indeed, a rather ugly implication worthy of microsoft themselves.
But it still would most likely suffer from increased piracy.
As you said, legit proffessionals will get legit copies either for their buisness or themselves and so on, its how it works,
A large number of buisnisses would probably switch if they had Office on Linux i bet. But its not so microsoft can keep making their $50-150 bucks per copy of windows ontop of the copy of Office the company is realy after. Thats capitalism.
i belive quite sincearly in the concept hes mentioning, though hes probably just making a joke. the idea is sound. Posting with intent to provoke a trail by fire is the only way to test something against a REAL threat. mirrors unless their maintained by the same staff as the real ones and all the same connections etc... arent going to provide the same real test these ones will.
And im sure all the bored hackers out there appreciate the providing of a target:) as much as the providor (should) appreciate the risk and the realistic testing results.
your implication is that Microsoft might suffer SEGAs fate. I rather like that.
but its unlikely that in the immediate future MS will stop developing their own platform and convert to making software to run on other peoples platforms.
for one thing my university would have to configure it across over 500 windows machines, with users of at least 3 separate classes of privlidge, on more than 3 different SOEs, all using the same servers. which arent the same servers but actualy 2 servers to provide the privilidge services to those entitled (my centralised storage) but one per group (SCIS students have a SCIS storage space and access on scis machines, SCAM Students have a Scam storage and access on scam machines)
Could you coordinate 2 separate privilidged login classes on 2 different oses along with a global login system providing the basic services on common machines, all having to use the same authentication, each with different software sets and sometimes, sub sets...
Its a big nightmare. it could be done, but the effort isnt there and there happy with they global authentication but non global anything else system they have it helps keep the resources split into the 3 groups.
i think its not the editors fault. i think they need help. Programed help.
1st thing, DUPE DETECTION dear god cant SOMEONE find a way to put something in to warn em before they spam things 2 3 or even 4 times.
2nd thing, A Why you got rejected feedback, something like a drop down box that gives em a few simple things to send the poster that might perhaps result in the quality of whats posted going up, if people actualy know what their aiming for. ( we can only hope )
With these we should be looking forward to a slashdot with a lower dupe ratio and a better quality of article...
oh dear god i think i actualy started thinking like a damn responsible and well thought out individual. *watches struggle inside his head* argh...
its like google vs ms... only its my abilty to work efficiently and competently against my low work ethic.
GO GOOGLE!!! *resumes slacking off after aimless pointless typing*
Amongst the many little nuggets of wisdom ive learned, such as "Duct tape is only as strong as the material you attach it too", "Giving linux for free to people happy to pay you to make it work is profitable" and "eventualy everything will wind up in some torrent". There is one thats appropriate at the moment.
Nobody invented it. The Internet is best described with organic terms, it grew out of the interconection of networks, colonising new nodes and spreading as more wanted it. The US is where it all started, not who created it. To say so surmounts to claiming that they built it as well, which is blatantly rediculous given it was and has always been since its cessation as a darpa and academic project, a commercial undertaking by telecomunications and networking companies.
The internet owes it existance to a number of things outside the US, Vint Cerf and the CERN folks as well for instance, in the very least that proves something, since "the net" by and large when disscussed is reffering to the interconected layer of html and hypertext linked pages of html that are the result of their work, without these the internet would likely have remaind a technical place, as it was before the AOL explosion and the september that never ended.
I personaly only care about this as it is jabing me in the side nagging partialy if theres a way to profit from this somehow... I know that the US isnt stupid enough to declare war over the internet, and the US isnt strong enough in any way other than militarily (they got them nukes and thats why i said that, no ones got as many as em) that they can attempt to force control over the rest of the world, this isnt some kind of US/UN cold war... this is a rediculous schism between those with the power and those who want them to relinquish it for a lower amount of control.
