
15-inch: 2.53GHz (1440x900 -- Optional 1680x1050 still not 1080p and costs $100)
Intel Core i5
4GB Memory
500GB hard drive
SD card slot
Built-in 8- to 9-hour battery
Intel HD Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M with 256MB
$1,999.00
Dell Studio 15
Intel Core i5-430m
4GB Memory
500GB 7200RPM HD
ATI Mobility Radeon 5470 1GB
15.6" HD 1080p High Brightness LED display
85 Whr 9-cell battery
$1,114.00
screen - winner Dell (even with the optional upgrade to the mac)
vid card - basically tie, slight edge to dell
memory - tie
cpu - tie
battery - tie
HD - tie
cost - Dell is still 965$ cheaper with the screen upgrade to the mac to make them as similar as possible.
I think it's clear which is better. You pay almost double for the mac and get less. I would like to switch but they just never make it viable. $100 premium is one thing. This is just insane.
Back to cars... Does GM repair recalls for free? Sure. But if your new radio doesn't interface with hour Vette, you buy the harness. When Windows is defeated by a new loophole that only occurs from connecting to the web, who's fault is it?
You can always remove your 3rd party radio in your car. Go back to the OEM one. You can stop browsing through AOL using your Intel NIC, get MSN service and only browse MS websites, too.
I think a better analogy between windows and the internet would be like a car and roads, or cars and tires. Not a car and some extraneous piece of equipment. Chances are that your windows box is connected to the internet and that's all it takes for it to be compromised.
If your car couldn't move, and the dealer just says, "It's your car now. You can pay us to make it work." you'd be pretty mad. Especially when you have to pay that cost over and over.
Why not just pump some of that ocean water from that other story a few weeks back around your house? Just need like 3 miles of copper pipe instead of 25 feet.
ORN: A lot of companies have been using OpenSSH in their products (Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Apple, GNU/Linux vendors, etc.). Did they give anything back, like donations or hardware?
Henning Brauer: Nobody ever gave us anything back. A plethora of vendors ship OpenSSH--commercial Unix vendors (basically all of them), all of the Linux distributors, and lots of hardware vendors (like HP in their switches)--but none of them seem to care; none of them ever gave us anything back. All of them should very well know that quality software doesn't "just happen," but needs some funding. Yet, they don't help at all.
This seems like a stupid comment. You do work and the license it under the BSD licence. You cant complain that these companies comply 100% with the license. If you want money for it, start a company to develop that software and then sell it. You can't say "software should be free" and then complain that others dont pay for/contribute to it.
No one seems to know how it works... This is what happens with Vonage:
You sign up for service. There are about 7 different warnings in different colors and font sizes telling you that you need to give them your address info that you want 911 to get when you call them. You cant sign up for Vonage without seeing those warnings many times.
If you opt in, they will figure out where you live and put that info into a database that a 911 operator sees when you call there. If you opt out, you get a message telling you that you opted out when you call 911. There's no intentional misleading going on whatsoever.
Zip codes arent that useful. You can live in NY and get basically the same service from a call center in CA. The address is just used so that if you call and drop the phone or something, they know where you are. And actually, if you opt in, but there's a problem with finding your address on their maps, they do use zip code to somewhat narrow down where your call gets routed until the address problem is sorted out.
So, now people complain that "software should be free!" which means that programmer time is without value. Then they go and say that they dont pay enough in bounties to make it worth their while? That doesnt make sense. If their time is worthless, then any amount of money paid for work on OSS is more than they deserve.
The problem is simple. Probably everyone here on slashdot wants a mac. We all think OSX is a cool OS and we all want to play with/use it. But we cant justify spending so much money on a system that's really already out of date, so we bitch. Telling people to "buy an x86 system" or whatever doesnt help because that's not what we want.
This whole incident is why software should be 100% free. Had BitKeeper truly been opensource Tridge (or anyone, for that matter) could have simply forked it and kernel development would have continued on. All this whole incident proved is that when your development is determined by the whims of a single entity you run a very significant chance of getting burned.
