Wall street lap dog companies are going to self implode in the next 10 - 20 years mark my words.
to these chumps who are only intrested in make a quick buck by raising share prices for a day via inreased venue announcments only see R&D as a drain on the company caused by some men in white coats playing games.
what these pony tail wearing yuppies don't understand is that it takes years and years of R&D to get new technology to market. you'd think they would understand R&D is an investment, just like an investment there is a risk you'll lose money but in general you'll stand to make a tidy return over time.
the funding has nothing to do with weather the project is open source or not. you've missed the point.
open source doesn't not need to = no funding. when will people understand this?
your reasonign is flawed. most of the internet is on non-ms boxes, yet a much high % of home user boxes are owned by viruses/hacks then any other group of system eg. apache web servers
I always laugh at this talk of porn sites popping out of no where bullshit.
i would argue 99.9% of people claiming this have either been looking for porn and got busted or are searching warez sites.
the other.01% have made an unfortunate typo in their URL.
no no NO. i can't believ this is +5 insightful.
the job of the internet SERVICE provider is just that, to provide the internet service.
heaven forbid a world where isp's start to apply upstream filters and controls on my account.
besides the obvious costs with these kinds of things there are the applications this might break, and no one will know it's breaks them till it happens.
isp's you provide me with internet access, and it'll decide what i do with it from there thank you.
the problem is that people need to be able to protect their work and profit from it if they wish. with out this there is no real incentive for most people to do anything much.
patents are a good thing when given out under very strict conditions, and should never be used to kill compeditors in an already developed market. eg. patenting gif files.
licensing can also provide a steady and secure income for a company allowing further development of products which can benifit us all.
the key is not so much that licensing and patents are bad, it's how they are misused.
unfortunately this is a symptom of american corperate culture.
yes becuase you can prove how well a mono culture works, see ms.
you fools, it's about time a fork of X appeared, i have been itching for an alternitive for ages now.
and for the clueless, this doesn't mean we will need to convince developers to write new drivers, see fork, see compatable, see becuase it's not closed source we can do this.
i have an sblive. mandrake 9 detected it and had it working without and intervention from me ( winxp didn't work out of the box ). so your either lieing or you have dodgy hardware
which boot loader, respond to what keyboard comannds? I've never had trouble like that even on old hardware
I run a pathology lab off samba, it prints just fine.
if your mouse is freezing, and all these other problems i suspect either your full shit and a troll, or your pc has serious hardware issues.
saying that letting companies get away with not releasing source isn't a big deal haven't got the faintest idea. if you don't defend copyrights you lose them.
these companys are trying to take a free ride. if not releasing source become acceptable then when the time comes we really do want something, we will have a major battle on our hands.
better if everyone just gets used to coughing up their damn code and sticks to the bloody rules.
my pentax optio S works perfectly. in fact i am sure the camera has nothing to do with it and usb has everything,becuase all camera's with usb are just mounted as usb drives am i right?
and anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool.
everyone out there can use linux at home to do work, type up assignments etc. but either them or there kids will want to play games on that same pc and there is stops.
linux is shit for games and until it can do everything windows can it won't dominate.
not always. win95/98/xp/2000 and all the office releases were out on time weren't they? and full of holes. you have a valid point about vapourware releases and dates, but thats common in all but the OSS industry. don't get me wrong my dream is to move my work over to linux thin clients that boot off an image on a central server and run off perl/apache build applications. just observing thats all.
all this slipage is a cover for the fact that ms has been listening to it's customers ( forced by some healthy oss pressure )
1: we don't want to be forced into upgrade cycles every 12 months. enterprise systems don't work that way.
2: take the time and fix the damn bugs. we are paying for this shit lets see it work properly.
3: if your known to be running this software blackhats will LOVE IT. you'll be a prize target becuase they will wanna see how this thing works. imagine if you had 2 companys running this thing, and you launched a DOS on company A in such a way to fool this software into thinking company B was attacking it and it automaticly attacked it, causing company B to fire back? ahah the kaos!!!
This is just corp. rubbish. I can think of 2 reasons this thing will either prove to be emabressingly useless or most probably vapourware.
1: they aren't giving details on HOW they DOS the zombie pc's, which makes me think it's designed to impress investors and clueless gov officals and thats it.
