And juding by your logic, if you have to use a boot floppy to fix your system then you're probably the cause of the break in the first place.
No, if someone is using a floppy then they have the sense to use the tools appropriate for the job, and are not likely to head crying for the nearest GUI. It's people like that who are more likely to have broken a system in the first place than those who know what they're doing, which leads me to wonder; should they be using a computer at all?
Windows with 95% has 10 of the top 20 vulnerabilities Unix with 5% also has 10 of the top 20 vulnerabilities.
I think the stats speak for themselves in which is more secure. If Win boxes can take such a phenomenal market share and still only have the same number of 'top' vulnerabilities, that's putting it 19 times more secure.
But I guess that is asking too much. I hope Ga Tech students enjoy using pencil and paper while their computer systems turn to a pile of molten metal.
Complete myth. Slashdot no more has the ability to 'melt' a server than it does to bring me mac & cheese at 2am.
It may saturate their bandwidth for a few hours (unlikely) or bring one web server's apache processes to more than the server can reliably handle interactively, but nothing melts, catches fire, gets destroyed or otherwise does more than a minor inconvenience.
I think it's interesting how LONG these astronauts are living. They seem to all be getting up to the 70s/80s.
Mustn't be too much bad with the radiation and stresses involved in being launched up into space regularly. Unless of course that's not what they did...
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For the first time in my life, within 4 weeks of one another, my sister lost her job, my friend lost his job, and his wife lost her job. These are NOT good times...although Bush would have us believe otherwise.
And the problems with these times are a carryover from the Clinton administration's disastrous policies. There is only so much recovery one president can do in one term, despite how good Bush is.
I can guarantee you if a Democrat gets in again you'll be sliding deeper and deeper.
I think iTunes on MacOS X is a Carbon application, ie based on an updated version of the old Macintosh APIs. If it's anything like Quicktime for Windows, the Windows version of iTunes probably makes use of what's effectively a Carbon layer for Windows.
It still only needs the right layer in there. OSX still uses a BSD interface which is alot similar, and OSX's fancy graphics are still X11 based, and music devices and disks are still/dev/whatever/ so I don't see any problem
honestly I dont see why nobody hasn't made a layer for binary compatibility for certain apps. run the original OSX itunes code on linux and have some of those BSD unique calls translated to linux and we're sweeeet!!!!
No. My reasoning is that a trojan, no matter how it modifies a system, has a chance of fucking it up.
Even valid updates from manufacturers have the odd really bad messup. Making a service crash, modifying a config file so it doesn't work, causing unexpected behaviour.
To give support to those writing such whiteknight worms gives support to any anonymous coder who might wish to fix a problem, with no concept of testing things on a system other than their own or a few others belonging to a "friend of a friend".
> Or is the author trying to portray the FOSS movement as all > good, and trying to sweep dirty laundry under the rug ?
Could be.
Or maybe another myth is that the F/OSS movement is one cohesive unit. It's probably wider in the variety of disparate views than many movements. This author's comments are just one of many, and give thought.
"If you're not willing to help fix it then you shouldn't complain about it"
This is not a problem. Not only is it not a problem, but it is at the core of getting great software out.
I'm sure many have heard how many photoshop users have complained about the GIMP, about its problems from their point of view, and often it's the same little dramas. the GUI, CMYK, whatever.
How long have we been hearing this argument now? 3 years? 4 years?.
Now imagine what a phenomenal product GIMP would be in the eyes of graphic artists who now use photoshop if only the people who had complained about it could be bothered to FIX what they see as problems. A few small years worth of effort in total, very little from each person who has seen something wrong, and the free tool would have surpassed the proprietary one years ago. Instead, all we get are more complaints.
Of course, the making of a noise may be the whole be all and end all to the complaining, with no intention of wanting a fix in the first place. Some people are like that, and that's just unfair.
Apple made $61 million dollars profit on $2.01 billion dollars in Q3/04 and had the highest CPU shipments in three and a half years
That's a miniscule amount when you look at the profits of just about any other tech company. $61million in profits can barely drive R&D for a company like Dell or Gateway.
Any thoughts on how long apple can keep up results this mediocre?