i for one want to be able to work on my document wherever i can get online, and leverage the sheer size of my Gmail account more flexibly. at university i never get the same box every time and they wipe them completely, word reinstalls to default settings every time i login. I connect to a central server for my files and thats the only degree of portability between machines. Not to mention being unable to get anything but http in the linux labs (they even borked SSH to their public linux Terminal server) they fear linux there. I want this portability badly. Sit down, open my personalised google, open my half finished report, resume working, save, close, logout. change rooms, repeat progress. all without stuffing round with my acurrsed central login, so i can use ANY machine to work on with any login, as long as ive got net access i can happily get to my work and work with my settings:)
The a team of software engineers quit DEC before it had even started going to compaq, Dave Cutler and a chunk of his infamous PRISM project team were pulled to MS for their initial NT os, and cutler subsequently left after (before NT 4.0), not sure about the others. The Hardware engineers have stuck it through though mostly. There are people that have worked For DEC, Compaq, and HP without even moving their office in over a decade lol. But with the axing of the alpha line, the hardware engineers are now mostly redundant, and the remaining ones are slowly leaking out of HP. There was a large chunk "sold" to intel, and a large chunk contracted to, then bought by AMD (Ever realise the AMD K7 EV6 bus and the EV6 bus for alpha machines were one and the same. The Athlon owes a lot to the Alpha.) And in the dying days of the final development of the last generation of the Alpha cpus, those engineers that had stayed the course began to look at their options, and many Chose AMD. It seems that AMD not MS was the one that got most of the engineers.
But while " The Alpha architecture is getting a little long in the tooth," is true. Theres some personal satisfaction to knowing that the CPUs were designed manualy, All the way to the end the Alpha cpus were designed by the most talented engineers manualy without the kind of automated structure building tools that have speed up the development of electronic devices, and integrated circuts. And besides, Alphas were built to last, My rack mount alphaserver has the most industrial case ive ever seen it looks like a steel impact protection cage and with how much it weighs id swear it was one. But that was A DIGITAL AlphaServer, not a Compaq one... so again it seems like DEC truly did know the best way to do things, if not always the most profitable.
let me just add that massive bodies of all kinds are attacted towards eachother. so your point about them drifting apart is rather misleading. the expantion of the universe on a interstellar scale is not significant compared to the gravitational bonds of the galactic core that the stars orbit.
It is quite reasonable that stars can colide on their orbits around the galactic core. takes about 200 million years for the solar system to orbit the galactic core. 2 stars could have intersecting orbits and consequently collide at some point.
thats just the explanation for big ones. stars regularly form binary pairs, so all of this collision stuff is fairly regular orbital mechanics. Orbits decay. End of the argument.
because if you build a fancy machine and dont test it before you actualy get there, What happens when it doesnt work, you dont know if thats actualy a real reliable reading. It doesnt make any sence to send untested equipment millions of miles to search for something when you dont even know if it can find it at all.
whats interesting is that ive had similar thoughts myself. Ive contemplated selling my services to teach total n00bz how to play games at a level above "smacktard" before but the problem is the market, i dont have one. I know i could do it, and i know some would pay for it, but there arent enough for me to actualy get any buisness, thefore the effort per unit $ returned by trying to get people to pay is low, low enough i dont particularly want to bother.
it seems to me that this kind of thing is possible but rare. But what its sudenly interested me in is just what are the Teir 1 ISPs over in my Country, afaict there are only 2, each one of them being the owner/operator of one of the 2 major international telecomunication cable routes out of Australia. But can anyone tell me if this is wrong? are they just infrastructure providers, whos place exists to supply the Teir 1 ISPs, meaning they would be perhaps one or 2 more... anyone have any idea where detailed information regarding all these interconects, and the Teiring of various ISPs can be found? (global or australian info please since i dont live in the US the info would do me little good)
On a side note. Im getting shafted by a National ISP, Telsra operate a wholesale distribution network where other ISPs lease their infrastructure for their traffic and you want to guess what their peering is. NONE. This ISP has NO peering, and i get 10 gig a month before speedcapping. They have the largest network in the country, and i dont even get free traffic INSIDE IT.
Number one. As a gentoo on sparc user for some time if notcied what he means about java. Java works on Solaris/OpenSolaris on sparc and x86, but java only works on Linux on x86, java on linux sparc is very questionable. Proof point.
And as for suns buisness model yeah its so loosing money. Sun is a good company as is Trolltech. if i had moeny id invest it in sun. but thats my choise not yours.
