Articles about space elevators should be in the "idle" section.
This shouldn't be moderated "Troll".
"Carefully timed jerks" is a very good description of the hustlers who keep this "space elevator" scam alive.
This particular one should raise the snake oil flag for anyone with an ounce of common sense; Shaking the base of a 100,000 km flexible structure in the hope that any of the energy would be available for propulsion at the far end of the structure? Yeah right.
If I was the ESA, I'd be asking this "scientist" for an energy efficiency report on his shaky broomstick before kicking his ass and sending him back to janitorial duties.
Personally, I feel that Linux's file system is even more of a sewer as the Windows file system, and until it takes a major jump up... perhaps it doesn't deserve to be everyone's desktop.
WFT?
What do Linux filesystems have to do with gaming?
Besides, you can access just about every filesystem that exists with Linux, which is more than you can say with Windows.
By the way, Sharepoint is going to help them hold onto the Productivity software market as well, due to the integrations. And there's a huge ISV market building around Sharepoint add-ons and products that integrate with it.
Have you actually USED Sharepoint?
It's just a bodged up collection of mismatched software components. Squeeze a lightweight (in terms of capabilities) document manager in with a half-assed web server and database, add a browser-based site designer and call it a collaborative tool...
Sharepoint is another product that has just been bashed out without no thought whatsoever into what the customers needs are, and no ingenuity.
Anyone know what these people are so excited about? Couldn't get much real info from the article. They comment that its snappier than other betas. How about compared to XP? That would be the real comparison I would like to see.
Bottom line is that the new Beta is marginally better than Vista in most benchmarks, but slower than XP SP3. Both are much slower in HDD write performance.
Okay, but take that iPhone-like device, and take it to work. Put it in a docking station.
I have a Nokia N800 running Linux which does most of that for me.
I pair it with a Bluetooth keyboard to type reports or spreadsheets (Abiword and Gnumeric), use Skype and Ekiga for phone calls, as well as being able to switch between instant messaging, SMS (through my Bluetooth phone) and email at will. I can access files on my server through the Wlan, manage the server with SSH, and control my MythTV with Mythtomer.
If it had some way of driving a larger monitor, I'd be able to dump my laptop and switch completely to the handheld.
It's heavily marketed, addictive and once you're hooked, you have to keep spending and spending to get more of the same, though there's been no buzz for decades.
No, not when those companies supply open and interoperable products.
It's like saying Microsoft's shit stinks or Microsoft's morning breath is bad.
I've used their shit, and yeah, it frequently stinks. I don't know what you've been doing to be able to smell their morning breath though. When most of us say Microsoft screws its customers and partners, we mean it metaphorically...
What would certainly get more expensive is instant coffee, because that doesn't produce waste coffee grounds.
Eh?
Where do you think the rest of those 43 beans goes?
Spent coffee grounds from the brewing process are the primary waste product. At least one manufacturer burns these grounds to heat water and generate steam that is used in the manufacturing process. The process is designed to be environmentally friendly, minimizing waste products by maximizing the use of the raw materials.
So they want GOV spyware? They will still need people to look at the data.
They're not trying to make spyware.
What they're suggesting is an extension of ECU's Image Preview System (SiMPLE) and Laptop Inspector And Recovery System (LIARS) live CDs.
They want a simple, forensically valid tool for quickly checking computers in situ. Presumably it'd be something like a version of SiMPLE which had an interface for choosing what to inspect on the target machine (ie, Kiddie porn, chat logs, financial docs, etc). The cops on site would use the tool to quickly screen any computers they find/suspect, then take any positives back to a better-equipped lab for proper analysis.
Anyone stupid enough to get infected this way deserves everything Darwin can throw their way.
This attitude is why Microsoft products have such a poor record for stability and security.
Computers SHOULD be designed for people who have no knowledge of the intricacies of operating systems.
Computers SHOULD be designed to be safe for beginners to use.
Computers SHOULD be designed so an unintended error does not result in a compromised system.
Computers SHOULD be designed to be robust enough to use without fear.
Operating system progress has virtually halted for more than a decade because of the Windows monopoly. THAT is the problem here, not users trying to come to grips with a needlessly complicated and inconsistent tool.
I HATE the way Microsoft's evangelists have switched to this "Blame the user" mentality to try shift attention from their failures. It's hypocritical, dishonest, and most of all, it allows them to sit on their laurels and continue serving up variations of the same stale OS they've been facelifting for the past 15 years.
A guy is walking down a dark street, when he hears something behind him. He looks behind him and sees a casket, and it's going, 'dum... dum... dum... dum... ' and it's followin' him. So he gets frightened and goes faster, and the casket goes faster â" 'dum, dum, dum, dum, dum... '
So he starts to trot and runs into his apartment building and the casket crashes through the door and comes at him faster, up the stairs - 'dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum!'
He slams the door, and it crashes through his apartment door, so he runs into his bathroom and he slams the door and he hears, 'dum... dum... dum... dum... ' and he knows it's going to crash through the door... then it crashes through the door, and he grabs the only thing he can. He grabs a bottle of cold medicine and he throws it at the casket... and it stops the coffin!