2:The very nature of a DDoS means the attacker will have more bandwidth then you. whats it going to do, in the middle of a slashdot style swamping start sending our MORE data?!?!?
What and the propitery ssl servers don't suffer from this? give me a break.
the fact is ssl certificates from vendors are worthless, it's just revenue raising scam and provides no extra security to users.
the POINT of ssl is encrypted data transfer, not these hokey popups
i'm not disagreeing with this "Mistakes made through incompetence can have no excuse and must be met with a message that says we will not tolerate incompetence in our medical practitioners."
BUT how are you going to like it when it's impossible for you to even see a doctor? things are already critical, people suffer and DIE already becuase there simply is no one to treat them, i mean why would anyone work crazy hours and spend decades studying just for the chance to be the target of a lawsuit from some wigga who isn't happy becuase you couldn't work a miraicle?
I say put an end to probono work for medical cases eg. ambulance chasers.
and put an end to massive million dollar pay outs.
guess what, people aren't going to like this, but it's going to have to be too bad so sad. like it or not mistakes are made, doctors and medical staff aren't perfect. people expect too much.
things can't continue as they are, we are at crisis point now for crying out loud.
I am speaking as someone involved in the medical profession in australia, I am not a doctor.
All of you idiots screaming that this is a bad idea haven't bothered to understand WHY this has come about. In australia and i suspect the rest of the world the cost of health care is being driven through the roof by insurance costs, becuase of litigation. Nothing wrong with a doctor being taken for malpractise, but no other profession in the world has to put up with this treats FOR 20 YEARS AFTER. the facts are, unless something is done to cork the costs of insurance for medical care, we won't have a health system. doctors don't have to work, you can't force them to put their homes etc at risk from ligtagous pricks as listed.
hmm no, i've run linux/freebsd 5.1/winn98/xp on the same pc and linux/freebsd were much much more reliable. they were the same if not easier to install. linux/freebsd were actually easier to install becuase they had drivers for my sb live.
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Wall street lap dog companies are going to self implode in the next 10 - 20 years mark my words. to these chumps who are only intrested in make a quick buck by raising share prices for a day via inreased venue announcments only see R&D as a drain on the company caused by some men in white coats playing games. what these pony tail wearing yuppies don't understand is that it takes years and years of R&D to get new technology to market. you'd think they would understand R&D is an investment, just like an investment there is a risk you'll lose money but in general you'll stand to make a tidy return over time.
the funding has nothing to do with weather the project is open source or not. you've missed the point. open source doesn't not need to = no funding. when will people understand this?
ha, see there's your problem. checking the source address takes time/resources.
your reasonign is flawed. most of the internet is on non-ms boxes, yet a much high % of home user boxes are owned by viruses/hacks then any other group of system eg. apache web servers
I always laugh at this talk of porn sites popping out of no where bullshit. i would argue 99.9% of people claiming this have either been looking for porn and got busted or are searching warez sites. the other .01% have made an unfortunate typo in their URL.
no no NO. i can't believ this is +5 insightful. the job of the internet SERVICE provider is just that, to provide the internet service. heaven forbid a world where isp's start to apply upstream filters and controls on my account. besides the obvious costs with these kinds of things there are the applications this might break, and no one will know it's breaks them till it happens. isp's you provide me with internet access, and it'll decide what i do with it from there thank you.
omg perl in it's death throws? rigghhhttt...
in other news, you have just proven that paid ms trolls lurk on slashdot waiting to get the first post.
the problem is that people need to be able to protect their work and profit from it if they wish. with out this there is no real incentive for most people to do anything much. patents are a good thing when given out under very strict conditions, and should never be used to kill compeditors in an already developed market. eg. patenting gif files. licensing can also provide a steady and secure income for a company allowing further development of products which can benifit us all. the key is not so much that licensing and patents are bad, it's how they are misused. unfortunately this is a symptom of american corperate culture.
yes becuase you can prove how well a mono culture works, see ms. you fools, it's about time a fork of X appeared, i have been itching for an alternitive for ages now. and for the clueless, this doesn't mean we will need to convince developers to write new drivers, see fork, see compatable, see becuase it's not closed source we can do this.
