Linux suffers from one horrible flaw... it does not support Windows applications.
Wine is much better than it used to be. Try it again. I'm not going to tell you I test drove it in front of a panel of noobs, but really -- try it again.
Now go round up the understander because if the team doesn't get what I'm saying here their mission will fail no matter how often you dismiss informed criticism.
Not that I care -- making fun of them is one of my favorite things. They should buy AOL and Yahoo. It would complete the triumvirate of Internet Suck and implode. That would be fun to watch.
Of course, with the anti-Vista hatefest still going on, there's little Microsoft can do but try new marketing approaches to get that message across.
Yeah, it's too late to reboot the engineering (again) so they have no choice but to reboot the marketing. This is a half billion dollars that could have been spent on something useful like feeding stations for urban feral cats. sigh. They didn't get a good result with the first billion they spent - this is just sending good money after bad.
The challenge before the new messaging team is there are a lot of people who haven't tried Vista and they need to get them to try it. This challenge is more of a problem because there are also a lot of people who have tried Vista and they're not shy about sharing their experience with anyone who will listen. The more successful they are the fewer of the former there will be and the more of the latter. That's a recursive failure right there. You don't want people to "get the facts" when the facts are not on your side. Follow the lawyer's advice and hammer on the table instead.
The easy response to this disinformation campaign is "Your Mileage May Vary."
Atheros hired Luis R. Rodriguez, the developer of the Linux kernel Atheros driver, back in April with the intention of doing just this. Congratulations!
The ads are pretty clearly marked as being ads (sorry, "sponsored links") so the GP seems to be trying to grind an axe. However, that kind of advertising is usually reserved for 2-bit companies with no real products trying to dupe naive users, so it's a bit surprising to see a company like Microsoft resorting to such cheap tactics.
I don't know why so many people think that I missed that they're ads. I mentioned it twice. Is all of slashdot caffeine deficient this morning?
-- "ad placements and query results" -- "a good search result ad"
And yeah, taking misleading ad placements on your own trademark to help the advertisers dupe naive users is low even for Microsoft. Doing it with somebody else's trademark is worse, but all search providers have problems with this. My point is that Google fights this nonsense pretty actively. Live.com doesn't even appear to try. The thought of using it to try to find a driver update, repair a broken.dll and select a good antivirus out from amongst the attempts to dupe you into being exploited is like sifting manure for pearls in a minefield even to me. I can't imagine what the prospect must be like to someone who's not in the biz. And there's so much of this spam garbage in their search results that once you move away from the top 1000 terms it takes all day to sort through the irrelevant data to find what you're looking for - which is what the search engine is supposed to be doing for you. That is entirely the point of the search engine after all.
Anyway, that's why when most people need to know something they just Google it.
File system objects are themselves imaginary. Although it is useful to create and store a hierarchical system for referencing the data on the disk, these things are programmatic methods to reproduce consistent references of data locations and metadata for the convenience of absent minded humans. They do not in fact have any physical existence at all. There is not a magical manila folder factory inside your hard drive. Any patent that relies on the presence or absence of these imaginary objects is iffy at best.
I know this is slashdot, but if you carefully reread the post you responded to you'll find the last line mentions that these maliciously deceptive links are ads. I'm not trying to mislead anybody. Are you?
Now go to google and type "live search", "Microsoft" and "Microsoft Office" (without the quotes). If you can't explain why the ads and search results that Google puts on those pages are qualitatively better then you're not qualified to judge my comment. On a lark I went back to Live and did those searches too. If you search for "Microsoft" on Live today it shows three ads, each of which is likely to be more harm than help. This is why Microsoft is third in search and fading despite wasting billions on it. They just don't get it and they never will.
The "tell" for this lie is that people will try it. Did you think of that, Mr astroturf man? And what do you think they will find besides proof? You shouldn't submit this one for credit if you want to keep your job.
It's harder to do now. If you can find two words unquoted that result in one result it's a googlewhack like this one was before Google found "eltiguan parainaugurarme" on this page and made it the second result.
BTW, my first google search was "war" and it returned something equivalent to "Your search term is too common to return a meanignful result. Narrow your search." Today it returns about 974 million results. It was long ago...
And you'll be back faster than a Google search result. Weeding out the crap?
