Honestly, flaimbait as this must be, I think people who get caught illegally swapping deserve it... you people are talking about the invasion of your privacy... as if you have the right to illegally distribute music. If you get away with it, then good for you. No real harm done. If you get caught, don't bitch, it is illegal. Just like smokin marijuanna.. It's so good to get away with, but you expect to get in trouble if you're caught. *shrug*
Dell Latitude D600s.
We have about 400 of them. According to dell's website, and an official warning notice they sent us, Windows XP sp2 causes "random hard drive corruption on Latitude D600 systems" that are below bios rev A12. We order them in bulk, and we send them out all over the country. We could of course push an update of the bios either by group policy or our desktop management software.. but for those five or six users who will undoubtedly power off their machines in the middle of the update... we'd be screwed.
Until the sneaker net catches up to all of the D600s we have floating around, then we cannot and will not install SP2 company wide.
We do install it when we find a system that doesn't fit into that category, and I'm running it on my Inspiron 8600 with no problems.
Hopefully it won't be too long before we can flip the switch.
every single article you read by DiDio and Yankee group somehow seems to put microsoft in the good light, and everyone else in the bad...
I have a hard time swallowing anything Yankee Group feeds me because at times it seems like they're blindly accepting any load of BS that microsoft feeds them. (Or possibly deliberately slanting the facts)
Microsoft's get the facts campaign took the most expensive linux servers and compared them to the cheapest microsoft ones -- now that's just silly. If these are the kinds of facts that are supposed to change my mind...
RMS called it a cheap stunt!
Not that he wouldn't really say that cause he has to certainly be jealous of all the good looking people in the world.
April fools on slashdot. I feel like I shouldn't even read it today.
they wouldn't need a new genation for that, they could simply copy a trait that was "beneficial" from another onto themselves.
There is probably still a debate about making changes to the robot brains though -- if your rebuild your brain, is it still YOU in there, or someone else who has your memories? I don't think you could ever answer that one.
no, because this tool is specifically designed to remove the money making component, but not necessarily the program that the component supports. It's not just a 'file deleter' is a targeted revenue killer for other companies that have EULAs which are just as valid as microsoft's. This has the same implications as wiriting a program that strips the DRM from media files.
I'm not a fan of spyware or DRM, I'm just saying that the courts might be.
I think that the companies making the spyware DO potentially have a case against microsoft. They tried to get around it with a EULA that puts the responsibility in the hands of the end user. The ensuing (no pun intended) court cases may actually bring the validity of a EULA to the forefront -- How many people actually read them anyway? That one may be a loser, but more importantly: Who exactly is authorized to enter into a EULA? Does your 5 year old clicking YES to a popup make you legally responsible for the terms of the agreement? What if you didn't know that Party-Poker was even installed on your machine? I know that my grandma would probably run into these issues, and anyone else's grandma who lets their grandkids use the computer would too.
Agreed. Jesus existed, most likely anyway, but he was not any god's son, just Somebody's son. He was smart though -- he rode into town on an ass, just like the proficy fortold. He had a nice blueprint to follow to convince people that he was god. Wish I'd have thought of it first.
Adelphia cable has their own DVR product which is both your digital cable box and a DVR. Doesn't sound like they are groundbreaking or anything. I can see how the DSL feature is useful for satelite though -- I remember when i had satelite, the horrible latency between changing channels, loading the guide list, I can only imagine how bad the whole thing would be if that pain was involved with the recording scheduling process as well. I like my digital cable/DVR box much better than I ever liked my sat.
Quoted from my blog, my article on How I got to Be Such a Geek:
It all started because I lived out in the middle of nowhere. I had nothing to do buy stare at a computer screen. I learned to write simple programs in AppleSoft BASIC when I was 10 in "Challenge Class" (as it was called in those days) in elementary school.
I learned to write text programs, and some HLIN VLIN graphics, but I couldn't afford a computer of my own. I found a used Commodore VIC20 at a garage sale and I FINALLY had something to program. It came complete with Tape drive, but didn't have the ritzy graphics caps that Applesoft did. Didn't bother me a bit.
