This is like GPL software with billions of $$$ back it up and customers that have to buy it or else.
Whoever is working at AMD or Intel better looks out for another line of work.
Yep. Forcing people to buy something, regardless of quality, always results in the best product.
I have a hope that the Wii will bring about a revival of the adventure game. The Strong Bad game on WiiWare was a fun diversion, and the Sam & Max games are close to release on the console. The point and click format is perfect for the Wii.
I love my hard core games, but pointing and clicking through something fun and puzzley can be relaxing. A man needs variety.
One thing I miss that the Wii is bringing back is social gaming. I remember 5 of us sitting in a room playing 7th Guest figuring out puzzles together. I also remember playing doom with us against the monsters, just clearing the levels. Now it is you alone, or kill your friends only. Not very social, until the Wii came along.
I know this is hardly a journalism site. And let's face it the MSM does the same thing the Author of this piece does. Crap like "Big mouth tech blogger Mike Arrington" isn't proper journalism, it's insulting. The opinion of the writer should never go in the story.
He really just complained that he couldn't balance his checkbook, though. If the difference was so large, he should have tracked it down line by line until the discrepancy was resolved, or fraud discovered.
And I don't understand how a statement can be "complicated". For each transaction, there is a line. There is an amount, and a name of some kind that tells you what it was for. You compare this with your records. If you have a match, then you're good, move to the next one. If nothing in your records matches that line, then you have an error, red alert, call your bank and tell them you've found an important mistake or fraud.
Sounds to me like he found a discrepancy but never went through the work of tracking it down. And as a result this theft went undetected for far too long.
If you read the article you know he writes a lot of checks. It said thousands. Lets assume 3000. Assuming 10 seconds to compare, which it wont be as the checks come out of order, that is 8.33 hours a month. And that does not count deposits... We aren't just talking about an hour at the kitchen table.
OH NOES!!111! TEH NEGROES ARE COMING TO HOUSTON!!!
Better stock up on ammo you racist prick. Can't have anyone with skin darker than yours in your city.
Amazing on how you cry racism without even knowing my race, and when my posts said nothing about race. (You do understand that I quoted someone else, don't you?) So if someone ignores another merits, and dismisses them totally based only on race, what is that called again?
RMS doesn't advocate passing the source around, he advocates passing the freedom around. That is what's important. That's why he insists on the use of the term "free software."
Unless you want to use it in a way he does not like. Then you can suck eggs, by his standard. (No DRM in GPL3? That's free...) While I do see his point, I disagree with the execution on occasions. So did many others, hence the GPLv2 fork.
So New Orleans is likely to be flooded yet again, but this is not a unique occurance. Florida is often trashed by hurricanes, and here in the UK much of our housing is on flood-plains, and some of our villages are crumbling into the sea due to coastal erosion.
You can't beat nature, but we've all got to live somewhere, and there is normally a very good reason for a settlement to be where it is.
It's a balancing act. Sometimes you need to put resources into sustaining a town/city, and elsewhere this may be inappropriate. The big question is 'Who decides?'
Screw that. The bigger question is who pays for bad decisions? Since I actually have a job, more often than not, it is me.
Unless a FEMA limo drives me out this city. I'm Black, I demand it! If not, I'll stay and loot!
Why mod Funny? I am sure this is happening. I am sure there will be chopper rescues on CNN. And I am sure we will pay for people who refuse to take care of themselves. (Not just those unable to) We saw it in Houston the first time, and most people I know used up all the compassion they had then...
I disagree with many of RMS's positions, but he has been vital to the open source cause.
RMS would be the first to tell you he's not at all interested in open source, which is a business model, not a cause.
Exactly why I disagree with him often. I like the FreeBSD license, for example. But without RMS, none of the open source projects would be where they are.
As a user of Free Software for about 10 years now I would just like to say that I really appreciate the efforts of the FSF. No matter how much RMS is bashed and doubted he sticks to his ethics and invariably the projections he makes seem to come true to at least some extent.
Long live the FSF.
I disagree with many of RMS's positions, but he has been vital to the open source cause. Sometimes we need extremists, and he is a good one.:)
I've got this brand spanking new car if you want to buy it. I'll give you a great deal on it. The paint is brand new, custom wheels, high end brakes, a completely killer stereo system, GPS, power everything. The only problem is that there is a 15% chance the engine doesn't work.
But its just one component, so lets not blow this out of proportion, what will you give me for it?
It worked for Jaguar in the 70s and 80s. Other than Ford buying them, I mean.
Just get the root certificate that the self-signed certificates were signed with, and add that certificate to Firefox as a trusted certificate. Then you will get no more warnings when connecting to Netgear routers. If Netgear does not provide that certificate, that's Netgear's problem.
No, it is my problem. I have a few hundred of that damn things. Which do you think is easier for me to change, 100 APs and an assload of routers, or my browser? This is one reason I am looking at other browsers again. The took a nice thing that worked well and broke it.
