I logged into my eTrade account this afternoon to have a look at the status of my stock options, and just for the hell of it punched in "SCOX" on the stock symbol search box. I got the expected info on the current stock price, market cap, etc., but was bewildered when I went to the "Company News" section. Believe it or not, fellow slashdot geeks, nothing I saw on eTrade linked to the Open Group, the FSF, or to Linus' "they're smoking crack" comment.
SCO's press releases are being reported as straight news. The business world isn't going to wake up and smack SCO because right now they have no clue about what SCO is really up to.
I was 10 years old back then and I recalled it clearly as soon as I read these words. You're talking about the one where the little boy gives him a Coke, and Joe gives the kid his jersey, right?
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From the article (emphasis mine): ...tap into a conversation while a call is been set up and a phone at the receiver's end...
Early trials of the system on students in the computer science department at Queen Mary showed that it was 99% accurate in spotting who was using a mouse to sign.
That could have been written better. Or does that really mean the system is only trying to distinguish who is signing with a mouse, as opposed to something else like a tablet or their tongue on a touch screen?
Within 50 years in the likely case, and without question within 100 years, robots will perform every task essential to human survival. Robots will grow, package, transport and sell all of the food we eat. Robots will build all of the housing we live in. Robots will make, transport and sell all of the clothes we wear. Robots will manufacture all consumer products, put them on the shelves and take the money that we pay for them.
And then they'll install us in a virtual reality that keeps us pacified while they harvest thermal energy from our imprisoned bodies!
"When you're building apps," notes Forrester's Schadler, "it's not a Windows versus Linux decision. It's a Java-on-Linux versus Windows decision. Microsoft bundles a lot of stuff into Windows, into SQL Server, into the.Net framework -- if you're looking to build a generic app and deploy it at an all-in price point, Windows is going to win hands down because you get so much bundled in."
Imagine if you were fined whenever someone breaks into your house or car
It's not a valid analogy on many levels.
When your computer becomes infected, it is not only a danger to you but it's a danger to lots of other individuals and the computer using community at large. So why shouldn't it be considered criminally negligent to not use cheap and easy countermeasures and detection methods? The ignorance of the typical internet user is costing everyone, and the problem can be solved with little more than a little education!
In most places that allow carrying of firearms in public, it is illegal to discharge firearms into the air. Why? Because what goes up must come down. If someone gets beaned by a stray bullet coming down from the sky it may be an accident -- but it is an avoidable one.
Fines. Send out a campus-wide notification that the owner of any personal computer that is found to be infected with a virus or a worm will be subject to a fine of $25 per day for each day the infected computer is connected to the university network.
Imagine the parking situation if parking enforcement couldn't dole out fines. Thankfully, they can, so all those "no parking" signs carry some weight. If you want to get people to not be ignorant asses over something, hit 'em in their bottom line. It works every time.
It was feared by technical consultant Mike Okuda that any such attempt would look foolish in just a few years
And that was very wise of him. Remember Max Headroom? Max only occupied about 64 MB of RAM. Of course when that show was made, typical home computers had 64K of RAM. Supercomputers of the time had 64 MB of RAM.
As a computer geek, I know how to program, use the internet, and assemble collections of OEM components into working computers. I wince every time I see some Hollywood version of these activities, because they are always utterly ridiculous! They aim for entertainment value rather than realism. The teeming masses don't know any better. And they don't want to. A movie is supposed to be entertaining rather than educational or thought-provoking.
I bet it's the same for every profession. I'm sure real firefighters look at firefighting scenes in movies and find a hundred little inaccuracies or unrealistic stretches. Lawyers must have retched at "Legally Blonde". Hell, I've been on a witness stand and your average real-life court case is about as exciting as boiling pasta, and lawyers don't holler "I object" every two minutes.
Everybody who really understands the basics of General Relativity and Special Relativity knows why FTL travel and "subspace" communication can't happen. Hell, Star Trek is internally inconsistent as well -- how do you fire a phaser out of your ship's warp field, across normal space, and into another ship's warp field when both ships are travelling at some multiple of the speed of light? But the average viewer doesn't give a flip about Relativity and has no desire to analyze the fictional science. They just care that Worf gets warm fuzzy feelings about pounding Borg ships with photon torpedoes.
Even the ability to have EMail with scripts in it (just like HTML with JavaScript in it - there are some really good uses) is a reasonable concept.
Name some really good uses. Sending a virus or making a spam literally jump out at you does not count.
In fact, if not for the need for security, this feature is/was rather nice as you could do system updates by sending EMail to all of your employees and *poof" it was done when they got the EMail. (Or timesheets, or other scriptable tasks)
Not valid. Microsoft networking already provides a means to do system updates remotely, including having an administrator run scripts on client machines at will. Yes, you can use scripting in Outlook to create a little timesheet applet, but will it be significantly better than paper? Or better than a software package written for the purpose?
