Did they really expect their hardcore users to embrace that crap? I had a bit of tear in my eye, that it was the end of the era of google doing the right thing.
Im not sure that Citrix and Microsoft are competing. Citrix offers an ADD-ON to MS TS. Without Terminal Server Citrix is useless. CItrix is a suite of management and deployment tools for Microsoft Terminal Server. Microsoft loves Citrix. Why every new shiny Citrix server has a copy of MS-TS running on it. Plus for every Citrix License that you have MS gets to sell you a TS Cal. They are laughing all the way to the bank.
Obviously you have hardly had to deal with the "Enterprise Support" that most companies offer. Good lord your better off to take money that you pay to support and send some to an Open Source Project like Debian. The good will that would be generated by doing that would most likely have half the developer base at your beckon call. Which in my mind would be superior to any OS support that you would get from IBM.
I understand what you are saying about suggesting something different. However sometimes putting your balls out there like that result in making a change for the better.
I live about 2 hours away. I think that I will be attending. Not sure what kind of a show will be put on. But I am quite sure that this may be a once in a lifetime oportunity. Well hopefully another launch 2 weeks later.
Haha, no kidding. The crying and whining and the need to blame every blip or fallback on technology is getting ridiculous.
My hope is that the Music and Movie industry take such a painfull dive in profits that they need to look at the stupid crap that they put out.
All that these lawsuits will do is push P2P and media sharing deeper underground on the Internet. Push forward better P2P technologies and advance better ways to move MP3's, Movies and Pr0n. Everyone has had a taste of how easy it is to get these files. I don't think that everyone is going to move en masse back to purchasing CD's.
RIAA\MPAA, Want to stop file sharing? Come up with a fair and reasonable Internet subscription service. Maybe working with P2P to make them more profitable would be a better idea. After all the guys that create P2P are usually greedy business men just like the RIAA. I am surprised that this idea has not been kicked around.
RIAA is running scared, kind of like SCO. Kick, Scratch and Bite hoping that you will stop your eventual fall into obsolescence. Music and Movie distribution is changing, better roll with the times.
Touche. Perhaps my comments were unjust and a little harsh. I appolgize if I offended anyone that was not my intent.
It does seem to be a small request. However does one small change start a torrent of requests? I kind of doubt it but you never know.
The feeling in that thread seems to be that Apple has contributed little back but feels that they have the clout to make trivial requests. Perhaps even using Jordans respect in the open source community to get what they want done.
Maybe Jordan is just trying to help FreeBSD by improving their image in the corporate community.
Maybe it will turn out to be a innocent request. Time will tell.
hmm, Can anyone else picture the strings leading from Jordan's fingers to Steve Job's fingers. I mean cmon, does it really matter? Its like asking a friend to build you a bikeshed then bitching because they didn't do a good enough job.
I think that it adds more character to freebsd than a stale, sterilized and bland OS.
Then he has the balls to say that he likes a specific name.
"If it's just used for kernel errors, I was pretty happy with the EDONTPANIC suggestion someone made earlier.:)
- Jordan"
Saving some face there Jordan? Good try bud.
Ohh yeah, One more thing. Fix it yourself lazy ass.
Seriously, Is this really news. We have done longer links with less equipment. I think that this is Ho-Hum wireless performance. Its really about a guy taking off the shelf equipment, putting it in a plastic box, and pointing two antenna's at each other and creating a wireless link.
Also I am so tired of the pringle can antenna. Why do people try to use them in installations?? Its FRIGGING garbage, eat the chips and throw it away. I mean why not go buy a decent antenna. Pringle can antenna are simply not that interesting anymore. Now if someone got a pringle can connection up over 10km that would be worthy news.
Just because its on a web site does not mean its that interesting.
Good Attitude. If I can't get what I want for free then I will steal it. I think you neglect to realize that Bandwidth, Servers, Offices and Staff, cost MONEY. The people that develop, offer and distribute these services want to be paid. I dont work for free, how about you? How else do you think this will happen. Internet content will be seen as a billable item and belive me that companies will charge for it.
I think that you missed the great documentation that accompanies FreeBSD. I installed FreeBSD as a *Totall* BSD, Linux, SCO, Solaris newbie. Now when I install any NIX or UNIX system I think how nice it would be to have the same simplicity that is the FreeBSD installer. I honestly have tried to install Mandrake and get so frustrated and angry that I just stop. I like FreeBSD and Debian's installers the best. Just give me the basic system and let me build what I want.
I laugh when people talk about how hard installing FreeBSD is. Look at the handbook it is the single most usefull *nix manual out there.
Oh and by the way its "menu" not "menue"
Wow, I think this is a contendor for "Top Ten Most Boring Story Submissions of 2002 on Slashdot". I mean even the Picture of Albert Einstein next to the article looks like he is sleeping.
Now everyone go wake up your Sys Admin because if the poor sap read this he will be happily dreaming of Beowolf Clusters and napping on his keyboard.
