A slightly off-topic comment on part of your comment:
Perhaps the script kiddies have a point when they say "you should be glad we pointed out your security holes." After all, would you rather have a mostly harmless script kiddie point out the security hole to you (without actually doing anything other than changing your webpage, and often even backing up your original page for you) than have the security hole remain open and undetected for truly malicious people, such as spammers, to exploit?
Re:Isn't this kind of hypocritical?
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I don't see the problem. All drivers run in kernel mode, so by your logic we shouldn't support 3d video cards, since that's just one more driver running as root we don't need.
If you wish to do so, you can spend an extra $50-$75 on a hardware modem. For those who want to spend the $50-$75 on something else, a WinModem/LinModem is a viable option.
As it happens, I just bought a USB scanner today (HP 4200c). I was thinking of getting a parallel port one, but the USB scanners were 2-3 times faster in all the benchmarks I've seen.
Well, because you want more people to be able to run Linux, of course.
Anyway, it's not broken. It just has offloaded more of the work to software, rather than hardware. It's not any more broken than software DVD decoding compared to hardware DVD decoding is.
Well, it that case, might as well ditch X. We don't want the type of people too ignorant to use a command line to use Linux. Ditch RPM and DEB, we don't want people too ignorant to compile their own software using Linux either.
As for nonwinmodems, the cheapest I've found is a US Robotics 33.6 for $50. The cheapest 56.6 nonwinmodem I've found is $95, compared to $20 for a winmodem. Most purchasers of sub-$800 PCs buy them because of the price, not because they have a preference as to what type of modem it has. As long as it gets them online, and saves them money, it's fine with them. I don't see a problem with that.
Tons of stuff is useful in USB. Not a modem or keyboard, of course, but USB digital cameras are nice (faster than parallel or serial port), USB gamepads are nice (you can daisy-chain 4 of them for multiplayer games), etc.
I don't see your logic. Virtually all sub-$800 PCs come with winmodems. They do so even though Linux doesn't support them. They will continue to do so even if Linux continues to not support them. The only difference is that there will be a large percentage of users who cannot use Linux, and will stick to win95 instead, since it lets their modem work.
Well, if you want Linux to become a desktop OS, as many people do, you must support Winmodems. An increasing number of PCs come with them. Nearly all sub-$800 PCs come with them. If you have no winmodem support, that's a huge chunk of the market that is not going to use Linux, no matter how good the rest of your OS is.
You make the mistaken assumption that just because something is in demands means that it will be coded and appear in 2.4. USB support has been in demand ever since the 2.0.x days, but I don't see any USB support worth mentioning in 2.2.x. Plug-n-Play is even older, wanted by many people (who wants to configure everything manually?), and still not done.
2.3 isn't 2.4's beta. At most, it's the alpha, more likely the pre-alpha. 2.4.0-pre will be the beta of 2.4 (just like 2.2.0-pre1 through -pre4 were the betas of 2.2). So, no, Linux 2.4 is not in beta yet.
The problem is that if the average person is allowed to get in on IPOs, they won't go up anymore. If all the stock is bought by slashdotters with no stock trading experience who are looking to sell out immediately (within the same day), there's no reason for the stock to go up in the first place. Everybody wants to sell, so the stock goes down.
The only reason IPOs go up is that people who are planning on holding on to the stock buy most of the IPO shares, not a bunch of slashdotters.
Yes, slashdot archives itself. After a certain period of time it converts the entire page to a threadless static HTML page (exactly like if you go to preferences and change your view mode to "flat"). It's nearly impossible to follow the discussion in the old pages, but at least all the comments are still there.
Is there any indication from any Important People(tm) when this bug in the kernel will be patched?
Re:Sure you have a choice. RBL exceptions.
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I'd have to pretty much agree with you. MAPS/RBL seems to be fairly responsible.
ORBS, on the other hand, sucks. I've had a bunch of my own mail get bounced by ORBS for various reasons, either because the mailserver I was using was open-relay or because the ORBS people happened to be in a bad mood.
I find the cure, in that case, worse than the problem.
Uhhh, yes, and most of them use 1000-millivolt volts, too. It's a definition: 8 bits is one byte.
No, it's not. It has come to be generally accepted, since nearly all (all?) computers now use 8-bit bytes, but "8 bits" is not the definition of "byte." Some of the old PDP computers used 10-bit bytes.
Well, Linus predicted 2.2.0 would come out around October 98, then "by Christmas," and it finally came out in January 99. Based on that track record, I'd predict 2.4.0 will come out around February 2000 or so.
Linux seems to follow the Microsoft release pattern: add six months to the predicted release date. Then, after a "final, stable" release, release 50 or so patches to fix bugs you didn't find before the release.
This Article on BBC news points out that the Internet generated over 300 billion in revenue and over 1.2 million jobs.