Certificates are a usefull tool if used properly. Expired or self-signed certs have no value, one would expect admins to have the minimum awareness (professionalism?) to maintain them correctly? Or is even that too much to ask?
No value to you. I could say the same about your opnion to me, but that would just be catty.:)
I use it for my internal network devices with web GUIs. (APs, switches, routers...) I just want the encryption. I don't need verification... I have that. It is my device, and my DNS. I just get tired of click death, and since some networks use the same device, I get a lot of "Oh Noes, the name changed!" bullshit. Just let me turn it of. Ooops! No setting for that.
I have spent many hours explaining the difference between http and https, and still users don't see a difference. Seriously, I still get calls about "my bank site won't work" and they are retyping a link they wrote down with http, not https.
And for the 50 routers I manage and have to click a bazillion times to enter, that is still $1500 a year. The question remains, WHY CAN'T I TURN IT OFF?!!!
Not hard at all. CC the manager each e-mail when you are requesting something missing, late, or not to spec. That way you have a nice record to fall back on. Also, he may light a fire under the other people at work who only "look" like they are working.:)
One thing I have found is that if you want to work from home, you need a home office. It needs a door, and should have nothing but office stuff. (No TV) Other people in your home need to understand that if someone opens that door, and no one is in need of urgent medical care, someone will be. Many companies that I have seen do telecommuting well require a picture of the home "workspace" for approval.
Yes, the 5 computers with hard kernel freezes from 3 different manufactures (Dell, Gigabyte and Intel) all suck. And the big thread about Hardy kernel freezes on Ubuntu forums is filled with delusional drug users. As long as YOU have no problem, it is perfect.:)
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This is like GPL software with billions of $$$ back it up and customers that have to buy it or else. Whoever is working at AMD or Intel better looks out for another line of work.
Yep. Forcing people to buy something, regardless of quality, always results in the best product.
Well Chrome is based on WebKit which in turn is based on KHTML which is LGPL. Parts of Chrome might be BSD, the overall project will be LGPL.
You got it backwards. The overall project is BSD, and the components are whatever license they come with. It listed about 10 different ones...
I have a hope that the Wii will bring about a revival of the adventure game. The Strong Bad game on WiiWare was a fun diversion, and the Sam & Max games are close to release on the console. The point and click format is perfect for the Wii.
I love my hard core games, but pointing and clicking through something fun and puzzley can be relaxing. A man needs variety.
One thing I miss that the Wii is bringing back is social gaming. I remember 5 of us sitting in a room playing 7th Guest figuring out puzzles together. I also remember playing doom with us against the monsters, just clearing the levels. Now it is you alone, or kill your friends only. Not very social, until the Wii came along.
I read the article. I watched the trailers. I have no clue what it is about. I want It! :)
Bias? Laziness? At Slashdot?!?!?
Never together. They are too lazy to push a bias, or too biased to be lazy.
I know this is hardly a journalism site. And let's face it the MSM does the same thing the Author of this piece does. Crap like "Big mouth tech blogger Mike Arrington" isn't proper journalism, it's insulting. The opinion of the writer should never go in the story.
Yeah, I've given up on the networks already.
He is not even correct. "there's no sign of a project site or any other openness yet." I found it in 5 minutes of looking. From http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/21/we-want-a-dead-simple-web-tablet-help-us-build-it/ you get "We'll be coordinating the project over at TechCrunchIT. Leave a comment there if you want to participate and weâ(TM)ll be in touch soon." That links to http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/07/21/the-techcrunch-web-tablet-project/ which continues on at http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/07/21/techcrunch-web-tablet-part-2/ so it has an open community working on it. Not sure if it is bias or laziness.
Don't confuse a good rant with facts. No one wants to hear them anyway.
He really just complained that he couldn't balance his checkbook, though. If the difference was so large, he should have tracked it down line by line until the discrepancy was resolved, or fraud discovered.
And I don't understand how a statement can be "complicated". For each transaction, there is a line. There is an amount, and a name of some kind that tells you what it was for. You compare this with your records. If you have a match, then you're good, move to the next one. If nothing in your records matches that line, then you have an error, red alert, call your bank and tell them you've found an important mistake or fraud.
Sounds to me like he found a discrepancy but never went through the work of tracking it down. And as a result this theft went undetected for far too long.
If you read the article you know he writes a lot of checks. It said thousands. Lets assume 3000. Assuming 10 seconds to compare, which it wont be as the checks come out of order, that is 8.33 hours a month. And that does not count deposits... We aren't just talking about an hour at the kitchen table.
You will be known by the company you keep...
If you want to judge each group only by the extremists, we are all screwed.
OH NOES!!111! TEH NEGROES ARE COMING TO HOUSTON!!!
Better stock up on ammo you racist prick. Can't have anyone with skin darker than yours in your city.