However, slide 7 also claims that this approach is supported by the EFF and Public Knowledge. Is this true?
Sort of.
There was a white paper put out suggesting a superficially similar scheme. Unsurprisingly, the key word the RIAA have missed from the EFF proposal is "voluntary", which makes their claim that their tax is EFF supported highly misleading.
How do you sell a device like this with no contract subsidy for $900?
There's an interesting backstory to that low price (AU$299/$399, btw).
Kogan is an Australian online retailer. They started when Kogan got pissed off with always being ripped off on local pricing and decided to go direct to Chinese manufacturers.
Eighteen months ago young tech-head Ruslan Kogan wanted an LCD television but didn't want to pay full price for it.
He did some research and sent a few emails to factories in China, and now the 24-year-old not only has a new 117cm high-definition TV in his lounge room, he is planning to go global with his own brand of consumer electronics.
That story is a little over a year old; now there's a lot more products in his store and he's taking on the big electronic retailers over here.
http://www.kogan.com.au/profile/
Microsoft sells almost all of their software wholesale and make only a few bucks per copy.
The cost of duplication for an OS is almost $0 now.
Microsoft margins on Windows and Office are enormous. It's a clear indicator that they are still a monopoly.
The grand-daddy of them all was the unit responsible for Windows. It had costs of just $545 million but generated a profit of $2264 million, a staggering 415.4% profit on the money they put into it.
Let's put this in context. Dell's recent quarterly statement shows its margin at about 9%, which is a lower margin than even the least productive of Microsoft's profit-making groups. IBM's margin is similar to Dell's but HP's is about 6% in total, thanks mainly to printers, and Sun Microsystems is even lower.
I've heard good things about both TaskJuggler and openproj.
Thank you!
I've just installed OpenProj and have it running on my work laptop. I've had to keep a Windows partition on the lappy JUST for sharing MS Project files with my client. OpenProj means I can reclaim that space.
If you're ever in Perth, Karratha or Singapore, let me know & I'll buy you a beer...
The Democrats promoted slavery. After it was abolished the southern Democrats viciously opposed equal voting rights and anti-lynching legislation. The left's modern day pro-abortion stance stems from their historical promotion of Eugenics
The Democrats?
What do they have to do with left wing politics? They're a right wing political party, just like your Republicans.
Slashdot Mirror
And don't forget; either Steve Jobs died or 4chan hijacked the livestream...
Sure.
We'll need somewhere to discuss the antics of whatever proxy Microsoft chooses to use next.
This shouldn't be moderated "Troll".
"Carefully timed jerks" is a very good description of the hustlers who keep this "space elevator" scam alive.
This particular one should raise the snake oil flag for anyone with an ounce of common sense; Shaking the base of a 100,000 km flexible structure in the hope that any of the energy would be available for propulsion at the far end of the structure? Yeah right.
If I was the ESA, I'd be asking this "scientist" for an energy efficiency report on his shaky broomstick before kicking his ass and sending him back to janitorial duties.
But he could have benchmarked Vista and XP, then given an above/below rating for Windows 7.
And in fact, he HAS performed that test in the past and come to the conclusion that XP outperformed Vista.
The fact that his results are reversed this time must throw serious doubt on his credibility.
WFT?
What do Linux filesystems have to do with gaming?
Besides, you can access just about every filesystem that exists with Linux, which is more than you can say with Windows.
Have you actually USED Sharepoint?
It's just a bodged up collection of mismatched software components. Squeeze a lightweight (in terms of capabilities) document manager in with a half-assed web server and database, add a browser-based site designer and call it a collaborative tool...
Sharepoint is another product that has just been bashed out without no thought whatsoever into what the customers needs are, and no ingenuity.
Screaming.
This should not be modded troll - it's a very clear description of the Foundation's activities.
Not much, by the looks of it.
XTReview has Beta 6956 (which performs like Vista) vs Beta 7000.0 (Beta 1) vs Windows XP Sp3.
Bottom line is that the new Beta is marginally better than Vista in most benchmarks, but slower than XP SP3. Both are much slower in HDD write performance.
I have a Nokia N800 running Linux which does most of that for me.
I pair it with a Bluetooth keyboard to type reports or spreadsheets (Abiword and Gnumeric), use Skype and Ekiga for phone calls, as well as being able to switch between instant messaging, SMS (through my Bluetooth phone) and email at will. I can access files on my server through the Wlan, manage the server with SSH, and control my MythTV with Mythtomer.
If it had some way of driving a larger monitor, I'd be able to dump my laptop and switch completely to the handheld.
Nah, it'd have to be nicotine.
It's heavily marketed, addictive and once you're hooked, you have to keep spending and spending to get more of the same, though there's been no buzz for decades.
No, not when those companies supply open and interoperable products.
It's like saying Microsoft's shit stinks or Microsoft's morning breath is bad.