That's very little. Perhaps you don't realize that there are over 150 million jobs in the US, putting the Internet's share at under 1%. Just the oil industry (BP Amoco, Exxon, Mobil, Shell, etc.) generates a lot more than 300 billion in revenue, not to mention the rest of the non-Internet marketplace.
If they do not understand where we are going and do not line up the people (hackers) that are in a good position to understand what is going to work and what will not and purhaps make lots of money along the way. Then they are going to be that online trading house that failed in the 90's that no one can quite remember the name of.
The problem is that these "hackers" do not have a clue as to how the stock market works. Just because you can code C does not make you qualified to spend money that you cannot afford on a risky IPO that may or may not go up.
Sure, you could sue, but you wouldn't win. E*Trade has every right to refuse to let you in on the IPO if they feel you are not qualified to participate. Remember, they're supposed to try to prevent people from "flipping" the stock - i.e. buying at the IPO price and selling in the afternoon if the stock goes up. People with no stock trading experience and very little liquid net worth are much more likely to try to get their money out by flipping the stock. I don't see a problem with E*Trade's criteria.
How do you have a 31-hour playlist with only 1.03 gigabytes of MP3s? Even at 128kbps, 1.03 gigabytes only fits around 17.5 hours of music. If you want good quality music, push the bitrate up to 160 or 192 kbps, and you fit even less.
Read the headline, darnit. This is the third comment I've seen, on a supposedly technically literate site like slashdot of all places, which mistakenly assumes that "180 gigabits" means "180 GB." Since all modern desktop computers use 8-bit bytes, this penny-sized device would hold 22.5 gigs, not 180.
That's 180 gigabits, mind you. Nobody, even on slashdot, seems to be able to understand the distinction between gigabits and gigabytes. Divide gigabits by 8 to get gigabytes. This penny-size "CD-ROM" can hold 22.5 GB.
I'd have to disagree with that. Beavis and Butthead are funny for a while, but the show really has no point. Southpark, on the other hand, has a ton of satire thrown into nearly every show (and especially the movie). Satire of religion, censorship, the MPAA, presidents, police, etc.
The Simpsons are pretty good too, but I've been finding the new (last two seasons or so) episodes to be distinctly less funny than the old ones. Perhaps it's just me, but very few of the new espisodes seem to have any sort of a point to them.
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A slightly off-topic comment on part of your comment:
Perhaps the script kiddies have a point when they say "you should be glad we pointed out your security holes." After all, would you rather have a mostly harmless script kiddie point out the security hole to you (without actually doing anything other than changing your webpage, and often even backing up your original page for you) than have the security hole remain open and undetected for truly malicious people, such as spammers, to exploit?
I don't see the problem. All drivers run in kernel mode, so by your logic we shouldn't support 3d video cards, since that's just one more driver running as root we don't need.
If you wish to do so, you can spend an extra $50-$75 on a hardware modem. For those who want to spend the $50-$75 on something else, a WinModem/LinModem is a viable option.
As it happens, I just bought a USB scanner today (HP 4200c). I was thinking of getting a parallel port one, but the USB scanners were 2-3 times faster in all the benchmarks I've seen.
Well, because you want more people to be able to run Linux, of course.
Anyway, it's not broken. It just has offloaded more of the work to software, rather than hardware. It's not any more broken than software DVD decoding compared to hardware DVD decoding is.
Well, it that case, might as well ditch X. We don't want the type of people too ignorant to use a command line to use Linux. Ditch RPM and DEB, we don't want people too ignorant to compile their own software using Linux either.
As for nonwinmodems, the cheapest I've found is a US Robotics 33.6 for $50. The cheapest 56.6 nonwinmodem I've found is $95, compared to $20 for a winmodem. Most purchasers of sub-$800 PCs buy them because of the price, not because they have a preference as to what type of modem it has. As long as it gets them online, and saves them money, it's fine with them. I don't see a problem with that.
Tons of stuff is useful in USB. Not a modem or keyboard, of course, but USB digital cameras are nice (faster than parallel or serial port), USB gamepads are nice (you can daisy-chain 4 of them for multiplayer games), etc.
I don't see your logic. Virtually all sub-$800 PCs come with winmodems. They do so even though Linux doesn't support them. They will continue to do so even if Linux continues to not support them. The only difference is that there will be a large percentage of users who cannot use Linux, and will stick to win95 instead, since it lets their modem work.
Well, if you want Linux to become a desktop OS, as many people do, you must support Winmodems. An increasing number of PCs come with them. Nearly all sub-$800 PCs come with them. If you have no winmodem support, that's a huge chunk of the market that is not going to use Linux, no matter how good the rest of your OS is.
You make the mistaken assumption that just because something is in demands means that it will be coded and appear in 2.4. USB support has been in demand ever since the 2.0.x days, but I don't see any USB support worth mentioning in 2.2.x. Plug-n-Play is even older, wanted by many people (who wants to configure everything manually?), and still not done.
