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Yet there's something different between the ordinary spammer/search results manipulator, and bmw.de: the ordinary spammer has little content and zapping it usually improves the browsing experience of google users. Less V14gr4 and stuff. On the other hand, Google becomes less accurate by resetting the pagerank of bmw.de pages. If i search for bmw i would expect to find the official site among the first ones.
IMHO the lesson is: Monopoly isn't good, even if the monopolist isn't evil.
What we really need is for MS to release a patch to repair the stupid and irresponsible users out there. Why haven't they fixed this obvious security loophole?
Because intelligent and considerate users would ditch Windows and install Linux or OSX.
Of course, Apple really doesn't want people poking around inside their computers anyway, so...
I dunno about recent models but the 7300, the old LC and the older//gs that needed expansion were taken apart without a screwdriver. But, changing the battery of the LC was tough IIRC.
Until the latest macintels apple had open firmware. Even with models without open firmware multi booting different OSs and having several partitions was normal for a moderately experienced apple user, especially those who dealt with hfs on large volumes and the transition between macos - osx.
Back in 2001 i was being able to setup ad-hoc wireless for my powerbook with little effort after a quick googling (i had already enabled the airport modules when compiling the kernel).
Are the recent wlan interfaces to the hardware so different than previous generations ones? If so, Why? Is it like the graphic card market where one vendor might have some tricks to better performance that need customization of the interface? Seems idiotic to me, I'd have a wlan card be driven as much as possible as a wired NIC, their function is equivalent.
Maybe Bill gets distressed when a new card is instantly linux compatible, and wlan cards vendors know better than getting Bill upset?:D
hehe come on, wasn't Vista marketed as the next gen secure OS coming from a company who claim they are more secure and offer better ROI of the competition? Then it comes up they are porting code with bugs (if not backdoors) and they release a security update before the official release.
Sure, linux sometimes has the same kind of updates. But bug disclosement in linux isn't a terrorist activity, kernel versions are named 2.2, 2.4, 2.6 and earns it reputation on the field, not with marketing fluff.
Since all deb packages are signed and public key is stored on a different debian server it would take quite a bit of social engineering for the mirror admin to feed you modified packages. Debian people have anticipated this kind of problems, even if signed packages came out only after sarge release.
I recommend doing such practice, but skidding at high speed on dry surface gives you quite a different feel. It's not only a matter of faster reflexes needed. So practice but do not feel overconfident later.
Occurs to me that slashdot crowd sees this as something for a desktop pc. I guess nobody really wants a computer behaving differently depending on our mood. The best coworker, be it a PC or a person, is the one that doesn't let you down, not the one who accurately sees how you feel.
1. Perfection ways to monitor people's mood and, ultimately, thoughts.
2. Use $THREAT_OF_THE_MOMENT to have people getting monitored (sounds difficult? not at all. Just spread some civil disorder and having 911 replying only to calls from people who are monitored to be not lying or joking et voila')
3. no ????
4. Profit! (as in "better than big brother control of the people")
It might sure be harmful to the new crop of lazy developers. People who like programming, on the other hand, can spend less time reinventing the wheel and use it to improve their skills with problems more interesting than writing blog engines or shopping cart interfaces.
"Ran" means it cannot be used now because of no system/software update, I guess? I still keep a powermac 166 happily running sarge on 2.4 with 96 megs of ram, runs GUI apps too. Somebody productively running NT on similar macs today, let me know. Even if NT ran equally well it would have a price, that would make Linux a better option unless you like buying licenses for 30$ hardware.
And to make matters worse, the developers of KDE and Gnome decided that Windows was the be all and end-all of user interface design and implemented the whole shooting match, from the Start button to the taskbar.
Please explore those environments a little more: default gnome on powerpc linux distros looks a lot like system 7 and I recall kde on a rocklinux live cd allowing the user to have a mac like setting with one menubar at the top of the screen instead of one in every window.
I have enough experience of desktops as an user and chose XFCE because it's a no brainer to set up, has the traditional x11 black cursor instead of the less contrasting win like white one, and lets you change the order of the window buttons (old macos did it right, close box on one side, well clear of the other buttons on the other side).
