Your cynicism about Google is ill-advised. I'd have to say that Google is the only truly successful Web search service, having seen off dozens of competitors. If they put their efforts into a useful email service, who's to say they won't be as successful?
Mr. Ballmer: You know, guys, you can't be part of the "in" crowd until you throw away your last chance at success... What? No, this isn't about removing a competing technology from the market.
I like the way that Microsoft has a hand in every bit of computing news. They get a win, they planned it carefully. They lose, it's part of some farsighted strategy.
The bottom line is that Microsoft produces products that people, lots of people, want to buy. And they are aggressive marketers. That's as far as it goes IMHO. No need for convoluted conspiracies.
There will always be competitors and MS will just keep on being hated if they don't start to cooperate with standards and stop expecting to control everything.
Microsoft is hated so much that people keep on throwing serious money at it. Sounds like a good business strategy for success, going by the results, wouldn't you say?
I guess its Microsoft's futile attempt to stop linux from taking over the world.
Just quietly, but Microsoft seems to be winning that battle. Check out Google Zeitgeist - Linux's main competitor for user base is Windows 95, both on 1%. On these real world figures, Microsoft should be more scared of Macintosh.
So if these light thingys would work in the real world via negative reinforcement how come it doesn't work on the 401?
For the same reason it doesn't stop traffic jams. The individual is not directly penalised. You said it yourself - it makes *everybody* later to get home. But I bet those who weave and cut people off and so on get home just a little bit faster than everyone else, even if the average person is slowed. Let's face it, who is delayed, the person cutting someone off, or the person being cut off?
The traffic light idea is interesting. In theory it precisely punishes the offender. You speed, you get stopped.
In practice, I can see any number of problems with the notion, even before reading the discussion here, which I'll bet is full of smartarses poking holes in the system.
They can't easily screen out non-local calls because the scammers are using an Internet service. It boils down to the exact same problem of detecting scammers and spammers on the Internet.
Of course we know it's fraudulent/illegal/malicious as soon as we see it, but how do we identify and stop the actual perpetrators?
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Pete, who'd like to zap about a million volts back at these arseholes
This accident is the subject of some debate, including allegations that the "black boxes" were swapped over. However it seems almost certain that pilot error, compounded by an altimeter malfunction and a confusing cockpit display, led to the crash.
The pilots put the aircraft in a mode suitable for the planned flyby, rather than for a landing. Specifically they disconnected the "alpha floor" inhibitor so that their display would not be spoilt by computer inputs.
The major cause of the crash was that the flyby occurred lower than intended, due to a discrepancy in the altimeter display. The radiosonde reported the correct height, but this was not observed or heard by the pilots, who were relying on the faulty bariometric display. Consequently they were lower than surrounding obstacles and were unable to regain full power in time to escape impact.
A report may be seen here and a discussion on the debate over the crash may be seen here.
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Yes, it will and distros like Lindows that run the default user as root had better get their act together. Poor judgement calls like that could make Linux the next security joke right behind Microsoft.
If Microsoft is a joke, then how come Bill Gates is laughing all the way to the bank?
Look at the ship outline around the joystick, and the port and starboard labels on what I assume are the main engine readouts.
Well spotted! Give that man a crow.
There must be another console facing forward - I can't believe that the 99% of the time the ship is moving forward the helmsman is facing away from the console's displays.
Or maybe the Navy is demonstrating that they are not disorganised, just flexible!
It's his left hand on the joystick and his right arm that looks like a flabby belly. You can see his short sleeved cuff up near the top of the photograph. And that's not his back we are seeing but rather his right side.
And yup, he's looking where the ship's going. These vessels dock stern first so that the ramp giving access to the vehicle deck can be lowered and cargo moved. That's the time when precise adjustments to the steering are needed.
I was aboard one of these vessels not long ago - the same basic design is used to provide a high speed ferry service between the North and South Islands of New Zealand. A very smooth, comfortable and fast ride. There's a small observation deck above the stern and it is exhilarating to stand there at speed watching the two enormous rooster tails of spray kicking up behind.
The internet, at the moment, is THE prime source of real information and world-wide communication. You can say here, out in the open, "BUSH IS A LIAR AND A CRIMINAL" And link to a hundred sites which explain -with detailed evidence- exactly why this is so.
