The Commodore brand will now be squeezed out and discredited (come on, release a new MP3 player and rerelease classic games doesn't sound too innovative, more like cheap rebranded stuff) until nobody remembers what the name stood for originally.
Nobody? Almost. But a handful of doters with long beards will remember their C-64 youth, invest their retirement pay into the (by then cheap) brand name, free it and release a linux-based open source console with true Commodore heritage.
Or Yeah-row-nemo.com (or the like) could free the brand now. Maybe if we ask politely...?
I guess they set up this service only to get all the "$25 for 50 years" payments of people or companies which don't want someone else to take their "i-name".
I'm sure they'll make a few thousand bucks on it, especially after the slashdotting. A few months later, the site silently disappears.
Come on, the "single sign on" idea is flawed anyway. I'm never gonna trust all my data to a single entity, nobody does that - just look at asset management. Diversify your risks.
I don't care about dozens of passwords, my (Apple) Keychain stores them all. That's one system that works, and the data stays on my computer.
...waste product that cannot be controlled and is simply released into the atmosphere?
you're making it yourself too simple, my friend. although the world's (by far) largest producer of carbon dioxine has chosen to ignore it, the world's been busy controlling CO2 output.
either way, the world will be different by 2020: it has turned into a desert, or it is radioactively polluted.
so let's hope the "new" US administration will help fighting the greenhouse effect. like they did before. oh, wait...
And these numbers don't tell the complete story. They don't tell about our our unrivalled submarine fleet. They don't tell about our aircraft carriers and military bases across the globe. They don't tell of our air force, planes as numerous as locusts.
There is no army in the world that can stand before our legions. There is no citadel that can withstand the hammer-blows we can bring to bear upon it. A single enemy we might ignore, to demolish later at our leisure. But if somehow -- in the face of all reason -- all the world arrayed itself against us, our fury would rain down upon your cities like the wrath of God Himself.
It's the IE (Internet Explorer) team reconstructed inside Google.
An excellent opportunity to take them all out with one cruise missile, so they can't do any more damage. Maybe that's why Google hired them, just to lock them away.
If I had to develop a browser, I wouldn't hire the people who have made the worst product on the market. That's like if George Bush Senior had hired Gorbachev as his economic advisor in 1990.
But Google knows a lot we all don't, that's for sure. Isn't it, Larry?
we have always seen your nation and its many achievements with the highest respect. After the dreadful 9/11 attacks, we have responded with tremendous loyalty and friendship, and we were sure that one of the planet's oldest democracies would react wisely and adequately.
However, after three years, we have come to the conclusion that your government is curtailing your rights and stealing your money. While this is a domestic issue and not of our business, your government's international behaviour is a wholly different story. International treaties have been breached. Old friends have been alienated. Fear has been spreaded. In general, we think your current administration has made the world more dangerous.
After the breach of international law, we do not have much trust left in your country. So, dear Americans, if you wish to participate again in the international family of peoples, feel free to join us! Just get rid of that jackasses.
Should you choose to keep your current government however, we, The World, would feel obligated to intervene. Like it should have be done after Munich 1938, your government will then be forced from power by an international coalition of the willing, to prevent further damage.
I don't think so. A "Google by Microsoft" would be cluttered with assistants, "you have new..." messages, ActiveX components, and vulnerabilities.
Google loves simplicity, while most applications M$ releases look bloated and ugly. They may be good marketers, but their products are technologically mediocre, and they've got no style.
If there is something on the road that is a danger and the driver doesn't see, the car alerts the driver.
What's newsworthy about that? Everyone can mount cameras in his car and connect them to motion sensors, or whatever. And nobody can build a machine able to determine what's dangerous and what isn't. The only machine which can do that is human. And that ain't gonna change the next fifty years or so.
Now listen, editors. Spare us bullshit like that. The/. crowd wants news for nerds, not news for kids and suits.
I agree with you that pages have to work without JavaScript. However, having JavaScript disabled permanently is ridiculous if you're using the Web professionally.
... the story about a voter registration company...
That's were I start to worry already. Why do obscure private companies carry out tasks that important to build trust in an election's result?
Where I live (in the old world), my administration knows I'm a citizen and when there's elections, they send me all necessary stuff automatically. That's what a public administration is for, after all.
It's still before the elections, and I already know I'm not gonna trust the result.
But we'll have to live with it anyway, so please, dear Americans, take a wise decision.
Google's search algorithms use more than 100 factors to determine the ranking and relevancy of search results, many of them independent of link structure.
So it's worse without links but they had to figure out a way to get subscription fees from companies.
Google is good at this time but if they turn evil, nobody can stop them.
Slashdot Mirror
The Commodore brand will now be squeezed out and discredited (come on, release a new MP3 player and rerelease classic games doesn't sound too innovative, more like cheap rebranded stuff) until nobody remembers what the name stood for originally.
Nobody? Almost. But a handful of doters with long beards will remember their C-64 youth, invest their retirement pay into the (by then cheap) brand name, free it and release a linux-based open source console with true Commodore heritage.
Or Yeah-row-nemo.com (or the like) could free the brand now. Maybe if we ask politely...?
He has a very Microsoft-centric point of view, and many of his observations are quite academic.
But his main point is that the whole Firefox installation experience on Windows is not very Windows-like.
I think that's a valid and valuable critique and that Firefox could gain more supporters by addressing this.
(Even if its from some frickin' capitalist windows zealot.)
...somebody might press the RED BUTTON!
Wake me up when paranoia levels are back to normal
There are plenty of alternatives. Your fault if you're still buying Win crap. Bill is laughing all the way to the bank.
Buy a Mac, never look back.
I guess they set up this service only to get all the "$25 for 50 years" payments of people or companies which don't want someone else to take their "i-name".