Someone tell Ken Brown of AdTI. I hear they're very interested in exposing the truth of this kind of thing. nonliteral copying, thieving code, stolen from__ oh it's OK if it's given to MS and they'll ignore it?
Look at the pricing of these. a 4GB MP3 player for $249. a 15GB MP3 player for $299. Which would you choose?
I seriously don't think the demand is that high for them, they're nothing more than a changed package with a FAR smaller drive inside, and I just don't think there's that many consumers silly enough to fall for the ruse.
Maybe if they were $149 where they should be, at that size.
It's simple enough that even my non-techie friends have figured how to use 90% of the functionality within 5 minutes. That's impressive design.
No, that's a lack of functionality. There are a lot of idiots out there. If they can work something in 5 minutes, it's not a particularly clever device.
It only plays the ATRAC format, which sounds like garbage. I'll dig up the listening test article later. The Ipod does so well because Apple prefers that people use the AAC format, but supports MP3, because that's where the money is.
The money is the brand, and everything else is second. While Apple may have a current spike in popularity, Sony is and always has been THE name for portable music. As soon as this hits the shelves, it's going to change the world for Apple, and for the worse.
There are still millions of people who know "Sony Walkman" as the only way to listen to portable music, and its their money that counts. Cheaper than the iPod, and since any other music format can be converted easily to ATRAC, to me that's a revolution right there.
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And juding by your logic, if you have to use a boot floppy to fix your system then you're probably the cause of the break in the first place.
No, if someone is using a floppy then they have the sense to use the tools appropriate for the job, and are not likely to head crying for the nearest GUI. It's people like that who are more likely to have broken a system in the first place than those who know what they're doing, which leads me to wonder; should they be using a computer at all?
Overkill. If you have to use something like knoppix to fix your system then you're probably the cause of the break in the first place.
Why bother with using bloated tools that only get in the way when you can do the exact same thing with a boot floppy.
Sometimes I wonder if the whole world has forgotten the meaning of efficiency in computing.
> Aren't you glad your shell is web-enabled?
Does it matter? Is this meant to be an attack on Microsoft just for its own sake? It's becoming as inane as spelling "Micro$oft" or "Windoze".
Web enabled shells? Show me an in-use unix shell that doesn't have Links or Lynx already installed.
Windows with 95% has 10 of the top 20 vulnerabilities
Unix with 5% also has 10 of the top 20 vulnerabilities.
I think the stats speak for themselves in which is more secure. If Win boxes can take such a phenomenal market share and still only have the same number of 'top' vulnerabilities, that's putting it 19 times more secure.
This is the same tech in all modern batteries. Increase surface area and you get more reaction. No different to heatsinks, it's been known for years.
Nothing to see here, Move along.
All that stuff for $5k looks like a good deal to me if you were into the stuff.
Not as bad as this moron expecting $12,000US for an early mac...
But I guess that is asking too much. I hope Ga Tech students enjoy using pencil and paper while their computer systems turn to a pile of molten metal.
Complete myth. Slashdot no more has the ability to 'melt' a server than it does to bring me mac & cheese at 2am.
It may saturate their bandwidth for a few hours (unlikely) or bring one web server's apache processes to more than the server can reliably handle interactively, but nothing melts, catches fire, gets destroyed or otherwise does more than a minor inconvenience.
I think it's interesting how LONG these astronauts are living. They seem to all be getting up to the 70s/80s.
Mustn't be too much bad with the radiation and stresses involved in being launched up into space regularly. Unless of course that's not what they did...
For the first time in my life, within 4 weeks of one another, my sister lost her job, my friend lost his job, and his wife lost her job.
These are NOT good times...although Bush would have us believe otherwise.
And the problems with these times are a carryover from the Clinton administration's disastrous policies. There is only so much recovery one president can do in one term, despite how good Bush is.
I can guarantee you if a Democrat gets in again you'll be sliding deeper and deeper.
> The "G5" processor has an AMD logo on it??? These aren't really G5 processors?
Where did you hear this?
I think iTunes on MacOS X is a Carbon application, ie based on an updated version of the old Macintosh APIs. If it's anything like Quicktime for Windows, the Windows version of iTunes probably makes use of what's effectively a Carbon layer for Windows.