In short, the problem of being controlled by a company depends on the company. And so far, Steve Jobs and his team have never failed us in creating cool, fun to use products. I don't think the Linux guys can say the same thing, since what they've done most of the time is to rip off old Windows and X11 interface ideas. Steve's willing to do things that are original, and beautiful, and some of us like both of those things, very much.
Apple is less evil, ok (I am on apple hardware since the//c for a reason, even if i switched) but i heard about the similarities between karelia's watson and apple's sherlock and, if true, this entry about the whole aqua interface.
So, if Tennessee taxes software as property... How do they determine the market value of Open Source
software?
And, how do they determine the business use of the software? If biz software were to be taxed first thing i'd consider would be running all on web applications with the server located outside the state, and the thin clients running a browser and solitaire. Tax That.
Seriously, I was wondering if it's not the tree we need to worry about, but asphalt instead. It consumes no CO2 and absorbs much more heat than leaves. Of course it all depend on how much asphalt we are going to put in tropical latitudes. It melts quite easily there i guess.
Free for the first hit? Your comparison is ridiculous - they've made it free so that you can use it for educational and non-commercial purposes. If you want to do commercial development, pay them. I see nothing wrong in that - it's the way businesses work.
It's the way business work when the competition is strong. Let trusted computing or similar evil schemes get rid of free software, then you will see how much a dev tools vendor cares if you want to develop for money or for fun. It'll be like the not so good old days: pay or else.
Rails is a Ruby app, the principle is that you just need to be familiar with some ruby and html to do everything. This rules out the possibility that rails developers are going to support other languages, it wouldn't make much sense.
Cute, a redundant first post. I guess that people reading the headline asked themselves that very same question and were annoyed to see it repeated in your comment?
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Yet there's something different between the ordinary spammer/search results manipulator, and bmw.de: the ordinary spammer has little content and zapping it usually improves the browsing experience of google users. Less V14gr4 and stuff. On the other hand, Google becomes less accurate by resetting the pagerank of bmw.de pages. If i search for bmw i would expect to find the official site among the first ones.
IMHO the lesson is: Monopoly isn't good, even if the monopolist isn't evil.
What we really need is for MS to release a patch to repair the stupid and irresponsible users out there. Why haven't they fixed this obvious security loophole?
Because intelligent and considerate users would ditch Windows and install Linux or OSX.
I respect god-made missiles, but a bulky briefcase is enough for a tactical nuke nowadays.
If my opponent spend gazillions on Star Wars shield, I'd go for something like The fourth protocol instead.
...are stars? or single?
Just ask your significant other...
(I know, this was a cruel one.)
Of course, Apple really doesn't want people poking around inside their computers anyway, so...
//gs that needed expansion were taken apart without a screwdriver. But, changing the battery of the LC was tough IIRC.
Until the latest macintels apple had open firmware. Even with models without open firmware multi booting different OSs and having several partitions was normal for a moderately experienced apple user, especially those who dealt with hfs on large volumes and the transition between macos - osx.
I dunno about recent models but the 7300, the old LC and the older
Back in 2001 i was being able to setup ad-hoc wireless for my powerbook with little effort after a quick googling (i had already enabled the airport modules when compiling the kernel).
:D
Are the recent wlan interfaces to the hardware so different than previous generations ones? If so, Why? Is it like the graphic card market where one vendor might have some tricks to better performance that need customization of the interface? Seems idiotic to me, I'd have a wlan card be driven as much as possible as a wired NIC, their function is equivalent.
Maybe Bill gets distressed when a new card is instantly linux compatible, and wlan cards vendors know better than getting Bill upset?
Well but you would have to scrap your usb devices for bluetooth ones, when (if) available.
The guys who get patents approved in EU and their parties won't get my vote until hell freezes over, too.
hehe come on, wasn't Vista marketed as the next gen secure OS coming from a company who claim they are more secure and offer better ROI of the competition? Then it comes up they are porting code with bugs (if not backdoors) and they release a security update before the official release.
Sure, linux sometimes has the same kind of updates. But bug disclosement in linux isn't a terrorist activity, kernel versions are named 2.2, 2.4, 2.6 and earns it reputation on the field, not with marketing fluff.
Since all deb packages are signed and public key is stored on a different debian server it would take quite a bit of social engineering for the mirror admin to feed you modified packages. Debian people have anticipated this kind of problems, even if signed packages came out only after sarge release.
