Come'on, I don't believe this hype. I think it was perhaps a nice PR stunt to keep the browser name comming up on news sites. Keeping the buzz alive, Apple does it all the time!:)...Surely as a big corp. like Google, you don't just copy/paste TOS! Specially since they been working on it for a while and obviously pushing it real hard ( the front page of Google ).
Some marketing person is probably laughing all the way to the bank right now. Although I never ever actually seen ANYONE laughing going to or comming from the bank.
How can you people tolerate this junk on/. ? seriously... what the hell is this bullshit so called "news" they post here? Did Rupert Murdock buy/. and I missed it? I think I'm gonna be sick... too much propaganda... must... puke... now...
...could perhaps be if we all stopped consuming their products! No buying, no selling, no copying, no nothing. I'm pretty sure if people did that for a month or two, you would see these corps either disappear or back off right away.
1. Speak about someone making money. ( "bad" ) 2. Put the "Bill Gates" there somewhere. 3. Claim Bill does something horrible. 4. Post on Slashdot. 5. Get modded up!
Can't believe they modded your crap up. It's a new low, even for Slashdot. Seriously.
I think you are right, a couple of years Intel was "down" and AMD "up", now it's Intel's turn. This might all be a good show they put up for the rest of us.:o
Let's hope they don't die!
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Let us all hope they don't die, I'm almost an Intel fanboy but my god if AMD dies! Intel would rape us all. Competition is always healthy. I think AMD has good low priced CPUs though and they sure do the job.
Hate to ruin your day but where I come from, posting an URL without any other description or info is called SPAM. Specially when the URL is neither related to parent or the article in question... but then again, it's Slashdot so you might even get modded up just because it's some linux distro.
No problem. I have read all his books. I do recommend you to try his works, but I warn you : Once you read one, you will read them all!:)...He was indeed a great writer and a great man.
This really have touched me deeply, specially the ending. Somewhat related to the article and perhaps one day it actually happens.
Following by Isaac Asimov:
The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way:
Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov were two of the faithful attendants of Multivac. As well as any human beings could, they knew what lay behind the cold, clicking, flashing face -- miles and miles of face -- of that giant computer. They had at least a vague notion of the general plan of relays and circuits that had long since grown past the point where any single human could possibly have a firm grasp of the whole.
Multivac was self-adjusting and self-correcting. It had to be, for nothing human could adjust and correct it quickly enough or even adequately enough -- so Adell and Lupov attended the monstrous giant only lightly and superficially, yet as well as any men could. They fed it data, adjusted questions to its needs and translated the answers that were issued. Certainly they, and all others like them, were fully entitled to share In the glory that was Multivac's.
For decades, Multivac had helped design the ships and plot the trajectories that enabled man to reach the Moon, Mars, and Venus, but past that, Earth's poor resources could not support the ships. Too much energy was needed for the long trips. Earth exploited its coal and uranium with increasing efficiency, but there was only so much of both.
But slowly Multivac learned enough to answer deeper questions more fundamentally, and on May 14, 2061, what had been theory, became fact.
The energy of the sun was stored, converted, and utilized directly on a planet-wide scale. All Earth turned off its burning coal, its fissioning uranium, and flipped the switch that connected all of it to a small station, one mile in diameter, circling the Earth at half the distance of the Moon. All Earth ran by invisible beams of sunpower.
Seven days had not sufficed to dim the glory of it and Adell and Lupov finally managed to escape from the public function, and to meet in quiet where no one would think of looking for them, in the deserted underground chambers, where portions of the mighty buried body of Multivac showed. Unattended, idling, sorting data with contented lazy clickings, Multivac, too, had earned its vacation and the boys appreciated that. They had no intention, originally, of disturbing it.
They had brought a bottle with them, and their only concern at the moment was to relax in the company of each other and the bottle.
"It's amazing when you think of it," said Adell. His broad face had lines of weariness in it, and he stirred his drink slowly with a glass rod, watching the cubes of ice slur clumsily about. "All the energy we can possibly ever use for free. Enough energy, if we wanted to draw on it, to melt all Earth into a big drop of impure liquid iron, and still never miss the energy so used. All the energy we could ever use, forever and forever and forever."
Lupov cocked his head sideways. He had a trick of doing that when he wanted to be contrary, and he wanted to be contrary now, partly because he had had to carry the ice and glassware. "Not forever," he said.
"Oh, hell, just about forever. Till the sun runs down, Bert."
"That's not forever."
"All right, then. Billions and billions of years. Twenty billion, maybe. Are you satisfied?"
Lupov put his fingers through his thinning hair as though to reassure himself that some was still left and sipped gently at his own drink. "Twenty billion years isn't forever."
"Will, it will last our time, won't it?"
"So would the coal and uranium."
"All right, but now we can hook up each individual spaceship to the Solar Station, and it can go to Pluto and back a million times without ever worrying about fuel. You can't do
No, actually you don't need to eradicate lawyers. That would be treating symptoms and not the cause of it. Edadicate all those stupid laws and make the government smaller... and most of the lawyers will disappear with it.
well... as long as it's a real standard, doesn't really matter who came up with it. That's the whole point of standards. They are open and anyone can use them.