Just for a sample, try this one: getfirefox. If the first link on that search goes to a Mozilla mirror you will win one Internet. Try Linux. Hey, this is fun. Spoiler: the first link there is always "www.Microsoft.com/Windows : Special Offers from Windows Vista® w/ the Purchase of Select Laptops." The first time I tried this I was looking for Open Office and wound up misdirected to a members only site where you had to register to download a probably spyware infested Open Officeand signing up for unlimited pharma spam. The scary part is that the text of the link misled me to believe I was headed for "OpenOffice.org". Try it and see. Let's find more horrifically inappropriate ad placements and query results, shall we? I'll bet you could come up with a really funny one.
Note: Please don't go to any of the sites linked to those search results through live.com. Bad things might happen to your Windows box and there's nothing there of interest for your powerbook.
Yeah, that's a good search result ad, don't you think? No wonder Google is becoming a verb.
That's a good choice. If you need another Mythbuntu client though you might try the Intel Atom motherboard. They've made great strides in power efficiency and it seems they'll make more.
I recommend the Pico PSU power kit to go with both yours and this new one. DC is the wave of the future.
The problem with it is it doesn't scale up. It works fine in a family setting where social pressure can encourage almost all people to contribute. That's how we run my family. On a national scale there are always the people who have an excessive sense of entitlement to exploit the efforts of the many. The many tire of this, and eventually stop trying and the whole thing grinds to a halt. In a family the cure for this is called "tough love". At a national level bureaucracy translates "tough love" into "genocide" and the whole thing falls apart. All systems have problems, but this defining problem of communism finds a failure state more quickly than other systems currently in the "noble experiment" phase.
It amazes me that an otherwise inquisitive and intelligent species has failed to find a system of organization that reliably and persistently works at a global level. Perhaps next year...
None of this has anything to do with the topic. Reforming or abolishing intellectual property law is about finding a solution that works "to promote the progress of science and useful arts". Copyright and patent law currently work to prevent the progress of science and useful arts. We need the progress of science and useful arts. Badly. All of us, in whatever condition. Anything that prevents the progress of science and useful arts must be abolished if we are to conquer the challenges before us and survive as independent nations, or even as a species. It's important. Really.
The next billion users just don't have the watts to put in. See this firehose article referencing this news report: IT capital Bangalore to face power cuts.
Intermittent power outages are going to pay hob with your VOIP-based tech-support unless they've got their redundant power bases covered. Normal users? If you aren't solar and wireless, you're offline for up to two hours each day. You kilowatt gamers? You'll have to goldfarm later I guess.
Microsoft isn't set to invent blogging until 2011, after including it as a LiveCloud application in Windows 7. By 3Q2011 you are all expected to offer some awed respect to the brilliant innovation of user generated content (patent pending). Guidance is the same for all of their products: stay away from version 1, even numbered and prime numbered versions, and every version before the first service pack.
Cmdr Taco is not yet charging by the comment. It's not necessary to do so because the comments are made from 100% recycled electrons. The comment that bothers you expresses succinctly the shock that such an event could occur in a supposedly fair system. Complain that it's rude or vulgar. It is, and so are the events that induced it. Don't complain that it says nothing, because it conveys an emotion felt by many of us. I'm sure some famous person once said "The trick of writing well is to say what you mean, then stop."
These patents involving a stick as a proportional control for direction are creative, innovative and represent a clever improvement in the art. What I'm not sure of is how the inventor is alive still, as the idea has been around for quite a while, as shown by these craft which used the identical principle.
Aw, who am I kidding? If there were no patents all of the people involved here could have spent the last year of their lives doing something useful instead of quite carefully and at horrific cost arriving at a conclusion destined to be overturned on appeal. All they've accomplished is to drive up the cost of everything we buy and impede the progress of science and the useful arts.
Let's try abolishing patents instead. Ideally we would want companies to replace the lawyers with engineers afterward, and maybe export the lawyers overseas to prevent them from continuing to be a drain on society.
Since we're talking about the walmart cluster try one of these gPC units for $199. Power is really low, but not as low as the item in TFA. I've bought them and they work great for linux or XP. Slap a couple terabyte SATA drives in there and it makes a fine media server.
If you want to save some watts and noise convert it to DC with a pico-psu for another fifty. If you're going for high density get four and mount the other three motherboards inside the first one, or mount them all on sheet of lexan - they make an interesting digital industrial wall covering for about the price of a nice framed print. BTW, if you're going for the wall covering look with the PicoPSU I would recommend Intel's Atom motherboard instead. It burns fewer watts and is cheaper because it doesn't come with a case and PSU. You'll have to buy a gig stick of DDR2 to go with it, but you're still money ahead going this way.
I think where we went astray was forcing our aid into places despite the armed opposition of various forces. As soon as the aid truck needs armed guards, a lack of aid is not the real problem and it will not help.
