Anyone care to open a hotmail account and then forge an email to appear to come from that account....just to see what happens?
You mean, like the article says?
Maariv opened a new account with Hotmail and sent no email whatsoever from it. Using a different email, we filed a spam complaint, saying it came from the new Hotmail account. Attached were Internet headers from an old spam, where the sender's address was replaced with that of the new account. Within less than 24 hours, we received a message saying the new account was shut down.
Why go 60MPH when you can go 100Km/Hr! Though, it is pretty nice to be able to know 1mile = 1minute of driving sometimes, for shorter distances.
As a Torontonian, the 100kph limit is pretty much a lower bound, with the majority of drivers doing 120kph on major highways. In this respect, calculating your driving time is a simple matter of dividing by 2 (1 km = 30 sec).
In Montreal, on the other hand, people seem to be pretty close to the speed limits. Especially if they have Ontario plates.:)
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Since the book was about Linux... Is the book going to tell how to get around the XP problem?
I remember when my kids were infants, everyone warned us of the "terrible twos", meaning that when the became two years old they would be hard to manage.
Being a programmer myself, I'll simply count my child's age in binary. That way he'll go straight from 1 to 10, completely bypassing the problem area you're describing.
As a nifty side-effect, he'll also skip those terrible teenage years, and go straight into being a senior citizen before he attends kindergarten.
In what dimension do Slashdotters care about counting calories?
In the "Why doesn't someone generate a three-line PERL program that will calculate and track the number of calories consumed, then synchronize that data on my PDA and distribute the information via a built-in encrypted P2P client?" dimension, of course.
I think the idea that anyone would use one "media player" for everything is just stupid
But the average Win[95/98/Me/XP/2K] user doesn't say "I want to watch an AVI file" or "I want to watch an MPEG file", they say "I want to watch a movie". So having one player that handles multiple formats isn't such a bad idea after all.
*MOST* people could give two flying shits about the artist and how much money they make. I am one of them. I support free music.
Wow.
Most people *I* talk to have the exact opposite opinion. They feel ripped off not because the artist is getting rich off of CD sales, but because the middle-men are taking the majority of the cash. In fact, most people *I* talk to would rather download a complete album from $P2P_APP and send the artist $5 directly via mail.
But hey, if you feel that the artists don't deserve any money, that's certainly your right to think that way. I like free music too, but I certainly don't *expect* artists to do it with absolutely no financial incentive.
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Mr. Brown is up for the ride of his life (probably the last one as I can't imagine anyone taking him seriously after his paper gets out)
What are the odds that the paper will in fact be published? Couldn't this whole exercise just be a means of stirring up the pot? I can easily imagine a quiet statement along the lines of "the article was not published due to $RANDOM_REASON" coming out in the near future. But the FUD and talk remain fresh in the minds of the public.
By all means, do this too. Plenty of great music out there to choose from, given a bit of research. But it doesn't send the same message as buying an RIAA-sponsored CD then returning it. If all you do is buy from Indie labels, the RIAA will scream "lost sales due to piracy!" If you start bringing unopened discs back, on the other hand, they have to account for the sale and subsequent return.
What this argument fails to realize is that MS can't migrate 100% of its victims to the new format.
Yes, but a significant number of people will upgrade in order to stay in the Microsoft loop. Sure, there are people who get tired of playing this game and will switch over to OO.o or something similar, but I suspect that a number of people will reason the following:
1) We need to upgrade our office suite
2) Our choices are a newer version of Office or $OTHER_OFFICE_SUITE
3) Since both require upgrading and possible conversion time, might as well stick with Office.
Microsoft doesn't directly lose out if people don't upgrade, but it only gains when people do.
...Office 97 on Win 98
I believe that the file format for Office 97 is the same as that for Office 2000 (and is 99% compatible with Office XP). It was 95/75 that caused a fiasco. I could be wrong, though.
In terms of what versions I see most around here, many companies in this area are running Win2K with the respective version of Office. In terms of general home users, most people I know are running "questionally-obtained" copies of WinXP. Certainly on new PCs, as that's all that ships nowadays.
So, even the.doc format is fragmenting, and old Win users are unable to open documents written with the latest version.
That was exactly my point. Maybe it didn't come across as intended, but my stance was that Microsoft places a greater emphasis on profitability than compatibility.
Soon OO will be the tool of choice for navigating the multiple, more or less incompatible MS formats.
That would be nice indeed. All the more power to the OO.o developers in this respect.
But that edge is lost when changing the format drives away your customers when they can no longer interoperate...
You mean like the notorious Office95/97 issues that Microsoft implemented themselves? This is intentional -- it forces users to upgrade to the latest release. It's not a compatibility issue, it's a profitability issue.
MS can't change the format for fear of a user backlash of not being able to interoperate...