I'm sure they'll make a few thousand bucks on it, especially after the slashdotting. A few months later, the site silently disappears.
Come on, the "single sign on" idea is flawed anyway. I'm never gonna trust all my data to a single entity, nobody does that - just look at asset management. Diversify your risks.
I don't care about dozens of passwords, my (Apple) Keychain stores them all. That's one system that works, and the data stays on my computer.
...waste product that cannot be controlled and is simply released into the atmosphere?
you're making it yourself too simple, my friend. although the world's (by far) largest producer of carbon dioxine has chosen to ignore it, the world's been busy controlling CO2 output.
either way, the world will be different by 2020: it has turned into a desert, or it is radioactively polluted.
so let's hope the "new" US administration will help fighting the greenhouse effect.
like they did before.
oh, wait...
On Mac OS X, there is srm in place of shred. I don't know what's the difference though.
...he's got a point.
http://65.172.163.222/
summoning the daemons of slashdot...
And these numbers don't tell the complete story. They don't tell about our our unrivalled submarine fleet. They don't tell about our aircraft carriers and military bases across the globe. They don't tell of our air force, planes as numerous as locusts.
There is no army in the world that can stand before our legions. There is no citadel that can withstand the hammer-blows we can bring to bear upon it. A single enemy we might ignore, to demolish later at our leisure. But if somehow -- in the face of all reason -- all the world arrayed itself against us, our fury would rain down upon your cities like the wrath of God Himself.
Right. And the boss over everything is a jackass.
It's the IE (Internet Explorer) team reconstructed inside Google.
An excellent opportunity to take them all out with one cruise missile, so they can't do any more damage. Maybe that's why Google hired them, just to lock them away.
If I had to develop a browser, I wouldn't hire the people who have made the worst product on the market. That's like if George Bush Senior had hired Gorbachev as his economic advisor in 1990.
But Google knows a lot we all don't, that's for sure. Isn't it, Larry?
You speak as "The World", but are obviously an American public high school student.
If I was, how could I know there exists such a thing as "The World"?
Sorry folks, that wasn't meant personally. He started.
Btw, I already live in The World. And fond of it, thanks.
Dear Americans,
we have always seen your nation and its many achievements with the highest respect. After the dreadful 9/11 attacks, we have responded with tremendous loyalty and friendship, and we were sure that one of the planet's oldest democracies would react wisely and adequately.
However, after three years, we have come to the conclusion that your government is curtailing your rights and stealing your money. While this is a domestic issue and not of our business, your government's international behaviour is a wholly different story. International treaties have been breached. Old friends have been alienated. Fear has been spreaded. In general, we think your current administration has made the world more dangerous.
After the breach of international law, we do not have much trust left in your country. So, dear Americans, if you wish to participate again in the international family of peoples, feel free to join us! Just get rid of that jackasses.
Should you choose to keep your current government however, we, The World, would feel obligated to intervene. Like it should have be done after Munich 1938, your government will then be forced from power by an international coalition of the willing, to prevent further damage.
You see, you're either with us or against us!
Yours sincerely,
The World
It looks like you're building a fascist police state. Do you want me to...
...XUL/PHP/mySQL (a very strong combination) is to become the new VB
Ouch, that hurts. Please don't mention PHP, mySQL in the same phrase. As VB.
PHP and mySQL are technologies, while the other acronym stands for some badly designed dangerous toy.
But MS stuff is likewise useful...
..." messages, ActiveX components, and vulnerabilities.
I don't think so. A "Google by Microsoft" would be cluttered with assistants, "you have new
Google loves simplicity, while most applications M$ releases look bloated and ugly. They may be good marketers, but their products are technologically mediocre, and they've got no style.
If there is something on the road that is a danger and the driver doesn't see, the car alerts the driver.
/. crowd wants news for nerds, not news for kids and suits.
What's newsworthy about that? Everyone can mount cameras in his car and connect them to motion sensors, or whatever. And nobody can build a machine able to determine what's dangerous and what isn't. The only machine which can do that is human. And that ain't gonna change the next fifty years or so.
Now listen, editors. Spare us bullshit like that. The
I agree with you that pages have to work without JavaScript. However, having JavaScript disabled permanently is ridiculous if you're using the Web professionally.
Use a safe browser instead.
... the story about a voter registration company ...
That's were I start to worry already. Why do obscure private companies carry out tasks that important to build trust in an election's result?
Where I live (in the old world), my administration knows I'm a citizen and when there's elections, they send me all necessary stuff automatically. That's what a public administration is for, after all.
It's still before the elections, and I already know I'm not gonna trust the result.
But we'll have to live with it anyway, so please, dear Americans, take a wise decision.
It's ridiculous how unprofessional those elections are handled.
Once I thought the US were a mature democracy. That belief is gone now. I don't want to imagine the world in 10 years.
*shakes head*
This level of detail is equivalent to picking out a small building on the surface of the Moon!
OK, let's see:
levelOfDetail = distanceEarthMoon / sizeBuildingOnMoon
whereas
distanceEarthMoon = 384.400.000 m
sizeBuildingOnMoon = 0 m
DIVISION BY ZERO
Stupid comparison...
How hard is it to drop fire one 'soldiers' with AK-47s and sandals?
I am not a soldier (at least not a professional one), but last time I checked there were still some 'soldiers with AK-47s' around Baghdad.
(The completion of the title is left as an exercise to the reader.)
do...
don't...
The pagerank algorithm lives on links, which don't exist on most people's hard drives.
Google itself claims its algorithms work also without links. From their Google Search Appliance FAQ:
Google's search algorithms use more than 100 factors to determine the ranking and relevancy of search results, many of them independent of link structure.
So it's worse without links but they had to figure out a way to get subscription fees from companies.
Google is good at this time but if they turn evil, nobody can stop them.