I bought a used mac 512K for $50 in 1992, and my neighbor who was a CS prof at the local university died of lukemia, and his family gave me all of his books and programs. Sad that it took such an incident, but the lot included an MS-BASIC interpreter, a pascal compiler, LightSpeed C and Mac Assembler. I joined APDA (Apple Programmer and Developers Association) as a 12 year old, and bought the series of Inside Macintosh books. I checked out a few books on Pascal and C from the local library, and took myself for a test drive in those languages too. I settled on C, and I wrote my first series of games. A popup shooter (arcade style) and a space invaders clone (Which I might add was a lot more fun than space invaders because there were more weapons and bonuses and stuff) I learned blitted graphics, and my final mac Enterprise was a black and white clone of the game Dragon Warrior cross bread with the Legend of Zelda. By this time I was 14, and System 7 for the Mac was out. To me, it was the holy grail, but I still couldn't run it. Never made it that far. My parents bought me a 486 and I ran qbasic. I made a zork-like game, an evolution simulator, and by this time, I was seriously hooked on computers.
When I was fifteen, I began ripping apart my computer and adding parts. I got a job at the local bank holding company working three hours a day as a help desk technician, and then moved up to full time in the summer. By the time I was 19, I was in college working on a degree for CS, and I got an internship at a DoD contractor, where I stayed for two more years as an intern, and eventually was hired. I still do a lot of development work (especially web development) on the side for fun, but most of my real life interaction with computers is as a Sysadmin.
Soon after I began my internship, a fellow CS major of mine introduced me to Slackware Linux. It was a match made in heaven, and all of my beloved C programming skills flooded back to me. I eventually saw Redhat evolve into the dominant disto, took it up, and I'm still following with the Fedora series. In the meantime, I've learned PERL, Java, C++, and the various Microsoft pervesions of them in the.NET platform.
A contest/school project in my senior year of college exposed me to my first round of embedded programming. I learned how to wire circuits and code for microcontrollers (MC8H11 and BS2) and I've started myself a hobby of robotics.
I've always been very proud of the fact that I've had my hands in every facet of computing, from the text based early days, to wiring circuits, to the opcodes and operands I used to do some RTOS raw coding. And I have only recently discovered MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) and I'm hooked. Techie by day, gamer by night, I live with my beautiful wife, and we're expecting a baby in June. I hope that I don't seem like such a geek to my kids. It's going to take all that I have to not force my geekliness on them.
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It's actually misquoted on 60 minutes. Their real motto is "Don't be evil." It's on their website somewhere.
I wasn't aware that the "toaster" was an actual sort of proper name for the O2s. I thought we made that up. Hell, they do look like toasters, so I guess anyone could have come up with that...
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Honestly, flaimbait as this must be, I think people who get caught illegally swapping deserve it... you people are talking about the invasion of your privacy... as if you have the right to illegally distribute music. If you get away with it, then good for you. No real harm done. If you get caught, don't bitch, it is illegal. Just like smokin marijuanna.. It's so good to get away with, but you expect to get in trouble if you're caught. *shrug*
WHAT?!? No WordStar? I'm going home. (And I want my money back.)
yup... this is indeed slashdot... not surprised to see something like that.
you just have to always remember where it is... even if you don't bring it.
Dell Latitude D600s. We have about 400 of them. According to dell's website, and an official warning notice they sent us, Windows XP sp2 causes "random hard drive corruption on Latitude D600 systems" that are below bios rev A12. We order them in bulk, and we send them out all over the country. We could of course push an update of the bios either by group policy or our desktop management software.. but for those five or six users who will undoubtedly power off their machines in the middle of the update... we'd be screwed. Until the sneaker net catches up to all of the D600s we have floating around, then we cannot and will not install SP2 company wide. We do install it when we find a system that doesn't fit into that category, and I'm running it on my Inspiron 8600 with no problems. Hopefully it won't be too long before we can flip the switch.
I have a hard time swallowing anything Yankee Group feeds me because at times it seems like they're blindly accepting any load of BS that microsoft feeds them. (Or possibly deliberately slanting the facts)
Microsoft's get the facts campaign took the most expensive linux servers and compared them to the cheapest microsoft ones -- now that's just silly. If these are the kinds of facts that are supposed to change my mind...you're certainly not being sarcastic.
RMS called it a cheap stunt!
Not that he wouldn't really say that cause he has to certainly be jealous of all the good looking people in the world.
April fools on slashdot. I feel like I shouldn't even read it today.
I knew I missed something about this article... the fact that it's April 1 seems to have eluded me until now.
try non-credible, just like your vocabulary.
wish I could mod you up. amen man.
that's exactly what I was thinking...
wow, you're typing is still working out. Try this It can also be used as an Ouijia board for the completely bored geek.
There is probably still a debate about making changes to the robot brains though -- if your rebuild your brain, is it still YOU in there, or someone else who has your memories? I don't think you could ever answer that one.
BoroughPolice, who just happen to be right next door.
I'm not a fan of spyware or DRM, I'm just saying that the courts might be.
