Why can't anyone on/. criticize linux without being considered a troll. I use linux. It had incredible potential. However as long as it was used as a tool of geeks coding strictly for the good of humanity. Linux went nowhere before the late 90's when people like redhat realized they could make money off of it, and then it started to take off in server circles. As long as the goal is galactic domination, linux will not make it on the desktop.
what a great way to make sure a great invention never makes it big. I predict that in 10 years it will still have less than 5% market share. kind of like linux.
desire is not the issue. If you read the NY Times magazine this week about how easy it is to write viruses, you would realize that by teaching programming to anyone even vaguely interested in it, we are harming our own community. Programming is a dangerous skill and should only be used by people mature enough to use it responsibly. The best way to make sure they are mature enough is to make learning hard enough that all of those script kiddies will run off to download pr0n instead of learning to program.
This is slightly offtopic, but the same is true with Linux. in an attempt to gain market share, OSS advocates have been appealing to anyone anti-establishment and/or quasi geeky to join the movement, leading to the community to be made up in a large part by a bunch of immature teenage h4x0rs, who think it is 1337 to take down websites. It is quite possible that MYDOOM was written by one of these kids. Sadly, the rest of the world views the OSS community as just these kids and not the real programmers among us. We brought this upon ourselves.
Personally, I think people should be taught to program in APL or assembly language (see the/. story. i cant find the link) this way all those kids who have no business programming won't learn how to do it.
The ultimate future of Earth and Mars, and all the other planets in our system, is that they will be complete dissassembled for raw materials.p.
im from earth you insensitive clod.
"In 2001 an international panel of climate experts concluded that there is increasingly strong evidence that most of the global warming observed over the past 50 years is attributable to human activities..."
What, no mention of who sponsored the panel? With what governmental body (UN, etc.) or special interest group (Greenpeace, Sierra Club) they were affiliated? Sure, it's "international", but a convocation of pastry chefs is international if it includes people from multiple nations - and that still doesn't mean that they can make a good crepe.
I believe that was the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change under the auspices of the U.N.
There is a new email virus going around named kernel32.dll . Having this infected file on your harddrive will allow anyone on the internet ot see your data. In order to protect yourself, delete this file immidiately. if you computer does not allow you to delete this file directly, oyu must logout of windows in MS-DOS and type the followiing: format C: . Thank you for helping stamp out this virus.
Tom Ridge
Or if they want to get access to your files, they can instruct people to open ports, and everyone would do it.
Hopefully there'll be a public outcry within New Zealand."
call me a cynic, but considering that 90% of people use an OS that was copied from Apple, (Xerox) and that has since been granted numerous ridiculous patents on stuff they stole, I find it hard to believe that we will see a public outcry over this. the only peole yelling will be the one's yelling about M$'s monopoly, and no one had paid any attention to them yet, and that is unlikely to change in the future.
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There is a simpler to remember random 1's and zero's, just convert to base 10,and when you have to remember it, just convert back to binary.
I want to know the color breakdown.
Why can't anyone on /. criticize linux without being considered a troll. I use linux. It had incredible potential. However as long as it was used as a tool of geeks coding strictly for the good of humanity. Linux went nowhere before the late 90's when people like redhat realized they could make money off of it, and then it started to take off in server circles. As long as the goal is galactic domination, linux will not make it on the desktop.
what a great way to make sure a great invention never makes it big. I predict that in 10 years it will still have less than 5% market share. kind of like linux.
would you use a M$ product if you did not have to.
You will buy the DVD's
and a case of zantac b/c you are running windows.
This is slightly offtopic, but the same is true with Linux. in an attempt to gain market share, OSS advocates have been appealing to anyone anti-establishment and/or quasi geeky to join the movement, leading to the community to be made up in a large part by a bunch of immature teenage h4x0rs, who think it is 1337 to take down websites. It is quite possible that MYDOOM was written by one of these kids. Sadly, the rest of the world views the OSS community as just these kids and not the real programmers among us. We brought this upon ourselves.
Personally, I think people should be taught to program in APL or assembly language (see the /. story. i cant find the link) this way all those kids who have no business programming won't learn how to do it.
no. this is a slightly crippled version of XP, as opposed to the version they sell in the USA which is a highly crippled version.
The ultimate future of Earth and Mars, and all the other planets in our system, is that they will be complete dissassembled for raw materials.p. im from earth you insensitive clod.
all right!!!. this makes the five inches i put on around my waste last year look like nothing.
that would be through alpha decay for those who diid not pay attention in high school physics.
i for one support our new science community overlords.
Its not just Microsoft. Yahoo customized their software for China in order to censor certain topics. I believe google did the same.
What, no mention of who sponsored the panel? With what governmental body (UN, etc.) or special interest group (Greenpeace, Sierra Club) they were affiliated? Sure, it's "international", but a convocation of pastry chefs is international if it includes people from multiple nations - and that still doesn't mean that they can make a good crepe.
I believe that was the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change under the auspices of the U.N.
Pet rocks came with a manual.
My pet rock did not come with a manual. I'm still trying to fiigure out how to feed the damn thing.
on the good side, big mac has not gone down yet.
Dear Stupid computer user:
There is a new email virus going around named kernel32.dll . Having this infected file on your harddrive will allow anyone on the internet ot see your data. In order to protect yourself, delete this file immidiately. if you computer does not allow you to delete this file directly, oyu must logout of windows in MS-DOS and type the followiing: format C: . Thank you for helping stamp out this virus.
Tom Ridge
Or if they want to get access to your files, they can instruct people to open ports, and everyone would do it.
this is such a damn stupid idea.
kind of like comparing jaguas to panthers.
umm.. no. however i do feel guilty for having a linux box without paying $699 to SCO. wait a sec. i don't feel guilty about that either.
stupid commie bastards, why the hell would you name your 13th mission 'mars 5'.
i'm kind of the same way, except the part about with turning it on.
call me a cynic, but considering that 90% of people use an OS that was copied from Apple, (Xerox) and that has since been granted numerous ridiculous patents on stuff they stole, I find it hard to believe that we will see a public outcry over this. the only peole yelling will be the one's yelling about M$'s monopoly, and no one had paid any attention to them yet, and that is unlikely to change in the future.
how about a working mars rover?