What value has been added to this article by posting it here on/.? The BBC site covered this story yesterday, and I'm sorry to say that "Davian" has not added any new insight, comment or opinion other than simply saying "Here's a link to something else". In fact the opener "Davian writes" is a blatant falsehood. He's written nothing at all!
Am I missing the point that Davian has *found* the story? On a public new site? Is Davian's "discovery" newsworthy?
I have to wonder if this is the more likely direction for slashdot - simply aggregating other sites' content and piggybacking on their journalism. If it is, then there's a lot of sites that will soon look very much the same.
So, a constructive suggestion (in a weak attempt to dodge being modded a troll) - either add value to the article or don't post it here.
Especially if it's been published on a public news site - that makes it old news
"All we can say is that Spiderbait performs better than Radiohead," said Mr Salmon.
Only for the typical Auzzie who thinks tie-dying is fashionable.
information is shared smoothly and intelligently
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Is This the Holodeck?
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information is shared smoothly and intelligently regardless of location or language
These initiatives are usually well intentioned (Japan has a vested intererest in understanding what the hell every other English speaker in the world is talking about), well funded (Japan has more money than you think) and utterly doomed to failure.
Title: The Milky Way is Not a Spiral? Leader: Milky Way is in fact a barred spiral.
Umm, don't want to sound picky (I'm often criticised for doing so here), but isn't a barred spiral galaxy still a spiral galaxy?
Straight up career advice for this field
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Infosec Career Hacking
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· Score: 2, Interesting
1. Learn about computers at an ivy-league but technically questionable university. 2. Ask your well-connected buddy from said university if you can join him working at the NSA. 3. Get a job in security because you're just "the right kinda guy".
The iTunes Music Store has finally come to the Land of the Rising Sun!
It was always going to happen, the problem is that although you feel an affinity with the Apple itunes technology, you don't speak Japanese or understand the music distribution system in Japan, so it seemed doubtful because the information wasn't available in English.
The companies that sing the loudest praises of the Linux and open source "hippie dream" now will be the ones who eventually scorn it the most.
Take note IBM Inc., Google Inc., and most other touchy-feely open companies with more than just one person on the payroll. Take Redhat Inc., who were built on the efforts of volunteers whose work gradually became subsumed into a profit-driven entity only to snip the umbilical cord of the "hippie dream" after Redhat Version 9.
Yeah, welcome to capitalism fellow hippies. I hope they enjoy their stay.
It'll keep the generally rude and indifferent London Underground staff attentive for a change with exclamations like "Phwoar! Get that camera-fingy on err!".
Unfortunately, companies can't be fined for breaching any aspect of the Data Protection Act, apart from when they don't pay the Information Commissioner their data controller register subscription fee!
So in the UK, you can dispose of personal information by leaving it on the street and you can't be prosecuted. The fine should be much higher though, and personal and punitive damages should be applied, IMO.
Fair enough. I don't doubt that - Linuxheads are Linux's greatest enemy.
However lets not forget that there are snakes in the grass - some people just get Linux. Others don't, but now they're happy to claim that they did all along...
Is this the breakthrough we needed to finally make HDTV and flat-panel computer displays *really* affordable?
Not if Motorola has anything to do with it.
MOTOROLA CORPORATE STRATEGY circa 1930 (CONFIDENTIAL)
1. Invent something brilliant. 2. Overprice it. 3. Watch your competitors undercut you with better products 4. Produce a "budget" model to compete with said competitors 5. Get branded the lame duck of the industry 6. Claim to have invented it and therefore have a god-given right to overcharge and underfeature it. 7. Umm.... profi... hang on, look what we've invented!
Senior executives' strategies usually outlive technologies. Unfortunately.
Capitalism works. Capitalism with greed and dishonesty will not.
Yessss. That's the problem though isn't it? Capitalism goes well with greed and corruption is inherent where you have greed.
That's socialism you're talking about. Japan invests in social capitalism - full employment is a stated economic goal.
Think about it....
In other news IBM offloads all those workers
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IBM Gives SCO the Works
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who scanned for the SCO code. Thank goodness the job is done.
The lawyers are happy, because they got paid, the shareholders are happy because their investment paid (this quarter), the CEO and board are happy because they got paid a bonus (again).
The IBM employees? They get what they deserved. Every 13,000 of them. Welcome to capitalism - enjoy your stay!
Slashdot Mirror
For quite some time, it was only the Google fanboys here (and there are quite a few) who were under any illusions about Google Incorporated.
Microsoft was once A Good Company.
What value has been added to this article by posting it here on /.? The BBC site covered this story yesterday, and I'm sorry to say that "Davian" has not added any new insight, comment or opinion other than simply saying "Here's a link to something else". In fact the opener "Davian writes" is a blatant falsehood. He's written nothing at all!
Am I missing the point that Davian has *found* the story? On a public new site? Is Davian's "discovery" newsworthy?