I guess I shouldn't reply to such a blatant troll, but may I suggest that although discussion is free on the net and that this is a good thing, it is also important that courts determine criminality. I think most reasonable people would agree on this.
As for lies, well I don't know, but it seems to me that it's impossible to find a statement of Bush's which is a deliberate and knowing untruth, intended to deceive. Having a difference of opinion doesn't make one or both parties into liars, nor does making statements which later turn out to be wrong. Lower the bar enough to make Bush is a liar, then we are all liars, because we have all said things that later turn out not to be the case.
Having said that, I must say that I welcome the freedom of expression provided by the Internet and that honest and open debate eventually wins out.
Our software audits punches in a real simple manner. If the punch comes in from the clock it shows up on the employee time card in black. if it is edited or changed it changes to red. It's impossible to cheat the system.
Hey guys, how about you make a better OS to start with? The customers will follow, don't you worry.
Just quietly, but Microsoft ain't hurting for customers. What I want to know is why if Linux is so good, Linux doesn't have the customers. Going by user base, the closest competitor for Linux is an OS that Microsoft stopped selling six years ago. Here are the figures from Google Zeitgeist.
Someone/some company needs to take the initiative and educate the non-Slashdot readers about the security issues that Windows currently has and the benefits that Linux provides.
"Needs"? Let us give people the freedom to choose what operating system they prefer, please!
The way I see it, nost security problems aren't caused by the operating system per se, but rather by people doing what they really shouldn't. If the entire world moved to Linux, would it stop spammers and scammers and the traffickers in viruses and trojans? And would it stop people from double-clicking on attachments or following dodgy links when they get an email, supposedly from their bank?
Yours, and most of the other comments on this story, reveal that there are many things to be considered before such a system comes to pass, and probably the hardware implementation is going to be the easiest problem to solve.
To my mind, this is something I want now. I regularly drive long distances from Canberra to Sydney or Melbourne or even up to Rockhampton, and a lot of these trips are on superb roads, long and straight and flat.
But I must remain alert every metre of the way, even when I have cruise control enabled, because the consequences of nodding off or taking a phone call or something equally trivial can be disastrous.
I have to come out on the side of efficiency and safety over other concerns. I am certain that we will see such a system eventually, and I'd like to see it sooner rather than later.
Pete, who really just wants to be able to use his laptop during the "empty" time of driving on long trips
If we have guidance devices and beacons embedded into the road surface, then this will probably cut both ways - the road system will be able to tell what car is driving where, and there are all sorts of privacy implications to that.
Yeah, I know that they can track vehicles now using cameras and registration plates, but if you smear mud on them or uses someone else's, the vehicle still works fine. Disable the bit of the auto-driving system that broadcasts your ID and I'll bet the system wouldn't let you move at all.
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Your cynicism about Google is ill-advised. I'd have to say that Google is the only truly successful Web search service, having seen off dozens of competitors. If they put their efforts into a useful email service, who's to say they won't be as successful?
I rather suspect that after nine years, the users are pretty devoted to their OS.
I like the way that Microsoft has a hand in every bit of computing news. They get a win, they planned it carefully. They lose, it's part of some farsighted strategy.
The bottom line is that Microsoft produces products that people, lots of people, want to buy. And they are aggressive marketers. That's as far as it goes IMHO. No need for convoluted conspiracies.
Microsoft is hated so much that people keep on throwing serious money at it. Sounds like a good business strategy for success, going by the results, wouldn't you say?
Just quietly, but Microsoft seems to be winning that battle. Check out Google Zeitgeist - Linux's main competitor for user base is Windows 95, both on 1%. On these real world figures, Microsoft should be more scared of Macintosh.
Yeah. The Third World is hooked up to the Internet big time.
You obviously have a rich fantasy life. Ask yourself why Linux folk aren't funding something positive like this.
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That'll stop those bastards in the fire service with their sirens and the lights flashing and the rude finger gestures and tbe snooty moral attitude.
Virginians are just nice people. I bet this idea wouldn't work in Texas.
For the same reason it doesn't stop traffic jams. The individual is not directly penalised. You said it yourself - it makes *everybody* later to get home. But I bet those who weave and cut people off and so on get home just a little bit faster than everyone else, even if the average person is slowed. Let's face it, who is delayed, the person cutting someone off, or the person being cut off?
The traffic light idea is interesting. In theory it precisely punishes the offender. You speed, you get stopped.