I agree with you. I hate to admit that its hard to do the things you talk about. It seems that we are overloaded with the pressures of achieving total financial success. "Keeping up" seems to be the whole reason people exist. It seems that outward appearences are more important to people that true financial security and stability. I am trying to talk my wife into looking at this from the same point of view that i am starting to take. I think that she will eventually see what I am talking about and try to realise that we can get by with less.
I changed jobs as well. More money less hours, It was a real tough decision that took 0.25 of a second to make. I should have done that move long ago. I welcome the professional attitudes and the feeling that you the person is more important that the tasks you can accomplish or the value that you add to the company.
Thanks for the thought provoking post. Its good to see there is some intelligence out there.
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Just curious if this robot is programmed to follow the rules layed out by Asimov. Or if anyone even thinks that they apply to this type of robot. It is after all programed to perform Martial Arts.
I woudnt even guess at how much the components cost Apple. I would think its safe to say quite cheap. But look at the iPod it is clearly the best Mp3 player out there(IMO). People are willing to pay a premium price for a premium product. Look at all of apples products, highly sought after, higher prices. If they are selling successfully why lower the price. However I must agree with you that it would be nice to buy one cheaper.
Wow, Ill bet you just saved Apple millions. They prolly never thought that they could purchase the hundreds of thousands 5GB drives needed for iPods on Ebay. Stupid Apple, Why buy drives directly from manufactures at huge discounts when you can purchase them from Frank in Winsconsin who has 3 5gb drives for sale. Hmm, now they just need 999,997 more. Any more brilliant ideas?
Dang, I didnt know that gamers required "1337 skillz" to install a game and get connected to the internet.
If thats the case, my Grannie is as "1337" as they can come. (She plays Scrabble online)
RiGgA
I can tell by the title of your response. That best describes you. Do you honestly belive that they invested 15 Million dollars in this project, and would neglect to think about the security implications. I imagine that they may have talked to some security experts to find out if this would be feasible and safe option from a security perspective. I can say with a fair amount of confidence that they will probably have enough smarts and intelligence to think these decisions thru.
But you never know, they are after all smart enough to put the FRIGGING thing in space. Give your head a shake.
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Did they really expect their hardcore users to embrace that crap? I had a bit of tear in my eye, that it was the end of the era of google doing the right thing.
Im not sure that Citrix and Microsoft are competing. Citrix offers an ADD-ON to MS TS. Without Terminal Server Citrix is useless. CItrix is a suite of management and deployment tools for Microsoft Terminal Server. Microsoft loves Citrix. Why every new shiny Citrix server has a copy of MS-TS running on it. Plus for every Citrix License that you have MS gets to sell you a TS Cal. They are laughing all the way to the bank.
RiGgA
Go hug your support contacts.
Obviously you have hardly had to deal with the "Enterprise Support" that most companies offer. Good lord your better off to take money that you pay to support and send some to an Open Source Project like Debian. The good will that would be generated by doing that would most likely have half the developer base at your beckon call. Which in my mind would be superior to any OS support that you would get from IBM.
I understand what you are saying about suggesting something different. However sometimes putting your balls out there like that result in making a change for the better.
I live about 2 hours away. I think that I will be attending. Not sure what kind of a show will be put on. But I am quite sure that this may be a once in a lifetime oportunity. Well hopefully another launch 2 weeks later.
either way its the same results
The most original post on this thread and the poor sap posts AC. Funny as hell.
Haha, no kidding. The crying and whining and the need to blame every blip or fallback on technology is getting ridiculous. My hope is that the Music and Movie industry take such a painfull dive in profits that they need to look at the stupid crap that they put out.
LMAO
All that these lawsuits will do is push P2P and media sharing deeper underground on the Internet. Push forward better P2P technologies and advance better ways to move MP3's, Movies and Pr0n. Everyone has had a taste of how easy it is to get these files. I don't think that everyone is going to move en masse back to purchasing CD's. RIAA\MPAA, Want to stop file sharing? Come up with a fair and reasonable Internet subscription service. Maybe working with P2P to make them more profitable would be a better idea. After all the guys that create P2P are usually greedy business men just like the RIAA. I am surprised that this idea has not been kicked around. RIAA is running scared, kind of like SCO. Kick, Scratch and Bite hoping that you will stop your eventual fall into obsolescence. Music and Movie distribution is changing, better roll with the times.
*applauds* Geeze, Cheesy Jokes get no respect.
LOL, So thats why my home phone has been sounding like crap. I just need to call Telus and tell them to stop making my phone line pop and hiss.
Why would they try to make it sound worse??? I am sure that people would not be freaked out if their phone sounded any better.
However this is Telus so who knows.
Yeah a real joyride. Dragging a 93Lbs Segway down the street sounds like a joy ride to me. :)
Touche. Perhaps my comments were unjust and a little harsh. I appolgize if I offended anyone that was not my intent.
It does seem to be a small request. However does one small change start a torrent of requests? I kind of doubt it but you never know.