I have to wonder if this is the more likely direction for slashdot - simply aggregating other sites' content and piggybacking on their journalism. If it is, then there's a lot of sites that will soon look very much the same.
So, a constructive suggestion (in a weak attempt to dodge being modded a troll) - either add value to the article or don't post it here.
Especially if it's been published on a public news site - that makes it old news
"All we can say is that Spiderbait performs better than Radiohead," said Mr Salmon.
Only for the typical Auzzie who thinks tie-dying is fashionable.
information is shared smoothly and intelligently regardless of location or language
These initiatives are usually well intentioned (Japan has a vested intererest in understanding what the hell every other English speaker in the world is talking about), well funded (Japan has more money than you think) and utterly doomed to failure.
Wait another ten years. Move along here.
Oh dear.
Well that'll serve me right for thinking that Sun users have a sense of humour.
Sun's Java is overrated - proprietary, large memory footprint, awful swing interface for desktop apps.
.NET incorporated into it, with a good dev IDE like VS.NET, that would be something ...
Now if Solaris had
Title:
The Milky Way is Not a Spiral?
Leader:
Milky Way is in fact a barred spiral.
Umm, don't want to sound picky (I'm often criticised for doing so here), but isn't a barred spiral galaxy still a spiral galaxy?
1. Learn about computers at an ivy-league but technically questionable university.
2. Ask your well-connected buddy from said university if you can join him working at the NSA.
3. Get a job in security because you're just "the right kinda guy".
The iTunes Music Store has finally come to the Land of the Rising Sun!
It was always going to happen, the problem is that although you feel an affinity with the Apple itunes technology, you don't speak Japanese or understand the music distribution system in Japan, so it seemed doubtful because the information wasn't available in English.
On the map view, zoom into my hometown near Birmingham, UK using "Road Map" view.
Switch to "Aerial Photo" view and BLAM! straight in downtown Atlanta, USA.
It's amazing. I never knew my hometown could do that!
The companies that sing the loudest praises of the Linux and open source "hippie dream" now will be the ones who eventually scorn it the most.
Take note IBM Inc., Google Inc., and most other touchy-feely open companies with more than just one person on the payroll. Take Redhat Inc., who were built on the efforts of volunteers whose work gradually became subsumed into a profit-driven entity only to snip the umbilical cord of the "hippie dream" after Redhat Version 9.
Yeah, welcome to capitalism fellow hippies. I hope they enjoy their stay.
It'll keep the generally rude and indifferent London Underground staff attentive for a change with exclamations like "Phwoar! Get that camera-fingy on err!".
Pasty
They could find a better name for it.
All this talk of mobile RIMming and Nokia swallowing RIM just sounds a bit icky.
It's meant for legal downloads only, of course.
I wonder how long it'll take to seed my Win2Ksrc.zip file.
Hehe.
Unfortunately, companies can't be fined for breaching any aspect of the Data Protection Act, apart from when they don't pay the Information Commissioner their data controller register subscription fee!
So in the UK, you can dispose of personal information by leaving it on the street and you can't be prosecuted. The fine should be much higher though, and personal and punitive damages should be applied, IMO.
What's more interesting is that if you do just that - try again 30 seconds later ... it's still broken.
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No Billboards in Space
No farting either. Or copying DVDs. Britney is banned in space too.
Fair enough. I don't doubt that - Linuxheads are Linux's greatest enemy.
...
However lets not forget that there are snakes in the grass - some people just get Linux. Others don't, but now they're happy to claim that they did all along
What this Bill Thompson?
The one that told Linux users to "get real" ?
Broadcast Flag 2 - Electric Bugaloo
... oh I geddit.
... in DCeee. Rock down to electric avenue ... we's goin' digitaaal.
What's an 80's break-dancing craze got to do with
Down witha FCCee
Is this the breakthrough we needed to finally make HDTV and flat-panel computer displays *really* affordable?
.... profi ... hang on, look what we've invented!
Not if Motorola has anything to do with it.
MOTOROLA CORPORATE STRATEGY circa 1930 (CONFIDENTIAL)
1. Invent something brilliant.
2. Overprice it.
3. Watch your competitors undercut you with better products
4. Produce a "budget" model to compete with said competitors
5. Get branded the lame duck of the industry
6. Claim to have invented it and therefore have a god-given right to overcharge and underfeature it.
7. Umm
Senior executives' strategies usually outlive technologies. Unfortunately.
Capitalism works. Capitalism with greed and dishonesty will not.
....
Yessss. That's the problem though isn't it? Capitalism goes well with greed and corruption is inherent where you have greed.
That's socialism you're talking about. Japan invests in social capitalism - full employment is a stated economic goal.
Think about it
who scanned for the SCO code. Thank goodness the job is done.
The lawyers are happy, because they got paid, the shareholders are happy because their investment paid (this quarter), the CEO and board are happy because they got paid a bonus (again).
The IBM employees? They get what they deserved. Every 13,000 of them. Welcome to capitalism - enjoy your stay!