I never understood the direct marketer's devotion to marketing by force.
If I'm on the Do Not Call list, why do you still want to call me? Even if there was no enforcement, I've registered because:
1) I'm not buying your crap and 2) Marketing calls annoy the hel out of me
What possible benefit is there to your operatives calling me, getting an earful, wasting their time and spoiling my day? I mean, if you're spoofing the Caller ID, you know that I'm going to hang up on you if I guess who it is, at which point you have to ask yourself, what the fuck do you think is the point about calling me?
"The "Iron Man" exoskeleton being worked on by Robert Downey Jr. in the movie (left) is eerily similar to the real Exoskeleton (right) being developed at Raytheon."
"I don't see how the concept of freedom includes the word "prevents"."
I think the argument goes like this - anyone is free to use and distribute the work. But we are then also free to demand the source code from anyone distributing it.
The word prevents sneaks in there almost as a double negative. It prevents people from keeping it to themselves.
You could also look at the effects - We now have more free software by that definition of free than we would have had if the BSD license had been prevalent, and more people free to do what they like with their hardware and software as a result. The freedom spreads.
Meh. the license argument is a bit of a silly one, IMHO, and I like the idea that if people take what I've written and want to use it, they can, so long as they continue in the spirit I started.
So with debian, the fact that I have to go to etc, edit apt.sources and add the non-free repositories (something which I would have to consciously and knowingly do), isn't enough for them?
OK, I think the FSF just lost a little bit of respect here.
Someone presses a button and a counter gets incremented. Big whoop. Any error at all in a programming exercise that goddamn simple is evidence enough for me to call for a full on corruption investigation.
Simple, as far as anyone is concerned, London is pretty much all there is of worth in the UK. Sure, much of the rest is nice to look at but it tends to be populated by inbreds and supported by the immense amounts of cash flowing from the city.
266 MHz Arm chip. Not the fastest thing in the world, but you can install a full debian system onto it. I have one running torrentflux-b4rt over lighttpd. It also runs ushare so that the Xbox 360 (or other UPnP device) can stream the media. It also runs samba, which I expose via SSH so I can listen to my music from work.
Downsides - It's slow. Real slow. Install and update of packages through the debian system, takes AGES. If you're unlucky you'll get one that runs at 133 MHz and have to de-solder or cut through a resistor to get it up to full speed (quite easy really)
Upsides - The only noise is the hard disk caddy and disk you choose. You can leave it on all the time and it won't bump up your electricity bill by much.
"I assume you're one of those people who thinks they need their own IT department as well then."
Well, I'm a software engineer and have worked for various software firms. Yes, we need IT departments. People who are there, on premesis, keeping systems up, doing custom configs, supporting our work in general.
"Unless you're a large company, doing IT in house is a huge waste of money."
I know some large ones that contract out and some smaller ones that don't. I really can't comment on the costs, I have no experience there.
"then somebody to twiddle their thumbs while they wait for something to break?"
Is that the sound of millions of pissed-off-at-how-their-job-is-being-portrayed IT guys I hear? I think there's a spot more to it than that.
"Google are probably more trustworthy then anything you can do in house for a reasonable price"
I can do something with postfix and dovecot for free, on my own servers, if I have my own guys or contractors.
"and honestly, do you think they even *care* about your data?"
Yes. There are two reasons for google to offer the free service - Embedded apps and data mining. Embedded ads are bad for me as a business owner, I don't want my guys clicking them in work hours. Data mining makes me uncomfortable because, however abstract it is for now, google are using my data for market analysis and advertising.
Sorry, I'd rather trust my own employees (whose access to the system I can track, and who I can fire/sue easily) than a third party with whom I have no particular business relationship and very few real assurances.
No, you're a fool for believing that the actions taken by the RIAA are in any way appropriate to the situation they're in.
Gather efvidence, get people prosecuted in a secure, legal way. You don't start sending threatening letters, suing people on spurious grounds and generally being a complete asshat.
"I'll admit, what I do know of the RIAA is they are extremely heavy handed, so much so that it's entirely possible that innocents are wrapped up in their vendetta."
That's completely unnacceptable. Ruining other lives because you're on a mission for some sort of revenge is never a good thing, never.
You also make the false assumption that the people on the vendetta are in any way the artists. They aren't, they're managers and distributors. Which is the other reason they're losing out - you don't need physical distribution networks so much any more, their model is behind the times.
Hell no! Have them hosting (and maybe reading) your company's data? Rely on them to keep your mail running, to not shut down the service or start charging?
Google are not some part of the net infrastructure, they are a company, and what don't we do? Trust other companies with corporate data, trade secrets, sales and marketing communications, anything really.