The feeling in that thread seems to be that Apple has contributed little back but feels that they have the clout to make trivial requests. Perhaps even using Jordans respect in the open source community to get what they want done.
Maybe Jordan is just trying to help FreeBSD by improving their image in the corporate community.
Maybe it will turn out to be a innocent request. Time will tell.
Just a thought.
hmm, Can anyone else picture the strings leading from Jordan's fingers to Steve Job's fingers. I mean cmon, does it really matter? Its like asking a friend to build you a bikeshed then bitching because they didn't do a good enough job.
:)
I think that it adds more character to freebsd than a stale, sterilized and bland OS.
Then he has the balls to say that he likes a specific name.
"If it's just used for kernel errors, I was pretty happy with the
EDONTPANIC suggestion someone made earlier.
- Jordan"
Saving some face there Jordan? Good try bud.
Ohh yeah, One more thing. Fix it yourself lazy ass.
No it was just you. Dork.
My 486 booted DOS 8 years ago.
Seriously, Is this really news. We have done longer links with less equipment. I think that this is Ho-Hum wireless performance. Its really about a guy taking off the shelf equipment, putting it in a plastic box, and pointing two antenna's at each other and creating a wireless link.
Also I am so tired of the pringle can antenna. Why do people try to use them in installations?? Its FRIGGING garbage, eat the chips and throw it away. I mean why not go buy a decent antenna. Pringle can antenna are simply not that interesting anymore. Now if someone got a pringle can connection up over 10km that would be worthy news.
Just because its on a web site does not mean its that interesting.
Good Attitude. If I can't get what I want for free then I will steal it. I think you neglect to realize that Bandwidth, Servers, Offices and Staff, cost MONEY. The people that develop, offer and distribute these services want to be paid. I dont work for free, how about you? How else do you think this will happen. Internet content will be seen as a billable item and belive me that companies will charge for it.
Dont like it? Dont use it. Simple.
I think that you missed the great documentation that accompanies FreeBSD. I installed FreeBSD as a *Totall* BSD, Linux, SCO, Solaris newbie. Now when I install any NIX or UNIX system I think how nice it would be to have the same simplicity that is the FreeBSD installer. I honestly have tried to install Mandrake and get so frustrated and angry that I just stop. I like FreeBSD and Debian's installers the best. Just give me the basic system and let me build what I want. I laugh when people talk about how hard installing FreeBSD is. Look at the handbook it is the single most usefull *nix manual out there. Oh and by the way its "menu" not "menue"
Wow, I think this is a contendor for "Top Ten Most Boring Story Submissions of 2002 on Slashdot". I mean even the Picture of Albert Einstein next to the article looks like he is sleeping. Now everyone go wake up your Sys Admin because if the poor sap read this he will be happily dreaming of Beowolf Clusters and napping on his keyboard.
I agree with you. I hate to admit that its hard to do the things you talk about. It seems that we are overloaded with the pressures of achieving total financial success. "Keeping up" seems to be the whole reason people exist. It seems that outward appearences are more important to people that true financial security and stability. I am trying to talk my wife into looking at this from the same point of view that i am starting to take. I think that she will eventually see what I am talking about and try to realise that we can get by with less.
I changed jobs as well. More money less hours, It was a real tough decision that took 0.25 of a second to make. I should have done that move long ago. I welcome the professional attitudes and the feeling that you the person is more important that the tasks you can accomplish or the value that you add to the company.
Thanks for the thought provoking post. Its good to see there is some intelligence out there.
Just curious if this robot is programmed to follow the rules layed out by Asimov. Or if anyone even thinks that they apply to this type of robot. It is after all programed to perform Martial Arts.
I woudnt even guess at how much the components cost Apple. I would think its safe to say quite cheap. But look at the iPod it is clearly the best Mp3 player out there(IMO). People are willing to pay a premium price for a premium product. Look at all of apples products, highly sought after, higher prices. If they are selling successfully why lower the price. However I must agree with you that it would be nice to buy one cheaper.
Wow, Ill bet you just saved Apple millions. They prolly never thought that they could purchase the hundreds of thousands 5GB drives needed for iPods on Ebay. Stupid Apple, Why buy drives directly from manufactures at huge discounts when you can purchase them from Frank in Winsconsin who has 3 5gb drives for sale. Hmm, now they just need 999,997 more. Any more brilliant ideas?
Dang, I didnt know that gamers required "1337 skillz" to install a game and get connected to the internet. If thats the case, my Grannie is as "1337" as they can come. (She plays Scrabble online) RiGgA
I can tell by the title of your response. That best describes you. Do you honestly belive that they invested 15 Million dollars in this project, and would neglect to think about the security implications. I imagine that they may have talked to some security experts to find out if this would be feasible and safe option from a security perspective. I can say with a fair amount of confidence that they will probably have enough smarts and intelligence to think these decisions thru.
But you never know, they are after all smart enough to put the FRIGGING thing in space.
Give your head a shake.