It's all about the media (blogs, game sites) coverage. Nobody would give a damn about this easter-egg - thats what it is - if there wouldn't be that interest in the media.
I mean, I'd never patch my GTA to have the scene unlocked, because it would be to much hassle for a CGI rendered (what is it?) blow-job scene? Just enter an accordant string in Google and you'd find much harder pictures/movies.
The fact that Senator Clinton is that interested in incident is funny enough.
I think, it's a well-planned PR trick from Rockstar Games.
I think that it doesn't make sense to compare Windows to OSX or - say - KDE or Gnome. "What can learn OSX from Windows?" - That's not a serious question.
Microsoft is putting out patches from time to time to fix vulnerabilities, but thats all. Apple releases feature upgrades every now and then. And thats the major difference. Realisticly, it'll take another one or two years until Windows users will have transparent windows and eye-candies like you can see on OSX. ONE to TWO years!
Sure, there might be some features that could be "ported" over to OSX, but it'll take just a few months until they'd be available.
The development-cycle of MS Windows is just too slow nowadays. Nothing really happens anymore. If I see a Windows-box at work, I feel like last century and I guess that a lot of customers are feeling the same. All the "inventions" in Longhorn are already there: OSX, KDE(!), Gnome, and if not, they'll be implemented in the next time.
MS is just too slow. It's just rediculous. The world is not like it was ten or twenty years ago, where it was easy to paint a one-OS-monopoly for MS. The potential customers are realizing that the real inventions are happening somewhere else.
BTW: Some of the majer "analysts" are saying the same and I hope that the shareholders are realizing whats going on with MSFT.
Sure, more and more "users" are switching to a more modern operating system. The development of Windows has stalled since years - in the customers perception. So what do you expect?
Apple seems to put much more effort in the OS development than Microsoft, because MS is focused on so many other target groups/products, like the new XBox360 and so on.
It takes another year until the next version of Windows comes out and I don't know, but it'll take at least another five years until they announce the next version after Longhorn.
There is one rule, that works out pretty fine in the software "industry": "release soon, release often", and thats what Apple's doing.
Times are over, where you had a os-monopoly when you released a major update every decade. MS is going the wrong direction: downhill.
Disclamer: I'm a Linux-user since 14 years, but I'm very impressed by Apple since a few years. Go on!
IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems) are all fine. Snort is in my opinion the best system around. The difficult part is the overview over the whole network. You can set up Snort at your border gateways to collect all the attacs, but in my experience you'll not pay attention to the alerts after a while (half a year). There are just to many alerts every day.
The best solution you can get so far is a product which was called "Demarc PureSecure" not long ago. It is based on Snort, does file integrity checks and monitors all your services, disk space, CPU and a lot more.
The cool thing about that solution is the web-based centralized management console. You can update the (Snort-)roule-sets at once, and have a look at all the attacks to your network in a browser window. It's the most sophisticated and most underestimated system around. Just have a look:
Most of the commercial IDSs are based on snort, but the Demarc stuff is what you need for larger networks.
Disclamer: I don't have anything to do with the company behind Demarc, but I know, that this solution is pretty unknown to most of the admins out there.
I'd be so happy if "they" would give up the daylight saving time. All my clocks are running UTC and I'm just calculating the local time on the fly since years. It's much easier than setting all my watches and clocks all the time. In the broadcasting business nobody cares about any time offsets anyway. It's all about UTC.
The funny thing is, that the switchover is not happening at the same date worldwide. That makes the whole problem more difficult.
It's confusing enough for me, that for example LA is nine (or ten!) hours "back".
They said it was for farmers, but that is ridicerous.
Nope, it has been invented in the industrialization era to save energy costs for the enterprises. More than a hundred years ago it was very expensive to light up a production hall. Thats the reason, nothing else.
What you want (after switching fron Windows to a *nix OS) is a Desktop Environment like KDE or Gnome. Everything you need for your day-to-day tasks is encluded. Unix-like operating systems are not much different to your old Windows experience. Look at Mac OSX, its Unix, but there are surely tools like a calender (don't know).
$ man biff
IC, your slashdot ID is 20761, but it's still no reason to recommend biff to somebody who's asking for a outlook/calender/reminder replacement.
Even us *ix-geeks are not using biff since ten years anymore.
Sorry, this is not a troll, but your answer is so last century.