I've had the (dis)pleasure of using Notes since R4. Think (through moving jobs and stuff) I missed R6, now use 7 and/or 8 on different machines.
It's a lot better now, much more usable. Doesn't randomly die and leave child processes littering the machine, doesn't refuse to restart etc. It's pretty good now, and the built in IM client in 8 is actually pretty good as well.
I wouldn't highly recommend either notes or outlook, but I'm not so sure I'd have a preference fo outlook any more.
There's a Domino plugin for outlook, to allow it to retrieve mail from the IBM server.
Problem is I don't know how integrated it is with the other features (calendars, meetings etc), all I've used it for so far is synchronising mail folders when companies I've worked for switched system.
Sorry but it's a pet hate of mine that here on slashdot, which is supposed to be a forward looking tech board, that people still regularly espouse the view that threaded programming is something either still in development, too complex for ordinary mortals, or only applicable in a few scientific arenas.
It's just thoroughly incorrect. Industry and open source have been doing threading for years. Please can we lose this myth.
And to bring the post back on topic - pthreads in C will do it all nicely. Hell, even MS VC++ 6.0 (almost 10 years old?) will compile your multithreaded Windows C app.
I'd also lik to express suprise at the title of this article. C is losing popularity at the same position as last year, number 2? OK, it'll fizzle out any day now, I believe you.
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I never understood the direct marketer's devotion to marketing by force.
If I'm on the Do Not Call list, why do you still want to call me? Even if there was no enforcement, I've registered because:
1) I'm not buying your crap
and
2) Marketing calls annoy the hel out of me
What possible benefit is there to your operatives calling me, getting an earful, wasting their time and spoiling my day?
I mean, if you're spoofing the Caller ID, you know that I'm going to hang up on you if I guess who it is, at which point you have to ask yourself, what the fuck do you think is the point about calling me?
OK, I have now RTFA'd. He still should have been given a medal rather than a conviction.
University student imprisoned for interfering in University council elections as a way to expose how bad the voting system is?
There is no justice in the world. That kid should have been given a fucking medal.
Oh hell yes!
I have a few hanging around, must be 10 years old. Best Keyboard Ever. Also comes with handy "super loud" click to annoy friends and workmates alike!
You know it's the way to go :)
Yup, did you see the line under the pictures?
"The "Iron Man" exoskeleton being worked on by Robert Downey Jr. in the movie (left) is eerily similar to the real Exoskeleton (right) being developed at Raytheon."
They're on crack! It looks nothing like Iron Man.
"I don't see how the concept of freedom includes the word "prevents"."
I think the argument goes like this - anyone is free to use and distribute the work. But we are then also free to demand the source code from anyone distributing it.
The word prevents sneaks in there almost as a double negative. It prevents people from keeping it to themselves.
You could also look at the effects - We now have more free software by that definition of free than we would have had if the BSD license had been prevalent, and more people free to do what they like with their hardware and software as a result. The freedom spreads.
Meh. the license argument is a bit of a silly one, IMHO, and I like the idea that if people take what I've written and want to use it, they can, so long as they continue in the spirit I started.
So with debian, the fact that I have to go to etc, edit apt.sources and add the non-free repositories (something which I would have to consciously and knowingly do), isn't enough for them?
OK, I think the FSF just lost a little bit of respect here.
But what's the point?
Debian is properly free, in the sense the gNewSense is. Ubuntu is based on debian, gobuntu is ubuntu's free version, why does gNewsense need to exist?
Or does it address some other need, and freedom is just a side-effect?
This stuff has been out for a couple of years in the UK.
Nobody actually cares though. I have yet to see anyone bother to actually use it.
... How hard can it be?
Seriously, how hard?
Someone presses a button and a counter gets incremented. Big whoop.
Any error at all in a programming exercise that goddamn simple is evidence enough for me to call for a full on corruption investigation.
Perhaps so. But not if you said the British have bad teeth and worse food or that the French are cheese-eating communist cowards that smell bad.
There are many stereotypes, most of them undeserved, and they get thrown around all the time.
Simple, as far as anyone is concerned, London is pretty much all there is of worth in the UK. Sure, much of the rest is nice to look at but it tends to be populated by inbreds and supported by the immense amounts of cash flowing from the city.
Hey, from my experience of the internets, you guys have stereotyped put-downs for any given nationality, so suck it up for once.
Funny mod? Oh well.
May I recommend a Linksys NSLU2?
266 MHz Arm chip. Not the fastest thing in the world, but you can install a full debian system onto it. I have one running torrentflux-b4rt over lighttpd. It also runs ushare so that the Xbox 360 (or other UPnP device) can stream the media. It also runs samba, which I expose via SSH so I can listen to my music from work.