I think that the companies making the spyware DO potentially have a case against microsoft. They tried to get around it with a EULA that puts the responsibility in the hands of the end user. The ensuing (no pun intended) court cases may actually bring the validity of a EULA to the forefront -- How many people actually read them anyway? That one may be a loser, but more importantly: Who exactly is authorized to enter into a EULA? Does your 5 year old clicking YES to a popup make you legally responsible for the terms of the agreement? What if you didn't know that Party-Poker was even installed on your machine? I know that my grandma would probably run into these issues, and anyone else's grandma who lets their grandkids use the computer would too.
funny that you should say that, that's what I just did.
well, your comments notwithstanding, Microsoft BUYS innovation.
Agreed. Jesus existed, most likely anyway, but he was not any god's son, just Somebody's son. He was smart though -- he rode into town on an ass, just like the proficy fortold. He had a nice blueprint to follow to convince people that he was god. Wish I'd have thought of it first.
Adelphia cable has their own DVR product which is both your digital cable box and a DVR. Doesn't sound like they are groundbreaking or anything. I can see how the DSL feature is useful for satelite though -- I remember when i had satelite, the horrible latency between changing channels, loading the guide list, I can only imagine how bad the whole thing would be if that pain was involved with the recording scheduling process as well. I like my digital cable/DVR box much better than I ever liked my sat.
Quoted from my blog, my article on How I got to Be Such a Geek:
.NET platform.
It all started because I lived out in the middle of nowhere. I had nothing to do buy stare at a computer screen. I learned to write simple programs in AppleSoft BASIC when I was 10 in "Challenge Class" (as it was called in those days) in elementary school.
I learned to write text programs, and some HLIN VLIN graphics, but I couldn't afford a computer of my own. I found a used Commodore VIC20 at a garage sale and I FINALLY had something to program. It came complete with Tape drive, but didn't have the ritzy graphics caps that Applesoft did. Didn't bother me a bit.
I bought a used mac 512K for $50 in 1992, and my neighbor who was a CS prof at the local university died of lukemia, and his family gave me all of his books and programs. Sad that it took such an incident, but the lot included an MS-BASIC interpreter, a pascal compiler, LightSpeed C and Mac Assembler. I joined APDA (Apple Programmer and Developers Association) as a 12 year old, and bought the series of Inside Macintosh books. I checked out a few books on Pascal and C from the local library, and took myself for a test drive in those languages too. I settled on C, and I wrote my first series of games. A popup shooter (arcade style) and a space invaders clone (Which I might add was a lot more fun than space invaders because there were more weapons and bonuses and stuff) I learned blitted graphics, and my final mac Enterprise was a black and white clone of the game Dragon Warrior cross bread with the Legend of Zelda. By this time I was 14, and System 7 for the Mac was out. To me, it was the holy grail, but I still couldn't run it. Never made it that far. My parents bought me a 486 and I ran qbasic. I made a zork-like game, an evolution simulator, and by this time, I was seriously hooked on computers.
When I was fifteen, I began ripping apart my computer and adding parts. I got a job at the local bank holding company working three hours a day as a help desk technician, and then moved up to full time in the summer. By the time I was 19, I was in college working on a degree for CS, and I got an internship at a DoD contractor, where I stayed for two more years as an intern, and eventually was hired. I still do a lot of development work (especially web development) on the side for fun, but most of my real life interaction with computers is as a Sysadmin.
Soon after I began my internship, a fellow CS major of mine introduced me to Slackware Linux. It was a match made in heaven, and all of my beloved C programming skills flooded back to me. I eventually saw Redhat evolve into the dominant disto, took it up, and I'm still following with the Fedora series. In the meantime, I've learned PERL, Java, C++, and the various Microsoft pervesions of them in the
A contest/school project in my senior year of college exposed me to my first round of embedded programming. I learned how to wire circuits and code for microcontrollers (MC8H11 and BS2) and I've started myself a hobby of robotics.
I've always been very proud of the fact that I've had my hands in every facet of computing, from the text based early days, to wiring circuits, to the opcodes and operands I used to do some RTOS raw coding. And I have only recently discovered MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) and I'm hooked. Techie by day, gamer by night, I live with my beautiful wife, and we're expecting a baby in June. I hope that I don't seem like such a geek to my kids. It's going to take all that I have to not force my geekliness on them.
It's actually misquoted on 60 minutes. Their real motto is "Don't be evil." It's on their website somewhere.
Sounds like an episode of Futurama I once saw..
I wasn't aware that the "toaster" was an actual sort of proper name for the O2s. I thought we made that up. Hell, they do look like toasters, so I guess anyone could have come up with that...