I agree, except in some colo/hosted environments its not practical or cost effective to have each customer on its own isolated firewall interface. In this environment a local firewall is better than nothing. Security should be applied in layers.
It would be nice for them (or any other MMORPG) to have a server dedicated to single death rules. You die, your dead. Then, like you say, high level characters would be really special instead of everyone being a max level whatever.
Next take him to the strip club to show him whats hes missing, follow that up with a trip to your local trendy clothing store.
Finally sign him up for a sport like football, baseball, or soccer, and have him start lifting weights. The macho social interaction will do him good plus he will probably get laid. Once a nerd gets taste of a women he forgets about chess clubs and linux.
Not everyone needs to know how to troubleshoot a computer. Do you know how to do your taxes if you have capital gains and real estate tax write offs,fix your own plumbing? Do you know how to fix your new car, how about read over that lease to make sure your not getting screwed.
Joe Average is never going to become a computer expert, just listen to how many times they refer to hard drive space as RAM. The best thing any OS can do is minimize problems and make things easy for simple users.
You dont have to buy mach three turbo razors. You can buy any type razor that you want. You could argue that other companies make razors that work just as well.
The key difference is that several razor manufacturers would have to agree to keep the prices high on there products which would then be a crime. If only one does it then its not a crime and up to free market forces to determine if people will still buy.
Personally I think the manufacturers of razors may be keeping the prices inflated given the rediculous costs. I still buy the mach three vs the generic 12 for 99 cent razors though.
The MCI / UUnet thing is mostly internal politics but also a little bit business related. You can get 2 internet circuits or 2 frame relay connections from the company and have it go over 2 different networks for diversity. One would run on the MCI network, the other would run on the UUnet network. This gear is supposed to be completely separate.
Also they dont monitor your traffic, can you imagine the logs that would create. They only contact you about spam (or whatever else) if someone complains to them about something coming from your IPs.
Just FYI, UUnet is now owned by MCI. UUnet/MCI also have a large amount of dial-up (modem) POPs, which is resold through other companies and used by end users. They also offer DSL in some markets.
All of this is in addition to them being the largest backbone.
Why do we have so many coders complaining about jobs being outsourced to India? If its easy to make money and there are many ways to do it then they shouldnt have any problems right?
OSS is a quick way to become famous? Who has become famous? Look at all the floundering, half finished projects on sourceforge. OSS has maybe 5 names hardcore geeks would know and probably only 1 (Linus) that the rest of the world might know.
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How exactly do you "open source" an energy provider?
Do you have all of the supporters eat taco bell and donate the excess methane at the nearest methane collection center?
I guess the electricity could come from static buildup from all the hairy slashdot readers.
Alternate providers is hardly open source, and having alternate providers of a single commodity isnt going to help when its depleted.
A doctor and dentist for a lot of employees is not a bad thing.
A Citibank (hardly a dotcom money waster)location I worked at had Doctors, a dental office, and a decent sized workout facility with pool.
Most people use these services right? By having them onsite you reduce the time employees are away from work and in theory increase the amount of work they do.
Its a joke, when the whole election fiasco was going on you had dozens of old people being paraded out onto national TV telling everyone how stupid they are. They couldnt figure out the ballot and thought they might have voted for the wrong person.
The "old" people I know were offended by the media getting these idiots and making them all look ignorant.
But you are right, the ballot wasnt confusing (I was in FL at the time) and election workers will help out.
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I agree, except in some colo/hosted environments its not practical or cost effective to have each customer on its own isolated firewall interface. In this environment a local firewall is better than nothing. Security should be applied in layers.
How can we blame M$ for this?
It would be nice for them (or any other MMORPG) to have a server dedicated to single death rules. You die, your dead. Then, like you say, high level characters would be really special instead of everyone being a max level whatever.
I need a 3 1/2 or a 5 1/4 disk to move my files around.
Maybe in the next version they can add this and DAT disk support.
In these situations I always ask myself What Would Jesus Do?
I think he would buy the the cd, rip it with audio hijack, and then load them up onto his iPod.
Technically its useless but Im sure plenty of ignorant CEO's and CTO's will sign up for it right away.
So maclash readers are dumberer (thats a word right?) than slashdot readers?
Next take him to the strip club to show him whats hes missing, follow that up with a trip to your local trendy clothing store.