Downsides -
It's slow. Real slow. Install and update of packages through the debian system, takes AGES.
If you're unlucky you'll get one that runs at 133 MHz and have to de-solder or cut through a resistor to get it up to full speed (quite easy really)
Upsides -
The only noise is the hard disk caddy and disk you choose.
You can leave it on all the time and it won't bump up your electricity bill by much.
I meant to say that the idea of information leaks from google wasn't even on the radar. It is a valid concern these days.
No, my concern was the idea of giving your corporate secrets to another company (google) at all.
"The wild" isn't even the concern, it's google themselves.
"I assume you're one of those people who thinks they need their own IT department as well then."
Well, I'm a software engineer and have worked for various software firms. Yes, we need IT departments. People who are there, on premesis, keeping systems up, doing custom configs, supporting our work in general.
"Unless you're a large company, doing IT in house is a huge waste of money."
I know some large ones that contract out and some smaller ones that don't. I really can't comment on the costs, I have no experience there.
"then somebody to twiddle their thumbs while they wait for something to break?"
Is that the sound of millions of pissed-off-at-how-their-job-is-being-portrayed IT guys I hear? I think there's a spot more to it than that.
"Google are probably more trustworthy then anything you can do in house for a reasonable price"
I can do something with postfix and dovecot for free, on my own servers, if I have my own guys or contractors.
"and honestly, do you think they even *care* about your data?"
Yes. There are two reasons for google to offer the free service - Embedded apps and data mining. Embedded ads are bad for me as a business owner, I don't want my guys clicking them in work hours. Data mining makes me uncomfortable because, however abstract it is for now, google are using my data for market analysis and advertising.
Sorry, I'd rather trust my own employees (whose access to the system I can track, and who I can fire/sue easily) than a third party with whom I have no particular business relationship and very few real assurances.
No, you're a fool for believing that the actions taken by the RIAA are in any way appropriate to the situation they're in.
Gather efvidence, get people prosecuted in a secure, legal way. You don't start sending threatening letters, suing people on spurious grounds and generally being a complete asshat.
"I'll admit, what I do know of the RIAA is they are extremely heavy handed, so much so that it's entirely possible that innocents are wrapped up in their vendetta."
That's completely unnacceptable. Ruining other lives because you're on a mission for some sort of revenge is never a good thing, never.
You also make the false assumption that the people on the vendetta are in any way the artists. They aren't, they're managers and distributors. Which is the other reason they're losing out - you don't need physical distribution networks so much any more, their model is behind the times.
Hell no! Have them hosting (and maybe reading) your company's data?
Rely on them to keep your mail running, to not shut down the service or start charging?
Google are not some part of the net infrastructure, they are a company, and what don't we do? Trust other companies with corporate data, trade secrets, sales and marketing communications, anything really.
I've had the (dis)pleasure of using Notes since R4. Think (through moving jobs and stuff) I missed R6, now use 7 and/or 8 on different machines.
It's a lot better now, much more usable. Doesn't randomly die and leave child processes littering the machine, doesn't refuse to restart etc. It's pretty good now, and the built in IM client in 8 is actually pretty good as well.
I wouldn't highly recommend either notes or outlook, but I'm not so sure I'd have a preference fo outlook any more.
There's a Domino plugin for outlook, to allow it to retrieve mail from the IBM server.
Problem is I don't know how integrated it is with the other features (calendars, meetings etc), all I've used it for so far is synchronising mail folders when companies I've worked for switched system.
Troll?
Annoyed, enflamed perhaps, but Troll?
Sorry but it's a pet hate of mine that here on slashdot, which is supposed to be a forward looking tech board, that people still regularly espouse the view that threaded programming is something either still in development, too complex for ordinary mortals, or only applicable in a few scientific arenas.
It's just thoroughly incorrect. Industry and open source have been doing threading for years. Please can we lose this myth.
And to bring the post back on topic - pthreads in C will do it all nicely. Hell, even MS VC++ 6.0 (almost 10 years old?) will compile your multithreaded Windows C app.
I'd also lik to express suprise at the title of this article. C is losing popularity at the same position as last year, number 2? OK, it'll fizzle out any day now, I believe you.
I think my job's safe for now.
Err, what?
FOSS does some of the most innovative stuff on the planet, as compared with MS.
Who had a 3d desktop extension system first? Hmmm... was it compiz?
Who had 64 bit support for x86 way ahead of the game? I think it was Linux.
Bittorrent took off under the auspices of open source. Firefox.
The list is endless.