And as for the freeness... open source is not always "open source"
CCDL != GPL
and personaly im just happy their both open soruce OSI aprooved:)
People who like using programs like Winamp, Foobar, or XMMS. These people may not appreicate the "iTunes only" issue at all. and what of people that laready got an MP3 player other than the iPod since they didnt have that extra hundred bucks to afford it?
orkut is like some perverse portugese party that you get invited to by some bi-lingual person with a vauge interest in a few people ther that are also bi lingual so you get dragged along and spend the entire time confused by people you dont understand!
that said... if orkut wasnt full of all these MILLIONS of brazillian groups it might be better. But its still damn good:)
im pretty sure it does, its also notouriously stingy with ram, when it has plenty it likes to "hold on" to it and use the swap incase something more important needs the ram, problem is it doesnt do it right.
Blender is still out there but while ive been trying to learn it. While ive learned enough to create simple shapes, its interface still leaves me scratching my head and trying to work out what to do to make what i want happen. I want to use it, but the interface seems to need work before i realy can.
yes i know, that was the incident that proves my point.
Which is why i love my token based security. Security card proves ID, device works. Lose card, inform managing authority, issue replacement. Much better for physical security for things like cars and houses than biometrics... since if its worth so much... theyll want to steal it anytway. Id rather not lose a finger or hand too.
wow, even Microsoft dont have pocket deep enough to keep these ravenous hordes at bay. a company that was happy taking 100 million a year loss for a few years kick starting the xbox doesnt have the $ to get into online music retail.
something is ****ed up there.
Surely these RIAA people will either start going broke, or theyll start chaging, or more likely the later as a consequence of the former.
Mabey someone needs to push Indy groups and emerging artits into an online freindly distribution scheme to get some success out there so others follow on their own.
Slashdot Mirror
indeed, a rather ugly implication worthy of microsoft themselves.
But it still would most likely suffer from increased piracy.
As you said, legit proffessionals will get legit copies either for their buisness or themselves and so on, its how it works,
A large number of buisnisses would probably switch if they had Office on Linux i bet. But its not so microsoft can keep making their $50-150 bucks per copy of windows ontop of the copy of Office the company is realy after. Thats capitalism.
i belive quite sincearly in the concept hes mentioning, though hes probably just making a joke. the idea is sound. Posting with intent to provoke a trail by fire is the only way to test something against a REAL threat. mirrors unless their maintained by the same staff as the real ones and all the same connections etc... arent going to provide the same real test these ones will.
:) as much as the providor (should) appreciate the risk and the realistic testing results.
And im sure all the bored hackers out there appreciate the providing of a target
your implication is that Microsoft might suffer SEGAs fate. I rather like that.
but its unlikely that in the immediate future MS will stop developing their own platform and convert to making software to run on other peoples platforms.
for one thing my university would have to configure it across over 500 windows machines, with users of at least 3 separate classes of privlidge, on more than 3 different SOEs, all using the same servers. which arent the same servers but actualy 2 servers to provide the privilidge services to those entitled (my centralised storage) but one per group (SCIS students have a SCIS storage space and access on scis machines, SCAM Students have a Scam storage and access on scam machines)
Could you coordinate 2 separate privilidged login classes on 2 different oses along with a global login system providing the basic services on common machines, all having to use the same authentication, each with different software sets and sometimes, sub sets...
Its a big nightmare. it could be done, but the effort isnt there and there happy with they global authentication but non global anything else system they have it helps keep the resources split into the 3 groups.
i think its not the editors fault. i think they need help. Programed help.
1st thing, DUPE DETECTION dear god cant SOMEONE find a way to put something in to warn em before they spam things 2 3 or even 4 times.
2nd thing, A Why you got rejected feedback, something like a drop down box that gives em a few simple things to send the poster that might perhaps result in the quality of whats posted going up, if people actualy know what their aiming for. ( we can only hope )
With these we should be looking forward to a slashdot with a lower dupe ratio and a better quality of article...
oh dear god i think i actualy started thinking like a damn responsible and well thought out individual. *watches struggle inside his head* argh...
its like google vs ms... only its my abilty to work efficiently and competently against my low work ethic.
GO GOOGLE!!!
