Please take a few english courses, pick up some analytical writing skills.
I have NO FUCKING IDEA what this story is about. Is it a guy selling fake IDs to bypass airport security? And what the hell does it have to do with CourtTV?
And a terrorist is going to steal what from my wallet? What does National ID have to do with my business' lobby?
Seriously. Slashdot english standards have always been lacking, but this is a new low. This is fucking gibberish nonsense.
I have no idea what you are talking about. Slow down, take a deep breath, wait for your knee to stop jerking, then write.
Quick, alert Linus and the rest of the kernel maintainers and planners. Also, better not spread around the road map for Linux so Ballmer won't look like a fool.
That's just the kernel. Where is GNU/Linux, the whole OS, headed? To the desktop? Server room? Embedded devices? Ballmers statement is pretty much true. When will mysql be an enterprise class database server? When will X have *good* 3d support, and be a viable gaming platform?
There is no real direction to Linux, because anyone can do with it what they want. It's both Linux' strength and weakness. The freedom is nice, the lack of focus, and tendancy for people to get bored and abandon a project/distro, is not.
An IPv6 address is no hairier than a MAC address is now, still a pain.
DNS becomes crucial. It's a half assed system now, so it needs to work. Everyone will probably get a range rather than a single IP you might say 10AC.stratjakt.comcast.net or something like that.
This of course, is a reason we wont have to worry soon. My ISP makes oodles of dough tacking on another 20 bucks a month per leased IP. Wanna play Xbox live? You need another IP. 20 bucks. They're lobbying so hard to make NAT a crime, you think they're going to let IPv6 in without kicking, biting, and dragging their feet?
A copyright holder can do whatever he wants with his copyright. Imagine you write a hit song, and hold the copyright to it. Elton John wants to perform it at the grammies - you decide to charge him a half million dollars to do so..
You find out that some kids garage band played it at their high school talent show - you can look the other way, grant them a 0 cost license.. Whatever you want.
You're thinking of trademarks. You can't trademark a word unless you plan on defending it (or else some jackass would trademark every word in the english language by now)
I also need to spend hundreds of dollars on a crappy cell phone with a crappy camera.
This is just the product for me.
My employer makes me carry a kyocera "smart" phone that crashes when it rings and has about a 15 minute battery life. Fuck convergence. All-in-one devices inevitably do nothing well.
Is that code for non-intuitive, hard to use for first timers, full of superflouous and badly labelled options, and a sparse, out of date manual written by someone who barely speaks english?
When I hear "this is more linuxy", that's what I think of. I mean, is slackware not more "linuxy" than lindows or redhat?
For the record, I use slackware, but I can't see the desire for an aggravating PDA. The main reason to buy one is as an orginizational tool to make one more productive.
These articles make me laugh. Please, all you "computer experts", go out and buy the most expensive, cutting edge hardware you can find. You absolutely need to spend $5000 to play video games, don't doubt the marketin^H^H^H detailed articles validity.
These folks are the ones who piss away their money, so folks like me can get useless and obsolete hardware, like the terribly out-of-date Radeon 9700, for cheap cheap cheap.
A mac and a PC are two different worlds. Noone's going to be swayed one way or another because someone ran some application 2% faster on one or the other.
It's all horseshit, either machine is faster than any normal desktop user will need any time soon, and the "power user" who needs the extra speed knows what he needs it for, which would be either a PC or Mac specific application, in which case his choice is already made.
People who want Mac's will buy the mac, people who want a PC will buy the PC. These benchmarking articles exist only to soothe the insecure folks who worry that they may indeed not have bought the "fastest desktop computer".
CSS is an optional encryption on DVDs, if a DVD isnt encrypted, you can play it back.
This excludes virtually every hollywood release, of course. But arent we boycotting them anyways, to make them bow to the mighty spending power of the unemployed IT worker?
I had four of them back in the day, wish they were still around. They were cheap and abundant at one time (right about when everyone sold their c64s and bought their PCs). Like 20 bucks and you have a great display to plug your vcr or NES into.
They all died on me prematurely though. I'm surprised yours still works. I have a 20 year old TV that still works like new, I dunno what the deal with those monitors was.
When you say that you make me realize who I'm talking to. Someone who has bought the marketing hype lock, stock, and barrel. Has nothing useful to do with his computer, so he really wouldn't know what's truly "obsolete'.
