Microsoft-funded research concluded Windows was better than Novell's Linux.
Novell says Microsoft is wrong.
What part of this is exactly news?
If you go to Microsoft's Get The Facts website, you pretty much know you'll be bombarded with Windows-praising propaganda anyways. Or did you honestly expect them to just stand there and say "We suck at these workloads, and would prefer you to run $NON_MS_OS instead"?
Since the last A in both those abbreviations stands for 'America', it's probably not a heck of a lot...
We've got Stichting Brein here who claims to represent copyright holders, but aside from the occasional high-profile bust that is intended to show they're still at it, they aren't doing that much. If they are, they're managing to keep their activities well hidden.
The Union is paying the ISP to display those pages. If the ISP feels it is inappropriate for them to host those pages, they should terminate the hosting contract with the Union, *NOTIFY THEM*, and allow them to then take their pages elsewhere.
There's one big 'BUT' in this. They're not blocking the site itself. They're preventing their own customers from accessing that site. The rest of the world can still access it. While the Union is obviously pissed at this, the people who should be outraged are the customers who wanted unmeddled access to the internet. If the contract they have with the ISP allows the ISP to block sites, they have a contract under which the ISP has become responsible for the content they have access to, and is liable for allowing access to content the user by this contract shouldn't be able to.
Basically, the ISP has stomped its big foot on a legal hornets nest, and by all likelyhood is about to get stung.
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The above is a link to a guy who made a case for his Mini ITX board out of something like 25 8cm fans plus a few reinforcements.
Obviously, the machine isn't as silent as most of the home projects on that site try to be, but I'm sure the SlashDot crowd can appreciate the workmanship.
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The Turion will not have 1.6 hours worth of battery life.
From the article: "The answer is that the battery life isn't so good," Reynolds said, adding that Turion-powered systems could have up to one-third less battery life than laptops running on Intel's ultra low voltage products.
In other words, if your Pentium-M gives you 5 hours, your Turion will give you 3 hours and 20 minutes.
It would've been better if the nice editors at TheRegister reformatted the line to "two thirds of the battery life of laptops..." but I disgress.
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Anybody out there that managed to get the PDF and is willing to host it for a bit?
That site is crumbling under the slashdotting.
Since this is their second time around, you'd think they'd learned by now...
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Short version...
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· Score: 5, Insightful
KDevelop has Ruby bindings.
That's all the news in there. I really don't understand why the submitter chose to include a whole bunch of Python vs Ruby links. The actual news bit isn't about that at all...
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So they supposedly show you all that they have on file about you. How do you know it's absolutely *ALL* of it?
And how exactly does your privacy benefit from having yet another place available on the web with your data on it?
Maybe I'm overly paranoid, but the less boxen with my data on it, the better.
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Now this is just typical.
I'm the first to post about this Tocqueville / Microsoft connection, but because other people respond with similar information in reply to earlier posts my +5 Informative gets metamoderated to being redundant.
Thanks guys. Appreciated.
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Does that mean if I leave my bicycle unchained, and a person takes advantage of the situation it's my fault?
According to the insurance company, HELL YEAH!
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I'd like to point out that the guy is in fact the THIRD dutchman in space. The first one had emigrated to the US before he went up, but he took the banner of Zeeuws Vlaanderen (south-western province of the Netherlands) with him.
The REAL first dutchman in space was Lodewijk van der Berg (Nasa's BIO on him). Wubbo Ockels was second, and Kuipers, who is now up there, is the third.
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Whoops. Sorry, my bad. The google links don't hold the update from yesterday that were quoted in another comment.
Not a case of not RTFA. Just putting too much trust in a link to an outdated backup copy.
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Come on folks. This was a usenet post from 2001.
What is it exactly about this message that makes it relevant now?
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asking them to stop illegal file-sharing and pay compensation - or face legal action.
I wonder if the IFPI will be asking equally ludicrous amounts as the RIAA has.
The chairman's quote seems rather funny in this context though: "People are at real risk of being sued or prosecuted if they continue to rip off those who make music."
Pot. Kettle. Black. I guess he's got a good lawyer...
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people give you very weird looks when you tell them you don't use windows
It does have its perks though.
If your ISP decides to act up for whatever reason and you need to call the helpdesk, goal #1 is always to ditch the 1st line helpdesk drone that wants to sound knowledgable by asking if the machine is on and stuff.
Almost always the first thing out of their mouth once you've explained the problem is "When you right-click 'My Network'..." at which point you cut in with "I don't run Windows".