*resumes slacking off after aimless pointless typing*
Amongst the many little nuggets of wisdom ive learned, such as "Duct tape is only as strong as the material you attach it too", "Giving linux for free to people happy to pay you to make it work is profitable" and "eventualy everything will wind up in some torrent". There is one thats appropriate at the moment.
"Sometimes a dirty hack Is the best soloution"
Ubuntu faster than courier.... Hrm. Sorry cant agree.
*waits through day 45 of 'i wonder if those 200 Ubuntu disks i ordered will arrive yet' time*
Nobody invented it.
The Internet is best described with organic terms, it grew out of the interconection of networks, colonising new nodes and spreading as more wanted it. The US is where it all started, not who created it. To say so surmounts to claiming that they built it as well, which is blatantly rediculous given it was and has always been since its cessation as a darpa and academic project, a commercial undertaking by telecomunications and networking companies.
The internet owes it existance to a number of things outside the US, Vint Cerf and the CERN folks as well for instance, in the very least that proves something, since "the net" by and large when disscussed is reffering to the interconected layer of html and hypertext linked pages of html that are the result of their work, without these the internet would likely have remaind a technical place, as it was before the AOL explosion and the september that never ended.
I personaly only care about this as it is jabing me in the side nagging partialy if theres a way to profit from this somehow... I know that the US isnt stupid enough to declare war over the internet, and the US isnt strong enough in any way other than militarily (they got them nukes and thats why i said that, no ones got as many as em) that they can attempt to force control over the rest of the world, this isnt some kind of US/UN cold war... this is a rediculous schism between those with the power and those who want them to relinquish it for a lower amount of control.
i for one want to be able to work on my document wherever i can get online, and leverage the sheer size of my Gmail account more flexibly. at university i never get the same box every time and they wipe them completely, word reinstalls to default settings every time i login. I connect to a central server for my files and thats the only degree of portability between machines. Not to mention being unable to get anything but http in the linux labs (they even borked SSH to their public linux Terminal server) they fear linux there. I want this portability badly. Sit down, open my personalised google, open my half finished report, resume working, save, close, logout. change rooms, repeat progress. all without stuffing round with my acurrsed central login, so i can use ANY machine to work on with any login, as long as ive got net access i can happily get to my work and work with my settings :)
The a team of software engineers quit DEC before it had even started going to compaq, Dave Cutler and a chunk of his infamous PRISM project team were pulled to MS for their initial NT os, and cutler subsequently left after (before NT 4.0), not sure about the others. The Hardware engineers have stuck it through though mostly. There are people that have worked For DEC, Compaq, and HP without even moving their office in over a decade lol. But with the axing of the alpha line, the hardware engineers are now mostly redundant, and the remaining ones are slowly leaking out of HP. There was a large chunk "sold" to intel, and a large chunk contracted to, then bought by AMD (Ever realise the AMD K7 EV6 bus and the EV6 bus for alpha machines were one and the same. The Athlon owes a lot to the Alpha.) And in the dying days of the final development of the last generation of the Alpha cpus, those engineers that had stayed the course began to look at their options, and many Chose AMD. It seems that AMD not MS was the one that got most of the engineers.
But while " The Alpha architecture is getting a little long in the tooth," is true. Theres some personal satisfaction to knowing that the CPUs were designed manualy, All the way to the end the Alpha cpus were designed by the most talented engineers manualy without the kind of automated structure building tools that have speed up the development of electronic devices, and integrated circuts. And besides, Alphas were built to last, My rack mount alphaserver has the most industrial case ive ever seen it looks like a steel impact protection cage and with how much it weighs id swear it was one. But that was A DIGITAL AlphaServer, not a Compaq one... so again it seems like DEC truly did know the best way to do things, if not always the most profitable.
let me just add that massive bodies of all kinds are attacted towards eachother. so your point about them drifting apart is rather misleading. the expantion of the universe on a interstellar scale is not significant compared to the gravitational bonds of the galactic core that the stars orbit.