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Or actually using it apparently.
Wine is much better than it used to be. Try it again. I'm not going to tell you I test drove it in front of a panel of noobs, but really -- try it again.
Now go round up the understander because if the team doesn't get what I'm saying here their mission will fail no matter how often you dismiss informed criticism.
Not that I care -- making fun of them is one of my favorite things. They should buy AOL and Yahoo. It would complete the triumvirate of Internet Suck and implode. That would be fun to watch.
Yeah, it's too late to reboot the engineering (again) so they have no choice but to reboot the marketing. This is a half billion dollars that could have been spent on something useful like feeding stations for urban feral cats. sigh. They didn't get a good result with the first billion they spent - this is just sending good money after bad.
The challenge before the new messaging team is there are a lot of people who haven't tried Vista and they need to get them to try it. This challenge is more of a problem because there are also a lot of people who have tried Vista and they're not shy about sharing their experience with anyone who will listen. The more successful they are the fewer of the former there will be and the more of the latter. That's a recursive failure right there. You don't want people to "get the facts" when the facts are not on your side. Follow the lawyer's advice and hammer on the table instead.
The easy response to this disinformation campaign is "Your Mileage May Vary."
Atheros hired Luis R. Rodriguez, the developer of the Linux kernel Atheros driver, back in April with the intention of doing just this. Congratulations!
C'mon guys. I mentioned that they were ads in my post twice. Try and follow along.
I don't know why so many people think that I missed that they're ads. I mentioned it twice. Is all of slashdot caffeine deficient this morning?
And yeah, taking misleading ad placements on your own trademark to help the advertisers dupe naive users is low even for Microsoft. Doing it with somebody else's trademark is worse, but all search providers have problems with this. My point is that Google fights this nonsense pretty actively. Live.com doesn't even appear to try. The thought of using it to try to find a driver update, repair a broken .dll and select a good antivirus out from amongst the attempts to dupe you into being exploited is like sifting manure for pearls in a minefield even to me. I can't imagine what the prospect must be like to someone who's not in the biz. And there's so much of this spam garbage in their search results that once you move away from the top 1000 terms it takes all day to sort through the irrelevant data to find what you're looking for - which is what the search engine is supposed to be doing for you. That is entirely the point of the search engine after all.
Anyway, that's why when most people need to know something they just Google it.
File system objects are themselves imaginary. Although it is useful to create and store a hierarchical system for referencing the data on the disk, these things are programmatic methods to reproduce consistent references of data locations and metadata for the convenience of absent minded humans. They do not in fact have any physical existence at all. There is not a magical manila folder factory inside your hard drive. Any patent that relies on the presence or absence of these imaginary objects is iffy at best.
And further, "In Unix everything is a file."
I know this is slashdot, but if you carefully reread the post you responded to you'll find the last line mentions that these maliciously deceptive links are ads. I'm not trying to mislead anybody. Are you?
Now go to google and type "live search", "Microsoft" and "Microsoft Office" (without the quotes). If you can't explain why the ads and search results that Google puts on those pages are qualitatively better then you're not qualified to judge my comment. On a lark I went back to Live and did those searches too. If you search for "Microsoft" on Live today it shows three ads, each of which is likely to be more harm than help. This is why Microsoft is third in search and fading despite wasting billions on it. They just don't get it and they never will.
The "tell" for this lie is that people will try it. Did you think of that, Mr astroturf man? And what do you think they will find besides proof? You shouldn't submit this one for credit if you want to keep your job.
Specifically which page was the trillionth?
You'll be back faster than a Google search result.
It's harder to do now. If you can find two words unquoted that result in one result it's a googlewhack like this one was before Google found "eltiguan parainaugurarme" on this page and made it the second result.
BTW, my first google search was "war" and it returned something equivalent to "Your search term is too common to return a meanignful result. Narrow your search." Today it returns about 974 million results. It was long ago...
And you'll be back faster than a Google search result. Weeding out the crap?
Just for a sample, try this one: getfirefox. If the first link on that search goes to a Mozilla mirror you will win one Internet. Try Linux. Hey, this is fun. Spoiler: the first link there is always "www.Microsoft.com/Windows : Special Offers from Windows Vista® w/ the Purchase of Select Laptops." The first time I tried this I was looking for Open Office and wound up misdirected to a members only site where you had to register to download a probably spyware infested Open Office and signing up for unlimited pharma spam. The scary part is that the text of the link misled me to believe I was headed for "OpenOffice.org". Try it and see. Let's find more horrifically inappropriate ad placements and query results, shall we? I'll bet you could come up with a really funny one.