There's nothing to stop Microsoft from using an "open" standard in their next release, in addition to supporting older file formats (like they currently do). Look at your file filters for Office. There are filters to read older versions of Office documents, since the formats have changed. Again, it has nothing to do with compatibility. It has to do with user lock-in and guaranteed financial return.
Uh, by "cloning" a "closed" file format, you actually "open" the format to other uses.
The "edge" to which the parent refers is that of letting Microsoft define the format all the time. If Microsoft constantly sets the standard, then other developers who are creating "clones" spend most of their time trying to fiddle with the file format, rather than improve/extend the functionality of the software.
Sure, the format's open now, but what do you do when the company decides to change their file format for the next release of their software?
There is no puzzle solving or skill shooting or anything like that which prevents you from going forth. It's simply that you don't know that widget X goes in thing Y.
Reminds me of the last few King's Quest games that were released. In KQ5, to get past the Yeti you had to lob a pie at him, or something else completely unrelated. At that point, the games simply became a "click on everything with everything" mouse-fest. Ugh.
In the library at the firm where I work, I know exactly where Who's Who is. East wall, middle set of shelves, on the second shelf from the top. Can't miss it.
This is where the "Google vs. library book" analogy isn't quite accurate. Google doesn't contain any info itself -- Google is like the (card/electronic) catalogue system. It points to sites that contain the information. Who's Who, on the other hand, is a specific book with information. Granted it's pretty generalized, but still...
By knowing exactly where WW is already located, it's like saying "I already know the URL of the website that should give me the answer". That URL is equivalent to the book itself. In this scenario, using Google is a pointless exercise, and the "Internet" seek time would be much lower.
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Britsh humor
I've heard that phrase described as both "redundant" and "an oxymoron". Take your pick, I imagine.
as British as apple pi
Isn't that a highly irrational comment?
Anyone care to open a hotmail account and then forge an email to appear to come from that account....just to see what happens?
You mean, like the article says?
Maariv opened a new account with Hotmail and sent no email whatsoever from it. Using a different email, we filed a spam complaint, saying it came from the new Hotmail account. Attached were Internet headers from an old spam, where the sender's address was replaced with that of the new account. Within less than 24 hours, we received a message saying the new account was shut down.
RTFA? Yes, I must be new here...
Why go 60MPH when you can go 100Km/Hr! Though, it is pretty nice to be able to know 1mile = 1minute of driving sometimes, for shorter distances.
As a Torontonian, the 100kph limit is pretty much a lower bound, with the majority of drivers doing 120kph on major highways. In this respect, calculating your driving time is a simple matter of dividing by 2 (1 km = 30 sec).
In Montreal, on the other hand, people seem to be pretty close to the speed limits. Especially if they have Ontario plates. :)
Since the book was about Linux... Is the book going to tell how to get around the XP problem?
I'd say you just answered your own question.
Suppose I've got terabytes of data...
Well, in that case you shoulda kept it on floppies or something.
Please insert disk 457,982,221,010 of 695,763,100,218 to continue...
Next thing you know the <blink> tag will come back
Blinking text with CSS
And, interstingly enough, from that link:
Not many modern browsers do support this. Opera and Mozilla based browsers do support this effect with CSS.
I remember when my kids were infants, everyone warned us of the "terrible twos", meaning that when the became two years old they would be hard to manage.
Being a programmer myself, I'll simply count my child's age in binary. That way he'll go straight from 1 to 10, completely bypassing the problem area you're describing.
As a nifty side-effect, he'll also skip those terrible teenage years, and go straight into being a senior citizen before he attends kindergarten.
In what dimension do Slashdotters care about counting calories?
In the "Why doesn't someone generate a three-line PERL program that will calculate and track the number of calories consumed, then synchronize that data on my PDA and distribute the information via a built-in encrypted P2P client?" dimension, of course.
Or maybe it's just me.
Maybe you're thinking of Public Enemy's Flava Flav? Same time-frame, though.
I think that might be the crucial factor there. After all, how can we effectively measure things that we're just starting to discover?
Human females have a more pronounced season of going into and out of heat.
Get an extra furrowed forehead... [and] large hairy ears
Well, those two should help cancel each other out, no?
I think the idea that anyone would use one "media player" for everything is just stupid
But the average Win[95/98/Me/XP/2K] user doesn't say "I want to watch an AVI file" or "I want to watch an MPEG file", they say "I want to watch a movie". So having one player that handles multiple formats isn't such a bad idea after all.
Kind of like mplayer for us Linux users.
*MOST* people could give two flying shits about the artist and how much money they make. I am one of them. I support free music.
Wow.
Most people *I* talk to have the exact opposite opinion. They feel ripped off not because the artist is getting rich off of CD sales, but because the middle-men are taking the majority of the cash. In fact, most people *I* talk to would rather download a complete album from $P2P_APP and send the artist $5 directly via mail.