It is quite reasonable that stars can colide on their orbits around the galactic core. takes about 200 million years for the solar system to orbit the galactic core. 2 stars could have intersecting orbits and consequently collide at some point.
thats just the explanation for big ones. stars regularly form binary pairs, so all of this collision stuff is fairly regular orbital mechanics. Orbits decay. End of the argument.
because if you build a fancy machine and dont test it before you actualy get there, What happens when it doesnt work, you dont know if thats actualy a real reliable reading. It doesnt make any sence to send untested equipment millions of miles to search for something when you dont even know if it can find it at all.
whats interesting is that ive had similar thoughts myself. Ive contemplated selling my services to teach total n00bz how to play games at a level above "smacktard" before but the problem is the market, i dont have one. I know i could do it, and i know some would pay for it, but there arent enough for me to actualy get any buisness, thefore the effort per unit $ returned by trying to get people to pay is low, low enough i dont particularly want to bother.
it seems to me that this kind of thing is possible but rare. But what its sudenly interested me in is just what are the Teir 1 ISPs over in my Country, afaict there are only 2, each one of them being the owner/operator of one of the 2 major international telecomunication cable routes out of Australia. But can anyone tell me if this is wrong? are they just infrastructure providers, whos place exists to supply the Teir 1 ISPs, meaning they would be perhaps one or 2 more... anyone have any idea where detailed information regarding all these interconects, and the Teiring of various ISPs can be found? (global or australian info please since i dont live in the US the info would do me little good)
On a side note. Im getting shafted by a National ISP, Telsra operate a wholesale distribution network where other ISPs lease their infrastructure for their traffic and you want to guess what their peering is. NONE. This ISP has NO peering, and i get 10 gig a month before speedcapping. They have the largest network in the country, and i dont even get free traffic INSIDE IT.
perfectly.
but they wont buy anything from itunes since they cant play it. (points to my implication as to why iTunes only play back is a problem)
Number one. As a gentoo on sparc user for some time if notcied what he means about java. Java works on Solaris/OpenSolaris on sparc and x86, but java only works on Linux on x86, java on linux sparc is very questionable. Proof point.
:)
And as for suns buisness model yeah its so loosing money. Sun is a good company as is Trolltech. if i had moeny id invest it in sun. but thats my choise not yours.
And as for the freeness... open source is not always "open source"
CCDL != GPL
and personaly im just happy their both open soruce OSI aprooved
no thats what dell are trying to get when they sell these machines without windows.
what about those it does bother?
People who like using programs like Winamp, Foobar, or XMMS. These people may not appreicate the "iTunes only" issue at all. and what of people that laready got an MP3 player other than the iPod since they didnt have that extra hundred bucks to afford it?
orkut is like some perverse portugese party that you get invited to by some bi-lingual person with a vauge interest in a few people ther that are also bi lingual so you get dragged along and spend the entire time confused by people you dont understand!
:)
that said... if orkut wasnt full of all these MILLIONS of brazillian groups it might be better. But its still damn good
One coral cache mirror fresh off the server.
c le.cfm?page=1&articleid=734&cid=2
http://www.hothardware.com.nyud.net:8090/viewarti
im pretty sure it does, its also notouriously stingy with ram, when it has plenty it likes to "hold on" to it and use the swap incase something more important needs the ram, problem is it doesnt do it right.
Blender is still out there but while ive been trying to learn it. While ive learned enough to create simple shapes, its interface still leaves me scratching my head and trying to work out what to do to make what i want happen. I want to use it, but the interface seems to need work before i realy can.
yes i know, that was the incident that proves my point.
Which is why i love my token based security. Security card proves ID, device works. Lose card, inform managing authority, issue replacement. Much better for physical security for things like cars and houses than biometrics... since if its worth so much... theyll want to steal it anytway. Id rather not lose a finger or hand too.
wow, even Microsoft dont have pocket deep enough to keep these ravenous hordes at bay. a company that was happy taking 100 million a year loss for a few years kick starting the xbox doesnt have the $ to get into online music retail.
something is ****ed up there.
Surely these RIAA people will either start going broke, or theyll start chaging, or more likely the later as a consequence of the former.
Mabey someone needs to push Indy groups and emerging artits into an online freindly distribution scheme to get some success out there so others follow on their own.
if only there was a way to turn ego into cash by using the large egos of others as a fuel sorce...