Amazing on how you cry racism without even knowing my race, and when my posts said nothing about race. (You do understand that I quoted someone else, don't you?) So if someone ignores another merits, and dismisses them totally based only on race, what is that called again?
RMS doesn't advocate passing the source around, he advocates passing the freedom around. That is what's important. That's why he insists on the use of the term "free software."
Unless you want to use it in a way he does not like. Then you can suck eggs, by his standard. (No DRM in GPL3? That's free...) While I do see his point, I disagree with the execution on occasions. So did many others, hence the GPLv2 fork.
So New Orleans is likely to be flooded yet again, but this is not a unique occurance. Florida is often trashed by hurricanes, and here in the UK much of our housing is on flood-plains, and some of our villages are crumbling into the sea due to coastal erosion. You can't beat nature, but we've all got to live somewhere, and there is normally a very good reason for a settlement to be where it is. It's a balancing act. Sometimes you need to put resources into sustaining a town/city, and elsewhere this may be inappropriate. The big question is 'Who decides?'
Screw that. The bigger question is who pays for bad decisions? Since I actually have a job, more often than not, it is me.
Unless a FEMA limo drives me out this city. I'm Black, I demand it! If not, I'll stay and loot!
Why mod Funny? I am sure this is happening. I am sure there will be chopper rescues on CNN. And I am sure we will pay for people who refuse to take care of themselves. (Not just those unable to) We saw it in Houston the first time, and most people I know used up all the compassion they had then...
I disagree with many of RMS's positions, but he has been vital to the open source cause.
RMS would be the first to tell you he's not at all interested in open source, which is a business model, not a cause.
Exactly why I disagree with him often. I like the FreeBSD license, for example. But without RMS, none of the open source projects would be where they are.
As a user of Free Software for about 10 years now I would just like to say that I really appreciate the efforts of the FSF. No matter how much RMS is bashed and doubted he sticks to his ethics and invariably the projections he makes seem to come true to at least some extent.
Long live the FSF.
I disagree with many of RMS's positions, but he has been vital to the open source cause. Sometimes we need extremists, and he is a good one. :)
Thats it! Someone I ticked off is sneaking in and sanding down my pads! Bastards...
Thanks for the tip!
Yeah, I'm sure you would say the same if Toyota produced cars whose brakes would fail if you used them for an extended period of time.
And I am pissed about it. My breaks failed and needed replacement at 40k and again at 80k! And it was denied warranty! Bastard car makers!
I've got this brand spanking new car if you want to buy it. I'll give you a great deal on it. The paint is brand new, custom wheels, high end brakes, a completely killer stereo system, GPS, power everything. The only problem is that there is a 15% chance the engine doesn't work.
But its just one component, so lets not blow this out of proportion, what will you give me for it?
It worked for Jaguar in the 70s and 80s. Other than Ford buying them, I mean.
Just get the root certificate that the self-signed certificates were signed with, and add that certificate to Firefox as a trusted certificate. Then you will get no more warnings when connecting to Netgear routers. If Netgear does not provide that certificate, that's Netgear's problem.
No, it is my problem. I have a few hundred of that damn things. Which do you think is easier for me to change, 100 APs and an assload of routers, or my browser? This is one reason I am looking at other browsers again. The took a nice thing that worked well and broke it.
Certificates are a usefull tool if used properly. Expired or self-signed certs have no value, one would expect admins to have the minimum awareness (professionalism?) to maintain them correctly? Or is even that too much to ask?
No value to you. I could say the same about your opnion to me, but that would just be catty. :)
I use it for my internal network devices with web GUIs. (APs, switches, routers...) I just want the encryption. I don't need verification... I have that. It is my device, and my DNS. I just get tired of click death, and since some networks use the same device, I get a lot of "Oh Noes, the name changed!" bullshit. Just let me turn it of. Ooops! No setting for that.
I have spent many hours explaining the difference between http and https, and still users don't see a difference. Seriously, I still get calls about "my bank site won't work" and they are retyping a link they wrote down with http, not https.
And for the 50 routers I manage and have to click a bazillion times to enter, that is still $1500 a year. The question remains, WHY CAN'T I TURN IT OFF?!!!
Not hard at all. CC the manager each e-mail when you are requesting something missing, late, or not to spec. That way you have a nice record to fall back on. Also, he may light a fire under the other people at work who only "look" like they are working. :)
One thing I have found is that if you want to work from home, you need a home office. It needs a door, and should have nothing but office stuff. (No TV) Other people in your home need to understand that if someone opens that door, and no one is in need of urgent medical care, someone will be. Many companies that I have seen do telecommuting well require a picture of the home "workspace" for approval.
Yes, the 5 computers with hard kernel freezes from 3 different manufactures (Dell, Gigabyte and Intel) all suck. And the big thread about Hardy kernel freezes on Ubuntu forums is filled with delusional drug users. As long as YOU have no problem, it is perfect. :)