"Yes! I can finally use modern technology like IRC with email, rudimentary html editing, and a browser through the same application. How convenient and/or awesome!!!"
I downloaded this onto my mac and almost barfed immediately. This thing is a convoluted mess, and seems to be arbitrarily integrating things that aren't really meaningfully related. Kudos to the Open Sores community for providing yet another answer to the problem no one had.
This one. Because it's quite possibly the most irrelevant creation of mankind, that somehow still drains the world's collective brain of countless hours every day. I think that drawing a pint of blood, then drinking it only to vomit the contents into a sewer drain, to be a far better use of time than participating in this site. Please shut slashdot down.
Jacobson introduced congestion control to TCP after the threat of catestrophic congestion meltdown was imminent. This is arguably the aspect of TCP that made it viable as a global Internet protocol. It suprises me that this would be overlooked by the award.
What a pointless and inconsequential story. This isn't even interesting from a hobbyist's perspective -- it's sheer mental masturbation, crafted solely for a chuckle or two on the part of the people involved. This is not newsworthy in the slightest bit, even on a forum dedicated to nerdy news.
Please use more discretion in the future, slashdot!
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Really, the backward compatibility argument will keep you backwards forever. Zsh is by far the most advanced shell; unless you're constantly logging into several machines daily it is easily the best choice. Not to mention, the more you use it, the more popular, and thus ubiquitous, it becomes.
Generally, the majority of campus internet traffic these days is related to file sharing. Almost every colleges and university in the States has had to employ some method for dealing with this, from governing bandwidth distribution to simply upgrading infrastructure. Curbing the distribution of copyrighted data is not just about folding to the RIAA... it's a pragmatic solution to a huge problem.
The argument about more blank CD's being sold than prepressed makes sense if you think of the sheer bulk in blanks that (perhaps only a minority of) customers buy.
At an electronics store, a customer can buy a 100-disc spindle for the cost of a music CD. Each one of these requires 100 customers each buying one music disc. It's clear that it only takes a small number of people buying blank discs to offset the music sales.
Not to say this means what the RIAA is trying to say it means. I've bought a few spindles when they're practically given away at electronics vendors. I've yet to burn on even a fraction of these. Additionally, I could be using these (and often do) for data backups.
While I believe the RIAA's claim, that doesn't mean I agree with the idea it's trying to prove.
Sun stock is either a really good or really bad idea.
I think it comes down to them canning the Solaris mumbojumbo. It costs you 10 times to do on a Solaris server what you can do with Intel/AMD + Linux/*BSD. The coupling of their OS (which performs worse than the Open OS's) with their hardware (which, as they claim, is their intended market) will keep those things on the shelf more and more.
It looks like they're moving away from Solaris, which would be a good turn.
Intel's big problem is the binary compatibility they've stuck with since the 80x86 (more or less). Binary compatibility was important because so much programming was necessary at the assembler level that changing the chipset was prohibitive. This has kept a bad chipset in commission long, long after it should have died.
But then, if you can successfully market clock speed as the sole measure of performance, why bother offering something better?
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"Yes! I can finally use modern technology like IRC with email, rudimentary html editing, and a browser through the same application. How convenient and/or awesome!!!" I downloaded this onto my mac and almost barfed immediately. This thing is a convoluted mess, and seems to be arbitrarily integrating things that aren't really meaningfully related. Kudos to the Open Sores community for providing yet another answer to the problem no one had.
All your boys are belong to us. -Linux
This one. Because it's quite possibly the most irrelevant creation of mankind, that somehow still drains the world's collective brain of countless hours every day. I think that drawing a pint of blood, then drinking it only to vomit the contents into a sewer drain, to be a far better use of time than participating in this site. Please shut slashdot down.
Run Linux on your own fucking time you losers. Stop making this news.
we can answer David Bowie's question.
Jacobson introduced congestion control to TCP after the threat of catestrophic congestion meltdown was imminent. This is arguably the aspect of TCP that made it viable as a global Internet protocol. It suprises me that this would be overlooked by the award.
What a pointless and inconsequential story. This isn't even interesting from a hobbyist's perspective -- it's sheer mental masturbation, crafted solely for a chuckle or two on the part of the people involved. This is not newsworthy in the slightest bit, even on a forum dedicated to nerdy news. Please use more discretion in the future, slashdot!
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I haven't been able to get into my car for almost 2 months.
Haha she's got a cah-BOOSE!
Betcha didn't see that coming!!
NOooo!
damn transparent windoz look swzeet!
Really, the backward compatibility argument will keep you backwards forever. Zsh is by far the most advanced shell; unless you're constantly logging into several machines daily it is easily the best choice. Not to mention, the more you use it, the more popular, and thus ubiquitous, it becomes.
Generally, the majority of campus internet traffic these days is related to file sharing. Almost every colleges and university in the States has had to employ some method for dealing with this, from governing bandwidth distribution to simply upgrading infrastructure. Curbing the distribution of copyrighted data is not just about folding to the RIAA ... it's a pragmatic solution to a huge problem.
Now I can can play Super Contra on zsnes using a gratuitously large and complicated controller.
The argument about more blank CD's being sold than prepressed makes sense if you think of the sheer bulk in blanks that (perhaps only a minority of) customers buy. At an electronics store, a customer can buy a 100-disc spindle for the cost of a music CD. Each one of these requires 100 customers each buying one music disc. It's clear that it only takes a small number of people buying blank discs to offset the music sales. Not to say this means what the RIAA is trying to say it means. I've bought a few spindles when they're practically given away at electronics vendors. I've yet to burn on even a fraction of these. Additionally, I could be using these (and often do) for data backups. While I believe the RIAA's claim, that doesn't mean I agree with the idea it's trying to prove.
Sun stock is either a really good or really bad idea. I think it comes down to them canning the Solaris mumbojumbo. It costs you 10 times to do on a Solaris server what you can do with Intel/AMD + Linux/*BSD. The coupling of their OS (which performs worse than the Open OS's) with their hardware (which, as they claim, is their intended market) will keep those things on the shelf more and more. It looks like they're moving away from Solaris, which would be a good turn.
Intel's big problem is the binary compatibility they've stuck with since the 80x86 (more or less). Binary compatibility was important because so much programming was necessary at the assembler level that changing the chipset was prohibitive. This has kept a bad chipset in commission long, long after it should have died.
But then, if you can successfully market clock speed as the sole measure of performance, why bother offering something better?