That's not what this teaches us.
It's that when you rely on non free software that you refuse to pay for you run the risk of being burned. If Linus and all of the developers had purchased a legitimate copy instead of relying on the charity of a for profit corporation, this would never have happened.
Instead of worrying about a failsafe stash of code, you should probably be assembling a redundant transcontinental wireless network, completely independent from the major backbones. Impossible? I know.
Another thing about WoW. I had a problem where they refused to cancel my account for a month after I cancelled it online. They basically said that cancelling it online isn't good enough to actually cancel the account. You need to call them and make sure they close it and it probably wouldnt be a bad idea to get some form of receipt.
Or maybe when the news itself is copyrighted, and they start using copyright as a tool of censorship, then you'll reconsider? It's all just bits and bytes. Arbitrarily deciding that some arrangements of 1s and 0s is music that should land you in jail if you copy it, but that another is current news that it's immoral to censor is somewhat dumb.
While some may agree with your premise, your argument is bad. Apply the same logic to some other thing. Say pictures. Why are some pictures like pornography censored, and others like pictures of national landmarks not? It's all just pictures, right?
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A brick can take off without a runway also. Perhaps we should register them.
I can't think of the last time I used "reply" over "reply all" when it was an email with multiple people. If it's a shitty broadcast email, delete. If it's a conversation with multiple people, I want to email them all. Just pay attention to who is in the to and cc fields if you are so sensitive.
Already have fourteen hundred billion in deficit. What's another few tens of billions?
Apple finally invented a shitty, drm'd version of apt! Hooray!
Built in update on linux? Nope, doesn't exist.
Apple MacBook Pro
15-inch: 2.53GHz (1440x900 -- Optional 1680x1050 still not 1080p and costs $100)
Intel Core i5
4GB Memory
500GB hard drive
SD card slot
Built-in 8- to 9-hour battery
Intel HD Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M with 256MB
$1,999.00
Dell Studio 15
Intel Core i5-430m
4GB Memory
500GB 7200RPM HD
ATI Mobility Radeon 5470 1GB
15.6" HD 1080p High Brightness LED display
85 Whr 9-cell battery
$1,114.00
screen - winner Dell (even with the optional upgrade to the mac)
vid card - basically tie, slight edge to dell
memory - tie
cpu - tie
battery - tie
HD - tie
cost - Dell is still 965$ cheaper with the screen upgrade to the mac to make them as similar as possible.
I think it's clear which is better. You pay almost double for the mac and get less. I would like to switch but they just never make it viable. $100 premium is one thing. This is just insane.
If you don't like the product they are offering at the price they are offering it at, don't buy it.
Yea, maybe. But this doesn't do that. Newspapers will still be able to be biased in which stories they print. This is a dumb idea.
Or by the time they run out, there's an alternate energy source and then all of our oil is worthless.
YEA!
It should be called an i (for intel) Book!
long live the iBook!
Back to cars... Does GM repair recalls for free? Sure. But if your new radio doesn't interface with hour Vette, you buy the harness. When Windows is defeated by a new loophole that only occurs from connecting to the web, who's fault is it?
You can always remove your 3rd party radio in your car. Go back to the OEM one. You can stop browsing through AOL using your Intel NIC, get MSN service and only browse MS websites, too.
I think a better analogy between windows and the internet would be like a car and roads, or cars and tires. Not a car and some extraneous piece of equipment. Chances are that your windows box is connected to the internet and that's all it takes for it to be compromised. If your car couldn't move, and the dealer just says, "It's your car now. You can pay us to make it work." you'd be pretty mad. Especially when you have to pay that cost over and over.
I used IM for a very brief period and got sick of everyone expecting an answer __right__ __now__. So I no longer use it. Ever.
Man, you must be real interesting to talk to on the phone or, god help us, face to face.