It's a great thought to integrate swiss army knife functionality into every tool you build. But is it really practical? What you end up with is a bunch of people using the wrong tool for the job, and a box full of tools that all suffer the same basic design flaws.
Here's a conspiracy theory that might not have been posited yet: SCO is going out of business, and they want to do it with a bang -- so, they are forcing the issue with the GPL to get its validity tested in court. And they are deliberately screwing themselves so they won't win, doing the FSF and the Open Source community a big favor -- and maybe making a few extra bucks at the same time.
I mean, on the face of things this whole deal is just so totally and completely wrong. It's ludicrous. So, what is SCO really up to?
Picture this: I walk by my bank at midnight while walking my dog, and I tug on the door to find it unlocked. I then write a letter and deliver it to the bank manager the next day. The letter says: You bank is unlocked at midnight. it may be possible for someone that is not authorized to walk in.
The analogy is incorrect. To make the analogy correct you would have subsequently mailed that same letter to the bank's customers, after noticing after a time that the bank still hadn't locked the door.
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I logged into my eTrade account this afternoon to have a look at the status of my stock options, and just for the hell of it punched in "SCOX" on the stock symbol search box. I got the expected info on the current stock price, market cap, etc., but was bewildered when I went to the "Company News" section. Believe it or not, fellow slashdot geeks, nothing I saw on eTrade linked to the Open Group, the FSF, or to Linus' "they're smoking crack" comment.
SCO's press releases are being reported as straight news. The business world isn't going to wake up and smack SCO because right now they have no clue about what SCO is really up to.
And then there's the photograph caption "Crashes often leave many dead". They are pointing out the obvious.
Actually I was around 5 or 6 - quite a bit less than 10. Wow.
Moore is not about humor. He is about catering to the fringe of whacky left-wing bags of mixed nuts just on the money-making side of the looney bin.
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d) You can't get a dual 3GHz Xeon for $725. You might be able to get a single 3GHz Xeon CPU (just the CPU itself) for around $500.
When your computer becomes infected, it is not only a danger to you but it's a danger to lots of other individuals and the computer using community at large. So why shouldn't it be considered criminally negligent to not use cheap and easy countermeasures and detection methods? The ignorance of the typical internet user is costing everyone, and the problem can be solved with little more than a little education!
In most places that allow carrying of firearms in public, it is illegal to discharge firearms into the air. Why? Because what goes up must come down. If someone gets beaned by a stray bullet coming down from the sky it may be an accident -- but it is an avoidable one.
Fines. Send out a campus-wide notification that the owner of any personal computer that is found to be infected with a virus or a worm will be subject to a fine of $25 per day for each day the infected computer is connected to the university network.
Imagine the parking situation if parking enforcement couldn't dole out fines. Thankfully, they can, so all those "no parking" signs carry some weight. If you want to get people to not be ignorant asses over something, hit 'em in their bottom line. It works every time.
You shouldn't care...it's entertainment!
As a computer geek, I know how to program, use the internet, and assemble collections of OEM components into working computers. I wince every time I see some Hollywood version of these activities, because they are always utterly ridiculous! They aim for entertainment value rather than realism. The teeming masses don't know any better. And they don't want to. A movie is supposed to be entertaining rather than educational or thought-provoking.
I bet it's the same for every profession. I'm sure real firefighters look at firefighting scenes in movies and find a hundred little inaccuracies or unrealistic stretches. Lawyers must have retched at "Legally Blonde". Hell, I've been on a witness stand and your average real-life court case is about as exciting as boiling pasta, and lawyers don't holler "I object" every two minutes.
Everybody who really understands the basics of General Relativity and Special Relativity knows why FTL travel and "subspace" communication can't happen. Hell, Star Trek is internally inconsistent as well -- how do you fire a phaser out of your ship's warp field, across normal space, and into another ship's warp field when both ships are travelling at some multiple of the speed of light? But the average viewer doesn't give a flip about Relativity and has no desire to analyze the fictional science. They just care that Worf gets warm fuzzy feelings about pounding Borg ships with photon torpedoes.
It's a great thought to integrate swiss army knife functionality into every tool you build. But is it really practical? What you end up with is a bunch of people using the wrong tool for the job, and a box full of tools that all suffer the same basic design flaws.
So, who wants to make book on whether or not she cracks it?
An instant messenger with file sharing capabilities has significant uses other than copyright infringement.
I mean, on the face of things this whole deal is just so totally and completely wrong. It's ludicrous. So, what is SCO really up to?