Windows Vista has "Support" for DRM, which means content creators such as music and movie makers can CHOOSE to use DRM... IF they want to. HOWEVER, there is no "DRM FORCE" on the user. Which means you CAN STILL use your downloaded mp3s and other files ( porn ) perfectly OK with Windows Vista.
If you dislike DRM, don't buy from the content creators which put DRM in their content. That has nothing to do with an Operating System.
Yes ofcourse. If you do not have enough money to buy stuff at $30 and consider that "expensive", perhaps it is time to change your life or line of work. I eat double that amount every day;)
I also forgot, I use Outlook so when sending out emails I use a dead pop3 which can send but not receive like noreply@ or something, and then you just set the "Send replies to" option of the email to correct alias for that person.
Another thing, to automate the above, I found this tool called "Outlook bells & whistles" ( http://www.emailaddressmanager.com/outlook-bells.html ) pretty cheap too, it's an add-on you can install on top of Outlook and you can set rules like "If emailing to a specific person, then use this email as reply to" this way you won't have to manually do all the work.
I open up groups of aliases, for example forum.*@domain.com and when needing to use one, I just give away forum.@domain.com since forum.* is already open I don't have to open them up every time I need an "email", in the start spammers guess a couple of them, like sales@ info@ billing@ but those are easily closed.
So all open until I get spam from one of them and then I close it. As long as you have a fairly unique grouping forum.*@ news.*@ etc, no problem at all.
You see, in my opinion having ONE email and giving it to everyone is like having your door open in middle of the city. But with my way, you "create" a new door for every person out there and you can shut that door off quickly. I really like the fact that this way I see who rat my email out. You will be surprised how many sites sell your email.
And if I need to have my email on my website, I just use a mailform.
Try this 30 days and you will realize why email got so big in the start, because it's a great great communication tool when there is no SPAM.:)
Slashdot Mirror
"coming from" ...sorry.
Come'on, I don't believe this hype. I think it was perhaps a nice PR stunt to keep the browser name comming up on news sites. Keeping the buzz alive, Apple does it all the time! :) ...Surely as a big corp. like Google, you don't just copy/paste TOS! Specially since they been working on it for a while and obviously pushing it real hard ( the front page of Google ).
Some marketing person is probably laughing all the way to the bank right now. Although I never ever actually seen ANYONE laughing going to or comming from the bank.
Informative for sure... got no mod points though. :(
I think you mean "Microsoft is sleeping", Microsoft can sleep, but I doubt Windows ( an OS ) can sleep. It can be put to sleep though. :p
nevertheless, very interesting! Really cool.
How can you people tolerate this junk on /. ? seriously... what the hell is this bullshit so called "news" they post here? Did Rupert Murdock buy /. and I missed it? I think I'm gonna be sick... too much propaganda... must... puke... now...
...could perhaps be if we all stopped consuming their products! No buying, no selling, no copying, no nothing. I'm pretty sure if people did that for a month or two, you would see these corps either disappear or back off right away.
1. Speak about someone making money. ( "bad" )
2. Put the "Bill Gates" there somewhere.
3. Claim Bill does something horrible.
4. Post on Slashdot.
5. Get modded up!
Can't believe they modded your crap up. It's a new low, even for Slashdot. Seriously.
I think you are right, a couple of years Intel was "down" and AMD "up", now it's Intel's turn. This might all be a good show they put up for the rest of us. :o
Let us all hope they don't die, I'm almost an Intel fanboy but my god if AMD dies! Intel would rape us all. Competition is always healthy. I think AMD has good low priced CPUs though and they sure do the job.
Hate to ruin your day but where I come from, posting an URL without any other description or info is called SPAM. Specially when the URL is neither related to parent or the article in question... but then again, it's Slashdot so you might even get modded up just because it's some linux distro.
You shouldn't hang the patenters, that would be treating the symptoms. Change the laws instead.
I don't think they are dieing though. ;)
No problem. I have read all his books. I do recommend you to try his works, but I warn you : Once you read one, you will read them all! :) ...He was indeed a great writer and a great man.
R.I.P. Asimov
This really have touched me deeply, specially the ending. Somewhat related to the article and perhaps one day it actually happens.
:
Following by Isaac Asimov
The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way:
Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov were two of the faithful attendants of Multivac. As well as any human beings could, they knew what lay behind the cold, clicking, flashing face -- miles and miles of face -- of that giant computer. They had at least a vague notion of the general plan of relays and circuits that had long since grown past the point where any single human could possibly have a firm grasp of the whole.
Multivac was self-adjusting and self-correcting. It had to be, for nothing human could adjust and correct it quickly enough or even adequately enough -- so Adell and Lupov attended the monstrous giant only lightly and superficially, yet as well as any men could. They fed it data, adjusted questions to its needs and translated the answers that were issued. Certainly they, and all others like them, were fully entitled to share In the glory that was Multivac's.