Why not just pump some of that ocean water from that other story a few weeks back around your house? Just need like 3 miles of copper pipe instead of 25 feet.
ORN: A lot of companies have been using OpenSSH in their products (Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Apple, GNU/Linux vendors, etc.). Did they give anything back, like donations or hardware?
Henning Brauer: Nobody ever gave us anything back. A plethora of vendors ship OpenSSH--commercial Unix vendors (basically all of them), all of the Linux distributors, and lots of hardware vendors (like HP in their switches)--but none of them seem to care; none of them ever gave us anything back. All of them should very well know that quality software doesn't "just happen," but needs some funding. Yet, they don't help at all.
This seems like a stupid comment. You do work and the license it under the BSD licence. You cant complain that these companies comply 100% with the license. If you want money for it, start a company to develop that software and then sell it. You can't say "software should be free" and then complain that others dont pay for/contribute to it.
No one seems to know how it works... This is what happens with Vonage:
You sign up for service. There are about 7 different warnings in different colors and font sizes telling you that you need to give them your address info that you want 911 to get when you call them. You cant sign up for Vonage without seeing those warnings many times.
If you opt in, they will figure out where you live and put that info into a database that a 911 operator sees when you call there. If you opt out, you get a message telling you that you opted out when you call 911. There's no intentional misleading going on whatsoever.
Zip codes arent that useful. You can live in NY and get basically the same service from a call center in CA. The address is just used so that if you call and drop the phone or something, they know where you are. And actually, if you opt in, but there's a problem with finding your address on their maps, they do use zip code to somewhat narrow down where your call gets routed until the address problem is sorted out.
So, now people complain that "software should be free!" which means that programmer time is without value. Then they go and say that they dont pay enough in bounties to make it worth their while? That doesnt make sense. If their time is worthless, then any amount of money paid for work on OSS is more than they deserve.
The problem is simple. Probably everyone here on slashdot wants a mac. We all think OSX is a cool OS and we all want to play with/use it. But we cant justify spending so much money on a system that's really already out of date, so we bitch. Telling people to "buy an x86 system" or whatever doesnt help because that's not what we want.
When doing these comparisons, everyone always forgets one BIG cost: Windows.
Windows? No... Linux. And that's free.
This whole incident is why software should be 100% free. Had BitKeeper truly been opensource Tridge (or anyone, for that matter) could have simply forked it and kernel development would have continued on. All this whole incident proved is that when your development is determined by the whims of a single entity you run a very significant chance of getting burned.
That's not what this teaches us.
It's that when you rely on non free software that you refuse to pay for you run the risk of being burned. If Linus and all of the developers had purchased a legitimate copy instead of relying on the charity of a for profit corporation, this would never have happened.
Then why isnt there a "common" version where you can install, log in to the terminal, and then apt-get install whichever one you want from there?
Would make the basic install faster, right? And that way you only need one cd for both versions.
How long until we get "Wascaly Wabbit"?
Instead of worrying about a failsafe stash of code, you should probably be assembling a redundant transcontinental wireless network, completely independent from the major backbones. Impossible? I know.
:)
Impossible? Some of us would call it Ham Radio
Uhh... that was an iBook I believe, and IIRC that was around 1999-2000.
Another thing about WoW. I had a problem where they refused to cancel my account for a month after I cancelled it online. They basically said that cancelling it online isn't good enough to actually cancel the account. You need to call them and make sure they close it and it probably wouldnt be a bad idea to get some form of receipt.
Or maybe when the news itself is copyrighted, and they start using copyright as a tool of censorship, then you'll reconsider? It's all just bits and bytes. Arbitrarily deciding that some arrangements of 1s and 0s is music that should land you in jail if you copy it, but that another is current news that it's immoral to censor is somewhat dumb.
While some may agree with your premise, your argument is bad. Apply the same logic to some other thing. Say pictures. Why are some pictures like pornography censored, and others like pictures of national landmarks not? It's all just pictures, right?