Your question has nothing to do with the operating system itself. What you need is just an application that reminds you of certain dates. Just like a caleder, right? Lock at KDE and Gnome and thats all you need. I'm using KOrganizer and I can sync all my dates with my mobile phone.
Movies are big and I don't think that jukeboxing movies and my 30 gigs of music on a 60gb iPod Video is going to be very practical -- I have a lot of DVDs I'd like to rip onto a video iPod. Can we expect a bump in the capacity then?
Keep in mind that the output resolution will be lower than on a regular DVD. This will reduce the file size dramatically.
The key with innovation is that it usually doesn't come directly from companies, but rather academic and research based groups. Large companies merely buy and build upon interesting research work in order to create large profits.
This is one of the most insightful posts about that topic ever. I've read thousands of articles and posts regarding Linux vs. Windows security, but all the "studies" are seriously flawed in the way described by the parent post.
... whats wrong width those guys? STOP BOMBING INNOCENT PEOPLE, JUST STOP!!! Alright?!
We (Europe, Asia, Africa and so on), we are not your fucking enemies! We know that there's something wrong with Bush and Blair, but whoever you are, just stop bombing innocent people! We know that Bush bombed civilians, but you should do not the same mistakes!
Those guys who did the bombing in London (and NY and Madrid) are seriously ill. We're one world. GET THIS.
Fuck.
(I know: Flamebait).
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There is no flaw in the moderation system as you can see - your parent post is modded down to hell: 20 % insightful (no clue about ICMP), 40 % overrated and 10 % flamebait.
It just takes a few minutes until enough moderators had the chance to see this post.
After a while, your post might be modded as flamebait.
What I hate the most is the missing capitalization in more and more emails I receive. Most of the slashdot readers are speaking english, but capitalization really counts in the german language. It is extremely difficult to read all-lower-case emails.
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Look, I can lick my nose!
Sometimes I have the feeling that those weapons are just invented to give some government funding to weapon manufacturers, but thats only me.
Microwaves as weapon against people? What's wrong with those people who are involved in the development? Never heard of cancer?
I don't know, but something's completely messed up with the world.
It's all about the media (blogs, game sites) coverage. Nobody would give a damn about this easter-egg - thats what it is - if there wouldn't be that interest in the media.
I mean, I'd never patch my GTA to have the scene unlocked, because it would be to much hassle for a CGI rendered (what is it?) blow-job scene? Just enter an accordant string in Google and you'd find much harder pictures/movies.
The fact that Senator Clinton is that interested in incident is funny enough.
I think, it's a well-planned PR trick from Rockstar Games.
I think that it doesn't make sense to compare Windows to OSX or - say - KDE or Gnome. "What can learn OSX from Windows?" - That's not a serious question.
Microsoft is putting out patches from time to time to fix vulnerabilities, but thats all. Apple releases feature upgrades every now and then. And thats the major difference. Realisticly, it'll take another one or two years until Windows users will have transparent windows and eye-candies like you can see on OSX. ONE to TWO years!
Sure, there might be some features that could be "ported" over to OSX, but it'll take just a few months until they'd be available.
The development-cycle of MS Windows is just too slow nowadays. Nothing really happens anymore. If I see a Windows-box at work, I feel like last century and I guess that a lot of customers are feeling the same. All the "inventions" in Longhorn are already there: OSX, KDE(!), Gnome, and if not, they'll be implemented in the next time.
MS is just too slow. It's just rediculous. The world is not like it was ten or twenty years ago, where it was easy to paint a one-OS-monopoly for MS. The potential customers are realizing that the real inventions are happening somewhere else.
BTW: Some of the majer "analysts" are saying the same and I hope that the shareholders are realizing whats going on with MSFT.
First question: 400.000 users in what timeframe?
Sure, more and more "users" are switching to a more modern operating system. The development of Windows has stalled since years - in the customers perception. So what do you expect?
Apple seems to put much more effort in the OS development than Microsoft, because MS is focused on so many other target groups/products, like the new XBox360 and so on.
It takes another year until the next version of Windows comes out and I don't know, but it'll take at least another five years until they announce the next version after Longhorn.
There is one rule, that works out pretty fine in the software "industry": "release soon, release often", and thats what Apple's doing.
Times are over, where you had a os-monopoly when you released a major update every decade. MS is going the wrong direction: downhill.
Disclamer: I'm a Linux-user since 14 years, but I'm very impressed by Apple since a few years. Go on!
IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems) are all fine. Snort is in my opinion the best system around. The difficult part is the overview over the whole network. You can set up Snort at your border gateways to collect all the attacs, but in my experience you'll not pay attention to the alerts after a while (half a year). There are just to many alerts every day.
The best solution you can get so far is a product which was called "Demarc PureSecure" not long ago. It is based on Snort, does file integrity checks and monitors all your services, disk space, CPU and a lot more.
The cool thing about that solution is the web-based centralized management console. You can update the (Snort-)roule-sets at once, and have a look at all the attacks to your network in a browser window. It's the most sophisticated and most underestimated system around. Just have a look:
Demarc
Most of the commercial IDSs are based on snort, but the Demarc stuff is what you need for larger networks.
Disclamer: I don't have anything to do with the company behind Demarc, but I know, that this solution is pretty unknown to most of the admins out there.
I'd be so happy if "they" would give up the daylight saving time. All my clocks are running UTC and I'm just calculating the local time on the fly since years. It's much easier than setting all my watches and clocks all the time. In the broadcasting business nobody cares about any time offsets anyway. It's all about UTC.
The funny thing is, that the switchover is not happening at the same date worldwide. That makes the whole problem more difficult.
It's confusing enough for me, that for example LA is nine (or ten!) hours "back".
They said it was for farmers, but that is ridicerous.
Nope, it has been invented in the industrialization era to save energy costs for the enterprises. More than a hundred years ago it was very expensive to light up a production hall. Thats the reason, nothing else.
What you want (after switching fron Windows to a *nix OS) is a Desktop Environment like KDE or Gnome. Everything you need for your day-to-day tasks is encluded. Unix-like operating systems are not much different to your old Windows experience. Look at Mac OSX, its Unix, but there are surely tools like a calender (don't know).
$ man biff
IC, your slashdot ID is 20761, but it's still no reason to recommend biff to somebody who's asking for a outlook/calender/reminder replacement.
Even us *ix-geeks are not using biff since ten years anymore.
Sorry, this is not a troll, but your answer is so last century.
Your question has nothing to do with the operating system itself. What you need is just an application that reminds you of certain dates. Just like a caleder, right? Lock at KDE and Gnome and thats all you need. I'm using KOrganizer and I can sync all my dates with my mobile phone.
I admit it, it was me.
This is just a joke from an anonymous troll.
Movies are big and I don't think that jukeboxing movies and my 30 gigs of music on a 60gb iPod Video is going to be very practical -- I have a lot of DVDs I'd like to rip onto a video iPod. Can we expect a bump in the capacity then?
Keep in mind that the output resolution will be lower than on a regular DVD. This will reduce the file size dramatically.
The key with innovation is that it usually doesn't come directly from companies, but rather academic and research based groups. Large companies merely buy and build upon interesting research work in order to create large profits.
Innovations paid by the tax payer.
This is one of the most insightful posts about that topic ever. I've read thousands of articles and posts regarding Linux vs. Windows security, but all the "studies" are seriously flawed in the way described by the parent post.
Whats that (Visa Sponsor)?
... whats wrong width those guys? STOP BOMBING INNOCENT PEOPLE, JUST STOP!!! Alright?!
We (Europe, Asia, Africa and so on), we are not your fucking enemies! We know that there's something wrong with Bush and Blair, but whoever you are, just stop bombing innocent people! We know that Bush bombed civilians, but you should do not the same mistakes!
Those guys who did the bombing in London (and NY and Madrid) are seriously ill. We're one world. GET THIS. Fuck. (I know: Flamebait).
There is no flaw in the moderation system as you can see - your parent post is modded down to hell: 20 % insightful (no clue about ICMP), 40 % overrated and 10 % flamebait.
It just takes a few minutes until enough moderators had the chance to see this post.
After a while, your post might be modded as flamebait.
It's like ordering filet mignon at a fancy restaurant from a pretentious waiter and getting a plate of Rhesus Pieces.
Hmmmmmm. Rheeesus Pieces!
LOL, that's funny. Why are you rated Insightful?
Not true:
There is a fine line between (Score:5, Funny) and (Score:5, Insightful).
Google can have a 4000-node Linux cluster
Sorry, but last time I counted, Google had 120.000 Linux machines...
What I hate the most is the missing capitalization in more and more emails I receive. Most of the slashdot readers are speaking english, but capitalization really counts in the german language. It is extremely difficult to read all-lower-case emails.
Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
I'm German, you insensitive cold!