I have two 1 Ghz celeron machines, one for each kid. In little shuttle FV-25 mainboards with Radeon 9200s for video. As far as gaming goes - they play everything. As far as anything else, well, they do that too. The tualatin core doubled the cache for the P3s, so a tualitan celeron has as much cache as a coppermine P3 did, but runs faster.
I have a P2 266 I use as a gateway/proxy. I have a 633mhz celeron I use as a samba PDC. I have a 386 laptop I use as a dumb terminal, and sit it next to me displaying man pages and howtos as I code or tinker. I have a pentium 90 based laptop (an old toughbook) I take on site with me.
Oh well, someone has to buy the shit expensive for me to be able to get it second hand cheap. Kudo's to all who've ordered a P4 Xtreme 3.2ghz to replace their "obsolete" 2.8 ghz machine, and to all those who threw their Ti4600 in the trash to get a (slightly faster) Radeon 9700. This means that 6 months down the road, I get the stuff dirt cheap.
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Please take a few english courses, pick up some analytical writing skills.
I have NO FUCKING IDEA what this story is about. Is it a guy selling fake IDs to bypass airport security? And what the hell does it have to do with CourtTV?
And a terrorist is going to steal what from my wallet? What does National ID have to do with my business' lobby?
Seriously. Slashdot english standards have always been lacking, but this is a new low. This is fucking gibberish nonsense.
I have no idea what you are talking about. Slow down, take a deep breath, wait for your knee to stop jerking, then write.
Spit the dick out.
"New Scientist is reporting that concerns over deteriorating equipment on ISS."
Huh? If you don't speak english, just go ahead and submit in mandarin, or whatever your native tongue is. We don't read the articles anyways.
Thanks in advance.
Not only will the gay uncle know what linux is, he'll be running it on his new Macintosh. The priest too.
Quick, alert Linus and the rest of the kernel maintainers and planners. Also, better not spread around the road map for Linux so Ballmer won't look like a fool.
That's just the kernel. Where is GNU/Linux, the whole OS, headed? To the desktop? Server room? Embedded devices? Ballmers statement is pretty much true. When will mysql be an enterprise class database server? When will X have *good* 3d support, and be a viable gaming platform?
There is no real direction to Linux, because anyone can do with it what they want. It's both Linux' strength and weakness. The freedom is nice, the lack of focus, and tendancy for people to get bored and abandon a project/distro, is not.
Yeah investors are stupid, they just give people money without any thought or research into the corporations they're investing in.
Thats how they make money, by being stupid and knowing nothing about the fields in which they invest.
I can guarantee you that the average NASDAQ broker knows more about technology than you do.
Gates highlights improvements in Office 2003 over Office 2000 during the product launch!
It's arma-fucking-geddon!
An IPv6 address is no hairier than a MAC address is now, still a pain.
DNS becomes crucial. It's a half assed system now, so it needs to work. Everyone will probably get a range rather than a single IP you might say 10AC.stratjakt.comcast.net or something like that.
This of course, is a reason we wont have to worry soon. My ISP makes oodles of dough tacking on another 20 bucks a month per leased IP. Wanna play Xbox live? You need another IP. 20 bucks. They're lobbying so hard to make NAT a crime, you think they're going to let IPv6 in without kicking, biting, and dragging their feet?
128 bits = 32 hex digits, not impossible..
But with IPv6, the IP address itself becomes redundant and we basically start relying on DNS like services..
So you'd say "this machine is 12.A4.6F.stratjakt" or something of the such.
Solution? Rewrite shittily designed P2P application.
This is like a million macs all running linux?
Impressive.
How would one go about calculating how many orders of magnitude gayer this is than a single G5?
Gayest cluster since "Queer Eye" hit the air.
WTG U of A(nus).
Nope.
A copyright holder can do whatever he wants with his copyright. Imagine you write a hit song, and hold the copyright to it. Elton John wants to perform it at the grammies - you decide to charge him a half million dollars to do so..
You find out that some kids garage band played it at their high school talent show - you can look the other way, grant them a 0 cost license.. Whatever you want.
You're thinking of trademarks. You can't trademark a word unless you plan on defending it (or else some jackass would trademark every word in the english language by now)
They can't have it both ways - they cant tell me "i'm cool" but then tell Boeing they are not cool.
Sure they can.
SCO look at the stock prices and the pump and dump!