But hey, if you feel that the artists don't deserve any money, that's certainly your right to think that way. I like free music too, but I certainly don't *expect* artists to do it with absolutely no financial incentive.
Mr. Brown is up for the ride of his life (probably the last one as I can't imagine anyone taking him seriously after his paper gets out)
What are the odds that the paper will in fact be published? Couldn't this whole exercise just be a means of stirring up the pot? I can easily imagine a quiet statement along the lines of "the article was not published due to $RANDOM_REASON" coming out in the near future. But the FUD and talk remain fresh in the minds of the public.
(wraps tin-foil tighter)
What is an Aphex Twin fan like?
He's a card diva, Dr. Jim.
(fans should figure this out)
Imagine playing as Alexander the Great, Julius Cesar, Attilla the Hun, or any other historical figure trying to build an empire.
"Hello Lisa, I'm Genghis Kahn! You'll go where I go, defile what I defile, eat who I eat!"
pick a day and purchase from independent labels
By all means, do this too. Plenty of great music out there to choose from, given a bit of research. But it doesn't send the same message as buying an RIAA-sponsored CD then returning it. If all you do is buy from Indie labels, the RIAA will scream "lost sales due to piracy!" If you start bringing unopened discs back, on the other hand, they have to account for the sale and subsequent return.
Looks like you're on track for a management position!
What this argument fails to realize is that MS can't migrate 100% of its victims to the new format.
Yes, but a significant number of people will upgrade in order to stay in the Microsoft loop. Sure, there are people who get tired of playing this game and will switch over to OO.o or something similar, but I suspect that a number of people will reason the following:
1) We need to upgrade our office suite
2) Our choices are a newer version of Office or $OTHER_OFFICE_SUITE
3) Since both require upgrading and possible conversion time, might as well stick with Office.
Microsoft doesn't directly lose out if people don't upgrade, but it only gains when people do.
I believe that the file format for Office 97 is the same as that for Office 2000 (and is 99% compatible with Office XP). It was 95/75 that caused a fiasco. I could be wrong, though.
In terms of what versions I see most around here, many companies in this area are running Win2K with the respective version of Office. In terms of general home users, most people I know are running "questionally-obtained" copies of WinXP. Certainly on new PCs, as that's all that ships nowadays.
So, even the .doc format is fragmenting, and old Win users are unable to open documents written with the latest version.
That was exactly my point. Maybe it didn't come across as intended, but my stance was that Microsoft places a greater emphasis on profitability than compatibility.
Soon OO will be the tool of choice for navigating the multiple, more or less incompatible MS formats.
That would be nice indeed. All the more power to the OO.o developers in this respect.
"They don't ask if you can program. They ask, 'do you know (Microsoft) Visual Basic?'"
Good to see they differentiate between the two there as well.
But that edge is lost when changing the format drives away your customers when they can no longer interoperate...
You mean like the notorious Office95/97 issues that Microsoft implemented themselves? This is intentional -- it forces users to upgrade to the latest release. It's not a compatibility issue, it's a profitability issue.
MS can't change the format for fear of a user backlash of not being able to interoperate...
There's nothing to stop Microsoft from using an "open" standard in their next release, in addition to supporting older file formats (like they currently do). Look at your file filters for Office. There are filters to read older versions of Office documents, since the formats have changed. Again, it has nothing to do with compatibility. It has to do with user lock-in and guaranteed financial return.
Uh, by "cloning" a "closed" file format, you actually "open" the format to other uses.
The "edge" to which the parent refers is that of letting Microsoft define the format all the time. If Microsoft constantly sets the standard, then other developers who are creating "clones" spend most of their time trying to fiddle with the file format, rather than improve/extend the functionality of the software.
Sure, the format's open now, but what do you do when the company decides to change their file format for the next release of their software?
There is no puzzle solving or skill shooting or anything like that which prevents you from going forth. It's simply that you don't know that widget X goes in thing Y.
Reminds me of the last few King's Quest games that were released. In KQ5, to get past the Yeti you had to lob a pie at him, or something else completely unrelated. At that point, the games simply became a "click on everything with everything" mouse-fest. Ugh.
In the library at the firm where I work, I know exactly where Who's Who is. East wall, middle set of shelves, on the second shelf from the top. Can't miss it.
This is where the "Google vs. library book" analogy isn't quite accurate. Google doesn't contain any info itself -- Google is like the (card/electronic) catalogue system. It points to sites that contain the information. Who's Who, on the other hand, is a specific book with information. Granted it's pretty generalized, but still...
By knowing exactly where WW is already located, it's like saying "I already know the URL of the website that should give me the answer". That URL is equivalent to the book itself. In this scenario, using Google is a pointless exercise, and the "Internet" seek time would be much lower.