For decades, Multivac had helped design the ships and plot the trajectories that enabled man to reach the Moon, Mars, and Venus, but past that, Earth's poor resources could not support the ships. Too much energy was needed for the long trips. Earth exploited its coal and uranium with increasing efficiency, but there was only so much of both.
But slowly Multivac learned enough to answer deeper questions more fundamentally, and on May 14, 2061, what had been theory, became fact.
The energy of the sun was stored, converted, and utilized directly on a planet-wide scale. All Earth turned off its burning coal, its fissioning uranium, and flipped the switch that connected all of it to a small station, one mile in diameter, circling the Earth at half the distance of the Moon. All Earth ran by invisible beams of sunpower.
Seven days had not sufficed to dim the glory of it and Adell and Lupov finally managed to escape from the public function, and to meet in quiet where no one would think of looking for them, in the deserted underground chambers, where portions of the mighty buried body of Multivac showed. Unattended, idling, sorting data with contented lazy clickings, Multivac, too, had earned its vacation and the boys appreciated that. They had no intention, originally, of disturbing it.
They had brought a bottle with them, and their only concern at the moment was to relax in the company of each other and the bottle.
"It's amazing when you think of it," said Adell. His broad face had lines of weariness in it, and he stirred his drink slowly with a glass rod, watching the cubes of ice slur clumsily about. "All the energy we can possibly ever use for free. Enough energy, if we wanted to draw on it, to melt all Earth into a big drop of impure liquid iron, and still never miss the energy so used. All the energy we could ever use, forever and forever and forever."
Lupov cocked his head sideways. He had a trick of doing that when he wanted to be contrary, and he wanted to be contrary now, partly because he had had to carry the ice and glassware. "Not forever," he said.
"Oh, hell, just about forever. Till the sun runs down, Bert."
"That's not forever."
"All right, then. Billions and billions of years. Twenty billion, maybe. Are you satisfied?"
Lupov put his fingers through his thinning hair as though to reassure himself that some was still left and sipped gently at his own drink. "Twenty billion years isn't forever."
"Will, it will last our time, won't it?"
"So would the coal and uranium."
"All right, but now we can hook up each individual spaceship to the Solar Station, and it can go to Pluto and back a million times without ever worrying about fuel. You can't do
No, actually you don't need to eradicate lawyers. That would be treating symptoms and not the cause of it. Edadicate all those stupid laws and make the government smaller... and most of the lawyers will disappear with it.
Do I "need to" say more?
:)
darn it, I'll preview next time!
"...Rather obviously, the tracks are DRMed..."
They still don't get it! Do I say more?
well... as long as it's a real standard, doesn't really matter who came up with it. That's the whole point of standards. They are open and anyone can use them.
How about these... check out the videos, amazing : http://www.rense.com/Datapages/mystmachinedata.htm
These seem to be HUGE machines in orbit around Earth.
One big corporation bashing another... Get your popcorns and watch the show. Personally, I prefer Godzilla... yyyyyiii... *sound of Godzilla*
Windows Vista has "Support" for DRM, which means content creators such as music and movie makers can CHOOSE to use DRM... IF they want to. HOWEVER, there is no "DRM FORCE" on the user. Which means you CAN STILL use your downloaded mp3s and other files ( porn ) perfectly OK with Windows Vista.
If you dislike DRM, don't buy from the content creators which put DRM in their content. That has nothing to do with an Operating System.
Educate yourself.
Yes ofcourse. If you do not have enough money to buy stuff at $30 and consider that "expensive", perhaps it is time to change your life or line of work. I eat double that amount every day ;)
I also forgot, I use Outlook so when sending out emails I use a dead pop3 which can send but not receive like noreply@ or something, and then you just set the "Send replies to" option of the email to correct alias for that person.
Another thing, to automate the above, I found this tool called "Outlook bells & whistles" ( http://www.emailaddressmanager.com/outlook-bells.html ) pretty cheap too, it's an add-on you can install on top of Outlook and you can set rules like "If emailing to a specific person, then use this email as reply to" this way you won't have to manually do all the work.
I open up groups of aliases, for example forum.*@domain.com and when needing to use one, I just give away forum.@domain.com since forum.* is already open I don't have to open them up every time I need an "email", in the start spammers guess a couple of them, like sales@ info@ billing@ but those are easily closed.
:)
So all open until I get spam from one of them and then I close it. As long as you have a fairly unique grouping forum.*@ news.*@ etc, no problem at all.
You see, in my opinion having ONE email and giving it to everyone is like having your door open in middle of the city. But with my way, you "create" a new door for every person out there and you can shut that door off quickly. I really like the fact that this way I see who rat my email out. You will be surprised how many sites sell your email.
And if I need to have my email on my website, I just use a mailform.
Try this 30 days and you will realize why email got so big in the start, because it's a great great communication tool when there is no SPAM.