/dev/whatever/ so I don't see any problem
It still only needs the right layer in there. OSX still uses a BSD interface which is alot similar, and OSX's fancy graphics are still X11 based, and music devices and disks are still
honestly I dont see why nobody hasn't made a layer for binary compatibility for certain apps. run the original OSX itunes code on linux and have some of those BSD unique calls translated to linux and we're sweeeet!!!!
No. My reasoning is that a trojan, no matter how it modifies a system, has a chance of fucking it up.
Even valid updates from manufacturers have the odd really bad messup. Making a service crash, modifying a config file so it doesn't work, causing unexpected behaviour.
To give support to those writing such whiteknight worms gives support to any anonymous coder who might wish to fix a problem, with no concept of testing things on a system other than their own or a few others belonging to a "friend of a friend".
> Ooh! show me these Linux-loving females!
e rinfo.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/us
Help. I still haven't finished compiling 2004.1!
> Or is the author trying to portray the FOSS movement as all
> good, and trying to sweep dirty laundry under the rug ?
Could be.
Or maybe another myth is that the F/OSS movement is one cohesive unit. It's probably wider in the variety of disparate views than many movements. This author's comments are just one of many, and give thought.
"If you're not willing to help fix it then you shouldn't complain about it"
This is not a problem. Not only is it not a problem, but it is at the core of getting great software out.
I'm sure many have heard how many photoshop users have complained about the GIMP, about its problems from their point of view, and often it's the same little dramas. the GUI, CMYK, whatever.
How long have we been hearing this argument now? 3 years? 4 years?.
Now imagine what a phenomenal product GIMP would be in the eyes of graphic artists who now use photoshop if only the people who had complained about it could be bothered to FIX what they see as problems. A few small years worth of effort in total, very little from each person who has seen something wrong, and the free tool would have surpassed the proprietary one years ago. Instead, all we get are more complaints.
Of course, the making of a noise may be the whole be all and end all to the complaining, with no intention of wanting a fix in the first place. Some people are like that, and that's just unfair.
Apple made $61 million dollars profit on $2.01 billion dollars in Q3/04 and had the highest CPU shipments in three and a half years
That's a miniscule amount when you look at the profits of just about any other tech company. $61million in profits can barely drive R&D for a company like Dell or Gateway.
Any thoughts on how long apple can keep up results this mediocre?
Someone tell Ken Brown of AdTI. I hear they're very interested in exposing the truth of this kind of thing. nonliteral copying, thieving code, stolen from__ oh it's OK if it's given to MS and they'll ignore it?
Being a monopoly isn't illegal
Using your monopoly position in illegal anticompetitive ways however, is.
Look at the pricing of these. a 4GB MP3 player for $249. a 15GB MP3 player for $299. Which would you choose?
I seriously don't think the demand is that high for them, they're nothing more than a changed package with a FAR smaller drive inside, and I just don't think there's that many consumers silly enough to fall for the ruse.
Maybe if they were $149 where they should be, at that size.
Dwindling market share is your definition of "hugely successful".
Who's the retard living in an alternate reality?
It's simple enough that even my non-techie friends have figured how to use 90% of the functionality within 5 minutes. That's impressive design.
No, that's a lack of functionality. There are a lot of idiots out there. If they can work something in 5 minutes, it's not a particularly clever device.
Wow, I hope that tactic works better than it did for Gateway.
Heh. or Apple. Do megacorps like throwing good money after bad?
Being highly allergic to marijuana, not me.
That's interesting considering it's physically impossible to be allergic to marijuana
I suggest you've had a spiked joint
It only plays the ATRAC format, which sounds like garbage. I'll dig up the listening test article later. The Ipod does so well because Apple prefers that people use the AAC format, but supports MP3, because that's where the money is.
The money is the brand, and everything else is second. While Apple may have a current spike in popularity, Sony is and always has been THE name for portable music. As soon as this hits the shelves, it's going to change the world for Apple, and for the worse.
There are still millions of people who know "Sony Walkman" as the only way to listen to portable music, and its their money that counts. Cheaper than the iPod, and since any other music format can be converted easily to ATRAC, to me that's a revolution right there.