Finally sign him up for a sport like football, baseball, or soccer, and have him start lifting weights. The macho social interaction will do him good plus he will probably get laid. Once a nerd gets taste of a women he forgets about chess clubs and linux.
Not everyone needs to know how to troubleshoot a computer. Do you know how to do your taxes if you have capital gains and real estate tax write offs,fix your own plumbing? Do you know how to fix your new car, how about read over that lease to make sure your not getting screwed.
Joe Average is never going to become a computer expert, just listen to how many times they refer to hard drive space as RAM. The best thing any OS can do is minimize problems and make things easy for simple users.
I conserve water by drinking sodas
What will we talk about without the 3 or 4 daily SCO stories?
You dont have to buy mach three turbo razors. You can buy any type razor that you want. You could argue that other companies make razors that work just as well.
The key difference is that several razor manufacturers would have to agree to keep the prices high on there products which would then be a crime. If only one does it then its not a crime and up to free market forces to determine if people will still buy.
Personally I think the manufacturers of razors may be keeping the prices inflated given the rediculous costs. I still buy the mach three vs the generic 12 for 99 cent razors though.
The MCI / UUnet thing is mostly internal politics but also a little bit business related. You can get 2 internet circuits or 2 frame relay connections from the company and have it go over 2 different networks for diversity. One would run on the MCI network, the other would run on the UUnet network. This gear is supposed to be completely separate.
Also they dont monitor your traffic, can you imagine the logs that would create. They only contact you about spam (or whatever else) if someone complains to them about something coming from your IPs.
Just FYI, UUnet is now owned by MCI. UUnet/MCI also have a large amount of dial-up (modem) POPs, which is resold through other companies and used by end users. They also offer DSL in some markets.
All of this is in addition to them being the largest backbone.
I love how we have 50 responses that say this.
We should have a slashdot poll that asks how many people that read slashdot buy support for open source software and commercial software.
Also I wonder how many home users would pay for any type of support.
Why do we have so many coders complaining about jobs being outsourced to India? If its easy to make money and there are many ways to do it then they shouldnt have any problems right?
OSS is a quick way to become famous? Who has become famous? Look at all the floundering, half finished projects on sourceforge. OSS has maybe 5 names hardcore geeks would know and probably only 1 (Linus) that the rest of the world might know.
How exactly do you "open source" an energy provider?
Do you have all of the supporters eat taco bell and donate the excess methane at the nearest methane collection center?
I guess the electricity could come from static buildup from all the hairy slashdot readers.
Alternate providers is hardly open source, and having alternate providers of a single commodity isnt going to help when its depleted.
I think the issue is a bit confused.
By making Java "open source" they mean give it a GPL license and let the community set standards and define the language.
If you want to add something to java you already can, just write a library.
If you want to write a compiler, GUI toolkit, or JVM you already can(All of which has been done or is in progress).
Sun also already has a community process for changes. I dont really see what the big deal is.
Ive dropped mine several times and no problems. You dont say what is breaking but to me the iPod feels sturdier than similiar models.
It does scratch way too easy though.
A doctor and dentist for a lot of employees is not a bad thing.
A Citibank (hardly a dotcom money waster)location I worked at had Doctors, a dental office, and a decent sized workout facility with pool.
Most people use these services right? By having them onsite you reduce the time employees are away from work and in theory increase the amount of work they do.
If they want money maybe they should change the name to PAYnet..... get it, PAYnet!!!
Its FREEnet but you should PAY because they need money or something..
Intel may add an instruction or two but one version of windows, or linux will run on both chips.
Intel wants to save some pride and distance themselves from "AMD64" as much as possible.
Just wondering.
Its a joke, when the whole election fiasco was going on you had dozens of old people being paraded out onto national TV telling everyone how stupid they are. They couldnt figure out the ballot and thought they might have voted for the wrong person.
The "old" people I know were offended by the media getting these idiots and making them all look ignorant.
But you are right, the ballot wasnt confusing (I was in FL at the time) and election workers will help out.
So the choice of a small business person is:
1) No database, just dont track any important information.
2) Use Access and make a kludge that works, although any real DBA would have a heart attack at the design.
3) Hire a DBA and pay thousands (or tens of thousands) for an over engineered database.
2 doesnt look so bad anymore.