Remember dot.bomb a few years back? Stupid people hosing money around. AT the end everyone got burnt. That green shower could turn into a shit shower very quickly.
will they really want to be shovelling oldie shit and giving sponge baths? Nope they'll go get a better job down at the car factory or sort post or whatever.
GPL says you can use anything for whatever purpose and makes no moral judgement on what you do with it. Use it in schools, to help the poor, or to help the rich exploit the poor or to guide missiles. I bet you Linux is used in all of these.
A good thing too, IMHO because it is very difficult to be objective. One man's good is another man's bad: Is a mission school in 3rd world Africa really doing Good by helping educate the kids or is it doing Bad by helping to crush cultural diversity?
If this is the open source that's the same that broght us Linux, then does that mean I'm free to modify the documents?
This whole thing is a crock. It is a way to get more people to read documents. No doubt the documents have been well chosen to work for those presenting them.
Yawn... Heard all of these "I'm going to fix that Monday morning" stuff before so many times from so many companies, and seen so little action.
This is a pretty standard way for companies to handle lynch mobs of unhappy people: Put an exec up on a stage and have everyone yell their guts out and promise to investigate it thoroughly. This is not done just for software security, but just about everything.
Undoubtedly one or two simple, yet highly visible, things (eg. the password check) will be fixed to show that some action was taken.
I remember being told in the early 80s that the paper companies were going to be going out of business because of a computer-driven paperless society. Yeah right
CDs, or similar, are still a very handy medium and will be there for a while still.
An important differece between Embedded Linux and Linux is that it uses the same source for the kernel, whereas the WinCE source is completely different from Windows. The only real Linux difference is in userland. You won't be running KDE on one of these!
Where this makes a difference is that with an embedded Linux device you get the full security etc that you expect of big-iron Linux,whereas WinCE security is not even as good as Windows. Security is an increasingly important issue with promiscuous devices like PDA.
To think that MS should be pouring their efforts into Vista is silly. Apart from the Brooks law (adding manpower to late software makes it later), the fact of the matter is that Microsoft consists of many business units, focussing on differnet deliverables.
So when someone says that they're delaying product xxx because of product yyy (in a different BU), then most likely they're talking crap and just using this as a smokescreen. ie. the photoshop killer is underperforming and is going to be late and they need some sort of excuse.
The whole thread is worrying because it presumes that the press is currently free and is under some new threat. Horseshit.
It is convenient for people to have you think that the press is free, because it is convenient for you to be suitably mislead.
The press is being lead around by the nose. Remember folks that these days the press (and other reporting media) are not primary there to bring you the truth. They are there to provide infotainment to piull in the advertising revenue etc. Need nice snappy "news" to compete against all those other things trying to get a slice of your time. So what happens? Reporters that don't play the game soon get blacklisted. Nothing openly stated. Just a few extra minutes delay in returning your call (so your story gets scooped) or instead of being embedded with frontline troops giving scenic footage of night rocket attacks you get embedded in the crew washing trucks down at the transport park (makes for real high viewer rating footage!).
They predicted the temperature from models. If the model is bust then it could be a lot cooler.
Crappy models have been used in good faith and produced bad results many times before, articularly those used to calculate the time since Big Bang etc.
If you play D&D with dice you can easily choose who you play with and the rules you play to. Online is not so simple. You might want to play "by the rules" and someone else wants "shortcuts". Essentially the shortcutters undermine the fun of others.
It probably will end up going the same way as the real world. You'd like to live in a world where you don't lock your doors, but the thieves ruin that for you.
NASA == National Aeronatical and Space ***Administration**.
Yup that's right folks it is an **administration** (== pen pushers). Anything that is an administration is geared towards administrators and their needs, not science and its needs.
DC is often used for long distances because it does not require synchronisation like AC does. The quarter wavelength for 50Hz AC is approx 1500km or so (around 1000 miles). Often independent grids are joined with DC for this reason.
But, Edison **was** wrong because the context was how to do reticulation using the technology of the time, not powering server rooms or moving power across continents or using switchmode power supplies
If someone set up a big cat stroking parlour down the road that would cause static too! It has been known since forever that AM is bottom of the shitpile in the RF fiefdom. That newer broadcasting methods and more packed airewaves will hit AM is obvious and rather than moaning should thank their lucky stars tat they have been able to continue so long.
Still, I enjoy fiddling with crystal radios etc and would hate to see the AM stations lost completely.
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Remember dot.bomb a few years back? Stupid people hosing money around. AT the end everyone got burnt. That green shower could turn into a shit shower very quickly.
will they really want to be shovelling oldie shit and giving sponge baths? Nope they'll go get a better job down at the car factory or sort post or whatever.
Capitalism is neat. It gives consumers choice.
keep it serene please
A good thing too, IMHO because it is very difficult to be objective. One man's good is another man's bad: Is a mission school in 3rd world Africa really doing Good by helping educate the kids or is it doing Bad by helping to crush cultural diversity?
This whole thing is a crock. It is a way to get more people to read documents. No doubt the documents have been well chosen to work for those presenting them.
Give a man a fish and he'll go away. Teach him to fish and he'll steal your bait and tackle.
BSOD is the special secure mode for a Windows computer.
This is a pretty standard way for companies to handle lynch mobs of unhappy people: Put an exec up on a stage and have everyone yell their guts out and promise to investigate it thoroughly. This is not done just for software security, but just about everything.
Undoubtedly one or two simple, yet highly visible, things (eg. the password check) will be fixed to show that some action was taken.
CDs, or similar, are still a very handy medium and will be there for a while still.
Where this makes a difference is that with an embedded Linux device you get the full security etc that you expect of big-iron Linux,whereas WinCE security is not even as good as Windows. Security is an increasingly important issue with promiscuous devices like PDA.
So when someone says that they're delaying product xxx because of product yyy (in a different BU), then most likely they're talking crap and just using this as a smokescreen. ie. the photoshop killer is underperforming and is going to be late and they need some sort of excuse.
It is convenient for people to have you think that the press is free, because it is convenient for you to be suitably mislead.
The press is being lead around by the nose. Remember folks that these days the press (and other reporting media) are not primary there to bring you the truth. They are there to provide infotainment to piull in the advertising revenue etc. Need nice snappy "news" to compete against all those other things trying to get a slice of your time. So what happens? Reporters that don't play the game soon get blacklisted. Nothing openly stated. Just a few extra minutes delay in returning your call (so your story gets scooped) or instead of being embedded with frontline troops giving scenic footage of night rocket attacks you get embedded in the crew washing trucks down at the transport park (makes for real high viewer rating footage!).
Crappy models have been used in good faith and produced bad results many times before, articularly those used to calculate the time since Big Bang etc.
By the time it got to /. it had cooled down quite a bit. Should be ready to eat soon.
If I wanted to read poetic drivvel, I would not try to find it on /.!
It probably will end up going the same way as the real world. You'd like to live in a world where you don't lock your doors, but the thieves ruin that for you.
Yup that's right folks it is an **administration** (== pen pushers). Anything that is an administration is geared towards administrators and their needs, not science and its needs.
The Mafia really didn't get going until prohibition. Criminalising things that people want makes for a hell of a mess.
Apple is all about fashion, image and looking cool. Hype is part of what makes the whole image.
But, Edison **was** wrong because the context was how to do reticulation using the technology of the time, not powering server rooms or moving power across continents or using switchmode power supplies
Still, I enjoy fiddling with crystal radios etc and would hate to see the AM stations lost completely.
Any healthy kid online would be hitting the pron!
we're waiting for the millionth dup!