Note: Please don't go to any of the sites linked to those search results through live.com. Bad things might happen to your Windows box and there's nothing there of interest for your powerbook.
Yeah, that's a good search result ad, don't you think? No wonder Google is becoming a verb.
That's a good choice. If you need another Mythbuntu client though you might try the Intel Atom motherboard. They've made great strides in power efficiency and it seems they'll make more.
I recommend the Pico PSU power kit to go with both yours and this new one. DC is the wave of the future.
The problem with it is it doesn't scale up. It works fine in a family setting where social pressure can encourage almost all people to contribute. That's how we run my family. On a national scale there are always the people who have an excessive sense of entitlement to exploit the efforts of the many. The many tire of this, and eventually stop trying and the whole thing grinds to a halt. In a family the cure for this is called "tough love". At a national level bureaucracy translates "tough love" into "genocide" and the whole thing falls apart. All systems have problems, but this defining problem of communism finds a failure state more quickly than other systems currently in the "noble experiment" phase.
It amazes me that an otherwise inquisitive and intelligent species has failed to find a system of organization that reliably and persistently works at a global level. Perhaps next year...
None of this has anything to do with the topic. Reforming or abolishing intellectual property law is about finding a solution that works "to promote the progress of science and useful arts". Copyright and patent law currently work to prevent the progress of science and useful arts. We need the progress of science and useful arts. Badly. All of us, in whatever condition. Anything that prevents the progress of science and useful arts must be abolished if we are to conquer the challenges before us and survive as independent nations, or even as a species. It's important. Really.
The next billion users just don't have the watts to put in. See this firehose article referencing this news report: IT capital Bangalore to face power cuts.
Intermittent power outages are going to pay hob with your VOIP-based tech-support unless they've got their redundant power bases covered. Normal users? If you aren't solar and wireless, you're offline for up to two hours each day. You kilowatt gamers? You'll have to goldfarm later I guess.
I say it every year and this is as good a place to say it as any.
The easiest way to get the watts off your processor and out of your PC is...
not to put them in. Duh. Fortunately, somebody is listening. Finally.
Microsoft isn't set to invent blogging until 2011, after including it as a LiveCloud application in Windows 7. By 3Q2011 you are all expected to offer some awed respect to the brilliant innovation of user generated content (patent pending). Guidance is the same for all of their products: stay away from version 1, even numbered and prime numbered versions, and every version before the first service pack.
Cmdr Taco is not yet charging by the comment. It's not necessary to do so because the comments are made from 100% recycled electrons. The comment that bothers you expresses succinctly the shock that such an event could occur in a supposedly fair system. Complain that it's rude or vulgar. It is, and so are the events that induced it. Don't complain that it says nothing, because it conveys an emotion felt by many of us. I'm sure some famous person once said "The trick of writing well is to say what you mean, then stop."
These patents involving a stick as a proportional control for direction are creative, innovative and represent a clever improvement in the art. What I'm not sure of is how the inventor is alive still, as the idea has been around for quite a while, as shown by these craft which used the identical principle.
Aw, who am I kidding? If there were no patents all of the people involved here could have spent the last year of their lives doing something useful instead of quite carefully and at horrific cost arriving at a conclusion destined to be overturned on appeal. All they've accomplished is to drive up the cost of everything we buy and impede the progress of science and the useful arts.
Patents and copyright need to go away.
foils your plan.
Let's try abolishing patents instead. Ideally we would want companies to replace the lawyers with engineers afterward, and maybe export the lawyers overseas to prevent them from continuing to be a drain on society.
Since we're talking about the walmart cluster try one of these gPC units for $199. Power is really low, but not as low as the item in TFA. I've bought them and they work great for linux or XP. Slap a couple terabyte SATA drives in there and it makes a fine media server.
If you want to save some watts and noise convert it to DC with a pico-psu for another fifty. If you're going for high density get four and mount the other three motherboards inside the first one, or mount them all on sheet of lexan - they make an interesting digital industrial wall covering for about the price of a nice framed print. BTW, if you're going for the wall covering look with the PicoPSU I would recommend Intel's Atom motherboard instead. It burns fewer watts and is cheaper because it doesn't come with a case and PSU. You'll have to buy a gig stick of DDR2 to go with it, but you're still money ahead going this way.
I think where we went astray was forcing our aid into places despite the armed opposition of various forces. As soon as the aid truck needs armed guards, a lack of aid is not the real problem and it will not help.