i have an sblive. mandrake 9 detected it and had it working without and intervention from me ( winxp didn't work out of the box ). so your either lieing or you have dodgy hardware which boot loader, respond to what keyboard comannds? I've never had trouble like that even on old hardware I run a pathology lab off samba, it prints just fine. if your mouse is freezing, and all these other problems i suspect either your full shit and a troll, or your pc has serious hardware issues.
yeah but that takes us back to windows - rebooting all the time.
saying that letting companies get away with not releasing source isn't a big deal haven't got the faintest idea. if you don't defend copyrights you lose them. these companys are trying to take a free ride. if not releasing source become acceptable then when the time comes we really do want something, we will have a major battle on our hands. better if everyone just gets used to coughing up their damn code and sticks to the bloody rules.
my pentax optio S works perfectly. in fact i am sure the camera has nothing to do with it and usb has everything,becuase all camera's with usb are just mounted as usb drives am i right?
and anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool. everyone out there can use linux at home to do work, type up assignments etc. but either them or there kids will want to play games on that same pc and there is stops. linux is shit for games and until it can do everything windows can it won't dominate.
not always. win95/98/xp/2000 and all the office releases were out on time weren't they? and full of holes.
you have a valid point about vapourware releases and dates, but thats common in all but the OSS industry.
don't get me wrong my dream is to move my work over to linux thin clients that boot off an image on a central server and run off perl/apache build applications. just observing thats all.
all this slipage is a cover for the fact that ms has been listening to it's customers ( forced by some healthy oss pressure ) 1: we don't want to be forced into upgrade cycles every 12 months. enterprise systems don't work that way. 2: take the time and fix the damn bugs. we are paying for this shit lets see it work properly.
wtf has a computer language got to do with your believe system, you fucking freak?
3: if your known to be running this software blackhats will LOVE IT. you'll be a prize target becuase they will wanna see how this thing works. imagine if you had 2 companys running this thing, and you launched a DOS on company A in such a way to fool this software into thinking company B was attacking it and it automaticly attacked it, causing company B to fire back? ahah the kaos!!!
This is just corp. rubbish. I can think of 2 reasons this thing will either prove to be emabressingly useless or most probably vapourware. 1: they aren't giving details on HOW they DOS the zombie pc's, which makes me think it's designed to impress investors and clueless gov officals and thats it. 2:The very nature of a DDoS means the attacker will have more bandwidth then you. whats it going to do, in the middle of a slashdot style swamping start sending our MORE data?!?!?
What and the propitery ssl servers don't suffer from this? give me a break. the fact is ssl certificates from vendors are worthless, it's just revenue raising scam and provides no extra security to users. the POINT of ssl is encrypted data transfer, not these hokey popups
i'm not disagreeing with this "Mistakes made through incompetence can have no excuse and must be met with a message that says we will not tolerate incompetence in our medical practitioners." BUT how are you going to like it when it's impossible for you to even see a doctor? things are already critical, people suffer and DIE already becuase there simply is no one to treat them, i mean why would anyone work crazy hours and spend decades studying just for the chance to be the target of a lawsuit from some wigga who isn't happy becuase you couldn't work a miraicle? I say put an end to probono work for medical cases eg. ambulance chasers. and put an end to massive million dollar pay outs.
guess what, people aren't going to like this, but it's going to have to be too bad so sad. like it or not mistakes are made, doctors and medical staff aren't perfect. people expect too much. things can't continue as they are, we are at crisis point now for crying out loud.
I am speaking as someone involved in the medical profession in australia, I am not a doctor. All of you idiots screaming that this is a bad idea haven't bothered to understand WHY this has come about. In australia and i suspect the rest of the world the cost of health care is being driven through the roof by insurance costs, becuase of litigation. Nothing wrong with a doctor being taken for malpractise, but no other profession in the world has to put up with this treats FOR 20 YEARS AFTER. the facts are, unless something is done to cork the costs of insurance for medical care, we won't have a health system. doctors don't have to work, you can't force them to put their homes etc at risk from ligtagous pricks as listed.
hmm no, i've run linux/freebsd 5.1/winn98/xp on the same pc and linux/freebsd were much much more reliable. they were the same if not easier to install. linux/freebsd were actually easier to install becuase they had drivers for my sb live.