In practice, I can see any number of problems with the notion, even before reading the discussion here, which I'll bet is full of smartarses poking holes in the system.
-- Pete, registered smartarse
Of course we know it's fraudulent/illegal/malicious as soon as we see it, but how do we identify and stop the actual perpetrators?
-- Pete, who'd like to zap about a million volts back at these arseholes
The pilots put the aircraft in a mode suitable for the planned flyby, rather than for a landing. Specifically they disconnected the "alpha floor" inhibitor so that their display would not be spoilt by computer inputs.
The major cause of the crash was that the flyby occurred lower than intended, due to a discrepancy in the altimeter display. The radiosonde reported the correct height, but this was not observed or heard by the pilots, who were relying on the faulty bariometric display. Consequently they were lower than surrounding obstacles and were unable to regain full power in time to escape impact.
A report may be seen here and a discussion on the debate over the crash may be seen here.
If Microsoft is a joke, then how come Bill Gates is laughing all the way to the bank?
If you check, you'll find that Microsoft has released several more recent versions of Windows than the one you're thinking of.
Well spotted! Give that man a crow.
There must be another console facing forward - I can't believe that the 99% of the time the ship is moving forward the helmsman is facing away from the console's displays.
Or maybe the Navy is demonstrating that they are not disorganised, just flexible!
And yup, he's looking where the ship's going. These vessels dock stern first so that the ramp giving access to the vehicle deck can be lowered and cargo moved. That's the time when precise adjustments to the steering are needed.
I was aboard one of these vessels not long ago - the same basic design is used to provide a high speed ferry service between the North and South Islands of New Zealand. A very smooth, comfortable and fast ride. There's a small observation deck above the stern and it is exhilarating to stand there at speed watching the two enormous rooster tails of spray kicking up behind.
I guess I shouldn't reply to such a blatant troll, but may I suggest that although discussion is free on the net and that this is a good thing, it is also important that courts determine criminality. I think most reasonable people would agree on this.
As for lies, well I don't know, but it seems to me that it's impossible to find a statement of Bush's which is a deliberate and knowing untruth, intended to deceive. Having a difference of opinion doesn't make one or both parties into liars, nor does making statements which later turn out to be wrong. Lower the bar enough to make Bush is a liar, then we are all liars, because we have all said things that later turn out not to be the case.
Having said that, I must say that I welcome the freedom of expression provided by the Internet and that honest and open debate eventually wins out.
"Hey! Who put black ink in the colour cartridge?"
Hey, how come I can't find any pictures of melons, mangos and coconuts? And sports pictures are insipid nowadays. They lack balls.
Just quietly, but Microsoft ain't hurting for customers. What I want to know is why if Linux is so good, Linux doesn't have the customers. Going by user base, the closest competitor for Linux is an OS that Microsoft stopped selling six years ago. Here are the figures from Google Zeitgeist.
Hence Window's miniscule market share. You'd think they'd learn.
"Needs"? Let us give people the freedom to choose what operating system they prefer, please!
The way I see it, nost security problems aren't caused by the operating system per se, but rather by people doing what they really shouldn't. If the entire world moved to Linux, would it stop spammers and scammers and the traffickers in viruses and trojans? And would it stop people from double-clicking on attachments or following dodgy links when they get an email, supposedly from their bank?
Yours, and most of the other comments on this story, reveal that there are many things to be considered before such a system comes to pass, and probably the hardware implementation is going to be the easiest problem to solve.
To my mind, this is something I want now. I regularly drive long distances from Canberra to Sydney or Melbourne or even up to Rockhampton, and a lot of these trips are on superb roads, long and straight and flat.
But I must remain alert every metre of the way, even when I have cruise control enabled, because the consequences of nodding off or taking a phone call or something equally trivial can be disastrous.
I have to come out on the side of efficiency and safety over other concerns. I am certain that we will see such a system eventually, and I'd like to see it sooner rather than later.
Pete, who really just wants to be able to use his laptop during the "empty" time of driving on long trips
If we have guidance devices and beacons embedded into the road surface, then this will probably cut both ways - the road system will be able to tell what car is driving where, and there are all sorts of privacy implications to that. Yeah, I know that they can track vehicles now using cameras and registration plates, but if you smear mud on them or uses someone else's, the vehicle still works fine. Disable the bit of the auto-driving system that broadcasts your ID and I'll bet the system wouldn't let you move at all.