It's all a big constiporacie!
And linux is Free and I think that all businesses are going to use linux so microsoft is behind all of this!
IBM is going to destroy these stupid SCO guys!
No
The new color smartphone, with a built in M515
Fuck your cheap $20 m100 garbage, that doesn't count as "smart".
Nice troll, however.
I really need to take pictures with my phone.
Grainy, low res, out-of-focus, blurry shaky pictures.
I also need to spend hundreds of dollars on a crappy cell phone with a crappy camera.
This is just the product for me.
My employer makes me carry a kyocera "smart" phone that crashes when it rings and has about a 15 minute battery life. Fuck convergence. All-in-one devices inevitably do nothing well.
Is that code for non-intuitive, hard to use for first timers, full of superflouous and badly labelled options, and a sparse, out of date manual written by someone who barely speaks english?
When I hear "this is more linuxy", that's what I think of. I mean, is slackware not more "linuxy" than lindows or redhat?
For the record, I use slackware, but I can't see the desire for an aggravating PDA. The main reason to buy one is as an orginizational tool to make one more productive.
thats long!
What is this, high school?
These articles make me laugh. Please, all you "computer experts", go out and buy the most expensive, cutting edge hardware you can find. You absolutely need to spend $5000 to play video games, don't doubt the marketin^H^H^H detailed articles validity.
These folks are the ones who piss away their money, so folks like me can get useless and obsolete hardware, like the terribly out-of-date Radeon 9700, for cheap cheap cheap.
Think when they filed it 7 years ago, it was probably a part of their vision for MSN.com.
Like you said, it's pretty useless and obsolete by now.
Which is a great thing about the patent process for software. Once its granted, the invention is likely obsolete.
What the hell is this "MS patents weather report" shit?
This patent is about a very specific server-side customization scheme. Somewhat like cookies on the server-side.
Bunch of moronic zealots. "MS did something it has to be evil!"
Frankly, who gives a shit?
A mac and a PC are two different worlds. Noone's going to be swayed one way or another because someone ran some application 2% faster on one or the other.
It's all horseshit, either machine is faster than any normal desktop user will need any time soon, and the "power user" who needs the extra speed knows what he needs it for, which would be either a PC or Mac specific application, in which case his choice is already made.
People who want Mac's will buy the mac, people who want a PC will buy the PC. These benchmarking articles exist only to soothe the insecure folks who worry that they may indeed not have bought the "fastest desktop computer".
Everyone and their pet monkey is going to want to run an mp3 downloading service now.
Do we really need an article on each and every new startup?
How long does freeze dried cat last?
I hope this guy doesnt starve.
CSS is an optional encryption on DVDs, if a DVD isnt encrypted, you can play it back.
This excludes virtually every hollywood release, of course. But arent we boycotting them anyways, to make them bow to the mighty spending power of the unemployed IT worker?
I had four of them back in the day, wish they were still around. They were cheap and abundant at one time (right about when everyone sold their c64s and bought their PCs). Like 20 bucks and you have a great display to plug your vcr or NES into.
They all died on me prematurely though. I'm surprised yours still works. I have a 20 year old TV that still works like new, I dunno what the deal with those monitors was.
When you say that you make me realize who I'm talking to. Someone who has bought the marketing hype lock, stock, and barrel. Has nothing useful to do with his computer, so he really wouldn't know what's truly "obsolete'.
I have two 1 Ghz celeron machines, one for each kid. In little shuttle FV-25 mainboards with Radeon 9200s for video. As far as gaming goes - they play everything. As far as anything else, well, they do that too. The tualatin core doubled the cache for the P3s, so a tualitan celeron has as much cache as a coppermine P3 did, but runs faster.
I have a P2 266 I use as a gateway/proxy. I have a 633mhz celeron I use as a samba PDC. I have a 386 laptop I use as a dumb terminal, and sit it next to me displaying man pages and howtos as I code or tinker. I have a pentium 90 based laptop (an old toughbook) I take on site with me.
Oh well, someone has to buy the shit expensive for me to be able to get it second hand cheap. Kudo's to all who've ordered a P4 Xtreme 3.2ghz to replace their "obsolete" 2.8 ghz machine, and to all those who threw their Ti4600 in the trash to get a (slightly faster) Radeon 9700. This means that 6 months down the road, I get the stuff dirt cheap.