2.3 isn't 2.4's beta. At most, it's the alpha, more likely the pre-alpha. 2.4.0-pre will be the beta of 2.4 (just like 2.2.0-pre1 through -pre4 were the betas of 2.2). So, no, Linux 2.4 is not in beta yet.
The problem is that if the average person is allowed to get in on IPOs, they won't go up anymore. If all the stock is bought by slashdotters with no stock trading experience who are looking to sell out immediately (within the same day), there's no reason for the stock to go up in the first place. Everybody wants to sell, so the stock goes down.
The only reason IPOs go up is that people who are planning on holding on to the stock buy most of the IPO shares, not a bunch of slashdotters.
Yes, slashdot archives itself. After a certain period of time it converts the entire page to a threadless static HTML page (exactly like if you go to preferences and change your view mode to "flat"). It's nearly impossible to follow the discussion in the old pages, but at least all the comments are still there.
How is pgcc "better" than gcc when it won't even compile PPC code?
Is there any indication from any Important People(tm) when this bug in the kernel will be patched?
I'd have to pretty much agree with you. MAPS/RBL seems to be fairly responsible.
ORBS, on the other hand, sucks. I've had a bunch of my own mail get bounced by ORBS for various reasons, either because the mailserver I was using was open-relay or because the ORBS people happened to be in a bad mood.
I find the cure, in that case, worse than the problem.
Uhhh, yes, and most of them use 1000-millivolt volts, too. It's a definition: 8 bits is one byte.
No, it's not. It has come to be generally accepted, since nearly all (all?) computers now use 8-bit bytes, but "8 bits" is not the definition of "byte." Some of the old PDP computers used 10-bit bytes.
Well, Linus predicted 2.2.0 would come out around October 98, then "by Christmas," and it finally came out in January 99. Based on that track record, I'd predict 2.4.0 will come out around February 2000 or so.
Linux seems to follow the Microsoft release pattern: add six months to the predicted release date. Then, after a "final, stable" release, release 50 or so patches to fix bugs you didn't find before the release.
This Article on BBC news points out that the Internet generated over 300 billion in revenue and over 1.2 million jobs.
That's very little. Perhaps you don't realize that there are over 150 million jobs in the US, putting the Internet's share at under 1%. Just the oil industry (BP Amoco, Exxon, Mobil, Shell, etc.) generates a lot more than 300 billion in revenue, not to mention the rest of the non-Internet marketplace.
If they do not understand where we are going and do not line up the people (hackers) that are in a good position to understand what is going to work and what will not and purhaps make lots of money along the way. Then they are going to be that online trading house that failed in the 90's that no one can quite remember the name of.
The problem is that these "hackers" do not have a clue as to how the stock market works. Just because you can code C does not make you qualified to spend money that you cannot afford on a risky IPO that may or may not go up.
Sure, you could sue, but you wouldn't win. E*Trade has every right to refuse to let you in on the IPO if they feel you are not qualified to participate. Remember, they're supposed to try to prevent people from "flipping" the stock - i.e. buying at the IPO price and selling in the afternoon if the stock goes up. People with no stock trading experience and very little liquid net worth are much more likely to try to get their money out by flipping the stock. I don't see a problem with E*Trade's criteria.
How do you have a 31-hour playlist with only 1.03 gigabytes of MP3s? Even at 128kbps, 1.03 gigabytes only fits around 17.5 hours of music. If you want good quality music, push the bitrate up to 160 or 192 kbps, and you fit even less.
Read the headline, darnit. This is the third comment I've seen, on a supposedly technically literate site like slashdot of all places, which mistakenly assumes that "180 gigabits" means "180 GB." Since all modern desktop computers use 8-bit bytes, this penny-sized device would hold 22.5 gigs, not 180.
That's 180 gigabits, mind you. Nobody, even on slashdot, seems to be able to understand the distinction between gigabits and gigabytes. Divide gigabits by 8 to get gigabytes. This penny-size "CD-ROM" can hold 22.5 GB.
I'd have to disagree with that. Beavis and Butthead are funny for a while, but the show really has no point. Southpark, on the other hand, has a ton of satire thrown into nearly every show (and especially the movie). Satire of religion, censorship, the MPAA, presidents, police, etc.
The Simpsons are pretty good too, but I've been finding the new (last two seasons or so) episodes to be distinctly less funny than the old ones. Perhaps it's just me, but very few of the new espisodes seem to have any sort of a point to them.
They reported a $130,000 loss for 1Q 1999. That's a quite small loss compared to most internet-related companies, but it's still a loss.
I don't know if they turned a profit in 1998 or not.
Well, both Be, Inc., and Mp3.com sell stuff. Be sells its OS, and mp3.com sells CDs of its artists. Neither of their stocks is doing well.
However, neither Be, mp3.com, or Red Hat turn a profit.