I've used their shit, and yeah, it frequently stinks. I don't know what you've been doing to be able to smell their morning breath though. When most of us say Microsoft screws its customers and partners, we mean it metaphorically...
Eh? Where do you think the rest of those 43 beans goes?
Spent coffee grounds from the brewing process are the primary waste product. At least one manufacturer burns these grounds to heat water and generate steam that is used in the manufacturing process. The process is designed to be environmentally friendly, minimizing waste products by maximizing the use of the raw materials.
http://www.answers.com/topic/instant-coffee-1
They're not trying to make spyware.
What they're suggesting is an extension of ECU's Image Preview System (SiMPLE) and Laptop Inspector And Recovery System (LIARS) live CDs.
They want a simple, forensically valid tool for quickly checking computers in situ. Presumably it'd be something like a version of SiMPLE which had an interface for choosing what to inspect on the target machine (ie, Kiddie porn, chat logs, financial docs, etc). The cops on site would use the tool to quickly screen any computers they find/suspect, then take any positives back to a better-equipped lab for proper analysis.
This attitude is why Microsoft products have such a poor record for stability and security.
Computers SHOULD be designed for people who have no knowledge of the intricacies of operating systems.
Computers SHOULD be designed to be safe for beginners to use.
Computers SHOULD be designed so an unintended error does not result in a compromised system.
Computers SHOULD be designed to be robust enough to use without fear.
Operating system progress has virtually halted for more than a decade because of the Windows monopoly. THAT is the problem here, not users trying to come to grips with a needlessly complicated and inconsistent tool.
I HATE the way Microsoft's evangelists have switched to this "Blame the user" mentality to try shift attention from their failures. It's hypocritical, dishonest, and most of all, it allows them to sit on their laurels and continue serving up variations of the same stale OS they've been facelifting for the past 15 years.
No! Cold medicine has other important uses.
A guy is walking down a dark street, when he hears something behind him. He looks behind him and sees a casket, and it's going, 'dum ... dum ... dum ... dum ... ' and it's followin' him. So he gets frightened and goes faster, and the casket goes faster â" 'dum, dum, dum, dum, dum ... '
... dum ... dum ... dum ... ' and he knows it's going to crash through the door ... then it crashes through the door, and he grabs the only thing he can. He grabs a bottle of cold medicine and he throws it at the casket ... and it stops the coffin!
So he starts to trot and runs into his apartment building and the casket crashes through the door and comes at him faster, up the stairs - 'dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum!'
He slams the door, and it crashes through his apartment door, so he runs into his bathroom and he slams the door and he hears, 'dum
But because this is Firefox, for some reason it's okay where if MS did it, people would call foul.
Did you even glance at the article summary?
Mozilla is removing the protection because very soon the anti-phishing service provided by Google will no longer be available.
Double standard.
Idiot.
Sort of.
There was a white paper put out suggesting a superficially similar scheme. Unsurprisingly, the key word the RIAA have missed from the EFF proposal is "voluntary", which makes their claim that their tax is EFF supported highly misleading.
The EFF have published a clarification titled Collective Licensing Good, ISP Tax Bad in case anyone is still uncertain.
There's an interesting backstory to that low price (AU$299/$399, btw).
Kogan is an Australian online retailer. They started when Kogan got pissed off with always being ripped off on local pricing and decided to go direct to Chinese manufacturers.
Eighteen months ago young tech-head Ruslan Kogan wanted an LCD television but didn't want to pay full price for it.
He did some research and sent a few emails to factories in China, and now the 24-year-old not only has a new 117cm high-definition TV in his lounge room, he is planning to go global with his own brand of consumer electronics.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/entrepreneur-cuts-tv-middle-men/2007/03/26/1174761375485.html
That story is a little over a year old; now there's a lot more products in his store and he's taking on the big electronic retailers over here. http://www.kogan.com.au/profile/
Only the ones on my lawn.
Enjoy the cool climate - we're about to head into +40c summer days here...
The cost of duplication for an OS is almost $0 now.
Microsoft margins on Windows and Office are enormous. It's a clear indicator that they are still a monopoly.
The grand-daddy of them all was the unit responsible for Windows. It had costs of just $545 million but generated a profit of $2264 million, a staggering 415.4% profit on the money they put into it.
Let's put this in context. Dell's recent quarterly statement shows its margin at about 9%, which is a lower margin than even the least productive of Microsoft's profit-making groups. IBM's margin is similar to Dell's but HP's is about 6% in total, thanks mainly to printers, and Sun Microsystems is even lower.
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2003/11/16/microsofts-money-machine-revealed
Thank you!
I've just installed OpenProj and have it running on my work laptop. I've had to keep a Windows partition on the lappy JUST for sharing MS Project files with my client. OpenProj means I can reclaim that space.
If you're ever in Perth, Karratha or Singapore, let me know & I'll buy you a beer...
The Democrats?
What do they have to do with left wing politics? They're a right wing political party, just like your Republicans.
Um no.
You gun nuts lost your right to use that rationalisation when you let Bushco rape your country and you didn't use those guns to defend yourselves.