Next stop: 2nd line helpdesk:)
Cooper (and no, I've never seen an ISP that claimed to only support Windows)
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It's supposed to be an encrypted fileSYSTEM. What 'password file'? You've got a blob of ones and zeroes. Good luck!
Novell says Microsoft is wrong.
What part of this is exactly news?
If you go to Microsoft's Get The Facts website, you pretty much know you'll be bombarded with Windows-praising propaganda anyways. Or did you honestly expect them to just stand there and say "We suck at these workloads, and would prefer you to run $NON_MS_OS instead"?
Since the last A in both those abbreviations stands for 'America', it's probably not a heck of a lot... We've got Stichting Brein here who claims to represent copyright holders, but aside from the occasional high-profile bust that is intended to show they're still at it, they aren't doing that much. If they are, they're managing to keep their activities well hidden.
It works.
It stays within budget.
What's the problem?
Cooper
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There's one big 'BUT' in this. They're not blocking the site itself. They're preventing their own customers from accessing that site. The rest of the world can still access it. While the Union is obviously pissed at this, the people who should be outraged are the customers who wanted unmeddled access to the internet. If the contract they have with the ISP allows the ISP to block sites, they have a contract under which the ISP has become responsible for the content they have access to, and is liable for allowing access to content the user by this contract shouldn't be able to.
Basically, the ISP has stomped its big foot on a legal hornets nest, and by all likelyhood is about to get stung.
Cooper
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http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/coolcube/
The above is a link to a guy who made a case for his Mini ITX board out of something like 25 8cm fans plus a few reinforcements.
Obviously, the machine isn't as silent as most of the home projects on that site try to be, but I'm sure the SlashDot crowd can appreciate the workmanship.
Cooper
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From the article: "The answer is that the battery life isn't so good," Reynolds said, adding that Turion-powered systems could have up to one-third less battery life than laptops running on Intel's ultra low voltage products.
In other words, if your Pentium-M gives you 5 hours, your Turion will give you 3 hours and 20 minutes.
It would've been better if the nice editors at TheRegister reformatted the line to "two thirds of the battery life of laptops..." but I disgress.
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That site is crumbling under the slashdotting.
Since this is their second time around, you'd think they'd learned by now...
Cooper
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That's all the news in there. I really don't understand why the submitter chose to include a whole bunch of Python vs Ruby links. The actual news bit isn't about that at all...
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And how exactly does your privacy benefit from having yet another place available on the web with your data on it?
Maybe I'm overly paranoid, but the less boxen with my data on it, the better.
Cooper
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I'm the first to post about this Tocqueville / Microsoft connection, but because other people respond with similar information in reply to earlier posts my +5 Informative gets metamoderated to being redundant.
Thanks guys. Appreciated.
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Do you mean this very non-partisan intitute?
FUD, plain and simple.
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If such a bot comes down with a virus, should we label that virus an STD?
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According to the insurance company, HELL YEAH!
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Sounds like yesterday's news to me...
I know it's fun to bash Microsoft, but over and over with the same argument...?
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The REAL first dutchman in space was Lodewijk van der Berg (Nasa's BIO on him).
Wubbo Ockels was second, and Kuipers, who is now up there, is the third.
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Not a case of not RTFA. Just putting too much trust in a link to an outdated backup copy.
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What is it exactly about this message that makes it relevant now?
Cooper
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I wonder if the IFPI will be asking equally ludicrous amounts as the RIAA has.
The chairman's quote seems rather funny in this context though:
"People are at real risk of being sued or prosecuted if they continue to rip off those who make music."
Pot. Kettle. Black. I guess he's got a good lawyer...
Cooper
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and if it does then you're stupid and I hate you.
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It does have its perks though.
If your ISP decides to act up for whatever reason and you need to call the helpdesk, goal #1 is always to ditch the 1st line helpdesk drone that wants to sound knowledgable by asking if the machine is on and stuff.
Almost always the first thing out of their mouth once you've explained the problem is "When you right-click 'My Network'..." at which point you cut in with "I don't run Windows".
Next stop: 2nd line helpdesk :)
Cooper (and no, I've never seen an ISP that claimed to only support Windows)
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Plus, what's so bad about people running Macs these days?
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I absolutely love PostgreSQL, but it's difficult to recommend it to my cow-orkers who only run Windows.
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Intel Pentium M Thermal Design Power is listed as 24.5 Watt at 1.7 GHz, a FAR cry from the 7 Watt you claim
The 900 MHz and 1GHz ones are the 7 Watt models, but how those perform compared to an Efficeon I was unable to find.
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I give 'em about 2 days before they get sued for using such a similar name without permission.
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Oh wait...
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