I recommend doing such practice, but skidding at high speed on dry surface gives you quite a different feel. It's not only a matter of faster reflexes needed. So practice but do not feel overconfident later.
Occurs to me that slashdot crowd sees this as something for a desktop pc. I guess nobody really wants a computer behaving differently depending on our mood. The best coworker, be it a PC or a person, is the one that doesn't let you down, not the one who accurately sees how you feel. 1. Perfection ways to monitor people's mood and, ultimately, thoughts. 2. Use $THREAT_OF_THE_MOMENT to have people getting monitored (sounds difficult? not at all. Just spread some civil disorder and having 911 replying only to calls from people who are monitored to be not lying or joking et voila') 3. no ???? 4. Profit! (as in "better than big brother control of the people")
Argh, you spoiled the joke. Every developer who doesn't use frameworks could see that obvious programming mistake.
It might sure be harmful to the new crop of lazy developers. People who like programming, on the other hand, can spend less time reinventing the wheel and use it to improve their skills with problems more interesting than writing blog engines or shopping cart interfaces.
"Ran" means it cannot be used now because of no system/software update, I guess? I still keep a powermac 166 happily running sarge on 2.4 with 96 megs of ram, runs GUI apps too. Somebody productively running NT on similar macs today, let me know.
Even if NT ran equally well it would have a price, that would make Linux a better option unless you like buying licenses for 30$ hardware.
Outlook is a common word. Or, the magic 8 ball was really prophetic...
And to make matters worse, the developers of KDE and Gnome decided that Windows was the be all and end-all of user interface design and implemented the whole shooting match, from the Start button to the taskbar.
//c for a reason, even if i switched) but i heard about the similarities between karelia's watson and apple's sherlock and, if true, this entry about the whole aqua interface.
Please explore those environments a little more: default gnome on powerpc linux distros looks a lot like system 7 and I recall kde on a rocklinux live cd allowing the user to have a mac like setting with one menubar at the top of the screen instead of one in every window.
I have enough experience of desktops as an user and chose XFCE because it's a no brainer to set up, has the traditional x11 black cursor instead of the less contrasting win like white one, and lets you change the order of the window buttons (old macos did it right, close box on one side, well clear of the other buttons on the other side).
In short, the problem of being controlled by a company depends on the company. And so far, Steve Jobs and his team have never failed us in creating cool, fun to use products. I don't think the Linux guys can say the same thing, since what they've done most of the time is to rip off old Windows and X11 interface ideas. Steve's willing to do things that are original, and beautiful, and some of us like both of those things, very much.
Apple is less evil, ok (I am on apple hardware since the
So, if Tennessee taxes software as property... How do they determine the market value of Open Source software?
And, how do they determine the business use of the software? If biz software were to be taxed first thing i'd consider would be running all on web applications with the server located outside the state, and the thin clients running a browser and solitaire. Tax That.
Seriously, I was wondering if it's not the tree we need to worry about, but asphalt instead. It consumes no CO2 and absorbs much more heat than leaves. Of course it all depend on how much asphalt we are going to put in tropical latitudes. It melts quite easily there i guess.
Free for the first hit? Your comparison is ridiculous - they've made it free so that you can use it for educational and non-commercial purposes. If you want to do commercial development, pay them. I see nothing wrong in that - it's the way businesses work.
It's the way business work when the competition is strong. Let trusted computing or similar evil schemes get rid of free software, then you will see how much a dev tools vendor cares if you want to develop for money or for fun. It'll be like the not so good old days: pay or else.
Rails is a Ruby app, the principle is that you just need to be familiar with some ruby and html to do everything.
This rules out the possibility that rails developers are going to support other languages, it wouldn't make much sense.
beware, the "opera" link is wrong, goes to a portal full of ads.
Well I'd have to go back and watch MTV and use M$ stuff to tell you seriously how things are, so I'm joking.
For the record (literally), Ruby on rails has Find_by_sql which lets you use plain sql, with all the pros and cons.
Cute, a redundant first post. I guess that people reading the headline asked themselves that very same question and were annoyed to see it repeated in your comment?
Anyway, please be fair to MTV.